[Drama 2015] My Heart Twinkle Twinkle 내 마음 반짝반짝 Thanks for watching...

Chinese Title: 我的心一閃一閃
Also known as: My Heart Shines / My Heart is Twinkling
Previously known as: 장사의 신 이순정 / Lee Soon Jung, the Goddess of Sales
Genre: Family, Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 26
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2015-Jan-17 to 2015-April-12
Air time: Saturday & Sunday 21:55

Synopsis

Since her mother died, Soon Jin (Jang Shin Young) has taken care of her father and her two younger sisters. She also runs a chicken restaurant “Jinsim” own by his father and worry about their rival chicken restaurant “Woontak” run by a cold-blooded man, Woon Tak (Bae Soo Bin).

Meanwhile, her two younger sisters are Soon Soo (Lee Tae Im) and Soon Jung (Nam Bo Ra). Soon Soo has an attractive appearance and plays the piano well. Due to breaking up with her first love and her poor family background, she feels miserable. Soon Jung is the youngest daughter and she is proud of her father. She becomes involved with two men, Jang Soon Chul (Lee Pil Mo) and Cha Do Hoon (Oh Chang Suk).

Cast

Main Cast

Jang Shin Young as Lee Soon Jin

http://star.koreandrama.org/?p=1177

Bae Soo Bin as Cheon Woon Tak

http://star.koreandrama.org/?p=990

Lee Tae Im as Lee Soon Soo (Soon Jin’s younger sister)

http://star.koreandrama.org/?p=1381

Nam Bo Ra as Lee Soon Jung (Soon Jin’s younger sister)

http://star.koreandrama.org/?p=9737

Supporting Cast

Lee Pil Mo as Jang Soon Chul

http://star.koreandrama.org/?p=1208
Oh Chang Suk as Cha Do Hoon

http://star.koreandrama.org/?p=17886

Lee Duk Hwa as Lee Jin San

http://star.koreandrama.org/?p=1122

Jung Ae Ri as Jang Cheng Chul

http://star.koreandrama.org/?p=818

Geum Bo Ra as Hwang Mei Chi

http://star.koreandrama.org/?p=842

Ha Jae Sook as Chan Ying Fei

http://star.koreandrama.org/?p=8666

Son Eun Seo as Chan Jing Fei

http://star.koreandrama.org/?p=11422

Jung Eun Woo as Ji Guang Moo

http://star.koreandrama.org/?p=10891

Yoon Da Hoon as Bae Cheng Yi

http://star.koreandrama.org/?p=7481

Production Credits

Director: Oh Se Kang
Screenwriter: Jo Jung Sun

Note

Kim Jung Eun and Kim Soo Ro were previously cast for the main character roles in this drama, but dropped out of the project prior to filming.

http://www.koreandrama.org/?p=39126

Credit to the original poster...

Translated Character profile information by @baduy

Jinshim Wonju restaurant Family

Lee Sun Jeong (19 to 22 years old) Played by Nam Bo Ra



Tough but lovable, the youngest daughter of the family that owns the Jinshim Wonju Chicken Restaurant.

Her earliest memories are of the aromatic appetizing smell of chicken, and as a teenager she's proud to be known as the girl from the chicken restaurant.

However, when she discovers the secret behind the way her father one day died through an unexpected accident, she commits herself to pursuing the path of vengeance.

To resurrect her father's Jinshim Wonju Chicken Restaurant business, she travels the entire nation to study chicken raising and cooking, and despite many setbacks, persists in her solitary struggles.

This girl never rests in her lonely fight to seek out the members of her family, dispersed after her father's death, and to restore the happy times they once knew.
 

Lee Sun Jin (30 years old) Played by Jang Shin Yeong
 

 
Eldest of the three sisters of the Jinshim Wonju restaurant family.

Generous, good-natured and pure-hearted, after her mother's death she single-mindedly devoted herself to caring for her father and two younger sisters, filling the role of a loyal wife and wise mother.
 
After her father's death, she becomes the wife of Cheon Wun Tak, tolerating cruelty and abuse. But then she finds out her husband was behind her father's death, and after only three years of marriage she runs away and leaves him.

Determined to hound Cheon Wun Tak, she works as a domestic under a false identity. Her skills as a housekeeper and seamstress come to the attention of Kang Seong Suk, and she is promoted to responsibility for the clothing division of the Cha Yeong Group.


Lee Sun Su (20 years old) Played by Lee Tae Im



Second daughter of the Jinshim Wonju restaurant family.

