Between July 2nd until 8th, one of the movie and entertainment site held a poll for the best actress who guested on “Running Man” lately. On July 9th the result revealed to the public. Han Ga In voted on the first place, shegot 484 votes from 1259 respondens or about 38,4%. Han Ga In appeared on “Running Man” when her drama “The Moon That Embraces the Sun” gained the highest popularity earlier this year. She looked so cute but she did the whole physical mission very well.

On the second place there’s another queen from “The King 2 Hearts” Ha Ji Won, with her  aegyo Ha Ji Won voted by  325 voters (25,8%),  Kim Hee Sun on third place, got 95 votes (7,5%),  then followed by  Son Ye Jin (6,8%) , Choi Kang Hee (7,4%) , Kim Min Jung (3,6%) , Kim Sun Ah (3,1%), Lee Da Hae (2,9%), Lee Min Jung (2,7%), Lee Yeon Hee (2,6%), and Oh Yeon Seo (1,8%). I think it was a very difficult choice. They all are really good actresses. Each actresses has  a fun character that make each episode of “Running Man” became very interesting and hilarious. And two thumbs up for “Running Man” personnel for they were able to make these actresses willingly got sweaty and sometimes dirty.

But for me, the best guest on “Running Man” until the latest episode is Big Bang. The episodes were so hilarious and full of tense, especially battle between Haha and G-Dragon, and TOP looked very handsome in those episodes, right Rizz???

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Please meet Kim Do Hyeon, a very high qualified young man in law and economic business who had been raised by a fish seller single mother. He was the top rank at uni and had been given good offering from some famous law firms in the country. Kim Do Hyeon was having an interview at a prestigious company,but he hesitated…waiting for the best offering. He has a lovely school sweetheart Lee Jeong Yeon.

Lee Jeong Yeon was a high qualified nurse who worked at ER. She still lived with her very wise and educated father. Her father, Lee Young Gook, ran a mechanic garage where Do Hyeon also worked there temporaryly. He liked his future son-in-law, but didn’t let him take everything for granted. Do Hyeon had to achieve 51 points to be able to marry his daughter, and currently he’s at 49 points with his bad singing Lady Camelia.

Jeong Yeon visit Do Hyeon place often. Well, they’re just the same as any other ordinary couples until this point. They’re waiting for Do Hyeon’s getting a good job and the father’s blessing to get married.

Do Hyeon attended a public lecture at uni hesitantly. I still didn’t get his expression in this. It seemed that he already knew the lecturer, a very famous Korean business woman, Yoo In Hye, but he didn’t. It’s just…there’s something in his eyes that told us something, but Do Hyeon remained silent.

Yoo In Hye was probably elegant from the outside, but when it got down to the business, she’s so sharp and strict. Her company was going to take over this particular company that lead to bankruptcy. She demanded a cut on some employees and the current board of directors and she’s not open for bargaining. And among her team…there’s Ricky Kim with his lousy hair cut. I hate that style on him .

Do Hyeon was having another interview. The place was kind of a mansion and there’s so small information about this company, Dae Jung group. However, they seemed to be very interested in Do Hyeon. It turned out that they’d had Do Hyeon “investigated”. Do Hyeon knew this place from his professor’s recommendation.

The president of this company, Choi Gook Hwan, made a very interesting offer: a blank bank cheque as the first salary! Hoaa . And that’s not all, as soon as Do Hyeon signed the contract, he was officially a partner in the company. Do Hyeon was a bit confuse why they treasured him so much. Choi Gook Hwan told him that he had made a little research about him and found out that he’s a very high qualified and very potential person in the business. Choi Gook Hwan gave him an “interview tip.” It was a breath taking amount…really,for a tip.

Let’s go to another office for a while. It’s Yoo In Hye’s. That’s a very fancy office. She got a visitor and it was no other than Choi Gook Hwan. So Mr. Choi was the Yoo’s family “care taker”. He ran this family business and very loyal to Mr. Yoo, who’s currently  not in a good condition. Mr. Choi said that he’s about to retire, so he had to prepare someone to be his successor. He told her that he’d hired a very genius young man and asked her to read something interesting (a file related to that young man).

Yes, that’s the tip. A hundred million Won! Do Hyeon was contemplating…he had so many thing to consider about.

Meanwhile, Jeong Yeon was promoted from ER to this VIP ward…Patient on that VIP ward paid 4million won for a night of medical care.

