''A Girl Who Sees Smells'' () is a 2015 South Korean

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adapted from the

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of the same title by Seo Soo-kyung a/k/a Man Chwi. Starring

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, Namgoong Min and

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, it aired on SBS on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes from April 1 to May 21, 2015. Its early

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was ''Sensory Couple'' (), before reverting to the name of the original webtoon. The drama managed to top the Contents Power Index (CPI) rankings for the most influential dramas.

Synopsis

Choi Eun-seol (

) arrives home to find her parents murdered. When the murderer is distracted, she escapes but is hit by a car. Eun-seol's parents are later found with a

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carved into their skin, the work of the "Barcode"

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. The lead detective on the case, Oh Jae-pyo (

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) realizes that the now-comatose daughter Eun-seol is the sole surviving witness. On that same night, Choi Moo-gak (

) is at the hospital visiting his younger sister (

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), also named Choi Eun-seol, who's being treated for mild injuries after a bus accident. But when he returns to her bed, he finds her dead with her throat slit. Six months later, Eun-seol comes out of her coma. But she has no memories at all of her life before waking up at the hospital, and her left eye has turned green with no scientific explanation. She has also gained the unique ability to "see" smells as visible colors and shapes, and can even trace where people have been because their lingering scents are like a trail. To protect her, Jae-pyo adopts her and invents a new life for her, telling her that he's her real father and that her name is Oh Cho-rim. Three years and six months pass, and Cho-rim is a cheerful girl who's adjusted to her ability. She dreams of a becoming a comedian, and works as a gofer for a small, struggling theater company called Frog Troupe. On the other hand, Moo-gak had been so traumatized by his sister's death that after two months of no sleep and constant pain, he'd fainted and was clinically dead for ten days. When he woke up, he'd lost the sense of smell and taste, and is unable to feel pain. And unlike his previous warm personality, Moo-gak is now stoic, emotionless, and speaks in a monotone. He leaves his job at the aquarium to become a police officer, vowing to reopen the case and catch the killer. But to do so, he must first get promoted to detective, and has to prove himself to the head of the homicide unit Detective Kang Hyuk (

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) in ten days or to never ask for a promotion again. Cho-rim also needs a skit partner for her upcoming audition in ten days, and when she offers to help him with his cases in exchange, they decide to team up. After a model (

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) turns up dead, seemingly another victim of the Barcode serial killer, Moo-gak joins the investigation headed by Lieutenant Yeom Mi (

), and he zeroes in on two possible suspects: the model's boyfriend, chef Kwon Jae-hee ( Namgoong Min) and her doctor (

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Cast

Main

as Detective Choi Moo-gak After the murder of his sister, Moo-gak is determined to become a police inspector and take revenge for his sister's death. He is desensitised and is unable to smell or taste his food. *

as Oh Cho-rim/Choi Eun-seol Cho-rim witnessed the murder of her parents and lived on as the sole witness of the barcode serial murders. She has a strange ability-being able to see smells as patterns in the air. She forms a team with Moo-gak, and together, they work to solve the series of barcode murders. *

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as Chef Kwon Jae-hee/Jay Kwon Ford *

as Yeom Mi

Supporting

as Oh Jae-pyo * Nam Chang-hee as Jo In-bae * Oh Cho-hee as Eo Woo-ya * Jung Chan-woo as Wang Ji-bang *

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as Ma Ae-ri *

as Kang Hyuk *

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as Ye Sang-gil *

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as Ki Choong-do *

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as Chief of Police * Choi Jae-hwan as Tak Ji-seok *

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as Detective Kim * Kim Gi-cheon as Kim Joong-in *

as Dr. Chun Baek-kyung *

Heo Jung-eun Heo Jung-eun (; born September 14, 2007) is a South Korean actress. She first drew public attention with her performances in hit dramas, '' My Lawyer, Mr. Jo'' (2016) and ''Love in the Moonlight'' (2016). At age nine, she took on her first leadin ...

as Ji-eun

Special appearances

as Choi Eun-seol (ep 1–2, 5) * Kim Dong-kyun as Park Hyung-jin (ep 1) *

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as Yang Mi-yeon (ep 1) * Heo Joon-suk as Kang Sang-moon (ep 1) *

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as Convenience store clerk (ep 1) * Kim Il-joong as himself, ''TV Entertainment Tonight'' hosts (ep 1) * Jang Ye-won as himself, ''TV Entertainment Tonight'' hosts (ep 1) * Running Man cast as Themselves (ep 1) *

as Joo Ma-ri (ep 2) * Oh Jung-tae as Autoclub employee (ep 2) *

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as Arrested man at the police station (ep 2) * Dan-woo as Driver that hit a car in the mountain (ep 2–3) *

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as Driver's girlfriend (ep 2–3) * Ha Soo-ho as Hwang Ki-soo (ep 4) * Kim Ho-chang as Tak Min-seok (ep 4) * --- as Chef Hong (ep 5) * Oh Tae-kyung as Yang Seok-jin (ep 5) *

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as Himself (ep 6) *

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Awards and nominations

Notes

References

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