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Synopsis

''A Gentleman's Dignity'' is about the careers and love lives of urban professionals. It tells the story of four men in their forties who have been friends since they were eighteen, as they go through love, breakup, success and failure. Kim Do-jin is a confident playboy who meets Seo Yi-soo and falls for her. To his surprise, she doesn't give him the time of day and he discovers that she has a crush on his best friend Im Tae-san. He begins a one-sided love for the first time in his life and tries to win her heart. Im Tae-san starts dating Yi-soo's roommate, Hong Se-ra, but troubles arise when Yi-soo's crush is revealed and when Se-ra tells him she doesn't want to get married. Choi Yoon is a lawyer who is still recovering from his wife's death four years ago but begins to have feelings for Tae-san's much younger sister, Im Meari. Meari has always had a crush on Yoon. However, Yoon refuses to give into his feelings and jeopardize his friendship with Tae-san. Lee Jung-rok is married to a rich woman, Park Min-sook, but constantly flirts with other women which causes problems and trust issues in their marriage. Meanwhile, a teenager named Colin comes to Korea looking for the four men and claims one of them is his biological father.

Cast

Main

as Kim Do-jin :A confident ladies' man who heads his own architectural firm with Im Tae-san. Do-jin has a memory loss problem in times of stress and records everything in his daily life with a voice recorder pen. He loves his car and named it "Betty". *

as Seo Yi-soo :A high school ethics teacher who also umpires amateur baseball games in her free time. Yi-soo has had a secret crush on Tae-san for three years. *

Kim Soo-ro Kim Soo-ro (born Kim Sang-joong on May 7, 1970) is a South Korean actor. Career Early career Kim Soo-ro studied Theater at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and Dongguk University, then joined the Mokwha Repertory Company. In 1993, he made hi ...

as Im Tae-san :A partner at Do-jin's firm, heading the construction division. He a member of the Blue Cats baseball team, and long-time friend of Yi-soo. *

as Choi Yoon :A lawyer who is still recovering from his wife's death four years ago and a member of the Blue Cats baseball team. *

as Lee Jung-rok :Owner of a Mango Six cafe and a bar. He is married to a rich woman, Park Min-sook, but constantly flirts with other women.

Supporting

Yoon Se-ah Yoon Se-ah (born January 2, 1978) is a South Korean actress best known for her roles in '' The City Hall'', ''Wife Returns'', '' A Gentleman's Dignity'', '' Stranger'', ''Sky Castle'', and ''Snowdrop''. Yoon was paired with Korean-French-Canadian ...

as Hong Se-ra :A pro golfer. She is Tae-san's girlfriend and Yi-soo's roommate. *

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as Park Min-sook :Jung-rok's extremely wealthy wife. *

Yoon Jin-yi Yoon Jin-yi (born Kim Yoon-jin on July 27, 1990) is a South Korean actress. Career Yoon debuted in the 2012 romantic comedy TV series '' A Gentleman's Dignity'', playing a girl in love with an older man. In March 2019, Yoon signed with new age ...

as Im Me Ah-ri :Tae-san's younger sister and Yi-soo's past student. Meari came back to Korea after studying in America and has an interest in bag design. She has had a crush on Yoon for a long time. *

Lee Jong-hyun Lee Jong-hyun (born May 15, 1990) is a South Korean musician, singer-songwriter and actor. He was the former lead guitarist and vocalist of South Korean rock band CNBLUE. He made his acting debut in an omnibus movie '' Acoustic'' in 2010, foll ...

as Colin :An American-born Korean who comes to Korea, claiming that one of the four guys is his biological father. He develops a crush on Meari. *

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as Kim Dong-hyub :A student of Yi-soo who often gets into trouble at school. He has a crush on Yi-soo. *

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as Kim Eun-hee :Colin's mother and the first love of the four guys. *Nam Hyun-joo as Teacher Park *

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as Attorney Kang *Yoon Joo-man as Team leader Choi *Min Jae-sik as Mango Six Cafe's manager *Kim Chang-seong as Sang-hyun *Kim Geun as Kim Geun, Hwa Dam's employee *Lee Joon-hee as Kwon, Hwa Dam's employee *Jo Hyeon-gyu as Hyeon-gyu, Hwa Dam's employee *Han Eun Sun as Young-ran, Hwa Dam's employee *Ahn Jae-min as Yoo Seong-jae *

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as Kim Eun-ji, Do-jin's ex-girlfriend *

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as Lee Mi-kyung, Yoon's mother-in-law *Kim Sun-hwa as Director Song

Special appearances

*Sa-hee as Do-jin's seducer in the pub in (ep 1) *Ahn Hye-kyeong as Yoon's client (ep 2 and 10) * Shin Hye-jeong as Na Jong-seok's daughter (ep 3) *Choi Sung-jo as Min-sook's fitness trainer (ep 3) *

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as High school teacher (ep 4) *

Choi Soo-young Choi Soo-young (; born February 10, 1990), professionally known as Sooyoung, is a South Korean singer, actress and songwriter. She was a member of the short-lived Korean-Japanese singing duo Route 0 during 2002 in Japan. After returning to Sou ...

as herself (ep. 5) *Hwang Eun-soo as Hong Se-ra's golfing junior (ep 9 and 12) *Kim Dong-gyun as Na Jong-seok (ep 11) *

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as himself and a past student of Yi-soo (ep 13) *

Juniel Choi Seo-ah (Korean: 최서아; born Choi Jun-hee on 3 September 1993), better known by her stage name Juniel, (Hangul: 주니엘, often stylized as JUNIEL) is a South Korean singer-songwriter. She began her career in Japan before eventually ...

as street performer at Hongdae playground (ep 13) *

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as army instructor (ep 15) *Jang Joon-yoo as Tae-san's blind date (ep 16) *

Cha Hwa-yeon Cha Hwa-yeon (born Cha Hak-kyung; February 12, 1961) is a South Korean actress. Career Cha made her acting debut in 1978, and became best known as the heroine Kim Mi-ja in the 1987 television drama ''Love and Ambition'', a character who became a ...

as Yi-soo's mother (ep 16 and 19) *Bae Ji-hyun as reporter (ep 20)

Prologues

A unique feature of this drama is at the beginning of every episode, a prologue (or

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) is shown. The prologues involve anecdotes about Do-jin, Tae-san, Yoon and Jung-rok's friendship through the years, and they carry a humorous tone with the exception of episode 16's. The prologues are not related narratively to the previous episode's ending or the present storyline, however they underline each episode's theme.

Original soundtrack

The drama has released seven parts of the soundtrack in two OST albums, the first part is "High High" by Kim Tae-woo and the second part features various artists including Jeon Geun-hwa with single "Beautiful Words", Kyung-woo with single "When I Look At You" and

Park Eun-ooh Park Eun-ooh ( ko, 박은우, born March 30, 1990), also known as NewNew, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, music producer and lyricist. History 2000s Park Eun-ooh made her debut as a singer in 2007 with her stage name Xeno(제노) and publ ...

with single "Everyday". Actors

and

also contributed songs to the soundtrack included in ''A Gentleman's Dignity OST 2''.

Ratings

Awards and nominations

Novel

A two-part

novelization A novelization (or novelisation) is a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, stage play, comic book or video game. Film novelizations were particularly popular before the advent of ...

was published in August 2012.

References

External links

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