It was Jeong Yeon’s birthday and she thought Do Hyeon forgot about it. She came home welcomed by her father, but then her father gave her a little present. Do Hyeon recorded a video….he finally proposed! Man, why didn’t you do it directly?

So actually Do Hyeon didn’t forget anything. He was there, planning to give her a surprise. And the real surprise was soon to be revealed.

Do Hyeon had bought a fancy car. And then he brought Jeong Yeon onto this fancy apartment with a crazyly beautiful view. So I think we knew what he had done with the bank notes of 100,000,000 won…and he decided to take the job.

Yoo In Hye was very overwhelmed by Do Hyeon’s writing about law and economy. She called Mr. Choi for a meeting and she said her interest in Do Hyeon. Mr. Choi said this kind of genius was a threat for their company, so he had to do everything to get him in and trained him to be his successor. Well, that’s clever…but I smelled something very fishy about the job.

Do Hyeon was clueless about his job. What he knew was he’s going to be an attorney in that company. But he didn’t know what awaited him in the near future…

Mr. Choi introduced him to the chairman of the group: the sick Mr.Yoo. This billionaire gave Do Hyeon a little test and it seemed that he passed it in a good mark.

Do Hyeon’s first task: get this particular young woman back home save and sound at any cost. He found her in a night club…over dose from a drug. Mr.Choi told Do Hyeon to take care of the matter and left everything clean and out of the public scene. Yoo Mi Ran was rushed to the hospital where Jeong Yeon was the nurse. Yoo Mi Ran was Yoo In Hye’s little sister.

So the genius Do Hyeon finally got a clue of what he’s going to be. He’s trained to be the next Mr. Choi for the Yoo family. He had to clean all the mess the family might get caught in….become their private attorney. And Do Hyeon just found out that Yoo In Hye was his boss’ daughter…so indirectly, she’s his boss too from then on.

So there they were. Yoo In Hye, Kim Do Hyeon and his surprised fiancee, Jeong Yeon. Their intertwined faith had just started there in the hospital.

My first impression of this drama was good, though I smell an un-happy ending…but it’s still too early to jump on the conclusion. So I think I’ll take a time to follow this drama.

But let’s just see what we have here in the first episode.

The story began with a woman in an audition for a role. Her name is Seo Jeong Eun. She’s 31 and trying to get her old career back. She left the spot light for 7 years, and the audition was her first come back to the industry. Meanwhile, another woman was watching her from a far. She has a fierce look. I couldn’t describe the emotion she showed through her eyes, but I didn’t think it’s something good.Her name is Han Yoo Gyeong. And I bet she knew Seo Jeong Eun personally.

One of the audition team then came in rush to this man, Lee Yeong Jo. He seemed to know both Han Yoo Gyeong and Seo Jeong Eun. The report told him that both women were having a meeting. And from his firm expression, I didn’t think that’s a good news.

Both women sat together. Yoo Gyeong seemed pretty confident, while Jeong Eun was trembling on her chair. She failed to answer the director’s question about her dissapearance 7 years ago and the reason she came back again. And Yoo Gyeong asked her the same thing. I was pretty sure these women knew each other well. They could have been friends in the past.

Yoo Gyeong asked, “How are you doing? And how’s that kid?”

Jeong Eun’s shaking was worse hearing the last question. “That kid?” she asked as if it was an offense. “Yes, that kid,” Yoo Gyeong firmly replied.

Jeong Eun left the office still in trembling condition. Lee Yeong Jo saw her from down stairs with a worry look on his face, while Yoo Gyeong…she seemed to be content about the meeting.

I suspected a love triagle among them.

So then the story went back to the childhood era of the two women. Seo Jeong Eun was a child raised in an orphanage. Yoo Gyeong was her school friend. She helped Jeong Eun to find information about her birth mother.They both very determine. They got caught by the orphanage principal for breaking up the classified files and Yoo Gyeong taped Jeong Eun’s video for her mom.

Jeong Eun’s desire was to be a famous star. She thought if she became famous, her mother would see her and want her back. Yoo Gyeong said she’d probably be a director in the future.

Seo Jeong Eun met this oppa (Lee Young Jo) in an incident. He was having a fight with this bad guy who claimed to be his brother. But Jeong Eun ‘saved’ him from the bad guy, but the boy seemed to be cold and sent her away.

The girls were almost hit by a car. And they’re just very surprised knowing whose car that was. A legendary actress, Lee Ae Rin, came out of it and asked if they’re okay. Seo Jeong Eun was a big fan of her. She’d been keeping her old photograph and pretend that photo was a picture of her mother. She asked for an authograph before the star continued her way.

