Kdrama 2024

Wonderful World (Kdrama Review & Summary)

 

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• Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Grief, Revenge
• Release Date: 1 March 2024
• Origin: South Korea
• Kdrama: 14 Episodes

Cast

• Kim Nam Joo as Eun Soo Hyun
• Cha Eun Woo as Kwon Seon Yul
• Kim Kang Woo as Kang Soo Ho
• Im Se Mi as Han Yoo Ri
• Won Mi Kyung as Oh Go Eun
• Kang Ae Shim as Jang Hyung Ja
• Yang Hye Ji as Hong Soo Jin
• Kim Woo Hyun as Park Yong Gu
• Ji Gun Woo as Kang Tae Ho
• Kil Hae Yeon as Jung Myung Hee
• Sung Ji Ru as Han Sang
• Park Hyuk Kwon as Kim Jun
• Cha Soo Yeon as Yoon Hye Geum
• Jin Jae Hee as Yoon Hee Jae
• Oh Man Seok as Kwon Ji Woong
• Lim Ji Sub as Kwon Min Hyeok
• Jeon Hyun Ah as Kim Si Ra
• Choi Joo Seok [National Assembly member]

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Episode 1

Wow!  The first episode is really something.

Welcome back, Kim Nam Joo.

Anyway, the first episode really gather you in to keep watching.

Eun Soo Hyun was having the best life.  She became a prominent and popular author, she is married to the best guy, who still fancies her after all the years together and they finally have the much long for child, a boy, after four previous miscarrages.  Eun Soo Hyun could not asked for more so she thought.

She was bound for a book signing when, her husband contacted her asking where she kept the medicine for their son who has a fever.

Immediately, Eun Soo Hyun worried and got anxious when she called her husband again just to check on their son before her flight but he was not answering the phone.  For some reason, her husband phone was under the bed.

What is going on?  Is Mr Perfect, not so perfect afterall?  Is he having an affair with his wife best friend and manager, Han Yoo Ri?

Anyway, she got home and saw a mother and daughter happily taking a video just outside her house.  As she got into her garden, she was met by her son who seemed to be well.  She told her son that he could play just a few minutes more in the garden and then come in.  She went inside the house and found her husband behaving rather furtively.  She found out that he had been taking tablets for depression.  He started when he got fired from his job in journalism.

They then heard their dog barking and when they checked their son can’t be found.  They found that the gate was opened.

Eun Soo Hyun blamed herself for not closing the gate.

They looked for Guwoon everyone but it was getting dark and it became more worrying.

Finally Eun Soo Hyun saw people crowding around a child who had been in accident.  It was Guwoon.

He was rushed to the hospital but he was too badly injured with brain aneurysm as well.  So the surgeon advised Soo Hyun and Soo Ho to prepare for the worst.

Guwoon passed away.  Poor Soo Hyun was like a living dead and it became even worst when the man who crashed to Guwoon was given 2 and half years prison sentence but with four years probation so it means he won’t spend a day in jail.

This was too much for Soo Ho who went ballistic in court.  He ended up in prison to calm down.

Meanwhile, So Hyun went to look for the man who hit her son and asked him to apologise to Guwoon.

The guy laughed and told gave her a business card so they could discuss how much money she wanted.

So Hyun was shocked and insisted for the man to apologise to the photo of Guwoon.  Still the man pushed her and started walking away.

Now demented with hate, So Hyun got into her car and ran over the man.

Episode 2

So Hyun ended up in prison and was given a seven-year sentence.  She did not help herself at all, in fact she seemed to welcome the punishment.

She kept her head down in prison and function like an automaton.  Her inmates left her alone but a woman, Jang Hyun Ja befriended her and kept a look out for her.

So Hyun refused to see her husband who persisted in visiting her.

Soo Ho had put all his skill as a journalist to dig into the case his wife and son as he was determined to get So Hyun out of prison as soon as possible.

He was successful.  He found out that Kwon Ji Woong, the driver, who killed Gunwoo was a contruction company CEO who backed Assemblyman, Kim Jun.

Kim Jun then used his old boys network to ensure that Kwon Ji Woong did not end in prison.

Soo Ho confronted Kim Jun.  He told him that he will do everything he can to make sure that Kim Jun who aspirese to end up in the Blue House does not get there.  He will reveal all the corruption.

Kim Jun was unbothered and simply laughed off Soo Ho’s threat.

Because he should him a photograph.  Kim Jun said that the photo will finish any relationship Soo Ho has with his wife as it would give more complexities to their son’s death.

Yoo Ri and Soo Hyun’s mother went to visit Soo Hyun.  They told her that Soo Ho was leaving for abroad as a foreign correspondent.  They told her to agree to see Soo Ho so he does not leave.

Finally Soo Hyun saw Soo Ho.

Soo Ho was happy to see her and told her that he will try to earn enough money so that when he gets out she never had to work again.

Soo Hyun told him that this will be the last they would see each other. She wanted a divorce and refused to change her mind.

Jang Hyung Ja, her mother figure in prison was diagnosed with terminal illness.  Before she passed she gave a notebook which contains apology letter to the son who survived the fire Hyung Jia caused.

Jang Hyung Ja said that she found her husband cavorting with his mistress so she set the house on fire not expecting that the fire would spread quicklyn next door killing the mother and father of a boy.

Episode 3

This drama is like Misty all over again.

The boy turned out to be Kwon Seol Yun who has a murky life.

Kwon Seol Yun refused the notebook but Soo Hyun started stalking him.  He told her to leave him alone.

Meanwhile, Soo Ho had returned to Korea.  He went to mother-in-law’s house to find Soo Hyun.  Soo Hoo and Soo Hyun missed each other so much so Soo Hyun reconciled with him and went back to their old house.

Not everyone was happy with this situation especially, Jung Hyung Hee, her mother-in-law.

Anyway, Soo Hyun decided to live a happy and normal life so when she was invited to appear with Soo Ho in a tv interview, she agreed.

But then she received an envelope which contained one photograph.

It was a photo of half-naked Soo Ho kissing a woman in their house.

Is the woman Yoo Ri?

Episode 4

No, it is not Yoo Ri.  It was the neighbour as we are led to believe in the last few minutes of this episode.  But my money is still on Yoo Ri because she behaved so erratically when she found out about the photo.

Seon Yul who spotted Soo Hyun looking distractedly at the photo offered to help her as he knows a bit about photography.

He was happy when she went to bail him out of prison by claiming that she was his guardian.