Kdrama 2021

One The Woman (Kdrama Review & Summary)

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• Genre: Modern Romance, Comedy, Amnesia, Identity Swap
• Release Date: 17 September 2021
• Origin: South Korea
• Kdrama: 16 Episodes

Cast

• Lee Ha-Nee  as Jo Yeon-Joo / Kang Mi-Na
• Lee Sang-Yoon as Han Seung-Wook
• Jin Seo-Yeon – Han Sung-Hye
• Lee Won-Geun as An Yoo-Joon
• Jeon Kuk-Hwan -asHan Young-Seok
• Kim Chang-Wan as Noh Hak Tae
• Na Young-Hee as Seo Young-Won
• Hwang Young as Hee as Kang Eun Hwa
• Kim Won-Hae as Ryu Seung-Deok

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Quick Precis

Jo Yeon Joo was a corrupt prosecutor who ended up having amnesia caused by a case.   Somehow she ended up living as Kang Mi-na who was the daughter-in-law of a chaebol family.

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Episode 1

This episode 1 has the most satisfying ending where Yeon Joo, who was mistaken as Kang Mi Na, aborted rather forcefully the slap that was coming her way from her pseudo-mother-in-law.  That was so good.  And then, there was an epilogue of Kim Nang Gil and Shim Hi Sub while she was on out of body experience while she was being treated in hospital.

They there is another surprise, Lee Sang Yoon is back and even better looking than before. So much to be had.

Anyway…

I don’t promote violence but that mother-in-law deserves everything she gets, she is one nasty woman.

Jo Yeon Joo is a prosecutor, a rather corrupt one.  This was because she had been dealt so much blows in life including her only guardian, her grandma dying from hit and run eight years ago.

Anyway, as a prosecutor, she was tasked to infiltrate a chaebol family and the first step was to go to an auction where the family would be at.

But the family was in Jeju Island leaving their most hated member of their family Kang Mi Na who was the wife of their most spoilt son who was having an affair from under his wife’s nose. If this was not evil enough, she was treated as a pariah in the household, no better than their house helps, actually worst because the mother-in-law often uses her as a punching bag.

Anyway, Kang Mina attended the auction and by coincidence, she was wearing the same pink coat dress as the undercover Jo Yeon Joo.

Jo Yeon Joo was so shocked to realise that Kang Mi Na was her doppelganger.  But then a man she was hunting showed up and she went to chase him until they ended up in the underground carpark.

A car purposely ran her over.

Meanwhile, Kang Mina had had enough of her life and woke up with a couple of expensive paintings.

While Jo Yeon Joo was being treated in the hospital, there was a news flash.  Kang Mi Na’s own family was wiped out in a plane crash leaving only her to inherit a sizable fortune.

But Kang Mina has left and Jo Yeon Joo was mistaken as her and when she woke up she did not know where she was then a rather termagant woman was coming towards her with a ready slap but Jo Yeon Joo stopped her then twisted her mother in law’s arm and then violently pushed her away.

She then asked the many people around her who were shocked at what she did who she was?

She’s got amnesia

Episode 2

Jo Yeon-Joo woke up with amnesia but the sole heiress to Yumin Group.  Where is the real Kang Mi-Na?

Jo Yeon Joo started getting to know the in-laws including her handsome husband she can’t remember.

She then met Han Seung Wook who seemed to know her very well including her or Kang Mi Na’s nut allergy.  As she was not really Kang Mi Na, she has not got the allergy.

Jo Yeon Joo found out that her in-laws were tolerating her so they could get their hands on her inheritance.

Episode 3

From being trying to be docile, Jo Yeon Joo started to have moments of unbridled emotions.  She became prone to hysteria which was concerning her in-laws.

Han Seung Wook seemed to be the only one who cares about her so she asked how they knew each other.

She was tickled when she jumped to the conclusion that they were having an affair perhaps?!

Episode 4 

Han Seung Hook helped Kang Mi Na to become the chairman of the board of Yumin Group.

The real Kang Mi Na was sunning it up in the Bahamas.

Episode 5

Je Yeon Joo was now sure that she is not Kang Mi Na and to her surprise, Hang Seung and Noh Hak Tae already knew.

Episode 6

Lee Bong Sik recognised Je Yeon Joo as the fake Kang Mi Na.

Ryu Seung Deok was working with Lee Bong Sik for Han Yan Seok.  But then before she disappeared Je Yeon Joo was in cahoot with Ryu Seung Deok.

It looks like Je Yeon Joo and not Kang Mi Na is Han Seung Wook’s first love.

Han Seung Wook had asked his searchers to look for Kang Mi Na aboard.

Episode 7

Kang Mina went back to being a prosecutor although she does not remember her current and previous cases.

One morning when she went back to the court, someone had tampered with brake of the car she was driving.  Seung Wook was her passenger who had become a familiar face with her.

Bong Sik new that Kang Mina was a fake.  He found out who the fake woman was when he followed her into the prosecution office.

Episode 8

Bong Sik attacked her and Seung Wook.  Bong Sik hit her on the head.

Kang Mina fainted when she saw blood dripping from her forehead right to the middle of her face.

When she woke up, she was Jo Yeon Joo.

She remembers everything.

She found out from Bong Sik that the real Kang Mina sailed to China.