Bad Girls

Title: 나쁜 여자들 / Na-ppeun Yeo-ja-deul / Bad Girls
Chinese Title : 坏女孩
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2002-May-08 to 2002-Jun-27

Synopsis

Jae-kyung, Yeol-mae, and Yeon-hee are three inseparable friends. Yeon-hee is married to Taek-su. In-ku is Jae-kyung’s boyfriend, and Bong-chul is Yeol-mae’s boyfriend.

Taek-su (Kim Byung Se) is having an affair with a fellow co-worker, which his wife finds out about. Yeon-hee (Kim Hye Ri) decides to find her own success in the workplace rather than live as a homemaker for her husband.

In a competitive businessplace, Jae-kyung (Park Sol Mi) wins a high position, but her superior, Jang-su (Sun Woo Jae Duk) tries to sexually harass her. When In-ku (Lee Jung Jin) found it out, he got angry, but kept the story quiet in exchange for the position that Jae-kyung had gotten. Jae-kyung, feeling betrayed, moves to a another city to work as a supervisior, where she meets Sin-ho (Park Kwang Hyun), who works as a manager there. Sin-ho is a warm-hearted guy that falls for Jae-kyung.

In-ku, though, is not a guy crazy for ambition, but has his own dark family secret, connected to the company’s president, Lee Soon Jae-which is why he wants to succeed in that company. This yearning for recognition constantly puts him in a dilemma where he has to decide whether to get his success or Jae-kyung.

Bong-chul (Lee Jong Soo) is an unemployed ‘bum’ that always uses money that innocent Yeol-mae (Sung Yu Ri) gives. In the beginning of the drama, guys defined a ‘bad girl’ as a girl that is sexy, smart, and cute because they are hard to control, but the drama tries to redefine the stereotypical images of career women.

Cast

Park Sol Mi as Park Jae-kyung
Sung Yu Ri as Han Yeol-mae
Kim Hye Ri as Lee Yeon-hee
Park Kwang Hyun as Kim Sin-ho
Lee Jung Jin as Lee In-ku
Kim Byung Se as Jun Taek-su
Lee Jong Soo as Na Bong-chul
Ye Ji Won as Oh Jung-hwa
Sun Woo Jae Duk as Byun Jang-su

Production Credits

Screenwriter: Park Hyun Joo
Director: Choi Moon Suk