{"id":3384,"date":"2015-01-13T09:33:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T20:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juliaandtania.com\/blog\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2019-12-31T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T03:39:29","slug":"birth-of-a-beauty-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juliaandtania.com\/blog\/?p=3384","title":{"rendered":"Birth of a Beauty (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we first came across Korean series, <em>Birth of a Beauty<\/em>, and read the synopsis saying that it was about an overweight woman who turns into a beauty through plastic surgery, we thought it was going to be a light and fluffy kind of a series where the girl is finally able to turn heads with her new attractive look and make the guy that didn&#8217;t find her attractive before fall for her. The series started off feeling like that: the opening scenes showed the main character, <em>Sara<\/em> (Han Ye Seul), strutting her stuff in a red dress with pop soundtrack playing in the background as men and women young and old turn their heads towards this perfect woman (it looked like a k-pop music video was on the screen). But by the end of the 1st episode, the story of <em>Sa Geum Ran<\/em> (Ha Jae Sook) and how she becomes Sara comes in and we see the series have a more serious plot.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed this series a lot. It&#8217;s got a bit of everything that we like: romance, comedy, spy action, hidden identities and power struggle between heirs of a large conglomerate. There were also a lot of antagonistic characters that made the conflict in the story frustratingly good to chase down.<\/p>\n<p>Our favourite scenes from the series are definitely all the scenes with the main characters, <em>Sara<\/em> and <em>Han Tae Hee<\/em> (Joo Sang Wook). They are very funny together, their sweet moments are truly sweet and we love the &#8216;ajumma-genius&#8217; partnership in spying and bringing justice to evil doers. They were invincible when they were together.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gyo Chae Yeon<\/em> (Wang Ji Hye) was a very frustrating character. She was the character who pulled all the strings, scheming and controlling everything and everyone with her knowledge of <em>Sara<\/em>&#8216;s secret identity that only she knew. She used it to gain things and people that was not hers. It was satisfying to finally see <em>Gyo Chae Yeon<\/em> out of cards to play and become worried about her secrets being revealed to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>We had initially passed up on this series when it first became available to watch, but we&#8217;re so glad we decided to watch this good series eventually. We&#8217;re actually glad we didn&#8217;t watch Birth of a Beauty as it aired and decided to watch it when almost all the episodes were released. We don&#8217;t know if we could have waited for the episodes to release each week.<\/p>\n<p>Great story; love the main characters; awesome soundtrack; great plotting; and it has an interesting topic about plastic surgery and message about confidence in the self. 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