K-drama Woori the Virgin: Lim Soo-hyang in bright and breezy immaculate conception comedy which places tongue firmly in cheek
- This K-drama follows a 30-year-old woman who took a vow of celibacy as a teenager, but gets pregnant accidentally at a fertility clinic
- The romcom is a hilarious remake of US series Jane the Virgin, and Lim Soo-hyang plays the titular role to perfection
There’s already a lot of compelling fare on air right now, but you might want to make room in your drama-viewing schedule for the bright, infectious and thoroughly tongue-in-cheek soapy romcom Woori the Virgin, which borrows a great premise and completely makes it its own.
A remake of the American series Jane the Virgin, itself a loose adaptation of the Venezuelan telenovela Juana la Virgen, the series follows the life of Woo-ri (Lim Soo-hyang), a 30-year-old virgin who took a vow of celibacy as a teenager, both because of her very religious grandmother and the fact that her mother gave birth to her when she was a teenager and raised her by herself, in the process missing out on her shot to become a singer.
Woo-ri has been dating fellow church-goer Lee Gang-jae (Shin Dong-wook) for two years. Gang-jae is a dogged detective during the day and a doting partner in his off time, who respects Woo-ri’s promise to keep her virginity until her wedding night.
Woo-ri works as an assistant writer on a hit soap which stars the flamboyant Choi Sung-il (Kim Su-ro) and is sponsored by a major cosmetics company whose handsome young CEO Raphael (Sung Hoon) happens to be Woo-ri’s first kiss.
Raphael is currently married to gold-digger Lee Ma-ri (Hong Ji-yoon) but has just filed for divorce. Ma-ri and her puppet master mother Byeon Mi-ja (Nam Mi-jung) aren’t ready to give him up, so they decide to get Ma-ri pregnant using Raphael’s last frozen sperm, which he stored before he underwent treatment for cancer, from which he is now in remission.