Jang Seo Kyung is a South Korean actress who was born on April 25, 1991, in Seoul, South Korea. She studied at the Korea National University of Arts, and made her acting debut in the film “Innocent Thing” (2014), playing the role of Joo Hee. She followed up the following year with her small-screen bow in the series “Yong Pal,” and more recently appeared in the series ”Rugal” (2020).

Jang Seo Kyung

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Mo Seok Hee (Im Soo Hyang) is the sole heiress to the MC Group business empire. Financially, she wants for nothing. However, all is not well with her. She is haunted by the passing of her mother, who died in mysterious circumstances a decade and a half ago. Ever since her mother’s death, she has been living in the United States, apart from her father.
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But when she makes the fateful decision to return home to South Korea, her life is sent into a tailspin – along with the fortunes of the MC Group.
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Back in South Korea, she meets Heo Yoon Do (Lee Jang Woo), a lawyer from a humble background. Heo Yoon Do has been hired by the MC Group as a member of the TOP crisis management team that helps cover up misdemeanors committed by the Mo family.
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Together the duo builds an unlikely friendship and embarks on a quest to uncover the truth about the death of Mo Seok Hee’s mother.
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Will Mo Seok Hee and Heo Yoon Do uncover the dark truth behind a death that took place 15 years ago? What other secrets is the MG Group hiding? And could working together lead the duo to romance?
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“Graceful Family” is a 2019 South Korean drama series directed by Han Chul Soo.

Graceful Family

The Graceful Secret Team

Can a secret diary shed light on the authenticity of a centuries-old painting? 

Seo Ji Yoon (Lee Young Ae) is an art history lecturer who has devoted the best years of her life to earning her Ph.D. and working under her mentor, department chairman Min Jung Hak (Choi Jong Hwan), in the hopes of being named a full-time professor at her university. 

When Jung Hak entrusts Ji Yoon to write the thesis for his find-of-the-century historical painting, “An Gyeon’s Mount Geumgang,” Ji Yoon is ecstatic and finally feels like she is about to earn her professorship. But in a matter of days, her whole world comes crashing down around her. 

First, her husband, Jung Min Seok (Lee Hae Young), suddenly becomes a fugitive when his company comes under investigation and the Russian Mafia comes after him for dirty money, forcing Ji Yoon, her son, and her mother-in-law, Kim Jung Hee (Kim Hae Sook), to be kicked out of their home. Then, Ji Yoon’s career comes to a crashing halt when grad student Han Sang Hyun (Yang Se Jong) publicly challenges the authenticity of the Mount Geumgang painting and Ji Yoon does not adequately defend Jung Hak’s reputation. 

An enraged Jung Hak has Ji Yoon fired and ostracized from the art history community. At the bottom of her life, Ji Yoon discovers the secret diary of Shin Saimdang (1504-1551), a Korean artist, writer, calligraphist and poet who was the mother of Yi I, one of the two most prominent Korean Confucian scholars during the Joseon Dynasty. The diary sheds new light on the life of Saimdang (also played by Lee Young Ae, her relationship with painter Lee Gyeom (Song Seung Heon), and the Mount Geumgang painting. 

With the help of Sang Hyun and her best friend, Go Hye Jung (Park Jun Myun), an antiquities researcher, can Ji Yoon get her life and career back? 

“Saimdang, Light’s Diary” is a 2017 South Korean drama series directed by Yoon Sang Ho.

Saimdang, Light's Diary

Joon Ki (Jang Hyuk) is a handsome former rugby player who has become a PE teacher. He works at a girls' high school, where he is immensely popular among the students. His wife Seo Yeon (Sun Woo Sun) is heavily pregnant with what will be their first child.

Although he is happy with his family life, one of his pupils, Young Eun (Jo Bo Ah), falls for him and makes advances. Overcome with passion, Joon Ki succumbs to temptation and starts what he hopes will be no more than a brief fling with Young Eun.

Once he comes to his senses, he tries to end the relationship and convince Young Eun to stay silent about what happened between the two of them.

However, Young Eun’s love for him has now turned to obsession, and she refuses to end the relationship quietly.

Things threaten to explode when one day he discovers that Young Eun has managed to convince his unsuspecting wife to tutor her…at their home.

“Innocent Thing” is a 2014 thriller movie directed by Kim Tae Kyun.

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