Title: 죽어야 사는 남자 / Man Who Dies to Live
Chinese Title: 死而復生的男人
Genre: Family, Comedy
Episodes: 24 (35 minutes/episode)
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2017-July-19 to 2017-Aug-24
Air time: Wednesdays & Thursdays 22:00 (2 episodes back-to-back)
Synopsis
In the late 1970’s, Jang Dal Goo (Choi Min Soo) went to the Middle East and settled down in the small kingdom. He then became Count Souad Fahd Ali and found success there. One day, he returns to South Korea and appears in front of his daughter Lee Ji Young (Kang Ye Won) who is married and is an aspiring writer. Meanwhile, Kang Ho Rim (Shin Sung Rok) is his son-in-law who has a great looking appearance and works as an ordinary salaryman. The drama will be a funny and warm comedy, that will highlight the importance of a family.
Cast
Main Cast
Choi Min Soo as Count Souad Fahd Ali / Jang Dal Goo
– Choi Yoo Sung (최유성) as Jang Dal Goo (young)
Kang Ye Won as Lee Ji Young (A)
Shin Sung Rok as Kang Ho Rim
Lee So Yeon as Lee Ji Young (B)
People around Count
Cho Tae Kwan as Abdallah Muhammad Walliwalla
Kim Byung Ok as Han So Jang
Hwang Seung Eon as Yang Mi Hwa
People around Ji Young ‘A’
Bae Hae Sun as Wang Mi Ran
Go Bi Joo as Kang Eun Bi
People around Kang Ho Rim
Jo Kyung Suk as Na Ok Ja
Cha Sun Bae as Choe Byung Tae
Others
Lee Tae Yeon as Kang Hye Rim
Jo Young Hoon as Sang Duk
Kang Sang Won (강상원) as Soo Hyuk
Seo Hye Won (서혜원) as Min Hee
Lee Gun Hee (이건희) as Sung Ho
Production Credits
Director: Go Dong Sun
Screenwriter: Kim Sun Hee
Awards
2017 MBC Drama Awards: Excellence Actor (Mini-Series) – Shin Sung Rok (Man Who Dies to Live)
Episode Ratings
| Date | Ep | TNmS | TNmS | AGB | AGB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationwide | Seoul | Nationwide | Seoul | ||
| 2017-07-19 | 1 | 9.8 (10th) | 11.0 (5th) | 9.1 (8th) | 10.3 (5th) |
| 2017-07-19 | 2 | 10.5 (9th) | 11.3 (4th) | 9.1 (8th) | 10.4 (4th) |
| 2017-07-20 | 3 | 9.7 (12th) | 11.0 (5th) | 8.6 (9th) | 9.5 (7th) |
| 2017-07-20 | 4 | 10.0 (10th) | 11.2 (4th) | 9.6 (7th) | 10.5 (5th) |
| 2017-07-26 | 5 | 9.5 (11th) | 10.1 (5th) | 8.1 (10th) | 9.2 (5th) |
| 2017-07-26 | 6 | 10.8 (7th) | 10.8 (4th) | 9.4 (8th) | 10.6 (4th) |
| 2017-07-27 | 7 | 8.2 (16th) | 8.9 (11th) | 8.0 (12th) | 9.2 (7th) |
| 2017-07-27 | 8 | 8.9 (14th) | 10.1 (8th) | 9.2 (8th) | 10.3 (5th) |
| 2017-08-02 | 9 | 8.1 (12th) | 9.3 (7th) | 7.4 (15th) | 8.6 (8th) |
| 2017-08-02 | 10 | 9.4 (8th) | 10.8 (4th) | 9.6 (6th) | 10.9 (4th) |
| 2017-08-03 | 11 | 7.4 (17th) | 8.1 (12th) | 8.7 (12th) | 9.9 (6th) |
| 2017-08-03 | 12 | 8.5 (12th) | 9.9 (5th) | 9.6 (6th) | 11.0 (4th) |
| 2017-08-09 | 13 | 8.4 (14th) | 9.7 (7th) | 8.0 (13th) | 8.9 (7th) |
| 2017-08-09 | 14 | 10.1 (10th) | 11.4 (4th) | 11.2 (4th) | 12.5 (4th) |
| 2017-08-10 | 15 | 10.4 (10th) | 10.5 (8th) | 11.1 (5th) | 12.6 (5th) |
| 2017-08-10 | 16 | 12.4 (5th) | 12.9 (4th) | 12.9 (4th) | 14.1 (4th) |
| 2017-08-16 | 17 | 10.4 (9th) | 11.0 (5th) | 10.7 (6th) | 11.7 (5th) |
| 2017-08-16 | 18 | 11.7 (5th) | 12.7 (4th) | 12.8 (4th) | 14.1 (4th) |
| 2017-08-17 | 19 | 9.3 (14th) | 9.9 (7th) | 11.4 (6th) | 12.8 (5th) |
| 2017-08-17 | 20 | 10.8 (9th) | 11.4 (5th) | 13.5 (4th) | 15.2 (3rd) |
| 2017-08-23 | 21 | 9.4 (11th) | 9.9 (7th) | 10.7 (9th) | 12.2 (5th) |
| 2017-08-23 | 22 | 10.8 (8th) | 11.8 (4th) | 12.8 (4th) | 14.1 (4th) |
| 2017-08-24 | 23 | 9.5 (13th) | 10.2 (9th) | 12.0 (5th) | 13.1 (5th) |
| 2017-08-24 | 24 | 10.7 (9th) | 11.5 (4th) | 14.0 (4th) | 15.1 (3rd) |
Sources: TNmS Media Korea & AGB Nielsen Korea
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August 6th, 2017 at 7:09 am
Some of you guys say that you watch this drama just for fun but as time passes and episodes go on you will believe that Islam is like how this drama shows .Everyday many people are killed to protect this religion but this drama distort Islam very easily .we should respect for every religion as we consider ourselves civilized .
