Shining Inheritance
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Title: 찬란한 유산 / Shining Inheritance
Chinese title : 灿烂的遗产
Also known as : Brilliant Legacy / Chanranhan Yusan/ Beautiful Legacy
Previously known as: 인생은 아름다워 / Life Is Beautiful
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 28
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-25 to 2009-July-26
Air time: Saturday & Sunday 21:55
Synopsis
Go Eun Sung’s life is similar to Cinderella’s. After her father died, her step-mother, Baek Sung Hee, took away all of her assets and her younger brother, Eun Woo, suddenly disappears without a trace. Despite this, Eun Sung preservers and works really hard to fulfill her dreams. When the CEO of a food company, Jang Sook Ja, suffers amnesia and can’t remember who she is Eun Sung takes her in. However, Eun Sung does not know that she is the grandmother of Sun Woo Hwan, the man who she switched bags with at the airport. How will their constant bickering lead them to realize that they care more about each other than they let on?
Cast
Han Hyo Joo as Go Eun Sung
Lee Seung Ki as Sun Woo Hwan
Bae Soo Bin as Park Jun Se
Moon Chae Won as Yoo Sung Mi
Extended Cast
Kim Mi Sook as Baek Sung Hee
Min Young Won as Lee Hye Ri (Eun Sung’s friend)
Yun Joon Suk as Go Eun Woo
Jung Suk Won as Jin Young Suk (Hwan’s friend)
Han Ye Won as Sun Woo Jung
Ban Hyo Jung as Jang Sook Ja
Yoo Ji In as Oh Young Ran (Hwan & Jung’s mother)
Kim Jae Seung as Lee Hyung Jin
Son Yeo Eun as Jung In Young
Choi Jung Woo as Park Tae Soo
Lee Seung Hyung as Pyo Sung Chul
Jun In Taek as Go Pyung Joong (Eun Sung’s father)
Baek Seung Hyun as Manager Lee Joon Young
Park Sang Hyun as Han Soo Jae
Production Credits
Director: Jin Hyuk (진혁)
Screenwriter: So Hyun Kyung (소현경)
Awards
2009 SBS Drama Awards: Achievement Award (Ban Hyo Jung)
2009 SBS Drama Awards: Female Top Excellence Award (Kim Mi Sook)
2009 SBS Drama Awards: Best Actor Award – Special Planning Drama (Lee Seung Ki)
2009 SBS Drama Awards: Best Actress Award – Special Planning Drama (Han Hyo Joo)
2009 SBS Drama Awards: Best Couple Award (Lee Seung Ki and Han Hyo Joo)
2009 MNET 20′s Choice Awards: Hot Female Drama Star (Han Hyo Joo)
2009 MNET 20′s Choice Awards: Hot Male Drama Star (Lee Seung Ki)
Episode Ratings
| Date | Episode | Nationwide | Seoul |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-04-25 | 1 | 16.9 (3rd) | 17.0 (3rd) |
| 2008-04-26 | 2 | 19.2 (4th) | 19.6 (5th) |
| 2009-05-02 | 3 | 15.9 (3rd) | 15.6 (3rd) |
| 2009-05-03 | 4 | 21.7 (3rd) | 21.6 (4th) |
| 2009-05-09 | 5 | 21.8 (1st) | 23.1 (1st) |
| 2009-05-10 | 6 | 26.5 (2nd) | 27.7 (1st) |
| 2009-05-16 | 7 | 24.7 (2nd) | 25.1 (1st) |
| 2009-05-17 | 8 | 28.5 (1st) | 29.6 (1st) |
| 2009-05-23 | 9 | 26.8 (1st) | 27.4 (1st) |
| 2009-05-24 | 10 | 29.1 (1st) | 29.4 (1st) |
| 2009-05-30 | 11 | 28.5 (1st) | 28.1 (1st) |
| 2009-05-31 | 12 | 33.4 (1st) | 33.3 (1st) |
| 2009-06-06 | 13 | 28.5 (1st) | 29.2 (1st) |
| 2009-06-07 | 14 | 33.4 (1st) | 33.3 (1st) |
| 2009-06-13 | 15 | 30.9 (1st) | 30.4 (1st) |
| 2009-06-14 | 16 | 34.1 (1st) | 34.4 (1st) |
| 2009-06-20 | 17 | 32.9 (1st) | 32.7 (1st) |
| 2009-06-21 | 18 | 35.5 (1st) | 36.1 (1st) |
| 2009-06-27 | 19 | 33.0 (1st) | 33.8 (1st) |
| 2009-06-28 | 20 | 39.9 (1st) | 40.6 (1st) |
| 2009-07-04 | 21 | 35.6 (1st) | 35.7 (1st) |
| 2009-07-05 | 22 | 39.7 (1st) | 40.1 (1st) |
| 2009-07-11 | 23 | 38.5 (1st) | 37.6 (1st) |
| 2009-07-12 | 24 | 41.8 (1st) | 41.7 (1st) |
| 2009-07-18 | 25 | 40.1 (1st) | 39.9 (1st) |
| 2009-07-19 | 26 | 43.4 (1st) | 44.0 (1st) |
| 2009-07-25 | 27 | 44.6 (1st) | 45.3 (1st) |
| 2009-07-26 | 28 | 47.1 (1st) | 47.4 (1st) |
Source: TNS Media Korea
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October 30th, 2010 at 8:48 am
I see seung gi’s fans here.
Why don’t you guys send your comments on seung gi’s page and his latest drama’s page, my girlfriend is a gumiho?
Love this drama. Seung gi and hyo joo were so good in portraying their role.
SungHwan couple was lovely.
