Empress Chun Chu

Empress Chun Chu 

 

Title: 천추태후 / Cheon Chu Taehu / Empress Chun Chu
Also known as: The Iron Empress
Chinese title : 千秋太后
Genre: Historical
Episodes: 60+
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2009-Jan-1 to 2009
Air time: Saturdays & Sundays 21:30

Synopsis

The drama is about the third empress of the Goryeo era who fought against the Tungustic people of Manchuria in order to achieve their dream of reclaiming their old land.

Cast

Chae Si Ra as Empress Chun Chu
Kim So Eun as young Chun Chu
Kim Suk Hoon as Kim Chi Yang
Choi Jae Sung as Kang Jo
Lee Duk Hwa as General Kang Kam Chan

Extended Cast

Kim Ho Jin as Wang Wook
Shin Ae as Hwang Bo Seol / Princess Hun Jung (the empress’s younger sister)
Park Eun Bin as young Hwang Bo Seol
Ban Hyo Jung as Queen mother, Shin Jung Hwang (Taejo Wang Geon’s 4th wife)
Kim Myung Soo as Seong Jong / Wang Chi (The 6th King and the empress’s older brother)
Choi Woo Hyuk as young Seong Jong
Choi Chul Ho as Gyeong Jong / Wang Yu (The 5th King)
Moon Jung Hee as Lady Kim (Seong Jong’s 2nd wife)
Kim Min Ji as young Lady Kim
?? as Lady Yu (Seong Jong’s 1st wife)
Im Hyuk as Seo Hee (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Jun Moo Song as Lee Ji Baek
Won Suk Yun (원석연) as Lee Kyeom Ui
Kim Jong Kyul (김종결) as Choi Ryang
Lee Ki Yeol as Choi Seom
Park Ji Il (박지일) as Kim Shim Eon
Kim Byung Ki (김병기) as Kim Won Soong
Oh Wook Chul (오욱철) as Jo Haeng Soo
Jo Byung Gon (조병곤) as Lee Yang
Lee Joon Woo (이준우) as Seol Shin Yoo
Jun Seung Hwan (전승환) as Choi Ji Mong
Maeng Ho Rim (맹호림) as Park Yang Yoo
Im Byung Ki (임병기) as Han Yeon Gong
Kim Young Sun (김영선) as Han In Kyung
Park Chul Ho as Kim Hoon
Choi Wang Soon (최왕순) as Choi Jil
Choi Dong Joon (최동준) as Dae Do Soo
Lee Won Bal (이원발) as Yoo Bang
Choi Joon Yong as Lee Hyun Woon
??? as So Tae Hoo
Oh Gun Woo (오건우) as ??
Ji Dae Han (지대한) as So Son Nyeong
??? as So Bae Ab
Kim Myung Gook (김명국)
Kim Sung Hyun (김성현)
Lee Han Sol (이한솔)
Hong In Young as Cheon Hyang Bi
Kim Hye Won (김혜원) as young Cheon Hyang Bi
Lee Chae Young as Sa Il Ra
Kim Hyung Min as Sa Ga Moon
Kim Byung Choon (김병춘) as Lee Joo Jeong
Jung Jin (정진) as Go Hyeon
Ahn Hae Sook as Court lady Yoon
Ki Jong Woon (기종운) as Court lady Jo
Yang Geum Suk

Production Credits

Director: Shin Chang Suk (신창석), Hwang In Hyuk (황인혁)
Screenwriter: Son Young Mok (손영목), Lee Sang Min (이상민), Kang Young Ran (강영란)
Chief Producer: Kim Won Yong
Producer: Jin Hyung Wook (진형욱)

East of Eden

East of Eden 

Title: 에덴의 동쪽 / East of Eden
Chinese title : 伊甸园东
Genre: Action, romance
Episodes: 56
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2008-Aug-25 to 2009-March-10
Air time: Mondays & Tuesdays 21:55 (9:55 Korean time)

Synopsis

The drama will be about two men whose fates are crossed from the very first day that they were born. Both men were born in the same hospital. When he was a teenager, Lee Dong Chul witnessed the death of his father. From then on he promised to seek revenge on the man who caused his father’s death, Shin Tae Hwan. But unbeknownst to everybody is the fact that Dong Chul’s younger brother, Dong Wook, was switched at birth with Tae Hwan’s son, Myung Hun. Dong Wook grows up to become a prosecutor and vows to help his brother seek revenge. But what happens when they find out that they’re not brothers? What will Dong Chul do when he finds out that his real brother was raised by Shin Tae Hwan and that the brother that was beside him all these years is the son of his enemy?

