# Graceful Friends

Graceful Friends (Korean: 우아한 친구들; RR: Uahan Chingudeul) is a South Korean television series starring Yoo Jun-sang, Song Yoon-ah, Bae Soo-bin, Han Eun-jung, Kim Sung-oh, Kim Hye-eun, Jung Suk-yong, Lee In-hye, Kim Won-hae and Kim Ji-young. It aired on JTBC from July 10 to September 5, 2020. It's available for streaming on Netflix and Disney+ in selected countries.

## Synopsis

The peaceful life btw a group of friends who've known each other for 2 decades is suddenly blown up when a murder takes place.
Ahn Goong-chul (Yoo Jun-sang) has a seemingly perfect life with his beautiful wife and son. He works diligently for a food franchise company and is a loving husband and father to his family. Goong-chul's wife, Nam Jung-hae (Song Yoon-ah) is a psychiatrist who works in a family hospital. She is intelligent and beautiful but hides a dark past from her husband. Jung-hae gets entangled in a blackmailing scheme.
Jung Jae-hoon (Bae Soo-bin) is a divorced urologist with a wealthy family background. He lives alone and seems to have a mysterious side. He has a past connection to Nam Jung-hae, of which Ahn Goong-chul is ignorant.
Jo Hyung-woo (Kim Sung-oh) is an adult film director who is often mockingly called the "Bong Joon-ho" of the adult film industry. His dream is to become a mainstream big budget film director but he has never had any luck in achieving his goal. He is married to Kang Kyung-ja (Kim Hye-eun) who is a former adult film actress and now runs a luxury bar. He is very dependent on his wife's income. Kang Kyung-ja has a pro-golfer son named Kang Ji-wook.
Park Choon-bok (Jung Suk-yong) is an insurance company worker and part-time worker at a foreign car dealership. His wife Yoo Eun-sil (Lee In-hye) is a housewife and they have a daughter named Park Pu-reum. He looks comparatively older than his friends and wife, and people often mistakenly think he is his daughter's grandfather. He struggles financially but his wife is very supportive.
Cheon Man-shik (Kim Won-hae) is a City Hall Tax Collection Division official with a wife and a teenage daughter. He is quiet and polite and suffers from depression. He and Ahn Goong-chul were roommates in college and consider each other best friends. He has been hiding a secret from his family and friends which is revealed only after his death.
Baek Hae-sook (Han Eun-jung) used to be friends with the five and they all used to have a crush on her in college. For some reason, she had to drop out of college and wasn't in touch with any of them until Man-shik's funeral. She buys a restaurant near the housing society where the five friends live, and seems to have a mysterious agenda.

## Cast
### Main

* Yoo Jun-sang as Ahn Goong-chul
** Kwon Hyuk as young Ahn Goong-chul
* Song Yoon-ah as Nam Jung-hae
** Joo Da-young as young Nam Jung-hae
* Bae Soo-bin as Jung Jae-hoon
** Han Min as young Jung Jae-hoon
* Han Eun-jung as Baek Hae-sook
** Choi Soo-jung as young Baek Hae-sook
* Kim Sung-oh as Jo Hyung-woo
** Choi Dae-han as young Jo Hyung-woo
* Kim Hye-eun as Kang Kyung-ja
* Jung Suk-yong as Park Choon-bok
* Lee In-hye as Yoo Eun-sil
* Kim Won-hae as Cheon Man-shik
** Park Sung-joon as young Cheon Man-shik
* Kim Ji-young as Ji Myung-sook

### Supporting

* Lee Tae-hwan as Joo Kang-san
    A professional golf instructor who cons people to extract money for his gambling addiction.
* Kim Ji-sung as Na Ae-ra / Kang Mi-ra
    An adult film actress who is blackmailed by Joo Kang-san to help him scam people.
* Yeon Je-hyung as Kang Ji-wook
    Kang Kyung-ja's son and Jo Hyung-woo's stepson, he is a pro golfer. Like his stepfather, he also was Kang-san's blackmail victim.
* Kim Ji-young as Cheon Soo-ah
    Man-shik and Myung-sook's teenage daughter who studies in Canada.
* Park Ha-joon as Ahn Yoo-bin
    Goong-chul and Jung-hae's son.
* Shim Hye-yeon as Park Pu-reum
    Choon-bok and Eun-sil's daughter, she has an innocent crush on Ahn Yoo-bin.
* Kim Seung-wook as Jo Tae-wook
    Detective working on the murder case who also were in charge of Professor Park's murder case.
* Kim Hee-ryung as Goo Young-sun
    An Alzheimer patient whom Man-sik took care of. She is the wife of Professor Park Do-hoon.
* Sa Kang as Do Do-hae
    She is the caregiver of Goo Young-sun and liked Cheon Man-shik.
* Lee Yeon-doo as Choi Mo-ran
    Jung Jae-hoon's ex-wife. She moved to America after their divorce and returned with a changed appearance.

### Others

* Lee Joo-suk as Professor Han Eung-shik
* Jang Hee-soo as Oh Soon-jung, chairwoman of the hospital Nam Jung-hae works in.
* Kim Ga-hwa as Geum Ha-na, Jung Jae-hoon's colleague.
* Um Chae-young as Moon Ga-yeon, Ahn Yoo-bin's friend.
* Kim Dong-ho as Seo Joo-won, Joo Kang-san's friend.
* Kim Tae-young as Professor Park Do-hoon
* Sung Byung-sook as Ahn Goong-chul's mother.
* Kwon Hyuk as Ahn Goong-cheol
* Jeon Eun-mi
* Yoo Gun
* Kang Nam-gil
* Lee Geung-young
* Kim Jun-hyun as himself, Goong-chul's friend and brand ambassador of the chicken franchise where he works.

## Production

On January 18, 2020, it was reported that JTBC picked up the series which had already wrapped up filming.

## Viewership

| Season | Season | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Episode number | Average |
| Season | Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Average |
| | 1 | 702 | 596 | 876 | 812 | 844 | 930 | 826 | 926 | 859 | 1005 | 737 | 894 | 771 | 1005 | 989 | 942 | 1037 | 868 |

## International broadcast

The series is available on iQIYI with multi-languages subtitles in South East Asia and Taiwan.
The series is also being aired on K-Plus beginning February 27, 2021.
It is available to stream on Netflix and Disney+ in selected markets.