Secrets and Lies (South Korean TV series) explained

Native Name:

Hangul:

비밀과 거짓말

Creator:

Jang Jae-hoon^[1]

Composer:

Jang Eun-jin

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Num Episodes:

122

Executive Producer:

Lee Min-soo

Producer:

Kim Seo-gon

Editor:

Jo Tae-hyun

Camera:

Single-camera

Runtime:

35 minutes

Company:

MBC C&I

Network:

MBC TV

Secrets and Lies is a 2018 South Korean television series starring Oh Seung-ah,,, and . The series aired daily on MBC TV from 7:15 p.m. to 7:55 p.m. (KST) from June 25, 2018 to January 11, 2019.

Cast

Main

Oh Seung-ah as Shin Hwa-kyung (Park Seon-joo)^[2] - The lead character of the series. Hwa-kyung is evil and her ambition will cause her own downfall. In the end, she was imprisoned for attempted murder.
as Han Woo-jung, an aspiring announcer^[3]
as Yoon Do-bin, MBS PD^[4]
as Yoon Jae-bin, Do-bin's younger brother^[5]

Supporting cast

People around Hwa Kyung

Jeon No-min as Shin Myung-joon
Lee Il-hwa as Oh Yun-hee
Suh In-suk as Oh Sang-pil
??? as Oh Yun-suk

People around Woo Jung

Kim Hye-sun as Han Joo-won
Lee Joon-young as Han Woo-chul

People around Do Bin

Park Chul-min as Yoon Chang-soo
Kim Hee-jung as Heo Yong-shim
Kim Ye-rin as Yoon Sae-hee

Extended Cast

Jun Jung-ro as Secretary Min

Ratings

In this table, represent the lowest ratings and represent the highest ratings.
NR denotes that the drama did not rank in the top 20 daily programs on that date.
N/A denotes that the rating is not known.

	Original broadcast date	Average audience share
		TNmS	AGB Nielsen^[6]
		width=100	Nationwide	width=100	Nationwide	width=100	Seoul
1	June 25, 2018	5.3%	4.9%	2.7%
2	June 26, 2018	5.6%	5.2%	3.0%
3	June 27, 2018	4.9%	4.5%	2.3%
4	June 28, 2018	5.2%	4.8%	2.5%
5	June 29, 2018
6	July 2, 2018	5.8%	5.4%	3.2%
7	July 3, 2018	6.2%	5.8%	3.6%
8	July 4, 2018	6.5%	5.7%	5.8%
9	July 5, 2018	6.3%	5.9%	5.2%
10	July 6, 2018	6.4%	5.4%	4.7%
11	July 9, 2018	7.9%	5.9%	3.7%
12	July 10, 2018	6.0%	5.6%	3.4%
13	July 11, 2018	6.9%	5.8%	5.6%
14	July 12, 2018	6.5%	4.8%	2.5%
15	July 13, 2018	5.6%	5.3%	3.1%
16	July 16, 2018	6.7%	5.0%	2.9%
17	July 17, 2018	6.3%	4.8%	2.4%
18	July 18, 2018	6.4%	5.0%	4.9%
19	July 19, 2018	6.0%	5.2%	4.8%
20	July 20, 2018	6.5%	4.7%	4.5%
21	July 23, 2018	4.7%	4.3%	3.9%
22	July 24, 2018	6.3%	5.0%	4.7%
23	July 25, 2018	7.2%	5.9%	5.3%
24	July 26, 2018	6.1%	5.7%	5.8%
25	July 27, 2018	6.6%	5.1%	5.3%
26	July 30, 2018	6.6%	5.6%	5.2%
27	July 31, 2018	6.9%	5.6%	rowspan=2
28	August 1, 2018	5.9%	5.1%
29	August 2, 2018	5.7%	5.4%	4.9%
30	August 3, 2018	5.7%	5.8%	5.7%
31	August 6, 2018	8.2%	6.4%	6.2%
32	August 7, 2018	7.1%	5.5%
33	August 8, 2018	6.8%	6.1%	5.8%
34	August 9, 2018	7.8%	6.2%	6.0%
35	August 10, 2018	7.1%	6.2%	5.7%
36	August 13, 2018	6.9%	6.1%	6.0%
37	August 14, 2018	7.2%	6.4%	6.2%
38	August 15, 2018	7.5%	6.8%	7.3%
39	August 16, 2018	7.5%	5.9%	5.0%
40	August 17, 2018	8.0%	6.7%	6.1%
41	August 21, 2018	7.1%	5.4%	5.3%
42	August 24, 2018	6.8%	5.1%	4.9%
43	September 3, 2018	8.5%	6.5%
44	September 4, 2018	8.8%	6.9%	6.4%
45	September 5, 2018	8.3%	7.7%	6.8%
46	September 6, 2018	9.0%	6.7%	5.5%
47	September 7, 2018	8.4%	6.7%	5.8%
48	September 10, 2018	8.3%	7.4%	6.9%
49	September 11, 2018	8.7%	6.6%	6.2%
50	September 12, 2018		7.2%	6.4%
51	September 13, 2018	8.3%	7.0%	5.9%
52	September 14, 2018		6.8%	6.0%
53	September 17, 2018	6.2%	5.5%	5.7%
54	September 21, 2018	9.5%	7.0%	6.4%
55	September 27, 2018	9.1%	8.0%	7.6%
56	September 28, 2018	9.6%	8.0%	7.1%
57	October 2, 2018	8.2%	6.8%
58	October 3, 2018	8.3%	7.7%
59	October 4, 2018	9.0%	8.0%
60	October 5, 2018	9.8%	8.6%	8.1%
61	October 6, 2018	11.3%	9.1%	8.1%
62	October 9, 2018	10.3%	8.8%	8.0%
63	October 10, 2018	10.8%	9.2%	8.2%
64	October 11, 2018	10.7%	9.2%	8.4%
65	October 15, 2018	11.4%	9.5%	8.8%
66	October 17, 2018	11.3%	9.7%	9.1%
67	October 18, 2018	11.3%	9.5%	8.2%
68	October 22, 2018	12.0%	9.4%	8.6%
69	October 24, 2018	12.4%	10.2%	9.6%
70	October 25, 2018	12.7%	10.2%	9.5%
71	October 26, 2018	11.7%	9.9%	9.0%
72	October 29, 2018		10.1%	8.9%
73	October 31, 2018
74	November 1, 2018	9.7%	8.9%
75	November 2, 2018
76	November 6, 2018
77	November 7, 2018
78	November 8, 2018
79	November 9, 2018
80	November 12, 2018
81	November 13, 2018
82	November 14, 2018
83	November 15, 2018
84	November 16, 2018
85	November 19, 2018
86	November 20, 2018
87	November 21, 2018
88	November 22, 2018
89	November 23, 2018
90	November 26, 2018
91	November 27, 2018
92	November 28, 2018
93	November 29, 2018
94	November 30, 2018
95	December 3, 2018
96	December 4, 2018
97	December 5, 2018
98	December 6, 2018
99	December 7, 2018
100	December 10, 2018
101	December 11, 2018
102	December 12, 2018
103	December 13, 2018
104	December 14, 2018
105	December 17, 2018
106	December 18, 2018
107	December 19, 2018
108	December 20, 2018
109	December 21, 2018
110	December 24, 2018
111	December 25, 2018
112	December 26, 2018
113	December 27, 2018
114	December 28, 2018
115	January 2, 2019
116	January 3, 2019
117	January 4, 2019
118	January 7, 2019
119	January 8, 2019
120	January 9, 2019
121	January 10, 2019
122	January 11, 2019
Average

