Big
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Title: 빅 / Big
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2012-June-04 to 2012-July-24
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55
Synopsis
18 years old Kang Kyung Joon (Shin Won Ho)’s spirit suddenly becomes transplanted in the body of 30 years old Seo Yoon Jae (Gong Yoo). Seo Yoon Jae is a successful doctor and engaged to high school teacher Gil Da Ran (Lee Min Jung). Gil Da Ran just so happens to be the teacher of 18 years old Kang Kyung Joon.
Jang Ma Ri (Bae Suzy) is a girl who love Kang Kyung Joon (Shin Won Ho) and try any effort to escape Kang Kyung Joon’s spirit from Seo Yoon Jae’s body.
Cast
Main Cast
Gong Yoo as Seo Yoon Jae
Lee Min Jung as Gil Da Ran
Bae Suzy as Jang Ma Ri
Jang Hee Jin as Lee Se Young
Shin Won Ho as Kang Kyung Joon
Jang Hyun Sung as Kang Hyuk Soo
Supporting Cast
Go Soo Hee as Lee Gyung Mi
Ahn Suk Hwan as Gil Min Gyu
Yoon Hae Young as Lee Jung Hye
Baek Sung Hyun as Gil Choong Sik
Im Ji Eun as Kang Hee Soo
Kim Seo Ra as Ahn Hye Jung
Jo Young Jin as Seo In Wook
Moon Ji Yoon as Na Hyo Sang
Choi Ran as Kim Yeong Ok
Shin Ji Soo as Lee Ae Kyung
Lee Hee jin (cameo)
Cast (Photo)
Production Credits
Director: Ji Byung Hun, Kim Sung Yoon
Screenwriter: Hong Jung Eun, Hong Mi Ran (Hong Sisters)
Preview
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Episode 14
Episode 15
Episode 16
Episode Ratings
| Date | Ep | TNmS | TNmS | AGB | AGB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationwide | Seoul | Nationwide | Seoul | ||
| 2012-06-04 | 1 | 8.9 (17th) | 10.4 (8th) | 7.9 | 8.9 (16th) |
| 2012-06-05 | 2 | 8.0 (18th) | 9.7 (11th) | 7.4 (20th) | 8.1 (15th) |
| 2012-06-11 | 3 | 7.1 | 8.4 (19th) | 8.4 (17th) | 9.4 (12th) |
| 2012-06-12 | 4 | 7.6 (19th) | 8.9 (14th) | 7.9 (17th) | 8.9 (13th) |
| 2012-06-18 | 5 | 8.2 | 10.1 (10th) | 8.0 | 9.3 (14th) |
| 2012-06-19 | 6 | 8.9 (17th) | 11.1 (7th) | 8.3 (18th) | 9.3 (12th) |
| 2012-06-25 | 7 | 8.5 | 9.7 (12th) | 8.9 (18th) | 10.4 (10th) |
| 2012-06-26 | 8 | 7.8 (20th) | 9.2 (14th) | 7.9 (19th) | 8.7 (15th) |
| 2012-07-02 | 9 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 9.1 (16th) |
| 2012-07-03 | 10 | 8.8 (17th) | 9.8 (11th) | 8.1 (19th) | 9.0 (14th) |
| 2012-07-09 | 11 | 9.5 (18th) | 10.5 (11th) | 9.2 (16th) | 10.4 (9th) |
| 2012-07-10 | 12 | 9.6 (17th) | 11.0 (13th) | 8.9 (17th) | 10.1 (14th) |
| 2012-07-16 | 13 | 8.6 | 9.2 (14th) | 8.2 | 9.7 (13th) |
| 2012-07-17 | 14 | 8.6 (19th) | 9.4 (16th) | 7.8 (20th) | 8.8 (17th) |
| 2012-07-23 | 15 | 10.1 (15th) | 10.2 (11th) | 9.7 (16th) | 10.8 (10th) |
| 2012-07-24 | 16 | 11.5 (8th) | 12.0 (7th) | 11.1 (5th) | 12.2 (5th) |
Sources: TNmS Media Korea & AGB Nielsen Korea
*** Different between TNmS Media Korea & AGB Nielson – Here
Awards
2012 KBS Drama Awards: Popularity Actress Awards, Bae Suzy (Big)
Poster
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July 18th, 2012 at 2:47 pm
Except for Gongyoo and some funnies, I rarely enjoy this drama since the beginning. I think it’s bec I hv never rooted for DR ending up with KJ in either bodies and bec of this, I couldn’t connect with ep 13 at all. Since part of the joy of watching a drama is to hv the leads hv a happy ending, I hv not seen this possibility available for DR from ep 1. It was a boring character to start with, and after 14 eps I find her pitiful. She went from blindly in love to wondering if she was really loved. Then she suffered from YJ ‘dying’, pinning for him, covering for him for his lost soul, spent a couple of eps falling out of love with him and falling in love with KJ, then losing KJ. Nobody wants anybody to die, so if the souls swap back and KJ wakes up, DR can’t possibly end up with either brother. For what I ask for what. Give DR a break, it is she who needs a miracle in the last 2 hours left.