She has always held Sun Jeong responsible for the death of her beloved mother, and so has always felt resentful towards Sun Jeong and her hard-up father.

She inherited her mother's beauty and talent, including her ability on the piano, but in order to earn piano tuition money she had to take a part-time job at a hostess bar where she discovered what a hard place the world is. But she never dreamed that the job at the hostess bar would drag her down. There she met Seong Joo, and in the aftermath of passionate first love was plunged into a hellish existence.

Lee Jin Sam (in his late 50's) Played by Lee Deok Hwa



Father of the three sisters. Owner of the Jinshim Wonju restaurant

Cheon Wun Tak's father, Cheon Gi Beom, who had supported him in his youth, stole the recipes he had developed, but he was content to live a happy life running a small home-cooked chicken restaurant. But when Wun Tak took even that away from him, it was a deadly blow.  The way Wun Tak then even snatched his eldest daughter away made his misfortune complete.
 
He was hard-up, but not ashamed of it, and was proud of being the father of three outstanding daughters.


Lee Mal Suk (early 60's) Played by Eun Mi Ra



Lee Jin Sam's older sister, paternal aunt of the three sisters.

An archetypal tough lady who doesn't mince her words.

After the death of her brother's wife, she tirelessly cared for her brother and nieces.

After her brother died as well, she packed her things and walked out on her own from the Wuntak Chicken store Wun Tak had allowed them to have.

She tried to be a defensive wall around the three girls, but in the process she became an obstacle to them.

 
Wuntak Fried Chicken Family

Cheon Wun Tak (late 30's) Played by Bae Su Bin




President of the Wuntak Chicken franchise business, and owner of the Monachus Group.

Eldest son of Cheon Gi Beom and Hwang Mi Ja, born as the result of an accident while his parents were both still in high school,

As a child of  parents who were still children themselves, he realized at a very young age that the world is a heartless place. He is exceptionally intelligent.

He experienced neither the torments of young  love in his awkward adolescence nor any delightful romance in his twenties, because his father made himself scarce and so he was always preoccupied with business and family duties. Then his eye fell on a woman: Lee Sun Jin, eldest daughter of the Jinshim Wonju restaurant family.

But because of evil things done in his parents' day, and of his own misdeeds as well, he had become the enemy of that woman's family.

Eventually Lee Jin Sam died in a fire at a poultry farm, and Cheon Wun Tak was at long last able to make Sun Jin his wife.


Cheon Keum Bi (middle 20's) Played by Son Eun Seong



Eldest sister of Cheon Wun Tak

Long standing rival of Lee Sun Su ever since they studied piano together.

Haughty, chic, typical spoiled daughter of a wealthy family. Out of all her family members, she is the one with the most faith in Wun Tak

Having previously been a piano student, through her inadequate ability she abandoned her studies overseas half-way through and came back to Korea.

She has neither management ability nor business skills, but as a typical chaebol filly she claims to know all about beauty, culture, fashion and business, and has a burning ambition to become a celebrity media guru on such matters.

While pursuing that aim, she chanced to meet Cha Do Hun, heir to the PriMart company, fell in love with him at first sight, and became ardently determined to marry him.

When she sees Ch Do Hun with Sun Jeong, that gives her a further massive blow.


Cheon Eun Bi (19 years old: early 20's)  Played by Ha Jae Suk



Youngest sister of Cheon Wun Tak

Rather different from most youngest children, somewhat plump in build and with a quick and irrepressible tongue in her head.

Food and hanging out with boys being her main interests in life, she took precious little notice of her brother's admonitions to study hard.

In her schooldays, Sun Jeong, youngest daughter of the Jinshim Wonju restaurant family, whom she saw as her rival, was a thorn in her flesh and she severely harrassed her, but she gradually gained a reputation as a loose-living troublemaker, a sort of Korean Paris Hilton.


Hwang Mi Ja (aka Mme Hwang, late 50's) Played by Keum Bo Ra



Wun Tak's mother.

A massive inferiority complex drives her to pretend to be highly educated.

She respects the cold and intimidating Wun Tak in the same way she respected her husband and father-in-law, but when she observes the way he lives her irritation knows no bounds.

Consequently, she is constantly filled with ferocious anger, which she dissipates through shopping, drinking and gambling, making her tempestous existence a bigger headache to Wun Tak than his two sisters.

One day, Wun Tak brings home a woman he says he intends to marry, Lee Sun Jin, the daughter of a humble family with no pedigree and not a penny to her name, and her anger explodes.

