K-Mondays: The Heirs, Episode 1.

I feel bad about not writing K-Mondays on a Monday, and I got a little free time now so I should really be writing this. I watched the first two episodes of The Heirs last week, and I found it promising. I decided that I will watch this drama series until the end after just watching episodes 1 and 2. This drama is about teenagers from the high society of Korea. When one poor girl got involved in their lives, everything got even more complicated than usual.

For this post, I will talk about the characters introduced in the first episode, and some scenes that happened in it.

First is Kim Tan, played by Lee Min Ho. He's a student in California, and is from a rich family and owners of Jeguk Group.

Next is Choi Young Do, played by Kim Woo Bin. He's the heir of Zeus Hotel, wherein he's required to render his services as either a bellboy, dishwasher, and the like in order for him to officially inherit the hotel.

Yoon Chan Young, lead character Cha Eun Sang's (Park Shin Hye) childhood friend.

Cha Eun Sang is played by Park Shin Hye, and is the main character in the story. She works different part-time jobs day and night just to sustain her family's everyday expenses.

Jung Soo Jung / Krystal of f(x) is Lee Bo Na, Yoon Chan Young's girlfriend. 

We can see here that Bo Na is trying to throw a fit to Chan Young because of Chan Young's close relationship with Cha Eun Sang.

Yoon Jin Seo is Cha Eun Suk, Cha Eun Sang's older sister who's also in California, supposedly studying in university and "soon to be married." 

Park Hee Nam is played by Kim Mi Kyung, a mute housemaid of the Kim family (Jeguk Group). She is Cha Eun Sang's mother.

Esther Lee is played by Yoon Son Ha, the CEO of RS International.

Kim Ji Won is Rachel Yoo, heir of RS International. She is Kim Tan's (Lee Min Ho) fiancé, and Esther Lee's daughter.

Choi Young Do's father and Rachel Yoo's mother are about to get married, and so these two are soon to be step-siblings.

Eun Sang's mother is mute, but she's still working as a housemaid. Eun Sang found the notebooks that her mother uses to communicate with her employers and saw the writings in it. The repetitive "Dry Cleaning Only" is one of the reminders that her mother is trying to remember because she was scolded by her madame (Kim Tan's mother) about it.

This scene was particularly heartbreaking because I can really empathize with Eun Sang. Maybe it's just that Kim Mi Kyung and Park Shin Hye are really good actors, but the scene where Eun Sang was preparing to leave her mute mother just to find her future in the US was really tearjerking. 

Cha Eun Sang eventually went to the US. What she told her mother was she's going to visit her sister to attend her 'wedding' (since that's what her sister said). In the airport, Eun Sang met Rachel Yoo because of some uncomfortable situation.

Finally, we have Choi Jin Hyuk as Kim Won. He is Kim Tan's older brother, and was the one who sent his younger brother away to the US. He's also the president of Jeguk Group.

Eun Sang eventually met her older sister, Eun Suk. Eun Sang discovered that she was lying to them about studying in university and having met a good man. Eun Suk got some money from Eun Sang and ran away with it.

Because of a situation caused by bean powder from Eun Sang's bag, Kim Tan and Eun Sang had a brief but powerful encounter.

The American police suspected that the bean powder was not just a normal powder. The man confiscated Eun Sang's passport because of that. 

After Kim Tan helping Eun Sang negotiate with the police (but they still didn't get Eun Sang's passport), he dropped Eun Sang to her older sister's house, where no one seems to be at home. Kim Tan felt bad, and decided to go back and bring Eun Sang to his home instead.

And there we have episode 1. Episode 2 starts with Kim Tan bringing Eun Sang to his lovely home, and Rachel Yoo eventually meeting Eun Sang again in Tan's house. I'm now on my way to watching episode three, and I hope I have time tomorrow for that. Overall, the story is not just your normal rich kids meet poor girl type of thing, I feel like there's something more deep and touching in it rather than just a meaningless type of teen drama series. I expect a lot of tearjerking moments in this drama, and I hope that those irritating characters that I found in the first two episodes would eventually have a character development that I will eventually understand and like.