Man Who Sets the Table
- Director Joo Sung-woo
- Writer Park Hyun-joo
- Starring
Choi Soo-young, On Joo-wan, Kim Kap-soo, Kim Mi-sook, Lee Il-hwa, Shim Hyung-tak
- Category Drama
- Date 2017
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- Homepage http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/drama/babsang/index.html
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Synopsis
After devoting 35 years of his life to his company, he was now retired. People envied him for the success he achieved in his career. Now he was looking forward to enjoying his retirement years with his wife into old age. But his wife suddenly demands a marriage separation. And his daughter whom he had thought he raised well was now rebelling against him. He worked so hard all his life but why was everything going down the drain in this point of his life? The collapse of the family is a reality that one middle-aged man in this TV show is trying to reverse.
Starring
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Lee Ru-li - Starring Choi Soo-young
Unemployed job-seeker. “No to marriage but Dating is OK!” “Hates to live like her mother”
Most people regard her as being a lovely young lady who is in good health but she was always compared to her brother while growing up, which led to her having low self-esteem. Due to her dad’s insistence that she aim to join a big corporation, she applied for corporate jobs numerous times but couldn’t get hired. So she eventually lied to her dad that she found a job with the Guam Board of Tourism and moves to Guam. But she found the love of her life there unexpectedly. |
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Jung Tae-yang - Starring On Joo-wan
Restaurant menu creator. “Wishes to enjoy his freedom to the fullest with passion”
Confident and shunning a stable career, Tae-yang likes to play hard, enjoy food and travel to places to enjoy life to the fullest. His childhood was plagued by hardships. He never knew his father and was born as an illegitimate child. He grew up mostly poor with neighbors whispering behind his back. After vowing to roam the world for the rest of his life, he met Luli while working in Guam and she was the woman of his dreams. |
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Lee Shin-mo - Starring Kim Kap-soo
Retired construction firm executive. His wife decides to leave him
He has a strong sense of duty to his family so he dedicated himself to his company to be a solid provider. He naturally became a workaholic. Though he hardly spent any time at home with his family, he knew he could rely on his wife to take care of the kids. Then he reached retirement. He had worked without a vacation for his entire career. It was time to enjoy his retirement with his family but unexpected events begin to plague him. |
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Hong Young-hye - Starring Kim Mi-sook
Housewife/Forest guide. Wants to leave her husband for good
For 34 year, she raised her two children and supported her husband in every way a wife could. Now her kids were all grown. Thanks to her support, her husband became a top executive, her son became a doctor and her daughter was working at a big company. Despite the model of success that her family and husband projected, she felt an emptiness inside her. So she decides to leave her husband and pursue a new career as a forest guide which was her dream job. |
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Jung Hwa-young – Starring Lee Il-hwa
Ballroom dancing instructor. “Living life with passion, a strong sense of duty, and nurturing”
She gave birth to Tae-yang when she was 19 and raised him as a single mom. After working numerous jobs to support her son, she finally settled on becoming a ballroom dancing instructor. After going through two marriages, she was now in a relationship with a man who was ten years younger. Though her life appears to be happy, she harbors a dark secret. |
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Go Jung-do – Starring Shim Hyung-tak
Celebrity chef. “Love sprouts from cooking”
He used to work at a securities firm but then one day, his brother and his wife died in a car crash. He found himself the guardian of his brother’s daughter. While struggling to raise his niece by himself, he met Hwa-young and fell in love with her. Due to the 10-year age gap with Hwa-young and the fact he was raising his niece, he was unsure whether he could marry her but Hwa-young’s son, Tae-yang fully embraced him so he began living with Hwa-young as one big family. |