Bad Housewife

Bad Housewife 

Title: 불량주부 / Bul-lyang Joo-boo
Also known as: Mr. Housewife / Bad Wife
Episodes: 18
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2005-03-21 to 2005-05-17
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 9:55pm 

Synopsis

The story is about Su-han, a fatherly man in his mid-thirties, who becomes a full-time home manager after voluntary retirement, while his wife Mi-na becomes the breadwinner who had only concentrated on household chores up until then.

The subject of ‘Bad Wife’ is quite ordinary compared to other dramas. There is no amnesia nor is there an innocent child who contracts a fatal disease like other Korean dramas in the same time-slot. The changing roles of a husband and wife are not such an extraordinary or an unusual subject for a TV drama.

However, in such a banal setting, the drama succeeds in bringing out a variety of entertaining situations. By changing roles with each other, the married couple comes to face a new environment and, due to the new environment, they face changes through understanding and conflict. The drama realistically describes the process of such change, by providing a few details of some ordinary lives.

Source: The Korea Times 

Cast

Son Chang Min as Goo Soo-han
Shin Ae Ra as Choi Mi-na
Lee Young Yoo as Goo Song-yi
Jo Yeon Woo as Ji Sun-woo:
Yoo Min as Park Yoo-jin
Lee Kyung Sil as Lee Kang-ja
Kim Sung Kyum as Goo Bon-hwan
Yeo Woon Kye as No Jin-ye
Kim Ja Ok as Park Ok-ja
Kang Jung Hwa as Nam Eun-mi

Production Credits

Head Producer: Gong Yeong Hwa
Producer: Kim Gyeong Ho
Directors: Yoo In Shik, Jang Tae Yoo
Asst. Directors: Oh Jin Suk, Kwan Hyuk Chan (Assistant)
Screenwriters: Kang Eun Jung, Sul Joon Suk

Bad Girls

Bad Girls 

Title: 나쁜 여자들 / Na-ppeun Yeo-ja-deul
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2002-05-08 to 2002-06-27
 Air time: Wednesday & Thursday at 9:55pm

Synopsis   

Jae-kyung, Yeol-mae, and Yeon-hee are three inseperable friends. Yeon-hee is married to Taek-su. In-ku is Jae-kyung’s boyfriend, and Bong-chul is Yeol-mae’s boyfriend.

Taek-su (Kim Byung Se) is having an affair with a fellow co-worker, which his wife finds out about. Yeon-hee (Kim Hae Ri) decides to find her own success in the workplace rather than live as a homemaker for her husband.

In a competitive businessplace, Jae-kyung (Park Sol Mi) wins a high position, but her superior, Jang-su (Sun Woo Jae Duk) tries to sexually harass her. When In-ku (Lee Jung Jin) found it out, he got angry, but kept the story quiet in exchange for the position that Jae-kyung had gotten. Jae-kyung, feeling betrayed, moves to a another city to work as a supervisior, where she meets Sin-ho (Park Kwang Hyun), who works as a manager there. Sin-ho is a warm-hearted guy that falls for Jae-kyung.

In-ku, though, is not a guy crazy for ambition, but has his own dark family secret, connected to the company’s president, Lee Soon Jae-which is why he wants to succeed in that company. This yearning for recognition constantly puts him in a dilemma where he has to decide whether to get his success or Jae-kyung.

Bong-chul (Lee Jong Soo) is an unemployed ‘bum’ that always uses money that innocent Yeol-mae (Sung Yu Ri) gives.

