Green Rose (2005)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Green Rose

 

 

SBS Drama (2005)
22 Episodes

 

Starring:

Go Soo as Jerome Lee
Lee Dae Hae as Angela Chou
Kim Seo Hyeong as Gina Cha
Lee Jung Hyeok as Edward Jung

 

Synopsis:

A "Green Rose" stands for eternal love. A love that only appears in heaven. This drama is about a man named Jerome Lee who has been accused of a murder he did not commit. He goes through many near-death situations where he escapes from being imprisoned and goes to China. However, leaving Korea leaves a very large scar in his heart because he leaves the woman he loves, Angela.

When he returns to Korea, he focuses on one thing … that is revenge. He vows to take revenge to those who framed him for the murder. His target is Edward Jung, who is behind all the miserable things that have happened to him…

Find out how Jerome Lee carries out his revenge by watching this drama and you can also see many memorable moments shared by the lead actor and the lead actress.

Review:

Go Soo really did a great job portraying his character. He really deserves to be a "Baek Sang" winner because of his convincing acting. He becomes strong and brave in facing all the trials that came to his life. I love the way he thinks of Angela. The scenes where he learns that his mother is already dead and he cries harder and knocks his head on the wall are really shocking. He is really a good actor although he is only a rising star.

 

Lee Dae Hae is also good in her acting. Her crying scenes where she learns that Jerome is already dead and goes to the bridge to look for him are excellent ones. She really loves Jerome even after all the years that have passed by and she believes that he is still alive. I found her in this serial extremely beautiful, unlike in Sweet 18. Her angelic face really suits her role.

Kim Seo Hyeong is pitiful in her character. She loves Edward even though he tries to kill her. I think she’s insane, but I realized that her love for Edward is a pure one. She dies in the end when she tries to protect Jerome from Edward.

Lee Jung Hyeok fits the role also. I believe the producer made the right choice for this actor as he is not good looking and he never had a chance to compete with the lead character. His excellent performance, particularly his evil acts, made me hate his character.

Overall, I highly recommend this drama to everyone.

 

 

 

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The worthies of past ages all sought the truth and did not deceive themselves. They were not like moths throwing themselves into flames, destroying themselves in the process.

-Ta-sui

 

 

 

Those who attain perfect wisdom are forever inspired by the conviction that the infinitely varied forms of this world, in all their relativity, far from being a hindrance and a dangerous distraction to the spiritual path, are really a healing medicine. Why? Because by the very fact that they are interdependent on each other and therefore have no separate self, they express the mystery and the energy of all-embracing love. Not just the illumined wise ones but every single being in the interconnected world is a dweller in the boundless infinity of love.

-Prajnaparmita

 

 

 

The everyday life of people is like clouds and water, but clouds and water are free while people are not. If they would get to be as free as clouds and water, where would people's compulsive mundane routines arise?

-Dogen, "Rational Zen"

 

 

 

There are, bhikkhus, two successive Dhamma-teachings of the Tathagata, the Arahant, the Fully Enlightened one. What are the two? 'See evil as evil'--this is the first Dhamma-teaching. 'Having seen evil as evil, be rid of it, be detached from it, be freed from it'--this is the second Dhamma-teaching.

-Itivuttaka

 

 

 

That's not a strong bond
--so say the enlightened--
the one made of iron, of wood, or of grass.
To be smitten, enthralled,
with jewels & ornaments,
longing for children & wives:
that's the strong bond,
--so say the enlightened--
one that's constraining,
elastic,
hard to untie.
But having cut it, they
--the enlightened--go forth,
free of longing, abandoning
sensual ease.

-Dhammapada, 24, translated by Thainssaro Bhikkhu.

 

 

 

Monk,
don't
on account of
your precepts & practices,
great erudition,
concentration attainments,
secluded dwelling,
or the thought, 'I touch
the renunciate ease
that run-of-the-mill people
don't know':
ever let yourself get complacent
when the ending of effluents
is still unattained.

-Dhammapada, 19, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

 

 

 

The world's end can never be reached
by means of traveling through the world,
Yet without reaching the world's end
there is no release from suffering.

Therefore, truly, the world-knower, the wise one,
gone to the world's end, fulfiller of the holy life,
having known the world's end, at peace,
longs not for this world or another.

-Buddha, "The Connected Discourses of the Buddha"

 

 

 

 

Enlightenment is a way of saying that all things are seen in their intrinsic empty nature, their Suchness, their ungraspable wonder. Names or words are merely incidental, but that state which sees no division, no duality, is enlightenment.

-Prajnaparamita

 

 

 

 

It is essential that you neither despise nor grasp for either the realm of activity or that of quietude, and that you continue your practice assiduously.

Frequently you may feel that you are getting nowhere with practice in the midst of activity, whereas the quietistic approach brings unexpected results. Yet rest assured that those who use the quietistic approach can never hope to enter into meditation in the midst of activity.

-Hakuin, "Zen Master Hakuin"

 

 

 

 

Here he's tormented
he's tormented hereafter.
In both worlds
the wrong-doer's tormented.
He's tormented at the thought,
'I've done wrong.'
Having gone to a bad destination,
he's tormented
all the more.

Here he delights
he delights hereafter.
In both worlds
the merit-maker delights.
He delights at the thought,
'I've made merit.'
Having gone to a good destination,
he delights
all the more.

-Dhammapada, 17-18, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

 

 

 

 

If there were no freedom, beings could never disentangle themselves from the world. But since there is freedom to transcend the world, beings are able to become disentangled.

-Anguttara Nikaya

 

 

 

If we live our lives continually motivated by anger and hatred, even our physical health deteriorates.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

 

 

 

 

Irrigators guide the water.
Fletchers shape the arrow shaft.
Carpenters shape the wood.
The wise control themselves.

-Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

 

 

 

 

Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.

-Ajahn Chah, "Still Forest Pool"

 

 

 

 

Not disparaging, not injuring,
restraint in line with the Patimokkha,
moderation in food,
dwelling in seclusion,
commitment to the heightened mind:
this is the teaching
of the awakened.

-Dhammapada, 14, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu