Casting lineup for JTBC’s The Good Bad Mother
by solstices
Ra Mi-ran, Lee Do-hyun, Ahn Eun-jin
Oh, this show is going to wring tears out of me, isn’t it? In JTBC’s upcoming drama The Good Bad Mother, Ra Mi-ran (Dr. Park’s Clinic) and Lee Do-hyun (The Glory) play a mother and son whose lives are upended by an accident.
As a single mother, Jin Young-soon (Ra Mi-ran) has to shoulder the responsibility of raising her son Choi Kang-ho (Lee Do-hyun) alone. Her humble life as a pig farm owner is a path that she absolutely refuses to let Kang-ho take, resulting in her doling out an extremely strict upbringing to her only son. In the hopes that Kang-ho won’t follow in her footsteps, Young-soon becomes a “bad mother,” determined to give him a better future.
However, Kang-ho ends up feeling stifled by his mother’s suffocating discipline. In a bid to avoid the path that Young-soon has laid out for him, he distances himself from her. Kang-ho moves to the city, becoming a cold-blooded prosecutor driven solely by success. Except an unexpected accident turns him into a young child again — it isn’t specified exactly how, but I’m expecting a liberal use of the amnesia and age regression tropes, à la My Unfamiliar Family.
Meanwhile, Ahn Eun-jin (The One and Only) plays Lee Mi-joo, Kang-ho’s longtime friend. With her thoughtful disposition and intolerance for injustice, she’s akin to his only safe harbor. In the wake of the accident, she returns to her hometown and reunites with a newly-young Kang-ho.
Rounding out the cast, we have Yoo In-soo (Alchemy of Souls) as the hopeless romantic Bang Sam-shik, Jung Woong-in (Our Blooming Youth) as the prosecutor-turned-assemblyman Oh Tae-soo, and Choi Moo-sung (Big Bet) as the chaebol chairman Song Woo-byuk.
Directed by Shim Na-yeon (Beyond Evil) with scripts written by Bae Se-young (Life is Beautiful), The Good Bad Mother is slated for an April 26 premiere.
Yoo In-soo, Jung Woong-in, Choi Moo-sung
Via YNA
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