The Thorn Birds (2011)

Original title

가시나무새

Directed by

Kim Jong Chang

Cast

Han Hye Jin, Kim So Hyun, Joo Sang Wook, Lee Min Ho, Kim Min Jung, Yoon Jung Eun, Seo Do Young, Cha Hwa Yun

Genre

melodrama

Country

South Korea

Length

1 season, 20 episodes

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two women's lives become intertwined. One woman gives up her love and family for ambition. The other woman embraces what the first left behind.

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What happens

The Thorn Birds (Korean: 가시나무새; RR: Gasinamusae) is a 2011 South Korean television series shown on KBS2, where one woman forsakes her love and family for her ambition while another woman embraces with love all that the former had left behind. Fates of a bit part actress Seo Jung-eun (played by Han Hye-jin) and a film producer Han Yoo-kyung (played by Kim Min-jung) who chose success are intertwined and resolved gradually as their mutual stories progress. The "thorn birds" of the title refers to Jung-eun's character, who only brings out her best at the cost of great pain. A thornbird is a mythical bird who searches for a thorn tree from the day it is born. When it finds it, the bird impales itself upon the sharpest thorn, and rises above the agony to sing the most beautiful song ever heard. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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