July 18th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
i’m curious what happened next in the episode 15
who do you think friends? is he still KKJ or YJ?
July 18th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
agree wth @ SeGa_Fan-668
I think it’s still KKJ soul coz YJ’s soul never exist since the accident..only KJ’s soul who switching to their body but I dont know if the writer have other explanations ?!!!
I think the title of book whose made by YJ’s father and KJ’s birth mother
must change to be ‘Miracle brings a misery’.. they met did not brings happiness, but suffering more to one of them..
that’s why in a real life ppl say ” don’t play as a GOD “.
life wasn’t a gift from human, no one can predict the fate…
Goong Yoo is the only one in my screen in this eps.!!! love him muaccccccccch
July 18th, 2012 at 8:45 pm
i’m very confuse about ep 14. YJ parents said KJ and YJ are fraternal twins? and the age gap is wasn’t 12 years. how come?? i don’t get it with that. can anybody explain it?
@KDaddict
and when in the airpot, i don’t get it what da ran said. but in the end she said that she love kang kyun joon right?
i agree, da ran should say like @KDaddict said. the dialoge in the airpot is not touching and make me confuse with the meaning.
July 18th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
but the saddest moment is when KKJ tell da ran “i’m going to act as if everything i went through after the accident never happened. gil daran you should too, promise”, he said happily and tell DR don’t be sad but then he cries :’(((
GONG YOO IT’S AMAZING
July 18th, 2012 at 9:02 pm
Ep14
Angst, noble idiocy and i-love-you-but we-aren’t-meant-for-each other concept which i really can’t stand in a drama i ‘m crazily in love with the male lead. It’s Hong sister’s style to separate their OTP in ep 14 and it is mostly along with angst. But here it is too much. We haven’t had that many sweet love moments between our OTP and the girl never clearly has showen her love. So making KJ who is the most innocent and loveliest one in this drama to go trough such a painful process is really cruel. You are really playing with our hearts H.sisters.
Now, i want YJ and KJ to return to their bodies. For now i ‘m not sure DR’s love is purely for KJ or a part of it, is in result of him being in her long loved fiance’s body. DR is always confused and never shows us she just loves KJ. I wanted a scene like she goes to hospital and stares at KJ’s body with affection or imagines herself with him in his own body but we didn’t see such scenes. So KJ must be back and DR has to fight for him to show us she loves KJ in his own body, otherwise i’d get soooooooooooo angry. I miss KJ’s body and considering the first episode the chemistry between LMJ and Shin was good.
It seems YJ is back. His eyes were like “where am i? what’s happening here”. KJ’s eyes aren’t like that.
