Casting lineup for JTBC’s The Good Bad Mother

12 March 11, 2023April 17, 2023

Casting lineup for JTBC’s The Good Bad Mother

by solstices

Ra Mi-ran, Lee Do-hyun, Ahn Eun-jin

Oh, this show is going to wring tears out of me, isn’t it? In JTBC’s upcoming drama The Good Bad Mother, Ra Mi-ran (Dr. Park’s Clinic) and Lee Do-hyun (The Glory) play a mother and son whose lives are upended by an accident.

As a single mother, Jin Young-soon (Ra Mi-ran) has to shoulder the responsibility of raising her son Choi Kang-ho (Lee Do-hyun) alone. Her humble life as a pig farm owner is a path that she absolutely refuses to let Kang-ho take, resulting in her doling out an extremely strict upbringing to her only son. In the hopes that Kang-ho won’t follow in her footsteps, Young-soon becomes a “bad mother,” determined to give him a better future.

However, Kang-ho ends up feeling stifled by his mother’s suffocating discipline. In a bid to avoid the path that Young-soon has laid out for him, he distances himself from her. Kang-ho moves to the city, becoming a cold-blooded prosecutor driven solely by success. Except an unexpected accident turns him into a young child again — it isn’t specified exactly how, but I’m expecting a liberal use of the amnesia and age regression tropes, à la My Unfamiliar Family.

Meanwhile, Ahn Eun-jin (The One and Only) plays Lee Mi-joo, Kang-ho’s longtime friend. With her thoughtful disposition and intolerance for injustice, she’s akin to his only safe harbor. In the wake of the accident, she returns to her hometown and reunites with a newly-young Kang-ho.

Rounding out the cast, we have Yoo In-soo (Alchemy of Souls) as the hopeless romantic Bang Sam-shik, Jung Woong-in (Our Blooming Youth) as the prosecutor-turned-assemblyman Oh Tae-soo, and Choi Moo-sung (Big Bet) as the chaebol chairman Song Woo-byuk.

Directed by Shim Na-yeon (Beyond Evil) with scripts written by Bae Se-young (Life is Beautiful), The Good Bad Mother is slated for an April 26 premiere.

Casting lineup for JTBC’s The Good Bad Mother
Yoo In-soo, Jung Woong-in, Choi Moo-sung

Via YNA

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1 DancingEmma

March 11, 2023 at 11:06 AM

Ahoy! Yoo Insoo! Yay! I look forward to seeing him! And, I hope I can see this. Again, my mantra of “no serial killers and shrieking chaebols”. Pretty please!

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DancingEmma

March 11, 2023 at 1:20 PM

And, oh, I look forward to the hopeful near future when Yoo Insoo will be a lead actor. He is so talented, empathetic as an actor and damn charming. C’mon! Cast him!

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2 Kurama

March 11, 2023 at 11:17 AM

I wonder why we need a as the prosecutor-turned-assemblyman and a chaebol chairman for a drama about the relationship between a mother and a son...

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jerrykuvira

March 11, 2023 at 12:31 PM

It's JTBC. Chaebol is an expected ingredient in their script.

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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

March 11, 2023 at 12:32 PM

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo🥺

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Kurama

March 11, 2023 at 12:53 PM

JTBC has a good dramas without chaebol : The Package,
The Third Charm, My Liberation Notes, Age of Youth, Be Melodramatic,etc.

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DancingEmma

March 11, 2023 at 1:09 PM

But not a shrieking one I hope. I viscerally loath those.

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hacja

March 13, 2023 at 2:45 PM

Maybe this is based on the many true stories of chaebol chairmen falling in love with mother pig farmers?

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3 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

March 11, 2023 at 12:29 PM

Sounds like an option. I started to watch a rubbish web drama: My secret star it’s 2020 but is really low budget. It was about an actor who turns into a child randomly I think it was if someone hugged him so he spent time avoiding that type of touch. So it could be that the son actually turns into a child again.