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

Don’t Be Swayed

Don’t Be Swayed 

Title: 흔들리지마 / Don’t Be Swayed
chinese title : 不要动摇
Also known as: Unshaken / Unwaivering / Don’t Go Away
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 120+
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-14 to 2008-Nov-28
Air time: Mondays to Fridays 7:50

S ynopsis  

The drama is about the love and lives of the children of a couple that remarried. Soo Hyun lies about her family’s background in order to get approval from the mother of the man who she hopes to marry. This in turn causes tensions in Soo Hyun’s family because of the lies that she told. Min Jung is Soo Hyun’s stepsister by marriage. When Min Jung suddenly meets Kang Pil, she feels attracted to him but is devastated when Kang Pil is revealed to be her stepsister’s fiancee.

Cast

Kim Nam Jin as Han Kang PilHong Eun Hee as Lee Soo HyunKim Da In as Park Min Jung
 Jung Sung Woon as Choi Bo Gook

Extended Cast      

Oh Mi Hee as So Hee Jung (Kang Pil’s mother)
Jung Han Yong as Han Jin Ho / Chairman Han (Kang Pil’s father)
Sun Woo Eun Sook as Cha Young Mi (Min Jung’s mother)
Im Chae Moo as Lee Yong Dae (Soo Hyun’s father)
Kim Yong Rim as Song Ok Boon (Young Mi’s mother)
Sung Dong Il as Park Ki Chul
Hong Soon Chang as Lee Bong Pil
Kang Soo Han as Lee Moo Hyun
Moon Chun Sik as Jang Pil Suk (Kang Pil’s friend)
Kim Gyu Chul as Park Hyung Chul
Sung Hyuk as Park Dong Hyuk
Lee Yoo Jung as Kang Young Ah
Park Joon Geum
Song Chae Hwan
Ban So Young

Production Credits

Director: Lee Hong Goo
Screenwriter: Baek Ho Min