Fashion King tells the story of young aspiring designers in Dongdaemun Market as they dream of success, and the relationships, love, and challenges they face along the way.

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  Yoo Ah In (Kang Young Gul)

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  Lee Je Hoon (Jung Jae Hyuk)

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  Shin Se Kyung (Lee Ga Young)

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  Ki Eun Se (Soo Ji)

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  Yoon Gi Won (Secretary Kim)

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  Kwon Yuri (Choi An-Na)

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  Eye Candy Syndrome

  Watching dramas just for an actor or an actress.

  • Apr 8, 2013

• Sep 17, 2012 20 of 20 episodes seen

  xfire
  14 of 16 people found this review helpful
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  • Overall  5
  • Story  5
  • Acting/Cast  6
  • Music  5
  • Rewatch Value  5

  First off, kudos to Yoo Ah In and Lee Jee Hoon for each having eye candy take-your-shirt-off scenes.
  
  The acting for the rest of the cast was at least commendable, except for Se Kyung who was mostly crying or running back to Young Gul with that expressionless face of hers.
  
  There were too many loose ends here that half way through the drama, it felt like they were writing an entirely new script.
  
  I feel that Jae Hyuk was one of the most believable character in this drama. He is a young chaebol with a tyrant father who beats the sh*t out of him and a typical rich mother who constantly meddles with his love life. He is a confident and arrogant businessman who wants to be at the top of the fashion industry but always stops short at meeting his father's expectations.
  
  At least, I understand why he would fall in love with the helpless, absent-minded and doe-eyed Ga Young because he feels that with all the pressures in his life, there is one thing that he is capable of, and that is his to help Ga Young reach her dreams of becoming a top designer and in turn this gives him strength.
  
  Young Gul, however is an emotionally unstable, struggling designer cum knock-offs factory owner and a greedy, conniving and deceitful man who feels that rich people like Jae Hyuk has the moral obligation to help him every time he is short in cash. The depiction of his character is so extreme that I don't think anybody else can pull it off other than Yoo Ah In.
  
  The entire runaway from thugs because you bedded the boss' woman and be an illegal migrant to America part is just so crazily random that it doesn't add to anything in the drama.
  
  I think that the fierce competition between Jae Hyuk and Young Gul's businesses and Ga Young's love would have suffice as the main reason why they want to kill each other.
  
  Anna and Jung Ah are the worst antagonists everrr. Thank heavens for the crazy woman aunt and the sadistic rich father! read more

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• May 24, 2012 20 of 20 episodes seen

  kurinezumi
  15 of 19 people found this review helpful
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  • Overall  3
  • Story  3
  • Acting/Cast  6
  • Music  5
  • Rewatch Value  1

  In summary, if you are looking for a satisfying romance (and by satisfying I do not necessarily mean it should have a happy ending), you should definitely go elsewhere. If you are looking for something dark and thought provoking, I think that might have been what they were going for, but it's been done better.
  
  
  It started off interesting, if cliched (your typical Cinderella-esque story)
  
  BUT, there were more characters and storylines than the writers or the cast really knew what to do with, and in trying to do justice to all they really did justice to none.
  
  They dropped hints that they never picked up, and generally lead the viewer to believe there was more meaning than there ever ended up being. I think it was this promise of something that led so many people to the last episode, and the utter failure to deliver that has inspired so many negative reviews.
  
  The ending was shocking, but in a better crafted drama it would have worked. It never pretended to be a rom-com, so a nice neat happy ending was unnecessary, but at the same time it only ever played at being the kind of dark drama it tried to become at the end. In this case it felt like a cop-out, like the writers simply couldn't find any other way out of the quagmire they'd created. Like they thought the shock value alone would make everyone forget all of the loose ends, and the fact that basically every character was stripped of any respect or redeeming character traits. Like the ending alone would somehow make it profound and thought provoking.
  
  All it did, and not just the final minutes, but the absurd pacing of the entire final episode, was highlight the flaws up until that point. The drama was at the same time repetitive and inconsistent, unbearably long and at the same time rushed, a mess of contradictions that did not work in its favor.
  
  In the end it tries to be too many things and succeeds at none. read more

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  Baby-faced Beauty

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  Cinderella Man

  Both involve fashion, and the plot is somewhat similar.(Keep in mind I only watched two episodes of Fashion King so far.) Both male leads sell in Dongdaemun Market with clothing designs they copied from fashion shows and stores. Both female leads have talent in designing and want to become Designers. Both drama also has the rich fashion company with the second male lead.

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