My Name is Kim Sam Soon.

From left, anti-clockwise,-Kim Sun Ah (Kim Sam Soon), Jung Ryeo Won (the girlfriend), Dr Henry Kim (smitten doctor of the girlfriend), Hyun Bin (lead actor).

My Name Is Kim Sam Soon (a.k.a. My Lovely Sam Soon) is the story of insecure, weight-obsessed Sam Soon (Kim Sun Ah, who gained 15 pounds for the role), a loud, brash woman who is never afraid to speak her mind.

She isn't pretty or slim or rich. She knows there's no Prince Charming waiting to whisk her off her feet. When she gets stressed out with life, she eats and sleeps and couldn't care less what anyone else thinks.


When Sam Soon loses her job as a pastry chef on Christmas Eve, her problems are just beginning. She spots her boyfriend going into a hotel with another woman. At first she wants to charge right in there and confront him, but instead decides to wait for him to come out, planning to dump him in front of everybody. However, when he finally does materialize, Sam Soon breaks down and begs him not to leave her for the other woman.
Realizing she has made a fool of herself in public she runs to the bathroom, but accidentally goes into the men's room. Hyun Bin (Hyun Jin Hun), on a blind date he has no desire to go through with, walks in on Sam Soon, who is topless! And so begins the worst Christmas of Sam Soon's life!