Lobbyist Synopsis (from SBS Global):
In the mid 1980s, Maria (Jang Jin-young) grows up in a quiet fishing village with Harry (Song Il-guk). Harry’s father died when a North Korean spy snuck into the country and shot him dead because he was an Army commander. Harry and his sister move to America after the incident. Maria’s family also migrate to America soon after and Maria’s father takes a job as a bus driver. While living happily in America, a mugger kills Maria’s father one day. Meanwhile, Harry meets Maria by coincidence. When his uncle sexually molests his sister Suzie, he decides to run away from home with his sister.
10 years later... Maria is 20 years old and works as a bus driver. Her sister Eva graduated from a prestigious American college and works at the naval intelligence agency in Washington D.C. One day, she meets Eva’s boyfriend Tae-hyuk (Han Jae-seok) and begins to develop feelings for him. While working at odd jobs throughout his life, Harry challenges the Mafia to save his sister Suzie. The Korean wife (Kim Mi-sook) of the Mafia boss is impressed with Harry and she offers to let him join the gang. Meanwhile, Maria learns that the FBI is investigating Eva because she is under suspicions of trying to steal sensitive military secrets. When her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, Maria’s whole life changes all of a sudden...
Cast:
Song Il Gook as Harry / Kim Joo Ho
Jang Jin Young as Maria / Yoo So Young
Han Jae Suk as Kang Tae Hyuk
Yoo Sun as Eva / Yoo Moon Young
Huh Joon Ho as James Lee (Maria's teacher / trainer)
Kim Mi Sook as Madame Chae
My comments:
When it’s a big budget K-drama, it always contains these ‘must’ elements: oversea shooting, lots of bullets, revenge and separated childhood sweethearts. Lobbyist unfortunately includes all these. Amnesia is the only element that is left out this time. This drama reminds me of All In, which is absolutely not a good thing because I think All In is one of the most boring K-dramas I’ve ever seen and Lobbyist didn’t meet my expectations either. Although it has oversea shooting, a very capable cast and a large number of Swarovski products, it suffers from a very bad script. There are a lot of events and situations that are so unrealistic that I just burst out laughing and when Song Il Gook gets beaten in almost every episode, it gets very tiring to the point of me getting numb. When the first 1/3 was shot in the States, I felt like I was watching a travel program or an American movie when it comes to action. It gets better when they return to Korea but 24 episodes is too lengthy for this drama and I don’t think it would hurt much if it’s cut down to 20 episodes. I was only more attentive and felt more ‘into’ the drama during the last 4 episodes.
I like Song Il Gook; Jang Jin Young is one of my favorite Korean actress and well, Han Jae Suk is not my favorite but I’m curious at how he’s doing after his military services. I didn’t fell much chemistry between these 3 as I just don’t care if so ends up with so or not. I find all three characters boring (it also didn’t help that both guys had hideous haircut for a large part of the drama) and I’m having a hard time liking Maria. She’s keeps on getting into mess after mess due to her stubborn and aggressive character, which makes people around her suffer. It hurts the drama a lot when the female lead is not too likeable. Huh Joon Ho’s James is a more interesting character. I had a hard time guessing what his motive to accept Maria as his apprentice is. Is it to help her genuinely, to compensate her or to destroy her? You never know what he’s really thinking until the end.
Watch this drama only if you’re die-hard fans of the cast; if not, save those 24 hours…
* Opening credit of the drama
13 comments:
I totally agree with the previous comments. The casts were a mismatch, mind you, there were just no chemistry among the three. I think it's even worse when they said these children were raised in the States, but when they tried to talk english, wow, different story.
pretty cool stuff here thank you!!!!!!!
worse when they said these children were raised in the States, but when they tried to talk english
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