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from July 22, 2016 to October 7, 2017.

Synopsis

A slice-of-life story about five girls who live together in a sharehouse called "Belle Epoque" and how they connect over the growing pains in their youth. It is based on the issues that younger generations are likely to face in South Korea.

Cast

Overview

Main

* Park Hye-su (season 1) and Ji Woo (season 2) as Yoo Eun-jae :A 20-year-old Psychology major student who comes from the countryside. *

as Jung Ye-eun :A 22-year-old Culinary Arts major with a religious background. *

as Yoon Jin-myung :A 28-year-old hardworking business major with a complicated family situation. *

as Song Ji-won :A 22-year-old, majors in Journalism, a quirky adventurous roommate who claims she sees ghosts. *

as Kang Yi-na (season 1; guest season 2) :A 24-year-old sugar baby with expensive taste.She eventually works hard to be a career woman. * Choi Ara as Jo Eun (season 2)

Recurring

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as Park Jae-wan (season 1; guest season 2) :Jin-myung's love interest, Italian restaurant chef. * Choi Deok-moon as Oh Jong-gyu – Yi-na's mystery man *

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as Go Doo-young – Ye-eun's abusive ex-boyfriend *

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as Yoon Jong-yeol – Eun-jae's boyfriend * Son Seung-won as Im Sung-min – Ji-won's male friend *

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as Seo Dong-joo – Yi-na's friend * Kim Min-seok as Seo Jang-hoon (season 2) :Deputy of the share house, Belle Epoque's owner, Jo Eun's love interest. * Lee You-jin as Kwon Ho-chang (season 2) :Ye-eun's love interest; an engineering student who knows nothing about dating. * Ahn Woo-yeon as Heimdallr / Lee Jin-kwang (season 2) :A member of an idol group Asgard who is five years into his debut, but yet to reach stardom. *

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as Ho-chang's mother * Kim Hyo-jin as Yoon Jin-myung's mother * as Ahn Jung-hee – Yoo Eun-jae's mother * Kim Yong-hee as dentist – Kang Yi-na's third lover * as restaurant manager * as Jo Hyun-hee – restaurant waitress * Han Jeong-woo as Kang Yi-na's second lover * Song Ji-ho as Kang Yi-na's stalker * as Han Yoo-kyung – Jung Ye-eun's friend * Choi Bae-young as Song Kyung-ah – Jung Ye-eun's friend *

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as young Yoon Jin-myung * Yoon Yong-joon as Shin Yool-bin – Yoo Eun-jae's crush *

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* Jung Yi-seo as Ye-eun's classmate * as insurance employee * as dancing student * as Song Ji-won's father *

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as Yoon Jong-yeol's junior * as Yoo Eun-jae's aunt *

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as Ahn Ye-ji, Jo Eun's friend *

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as Jo Chung-han *

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as Ho Chang's sister *

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as Su & Su receptionist *

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as Oh Ha-na

Special appearances

Season 1: * Moon Sook as home owner grandmother Season 2: *

as Go Doo-young * PENTAGON as members of idol group Asgard * A.C.E as members of idol group The Fifth Column *

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as Moon Hyo-jin's boyfriend *

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as Song Ji-won' mother *

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as Jo-eun's father

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (2016)

Season 2 (2017)

Production

On February 16, 2017, the series was renewed for a second season. It was announced that

would only make a

cameo appearance A cameo role, also called a cameo appearance and often shortened to just cameo (), is a brief appearance of a well-known person in a work of the performing arts. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and are commonly ei ...

, and that a new actress would be cast as the fifth girl of the Belle Epoque. Originally, it was expected that all five main roles would be the same from the previous season. However, early on

was removed from the main cast. Instead, a new character, Jo Eun, was created to fill the five-person dynamic of the show.

Park Hye-soo Park Hye-su (; born November 24, 1994), also spelled as Park Hye-soo, is a South Korean actress and singer. She participated in ''K-pop Star 4'' as a contestant. Park rose to fame for her role in ''Hello, My Twenties!''. She took on her first le ...

was also supposed to be part of the main cast, but due to a scheduling conflict, she stepped down from the role. Unlike Ryu Hwa-young, this happened late into pre-production and it was decided that another actress would play her character Yoo Eun-jae; Ji Woo was cast.

Onew Lee Jin-ki (; born December 14, 1989), better known by his stage name Onew, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, actor and host. Born in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi-do, Onew was discovered at the 2006 SM Academy Casting and signed a contract with S ...

was originally cast in the role of Kwon Ho-chang, but he stepped down in light of controversy surrounding him ten days before the drama's premiere, and was replaced with Lee Yoo-jin.

Ratings

Original soundtrack

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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