''Magic Kid Ma Soo-ri'' () is a 2002

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starring

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Yoon Young-ah Yoon Young-ah (; born March 15, 1987) is a South Korean actress. Yoon began her career as a child actress, notably in the children's fantasy show ''Magic Kid Masuri'' (2002). She began using the stage name Han Ye-in in 2007 when she transitione ...

, Kim Hee-jung and

Han Bo-bae Han Bo-bae (; born March 4, 1994) is a South Korean actress. Han began her career as a child actress, and has starred in films and television series such as ''The World of Silence'' (2006), ''A Company Man ''A Company Man'' () is a 2012 Sout ...

. A children's drama aired on

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from February 2002 to February 2004. It tells the story of the Surine family, who came to the human world to learn human emotions in a magical world that was chaotic due to the conflict between the Elder Council (White Bridge) and the Witch Council (Red Bridge). The drama aired a total of 496 episodes for two years from February 18, 2002 to February 27, 2004 through

, achieving an average audience rating of 15%, making it the longest broadcast among children's dramas. The anime aired on

from September 26 to December 16, 2008. It was expected that high ratings would come out following the children's drama, but due to the low ratings, the work that was scheduled to end in 39 episodes ended early with 13 episodes.

Introduction

With the selfish mind of the wizards, the magical world is thrown into uncontrollable chaos. In response, the elders of the magical land agreed to send a wizard family to a world of humans who live in harmony with each other, relying on each other, but having a lower way of living than themselves, to find out why humans live without much confusion. Finally, the elder wizards send a family of wizards selected through a screening process to the human world. What will happen to the wizard family who have lost their emotions such as sadness, joy, happiness, and love due to the old magic world?

Cast

as Ma Soo-ri *

as Ma ye-ye * Kim Sung-kyum as Ma Pa-ram *

Kim Kyu-chul Kim Kyu-chul (born April 6, 1960) is a South Korean actor. Kim spent more than a decade as a stage actor before he made his onscreen breakthrough in 1993 with Im Kwon-taek's '' Seopyeonje'', considered one of the classics of Korean cinema. Kim ...

as Ma Poong-woon *

Kim Na-woon Kim Na-woon (born May 11, 1970) is a South Korean actress. She made her acting debut in 1987, and is most active as a supporting actress in television dramas. Filmography Television series Film Variety/radio show Music video ...

as Ahn Ji-ni * Park Chung-sun as Ma Pae * Go Doo-ok as Lee Gang-ho * Kim Hee-jung as Choi Yi-seul *

as Choi Pool-ip *

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as Kim Ji-hoon *

Lee David Lee David (born March 3, 1994) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his supporting roles in ''Poetry'', '' The Front Line'', and Itaewon Class. He has also had starring roles in ''Romance Joe'' and ''Pluto Pluto (minor-plane ...

References

External links

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Animation official website
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