(Wednesdays 8pm)
29 years old, overweight, and with an unfashionable name, Kim Sam-soon spots her boyfriend going into a hotel with another woman on Christmas Eve. Instead of dumping him there and then, Sam-soon begs him not to leave her, but to no avail. Not only had she lost her boyfriend, she had lost her job earlier in the day. Utterly distraught, Sam-soon runs into a restroom – the men's room – where she encounters Jin-heon who thinks she is a pervert. They part company on the worst of terms, not knowing their paths will cross again.
A Cordon Bleu-trained pastry chef, Sam-soon visits a hotel for a job interview where she meets Jin-heon again. This time, her hair gets stuck in his tie pin. Rushed for time and irritated, Jin-heon mercilessly cuts off the offending hair. In revenge, Sam-soon throws the cake she made for the interview in Jin-heon's face. He is pleasantly surprised by the cake’s taste and ends up hiring her as a pastry chef for his restaurant Bon Appetit.
The two despise each other, bickering day and night. Then one day, Jin-heon, in the hope of avoiding blind dates set up for him by his meddlesome mother, offers a contract to Sam-soon to pose as his girlfriend. Needing the money, Sam-soon signs on to the contract relationship. But eventually, their hatred turns to affection, as they find themselves thinking about each other. Things get complicated as Jin-heon's ex-girlfriend Hee-jin and Sam-soon's ex-boyfriend enter the fray...
The top rated My Lovely Samsoon swept local TV awards in eight categories, including Best Actor and Best Female Actress for Hyun Bin in his role as Jin-heon and Kim Sun-a in her role as Sam-soon. Actress Kim Sun-a gained fifteen pounds to nail her role as the fiery, overweight Sam-soon. In addition to the lead stars, Sam-soon’s ex-boyfriend character is played by Daniel Henney, dashing, Hollywood-based Korean-American star born to a British father and a Korean mother; while Jin-heon’s former girlfriend Yoo Hee-jin is played by Jeong Ryeo-won, a singer-turned-actress and former member of the female group Chakra.