Lee Ae Rin was “elegantly begging” a wealthy old man to save her business. He seemed to be her father. She asked him to buy her movie company that’s going to bankruptcy. The man was Young Jo’s grandfather. Lee Ae Rin’s big mouthed manager slipped his tongue by telling Young Jo that her birth mom was still alive. He asked for the clarification from his granddad, but this man told him to stop his curiosity. He then ran to ask for a further confirmation to Ae Rin and then found out that his mom being alive was true and he had an older brother (his mom was a widow before marrying his dad). He recalled the bad guy from that night.

So he looked for the guy and fought with him. At the police office he asked to meet that guy’s mother.

And so there was, the mom. She came, but she refuse to take him as her son. They sat and talked, but the mother said to Young Jo to forget about this moment and to pretend they never met. She had her reason to do so.

Jeong Eun, who’s also at the police office to find out about her mom, accidentally saw the event.

Unfortunately, Jeong Eun had the same problem. Her mother refused to be contacted by her. She wept at the police office. And Young Jo found out that they had the same problem. So he asked her out to have dinner together. The two became close and before they’re parted, Young Jo asked her for a date on thursday at five. They’d meet again on that time to watch the movie together.

Spending the evening with Young Jo, Jeong Eun had forgotten that she had an appointment with Yoo Gyeong, who was bullied by three young bad guys. Thankfully Jeong Eun saved her, but Yoo Gyeong got her hand injured. They went to Yoo Gyeong’s place and found another surprise. Yoo Gyeong’s mom wasn’t actually her real mother and she had a financial problem so she’s about to kick her out. She’s on the phone with Yoo Gyeong’s dad when both girls came and overheard the conversation. Yoo Gyeong sent Jeong Eun away.

The next day at school, Yoo Gyeong found out there’s a bad rumour about her regarding the incident with the three bad guys. A couple of girls from her school saw the scene and turned out to spread a false story. Yoo Gyeong misunderstood the situation and blame Jeong Eun for it. So here their friendship started to crack.

Jeong Eun forgot her appointment with Young Jo that thursday evening. She’s late and Young Jo had gone. They never met again because that boy had to study abroad…

And then the scene jumped to the next 10 years…The pretty grown up Jeong Eun stepped into this particular office. She’s meeting the grown up Young Jo. She was there on behalf of other woman. When Jeong Eun asked did he knew the woman and Young Jo just asked her back casually, “Why?” Jeong Eun gave him a hard slap on the face. And coincidently, at the same lobby…Han Yoo Gyeong was there. She heard the name Seo Jeong Eun and turned around…and saw the scene before her eyes.

I really doubt this drama will be interesting. The premise is too cheesy in my opinion. Well… I’m taking a look at other dramas too.

So let’s just get down to the business…

This action drama is so SEXY, that’s my first impression in general. But i’m not sure which part of the drama that make it sensual…i don’t think it’s merely because of the sexy story line or the “unproper-for-under-18” scenes. The whole things in this drama is a sexy package.

Anyway, the first episode was opened by the issue of “saving Dr. Kim Myung Guk”. The president of Republic Korea, Jo Myeong Ho (played by actor Lee Jeong Gil), held an emergency meeting with his staffs considering the nuclear scientist who’d been researching a new type of nuclear energy and spotted by the North Korean for developing their nuclear weapon. Recalling the incident on earlier episode of IRIS where another nuclear scientist was killed by T.O.P character that time, the President was worry if there’s a leak. (there was eventually in IRIS, if i’m not mistaken).

This’s President Jo Myeong Ho:

This man, a senior agent  Kwong Yong Gwan, was ordered to go on a mission of saving Dr. Kim, who was kidnapped by the Russian in Japan. His main job after setting Dr. Kim free was to make sure that scientist could go to South Korea safely. He summoned his team, agents who’re scattered in many places on this planet: Spain, Greece, US, and Korea.

And it’s our hot bad guy: Seon Hyeok (Cha Seung Won), a cool-expressionless agent who worked for Athena, an international organization of terrorism.

I love this opening fight between Cha Seung Won and athlete Choo Seong Hoon who played as one of the summoned agents. It took place in an elaborate male restroom. And I think the fight was sexy   : the way they fought, the way they bled, the way they had an intense talk, the way they hesitated, even the way they ended the fight…both men were badly bleeding

Meet our sexy double agent Yoon Hye In (Soo Ae). She originally worked for Seon Hyeok, but later we found out something else. I like her steady character. She’s plain face, cold-hearted, and sexyly dangerous. I almost forgot that Soo Ae has a melancholy image.

