My Name is Kim Sam Soon

Episode 1
On Christmas Eve, Sam-soon enters into a hotel looking for her cheating boyfriend Hyeon-woo. She’s been suspicious about his behavior and she sees him going up to the room with a beautiful woman. She pictures herself beating up her boyfriend and the woman. However, when she runs into him, she clings to him and begs him to come back - like a complete loser. At the same hotel, Jin-heon is on a blind date arranged by his mother who insists that he get married before his niece Mi-ju goes to school. He sees Sam-soon begging Hyeon-woo and finds it very amusing. Since he isn’t interested in the date, he decides to finish it as quickly as possible.
Offended by his rudeness, the woman throws water in his face. He goes to the restroom to dry his wet clothes and finds Sam-soon crying in the men’s restroom, which she thought the women’s.

After breaking up with Hyeon-woo, Sam-soon got even chubbier. She doesn’t have a job. However, she doesn’t have time to sit around and feel bad about the breakup. She has done all kinds of part-time work to make money to study at ‘Le Cordon Bleu’ in France. She has a job interview in a French restaurant, Bon Appetit, and she goes there with the cake she made herself. However, she didn’t expect to see Jin-heon there. To make things even worse, her hair gets stuck in his tie pin. Without hesitating, Jin-heon cuts off Sam-soon’s hair. Furious, Sam-soon throws the cake in his face.

Episode 2
Sam-soon gets a job at Jin-heon’s restaurant and a welcoming party is thrown. Everyone is having fun at the party. Sam-soon approaches Jin-heon dancing. Embarrassed, Jin-heon doesn’t know what to do. Hee-jin is on airplane coming back to Korea. She’s very happy to come back after 3 years. At the airport, she takes out her old cell phone. There is a picture of Hee-jin and Jin-heon. She can’t wait to meet him again.
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Episode 3

Jin-hun asks Sam-soon to pretend to go out with him to deceive his mother. Sam-soon’s big sister, Yi-young, returns home, divorced. Sam-soon’s friend Chae-ri comes to Jin-hun’s restaurant to plan her engagement party, and it turns out her fiance is Hyun-woo, Sam-soon’s ex-boyfriend.

Episode 4

Jin-hun’s ex-girlfriend, Hee-jin, walks into the restaurant when Sam-soon is alone. Jin-hun goes berserk at the mention of Hee-jin’s name, but later apologizes to Sam-soon with flowers. Hee-jin and Jin-hun finally meet, but Hee-jin finds Jin-hun is still furious with her.

Episode 5

Sam-soon takes a drunken Jin-hun back to his apartment where she is “trapped” until the next morning. Hee-jin walks in on them the next morning. Yi-young goes to Jin-hun’s restaurant to find out where Sam-soon has been the night before and gets into an argument with Hyun-moo, the executive chef.
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KIM, Sam-Soon - A 29-year-old baker (played by Kim, Sun-Ah / Kim Seoh Ah)

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Kim Sun Ah played the everywoman Kim Sam Soon.

We’re All Just Like Kim Sam Soon

Has anyone every really changed you? And how about a TV drama?

One such drama that took Korea by storm has just wrapped up, and it’s effects will be felt in the months to come.

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This seris is as sweet as pastry goodies. If you like characters with distinctive and interesting personalities, then this is the series for you. MBC’s new series “My Lovely Samsoon” will begin airing on June 1st, and inside there is an unique character named “Samsoon”. The genre for this drama is Romance Comedy.

The storyline is about a chubby normal girl named Kim Sam Soon (played by Kim Sun Ah) who just loves to eat food whenever she gets stressed out. As a 29 year old single woman, she is not pretty, not young and not too educated. However, she is strong, has a great passion in everyday life, and have the spirit to go forwards no matter what happens.

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