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In the drama "Golden Pouch”, Seok Hoon, a genius doctor who is an orphan loses his memory due to an accident on his wedding day. He wakes up mistakenly believing that the actors that were hired to pretend as his parents during the wedding as his real parents. He develops close ties with the couple and for the first time in his life, he experiences what it feels like to belong to a two-parent family. Later, the couple takes him in as their own son. Seol Hwa is the second daughter in the family who stays upbeat no matter how hard her life gets. One day, she comes across Seok Hoon, who is suffering from amnesia. Can she and Seok Hoon overcome the sticky threads of fate to fall in love? This romantic comedy revolves around an irritable doctor who abandons his profession to become a cook as he gets involved with a headstrong woman. (Source: MBC) Edit Translation

  • English
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • dansk
  • Norsk
  • Country: South Korea
  • Type: Drama
  • Episodes: 122
  • Aired: Nov 14, 2016 - May 30, 2017
  • Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
  • Original Network: MBC
  • Duration: 35 min.
  • Score: 7.6 (scored by 420 users)
  • Ranked: #5261
  • Popularity: #5667
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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Completed
liemak
8 people found this review helpful
Jun 27, 2020
122 of 122 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 10

Love Triangle and Signs from the Other

I just finished watching all 122 episodes and have been re-watching the series for more than half a dozen times from beginning to end. I really enjoyed the series because it tells us about how to live our lives to the fullest, and the meaning of families in our lives.

The wisdom and advice from Mr. Geum Jung-do to his adopted son (Dr. Han Seok-Hoon) and his three daughters (Geum Doo-na, Geum Seol-hwa, and Geum Se-na) are so meaningful and heartwarming. The phrases that Grandma Yoon uses also remind me of our elders when they describe the most basic rule of good manners. Also, "Golden Pouch" tells a story about Signs from the Other Side. Dr. Han Seok-Hoon's deceased Mom is sending signs to his son through Seol-hwa in the form of mandu/dumplings and embroidery pouch, including initial meeting between Dr. Han and Seol-hwa in the river in Namwon (the city where Dr. Han was born and almost drown in the river when he was six year old). The Signs from the Other Side are so vividly narrated throughout the series.

There is Love Triangle or rather three sided love triangle in "Golden Pouch". This K-drama series is so engaging and so memorable. Firstly, there is Dr. Han Seok-hoon's past relationship with Bae Min-hee, and secondly, both Dr. Han Seok-hoon and Yoon Joon-sang fall in love with Geum Seol-hwa. All lead characters have their own motivation, hopes, values and fears.

There is Bae Min-hee's ambitious motivation after Dr. Han rejects Min-hee when she wants to come back after she left Dr. Han when he loses his memory and cannot perform any surgeries due to his injury. Min-hee's "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" is so dreadful and horrifying to the end of the series.

For the audience, it seems that both Dr. Han Seok-hoon and Yoon Joon-sang are "perfect person" for Geum Seol-hwa. Seol-hwa has feeling for Dr. Han, but Seol-hwa's adopted mom, Kim Choo-ja, wants Seol-hwa to marry a perfect and flawless man, the son of the wealthy Yoon family. I find this unique love triangle story does not drag on too long, but is engaging. Will Seol-hwa choose the man that needs her (Dr. Han Seok-hoon) or the man that wants her (Yoon Joon-sang)?

Dr. Han Seok-hoon and Miss Geum Seol-hwa have excellent on-screen chemistry, one of the best I have ever seen, it is unrivalled by any other K-drama series. We really think they have been in love for centuries in “Golden Pouch”. I truly believe I am watching a true story rather than fictional K-drama series. Seol-hwa is so lovely. Dr. Han is so kind and never gives up on his patients, including his love of his life "patient", Seol-Hwa. He is really serious on his work in the surgical theater. Dr. Han and Geum Seol-hwa's love is so pure and genuine.

However, I find the ending of the “Golden Pouch” series is inconclusive and unsatisfactory. There is no wedding for Dr. Han and Ms. Geum Seol-hwa nor do the Yoon and Geum families eat dumplings at the Dumplings Shop to conclude the drama series. I would be profoundly delighted if you could produce a two-hour feature TV movie that starts with the wedding between Dr. Han Seok-hoon and Ms. Geum Seol-hwa and ends with Yoon and Geum families eating dumplings together at the Dumplings shop.

I truly hope for a happy ending for both Yoon and Geum families, and for Dr. Han and Ms. Geum, a match made in heaven.

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Completed
mhandhey
4 people found this review helpful
Oct 5, 2021
122 of 122 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 9.5
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 9.0
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Love this Drama

This drama is funny and also heart warming. I love how the villains are not that extreme on the story. I enjoyed the secondary couple who is so funny also the parents of Handol. They are very loving and yet funny. I cried a lot of times on this drama. Ahn Nae Sang is one of my favorite actors and his acting was really superb.

Just watch this drama and I assure you will never be diasapointed

Can anyone recommend dramas that are similar like this? I love dramas that has huge family and also those who live together in one roof
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Details

  • Drama: Golden Pouch
  • Country: South Korea
  • Episodes: 122
  • Aired: Nov 14, 2016 - May 30, 2017
  • Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
  • Original Network: MBC
  • Duration: 35 min.
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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  • Score: 7.6 (scored by 420 users)
  • Ranked: #5261
  • Popularity: #5667
  • Watchers: 1,799

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