#Sky castle series#

She befriends Seo-jin to get information and to achieve a perfect career and education for her family.įollowing the suicide of Lee Myung-joo ( Kim Jung-nan), mother of Park Young-jae ( Song Geon-hee), who was a former student of Joo-young and recently admitted to the Seoul National University, Lee Soo-im ( Lee Tae-ran)'s family moves into SKY Castle. She wants her son to be like her husband, Woo Yang-woo ( Jo Jae-yoon), which means becoming a doctor. Jin Jin-hee ( Oh Na-ra) is the mother of Woo Soo-han (Lee Eugene). Later it is revealed that their daughter, Cha Se-ri ( Park Yoo-na), who has always been Min-hyuk's pride since she attends Harvard University, hides something from them. She does not like the way her husband teaches their twin sons, Cha Seo-joon ( Kim Dong-hee) and Cha Ki-joon ( Jo Byeong-kyu). No Seung-hye ( Yoon Se-ah) is the wife of Cha Min-hyuk ( Kim Byung-chul), a perfectionist law professor. 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. She wants her eldest daughter, Kang Ye-seo ( Kim Hye-yoon), to also become a doctor. Han Seo-jin ( Yum Jung-ah) is married to an ambitious doctor, Kang Joon-sang ( Jung Joon-ho). 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 get that. 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.

#Sky castle series#

The drama received positive reviews from critics and won multiple awards, including four at the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards.Ī 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.

Īt the time of airing, Sky Castle was the highest rated drama in Korean cable television history.

It aired on JTBC on Fridays and Saturdays, from November 23, 2018, to February 1, 2019. Sky Castle ( Korean: SKY 캐슬 stylized as SKY Castle) is a 2018–2019 South Korean television series starring Yum Jung-ah, Lee Tae-ran, Yoon Se-ah, Oh Na-ra, and Kim Seo-hyung.