#My id is gangnam beauty kissasian series#
#My id is gangnam beauty kissasian tv#

She has a crush on Woo-jin.Ī freshman who is close friends with Soo-ah. A cheerful girl from Busan with a strong accent. She encounters Soo-ah in her neighborhood and starts questioning her actual family background.Ī freshman. She has an innate sense of fairness and takes no sides in any conflict. Her chic personality makes her popular among the students. The freshmen (Class of 2018) representative. An internet broadcasting jockey.ĭo Kyung-seok's childhood friend.

A self-centered and career-oriented man.ĭo Kyung-seok's sister. Due to a divorce that resulted from an abusive marriage, she has been separated from her children for years, until she met her son again through Kang Mi-rae.ĭo Kyung-seok's father as well as a congressman running for mayor. People around Do Kyung-seok ĭo Kyung-seok's mother and CEO of a cosmetics company. A first-year psychology student in Korea University who dreams of being a hip-hop musician. She assists Mi-rae in receiving cosmetic surgery without the knowledge of her father.Ī Childhood friend of Kang Mi-rae. He is initially against Mi-rae's surgery, but later learns to accept all forms of her. Kang Mi-rae's father as well as taxi-driver. He falls for Kang Mi-rae for her looks but grows to love her personality as they both shares their expertise in perfumes. He is popular among the students for his handsome appearance and also his friendly and polite persona. He is also Do Kyung-seok's housemate later on. A student of Chemistry Department of Korea University Class of 2018.Ī chemistry graduate and teaching assistant in the chemistry department. She craves attention and adoration, attempting to attain it (or, at times, steal it) with her gentle and innocent persona as she cannot accept the potential for anyone to love other girls more than they admire her. She appears pure and kind, but the underlying motives of her actions eventually prove otherwise. The most popular girl in the chemistry department for her extraordinary natural beauty. A student of Chemistry Department of Korea University Class of 2018. In particular, he does not care about beauty or physical appearances despite being praised for his good looks. He is indifferent about what others think, thus appearing cold and distant however, he does have a caring side within him. Shin Jun-seop as young Do Kyung-seok Ī handsome college student who possesses both intelligence and wealth, but secretly harbors emotional scars from his unhappy home environment.As she enters the university, she starts to feel the pressure of being 'beautiful' and 'popular' among her peers. After being bullied throughout her middle school and high school, she finally decides to undergo cosmetic surgery prior to starting college.

She desires to live a 'normal' life and does not like standing out.

Im Soo-hyang as Kang Mi-rae Ī timid and insecure girl who has low self-esteem due to her 'ugly' appearance.

The pressure of being a 'pretty girl' begins to get to her and, worse, those who can see through her surgery ridicule her and tag her as the ' Gangnam plastic surgery monster' and as Mi-rae's tries to recover her self-esteem as she gets to know her classmate, and former schoolmate in middle school, Do Kyung-seok ( Cha Eun-woo) who is quite cold but very affectionate towards his sister Do Kyung-hee ( Kim Ji-min). Her 'rebirth' seems successful at first, but as her life at the university unfolds, her plan starts to backfire.

Kang Mi-rae ( Im Soo-hyang) decides to get plastic surgery after years of being bullied because of her looks. It garnered praise for its portrayal of issues affecting South Korean society, particularly on its superficial beauty standards and discrimination on the basis of physical appearance.

#My id is gangnam beauty kissasian series#

The series aired on JTBC from July 27 to September 15, 2018, every Friday and Saturday at 23:00 ( KST).

#My id is gangnam beauty kissasian tv#

The title of the webtoon and of the TV series alludes to the Korean word gangnammiin ( Gangnam beauty), a derogatory term in South Korea for people who are attractive but look as if they went through a number of plastic surgeries for a pretty face, a hot body or both. Based on the webtoon of the same name published in 2016 by Naver WEBTOON, it centers on the life of a college student who went under cosmetic surgery to evade derision from her bullies, yet her decision seems to backfire as her peers ridicule her artificial look. My ID is Gangnam Beauty) is a 2018 South Korean television series starring Im Soo-hyang, Cha Eun-woo, Jo Woo-ri and Kwak Dong-yeon. Gangnam Beauty ( Korean: 내 아이디는 강남미인 Hanja: 내 아이디는 江南美人 RR: Nae Aidineun Gangnammiin lit.