Bad Family (TV series)
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| Also known as | Fake Family Service Wanted Perfect Family |
| Genre | Comedy, Drama |
| Written by | Lee Hee-myung Han Eun-kyung |
| Directed by | Yoo In-shik |
| Starring |
Kim Myung-min Nam Sang-mi Im Hyun-sik Yeo Woon-kay Kang Nam-gil Geum Bo-ra Kim Heechul Lee Young-yoo |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Go Heung-shik |
| Producer(s) | Bae Tae-sub Kang Shin-hyo |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 60 minutes Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 (KST) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Seoul Broadcasting System |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV |
| Original release | March 22 – May 11, 2006 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Tree of Heaven |
| Followed by | Smile Again |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Bad Family (Hangul: 불량가족; RR: Bulryang Gajok) is a South Korean television series starring Kim Myung-min, Nam Sang-mi, Im Hyun-sik, Yeo Woon-kay, Kang Nam-gil, Geum Bo-ra, Kim Heechul and Lee Young-yoo. It aired on SBS from March 22 to May 11, 2006 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
Baek Na-rim is a nine-year-old girl living happily with her big, extended family. One day, while on their way to a family vacation, Ha In-soo, an unscrupulous businessman that Na-rim's father had cut ties with, desperately tries to flag down their van. But in the process, In-soo accidentally runs their van off the road, causing a car crash. Her entire family dies, and Na-rim is the sole survivor. Grabbing his opportunity, In-soo conceals that he was ever at the scene of the accident.
Traumatized from the accident, Na-rim now suffers from amnesia and speech impairment. Her doctor advises her only remaining relative Byun, an uncle who wasn't with the family at the time of the accident, that she shouldn't be exposed to any more shock and that it would aid in her recovery if she's reminded of her happy memories with her family. So Byun hires Oh Dal-geon, a former small-time gangster who runs an agency that provides fake wedding guests and fake funeral mourners, to create a seven-member "fake family" for Na-rim, exactly the same number of members as her real, deceased one.
Dal-geon auditions and hires six oddball characters, mostly entrepreneurs from the local market who owe him money: "fake grandfather" Jang Hwang-gu is an aging ladies' man and dancing instructor; "fake grandmother" Park Bok-nyeo is a foul-mouthed mandu (dumpling) seller; "fake mother" Uhm Ji-sook is a vain coffee seller (she and Bok-nyeo are longtime mortal enemies); "fake father" Jo Gi-dong is mild-mannered and therefore useless at his job of threatening people over the phone to pay their debts; "fake brother" Gong-min is a homeless youth Dal-geon found wandering the streets; "fake sister" Kim Yang-ah is a tough young woman raising her brothers, whose fishing boat was inadvertently destroyed by Dal-geon; lastly, Dal-geon himself plays the "fake uncle."
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