In the beginning of the drama, guys defined a ‘bad girl’ as a girl that is sexy, smart, and cute because they are hard to control, but the drama tries to redefine the stereotypical images of career women  

Cast

Park Sol Mi as Park Jae-kyung
Sung Yu Ri as Han Yeol-mae
Kim Hae Ri as Lee Yeon-hee
Park Kwang Hyun as Kim Sin-ho
Lee Jung Jin as Lee In-ku
Kim Byung Se as Jun Taek-su
Lee Jong Soo as Na Bong-chul
Ye Ji Won as Oh Jung-hwa
 Sun Woo Jae Duk as Byun Jang-su

Production Credits  

Producer: Choi Moon Suk
Writer: Park Hyun Ju

Bad Family

Bad Family 

Title: 불량가족 / Bul Ryang Ga Jok
English Title: Bad Family
Chinese title : 不良家族
Genre: Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2006-03-22 to 2006-05-11
 Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 9:55 PM

 Synopsis

Na Rim is the youngest child of an affluent family. Na Rim and her family are about to go on a family trip when an employee from the family company shows up who has apparently done something wrong. He begs for forgiveness but Na Rim’s grandfather refuses. The family leaves but the employee (CEO?) from the family company follows in his own car, leading to a car accident where everyone in the car with the exception of Na Rim dies. One of Na Rim’s begins to suspect that the CEO of the company is responsible for the death of his family, but the only one alive to tell what happened is Na Rim, who has amnesia. In order to try and get her memory back, one of her uncles hires Oh Dal Gun to create a family for Na Rim on the recommendation that if Na Rim is happy then the chances of her getting her memory back are higher.

Oh Dal Gun has a large debt and in order to repay this debt he has established a company that provides fake families for people in need. Basically actors are hired to play the parts of family members for events such as weddings. Kim Yang Ah is an orphan with 3 younger brothers and makes a living as a fisherwoman. Although cute, she has a temper. By chance she ends up meeting Dal Gun while he is being chased by the men he owes a debt to. Even though Yang Ah helped Dal Gun escape, they eventually find him and beat him to a bloodly pulp, and end up accidentally setting Yang Ah’s boat on fire. Yang Ah returns to find her boat in tatters.

Jang Hang Gu, Park Bok Nyu, and Um Ji Sook all owe debts to the man that Dal Gun works for. In order to pay their debts Dal Gun’s coerces them to work for him. Hang Gu is a dance instructor, Bok Nyu sells potstickers for a living and Ji Sook sells coffee for a living. Bok Nyu and Ji Sook really dislike each other and bicker all the time. Gi Dong works for a debt collection agency. Gong Min appears to be a homeless youth that Dal Gun finds on the streets, but is fact from a very rich family. Having moved out from his family home, he works at a salon as a shampoo boy.

With the majority of the family in place, Dal Gun goes to find the person to play the part of Na Rim’s sister. He decides on a girl that happens to be Yang Ah’s friend, who resists Dal Gun. Yang Ah realizes who Dal Gun is and goes after him. Although not originally chosen to be the sister, since Na Rim has already met Yang Ah and has been told that she is her sister, Dal Gun has to take a long time to convince Yang Ah to play the role.

Yang Ah also happens to meet Ha Tae Kyung when he knocks over her squid stand. They end up getting into an altercation that results in Yang Ah dumping a bunch of raw squid into his car. They later meet again as well when she is playing the role of Na Rim’s sister.
Cast

Kim Myung Min is Oh Dal Gun (Na Rim’s fake uncle)
Nam Sang Mi is Kim Yang Ah (Na Rim’s fake sister)
Yim Hyun Shik is Jang Hang Gu (Na Rim’s fake grandfather)
Yuh Woon Kye is Park Bok Nyu (Na Rim’s fake grandmother)
Kang Nam Gil is Jo Gi Dong (Na Rim’s fake father)
Keum Bo Ra is Um Ji Sook (Na Rim’s fake mother)
Kim Hui Chul is Gong Min (Na Rim’s fake brother)
Hyun Young is Ha Bu Kyung (Niece of man that caused accident)
Park Jin Woo is Ha Tae Kyung (Son of man that caused accident)
Lee Young Yoo is Baek Na Rim
Production Credits

Director: Yoo In Shik
Writer: Lee Hee Myung