[KDrama] Cunning Single Lady

Yesterday night I gave in and I watched a new Korean drama that started on Wednesday on MBC, "Cunning Single Lady" (앙큼한 돌싱녀). It stars Lee Min Jung as Na Ae Ra and Joo Sang Wook as Cha Jung Woo.

Cunning Single Lady starts with the flashback of how Ae Ra and Jung Woo met. The man was a hard working student and always used to eat at Ae Ra's restaurant. On her mother's suggestion, the woman starts dating the man despite he wasn't very good looking back then. She keeps supporting him in everything he does, but things change a little after the two get married. Jung Woo quits his job and his wife isn't happy about it. Their relationship gets worse as Ae Ra starts working again (she was a housewife after she married JW) and her husband's new project isn't progressing as he thought it would. The two end up divorcing because of Ae Ra, because she doesn't want to wait until someone will finance her husband's project.

After three years, Na Ae Ra lives with her best friend in a little apartment. She has a stable job but she hasn't found the man of her dreams yet. Casually, she finds out that her ex husband Jung Woo has become a chaebol because of an application he invented (that really exists!). Ae Ra can't believe her eyes but she has to accept she and her ex are now strangers. Fate wants that Jung Woo has to help Ae Ra clarify a little detail with some awful men (Jeez, most of the times the men on this show treat women very badly). After all is cleared, her ex husband prompts her that next time he won't help her anymore.

It won't be easy for Na Ae Ra to get her ex back. On her ex's side, we have the dark and mysterious Kook Yeo Jin who is the daughter of the biggest investor of Jung Woo's project. The woman seems to have lost her husband in an accident, and is possible she now sees his "spirit" in Jung Woo and this attracts her towards him. There is also somebody who likes Na Ae Ra (well not yet but I'm sure he will), that is Yeo Jin's alternative brother, Seung Hyun.

This drama started off very well and has good premises for the future. I was caught by it since the first scene... I will keep watching for sure. Airs on MBC on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21.55.