East of Eden

Title: 에덴의 동쪽 / East of Eden

Chinese title : 伊甸园东

Genre: Action, romance

Episodes: 56

Broadcast network: MBC

Broadcast period: 2008-Aug-25 to 2009-March-10

Air time: Mondays & Tuesdays 21:55 (9:55 Korean time)

Synopsis

The drama will be about two men whose fates are crossed from the very first day that they were born. Both men were born in the same hospital. When he was a teenager, Lee Dong Chul witnessed the death of his father. From then on he promised to seek revenge on the man who caused his father’s death, Shin Tae Hwan. But unbeknownst to everybody is the fact that Dong Chul’s younger brother, Dong Wook, was switched at birth with Tae Hwan’s son, Myung Hun. Dong Wook grows up to become a prosecutor and vows to help his brother seek revenge. But what happens when they find out that they’re not brothers? What will Dong Chul do when he finds out that his real brother was raised by Shin Tae Hwan and that the brother that was beside him all these years is the son of his enemy?

Cast

Song Seung Hun as Lee Dong Chul

Yun Jung Hoon as Lee Dong Wook

Park Hae Jin as Shin Myung Hun

Lee Da Hae as Min Hye Rin

Lee Yeon Hee as Gook Young Ran / Grace

Han Ji Hye as Kim Ji Hyun

Dennis Oh as Mike

Extended Cast

Shin Dong Woo as young Dong Chul (5 years old)

Kim Bum as young Dong Chul (15 years old)

Park Gun Tae as young Dong Wook (10 years old)

Won Duk Hyun as young Myung Hun (10 years old)

Nam Ji Hyun as young Ji Hyun (10 years old)

Jo Min Ki as Shin Tae Hwan (Myung Hun’s father)

Lee Mi Sook as Yang Chun Hee (Dong Chul and Dong Wook’s mother)

Lee Jong Won as Lee Gi Chul (Dong Chul and Dong Wook’s father)

Jun Mi Sun as Jung Ja (Gi Soon’s mother)

Park Hyun Sook as Ok Hee

Jun So Min as Gi Soon

Jin Ji Hee as young Gi Soon (9 years old)

Kim Sung Kyum as President Oh

Na Hyun Hee as Oh Yoon Hee

Lee Won Jae as Kyung Tae

Yoo Dong Geun as President Gook / Gook Dae Hwa (Young Ran’s father)

Shim Hye Jin as Young Ran’s mother

Yoon Dong Hwan as lawyer Kim Tae Seon

Jung Hye Young as Janice / Jae Hee

Shin Eun Jung as Yoo Mi Ae / Rebecca

Jun Sung Hwan as stationmaster Kim Gab Soo (Ji Hyun’s grandfather)

Lee Suk Joon as Father Han

Kim Hyung Min as Wang Geon

Lee Sang Hoon as Dok Sa

Kwon Se In as young Dok Sa (10 years old)

Park Chan Hwan as Chaeng

Park Geun Hyung as President Min (Hye Rin’s father)

Jung Young Sook as Bae Hwa Mi (Mr. Min’s wife)

Jung So Young as Min Hye Ryung (Hye Rin’s sister)

Park Sung Woong as Park Sung Hyun

Jung Yoon Suk as Yeon Sub

Production Credits

Production Company: Chorokbaem Media

Producer: Kim Jin Man, Choi Byung Gil (최병길)

Screenwriter: Na Yun Sook, Lee Hong Ku

Director: So Won Young (소원영)

Awards

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Grand Prize (Song Seung Hun)

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Female Top Excellence Award (Lee Mi Sook)

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Male Excellence Award (Jo Min Ki)

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Female Excellence Award (Han Ji Hye)

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Male Newcomer Award (Park Hae Jin)

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Female Newcomer Award (Lee Yeon Hee)

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Golden Acting Award (Park Geun Hyung)

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Golden Acting Award (Yoo Dong Geun}

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Golden Acting Award (Shin Eun Jung)

2008 MBC Drama Awards: PD Award (Yun Jung Hoon)

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Special Child Actor Award (Park Gun Tae, Shin Dong Woo, & Nam Ji Hyun)

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Best Couple Award (Song Seung Hun & Lee Yeon Hee)

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Popular Actor Award (Song Seung Hun)

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Popular Actress Award Lee Yeon Hee)

2008 MBC Drama Awards: Writer of the Year Award (Na Yun Sook)