Kdrama 2020
True Beauty (Kdrama Review & Summary)
Global Granary Drama Recommendation
True Beauty poster
- Genre: Romance, Make-Over, Natural Beauty; Self Esteem, Self-Confidence
- Release Date: December 2020
- Origin: South Korea
- Kdrama; 16 Episodes
Cast
- Moon Ga-young as Lim Ju-gyeong
- Cha Eun-woo as Lee Su-ho
- Hwang In-yeop as Han Seo-jun
- Park Yoo-na as Kang Su-jin
- Lim Ju-gyeong’s family
- Park Ho-san as Lim Dae-soo
- Hee-gyeong, Ju-gyeong and Ju-young’s father
- Jang Hye-jin as Hong Hyun-suk
- Hee-gyeong, Ju-gyeong and Ju-young’s mother
- Im Se-mi as Lim Hee-gyeong
- Ju-gyeong and Ju-young’s older sister
- Kim Min-gi as Lim Ju-young
- Hee-gyeong and Ju-gyeong’s younger brother
- Park Hyun-jung as Lee Mi-hyang
- Yeo Ju-ha as Han Go-woon
- Kang Min-ah as Choi Soo-ah
- Lee Il-jun as Yoo Tae-hoon
- Lee Sang-jin as Ahn Hyun-gyu
- Lee Woo-je as Kim Cho-rong
- Kim Hyun-ji as Kim Si-hyun
- Han Yi-young as Ha Ji-young
- Oh Eui-sik as Han Joon-wooGrade
- Shin Jae-hwi as Lee Sung-yong
- Jeon Hye-won as Park Sae-mi
- Oh Yoo-jin as Joo Hye-min
- Im Hyun-sung as the owner of Prince Comics, the comic book store
- Go Woo-ri as Selena Lee, a famous makeup artist who is Jugyeong’s inspiration
Episode 1
Ju Gyeong grew up being told that she was ugly. In the end, she accepted it as a fact. She has no self-worth, no self-confidence, and absolutely no self-esteem.
Because of this, she accepted that being bullied is part of her life until she thought she fell in love with the dinner boy, Wang Hyun Bin, at her school.
She misconstrued his kindness and attention into something deeper as she was starved of affection even from her own family.
Anyway, she baked some cookies and decided to confess to Hyun Bin.
But the school belle who bullies Ju Gyeong all the time got to Hyun Bin first and told him that she heard he has a girlfriend already in Ju Gyeong. She added that she was interested in him as well.
So when Ju Gyeong confessed, Hyun Bin told her that he was not interested with her. She should have looked in the mirror rather than baking cookies. He then left her hurriedly, heartbroken.
But it got worst because her confession was videoed by her bullies.
They made fun of her and poured the tin of cookies she baked on her head, all over her.
Poor Ju Gyeong climbed to the rooftop and was about to jump but she saw a digital banner of a boy of her age who had just committed suicide.
This made her think. She thought she was going to live.
The decision not to commit suicide was taken from her hand because a boy, Suho, managed to grab her into safety.
He told her not to be stupid to commit suicide.
Anyway, he was very caring, although rather begrudgingly.
Ju Gyeong was scared when she got home because she did send a suicide text to her mother.
She saw her mother looking very upset. It turned out it has nothing to do with her text, which her mother had not seen yet or likely to see as her phone got broken.
Anyway, what was upsetting her family was that the loan sharks had come calling because the father had borrowed a lot of money to invest in antiques that had yet to be found.
The family was forced to sell their house and move back to their old one. This means Ju Gyeong and her brother had to move schools as well.
Ju Gyeong wanted to make a good impression at her new school, so she learned the make-up techniques on youtube.
She replaced her glasses with light brown contact lenses and the result was absolutely stunning.
When she got to her school, she was treated like a goddess. She was rather unnerved with how the students were looking at her admiringly.
And then when at home and her makeup is removed, she is back being a pimply girl with black eyebrows in glasses.
It is during her make-up free time that she met Suho again in a bookstore.
I love this drama. Very interesting but I have to say that despite the eyebrows, glasses and pimples, Ju Gyeong couldn’t be called ugly. In fact, without make-up, she still looks better than anyone of her classmates.
Episode 2
I am really loving this drama.
Anyway, Ju Gyeong was feted at school.
She later realised that the boy who prevented her from jumping from the rooftop was her new classmate, Suho.
Anyway, she had a lovely day at school, at last she felt she belonged.
But her brother was threatening to sabotage her newfound popularity by posting what she looked like without make-up online.
She bribed him with the latest copy of a demon manga.
She went to the bookstore to get it and was about to reach for it when another hand grabbed it first.
She was so annoyed with him, she tried to grab it back from him. She then fell on top of him. He thought she seemed familiar.
Thinking that he recognised her at the new girl in class, who was so pretty but without make-up she thinks she looks ugly, she made a deal with him.
They found out that they like the same things and read the same things.
She told him that if he kept her secret, she was going to give him an original and signed copy of Demon manga.
There was also a new boy who is also gorgeous. He was running away from hoods when he suddenly handed his helmet to a dumbfounded Ju Gyeong.
At school, he told her that he wanted the helmet back.
She promised him that she was going to give it to him the next day.
Meanwhile, Ju Gyeong’s new friend was celebrating 100 days with her boyfriend. The boyfriend arranged a surprise to Hee Kyung.
There was a cream cake which one of their classmates tried to splat to the love-up couple who moved away just in time but unluckily for Ju Gyeong, the cake caught her right in the face.
Her classmates tried to help wipe off the cake but she became hysterical and telling them to not touch her.
In the end, Suho conveniently turned up and cover her head with his school blazer.
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