October 31st, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Can’t wait to watch the 1-hr special ! Hope they show BTS footages.
November 1st, 2010 at 3:53 pm
hyo joo!! you’re pretty
November 1st, 2010 at 6:31 pm
they are compatible couple, I really like acting Lee Seung gi here. of an ignorant and selfish, to be a warm boy and a good man .. I really like this drama. Lee Seung gi is very funny, especially the scene he gives to eun sung bench at a bus stop. hahaha … he calculates the actions of his love for eun sung. oh! I really love Lee Seung gi.
November 4th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Check this out guys.
http://tryp96.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/brilliant-legacy-featured-on-japanese-magazine/
November 6th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Love the sceneries in this drama and of course, the main leads, LSG and HHJ.
November 6th, 2010 at 10:23 am
this is a family drama series, with some love story thrown in. so i really don’t mind whether the ending is sad or good. better if it ends happily, but won’t feel disappointed if it shows an unhappy ending.
for me, love stories that concern the main leads specially, like ” take care of the young lady”, “hello miss”, “my girlfriend is a gumiho”, “he’s beautiful” SHOULD end just like fairy tale stories. that’s what most fans ask for.
November 6th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
why do i always think about the girl who played Jang Di ( lead actress in korean Boys over Flowers) whenever i see Han Hyo Joo?
November 7th, 2010 at 6:59 am
This is also another great drama. The plot twists up and is absolutely one worth paying attention to. The characters are also interesting to learn about because when I watched it I completely forgot these were just people acting. Also, the style of their clothing is amazing and very admirable.
November 7th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
i pity seung mi for always covering up for her mother. she has a good heart and it is so sad to not divulge the lies made by her mother which has been piling up. if she confesses to eun seung, she will be exposing her mother for the scheming liar that she is. i am now in episode 11 and am eager to find out what she will tell to seung mi.
I think she will keep the farce facade because the series is still a long way to go. i am not even into half of this series yet.
November 7th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
oh, i forgot to mention that a modern series should not be too long. unlike the temptations of the wife which i think is 160plus series long and i was bored with it already. i only persisted to watch temptations of the wife because i wanted to see how it will end.
i think a 28 series family drama is ok, not too long nor short.
November 7th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
oh no. seung mi has become an accomplice of her mother. she sends an email to her stepfather posing as eun song. it is so contradictory to her character because we were made to believe that she was so ANGUISHED about the lies made by her mother, if she felt so guilty about what her mother had done, she should not aggravate the situation by adding more fuel to the fire. in doing so, the viewers can’t commiserate with her anymore.
November 8th, 2010 at 9:52 am
seung mi is really her mother’s daughter. furhter lying becomes natural for her just to cover up her lies. the lesson is that eun sung must tell hwan and granny the truth so they will see through seung mi and her mother’s lying. as it is now, because seung mi is the one who FIRST told hwan the truth, a “TWISTED” version of it, she makes it appear to hwan that eung sung is the liar.
November 8th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
. jun se and woo hwan both love eun sung. in this series, i have an inkling that it will be hwan who gets the love of eun sung. so, i sympathize with jun se because i feel his love for eun sung is no less than hwan’s love for her. it is so pitiful to see that the love given is not given back. i hate love triangle. it’s good that this doesn’t often happen in real life only in lover stories .
seung mi is too thick skinned to not let go of hwan even though she realizes than hwan doesn’t love her. why torture yourself in seeing that your love is not given back? look for another boyfriend and have a life!!
November 8th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
in the case of meteor garden, taiwan version, i never root for huazhelei because he has never shown that he loves shancai. he treats her well as a friend. if he feels love towards shancai, i, the viewer, never felt it. near the end, he might feel something for her but he never says nor declares his love for shancai. not like daomingse, who really PURSUES shancai when he is sure that he really loves her.
However, in “shining inheritance”, Jun se pursues eun sung and let her know he really loves her. so, i feel so bad for him that eun sung loves hwan and not him. is it possible to love 2 at the same time? if it were possible, then i choose both of them.
November 9th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
i love all the cast of this series. i love the acting of jun se, his lawyer-father, seung mi(she’s great)m seung mi’s mother and even hwan. i think eun sung’s acting needs more improvement. hyo joo is more beautiful than park shin hye and yoon eun hye but i like shin hye’s acting more. the role of the autistic brother seems so “REAL”. is he an actor or did they hire a real autistic child to play the role? he’s so so good!
so far, this series really deserves the ratings it got. what i don’t like is the pacing of the story. when the suspense is near killing me, it goes through a LULL and the story diverts to lighter scenes. it only picked up again near episodes 26-28( near the end episodes).
November 13th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
its a worthwhile story..
i really love this drama..
but baker king is better…
November 15th, 2010 at 9:47 am
i really2 L♥vE this drama..
tc and thÜmbs Üp..♥♥♥♥
November 15th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
seunggi & hyojoo … daebak
November 17th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
It very creative. I would like to thank Korean Tv management for their excellent work and for discovering individual talents. We in East Africa, would like to learn more about the people of Korea through their drama…… and other related programs.
Kristine
November 19th, 2010 at 8:32 am
perfect couple…..
November 22nd, 2010 at 7:31 pm
really love shining inheritance a.k.a brilliant legacy
never felt bored when i watched this drama again, again, and again
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Just finished watching this drama. It was very OK. Good plot, good actors and actresses, not draggy. One not so good thing is the main guy. He looks way too young to match the main girl. Sometimes like he is 14y old. Entertaining drama anway.
November 25th, 2010 at 12:02 am
Coooollll……
November 28th, 2010 at 11:26 am
my favourit korean drama