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starring

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, Kim Min-jun, and

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. It aired on

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from May 11 to July 14, 2011 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.

Plot

Noh Soon-geum is a spunky young woman whose mother and grandmother worked as housemaids, and due to poverty, finds herself continuing the tradition. Her life reaches a turning point when she wins the lottery, with a pot money of (). Determined to keep her irresponsible father away from her money, Soon-geum stays on at her job and keeps her newfound wealth (stashed away in boxes and boxes of cash) a secret from the residents of her ritzy neighborhood, including her maid friends and her boss's irritable, disagreeable son Kang Gun-woo, with whom she shares a past. But as Soon-geum and Gun-woo later fall in love, her secret eventually gets revealed, and greed and betrayal mount in the neighborhood, from maids and masters alike.

Cast

as Noh Soon-geum *

as Kang Gun-woo * Kim Min-jun as Kim Young-hee *

as Jung Da-kyum * Park Ji-young as Oh Hyun-joo * Lee Kyung-shil as Uhm Soo-jung * Kim Jae-in as Yoon Shi-ah *

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as Noh Sang-hoon *

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as Kang Tae-won *

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as Seo Yoon-joo * Jo Hwi-joon as Kang San *

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as Yoo Choon-jak * Kim Ye-won as Thu Zar Lin *

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as Hwang Yong *

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as Hwang Joo-won *

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as Jang Chi-gook * Shin Shin-ae as Kim Soon-ok * Kwon Ki-seon as Oh Boon-ja *

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as Choi, convenience store clerk * Heo Tae-hee as Son Jin-pyo *

Im Ye-jin Im Ki-hee (; born January 24, 1960), known professionally as Im Ye-jin (), is a South Korean actress. Affectionately called the original "Nation's Little Sister", Im debuted as a teenage actress taking on roles of the "pretty teenage student" i ...

as Soon-geum's mother * Kim Ji-young as Soon-geum's grandmother * Go In-beom as Sang-hoon's friend * Kim Yang-woo as burglar * Choi Jae-hwan as burglar

References

External links

* * * {{Seo Sook-hyang Korean Broadcasting System television dramas 2011 South Korean television series debuts 2011 South Korean television series endings Korean-language television shows South Korean romantic comedy television series Television series by CJ E&M Television shows written by Seo Sook-hyang