Missing 9


Missing 9 is a South Korean television series starring Baek Jin-hee and Jung Kyung-ho. It aired on MBC from January 18 to March 9, 2017, on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 22:00 for 16 episodes.
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Synopsis

During a flight to China, a plane carrying 47 people crashes into an island. Only 12 make it out alive, seven of whom are South Korea's most famous celebrities. Stylist Ra Bong Hee, Former Dreamers leader Seo Joon-oh, fellow members Tae-oh and Lee Yeol, Famous singer and actress Ha Ji-ah. Other famous actress Yoon so-hee, Ji-ah's manager Jung Ki-joon, president of Legend Entertainment Hwang Jae-guk, Secretary Tae-ho hang, famous reporter Kim Ki-hwan, and pilots Park seo Tae and Nam Soo Cheol. However, after four months, only Bong-hee survives. However, she discovers that six other survivors survived. Tae-oh, Joon-oh, Ji-ah, Ki-joon, Jae-guk, and Ho-hang have successfully survived the ordeal, and are deemed international celebrities due to the ordeal. However they discover that five of them, Lee Yeol, So-hee, Soo-cheol, Seo-tae, and Ki-hwan, were mysteriously murdered by an unknown assailant, and they struggle to find out who in their group murdered the five.

Cast

Main Survivors

Supporting

The Other Survivors

The Dead

  • Park Chanyeol as Lee Yeol
  • Ryu Won as Yoon So-hee
  • as Kim Ki-hwan, One of Korea's most famous reporters who seems to have a good memory and knows events that are crucial to Korea's history. he stalked down one of the celebrities to the plane, but ends up on the island. He manages to get a boat to come to the island, but is murdered afterwards by Tae-ho. He's the only celebrity to not be part of Legend
  • Park Seok-tae, Captain of the plane. Survived the plane crash but was severely injured and murdered for the supplies he had in his possession.
  • Nam Soo-cheol, first officer of the plane. Survived the plane crash and found a lifeboat which would give the survivors a chance to sail out for help. Died after attempting to row the boat out in the sea during a storm.

People related to the Missing 9

Legend Entertainment

  • as Jang Do-pal
  • as Shin Jae-hyun

Others

Special appearance

Production

The early working name of the drama was Gaia, then changed to Picnic, and then Missing 9. The writer's position had multiple changes from Song Ji-na to Kim Ban-di, then Han Jung-hoon and eventually, Son Hwang-won. Kang Ha-neul was first offered the male lead role but declined due to scheduling conflicts. Kwon Yuri, Lee Hye-ri and Jung Yu-mi were all offered the female lead roles, but also declined.
Filming took place in September, 2016, when the lead roles were not confirmed. First table script reading took place on October 14, 2016, at MBC Broadcasting Station in Sangam, Seoul, South Korea.

Ratings

  • In the table below, represent the lowest ratings and represent the highest ratings.NR denotes that the drama did not rank in the top 20 daily programs on that date.N/A denotes that the rating is not known.

International broadcast

The drama started airing in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong on Oh!K every Thursday and Friday at 19:50 from January 19, 2017, to March 10, 2017.
In Thailand, the drama started airing from May 13, 2017, to June 18, 2017, on Channel 7 every Saturday and Sunday at 09:45.
"Missing 9" started airing in Japan on WOWOW every Sunday at 21:00 from June 4, 2017.