What's Up Fox?
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2006
Type: Series
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What's Up Fox? Review
Ko Byeong Hee is not an ordinary 33 year old single woman. Rather, she is a woman with passion, intelligence, and sex appeal. What more could you ask for? Well, certainly a lot more, and by golly, she provides it! Most famously known as “Ms. Ko,” Byeong Hee is a reporter for a controversial magazine, C’est Si Bon, a racy equivalent to Playboy magazines in the US. With detailed stories about sex, you’d think that Byeong Hee is quite experienced in love-making and relationships, but she’s really the opposite. Spending several years yearning for the divorce of her most beloved sunbae (upperclassman), she has finally gotten her wish to confess her love and desire but is turned down for the most devastating reason. To add on to her despair, Byeong Hee is informed that she is medically troubled with a tumor. Have no fears though, Byeong Hee’s not about to die, and her love life is just beginning with the return of her best friend’s little brother, Cheol Su, and the embarrassing meeting with a doctor, Bae Hee Myeong. With as series of age gap relationships and Byeong Hee’s tumor worry, What’s Up Fox? is a laugh-after-laugh comedy that makes this a must see series.
Absolutely refreshing! It sure has been a while since I’ve encountered such an attention-grabbing series since My Lovely Kim Sam Soon. Now that I think about it, the two dramas have some similar aspects such as age gaps and similar looking actresses playing the leads, but the stories are quite different. What’s Up Fox? is a witty, sexual series with a story that highlights society’s views on relationships of people with large age gaps. It sounds rather serious, sure, but there are definitely a bunch of parts in the series that are incredibly rolling-on-the-floor-laughing hilarious. Actually, I’d say the majority of the story was hilarious.
Ko Hyun Jung plays the middle-aged Ko Byeong Hee and does an excellent job portraying a virgin waiting for her soul mate while worried about removing a tumor inside her womb. Her personality is a bit childish at times, but there’s also a lot of maturity that balances everything out. Byeong Hee and Park Cheol Su (Chun Jung Myung), the younger brother of Byeong Hee’s best friend, together create an incredible comedic duo that pretty much makes up the entire series. Their relationship transitions from “big sister, little brother” to something no one would have expected. Park Seung Hye (Ahn Sun Young) is Byeong Hee’s best friend and the older sister to Cheol Su, who is divorced and protective of her brother. This ex-gang member’s reaction to an age-gap relationship helps show how such couples are seen in society. Bae Hee Myeong (Cho Chong Wook) is the doctor Byeong Hee meets for the magazine company. He’s charming and experienced, but whether Byeong Hee is able to accept his feelings is…well like the rest of the characters in the series, you’ll just have to find out.
The series is 16 episodes long and I felt that there were a lot of unanswered questions at the end, but nevertheless, I did feel satisfied after watching it all. At least, I can tell you I was happy.
Like all romantic comedies, What’s Up Fox? was pretty romantic and funny. It’s just that simple. Each episode made me laugh uncontrollably at times, and the romance was really genuine between the two leads to the point where I got a warm feeling inside watching these characters fall in love.
The music kind of reminded me of the music you’d hear in the supermarket. I’m not saying that it was bad because there wasn’t much music throughout, but it wasn’t great. I don’t think I’d get the soundtrack except for maybe the last song played at the end of the series. But even that didn’t move me.
I’d totally recommend anyone looking for laughs to watch this series. I had a lot of fun watching it all the way through. This is one of those series that doesn’t really get boring as the series continues. It’s pretty consistent with its humor. I wouldn’t recommend this for the kids though. I wouldn’t want them to lose their precious innocence. Leave this one for the adults, kids. Enjoy!
Written by Chiyuffie
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Ko Hyun Jung as Ko Byeong Hee
