The City Hall (TV series)
| The City Hall | |
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| Genre | Romance, Comedy, Drama |
| Written by | Kim Eun-sook |
| Directed by | Shin Woo-chul |
| Starring |
Kim Sun-a Cha Seung-won |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language(s) | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
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| Location(s) | South Korea |
| Running time | Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 (KST) |
| Production company(s) | Yein Culture |
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| Original network | Seoul Broadcasting System |
| Original release | April 29 – July 2, 2009 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Cain and Abel |
| Followed by | Swallow the Sun |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The City Hall (Hangul: 시티홀; RR: Siti Hol; lit. "City Hall") is a 2009 South Korean television series starring Kim Sun-a and Cha Seung-won. It aired on SBS from April 29 to July 2, 2009 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
Written by Kim Eun-sook and directed by Shin Woo-chul, the story revolves around a low-ranking government clerk who becomes the youngest mayor of the fictional Inju City, and her romance with an ambitious and cynical deputy mayor.
The drama series also marked movie star Cha Seung-won's return to the small screen after a six-year absence.
For the past seven years, Shin Mi-rae has been the lowest ranking public servant working in Inju City Hall. Her main job is to serve coffee to the high-ranking public officials. Mi-rae owes a huge credit card debt, so she enters a beauty pageant to win the first prize of ₩20,000,000 (approximately US$20,000). But when the prize money ends up in the corrupt mayor's pocket, Mi-rae holds a one-person demonstration in front of the city hall. After a series of ups and downs, Mi-rae gets her prize money, but has no choice but to resign from her job. When the situation is leaked to the press, the mayor resigns as well. The job of mayor is up for grabs and Mi-rae becomes nominated as a mayoral candidate. With the support of her followers and the backing of Jo Gook, the powerful deputy mayor, she becomes elected as the youngest mayor of Inju. With no political background but filled with the desire to genuinely work for her constituents, Mi-rae begins to reform the bureaucratic culture of the city hall administration. But in the process she butts heads with the cold-hearted and cool-headed Jo Gook, who had an ulterior motive in installing her and has presidential ambitions of his own.
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