Man in a Veil explained

Network:	KBS2
Camera:	Single-camera
Company:	Celltrion Entertainment
Producer:	Park Jae sam Choi Jeong-eun
Related:	Woman in a Veil
Executive Producer:	Moon Joon-ha KBS Media
Native Name:	Hangul: 비밀의 남자 Hanja: 秘密의 男子 Rr: Bimir-ui Namja Lk: Secret Man
Creator:	KBS Drama Production
Director:	Shin Chang-seok
Music:	Choi Chul-ho
Opentheme:	"Secret Man" by Choi Chul-ho and Lee So-ri
Country:	South Korea
Language:	Korean
Num Episodes:	105
Runtime:	40 minutes

Man in a Veil is a South Korean television series starring Kang Eun-tak and Uhm Hyun-kyung. The series aired on KBS2 from 7 September 2020 to 10 February 2021.

It was supposed to start on 31 August 2020, but was postponed for a week due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1]

Synopsis

This drama tells the story of a man with seven-year-old intelligence after an accident, the love and desires of two women surrounding him, and those facing dreamlike miracles on the threshold of death.

Lee Tae Poong (Kang Eun Tak) has the intelligence level of a seven-year-old after an accident. Meanwhile, Han Yoo Jung (Uhm Hyun Kyung) is a person with a happy personality who dreams of becoming an announcer. But because her family is poor she has to let go of her dream and start working to provide for her family. She also deals with the guilt of her twin sister’s wrongdoings.

Cast

Main

• Kang Eun-tak as Lee Taepung / Yoo Min-hyuk^[2]
  • Jo Yong-jin as young Lee Tae-poong
• Uhm Hyun-kyung as Han Yujeong^[3]
  • Kim Da-in as young Han Yoo-jung
• Lee Chae-young as Han Yura
  • Yoon Seo-jin as young Han Yoo-ra
• Lee Shi-kang as Cha Seojun
  • Choi Yoon-woo as young Cha Seo-joon

Supporting

Lee Tae-poong's family

• Yang Mi-kyung as Lee Kyung-hye^[4]
• Lee Il-hwa as Yoon Soo-hui / Seo Ji-sook
• Chae Bin as Kang Ye-jin
• Lee Myung-ho as Kang Sang-tae

Han Yoo-jung and Han Yoo-ra's family

• Choi Jae-sung as Han Dae-chul
• Kim Eun-soo as Yeo Sook-ja
• Jang Tae-hun as Han Yoo-myung
  • Ian Cho as young Yoo-myung
• Seo Woo-jin as Han Dong-ho / Lee Min-woo
• Bae Do-hwan as Yeo Bong-joon

Cha Seo-joon's family

• Hong Il-kwon as Cha Woo-seok
• Kim Hee-jung as Joo Hwa-yeon
• Kim Yoon-kyung as Cha Mi-ri
• Lee Jeong-yong as Koo Chun-soo

Others

• Kim Jong-don as Baek Min-won
• Choi Ji-young as Eom Hae-soo
• Na Woo-ho as Song Jin-ho
• Song Seung-ha as Yoo-ra's fellow announcer #1
• Kim Ga-ran as Yoo-ra's fellow announcer #2
• Baek Jae-jin as private detective hired by Yoo-ra
• Lee Chae-hyun as Kim Min-joon
• Yoo Yong as Detective Lee Hyuk-jae
• Kim Kyung-min as Park Tae-soo
• Choi Min-geum as Sook-ja's aunt
• Hong Seung-bum as Lawyer Min
• Yoon Duk-yong as Kim Bong-wan
• Na Suk-min as man who guarded Woo-seok's hospital room
• Lee Seong-jae as Woo-seok's doctor

Special appearances

• Eru as Choi Joon-seok (Ep. 1-10, 15-16, 72-75, 102-105)
• Lee Jin-woo as Kang Sang-hyeon (Ep. 1-16)
• Hong Seok-cheon as Radio PD who helps Yoo-ra (Ep. 1)
• Yun Da-yeong as Park Na-yeong (Ep. 1-2, 8, 29-30, 53-55)
• Park Hyeon-jeong as Mi Ah-jeong (Ep. 1-3)
• Kim Hyun-sook as Na-yeong's mother (Ep. 2, 8)
• Lee Joo-eun as Song Ji-yeon (Ep. 3-4)
• Kim Do-kyeong as Driver Kim / Choi Ji-seok (Ep. 8-12)
• Romina as foreign woman in the hospital (Ep. 20)
• Ryu Ji-kwang as DL Group model (Ep. 74)
• Lee Sang-joon as a delivery man (Ep. 99)

Original soundtrack

Man in a Veil (Original Television Soundtrack)
Type:	Soundtrack
Artist:	various artists
Recorded:	2020–2021
Language:	Korean
Label:	Leon Korea

The following is the official track list of Man in a Veil (Original Television Soundtrack) album. The tracks with no indicated lyricists and composers are the drama's musical score; the artists indicated for these tracks are the tracks' composers themselves.^{[5] [6]} Singles included on the album were released from September 17, 2020, to December 10, 2020.^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

Viewership

The last episode had more than 3 million views nationwide (3,502,000) and 1,789,000 in the capital, Seoul.^[11]

• In this table, represent the lowest ratings and represent the highest ratings.
• N/A denotes that the rating is not known.

