[K-Drama] The Thorn Birds

Title: 가시나무새 / Kashinamoosae / The Thorn Birds
Chinese Title : 荆棘鸟 / 刺鳥
Also known as: The Thorn Bush Bird
Genre: Melodrama, romance
Episodes: 20
Production Company: GnG Production
Director: Kim Jong Chang
Screenwriter: Lee Sun Hee
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2011-Mar-02 to 2011-May-05
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

SynopsisThis is the story of two women, Seo Jung Eun and Han Yoo Kyung, who walk very different paths to achieve their desires. Seo Jung Eun is a strong and courageous woman who has suffered a difficult life, having grown up in an orphanage, but continues to embrace people around her despite longing for affection herself. Jung Eun harbours the hope that she will meet her mother if she becomes a star, striving to reach her goal and overcome her suffering with her pure and innocent nature. In contrast, Han Yoo Kyung has a birth secret for which she is willing to throw away everything in order to get revenge. 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 thorn bird 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.


Cast
Han Hye Jin as Seo Jung Eun
Kim Min Jung as Han Yoo Kyung
Joo Sang Wook
Ceo Do Young
Cha Hwa Yun
Jung Eun Byul
Kim Ha Eun
Oh Hyun Kyung