July 18th, 2012 at 10:02 pm
Yes!! As u all said gong yoo is the best in this drama. His acting are the best in this drama. He is so sexy and cute in almost every scene. He should get many awards from kbs by his acting. Oh God!!! I’m crazy for him ha ha ha!! The only thing I think weak is its story line. Its too confusing and pretty boring in some episodes. But I’m a big fan of big. I saw the photos of gong yoo and the kids from his hospital in some sites. They are very adorable. Gong yoo u make our heart melt. You can be a good husband and father. Hey I found that lee min jung is not very suited to her character. I know her acting is good. But she’s not very suited to gdr. lmj is a goddess of beauty. But gdr role is very innocent and idiotic. I only sense lee min jung’s innocence when she is smiling and crying .Hey don’t get me wrong. I’m also a fan of lee min jung and also love her. I just discuss my thoughts. Please discuss my thoughts. Please don’t hate me.
July 18th, 2012 at 10:56 pm
I actually enjoyed Ep 14 cos I found it so touching and GY’s acting, as usual so awesome. Mari, I think wasn’t as bad because although it wasn’t right for her to lie in Episode 13, she kind of redeemed herself in Episode 14 because unlike GDR, she was steadfast in her affections for KKJ and she genuinely cared for him. Look at how fast she reacted (running to check on KKJ) in the last scene when she heard that YJ collapsed!! Lots of moral implications on man trying to play God but in Episode 14, from a woman’s point of view, and being realistic here, I understand where the “evil” mum was coming from when she revealed that she couldn’t love KKJ because he came from her husband’s true love”s womb. Of course she’s selfish and mean but …she’s a mother too to YJ and she loves him without conditions. As for GDR, she’s an idiot, but in a cute way and in her own way, she did what she thought best in order to save KKJ, even in YJ’s body, just as I believe Mari would also let YJ be if it means that this is the only way that KKJ can survive. I also believe that the one in the last scene is KKJ in YJ’s body, and YJ’s soul has somehow gone to save another child’s life – one of the kids, meaning YJ or rather KKJ, physically is dead.
July 18th, 2012 at 11:56 pm
Gong Yoo acting in this drama is superb. he is so talented.
July 19th, 2012 at 1:11 am
I think the writers need to get their heads examined. The whole premise is iffy at best to begin w.
OK, let’s say we all started out buying the soul switch thingy. Next KKJ falls for Gil Teacher big time. Come to think of it, we might readily understand a high school boy’s crush on a teacher, but true love, urh…… I know, I know, true love needs no reason. The strength n dedication in that love leaves a credibility gap that I’m willing to overlook when everything else is going smoothly. For much of the show, DR falls in love w Cutie Pie, feels too guilty to show it, then can’t help showing it, ending w the kiss. That much I’m on board with. The show loses me at the end of ep 13:
Poor KKJ is in so much pain over finding out the secrets of his birth. GDR chooses that moment to pretend to have only cared abt him so as to get him to save YJ! That’s not adding salt, but cyanide, to injury. Worse, I have no idea why she has to do that! Do you?
As kdfan says, GDR is indeed not a well-written char. She is a simpleton, with little idea of what is going on around her, be it regarding YJ or Mari. To be played by a girl, a rival in love who is 8 years younger, is just pathetic. However, I feel that Lee MJ is giving it her all. It isn’t her fault that her char is an idiot.
At this pt, I almost feel that whoever is waking up in GY’s body is a random fancy of the writers’.
I started out so giddy w excitement over the current 3 rom-coms. 2 out of 3 have failed me plot-wise twds the end. AGD is just too simple a story, w too little progress, to be engrossing. When their runs r over, I for one need to take a break, n get my head examined, along w the Hong sisters’.
July 19th, 2012 at 3:14 am
didn’t like to see KKJ crying to leave and forgetting gil da ran.. hiks, this drama almost ended … aahhh
(. I think this is best drama and Gong Yoo is really the best best besttttt actor, you’re Star!!^^v
July 19th, 2012 at 3:37 am
I think the one waking up in YJ’s body at end of ep 14 is still KJ.
