Smile, Dong Hae
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Title: 웃어라 동해야 / Useora Donghaeya / Smile, Dong Hae
Chinese Title : 笑吧东海
Also Known as: Smile Again
Genre: Family
Episodes: 159
Broadcast network: KBS1
Broadcast period: 2010-Oct-04 to 2011-May-13
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
Lee Joon Ha (이준하) 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)
Choi Yoon So as Baek Yoo Jin
Lee Jung Ho as Lee Dae Sam
Kang Chul Sung (강철성) as Home Shopping PD
Jung Eun Woo as Sun Woo
Kim Sung Hoon as policeman
Kim Jin Soo as Bang Ki Nam
Shin Dong Yub (신동엽) as hotel restaurant kitchen assistant (cameo)
Yoon Jong Shin (윤종신)as hotel restaurant kitchen assistant (cameo)
Kim Yoon Tae
Jung Soo In
Production Credits
Producer: Moon Bo Hyun
Director: Kim Myung Wook, Mo Wan Il (모완일)
Screenwriter: Moon Eun Ah
Awards
2011 KBS Drama Awards: Excellence Awards, Actor (Daily Drama), Actor: Ji Chang Wook
2011 KBS Drama Awards: Excellence Awards, Actress (Daily Drama), Actress: Do Ji Won
2011 KBS Drama Awards: Best Supporting Awards, Actress: Park Jung Ah
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April 6th, 2013 at 8:03 am
ji chang wook is not only handsome but awesome actor. i became his fan after watching him in smile donghae. can’t wait to see you in your new drama. ji chang wook fighting!
April 18th, 2013 at 11:36 am
안녕하세요 !
I really like the flow of the story and I really idolize the cast esp. Ji Chang Wook and Lee Jang Woo. They’re so handsome. OMG !
Hope to see ya.
행운을 빌어요 !
April 20th, 2013 at 8:08 pm
generose
April 21st, 2013 at 4:34 pm
I really love the finale.
Lee Jang Woo did a great job. I really love him. =)
April 28th, 2013 at 9:56 pm
I like this story and it’s sad that it has come to an end. I’m going to miss this show.
May 9th, 2013 at 11:28 pm
i’m a big fan of korean drama, yet this drama is really bad… it’s certainly one of the worst korean drama i’ve watched this far. was thinking that the story must be very complicating, hence 159 episodes. but the fact is a simple story line can drag for so long. such story line can easily finish in no more than 30 episodes if it’s hk filming. the scriptwriter is really lousy. i wouldn’t be watching it if not bcos singapore is airing it and there’s no other nice drama being aired at the same time.