''Apgujeong Midnight Sun'' () is a 2014 South Korean television series starring

Park Ha-na Park Ha-na (born July 25, 1985) is a South Korean actress. Park made her entertainment debut in 2003 as a member of the idol group FUNNY. Since then, she has turned to acting and was in the lead role in ''Apgujeong Midnight Sun'' (2014). Career ...

, Kang Eun-tak, Baek Ok-dam and Song Won-geun. The daily

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

aired on MBC from October 6, 2014 to May 15, 2015 on Mondays to Fridays at 20:55 for 149 episodes.

Plot

The lives of four people (and their families) intersect as they work at a cable TV station, where they learn that a fateful encounter can determine whether a man and a woman will become lovers or enemies.

Cast

as Baek Ya / Baek Seon-dong - The female lead, initially she is cruel and jealous to her sister in law but after her brother got into an accident, she learns to love her sister in law and get revenge to her mother, Seo Eun-ha. * Kang Eun-tak as Jang Hwa-eom * Baek Ok-dam as Yook Seon-ji - Baek Ya’s bestfriend. * Kim Min-soo as Jo Na-dan (Jonathan) - Seo Eun-ha’s stepson, he loves Baek Ya so much. * Lee Hyo-young as Jung Sam-hee - Hwa-eom's friend and writer * Song Won-geun as Jang Moo-eom * Hwang Jung-seo as Jo Ji-ah (Georgia) - Seo Eun-ha’s stepdaughter, a typical spoiled brat and arrogant heiress. * Lee Bo-hee as Seo Eun-ha - Baek Ya’s greedy and evil birth mother, money matters to her more than her real children. *

Shim Hyung-tak Shim Hyung-tak (born January 12, 1978) is a South Korean actor. He starred in Korean dramas such as '' The Road Home'' (2009), '' Three Sisters'' (2010), ''Welcome Rain to My Life'' (2012), '' You Are the Boss!'' (2013), '' Let's Eat'' (2014), ...

as Baek Young-joon *

Im Chae-moo Im Chae-moo (born September 2, 1949) is a South Korean actor. Filmography Television series Film Variety show Awards and nominations References External links * * * 1949 births Living people South Korean male film actors ...

as Jang Choo-jang * Park Hye-sook as Moon Jung-ae *

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as Ok Dan-shil * Kim Ji-eun as Noh Ma-joo *

Han Ki-woong Han Ki-woong is a South Korean actor. He is known for his roles in dramas such as '' Love to the End'', '' Mother of Mine'', '' Apgujeong Midnight Sun'' and '' The Second Husband''. Filmography Television series References External links * ...

as Kang-ho * Keum Dan-bi as Kim Hyo-kyung * Lee Joo-hyun as Yook Seon-joong * Kim Young-ran as Oh Dal-ran *

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as Jo Jang-hoon *

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as Mo-narija * Oh Ki-chan as Lee Ban-seok * Kim Eun-jung as Ga-young * Lee Ga-ryeong as Susanna Ahn

Controversy

In April 2015, the series received scrutiny from the

Korea Communications Standards Commission The Korea Communications Standards Commission () is an institution of the South Korean government that regulates communications including film, television, radio, and internet. At its formation in 2008, the KCSC replaced an earlier body, the In ...

for a revenge storyline that the review board deemed had too many "violent" and "unethical" scenes. Soon after, MBC released a statement that the network would no longer work with screenwriter

Im Sung-han Im Sung-han (born Im Young-ran on August 24, 1960) is a South Korean television screenwriter. Her best-known dramas include ''Miss Mermaid'' and ''Dear Heaven''. Career Im Sung-han began her career writing for single-episode anthologies. Her fir ...

in future projects; Im responded by announcing her retirement.

International broadcast

References

External links

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