Memories in Bali

Judul: Memories of Bali
Genre: Drama, Romance

Ha Ji-won as Lee Soo jung
So Ji-sub as Kang In wook
Jo Insung as Jung Jae min
Park Ye-Jin as Choi Young joo

Sinopsis

Lee Soo-jung (Ha Ji Won) is an orphan who works as a tour guide in Bali. She has a useless brother that constantly gets into trouble and needs her to bail him out all the time. She struggles to make ends meet and aspires to be rescued out of her current predicament by a rich and wealthy man.

Jung Jae-min (Jo In Sung) is the youngest son of the wealthy Chairman of the Pax Group. He is uninterested in business, irresponsible, arrogant, childish, self-centered and a playboy. Jae-min is constantly put down by his elder brother and beaten up by his father, but he is immune to all these treatments. He is engaged to Choi Young-joo(Park Hye Jin), who comes from a comparable wealthy and powerful family. Both Jae-min and Young-joo are not in love with each other. Jae-min is of the opinion that even with marriage, it should not affect how both of them are to lead their lives.

Young-joo in turn is still in love with her ex-boyfriend Kang In-Wook (So Ji Sup) whom she left so that she can be engaged to Jae-min (as per arranged by both parents). Kang In-wook comes from a lower class Family, his parents are divorced and his mother opens a small restaurant. He is a capable person at work but he has a cold exterior and it is difficult to read his mind.

Young-joo visits In-wook who is working in Indonesia, and asks him to spend some time with her where no one knows them. They take off to Bali only to be greeted by Jae-min at the airport who had tracked Young-joo down from Seoul. Young-joo claims that In-wook is an ex-classmate whom she met on the place. Jae-min invites In-wook to join him and Young-joo on the Bali trip. Soo-jung is the tour guide hired by Jae-min for the city tour. The tour was tense for Jae-min, In-wook and Young-joo. Soo-jung tries to figure out how the 3 are connected, and suspects In-wook to be the rich and wealthy one amongst them.

Jae-min find out that In-wook is working for his familyÂ’s factory in Indonesia, and his relationship with Young-joo. At the end of the tour, Jae-min gets drunk and unruly, and starts to throw insults at Young-joo and In-wook. A disgusted Young-joo leaves the drunk Jae-min behind and heads home for Seoul. Soo-jung takes Jae-min back to his room and realise that Jae-min is the rich one amongst the 3. In his half-drunken state, Jae-min asks Soo-jung to spend the night with him. Although Soo-jung calls Jae-min a bastard, she agreed to stay and told him to pay whatever he deems fit. However, Jae-min throws money at Soo-jung and tells her to leave.

In-wook returns to his room in Bali half drunk as well. He is hurt by the dayÂ’s event. He hears someone crying in the next room, and see Soo-jung sobbing over the humiliating incident she had just encountered with Jae-min. She is also lamenting about her unfortunate and unlucky life. He overhears her phone conversation with her brother and learns a little about Soo-jungÂ’s pathetic situation.

In-wook returns to Jakarta and is told that he is to be transferred back to the head office in Seoul. Soo-jung also sets forth to return to Seoul to track down her colleague, Jo who had run away with her money. They meet on the plane on the way back. Jae-minÂ’s scheming brother places In-wook under Jae-min. Jae-minÂ’s brother lures In-wook to his camp to devise a financing plan to pump money from his father for an external investment.

Soo-jung puts up at her friend Mi-ya’s place. She decides to try her luck with Jae-min for a job. However, he has forgotten about her and chases her out of her office. Soo-jung’s brother gets into trouble and “sells” Soo-jung to his debtors. Soo-jung ends up working in a nightclub as a human signboard touting business for the nightclub.

In-wook moves into the apartment next to Mi-ya. Soo-jung and In-wook reunites outside the nightclub when Mi-ya invites In-wook to the club. Somehow, Jae-min also tracked In-wook to the same nightclub that faithful night and their meeting turned into an ugly brawl with the clubÂ’s gangsters. Soo-jung knocked the leader of the gang out while trying to save the 2 guys. They ran away and manage to escape the gangsters. Jae-min buys Soo-jung an expensive coat to thank her for her help and leaves. But because Soo-jung offended the gangsters during the fight she was taken back to the nightclub and forced to be a bar hostess.

Jae-min checks up on Soo-jungÂ’s background and learns that she has been relegated to a bar hostess. He brings his friends to the nightclub and asks for Soo-jung. He wanted to take her out for the night but Soo-jung refuses and tells him to take the other girls instead. Jae-min leaves her his name card and tells her to call him if she changes her mind.

After her second humiliating meeting with Jae-min, Soo-jung meets In-wook on the way home. She takes him out for a drink. And over the conversation, she sobs to In-wook about her situation and tells him of her aspiration to marry a rich man to end her misery.