2020
	Original broadcast date	TNmS	Nielsen Korea^[12]
		Nationwide	Nationwide	Seoul
1	7 September	14.0%	10.4%	9.3%
2	8 September	12.9%	11.1%	10.7%
3	9 September	14.0%	11.4%	9.8%
4	10 September	13.8%	10.7%	9.3%
5	11 September	13.9%	11.4%	10.1%
6	14 September	14.1%	11.0%	9.7%
7	15 September	14.8%	12.6%	10.9%
8	16 September	15.8%	12.9%	11.3%
9	17 September	14.9%	13.0%	10.9%
10	18 September	14.3%	12.0%	10.0%
11	21 September	15.0%	12.3%	10.7%
12	22 September	14.9%	12.1%	10.4%
13	23 September	14.8%	11.7%	10.0%
14	24 September	14.1%	12.1%	10.4%
15	25 September	13.3%	11.2%	9.4%
16	28 September	12.7%	11.1%	10.2%
17	29 September	13.6%	10.9%	9.2%
18	30 September	13.0%	11.4%	9.8%
19	5 October	14.2%	11.8%	10.3%
20	6 October	14.2%	13.1%	12.0%
21	7 October	15.8%	14.3%	12.2%
22	8 October	17.0%	14.4%	13.0%
23	9 October	15.2%	13.5%	11.4%
24	12 October	14.8%	15.1%	13.6%
25	13 October	16.7%	15.1%	13.8%
26	14 October	16.2%	14.8%	13.1%
27	15 October	16.1%	14.5%	12.6%
28	19 October	16.4%	14.2%	12.3%
29	20 October	17.0%	14.5%	12.4%
30	21 October	15.8%	14.6%	11.6%
31	22 October	16.0%	15.5%	13.7%
32	23 October	16.6%	15.2%	13.2%
33	26 October	16.4%	15.1%	13.2%
34	27 October	16.9%	15.0%	13.0%
35	28 October	17.1%	14.8%	12.6%
36	29 October	17.6%	15.5%	13.5%
37	30 October	17.4%	14.8%	13.1%
38	3 November	18.0%	15.9%	14.6%
39	4 November	17.0%	14.7%	12.3%
40	6 November	16.0%	13.9%	11.7%
41	9 November	16.8%	15.0%	12.7%
42	11 November	16.8%	15.0%	13.1%
43	12 November	16.0%	14.8%	12.7%
44	13 November	16.6%	14.7%	12.6%
45	16 November	17.9%	15.1%	12.9%
46	17 November	14.5%	15.0%	13.1%
47	18 November	18.7%	15.5%	13.2%
48	19 November	18.3%	16.4%	14.3%
49	23 November	17.8%	16.0%	13.9%
50	25 November	17.7%	16.1%	14.3%
51	26 November	18.3%	15.9%	13.4%
52	27 November	17.6%	15.9%	14.7%
53	30 November	17.5%	17.0%	15.0%
54	1 December	17.4%	17.1%	14.5%
55	2 December	18.1%	16.7%	14.2%
56	3 December	19.5%	17.0%	15.2%
57	4 December	18.1%	16.8%	14.6%
58	7 December	19.6%	17.3%	15.0%
59	8 December	21.1%	17.4%	15.1%
60	9 December	20.1%	17.7%	15.4%
61	10 December	19.9%	17.5%	15.3%
62	11 December	19.6%	16.8%	15.1%
63	14 December	19.6%	17.7%	15.1%
64	15 December	20.1%	18.5%	16.5%
65	16 December	19.8%	17.9%	15.6%
66	17 December	18.9%	17.9%	16.0%
67	18 December	17.8%	17.9%	16.1%
68	21 December	19.3%	18.8%	16.6%
69	22 December	21.1%	18.8%	16.4%
70	23 December	19.6%	18.5%	16.2%
71	24 December	19.3%	17.8%	15.9%
72	25 December	20.0%	17.9%	16.0%
73	28 December	12.0%	19.8%	17.5%
74	29 December	20.8%	19.5%	17.0%
75	30 December	18.3%	19.1%	16.9%
76	31 December	16.2%	18.3%	15.9%
2021
77	1 January	20.4%	18.9%	17.0%
78	4 January	20.9%	19.1%	16.6%
79	5 January	22.0%	19.3%	16.9%
80	6 January	21.3%	18.7%	15.8%
81	7 January	21.8%	19.7%	16.8%
82	8 January	21.4%	20.1%	17.6%
83	11 January	20.2%	19.2%	17.5%
84	12 January	20.7%	19.6%	17.3%
85	13 January	21.1%	19.5%	16.9%
86	14 January	21.1%	18.8%	15.9%
87	15 January	20.8%	18.1%	15.4%
88	18 January	20.8%	19.3%	16.2%
89	19 January	22.1%	19.1%	16.7%
90	20 January	21.8%	18.9%	16.3%
91	21 January	21.6%	19.3%	16.8%
92	22 January	21.1%	19.8%	17.4%
93	25 January	20.8%	19.5%	17.3%
94	26 January	21.7%	20.4%	17.9%
95	27 January	21.7%	19.4%	17.1%
96	28 January	23.1%	19.4%	16.9%
97	29 January	22.5%	19.8%	17.3%
98	1 February	23.0%	20.1%	16.5%
99	2 February	23.4%	21.2%	18.9%
100	3 February	22.9%	20.2%	17.7%
101	4 February	21.2%	19.6%	17.0%
102	5 February	22.8%	19.9%	17.3%
103	8 February	22.2%	19.7%	17.1%
104	9 February	23.1%	20.5%	17.9%
105	10 February	22.4%	21.3%	18.7%
Average		18.12%	16.32%	14.23%

