'Lie To Me' - Korean Drama Review

Title: Lie To Me/ Try Lying to Me / Naege Geojitmaleul Haebwa / Sweet Scandal
Genre: Romance, comedy
Episodes: 16
Director: Kim Soo Ryong (Father’s House, Green Rose), Kwon Hyuk Chan (Secret Garden, Alone in Love)
Screenwriter: Kim Ye Ri
Broadcast network: SBS, Monday & Tuesday 21:55
Broadcast period: 2011-May-09


Synopsis
Gong Ah Jung gets entangled in a web of lies when she mistakenly lies that she’s married to Hyun Ki Joon, an elite CEO from an affluent family. Their relationship is further complicated when Ki Joon’s ex-fiancée and a close friend of his brother’s, Oh Yoon Joo, reappears in his life.




Character Description

Gong Ah Jung

Government official

She was like a boy when she was young. She grown up with his father without mother, she was a little dirty, strong, stubborn and brave when she a little girl.
She used to make trouble during her teenage years, but, she struggled to succeed to enter the college after one-time failed. In order to win the heart of her first love, she studied hard in the college and succeeded to pass the high-official exam. But after her success of becoming government official, she was still kicked off by her first love.
One fine day, just ahead of her thirties, she lied that she was already married on purpose to keep her pride. Suddenly, this lie causes big trouble without her intention and she falls in chaos by herself.

Hyun Ki Joon

President of World Group

Single man from high level family, has smart brain and handsome appearance.
He was born in rich family, but lost parents by accident in his childhood and was raised under strong aunt together with his younger brother. He was raised like a grown-up man from early age and he became the most sought-after young executive in Korea.
While searching a marriage partner, he involves with an absurd misunderstanding that he was married with an unknown girl. While he despises a shameless girl who is uncommon with craziness, he strangely drags into her pace.

Hyun Sang Hee

Hyun Ki Joon’s younger brother

Fun, positive and flexible man. He can make anybody as a friend in 10 minutes.
As the youngest son in family, he growns up enjoying liberty that his bother could not get. He is jobless now and involves in Ah Jung ridiculous hoax.

Oh Yoon Joo

Ex-fiancee of Hyun Ki Joon

Elementary school friend of Sang Hee.
She is like an unscratched pure pearl as she grown up in harmonious family. Though, she is warm. In one word, she makes other woman collapsed through her beauty and purity.
She is back from Paris where she spent time after breaking off engagement with Ki Joon.

Hyun Myung Jin

Ki Joon and Sang Hee’s Aunt. World-group chairman.

She is a famous executive woman in Korea. Though she is retired, she still has strong power inside the World group.
She doesn’t have her own family and she raised her nephew by herself after their parents died by accident, she loves her nephew from her heart.

Park Hoon

Ki Joon’s secretary. 

Sincere and royal to everything. He thinks himself as a right-hand man of Ki Joon, but sometimes his over-royalty makes Ki Joon tired.

Manager Park 

Manager of hotel.

Ki Joon’s friend. Cool and clear to everything. Intellectual lady.

The person who Ki Joon trusts mostly and sometimes respects in the hotel. Ki Joon’s high school friend.

Yoo So Ran

Ah Jung’s high school classmate

She’s Ah Jung’s enemy who acts like a friend who thought Ah Jung’s shortcomings would make her look better, but when Ah Jung ended up more successful, she secretly married Ah Jung’s first love, Jae Bum

Chun Jae Bum

A successful lawyer who is a protege of Ah Jung’s father and he’s Ah Jung’s partner during the days of civil service examination candidate.
He’s Ah Jung’s first love and he ends up falling in love with Ah Jung upon seeing her again after being apart for a long time.

Gong Jun Ho

Ah Jung’s father

He’s a professor of law but did not do well economically.




Main Cast
Yoon Eun Hye as Gong Ah Jung
Kang Ji Hwan as Hyun Ki Joon
Sung Joon as Hyun Sang Hee
Hong Soo Hyun as Yoo So Ran
Jo Yoon Hee as Oh Yoon Joo
Ryu Seung Soo as Chun Jae Bum
Oh Mi Hee as Hyun Myung Jin
Kwon Se In as Park Hoon
Park Ji Yoon as Manager Park
Kang Shin Il as Gong Joon Ho
Lee Kyung Jin as Shim Ae Kyung
Kwon Hae Hyo as Hwang Suk Bong
Kang Rae Yun as Rae Yeon
Song Ji Eun as Ji Eun
Kim Bo Yun as Bo Yeon
Jang Woo Young as Kim Yeon Nim
Kim Gyu Jin as Gyu Jin
Ahn Jung Hoon as Manager Ahn
Park Hyo Joon as Hyo Joon
Ja Doo as Ja Doo
Min Joon Hyun as journalist
Danny Ahn as Ki Joon’s friend (cameo)
Choi Yoon So as arranged marriage partner (cameo)

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