SBS's recent offering, My Girl, makes its way to Singapore via
Ch.55, debuting on 16 December at 10.30pm. Definitely worth
checking out 
MY GIRL
Cast: Lee
Dong-wook, Lee Da-hae, Lee Joon-ki, Park Si-yeon
Synopsis
by spcnet.tv:
Joo Yoorin (Lee Da Hae) is a tour guide in a small company in
charge of running mini tours in the Jeju Island of South Korea. Her
father is a gambling addict, but despite all the debts that he runs
up, Yoorin always finds a way to help repay them. She leads a
below-average life but is happy as long as she has her dad around
her. Because of her father's gambling ways, she has had to move
from country to country whenever her father runs from one place to
another to avoid their debtors. This has in turn brought her the
ability to converse fluently in Chinese and Japanese, which are of
great help as a tour guide whenever she has to entertain tourists
from China and Japan.
Seol Gongchan (Lee Dong Wook) is the only heir of the owner of
L'Avenuel Hotel, which is one of the top hotels in Korea. His
grandfather, Seol Woong, charges him with the duty of finding his
granddaughter, who is also Gongchan's cousin. Seol Woong had
disowned his own daughter, Gongchan's aunt, when she decided to
marry a man not of his choice. However, when Seol Woong had a
change of heart and wished to accept his daughter back, an
earthquake struck where his daughter lived, and since then, he has
lost all contact with his kin and perhaps the chance to make amends
for his own stubbornness, to take care of his granddaughter and
hopefully make things right.
Kim Seohyun (Park Si Yeon) is the girlfriend of Seol Gongchan. A
rising star in the tennis world, she returns to Korea to look for
Gongchan as she cannot forget him.
Seo Jung Woong (Lee Jun Ki) is the son of one of the main
shareholders of L'Avenuel Hotel and also the best friend of Seol
Gongchan. Unlike Gongchan who is responsible and hardworking, Jung
Woong is a flirt who is known to have many girlfriends.
The story starts with Yoorin rushing to the airport. She is helping
her friend delay a flight so that the tourists of her friend will
not miss their flight. Out of ideas, she plays a damsel in
distress, who is apparently mourning her impending death and her
dying wish to see her boyfriend who is apparently on the flight.
And so after much crying and the entire airport empathizing with
her, she gets to get on board the plane to look for her boyfriend
who never really existed. As she walks, she realizes she cannot
find anyone and pretends to faint. Alas, she faints beside the seat
of our male lead, Seol Gongchan, who knows a liar when he sees one.
Although their first encounter is weird, it doesn't leave much of
an impression in each other's mind.
Later, however, when Gongchan has to entertain a bunch of Chinese
visitors and realizes he has no translator, he engages the services
of Yoorin coincidentally and through Yoorin, his potential Chinese
investors have a great time at the L'Avenuel Hotel branch in Jeju,
and Yoorin has much credit to claim for it.
After a series of comical events including Yoorin staying at his
hotel lodge without paying, and Yoorin selling his hotel
fruityard's oranges to make a small profit (to clear her father's
debts again), Gongchan's impression of Yoorin is one of a cheat and
he would want to do anything to distance himself from her.
But then word from mainland Korea is that his grandfather is dying
and at his bedside, Seol Woong, through his respirator, can only
meekly repeat that he must not and cannot die until he sees his
granddaughter again.
Driven by desperation and his love for his grandfather, Gongchan
will do anything to ease his burden. When pointed out by his
secretary that Yoorin bears a resemblance to his aunt, Gongchan
hatches a plan to pass off Yoorin as his grandfather's long-lost
granddaughter whilst he carries on searching for the real
one.
Yoorin, who is desperate for money to repay her father's debt, is
unwilling to do the job as it involves lying to a dying man,
something that she staunchly refuses to do. But when Seol Gongchan
desperately begs her and she realizes she is somewhat indebted to
him for not bringing her to the police after her little business in
his hotel, she caves in and pretends to the long-lost
granddaughter.
And so things seem to be going well, with the search for Gongchan's
long-lost cousin making progress and perhaps more importantly, the
improvement of Gongchan's grandfather's conditions thanks to
Yoorin. As Yoorin spends more time with Gongchan's family, she gets
showered with the love she never received as a child and finds
herself drawn to Gongchan. She finds herself changing from the liar
that she once was to a person who tries to tell the truth when she
can. But she knows all too well that her one-sided love will never
materialize as the difference in social status between Gongchan and
herself is too big.
But unknown to her, Gongchan is also slowly being drawn to
her...