Cast 

Song Seung Hun as Lee Dong Chul
Yun Jung Hoon as Lee Dong Wook
Park Hae Jin as Shin Myung Hun
Lee Da Hae as Min Hye Rin
Lee Yeon Hee as Gook Young Ran / Grace
Han Ji Hye as Kim Ji Hyun
Dennis Oh as Mike
 

Extended Cast

Shin Dong Woo as young Dong Chul (5 years old)
Kim Bum as young Dong Chul (15 years old)
Park Gun Tae as young Dong Wook (10 years old)
Won Duk Hyun as young Myung Hun (10 years old)
Nam Ji Hyun as young Ji Hyun (10 years old)
Jo Min Ki as Shin Tae Hwan (Myung Hun’s father)
Lee Mi Sook as Yang Chun Hee (Dong Chul and Dong Wook’s mother)
Lee Jong Won as Lee Gi Chul (Dong Chul and Dong Wook’s father)
Jun Mi Sun as Jung Ja (Gi Soon’s mother)
Park Hyun Sook as Ok Hee
Jun So Min as Gi Soon
Jin Ji Hee as young Gi Soon (9 years old)
Kim Sung Kyum as President Oh
Na Hyun Hee as Oh Yoon Hee
Lee Won Jae as Kyung Tae
Yoo Dong Geun as President Gook / Gook Dae Hwa (Young Ran’s father)
Shim Hye Jin as Young Ran’s mother
Yoon Dong Hwan as lawyer Kim Tae Seon
Jung Hye Young as Janice / Jae Hee
Shin Eun Jung as Yoo Mi Ae / Rebecca
Jun Sung Hwan as stationmaster Kim Gab Soo (Ji Hyun’s grandfather)
Lee Suk Joon as Father Han
Kim Hyung Min as Wang Geon
Lee Sang Hoon as Dok Sa
Kwon Se In as young Dok Sa (10 years old)
Park Chan Hwan as Chaeng
Park Geun Hyung as President Min (Hye Rin’s father)
Jung Young Sook as Bae Hwa Mi (Mr. Min’s wife)
Jung So Young as Min Hye Ryung (Hye Rin’s sister)
Park Sung Woong as Park Sung Hyun
Jung Yoon Suk as Yeon Sub

Production Credits

Production Company: Chorokbaem Media
Producer: Kim Jin Man, Choi Byung Gil (최병길)
Screenwriter: Na Yun Sook, Lee Hong Ku
Director: So Won Young (소원영)

Awards

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Grand Prize (Song Seung Hun)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Female Top Excellence Award (Lee Mi Sook)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Male Excellence Award (Jo Min Ki)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Female Excellence Award (Han Ji Hye)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Male Newcomer Award (Park Hae Jin)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Female Newcomer Award (Lee Yeon Hee)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Golden Acting Award (Park Geun Hyung)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Golden Acting Award (Yoo Dong Geun}
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Golden Acting Award (Shin Eun Jung)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: PD Award (Yun Jung Hoon)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Special Child Actor Award (Park Gun Tae, Shin Dong Woo, & Nam Ji Hyun)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Best Couple Award (Song Seung Hun & Lee Yeon Hee)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Popular Actor Award (Song Seung Hun)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Popular Actress Award Lee Yeon Hee)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Writer of the Year Award (Na Yun Sook)

Dr. Gang

Dr. Gang  

 Title: 닥터 깽 / Dr. Gang
Also known as: Dr. Kkang, Kkaeng, Kaeng, Kang
Chinese title : 流氓医生
Genre: Drama
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2006-04-05 to 2006-05-25
 Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 9:55 PM

Synopsis   

Dr. Kkang is about a lazy bum who disguises himself as a doctor to get a job, and while under disguise falls in love with a female doctor. Han Ga In plays the role of ‘Kim Yoo-Na’ who is a sassy girl and a doctor. Yang Dong Geun plays the role of the lazy bum ‘Kang Dal-Go.’

Kang Dal-Go is a middle leader of a gang who gets investigated by the police for some incident and gets kicked out of the gang. So he moves to Seoul from Busan and disguises himself as a fake doctor. While acting as a fake doctor he meets Kim Yoo-Na, a real doctor. Suk Hee-Jung (Kim Jong Hyuk) grew up as an illegitimate child but he studies and works very hard to become a successful prosecutor. Lee Hye-Young (Park Shi Eun), whose husband was killed by gangsters, is Yoo-Na’s classmate and sister-in-law, and is raising her son alone. The drama shows the story of Dal-Go and Yoo-Na’s unbalanced love, with Hee-Jung forming the third party in their love triangle. 

Cast  

Yang Dong Geun as Kang Dal-Go
Han Ga In as Kim Yoo-Na
Kim Jong Hyuk as Suk Hee-Jung
Park Shi Eun as Lee Hye-Young

Production Credits

Director: Park Sung Soo
Writer: Kim Kyu Wan