July 19th, 2012 at 3:54 am
…uffffs i’m soooo excited and thrilled for the nx ep.. i like the idea of the writer that when they switched back to their bodies, KKJ will forget everything.. but how about GDR? again, history repeat itself? she will sacrifice for the sake of YJ just like KKJ mom’s did? OMG.. i don’t know what to say but i think there’s a big big twist in the end.. KKJ character suits very well in YJ body but i think it’s not proper and inappropriate if KKJ itself will still act and cling to GDR.. hehe
.. please give us a good ending and a memorable one.. keep it up!
July 19th, 2012 at 11:30 am
@sw – #679
yes, it was said that YJ and KKJ are fraternal twins (I have not watched the ep. though). But read it from some other sites. YJ’s mum prob went for fertility treatment, and both YJ and KKJ were conceived together, but they choose to freeze one of the embryo (which is KKJ) and when YJ became sick, and needed a sibling’s stem cell, KKJ came into the pic. But for some reason, YJ’s mum couldn’t a baby,thus they had to “borrow” his dad’s lover’s womb.
July 19th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
All i can say is that as long i find a series interesting either it is silly, immature, funny or (sometimes a bit sad), i’ll still watch it.. anyway, the reason why i am watching these series is to pass time and be entertained, i don’t need those depth thingy or something, besides im not a pro critic who can analyze the the show’s integrity just because it is not going to the plot i wished it should be directed..
although me personally, i always wanted a show either a movie or a drama series ends happily.. so i only hope for both of my favorites so far (BIG and AGD) is… please to end happily.. happily means, main charaters end up with each other…
yaaaay so sweet!!
peace to all!!
July 19th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
thankyou SeGa_Fan, It means that one embryo was taken from his mother’s womb? and freeze it? it’s really make me confuse. i think KKJ was made after YJ sick, but actually KKJ and YJ were fraternal twins. unpredictable!
July 19th, 2012 at 9:53 pm
@sw
Yes it is unpredictable…though actually I don’t how much twist them being fraternal twins had added to the plot.
Anyway, here’s a link to an article about a pair of twins who were born five years apart :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/04/twins-born-five-years-apart
July 19th, 2012 at 10:17 pm
@SeGa_Fan
whoaaaaa i search articel about those method (twins who were born several years apart), because i’m very corious but i didn’t find. thank you for your info
July 19th, 2012 at 10:39 pm
@clairerosean Yeah me too, sometimes haha. Most of the time, I just want to enjoy the drama without thinking too much as long as it’s within its limits without being too ridiculous. Agree, too much criticism sometimes takes away the enjoyment. I think what’s most important is what you think and like. I do that most of the time, just watch what I like, and disregard all the criticism, if any. I like both Big and AGD too. Peace
July 20th, 2012 at 12:02 am
@ sw
No problem
July 20th, 2012 at 8:37 am
The Cupples That I Want to End up Together:
Kang Kyung Joon and Gil Da Ran
Gil Choong Sik and Jang Ma Ri
Na Hyo Sang and Lee ae Kyung
Seo Yoon Jae and Lee Se Young
Kim Yeong Ok and Kang Hyuk Soo
July 20th, 2012 at 10:05 am
We certainly watch KD for enjoyment. I don’t think anyone is watching for school credit or financial gain.
It doesn’t mean we have to swallow everything line, hook and sinker. We notice it when something is jarring, and say so. On a lot of other sites, viewers exchange views, n the exchange adds to the enjoyment. Just becos we r puzzled and voice it doesn’t mean there is ill-will towards the show or its lovers. Perhaps this is evolving into a website that only Raves r allowed.
If anyone understands why GDR feels compelled to tell KKJ that she has only been sticking around w him becos she wants him to save YJ, please explain it. I for one am clueless.
July 20th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HURRY UP EPISODE 15 & 16
July 20th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
korean series/drama really knows how to make a story more interesting and more confusing that can make you say “urgghh >.< i need to know what will happen next?? who will be together in the end?? will the last episode be great? and will make you say the series is great !! "
and the best thing that every korean drama you watch.. you will learned something new from it. hehe
July 20th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
i mean you will learn something new from it..