Im Sung-han
| Im Sung-han | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Im Young-ran August 24, 1960 South Korea |
| Other names | Lim/Yim Sung-han Im Hyang-ran |
| Education | Chungju National University - Computer Science |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1990-2015 |
| Agent | Myeongseongdang Entertainment |
| Spouse(s) | Son Moon-kwon (2007-12; his death) |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 임성한 |
| Revised Romanization | Im Seong-han |
| McCune–Reischauer | Im Sŏng-han |
| Birth name | |
| Hangul | 임영란 |
| Revised Romanization | Im Yeong-nan |
| McCune–Reischauer | Im Yŏngnan |
Im Sung-han (born Im Young-ran on August 24, 1960) is a South Korean television screenwriter. Her best-known dramas include Miss Mermaid and Dear Heaven.
Im Sung-han began her career writing for single-episode anthologies. Her first known work was the 1991 episode "Standing in a Maze" for KBS's Drama Game, then she moved on to MBC's Best Theater in 1997, with "Definitely" (for which Im won a screenplay award). She also used another pseudonym, Im Hyang-ran (Hangul: 임향란), in writing other Best Theater episodes.
This led to her first television drama series in 1998, See and See Again (also known as Looking Again and Again and Can't Take My Eyes Off You), about two families doubly related by marriage. Despite its popularity (50% viewership ratings), it was considered by TV critics as one of the worst dramas that year. Im's follow-up Foolish Princes (2000) was about four half-brothers, and she and director Jo Jung-hyun had conflicts over her writing.
Miss Mermaid (2002) starred Jang Seo-hee as a TV writer whose father left her and her blind mother years ago, so she decides to wreak revenge by writing a thinly veiled autobiographical series and casts her unsuspecting stepmother, an actress, in the role of the blind, deserted wife; she also steals her half-sister's fiance. It recorded high ratings of 40%, resulting in several extensions for the drama. At the MBC Drama Awards, Jang won Best Actress and the Grand Prize. But Miss Mermaid also attracted criticism, and the Anti Im Sung-han Café was established, an Internet community club whose thousands of members are vehement critics of Im. It was the first ever "anti-café" to target a Korean drama writer. Their online posts mocked the drama's "nonsensical" plot, along with scenes which implied that a baby's autism was caused by his mother's stress during a divorce, and that washing each strawberry with a toothbrush is described as normal.
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