August 6th, 2017 at 2:12 pm
I don’t know why this drama still airing. In indonesia, we have a lot of religion and we respect each other. Islam was not like that, most of people who learn truly islam will fall in love with islam. I believe it. Islam is wonderful.
August 9th, 2017 at 5:01 am
@niki “Everyday many people are killed to protect this religion . . .”
Am I to understand what you’re saying is “to protect this religion”, people are killed? Are you talking about those punished for apostasy and blasphemy in your theocratic society?
My thoughts on that; Islamic culture exists under a theocracy which is authoritarian. It doesn’t allow the individual freedom of expression or freedom of conscience and equality under the law irrespective of gender, creed and ethnicity. And so to keep the whole thing together, dissenters are killed under the pretext of blasphemy and apostasy.
You know I’m right.
All the above and especially “free speech” exposes and liberates a society of bad ideas thereby avoiding violent revolution. Plenty of evidence to support that claim. Look at Venezuela.
You say “this drama distort Islam”. I don’t know about that. It might distort the idea of Islamic culture, but people are intelligent enough to know that they should take their information about a place and people from authoritative sources rather than entertainment media.
And Islam is the Quran, Sira and Hadith, not the people. The drama may have distorted the culture (albeit comical and fictional), but it definitely DID NOT distort the Quran, Sira or Hadith.
August 14th, 2017 at 8:39 pm
ENG SUBS PLEASE :/ 🙁
August 19th, 2017 at 12:27 am
How long will the civilized world be held hostage to a group of people who kill those who disagree with them? How long? I want English subtitles. The rest of us just roll our eyes and move on at the stereotypes. Some could be considered offensive if one has nothing else to do but get offended.
Do you Muslims who seem to view the Koreans as your pets really, truly believe that Secret Garden is based on real life?
August 22nd, 2017 at 10:35 pm
nice
August 28th, 2017 at 11:23 pm
Hi, i don’t think drama is about islamic culture,
but it’s about the lifestyle of richman who are having a oildfield in middle east,
A hijab woman wearing a bikini, do you know that almost every woman there is wearing a hijab? not only moslim, even non moslim also wearing a hijab there.
It is not about the religion, it’s only about a rich man’s lifestyle in middle east.
For example, if there any movie about a rich man in USA, is that about the christian culture as well?
Or about richman in Malaysia, is that about the islamic culture as well?
Or the movie about a richman in India, is it about hindus culture?
August 28th, 2017 at 11:43 pm
Hi, i don’t think this drama is descripting about the islamic culture,
but it’s only about the lifestyle of richman who are having a oildfield in middle east,
A hijab woman wearing a bikini, do you know that almost every woman there is wearing a hijab? not only moslim, even non moslim also wearing a hijab there.
From what i know, hijab is common outfit in Arab, even christian woman is wearing hijab there, hijab is not islamic outfit there.
It is not about the religion, it’s only about a rich man’s lifestyle in middle east.
For example,
if there any movie about a rich man in USA, is that movie descripting about the christian culture as well? Because mostly people in USA is Chirstian.
Or about richman in Malaysia, is that about the islamic culture as well? Beacuse mostly people in Malaysia is moslem
Or the movie about a richman in India, is it descripting a hindus culture? Because mostly people in India is Hindu
August 30th, 2017 at 12:47 am
It is incredible that Muslims feel offended all the time that are mentionated in dramas but don`t say nothing when other religions are. It is time to let people be free in opinions and likes, If you are offended with this drama, don`t watch it but let me choose what a want to watch.
August 30th, 2017 at 11:21 am
i plan to watch this drama…but now i decide not to..the producer & everyone involved so ignorant…Muslims feel offended because they are not like that…could you be happy if others say bad thing about your religion…can’t believes human nowadays…
September 29th, 2017 at 6:00 pm
This show is funny — I am enjoying it.
Choi Min So is doing a great job, so out of character for him, something very different for him to try.
Same for Shin Sun Rok — his character if funny…he tried to tell Jang Dal Goo
that he had the wrong girl, then that he wasn’t his son-in-law when he thought his “girlfriend,” was the real daughter, but Dal Goo would not listen to him. Dal Goo layed his eyes on the “girlfriend,” and he didn’t want to hear anything else.
Lee So-Yeon looks pretty with short hair. I have only seen in dramas with long hair. The short hair goes with the personality of a modern woman that she is playing.
October 19th, 2017 at 7:43 am
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November 13th, 2017 at 5:58 pm
Loved this drama. Had good humor and Choi Min Soo was really out of character compared to most of the roles he has done. He did a great job. I enjoyed the whole cast. All the actors did a great job. Funny and a lite plot, nothing serious or any killings.