> A makjang rom-com thats enjoybale with lot of skip forwards. A Chaebol doesn't just inherit money ; he/she inherits the responsibilites and will of the predecessor .

Shinning Inheritance is a makjang, when you wish you could enter the screen and murder half of the characters with your bare hands, then ease on your couch with a sigh of intense satisfaction (drink some soju and you'll have become a makjang character yourself).

There's envy, greed, a dead man walking, 10 trillions lies, missed encounters by a microsecond, corporate plotting, memory loss, love polyhedrons and such a dose of odious behaviours your becoming a virtual assassin would be justified.But before you decide you hate the genre and turn the page, let me say this drama is strangely and acutely addictive. It took me 2 days to finish it and 12 epsiodes in 1 night ; although i had to resort to skip forward on lot scenes to keep my sanity.


The plot is very consistent. Every narrative line comes to a conclusion and justice triumphs. Delicate subjects are touched here, and there . The whole story could have been easily condensed in half the time and the dialogues thinned, if only the characters had stopped repeating the same sentences like an echo and the word money had been uttered one thousand times instead of one billion. There will be moments in which you'll question your choice of dramas, but at that point you'll be so implicated in the crime… ehm, plot, drop it will be harder than exit a gang.

The characters, at first may seem a bit tiresome, but they have this uncanny knack of growing on you, until you genuinely care for them and wish to see them happy, successful or in some cases burn in hell. It will make you laugh and cry, which is what all good dramas should invoke. Everyone acted pretty well. I particularly watched this because of Moon Chae Won, but I quickly found her character boring and unlikable. **Han Hyo Joo was really natural in her role as the female lead; it almost seem like the positive part of her role matches her real personality. Her scenes with Lee Seung Gi were definitely the highlights of this drama for me.**

Throw into the mix a nice, non annoying soundtrack and some pretty good cinematography and you get a seriously a good watch.


Overall ; this is a one-time bearable watch thanks to chemistry between the lead characters; for a decade old show this is not a bad watch.