Hye In was ordered to kill the summoned agent in Hawaii. Calmly she tailed the agent to the lift. She acted normal, just like any other attractive woman…until the moment she did her action. She rocks!

This is Dr. Kim Myung Guk, the center of the story in the opening of the drama. He was kidnapped by some Russian while he was in Japan, supposed to attend a seminar. That night, there were two teams trying to get him out: Agent Kwon’s and Seon Hyeok’s.

The two teams competed against the western kidnapper and also against each other. After some one by one fights, hundreds of gun shots, and a building blast, Agent Kwon’s team could take Dr. Kim out. but that’s not long. One by one the NIS team was killed by Seon Hyeok’s men. There’s only one left, and this agent was about to take Dr. Kim to the car when they’re surrounded by Seon Hyeok and the gang in the basement.

Agent Kwon, who had been giving commands  from afar, came for a help. Dr. Kim managed to get to his rescue car, but the agent didn’t survive. He was shot dead, so Agent Kwon left the basement immidiately, making sure Dr. Kim was safe.

Seon Hyeok’s team didn’t let him get away easily. There’s some chasing action on the street. In the end, Dr. Kwon’s car was shot by Hye In and that made it crash turning up side down on the street. Agent Kwon was badly injured, but Dr. Kim was nowhere to be found. His condition was unknown.

Seon Hyeok got Agent Kwon. He tortured Agent Kwon with a painful serum in order to make him speak. But Agent Kwon was determine. He gave Seon Hyeok nothing.

Seon Hyeok received a phonecall from his English-speaking boss. The boss told to eliminate Agent Kwon if he eventually got nothing from him. We heard a couple of gun shots from afar. Hye In heard those bangs and turned around…

…then we flied to the time of three years later.

Now it’s time for our hero to show up. Jeong Woo Seong played as NTS (National anti-Terrorism Service) Agent Lee Jeong Woo. I like the way they make his character to be non-dramatic : a cool and perfect heroic agent. He was quite ordinary in my opinion, not the kind of cold-heartedly plain face and fierce words character. He’s quite simple, but of course still had the quality of a hero: good looking, good shooter, and good fighter.

Lee Jeong Woo’s partner slash sonbae was Agent Park Song Chul. Their partnership a bit reminded me of the pair agents in hollywood’s “Lethal Weapon” (Murtaugh&Riggs) and “Men In Black” (Agent K & Agent J), where an old agent paired with a young-handsome agent. They had a witty relationship.

The two NTS agents were on a mission in the theme park. Nothing happened eventually and they decided to end the mission. Jeong Woo saved a boy from falling of the fence and that led him met this beautiful woman…Hye Jin. Her figure then was more lovelier than three years ago.

Jeong Woo surely had a crush on her. It was a big surprise for Jeong Woo when he went to NIS head quarter. The beautiful woman, Hye In, turned out to be an NIS agent. From then on, he always found an excuse to go to NIS and for “accidently” ran into her. However, her reaction was nothing more than professional communication.

The ex-Athena agent was then an NIS or it had always been NIS from the first time?

Hye In was still in touch with Seon Hyeok. He was safe and sound. Getting to the 2nd episode, we found out that Seon Hyeok was not a cold-hearted man as we might think before. He was cooler than Jeong Woo, but he’s not an iceberg. He did invite Hye In for a business matter. She handed him a cellphone contained important information she had taken from the guy in the theme park. However at the end, Seon Hyeok handed her a birthday present.

It seemed that Hye In had been receiving presents from Seon Hyeok all these times, and she kept them all very well. I assumed their relationship was more than just partners?   Still a mystery.

And here we come to the sexy Italian scene we had seen from the trailer. Jeong Woo was ordered to go to Italy for a mission. His boss said he’s gonna be working with an NIS agent he’s meeting there. And it was too good to be true for him that his NIS agent partner turned out to be Hye In!

Their mission was to take a file from a wealthy Italian man’s hidden safe box. The scenes were very much James Bond. Jeong Woo was in black suits and bowtie with advance gadget and weapon. Let’s say he played as the 007 Agent. Meanwhile Hye In, she was the distraction. She’s the sexy seducive Bond girl who rode a very fancy sports car, backed up her partner and found him a way out.

