Sky Castle
2018–2019 South Korean television series
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- Sky Castle (Korean: SKY 캐슬 ; stylized as SKY Castle ) is a South Korean television series starring Yum Jung-ah, Lee Tae-ran, Yoon Se-ah, Oh Na-ra, and Kim Seo-hyung.
- At the time of airing, Sky Castle became the highest rated series in Korean cable television history.
- Synopsis A satirical series that closely looks at the materialistic desires of upper-class parents in South Korea and how they ruthlessly secure the successes of their families at the cost of destroying others' lives.
- The wives are determined to make their husbands more successful and to raise their children to be top students who will be accepted at the best universities, so they use every possible way to achieve that.
- She wants her eldest daughter, Kang Ye-seo (Kim Hye-yoon), to also become a doctor.
Sky Castle (Korean: SKY 캐슬; stylized as SKY Castle) is a South Korean television series starring Yum Jung-ah, Lee Tae-ran, Yoon Se-ah, Oh Na-ra, and Kim Seo-hyung. It aired on JTBC on Fridays and Saturdays at 22:50 (KST), from November 23, 2018, to February 1, 2019.
At the time of airing, Sky Castle became the highest rated series in Korean cable television history. It received positive reviews from critics and won multiple awards, including four at the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards.
Synopsis
A satirical series that closely looks at the materialistic desires of upper-class parents in South Korea and how they ruthlessly secure the successes of their families at the cost of destroying others' lives. The drama revolves around the lives of housewives residing in a luxurious residential area called SKY Castle (a reference to the elite universities) in suburban Seoul, where wealthy doctors and professors live. The wives are determined to make their husbands more successful and to raise their children to be top students who will be accepted at the best universities, so they use every possible way to achieve that.
Han Seo-jin (Yum Jung-ah) is married to an ambitious orthopedic surgeon, Kang Joon-sang (Jung Joon-ho). She wants her eldest daughter, Kang Ye-seo (Kim Hye-yoon), to also become a doctor. In order to do that, she hires Kim Joo-young (Kim Seo-hyung), a coordinator with a one hundred percent success rate when it comes to her students' admission to the Seoul National University.
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