Graceful Friends

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Graceful Friends
Promotional poster
Hangul
우아한 친구들
Genre
  • JTBC Studios
Original release
NetworkJTBC
ReleaseJuly 10 (2020-07-10) –
September 5, 2020 (2020-09-05)

Graceful Friends (Korean: 우아한 친구들; RR: Uahan Chingudeul) is a South Korean television series starring Yoo Jun-sang, Song Yoon-ah, Bae Soo-bin, Han Eun-jung, Kim Sung-oh, Kim Hye-eun, Jung Suk-yong, Lee In-hye, Kim Won-hae and Kim Ji-young. It aired on JTBC from July 10 to September 5, 2020.[1] It's available for streaming on Netflix and Disney+ in selected countries.[2][3]

Synopsis

The peaceful life of a group of friends who have known each other for 20 years is suddenly broken when a murder takes place.

Ahn Goong-chul (Yoo Jun-sang) has a seemingly perfect life with his beautiful wife and son. He works diligently for a food franchise company and is a loving husband and father to his family. Goong-chul's wife, Nam Jung-hae (Song Yoon-ah) is a psychiatrist who works in a family hospital. She is intelligent and beautiful but hides a dark past from her husband. Jung-hae gets entangled in a blackmailing scheme.

Jung Jae-hoon (Bae Soo-bin) is a divorced urologist with a wealthy family background. He lives alone and seems to have a mysterious side. He has a past connection to Nam Jung-hae, of which Ahn Goong-chul is ignorant.

Jo Hyung-woo (Kim Sung-oh) is an adult film director who is often mockingly called the "Bong Joon-ho" of the adult film industry. His dream is to become a mainstream big budget film director but he has never had any luck in achieving his goal. He is married to Kang Kyung-ja (Kim Hye-eun) who is a former adult film actress and now runs a luxury bar. He is very dependent on his wife's income. Kang Kyung-ja has a pro-golfer son named Kang Ji-wook.

Park Choon-bok (Jung Suk-yong) is an insurance company worker and part-time worker at a foreign car dealership. His wife Yoo Eun-sil (Lee In-hye) is a housewife and they have a daughter named Park Pu-reum. He looks comparatively older than his friends and wife, and people often mistakenly think he is his daughter's grandfather. He struggles financially but his wife is very supportive.

Cheon Man-shik (Kim Won-hae) is a City Hall Tax Collection Division official with a wife and a teenage daughter. He is quiet and polite and suffers from depression. He and Ahn Goong-chul were roommates in college and consider each other best friends. He has been hiding a secret from his family and friends which is revealed only after his death.

Baek Hae-sook (Han Eun-jung) used to be friends with the five and they all used to have a crush on her in college. For some reason, she had to drop out of college and wasn't in touch with any of them until Man-shik's funeral. She buys a restaurant near the housing society where the five friends live, and seems to have a mysterious agenda.

Cast

Main

Supporting

A professional golf instructor who cons people to extract money for his gambling addiction.
An adult film actress who is blackmailed by Joo Kang-san to help him scam people.
  • Yeon Je-hyung as Kang Ji-wook
Kang Kyung-ja's son and Jo Hyung-woo's stepson, he is a pro golfer. Like his stepfather, he also was Kang-san's blackmail victim.
Man-shik and Myung-sook's teenage daughter who studies in Canada.
  • Park Ha-joon as Ahn Yoo-bin
Goong-chul and Jung-hae's son.
  • Shim Hye-yeon as Park Pu-reum
Choon-bok and Eun-sil's daughter, she has an innocent crush on Ahn Yoo-bin.
  • Kim Seung-wook as Jo Tae-wook
Detective working on the murder case who also were in charge of Professor Park's murder case.
  • Kim Hee-ryung as Goo Young-sun
An Alzheimer patient whom Man-sik took care of. She is the wife of Professor Park Do-hoon.
  • Sa Kang as Do Do-hae
She is the caregiver of Goo Young-sun and liked Cheon Man-shik.
Jung Jae-hoon's ex-wife. She moved to America after their divorce and returned with a changed appearance.

Others

  • Lee Joo-suk as Professor Han Eung-shik
  • Jang Hee-soo as Oh Soon-jung, chairwoman of the hospital Nam Jung-hae works in.
  • Kim Ga-hwa as Geum Ha-na, Jung Jae-hoon's colleague.
  • Um Chae-young as Moon Ga-yeon, Ahn Yoo-bin's friend.
  • Kim Dong-ho as Seo Joo-won, Joo Kang-san's friend.
  • Kim Tae-young as Professor Park Do-hoon
  • Sung Byung-sook as Ahn Goong-chul's mother.
  • Kwon Hyuk as Ahn Goong-cheol
  • Jeon Eun-mi
  • Yoo Gun
  • Kang Nam-gil
  • Lee Geung-young
  • Kim Jun-hyun as himself, Goong-chul's friend and brand ambassador of the chicken franchise where he works.

Production

On January 18, 2020, it was reported that JTBC picked up the series which had already wrapped up filming.[4]

Viewership

Graceful Friends : South Korea viewers per episode (thousands)