Midas (TV series)

Midas
First Official Poster
Format	Romance, Business, Drama
Created by	SBS
Directed by	Kang Shin Hyo, Lee Chang Min
Starring	Lee Min Jeong Jang Hyuk Kim Hee Ae No Min-woo
Country of origin	South Korea
No. of episodes	20 + 1
Production
Running time	Monday & Tuesday 21:55
Broadcast
Original channel	SBS
Original airing	2011-Feb-22 - May 3, 2011
Chronology
Preceded by	Athena: Goddess of War
Followed by	Lie To Me

Midas is a South Korean drama about business and takeovers between companies in the Korean stocks. It tells story of the life of ordinary people and chaebols in the mergers & acquisitions, stock market and financial world. It is starring Jang Hyuk, Lee Min Jeong and Kim Hee Ae and directed by Kang Shin Hyo and Lee Chang Min. It is aired every Monday and Tuesday and first aired on February 22, 2011. It is rumored that after Midas, a new drama will follow titled Lie To Me and will be starred by Yoon Eun Hye in the future.

Synopsis

The background of the drama is about life in the mergers & acquisitions, stock market and financial world, as well as the lives of chaebols. Kim Do Hyun is an intelligent man from a modest upbringing. He is the head of his class at one of the top tier law schools in the country. While looking for prospective jobs, he is recruited to be the attorney for an affluent family who's true wealth may be more than anyone could imagine. His dreams of a peaceful life with his girlfriend Lee Jung Yun are changed when the future successor "makes him an offer he can't refuse."

Cast and Characters

• Kim Do Hyun (32 years old) played by : Jang Hyuk

A smart man without ambition. Graduated as the best of his class from Korea’s best university, he also the best when attended law school. His father left home when he was a child, leaving him in poverty. His mother raised him in hardship and passed away when he was in law school. He only feels warmth in his heart when he is with his long-time girlfriend Jung Yun and her family. He wants to start a family and live happily with Jung Yun.After graduate from law school, he joins the best law firm to make a living and maintains a stable and comfortable life.

• Lee Jung Yun (27 years old) played by : Lee Min Jeong

Long time girlfriend of Do Hyun. A quiet and attractive student during middle and high school and was the same when she entered nursing school. Until, she met Do Hyun and her life started to change. Her luck in life is started. She is dating Do Hyun and about to marry him but she still finds it hard to believe that she is his girlfriend. After graduated from nursing school, she was employed by Korea’s best general hospital and not long after that she became a nurse for that hospital VIP’s wing.However, Do Hyun started to be a different person after he entered a law firm. Finally she finds out that Do hyun has another woman.She plans a revenge by throws her soul away, becoming the woman of a son of chaebol named Yoo Myung Joon.Yoo Myung Joon is the patient of the hospital VIP room where Jung Yun is assigned who suffered terminal stage of cancer.

• Yoo In Hye (40 years old) played by: Kim Hee Ae

The eldest daughter of Yoo Pil Sang family. Yoo Pil Sang seems like average rich family, but his real wealth is in the same size with Samsung and Hyundai. Yoo In Hye has 2 older brothers, a younger brother (her biological brother) and a younger sister, which 5 of them came from several different mothers. She grew up with her biological younger brother (Yoo Myung Joon) and her mother who was abandoned by her father.In order to escape from the negative image of “the abandoned daughter of a chaebol”, Yoo In Hye left Korea to USA . During this period of time when she was away, her mother started suffering some mental disorder. Thus, the job of looking after her fell in the hands of Myung Joon. She attended university and got MBA from USA, then gained experience as securities broker in Wall Street. Now she is the president of her own multi-billion dollar hedge fund. Her grandfather’s loan business plus her father’s real estate business plus her hedge fund company can sway Korea’s economy. She’s a powerful woman with no romantic experience and never been married. She hates but also admires her father, makes her a strange monster.

• Yoo Myung Joon (31 years old) played by: No Min-woo

The younger brother of Yoo In Hye. Unlike his sister, he has a more softer and more delicate character. He believes that money is the reason to the misfortune that he has suffered. Therefore, he finds that money is evil and despicable. Due to the prejudice towards money and his own birth, Myung Joon seems cynical and waste his time by partying from dusk til dawn. He was like this till Jung Yun appeared in his life.Myung Joon found himself down with terminal stage cancer and the nurse who was in-charge of him was Jung Yun.As time goes by, there was some chemistry and love blossoming between the two.

Extended Cast

Do Hyun's family

• Lee Duk Hwa as Kim Tae Sung
• Kim Sung Oh as Kim Do Chul (Do Hyun's half-brother)

In Hye's family

• Kim Sung Kyum as Yoo Pil Sang
• Choi Jung Woo as Yoo Ki Joon (In Hye's oldest brother)
• Yoon Je Moon as Yoo Sung Joon (In Hye's second brother)
• Han Yoo Yi (한유이) as Yoo Mi Ran (In Hye's little sister)

Other people

• Chun Ho Jin as Choi Gook Hwan
• Lee Moon Soo (이문수) as Lee Yong Gook
• Jung Suk Won as Jae Bum
• Seo Joo Ae(서주애) as Soo Ji
• Lee Sang Yeob as Han Jang Suk
• Kang Kyung Hun as Bae Jung Ja
• Shin Chae Won(신채원) as Yang Soo Jung
• Baek Seung Hyun
• Yeo Ho Min
• Lee Sun Ho
• Choi Young Shin (최영신)
• Jang Won Young
• Park Hyuk Kwon (박혁권)