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result
2020	KBS Drama Awards	Excellence Award, Actor in a Daily Drama	Kang Eun-tak	rowspan=2
		Excellence Award, Actress in a Daily Drama	Lee Chae-young

Notes and References

1. News: KBS "코로나 여파로 드라마 5편 제작중단…'비밀의 남자' 1주일 결방"[전문]]. August 22, 2020. February 12, 2021. June 2, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210602215026/http://www.spotvnews.co.kr/?mod=news&act=articleView&idxno=375393. live.
2. Web site: Kang Eun-tak, Uhm Hyun-kyung and Lee Chae-young at Script Reading of "A Man in a Veil". https://web.archive.org/web/20211213131644/https://www.hancinema.net/kang-eun-tak-uhm-hyun-kyung-and-lee-chae-young-at-script-reading-of-a-man-in-a-veil-143807.html. 2021-12-13. 2021-02-15. Hancinema. en. live.
3. Web site: Uhm Hyun-kyung Cast for "A Man in a Veil". https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214844/https://www.hancinema.net/uhm-hyun-kyung-cast-for-a-man-in-a-veil-142876.html. 2021-06-02. 2021-02-15. Hancinema. en. live.
4. Web site: Yang Mi-kyung to Star in "A Man in a Veil". https://web.archive.org/web/20201119172130/https://www.hancinema.net/yang-mi-kyung-to-star-in-a-man-in-a-veil-143040.html. 2020-11-19. 2021-02-15. Hancinema. en. live.
5. Web site: 비밀의 남자 OST. https://web.archive.org/web/20220222113651/https://music.bugs.co.kr/album/20375104. February 22, 2022. February 15, 2021. Bugs!. ko. live.
6. Web site: A Man in a Veil (Original Television Soundtrack). https://web.archive.org/web/20230517002652/https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-man-in-a-veil-original-television-soundtrack/1550699763. May 17, 2023. February 15, 2021. Apple Music. live.
7. Web site: A Man in a Veil (Original Television Soundtrack) Pt. 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20230517002654/https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-man-in-a-veil-origianl-television-soundtrack-pt-1-single/1532198919. May 17, 2023. February 15, 2021. Apple Music. live.
8. Web site: A Man in a Veil (Original Television Soundtrack) Pt. 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20220422114956/https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-man-in-a-veil-orignal-television-soundtrack-pt-2-single/1533230464. April 22, 2022. February 15, 2021. Apple Music. live.
9. Web site: A Man in a Veil (Original Television Soundtrack) Pt. 3. https://web.archive.org/web/20230517002655/https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-man-in-a-veil-original-television-soundtrack-pt-3-single/1542748613. May 17, 2023. February 15, 2021. Apple Music. live.
10. Web site: A Man in a Veil (Original Television Soundtrack) Pt. 4. https://web.archive.org/web/20230517002652/https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-man-in-a-veil-original-television-soundtrack-pt-4-single/1544044698. May 17, 2023. February 15, 2021. Apple Music. live.
11. Web site: Nielsen Korea. 2021-02-25. www.nielsenmedia.co.kr. 2020-11-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20201124130408/http://www.nielsenmedia.co.kr/tv_terrestrial_day.asp?menu=Tit_1&sub_menu=1_1&area=00. live.
12. Web site: AGB Nielsen . 2021-02-11 . 2020-11-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201124130408/http://www.nielsenmedia.co.kr/tv_terrestrial_day.asp?menu=Tit_1&sub_menu=1_1&area=00 . live .