Encounter
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- Title: 남자친구 / Namjachingu
- Also known as: Boyfriend
- Genre: Melodrama, romance
- Episodes: 16
- Broadcast network: tvN
- Broadcast period: 2018-Nov-28 to 2019-Jan-24
- Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:30
- Original Soundtrack: Encounter OST
Synopsis
Kim Jin Hyuk (Park Bo Gum) is a young man who finds it difficult to get and keep a stable job and does all sorts of part-time jobs in order to survive. All the companies for which he wants to work reject him, although he doesn't worry about that since on a trip he makes abroad he meets a woman who immediately catches his attention.
The woman's name is Cha Soo Hyun (Song Hye Kyo) the daughter of an influential politician, she hasn't had a happy life at all. She has never acted or decided for herself, after graduating from college she married the son of an important and influential family, a marriage of convenience that was extremely beneficial to her father to strengthen himself in his political career. She suffered a lot in her marriage, and never felt true love and after having a child she decides to divorce, and later decides to travel abroad to find herself and get away from those who controlled her in each of her actions, and decisions over the course of almost her entire life.
Both will meet and inevitably fall in love, but it will depend on the two of them to love each other at the expense of what others say about the difference in social classes between them and also their respective ages.
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Cast
- Main Cast
- Song Hye Kyo as Cha Soo Hyun
- Park Bo Gum as Kim Jin Hyuk
- Jang Seung Jo as Jung Woo Suk
- People around Soo Hyun
- Moon Sung Geun as Cha Jong Hyun (father)
- Nam Ki Ae as Jin Mi Ok (mother)
- Go Chang Suk as Nam Myung Shik (driver/friend)
- Kwak Sun Young as Jang Mi Jin (secretary/friend)
- People around Jin Hyuk
- Shin Jung Geun as Kim Jang Soo (father)
- Baek Ji Won as Joo Yun Ja (mother)
- P.O as Kim Jin Myung (younger brother)
- Jun So Ni as Jo Hye In
- Kim Joo Hun as Lee Dae Chan (Chan's Moon Snails)
- Donghwa Hotel
- Kim Hye Eun as Kim Sun Joo (PR team manager)
- Kim Ho Chang as Lee Jin Ho (PR team assistant manager)
- Jun So Ni as Joo Hey In (PR team)
- Lee Shi Hoon as Park Han Gil (PR team)
- Park Jin Joo as Goo Eun Jin
- Park Sung Geun as Choi Jin Chul
- Others
- Cha Hwa Yun as Jung Woo Suk's mother (Taegyeong Group CEO)
- Jang Hee Ryung as Soo Ah (Woo Suk's girlfriend)
- Gil Hae Yun as Teacher Lee (Tea house)
- Shin Soo Yun as Ji Woo (Sun Joo's daughter)
- Extended cast
- Joo Ah Yun as part-time worker
- Hong Seo Jun as Mr. Yung (attorney, ep 7)
- Park So Yi as Girl Who Lost her Toy (ep 9)
- Song Yoo Hyun (송유현) as Mother of Lost Toy Girl (ep 9)
Production Credits
- Production Companies: Studio Dragon, Bon Factory (본팩토리)
- Director: Park Shin Woo
- Screenwriter: Yoo Young Ah (유영아)
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