When Wun Tak marries Sun Jin and makes her her daughter-in-law, she begins a campaign of oppression against Sun Jin which Wun Tak is powerless to keep in check.


Pak Yong Shik (mid 30's) Played by Do Gi Seok



Wun Tak's assistant.

Outstandingly able to handle tricky situations and sort things out.


The men in the three sisters' lives.



Jang Sun Cheol (mid-30's) Played by Lee Pil Mo.



Crooked interior renovation contractor.

Gets involved with Sun Jeong through a fraudulent invoice for interior renovation, and without intending to do so, actually helps her.

In his younger days, feverishly pursued by Chaebol daughter Cha Yae Lin, he fell in love with her and fathered a son, but then fell out of love again.

The sincerity of Sun Jeong infused new love into his heart.


Cha Do Hun (late 20s) Played by Oh Chang Seok



Heir to the Cha Yeong Group. A young bachelor currently running the vegetables division at PriMart.

Second generation Chaebol who, when he comes across people in poverty, finds satisfaction in helping them out. Though born into a rich family, he has never ever flaunted his wealth or privilege and is a pure-hearted and kindly young man.

While he is working at PriMart on the orders of his father President Cha, Sun Jeong, who is running the adjacent chicken restaurant, corners him for selling spongy radishes, the start of  a strange bond between them.


Gu Gwan Mo (late 30's) Played by Jang Eun Woon



Employed for the past seven years as secretary and butler in Wun Tak's household, he also functions as Geum Bi and Eun Bi's bodyguard.

Wun Tak, who never readily trusts anyone, after observing Gu Gwan Mo's presence of mind, reticence and integrity, gradually started to entrust him with increasingly important matters. But though Gwan Mo was able to withstand all the humiliations he could not escape in his seven years in the household, they remained an indelible part of his past. That led him to draw Wun Tak into a ruinous predicament.


Pyo Seong Joo (40 years old) Played by Yun Da Hun.


Second son of the Han Min Group. Sun Su's Lover.

As the son of a Chaebol, he was well versed in the ways of the world. [I don't know why there's a question mark there in the Korean, which reads ""잔뼈(?)가 굵었다." It literally refers to someone who is skilled and experienced at taking the small bones out of their fish -- no mean feat when you have to use chopsticks. You can see it done in close-up in an episode of Alone in Love. Did whoever typed in the profile maybe not recognize the expression and think they might be misreading the (?handwritten) copy they were transcribing?? Probably not, because a variant of the same expression is repeated, unqueried, right in the next sentence.] He also knew the meaning of the saying, frequently heard in such circles, that a true tycoon is also a player and should behave accordingly, and he was aware, too, of all the pain, loneliness and sadness [again, the profile writer has inserted a question mark after the word 안타까움, but I've no idea why...] such behaviour can cause, and took it in his stride.

But then in a hostess bar, he heard Son Su's piano playing and also head the sound of tears flowing in his heart. And so he fell in love with her.

Other characters


Cha Ye Lin (late 30's) Played by Cha Su Yeon




Daughter of the Cha Yeong Group, Cha Do Hun's older sister.

Ex-wife of Jang Sun Cheol, now married to Pyo Seong Joo!!!

Truly a chameleon-like individual living a colorful existence.

She gave up on love and chose harsh reality instead, a typical second generation chaebol, although she harbours a painful wound deep in her heart.


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Cha Seok Nam (mid 60's) Played by Kim Dong Hyeon

Typical Chaebol President, shedding neither blood nor tears.

He loves money and he loves women, especially young ones, and if it serves the advantage of his company, he will coldy walk through hell and high water.

He even makes advances on Sun Jin until his wife Seong Suk restrains him, though he is merely biding his time, and when subsequently he is introduced to Sun Su he turns into the epitome of a 'makjang drama' character. [The profile writer/transcriber peppers that last sentence with question marks in a way it would be tedious to reproduce]


Kang Seong Suk  (early 60's)  Played by Jeong Ae Lee

President Cha's wife.

At a time when her husband was notorious for his dissolute conduct as a second generation chaebol, she entered his family with dignity and spent her lifetime there as a devoted housewife and mother.

With an excellent personality and highly cultured, she is an outstanding hostess.

She devoted herself to caring equally for both her children, Yae Lin and Do Hoon, and raised them with genuine love and understanding. Turning a blind eye her whole life long to her husband's repeated misdeeds, she remained calm and self-possessed no matter what.

After finding out about Sun Jin's difficult situation and appreciating her qualities, she earned her gratitude by offering her a future.

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