Bad Housewife

Title: 불량주부 / Bul-lyang Joo-boo

Also known as: Mr. Housewife / Bad Wife

Episodes: 18

Broadcast network: SBS

Broadcast period: 2005-03-21 to 2005-05-17

Air time: Monday & Tuesday 9:55pm

Synopsis

The story is about Su-han, a fatherly man in his mid-thirties, who becomes a full-time home manager after voluntary retirement, while his wife Mi-na becomes the breadwinner who had only concentrated on household chores up until then.

The subject of ‘Bad Wife’ is quite ordinary compared to other dramas. There is no amnesia nor is there an innocent child who contracts a fatal disease like other Korean dramas in the same time-slot. The changing roles of a husband and wife are not such an extraordinary or an unusual subject for a TV drama.

However, in such a banal setting, the drama succeeds in bringing out a variety of entertaining situations. By changing roles with each other, the married couple comes to face a new environment and, due to the new environment, they face changes through understanding and conflict. The drama realistically describes the process of such change, by providing a few details of some ordinary lives.

Source: The Korea Times

Cast

Son Chang Min as Goo Soo-han

Shin Ae Ra as Choi Mi-na

Lee Young Yoo as Goo Song-yi

Jo Yeon Woo as Ji Sun-woo:

Yoo Min as Park Yoo-jin

Lee Kyung Sil as Lee Kang-ja

Kim Sung Kyum as Goo Bon-hwan

Yeo Woon Kye as No Jin-ye

Kim Ja Ok as Park Ok-ja

Kang Jung Hwa as Nam Eun-mi

Production Credits

Head Producer: Gong Yeong Hwa

Producer: Kim Gyeong Ho

Directors: Yoo In Shik, Jang Tae Yoo

Asst. Directors: Oh Jin Suk, Kwan Hyuk Chan (Assistant)

Screenwriters: Kang Eun Jung, Sul Joon Suk