The con man meets his match in "Oh My Geum-bi"
Oh Ji-ho (My Little Baby) stars as a hapless swindler who turned to a life of crime when he lost his sense of smell and had to give up on his dream of becoming a chef. He’s pretty bad at actually conning people though, and it’s not until he’s in prison that he finds out that he has a ten-year-old daughter named Geum-bi, played by child actress Heo Jung-eun (Moonlight Drawn By Clouds, Neighborhood Lawyer Jo Deul-ho).
Geum-bi is a strong-willed little girl who decides to fix her wayward father’s life, but there’s a tragic turn when she’s diagnosed with Niemann-Pick disease type C, and begins to rapidly deteriorate mentally and physically. The rare disease is referred to as “childhood Alzheimer’s,” and despite the sad premise of watching such a young girl lose her memories, the drama promises to be an uplifting, cheerful story about family, and not a melodramatic tearjerker.
Oh My Geum-bi follows On the Way to the Airport and premiered yesterday, November 16.
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A clueless father trying to reconnect with his sick daughter? Count me in, even if I might turn into an emotional mess. The child actress most recently played Park Bo Gum's baby sister in Moonlight Drawn By Clouds.
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