The cast lineup for the new daily drama "Gippeun Uri Joeun Nal" has been unveiled.
Scheduled to premiere in March on KBS 1TV, the new daily drama "Gippeun Uri Joeun Nal" (directed by Lee Jae-sang / written by Nam Sun-hye / produced by Monster Union, Seion Media) is a warm family drama filled with stories of various generations who each want to become "the protagonist of my life," centered on a life-or-death showdown between the world's most perfect man and a clumsy woman.
"Gippeun Uri Joeun Nal" brings together director Lee Jae-sang, recognized for warm and delicate direction in "Once Again" and "Father Is Strange," and writer Nam Sun-hye, who showcased trendy writing in "Suji-mat-eun Uri" and "Amor Fati — Love Now." With the leading lineup confirmed as Yoon Jong-hoon (as Go Gyeol), Uhm Hyun-kyung (as Jo Eun-ae), Jung Yoon (as Go Min-ho), and Yoon Da-young (as Seo Seung-ri), today (19th) the production announced the addition of eight actors who add weight to the story: Kim Hye-ok, Sunwoo Jae-deok, Yoon Da-hoon, Moon Hee-kyung, Lee Sang-sook, Jung Ho-bin, Lee Ho-jae, and Jung Young-sook.
First, Kim Hye-ok and Sunwoo Jae-deok play Eun-ja Kang, the mother of Jo Eun-ae, Jo Eun-hyung (played by Choi Sungwon), and Jo Eun-nim (played by Kim Nari), and Seong-jun Jo, the father, respectively, portraying an ordinary family in our surroundings. Eun-ja Kang is a licensed real estate agent who earned multiple certifications to help the household and is a responsible person. Despite gaining the title of "neighborhood leader" through tremendous practicality and sociability, she harbors a hidden emotional wound. Her husband Seong-jun Jo, who used to be an executive at a large company, lost his job due to restructuring and has kept this a secret from his family. While moving from one odd job to another to find reemployment, he receives an unexpected proposal from his high school classmate Go Dae-chi (played by Yoon Da-hoon), whom he meets by chance.
Yoon Da-hoon plays Go Dae-chi, president of Kangsu Construction and the father of Go Gyeol and Go Min-ho. Dae-chi has a boisterous personality but becomes diminished in front of his father, chairman Go Kang-su (played by Lee Ho-jae). In particular, he would be livid to hear that he and Min-ho must even compete with Gyeol for succession. Moon Hee-kyung portrays Eun Su-jeong, the foolish wealthy wife and Dae-chi's spouse. Eun Su-jeong is especially devoted to her eldest son Min-ho and frets that Gyeol, who returned to Korea after 10 years, might take Min-ho's position as successor.
Meanwhile, Lee Sang-sook plays Yoo Jung-ran, Seo Seung-ri's mother and a full-time homemaker. Yoo Jung-ran is a pragmatic person who feels grateful to chairman Go Kang-su for helping when her family fell on hard times, but she hopes her daughter Seung-ri will connect with Min-ho and become the matriarch of the group. Jung Ho-bin plays Seo Kwon-sik, Yoo Jung-ran's husband and Seo Seung-ri's father. As chief secretary of Kangsu Group, working under his high school classmate Go Dae-chi like an extension of his hands and feet, he is close with Dae-chi's son Go Gyeol, but as the Kangsu Group succession race begins, he gradually reveals long-hidden ambitions and injects tension.
Lee Ho-jae anchors the story as Go Kang-su, chairman of Kangsu Group, who proposes the group's succession race that marks the full start of the story. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, he refuses treatment and devotes all his attention to finding the group's new owner while trying to repay the emotional debt he owes his wife Lee Young-hwa (played by Jung Young-sook). Jung Young-sook, who plays Go Kang-su's second wife Lee Young-hwa, stays by the chairman's side as someone who cherishes him, but in reality she has still not been fully accepted as a mother by his son and daughter-in-law. Only the second grandson Go Gyeol treats and follows her like a maternal grandmother. Expectations are rising about how the relationships among these various characters and each family's backstory will be woven into the drama.
Meanwhile, "Gippeun Uri Joeun Nal" is scheduled to premiere in March as the successor to "Marie and Her Three Daddies."
[Photo] Kim Hye-ok (Studio Santa Claus Entertainment), Sunwoo Jae-deok (self), Yoon Da-hoon (self), Moon Hee-kyung (ELO Entertainment), Lee Sang-sook (Five Angle Entertainment), Jung Ho-bin (self), Lee Ho-jae (Cultizen), Jung Young-sook (play "I love you, dear")
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