Miss Mermaid
| Miss Mermaid | |
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Promotional poster
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| Also known as | 'Little Mermaid Mermaid Lady Story of a Mermaid Irene' |
| Genre |
Melodrama Romance Family Revenge |
| Written by | Im Sung-han |
| Directed by | Lee Joo-hwan |
| Starring |
Jang Seo-hee Kim Sung-taek |
| Composer(s) | Oh Jin-woo |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language(s) | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 256 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Lee Jae-kap |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation |
| Original release | June 24, 2002 – June 27, 2003 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Miss Mermaid (Hangul: 인어아가씨; RR: Ineo Agassi) is a South Korean television series starring Jang Seo-hee and Kim Sung-taek. It aired on MBC from June 24, 2002 to June 27, 2003 on Mondays to Fridays at 19:50 for 256 episodes.
Miss Mermaid became a nationwide hit upon airing, reaching a peak viewership rating of 43.6%. The cast won several trophies at the 2002 MBC Drama Awards, notably the Daesang ("Grand Prize") for Jang Seo-hee. The series led to Jang's pan-Asian popularity, particularly in China.
But Miss Mermaid was also criticized for Im Sung-han's sensationalistic writing and unrealistic plot twists, as well as the show's multiple extensions.
Miss Mermaid was entitled 'Irene' in the Philippines since her role was named as such in the said country, and not Eun Ah Ri Young.
Eun Ah-ri-young is a successful television drama screenwriter with a past. Her father Eun Jin-sub had an affair and left their family for the other woman, and shortly after her autistic brother died and her mother Han Kyung-hye went blind. Ah-ri-young's unrelenting hate for her father throughout her childhood and adolescence drives her to meticulously plan her vengeance. Knowing that Jin-sub's new wife Shim Soo-jung is a popular actress, Ah-ri-young works her way up the ranks until she earns enough cachet in the TV industry. Then she writes a script that's a thinly veiled autobiography of her father's affair and its aftermath, and casts the unsuspecting Soo-jung in the role of the blind mother to make her feel guilty. To complete her revenge and cause the maximum amount of pain, Ah-ri-young also plots to steal the fiance of her half-sister Eun Ye-young, the gentle-natured Lee Joo-wang. Helping Ah-ri-young in her plans is Jo Soo-ah, her mother's friend whose ulterior motive is that she wants Ah-ri-young to marry her son Ma Ma-joon. But Ah-ri-young finds herself falling in love with Joo-wang for real, and she eventually realizes that there is more to life than hatred and learns the true meaning of forgiveness.
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