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Ref.
2018	2018 MBC Drama Awards	Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Soap Opera	Lee Il-hwa	^[7]
		Excellence Award, Actress in a Soap Opera	Kim Hye-sun
		Best Supporting Actor/Actress in a Serial Drama	Jeon No-min
		Best Supporting Actor/Actress in a Serial Drama	Kim Hee-jung
		Best New Actress	Oh Seung-ah

Original soundtrack

Doctors OST
Type:	Soundtrack
Genre:	Soundtrack
Language:	Korean

Track listings

Notes and References

Web site: Secrets and Lies Staff . MBC . June 29, 2018.
News: Kim . Jung-rok . ko:‘비밀과 거짓말’ 오승아 "서혜원과 따로 만나 대본도 맞춰볼 만큼 친해" . http://www.kookje.co.kr/news2011/asp/newsbody.asp?code=0500&key=20180621.99099010446 . June 29, 2018 . Kookje . June 21, 2018 . ko.
News: MBC '비밀과 거짓말' 오승아·서해원 첫 주연 소감 "10년만에 주연…하늘이 주신 기회" . July 8, 2018 . News Pim . June 22, 2018 . ko.
News: Yoo . Chung-hee . '비밀과 거짓말' 오승아X서해원X이중문X김경남, '철망' 뒤 비밀스런 4인…'주목' . July 8, 2018 . 10 Asia . June 18, 2018 . ko.
News: Han . Hyuk-seung . [MD포토] 오승아 서해원 이중문 김경남 '드라마 이끄는 주연 배우들' ]. July 8, 2018 . My Daily . June 21, 2018 . ko.
Web site: Nielsen Korea. Korean. AGB Nielsen Media Research. June 25, 2018.
Web site: https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=609&aid=0000038901. ko: 소지섭 ‘데뷔 23년 만에 첫 대상’(mbc연기대상)[포토엔HD]. So Ji-sub Soo'First Debut in 23 Years' (mbc Drama Awards)[Photo and HD]. December 31, 2018. Jung. Yu-jin. Newsen. ko. https://web.archive.org/web/20181231092413/https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=609&aid=0000038901. December 31, 2018. June 5, 2020. Naver.