Healer (TV series)
Healer is a 2014–2015 South Korean television series starring Ji Chang-wook, Park Min-young, and Yoo Ji-tae. It aired on KBS2 from December 8, 2014 to February 10, 2015 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 22:00 for 20 episodes.
Though the drama received modest ratings in its home country, it gained a fanbase overseas and made Ji Chang-wook known outside Korea.
Synopsis
A decades-old incident involving a group of five friends who ran an illegal pro-democracy broadcasting station during the Fifth Republic in South Korea brings together three different people—an illegal "night courier" with the codename "Healer" who possesses top-notch fighting skills, a reporter from a second-rate tabloid news website, and a famous journalist at a major broadcast station. While trying to uncover the truth from that 1992 incident and a series of present day murders, they grow into honest reporters who try to blur the lines of conflict between truth and reality, even if that means fighting media honchos.Cast
Main
- Ji Chang-wook as Seo Jung-hoo / Park Bong-soo / Healer
- * Park Si-jin as young Jung-hoo
- * Go Woo-rim as child Jung-hoo
- * Choi Jung-hu as toddler Jung-hoo
- Park Min-young as Chae Young-shin / Oh Ji-an
- * Kim So-yeon] as young Young-shin
- * Shin Soo-yeon as 10-year-old Ji-an
- * Park Ji-so as 8-year-old Ji-an
- * Ku Geon-min as 5-year-old Ji-an
- Yoo Ji-tae as Kim Moon-ho
- * Kim Seung-chan as young Moon-ho
- * Lee Woo-joo as child Moon-ho
Supporting
- Kim Mi-kyung as Jo Min-ja, Hacker Ahjumma, a former detective specializing in cyber crimes.
- Oh Kwang-rok as Ki Young-jae, Jung-hoo's teacher, one of five friends from the past.
- * Choi Dong-gu as young Young-jae, Motorcycle rider and distractor during the illegal radio broadcasts.
- Taemi as Kang Dae-yong, "Healer's" assistant.
- Ji Il-joo as Seo Joon-seok, Jung-hoo's father, an engineer of the illegal radio station and later a photographer working with Oh Gil-han.
- Lee Kyung-shim as Jung-hoo's mother
- * Song Ji-in as young Jung-hoo's mother
- Park Sang-myun as Chae Chi-soo, Young-shin's adoptive father, a lawyer specializing in defending clients accused of burglary who also runs a café where he has employed many of his former clients.
- Woo Hyun as Chul-min, a former convict and one of Chae Chi-soo's clients who now works at the café.
- Park Won-sang as Jang Byung-se, head of "Someday News", an internet tabloid news site where Chae Young-shin works.
- Choi Seung-kyung as Yeo Gi-ja, "Reporter Yeo" at "Someday News".
- Park Sang-won as Kim Moon-sik, one of the initial five friends, now a highly successful CEO of a news agency.
- * Son Seung-won as young Moon-sik, driver of the truck from which the five friends ran their illegal radio station.
- Do Ji-won as Choi Myung-hee, Young-shin's biological mother, living in the present with Kim Moon-sik and using a wheelchair.
- * Jung Hye-in as young Myung-hee, one of the lead reporters in the illegal radio station.
- Woo Hee-jin as Kang Min-jae, news director at "ABS News", where Kim Moon-ho works at the start of the story and also his love interest.
- Jang Sung-beom as Lee Jong-soo, Kim Moon-ho's assistant.
- Park Sang-wook as Bae Sang-soo, head of a rival "night courier" agency.
- Hong Seung-jin as Yo-yo, employed by Bae Sang-soo.
- Jo Han-chul as Yoon Dong-won, a detective specializing in cyber crimes, formerly Jo Min-ja's hoobae.
- Oh Jong-hyuk as Oh Gil-han, Young-shin's biological father, one of the lead reporters in the illegal radio station and a regular reporter after the fall of the Fifth Republic.
- Jung Gyu-soo as Oh Tae-won, Moon-sik's secretary and agent of "The Elder".
- Kim Ri-na as Joo Yeon-hee, an actress who turns to Chae Young-shin and her father for help.
- Choi Jong-won as Park Jung-dae, "The Elder", a shadowy figure operating behind the scenes and the CEO of Omega Holdings formerly known as Omega Venture Capital.
- Lee Moon-sik as Go Sung-chul
- Nam Hee-seok
- Jeon Hye-bin as Kim Jae-yoon
- Jung Hae-kyun as Hwang Jae-gook
- Choi Jung-won as Lee Jun-bin