Graceful Friends


Graceful Friends is a South Korean television series starring Yoo Jun-sang, Song Yoon-ah, Bae Soo-bin, Han Eun-jung, Kim Sung-oh, Kim Hye-eun, Jung Suk-yong, Lee In-hye, Kim Won-hae and Kim Ji-young. It aired on JTBC from July 10 to September 5, 2020. It's available for streaming on Netflix and Disney+ in selected countries.

Synopsis

The peaceful life btw a group of friends who've known each other for 2 decades is suddenly blown up when a murder takes place.
Ahn Goong-chul has a seemingly perfect life with his beautiful wife and son. He works diligently for a food franchise company and is a loving husband and father to his family. Goong-chul's wife, Nam Jung-hae is a psychiatrist who works in a family hospital. She is intelligent and beautiful but hides a dark past from her husband. Jung-hae gets entangled in a blackmailing scheme.
Jung Jae-hoon is a divorced urologist with a wealthy family background. He lives alone and seems to have a mysterious side. He has a past connection to Nam Jung-hae, of which Ahn Goong-chul is ignorant.
Jo Hyung-woo is an adult film director who is often mockingly called the "Bong Joon-ho" of the adult film industry. His dream is to become a mainstream big budget film director but he has never had any luck in achieving his goal. He is married to Kang Kyung-ja who is a former adult film actress and now runs a luxury bar. He is very dependent on his wife's income. Kang Kyung-ja has a pro-golfer son named Kang Ji-wook.
Park Choon-bok is an insurance company worker and part-time worker at a foreign car dealership. His wife Yoo Eun-sil is a housewife and they have a daughter named Park Pu-reum. He looks comparatively older than his friends and wife, and people often mistakenly think he is his daughter's grandfather. He struggles financially but his wife is very supportive.
Cheon Man-shik is a City Hall Tax Collection Division official with a wife and a teenage daughter. He is quiet and polite and suffers from depression. He and Ahn Goong-chul were roommates in college and consider each other best friends. He has been hiding a secret from his family and friends which is revealed only after his death.
Baek Hae-sook used to be friends with the five and they all used to have a crush on her in college. For some reason, she had to drop out of college and wasn't in touch with any of them until Man-shik's funeral. She buys a restaurant near the housing society where the five friends live, and seems to have a mysterious agenda.

Cast

Main

Supporting

  • Lee Tae-hwan as Joo Kang-san
  • Kim Ji-sung as Na Ae-ra / Kang Mi-ra
  • Yeon Je-hyung as Kang Ji-wook
  • Kim Ji-young as Cheon Soo-ah
  • Park Ha-joon as Ahn Yoo-bin
  • Shim Hye-yeon as Park Pu-reum
  • Kim Seung-wook as Jo Tae-wook
  • Kim Hee-ryung as Goo Young-sun
  • Sa Kang as Do Do-hae
  • Lee Yeon-doo as Choi Mo-ran

Others

  • Lee Joo-suk as Professor Han Eung-shik
  • Jang Hee-soo as Oh Soon-jung, chairwoman of the hospital Nam Jung-hae works in.
  • Kim Ga-hwa as Geum Ha-na, Jung Jae-hoon's colleague.
  • Um Chae-young as Moon Ga-yeon, Ahn Yoo-bin's friend.
  • Kim Dong-ho as Seo Joo-won, Joo Kang-san's friend.
  • Kim Tae-young as Professor Park Do-hoon
  • Sung Byung-sook as Ahn Goong-chul's mother.
  • Kwon Hyuk as Ahn Goong-cheol
  • Jeon Eun-mi
  • Yoo Gun
  • Kang Nam-gil
  • Lee Geung-young
  • Kim Jun-hyun as himself, Goong-chul's friend and brand ambassador of the chicken franchise where he works.

Production

On January 18, 2020, it was reported that JTBC picked up the series which had already wrapped up filming.

International broadcast

The series is available on iQIYI with multi-languages subtitles in South East Asia and Taiwan.
The series is also being aired on K-Plus beginning February 27, 2021.
It is available to stream on Netflix and Disney+ in selected markets.