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| Creator: | JTBC | ||
| Director: | Song Hyun-wook | ||
| Music: | Um Ki-yeop | ||
| Country: | South Korea | ||
| Language: | Korean | ||
| Num Episodes: | 17 | ||
| Executive Producer: | Ham Young-hoon | ||
| Runtime: | 70 minutes | ||
| Network: | JTBC |
Graceful Friends is a South Korean television series starring Yoo Jun-sang, Song Yoon-ah, Bae Soo-bin, Han Eun-jung, Kim Sung-oh, Kim Hye-eun, Jung Suk-yong, Lee In-hye, Kim Won-hae and Kim Ji-young. It aired on JTBC from July 10 to September 5, 2020.[1] It's available for streaming on Netflix and Disney+ in selected countries.[2] [3]
The peaceful life of a group of friends who have known each other for 20 years is suddenly broken 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 (Bae Soo-bin) 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 (Kim Sung-oh) 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 (Kim Hye-eun) 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 (Kim Won-hae) 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 (Han Eun-jung) 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.
A professional golf instructor who cons people to extract money for his gambling addiction.
An adult film actress who is blackmailed by Joo Kang-san to help him scam people.
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.
Man-shik and Myung-sook's teenage daughter who studies in Canada.
Goong-chul and Jung-hae's son.
Choon-bok and Eun-sil's daughter, she has an innocent crush on Ahn Yoo-bin.
Detective working on the murder case who also were in charge of Professor Park's murder case.
An Alzheimer patient whom Man-sik took care of. She is the wife of Professor Park Do-hoon.
She is the caregiver of Goo Young-sun and liked Cheon Man-shik.
Jung Jae-hoon's ex-wife. She moved to America after their divorce and returned with a changed appearance.
On January 18, 2020, it was reported that JTBC picked up the series which had already wrapped up filming.[4]
| + Average TV viewership ratings | ||||||
| Original broadcast date | Title | Average audience share (Nielsen Korea)[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationwide | ||||||
| 1 | July 10, 2020 | Confession | 3.197% | 4.061% | ||
| 2 | July 11, 2020 | That Woman | ||||
| 3 | July 17, 2020 | Inappropriate Relationship | 4.126% | 5.176% | ||
| 4 | July 18, 2020 | A Secret More Horrifying Than Death | 3.732% | 4.316% | ||
| 5 | July 24, 2020 | Confessions | 4.553% | 5.417% | ||
| 6 | July 25, 2020 | Lie | 4.429% | 5.192% | ||
| 7 | July 31, 2020 | First Love | 4.320% | 4.904% | ||
| 8 | August 1, 2020 | The Beginning of a Crack | 4.333% | 4.872% | ||
| 9 | August 7, 2020 | Pandora's Box | 4.441% | 4.959% | ||
| 10 | August 8, 2020 | After The Play Is Over | 4.711% | 5.549% | ||
| 11 | August 14, 2020 | Perfect Strangers | 4.005% | 5.060% | ||
| 12 | August 15, 2020 | Truth Behind the Incident 1 | 4.454% | 5.328% | ||
| 13 | August 21, 2020 | Things You Cannot Undo | 3.953% | 5.358% | ||
| 14 | August 22, 2020 | The Man Who Knelt | 4.737% | 5.578% | ||
| 15 | August 29, 2020 | A Dramatic Twist | 4.865% | 5.834% | ||
| 16 | September 4, 2020 | In The Mood For Love - Most Brilliant Times | 4.785% | 5.898% | ||
| 17 | September 5, 2020 | The Truth Behind The Case 2 | ||||
| Average | ||||||
The series is available on iQIYI with multi-languages subtitles in South East Asia and Taiwan.
The series is also being aired on K-Plus beginning February 27, 2021.
It is available to stream on Netflix and Disney+ in selected markets.