Basketball

Details

Title: 빠스껫 볼 / Bbaseugget Bol
Genre: Period, sport, romance, action, melodrama
Episodes: 18
Broadcast network: tvN, Channel CGV, Super Action, XTM, Story On
Broadcast period: 2013-Oct-21 to 2013-Dec-17
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 22:00
Viewership ratings: peak=2.00% (AGB Nielsen Korea, tvN+Channel CGV+Super Action+XTM+Story On combined ratings)
Original Soundtrack: Basketball OST

Synopsis

A drama set in 1940s during the Japanese occupation years, it will tell about the love, conflicts, harmony, and victory that youths experience with basketball as their light and hope under Japanese colonial rule up till when the country was divided into two after gaining independence.

The story will center around Kang San who grew up poor in a tiny village and finds success through basketball; he makes it all the way to the historic 1948 Olympic team that advanced to the quarterfinal round in Korea’s first and last single national team before the peninsula divided into North and South. --Dramabeans

Highlight: Official CJENDRAMA Channel

User/Viewer Ratings

5.00

(one vote)

Cast

Kang San and People around Him

Do Ji Han as Kang San (23)
Park Soon Chun as Geum Nam (50s)
Son Bum Joon as Hwang Bok Joo (23)
Jin Kyung as Bam Shil Daek (40s)
Kim Bo Mi as Mi Sook (24)

Shin Young and People around Her

Lee Elliya as Choi Shin Young (22)
Kim Eung Soo as Choi Je Gook (40s)
Park Ye Eun as Go Bong Soon (20s)
Kim Soo Hyun as Section Chief Kim
Jang Jae Ho as Choi Tae Young

Chi Ho and People around Him

Jung Dong Hyun as Min Chi Ho (23)
Ahn Suk Hwan as Min Tae Shin (50s)
Kang Sung Min as Oh In Soo (30s)
Jung In Sun as Hong Byeo Ri (12~17)
Jang Hee Soo as Chi Ho's mother

People at Basketball Club

Gong Hyung Jin as Gong Yoon Bae (30s)
Ji Il Joo as Lee Hong Ki (22)
Kang Kyung Hun as Hong Ki's mother
Jung Seung Kyo as Bae Sung Won (20s)
Han Young Soo (한영수) as Yong Goo (30s)
Park Gun (박건) as Soo Dong (30s)
Choi Chang Gyun (최창균) as So Chil Bok (30s)

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Privy Council

Lee Han Wie as Yoon Deok Myung (50s)
Go In Bum as Byun Joon Pyo (50s)
Ha Yong Jin as Takeshi (20s)

Others

Jo Hee Bong as one man band (a guy who plays many different roles)
Yeon Min Ji as Madam Commissioner
Kim Hyuk as Kim Hyuk

Cameo Appearances

Lee Jung Jin as basketball player
Oh Ji Ho as basketball player
Kang Nam Gil as Byeo Ri's father
Ida Daussy (이다도시) as French journalist
Yun Woon Kyung
Park Kwang Jae

Production Credits

Production Company: CJ E&M
Chief Producer: Park Ho Shik (박호식)
Producers: Shin Dae Shik (신대식), Jang Jung Do
Director: Kwak Jung Hwan
Screenwriter: Kim Gwa Jang (김과장)

Note

This drama will air a documentary special to introduce its concept, settings and historical events on October 14, 2013.^[1]

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