Monday, February 28, 2011

Crime Squad

Title: 강력반 / Kangryukban / Crime Squad
Chinese Title : 强力班 / 重案组
Also known as: Homicide / Detectives in Trouble
Genre: Action, crime, police
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2011-Mar-07 to 2011-Apr-26
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55

Synopsis

This drama focuses on a group of detectives in the Seoul Gangnam Police Homicide Division who solve crimes based on real life cases with their variety of skills and investigative methods. At the forefront of the team is the impulsive and hotheaded detective Park Se Hyuk and the cold, commanding police chief, Jung Il Do. Park Se Hyuk’s passion for his work and rough personality results in a tendency to take action first before thinking later, in contrast with Jung Il Do’s by-the-book style. However, his greatest weapon is an instinctive knowledge of a criminal’s tricks and mental workings that he gained from his father, the legendary thief, and his own childhood in the streets. Together with the other members of a special team formed to catch Lupin, a notorious burglar, he juggles work with his own personal quest to find his father and confront his older brother, a crooked detective.

Cast

Song Il Gook as Park Se Hyuk
Lee Jong Hyuk as Jung Il Do
Song Ji Hyo as Jo Min Joo
Park Sun Young as Heo Eun Young
Sun Woo Sun as Jin Mi Sook
Sung Ji Roo as Nam Tae Shik
Kim Joon as Shin Dong Jin
Jang Hang Sun as Team Leader Kwon
Lee Min Woo as Lee Dong Jin
Oh Yong
Baek Seung Hee
Hwang Kwang Hee (황광희) (cameo)

I Believe in Men

Title: 남자를 믿었네 / Namjareul Mideonne / I Believe in Men
Chinese Title : 我相信男人
Also known as: I Trust Men / Trusted Men
Genre: Melodrama, romance
Episodes: To Be Annouced
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2011-Feb-28 to 2011
Air time: Monday to Friday 20:15

Synopsis

A classic family drama about a food company manager who goes through a series of tumultuous events after breaking up with a loved one for unknown reasons.

Cast

Wang Bit Na as Oh Kyung Joo
Shim Hyung Tak as Lee Sun Woo

Kim family

Oh Seung Myung (오승명) as President Kim
Oh Mi Yeon as Ms. Im
Park Sang Min as Kim Nam Ki
Woo Hee Jin as Kim Hwa Kyung

Other people

Kim Dong Wook as Moon Hyun Soo
Lee Da In as Han Kyung Mi (Kyung Joo’s sister)
Hong Soo Ah as Ha Jung Min
Kim Chung as In Hee
Park Joo Ah as Sun Woo’s grandmother
Go Joo Yun as Eun Kyung
Sun Woo Jae Duk as Jin Hyun
Jung Hye Sun as Jin Hyun’s mother
Lee Hwi Hyang
Kim Jung Hyun

Production Credits

Producer: Choi Yong Won
Director: Lee Eun Kyu, Choi Eun Kyung (최은경)
Screenwriter: Joo Chan Ok

Royal Family

Title: 로얄 패밀리 / Royal Family
Chinese Title : 皇室家族
Genre: Family, romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2011-Mar-02 to 2011-Apr-21
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

Synopsis

The story of Kim In Sook’s battle against all odds to rise to the top of JK Group with the help of the lawyer Han Ji Hoon, a man who has supported her since they were children.

Cast

Yum Jung Ah as Kim In Sook
Ji Sung as Han Ji Hoon
Kim Young Ae as Gong Soon Ho
Cha Ye Ryun as Jo Hyun Jin
Jun Noh Min as Uhm Ki Do
Jun Mi Sun as Im Yoon Seo
Seo Yoo Jung as Yang Ki Jung
Ahn Nae Sang as Jo Dong Jin
Kim Young Pil (김영필) as Jo Dong Ho
Kim Jung Hak as Jo Dong Min
Dok Go Young Jae as Kim Tae Hyuk
Dong Ho (동호) as Jo Byung Joon
Ki Tae Young as Kang Choong Ki
Lee Ki Young as Kang Il Shik
Jo Sang Ki as James Dean
Ryu Dam as Kkak Chi
Kim Hye Ok as Seo Soon Ae
Lee Chae Young as Park Min Kyung
Ha Yun Joo as Ji Eun
Min Joon Hyun as staff
Lee Da Hee

Production Credits

Producer: Han Hee
Director: Kim Do Hoon (김도훈)
Assistant Director: Kim Sung Wook (김성욱), Park Ji Hyun (박지현)
Screenwriter: Kwon Eun Mi (권음미)

The Thorn Birds

Title: 가시나무새 / Kashinamoosae /
Chinese Title : 荆棘鸟 / 刺鳥
Also known as: The Thorn Bush Bird
Genre: Melodrama, romance
Episodes: 20
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2011-Mar-02 to 2011-May-05
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

Synopsis

This is the story of two women, Seo Jung Eun and Han Yoo Kyung, who walk very different paths to achijavascript:void(0)eve their desires. Seo Jung Eun is a strong and courageous woman who has suffered a difficult life, having grown up in an orphanage, but continues to embrace people around her despite longing for affection herself. Jung Eun harbours the hope that she will meet her mother if she becomes a star, striving to reach her goal and overcome her suffering with her pure and innocent nature. In contrast, Han Yoo Kyung has a birth secret for which she is willing to throw away everything in order to get revenge. The “thorn birds” of the title refers to Jung Eun’s character, who only brings out her best at the cost of great pain. A thorn bird is a mythical bird who searches for a thorn tree from the day it is born. When it finds it, the bird impales itself upon the sharpest thorn, and rises above the agony to sing the most beautiful song ever heard.

Cast

Han Hye Jin as Seo Jung Eun
- Kim So Hyun as young Jung Eun
Joo Sang Wook as Lee Young Jo
- Lee Min Ho as young Young Jo
Kim Min Jung as Han Yoo Kyung
- Yoon Jung Eun as young Yoo Kyung
Seo Do Young as Choi Kang Woo
Cha Hwa Yun as Yoon Myung Ja
Kim Ha Eun as Yang Mi Ryun
Song Ok Sook as Kim Kye Soon
Choi Jae Won as Park Han Soo
- Kim Dong Young as young Han Soo
Jung Ui Kap as Lee Young Gook
Park Ji Il as Choi Jong Dal
Ahn Seung Hoon (안승훈) as Yoon Myung Goo
Lee Mi Young as Soon Geum
Jung Eun Byul as Seo Jin
Oh Hyun Kyung as Young Jo’s grandfather
?? as Han Byul
?? as Yoon Hak Goo

Production Credits

Production Company: GnG Production
Chief Producer: Bae Kyung Soo
Producer: Kim Jin Woo (김진우)
Director: Kim Jong Chang
Screenwriter: Lee Sun Hee