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and Kim Ji-young. It aired on

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Synopsis

The peaceful life btw a group of friends who've known each other for 2 decades is suddenly blown up when a murder takes place. Ahn Goong-chul ( Yoo Jun-sang) has a seemingly perfect life with his beautiful wife and son. He works diligently for a food franchise company and is a loving husband and father to his family. Goong-chul's wife, Nam Jung-hae ( Song Yoon-ah) is a psychiatrist who works in a family hospital. She is intelligent and beautiful but hides a dark past from her husband. Jung-hae gets entangled in a blackmailing scheme. Jung Jae-hoon (

) is a divorced urologist with a wealthy family background. He lives alone and seems to have a mysterious side. He has a past connection to Nam Jung-hae, of which Ahn Goong-chul is ignorant. Jo Hyung-woo (

) is an adult film director who is often mockingly called the "Bong Joon-ho" of the adult film industry. His dream is to become a mainstream big budget film director but he has never had any luck in achieving his goal. He is married to Kang Kyung-ja (

) who is a former adult film actress and now runs a luxury bar. He is very dependent on his wife's income. Kang Kyung-ja has a pro-golfer son named Kang Ji-wook. Park Choon-bok (Jung Suk-yong) is an insurance company worker and part-time worker at a foreign car dealership. His wife Yoo Eun-sil ( Lee In-hye) is a housewife and they have a daughter named Park Pu-reum. He looks comparatively older than his friends and wife, and people often mistakenly think he is his daughter's grandfather. He struggles financially but his wife is very supportive. Cheon Man-shik (

) is a City Hall Tax Collection Division official with a wife and a teenage daughter. He is quiet and polite and suffers from depression. He and Ahn Goong-chul were roommates in college and consider each other best friends. He has been hiding a secret from his family and friends which is revealed only after his death. Baek Hae-sook (

) used to be friends with the five and they all used to have a crush on her in college. For some reason, she had to drop out of college and wasn't in touch with any of them until Man-shik's funeral. She buys a restaurant near the housing society where the five friends live, and seems to have a mysterious agenda.

Cast

Main

* Yoo Jun-sang as Ahn Goong-chul ** Kwon Hyuk as young Ahn Goong-chul * Song Yoon-ah as Nam Jung-hae ** Joo Da-young as young Nam Jung-hae *

as Jung Jae-hoon ** Han Min as young Jung Jae-hoon *

as Baek Hae-sook ** Choi Soo-jung as young Baek Hae-sook *

as Jo Hyung-woo ** Choi Dae-han as young Jo Hyung-woo *

as Kang Kyung-ja * Jung Suk-yong as Park Choon-bok * Lee In-hye as Yoo Eun-sil *

as Cheon Man-shik ** Park Sung-joon as young Cheon Man-shik * Kim Ji-young as Ji Myung-sook

Supporting

* Lee Tae-hwan as Joo Kang-san : A professional golf instructor who cons people to extract money for his gambling addiction. * Kim Ji-sung as Na Ae-ra / Kang Mi-ra : An adult film actress who is blackmailed by Joo Kang-san to help him scam people. * Yeon Je-hyung as Kang Ji-wook : Kang Kyung-ja's son and Jo Hyung-woo's stepson, he is a pro golfer. Like his stepfather, he also was Kang-san's blackmail victim. * Kim Ji-young as Cheon Soo-ah : Man-shik and Myung-sook's teenage daughter who studies in Canada. * Park Ha-joon as Ahn Yoo-bin : Goong-chul and Jung-hae's son. * Shim Hye-yeon as Park Pu-reum : Choon-bok and Eun-sil's daughter, she has an innocent crush on Ahn Yoo-bin. * Kim Seung-wook as Jo Tae-wook : Detective working on the murder case who also were in charge of Professor Park's murder case. * Kim Hee-ryung as Goo Young-sun : An Alzheimer patient whom Man-sik took care of. She is the wife of Professor Park Do-hoon. * Sa Kang as Do Do-hae : She is the caregiver of Goo Young-sun and liked Cheon Man-shik. *

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as Choi Mo-ran : Jung Jae-hoon's ex-wife. She moved to America after their divorce and returned with a changed appearance.

Others

* Lee Joo-suk as Professor Han Eung-shik * Jang Hee-soo as Oh Soon-jung, chairwoman of the hospital Nam Jung-hae works in. * Kim Ga-hwa as Geum Ha-na, Jung Jae-hoon's colleague. * Um Chae-young as Moon Ga-yeon, Ahn Yoo-bin's friend. * Kim Dong-ho as Seo Joo-won, Joo Kang-san's friend. * Kim Tae-young as Professor Park Do-hoon * Sung Byung-sook as Ahn Goong-chul's mother. * Kwon Hyuk as Ahn Goong-cheol * Jeon Eun-mi *

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* Kim Jun-hyun as himself, Goong-chul's friend and brand ambassador of the chicken franchise where he works.

Production

On January 18, 2020, it was reported that

picked up the series which had already wrapped up filming.

Viewership

International broadcast

The series is available on

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with multi-languages subtitles in South East Asia and Taiwan. The series is also being aired on

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beginning February 27, 2021. It is available to stream on

and

in selected markets.

References

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