Smile, Dong Hae

Title: 웃어라 동해야 / Useora Donghaeya / Smile, Dong Hae

Chinese Title : 笑吧东海

Genre: Family

Episodes: 100+

Broadcast network: KBS1

Broadcast period: 2010-Oct-04 to 2011

Air time: Monday to Friday 20:25

Synopsis

Dong Hae was raised in America by his beautiful but unmarried and mentally deficient mother, Anna Laker, who was adopted there. He goes to Korea for a short-track skating competition and brings his mother along in secret, arranging for her to be picked up at the airport by his girlfriend, Yoon Sae Wa, an ambitious TV announcer who harbours a secret disdain for Anna’s disability. Dong Hae meets Bong Yi, a poor assistant chef, when Sae Wa prioritizes her job and sends her to meet Anna instead. After Sae Wa later betrays him, Dong Hae begins to search for his father, creating a new family and finding new romance along the way.

Cast

Ji Chang Wook as Dong Hae / Karl Laker

Do Ji Won as Anna Laker (Dong Hae’s mother)

Lee family

Im Chae Moo as Lee Kang Jae

Lee Bo Hee as Gye Sun Ok

Alex as Lee Tae Hoon

Oh Ji Eun as Lee Bong Yi

Kim Yoo Suk as Lee Pil Jae

?? as Lee Song Yi (Pil Jae’s daughter)

Kim family

Kang Suk Woo as Kim Joon

Jung Ae Ri as Hong Hye Sook

Lee Jang Woo as Kim Do Jin

Yoon family

Park Hae Mi as Byun Sool Nyeo

Park Jung Ah as Yoon Sae Wa

Lee Joo Yeon as Yoon Sae Young

Other people

Kim Sung Won as Jo Pil Yong (Anna’s birth father)

Jung Young Sook as Kim Mal Sun (Anna’s birth mother)

Kim Sung Hoon as policeman

Shin Dong Yub (신동엽) as hotel restaurant kitchen assistant (cameo)

Yoon Jong Shin (윤종신)as hotel restaurant kitchen assistant (cameo)

Production Credits

Producer: Moon Bo Hyun

Director: Kim Myung Wook, Mo Wan Il (모완일)

Screenwriter: Moon Eun Ah

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