While Bond always ended up on the bed with his girls, Jeong Woo ended up making out with Hye In on the balcony with the sunrise as the background. Who knew how they really ended it…

…It ended up there. Sorry, but the whole Bond in Italy scenes was Jeong Woo’s nap time dream In the reality, Hye In still played hard on him. ;p

We might have thought Agent Kwon had long dead, killed by Seon Hyeok that night we heard the two gun shots from afar. However, Agent Kwon was safe and sound. He ran a simple life on a rural area.

One fine day, this man was visited by Choi Jin Hee, Presidential Secretary. He told Agent Kwon that the President needed him to be back on the “field”.

Kim Gi Soo (played by Kim Min Jung) was our next character. He was the owner of an underground casino, eventually became a help to Jeong Woo and Song Chul. He was a bad temper man, but not the kind of a fighter. He used to be a top North Korean agent stationed in China, but it seemed that he liked money more than dealing with complicated secret missions. Song Chul and Jeong Woo thought he might be a big help for them since he learnt alot about Russian and China secret information. However, his character was not yet really best describe in episode 2.

Agent Kwon was indeed back as top agent. He inspected NTS since he’d work with them dealing with international terrorism. NTS agents welcomed him nervously.

And there he was, Choi Shi Won. He was a witty young NIS analyst named Agent Kim Joon Ho. Just like Kim Ge Soo, episode 2 hadn’t told about his character very much yet. But i guess he’s gonna be more or less similar to the character of Agent Na from KBS ‘Secret Agent Miss Oh’. He’s young, energetic, witty, and eager to be an elite spy.

Seon Hyeok was then became the Regional Director for Department Intelligence Service stationed in South Korea. Their secret mission was “Finding Dr. Kim Myung Guk’s whereabout”. On the surface, the organization is an international organization dealing with nuclear energy.

Seon Hyeok made a visit to the Blue House where he met Secretary Choi and two others. But a big surprise came when he met a very familiar face. While Seon Hyeok looked a bit shock, Agent Kwon approached him casually as if they hadn’t met before. He even offered a handshake and introduced himself politely.

Jeong Woo and Song Chul out for a mission in Busan, thanks to the info given by Kim Gi Soo. They’re investigating a Russian ship. Jeong Woo tailed quitely a suspicious “sect-weirdo” man, but an open scheme was not avoidable. He almost got caught, but then another team from NIS came…pointing guns at him since he apparently got in the way of their mission. It seemed that the team was European stationed, and among them Jeong Woo found a familiar face:  Han Jae Hee, played by Lee Ji Ah.

From the first time he saw this woman, i knew their relationship was more than just friends. And it turned out to be true…they used to be a happy couple. They had a very serious relationship, but something happened in the middle of the way that made them broke up. I bet they didn’t end it well.

I think this drama had made a good introduction in its two first episodes. Mysteries are still hanging on the air, waiting to be revealed one by one. Dr. Kim Myung Guk’s whereabout is also still a mystery. I like to find how Seon Hyeok deals with Agent Kwon in the next episodes. The romance can also developed into a complicated triangle or quadrangle love relationships.

I don’t really want to compare this with IRIS. But I think this drama is worth watching. As I have said before, action drama is not my favourite. However, Athena has made me sit and watch joyfully for its whole two episodes. So it gotta have something…

[thanks Greeny for helping me out in this article ]

Sung Yoo Ri – Park Jin Hee

Since the shape of their faces, cheeks, and lips are almost same, sometimes  I thought I saw Sung Yoo Ri  played in “The Woman Who Still Wants To Marry ”

Kim Tae Hee – Park Ji Yeon (T-Ara)

The never-ending-young-face Kim Tae Hee already got a rival from T-ara’s maknae, Park Ji Yeon. I think their both eyes are identical.

Kim Min Jung – Narsha (Brown Eyed Girls)

They should be sisters, their faces very unique in a very same way.

Jung Il Woo – Yoon Shi Yoon

Ough…they both are so cute..make me spechless.

Nam Goong Min – Jung Yong Hwa

No need more debate for these

Yoo In Yeong – Gyuri (KARA)

Their nose is almost identical, and they both blooming on right age.

Junho (2PM) – Rain

Omo…do they have any blood relationship???Seriously they’re really similiar. Junho is a real copy of Rain.

Kwon Sang Woo – Jinon (F.Cuz)

Hahaha..their eyes are so cute, especially when they smile.Jinon often say that many people confused him with the actor and they often asked him to sign an authograph as Kwon Sang Woo.. 

So Ji Seob – Yoo Seung Ho

Hmmm…So Ji Seob….Yoo Seung Ho….or So Ji Seob? Absolutely no problem, for me they both look amazing

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