Strong Girl Bong-soon
Strong Girl Bong-soon is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Park Bo-young in the title role as a woman with superhuman strength, with Park Hyung-sik and Ji Soo. It aired on JTBC from February 24 to April 15, 2017.
The series received audience acclaim, with its final episode recording 8.96% in nationwide ratings, becoming the "highest viewership rating among JTBC dramas" at that point of time.
Synopsis
Do Bong-soon was born with superhuman strength. Her strength is hereditary and passed along only to the women in her family. She dreams of creating a video game with herself as the main character. She desperately wants to become a delicate and elegant woman, which is the ideal type of her crush, In Guk-doo, a police officer who is also her childhood friend. Thanks to her strength, she gets a job as a bodyguard to rich heir Ahn Min-hyuk, the CEO of a gaming company, Ainsoft.A series of kidnapping cases happen in Dobong-dong, the district Bong-soon lives in, and she is determined to catch the culprit who targeted her best friend. With help and training from Min-hyuk, she manages to control her strength to use it for good causes. Min-hyuk and Bong-soon find their relationship growing into something more. Their relationship at work and in pursuit of the kidnapper creates comical and dangerous situations, which bring them closer.
Cast
Main
- Park Bo-young as Do Bong-soon
- * Shin Bi as young Do Bong-soon
- Park Hyung-sik as Ahn Min-hyuk
- * Choi Seung-hoon as young Ahn Min-hyuk
- Ji Soo as In Guk-doo
- * Choi Min-young as young In Guk-doo
Supporting
People around Do Bong-soon
- Ahn Woo-yeon as Do Bong-ki
- * Lee Hyo-dan as young Do Bong-ki
- Shim Hye-jin as Hwang Jin-yi
- Yoo Jae-myung as Do Chil-goo
- Park Bo-mi as Na Kyung-shim
- Baek Soo-ryun as Lady Soon-shim
- Kim Mi-hee as Myung-soo's mother
- Kim Soo-yeon as Jae-soon's mother
People around Ahn Min-hyuk
- Jeon Seok-ho as Secretary Gong
- Han Jung-kook as Ahn Chul-do
- Kim Sung-bum as Ahn Dong-ha
- Shim Hoon-gi as Ahn Dong-suk
- Lee Se-wook as Ahn Kyung-hwan
People around In Guk-doo
- Seol In-ah as Jo Hee-ji
- Yoon Ye-hee as Jung Mi-hwa
People at Baek Tak Party
- Im Won-hee as Baek Soo-tak
- Kim Min-kyo as Ahgari
- Kim Won-hae as Kim Kwang-bok
- Kim Ki-moo as Hwang Hyun-dong
- Lee Ho-cheol
Do Bong Police Station Criminal Team 3
- Choi Moo-in as Team Leader Yook
- Oh Soon-tae as Bulgom
- Joo Ho as Neokboi
- Choi Hyung as Heollaengyi
- Kim Won-suk as Dotbogi
Ainsoft Employee
- Kim Won-hae as Oh Dol-ppyeo
Extended
- Jang Mi-kwan as Kim Jang-hyun
- Son Hyo-eun as Jung Hyang-sook
- Choi Hyun-seo as Kim Ji-won
- Choi Young-shin as Lee Joo-young
- Min Ji-hyun as Pharmacist
- Kim Hyun-mok as Bullied student
- Kim Young-choon as Il Jin
- Yoo In-soo as Kang Goo
- Choi Won-myeong as Jang Kyung-tae
- Hong Ye-ri as Ho Soon-yi
- Kim Tae-soo as Oh Hyun-joong
- Lee Ho-chul as Team Leader Jo
- Hapkie as Member of Baek Tak Party
- Kim Won-jun as Subway Molester
- Lee Jung-kwi as a High school boy bullied by Il Jin's gang
- Jun Byung-chul as Lee Woo-jin
Special appearances
- Kang Ji-young as JTVC announcer
- as Fortuneteller
- Song Won-geun as Song Won-geun, Theatre actor
- Yoon Sang-hyun as Charles Go
- as Voice Phishing specialist
- as Voice Phishing specialist
- Jang Sung-kyu as JTVC announcer
- Kwon Hyuk-soo as fake Indian Monk Nizamuddin / Jo Dal-bong
- Lee Sang as the Ainsoft Receptionist
- Clara Lee as Lee Bong-soon, Dental Hygienist
Production
The drama was written by Baek Mi-kyung, who previously wrote Beloved Eun-dong and directed by Lee Hyung-min of Ms. Temper and Nam Jung-gi. Filming started in October 2016 and finished on April 11, 2017.The drama served as a reunion between Park Hyung-sik and Yoo Jae-myung, who previously worked together in the KBS2 drama Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth, as well as Kim Won-hae.
Original soundtrack
Charted songs
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Sales | Remarks |
| Title | Year | KOR | Sales | Remarks |
| "How Would It Be" | 2017 | 93 |
| Part 3 |
| "Double Trouble Couple" | 2017 | 46 | Part 5 | |
| "I Fall in Love" | 2017 | 99 | Part 6 | |
| "Because of You" | 2017 | 85 | Part 8 |