| Alt Name: | The Mask |
| Genre: | Romance Melodrama Family drama |
| Director: | Boo Sung-chul |
| Starring: | Soo Ae Ju Ji-hoon Yeon Jung-hoon Yoo In-young |
| Composer: | Kim Jun-seok Jung Se-rin |
| Country: | South Korea |
| Language: | Korean |
| Num Episodes: | 20 |
| Executive Producer: | Kim Yong-hoon Shim Jung-woon |
| Producer: | Lee Yong-seok Kim Dong-ho |
| Editor: | Jo In-hyung Im Ho-cheol |
| Cinematography: | Hong Seong-gil |
| Company: | Golden Thumb Pictures Sim Entertainment |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| Channel: | SBS TV |
Mask is a 2015 South Korean television series starring Soo Ae, Ju Ji-hoon, Yeon Jung-hoon and Yoo In-young.[1] [2] It aired on SBS from May 27 to July 30, 2015 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
Byun Ji-sook is working as a sales clerk at a department store when she suddenly comes across her doppelgänger Seo Eun-ha. Whereas Ji-sook's family is hounded by loan sharks because of her father and brother's crippling debt, Eun-ha is the daughter of a congressman and fiancée of chaebol heir Choi Min-woo. Min-woo is the illegitimate son of the chairman of SJ Group and the company's presumptive heir, to the bitter resentment of the chairman's wife and her daughter, Min-woo's half-sister Mi-yeon. Despite his wealthy background, Min-woo had grown up without the love and warmth of family and friends, and his and Eun-ha's future marriage is understood by both parties to be a mutually beneficial business arrangement. He also doesn't know that the man Eun-ha is having an affair with is Mi-yeon's husband, the manipulative and ambitious Min Seok-hoon. Seok-hoon will stop at nothing to prevent his brother-in-law from being named successor, including conspiring with the latter's psychiatrist into gaslighting Min-woo and making him think he's going insane. But his plans go awry when Eun-ha ends up dead, so Seok-hoon threatens and blackmails Ji-sook into taking Eun-ha's place. As Min-woo begins to live in close quarters with Ji-sook, he is puzzled and intrigued by his new wife and how different she is from what he expected.
Byun Ji-sook is a sales clerk at SJ Group's department store. Seo Eun-ha (her doppelgänger) is congressman's daughter, Choi Min-woo's fiancée and Min Seok-hoon's lover.
Illegitimate son of the chairman of SJ Group. Engaged to Seo Eun-ha.
Lawyer of SJ Group. Choi Mi-yeon's husband. Seo Eun-ha's lover.
Daughter of the chairman of SJ Group. Min Seok-hoon's wife.
| Episode # | Original broadcast date | Episode title | Average audience share | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TNmS Ratings[5] | AGB Nielsen Ratings[6] | ||||||
| width=100 | Nationwide | width=100 | Seoul National Capital Area | width=100 | Nationwide | width=100 | Seoul National Capital Area |
| 1 | May 27, 2015 | 3 Million Won Happiness | (19th) | (13th) | (15th) | (13th) | |
| 2 | May 28, 2015 | Boy Who Walks in Memories | 8.5% (12th) | 9.8% (12th) | 9.2% (10th) | 9.5% (10th) | |
| 3 | June 3, 2015 | Best Choice, Worst Choice | 8.2% (16th) | 10.0% (10th) | 8.6% (13th) | 9.0% (13th) | |
| 4 | June 4, 2015 | Heaven Created by the Devil | 10.3% (12th) | 12.2% (7th) | 10.7% (8th) | 12.1% (5th) | |
| 5 | June 10, 2015 | The Poor Rich | 9.4% (12th) | 10.9% (9th) | 9.4% (10th) | 10.1% (7th) | |
| 6 | June 11, 2015 | Family, That Heartbreaking Memory | 10.4% (14th) | 12.6% (4th) | 9.8% (11th) | 10.3% (9th) | |
| 7 | June 17, 2015 | A Chest You Can Cry On | 10.0% (11th) | 12.0% (5th) | 11.0% (7th) | 12.5% (4th) | |
| 8 | June 18, 2015 | A Logical Delusion | 9.8% (10th) | 12.2% (5th) | 11.8% (4th) | 12.6% (3rd) | |
| 9 | June 24, 2015 | My Own Reflection | 9.7% (11th) | 12.6% (4th) | 10.8% (6th) | 11.3% (5th) | |
| 10 | June 25, 2015 | Faces of the Mask | 10.1% (14th) | 12.5% (5th) | 9.7% (12th) | 9.3% (12th) | |
| 11 | July 1, 2015 | Game of Lies | 10.4% (9th) | 12.9% (4th) | 10.1% (7th) | 10.8% (5th) | |
| 12 | July 2, 2015 | Unhappy Happiness | 11.1% (10th) | 12.8% (4th) | 11.1% (6th) | 11.6% (4th) | |
| 13 | July 8, 2015 | A Proposal and a Divorce | 9.9% (13th) | 12.9% (3rd) | 10.8% (8th) | 11.5% (5th) | |
| 14 | July 9, 2015 | A Spear and a Shield | 10.2% (10th) | 12.9% (4th) | 11.1% (6th) | 11.4% (4th) | |
| 15 | July 15, 2015 | The Target | 10.0% (9th) | 13.4% (3rd) | 11.3% (4th) | 11.5% (3rd) | |
| 16 | July 16, 2015 | The Puppet's Heart | 11.4% (5th) | 13.8% (3rd) | 12.2% (3rd) | 12.7% (3rd) | |
| 17 | July 22, 2015 | Family | 9.4% (9th) | 12.0% (3rd) | 12.4% (5th) | 13.7% (3rd) | |
| 18 | July 23, 2015 | Trap | 11.2% (12th) | 14.3% (3rd) | 12.7% (3rd) | 13.3% (3rd) | |
| 19 | July 29, 2015 | Vacancy | 10.7% (9th) | 13.6% (3rd) | 11.5% (5th) | 12.2% (4th) | |
| 20 | July 30, 2015 | Our House | (5th) | (2nd) | (3rd) | (3rd) | |
| Average | 10.1% | 12.4% | 10.8% | 11.4% | |||
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4th APAN Star Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries | Soo Ae | |
| Popular Star Award, Actress | Yoo In-young | |||
| Grimae Awards | Best Drama | Mask | ||
| Best Actor | Yeon Jung-hoon | |||
| Best Actress | Soo Ae | |||
| 23rd SBS Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actor in a Drama Special | Ju Ji-hoon | ||
| Yeon Jung-hoon | ||||
| Special Award, Actress in a Drama Special | Yoo In-young | |||
| Top 10 Stars | Ju Ji-hoon | |||
| Best Couple Award | Ju Ji-hoon and Soo Ae |