Category:Movies
Genre: Drama

 
Couple or Trouble (환상의 커플)
Couple in Trouble/Fantasy Couple/Fantastic Couple/Couple of Fantasy
MBC
Han Ye-seul, Oh Ji-ho, Kim Sung-min, Park Han-byul
Kim Sang-ho
Hong Mi-ran & Hong Jung-eun
Kim Sang-ho
16
October 14, 2006~December 03,2006
15.0%

"Jang Chul-soo, your face is the only thing I can remember, so I don’t have anything else to hold except you. So until I remember who I am and regain my memory, don’t abandon me." ~ Jo Anna (Na Sang-shil)

Jo Anna, though young and rich, is selfish, inconsiderate, and hard to deal with. After arriving to Korea with no escort to take her home, Anna drives herself in the pouring rain and gets stuck in a muddy ditch. Jang Chul-soo, who is passing by, stops to help her by shoveling the mud so her car can get back on track. As Anna waits in Chul-soo's car, she notices something and concludes that Chul-soo is a murderer. In an attempt to escape this "murderer," Anna takes a shovel to defend herself from Chul-soo, the "killer". After a bit of struggle, Chul-soo is knocked unconscious by Anna, and is left there on the road as she frantically drives away. Of course, there was a misunderstanding, but Anna, being an elegant rich-girl, will never admit it and thinks that the two will never meet again.

Upon arriving at her destination, Anna is merciless to her resort employees and her wimpy husband, Billy Park. With constant ridicule and firing, the staff is upset as well as Billy, who would just love to be free of his wife's criticisms. Well, their wishes come true after a serious argument between her and Billy that causes her to storm out, get drunk, and fall off her yacht. Her sudden "death" relieves the fears of the employees and even her husband (who's now rich) at the resort, however can such a "witch" die so easily?

Getting treated for almost being drowned by a "crazy woman," Chul-soo speaks of getting revenge on the woman who has caused him great grief within the last days. To his surprise, his wish can come true, as the woman is also a patient of the hospital, suffering from amnesia; this woman, being Anna.

Taking her in as his "lover," Na Sang-shil, Jang Chul-soo plans to take revenge by making her work her butt off doing household chores and learning some manners. Even though, Anna had absolutely no idea of what her past was, she had a fuzzy idea that she wasn't that close to him. While Anna stayed in Chul-soo's house, he made her do all the household chores. But as a rich woman, she never knew about any job and makes a mess on every household duty she was assigned to.

However, what starts out as revenge becomes much more than Chul-soo bargained for. Two people as different as night and day, who would never even cross paths under normal circumstances, come together in an outrageous situation and are eventually reborn as a fantastic couple. Once two persons have been stroked by Cupid's arrow of love, there's no turning back. Love was nicely played out when Anna develops some deep feelings for Chul-soo. Chul-soo also fell for her, even though he resisted the relentless feelings for as long as he could.

After Anna regains her memory, she learned that wealth is meaningless when you have nobody to share with. She recapture some of the memorable times she shared with Chul-soo at the dilapidated home and the eateries they went to. Anna learned what it was like to love and care for others. See whether these two leads from different levels of the social ladder will become a Couple or Trouble.

 

Han Ye-seul as Jo Anna (Na Sang-shil)
A Korean-American, Anna is the only child of real estate mogul Richard Cho. Her parents died when she was seven, leaving her with a massive inheritance. She was raised by her aged grandmother until the age of twelve. But then, even her grandmother passed away and left her without a soul to rely on. Now, Anna has her husband Billy—but they have no children. Anna grew up like a princess amid the sycophantic adoration of all manner of relatives who lusted after her enormous fortune. She matured in an environment in which everyone welcomed and loved not Anna herself but the trappings of her wealth. Rather than looking to others, she chose the path of infinite self-love and self-aggrandizement. As a result, she became the apotheosis of egotism and narcissism that she is today. She neither heeds nor fears anything under the sky. Those around her call her a witch. She does not mince her words: there's nothing she can't or won’t say. In short, she has a poisonous tongue. Because she learned most of her Korean from her grandmother, she speaks with far more condescension and impertinence than age might allow..
 

Oh Ji-ho as Jang Chul-soo
Chul-soo lives with his three nephews left behind by his late brother. He is the owner of a small-time construction company whose sign reads, 'General Construction, Architecture, and Interior Design Co.' In his own words, Chul-soo is a 'Construction site multiplayer' who will take on any and every kind of work if it means getting paid. He’s excessively thick-skinned and completely hung up on money, but he lives a resourceful life. He might appear to have no pride at all, but when his meal ticket—that is, any lucrative work he's laid claim to—comes under the smallest threat, he retaliates without mercy. He's obstinate, tenacious, and determined. Sometimes he’s very simple-minded, his greatest shortcoming is his tendency to get worked up over nothing at all.
 

Kim Sung-min as Billy Park
Billy is Anna’s husband and the CEO of the massive real estate enterprise that she inherited. His main area of expertise is hotels and resorts. Although he was born into an ordinary family, he easily earned his MBA and law degree at Harvard thanks to his astonishing intellect and has since been riding the fast track to success. He is a tremendously gifted entrepreneur, and a boss who enjoys the trust of his subordinates. He’s sensitive and considerate. Having enjoyed unimpeded success, Billy can appear cold and calculating. But inside, he’s surprisingly subtle and emotional. For a man like Billy, a woman like Anna—who respects nothing, fears nothing, has not one iota of consideration for others, and only demands unquestioning devotion and dedication—is simply too hard to handle; she’s enough to give him a heart attack..
 

Park Han-byul as Oh Yoo-kyung
Beguiling men with looks so fragile that she might blow away on a wisp of wind, Yoo-kyung is a representative example of the 'damsel in distress' type that women despise. She appears infinitely pure and innocent, but is in fact a tough cookie who knows how to get what she wants. She knows that Chul-soo has been in love with her for a long time, but when he gets saddled with his nephews following his brother’s death, she turns her back on him as if oblivious to his feelings for her. Still, after her engagement to a man with the perfect credentials gets broken off, she finds herself belatedly being drawn to the simple-hearted Chul-soo and regrets her past indifference
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Source: amped ASIA / Wikipedia
Reviewed by Chiyuffie


sukisan2008 wrote on Sep 6, '08
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I loved this drama, the lead actress was perfect for this role. and i loved the lead actor since his previous role in Second Proposal. the lead actress played both anna and sang-sil perfectly, she had the perfect looks for her role and good chemistry with both billy and jang chul-soo.
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