Smile, Donghae (웃어라 동해야)

Details

• Title: 웃어라 동해야 / Useora Donghaeya
• Also known as: Smile, Dong Hae / 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 / Jo Dong Baek (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 (정은우) as Kim Sun Woo
• Kim Sung Hoon as policeman
• Kim Jin Soo as Bang Ki Nam
• Kim Yoon Hee (김윤희) as Jung Soon Hye
• Shin Dong Yub (신동엽) as hotel restaurant kitchen assistant (cameo)
• Yoon Jong Shin (윤종신)as hotel restaurant kitchen assistant (cameo)
• Seo Hye Jin (서혜진)
• Kim Yoon Tae

Production Credits

• Producer: Moon Bo Hyun
• Director: Kim Myung Wook, Mo Wan Il (모완일)
• Screenwriter: Moon Eun Ah

Recognitions

2011 KBS Drama Awards:

• Excellence Award for Daily Drama, Actor (Ji Chang Wook)
• Excellence Award for Daily Drama, Actress (Do Ji Won)
• Excellence Award, Supporting Actress (Park Jung Ah)
• Newcomer Actor Award (Lee Jang Woo)

Source: DramaWiki