My Girl

Okay, so My girl is about a girl who is very poor because her father gambles their money away a lot. She becomes a tour guide more than once in this movie, which is cool. Of course there is this guy, and his grandfather is dying. His grandfather is dying wish is to see his granddaughter who went missing in some earthquake in japan. So the guy goes looking for his long lost cousin, and when he can't find her, he decides to use some random girl instead. He finds Yoo-rin who is in desperate need for money. She also picks all of his clementines at one point...

So this guy, (his name is gong-chan by the way) hires yoo-rin. When his grandfather thinks he has met his beautiful granddaughter, he makes a miraculous recovery, and now the two of them are stuck in this lie. I should also mention that Yoo-rin knows many different languages, and has traveled a lot with her father. Her fathers runs away all the time. This girl is a bit of a swindler, but she has a limit, and certain morals to the things she does. For instance, she picked all of gong-chan's clementines and sold them on the street, but she wrote his a thank you note and...there was something that made it okay but I cant remember. Anyway, the grandfather learns to love Yoo-rin to death, and she is feeling really guilty but gong-chan promises that this charade is only going to last until he can find his real cousin.

They fall in love. If this fact is a surprise to you then you are a little too oblivious about Korean dramas. ( can i just go over a few Korean drama necessities real quick?) There is always a balcony scene, always a scene where one of the characters is watching the other sleep, there is always a kiss scene, there is always a shopping scene/make-over scene...anyway back to where I was...

One thing that I thought was a cute touch to this story is that yoo-rin didn't know her real birthday, so her father and her joked that her birthday was whenever it snowed. As a result of telling gong-chan, he started buying snow globes for her whenever it snowed. This girl who loved gong-chan found out about the whole "fake cousin" thing and told the grandfather, who was so hurt by the situation that he threw yoo-rin out telling her never to come back. The real cousin was found. Yoo-rin and gong-chan were both separated....SPOILER....

SPOILER: There is a twist though, it seems that yoo-rin's no good father actually saved the real cousin's life. So everything works out.

I thought Gong-chan was cute, I thought their relationship was good. Yoo-rin was also loved by Gong-chan's friend who was a playboy. She got a home and expensive gifts from her fake family. She really learned to love them. Her lying was eventually used to show her sincerity in the end. Good show, but personal taste is still my favorite.

trailer (in Korean)