Beyond the Clouds (TV series)
Beyond the Clouds is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Yoon Kye-sang, Han Ji-hye and Cho Jin-woong. It aired on KBS2 from February 17 to April 14, 2014, on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
Plot
Jung Se-ro is a hardworking young man who works multiple part-time jobs while studying for the foreign civil service exam. His father is a petty criminal and a con man, and their family lives a transient life because of his deals, currently staying in Thailand.Despite wanting an honest life for himself, Se-ro's dreams are shattered on the night of a glamorous jewel exhibition opening in Bangkok. His father dies in an incident involving stolen diamonds, and because Se-ro was at the scene when another man was shot, he is accused and arrested for murder. After spending five years in a Thai prison, upon his release he takes up a new identity and becomes a con man just like his father. He joins a ring of jewel smugglers led by Park Kang-jae, with whom he shares a brotherly bond. Kang-Jae was raised like a son by Se-ro's father, who taught him all the tricks of the trade. But Kang-Jae has harbored a lifelong jealousy towards the real son, which is stoked further when the woman he loves, smuggling accomplice Seo Jae-in also falls for Se-ro.
Then Se-ro meets Han Young-won, the cold-hearted heiress to a jewelry brand. She was madly in love with her fiancé Gong Woo-jin, and had closed herself off after his death. But Se-ro draws her out into the world, while Young-won gives him a reason to live when he had all but given up. They fall in love, not knowing that the man Se-ro was accused of killing had been Young-won's fiancé. His love for her becomes his punishment, but also his salvation.
Cast
- Yoon Kye-sang as Jung Se-ro
- Han Ji-hye as Han Young-won
- Cho Jin-woong as Park Kang-jae
- * Park Joon-mok as young Kang-jae
- Kim Yoo-ri as Seo Jae-in
- Lee Dae-yeon as Jung Do-joon, Se-ro's father
- Jung Won-joong as Shin Pil-do
- Kim Young-ok as Hong Soon-ok
- Lee Jae-won as Hong
- Woo Hyun as Hama
- Kim Yoon-sung as Cha Pyo
- Song Jong-ho as Gong Woo-jin, Young-won's fiancé
- Kim Yeong-cheol as Han Tae-oh, Young-won's father
- Jeon Mi-seon as Baek Nan-joo, Young-won's stepmother
- Son Ho-jun as Han Young-joon, Young-won's half brother
- Kim Sun-kyung as Section chief Min
- Ahn Ji-hyun as Kang Han-na
- Song Young-kyu as Kang Hak-soo
- Lee Sang-hoon as Secretary Ahn
- Cho Seung-hee as Jewelry saleswoman