Prime Video Philippines announced today that it will launch the highly anticipated K-drama Curtain Call on October 31. Starring Kang Ha-neul, Ha Ji-won, Go Doo-shim, Sung Dong–il, Jung Jis-o, Noh Sang-hyun, and Kwon Sang-woo, the new tv series revolves around people involved in a scam of a man given the special mission of making a terminally ill grandmother’s wish come true and the man’s struggles to maintain his cover.
Synopsis:
To fulfill the last wish of a dying woman from North Korea, an actor is hired to deceive her, pretending to be a grandson that she barely knows but longs to meet. However, he struggles to maintain his cover as he starts to fall for a stunning woman who must not learn his secret.
Ja Geumsoon, born in Hamgyeong province in the northern part of Korea in 1930, was separated from her husband and child while fleeing from the flames of war. She sets up ‘Nak-Won Inn’ in South Korea, hoping to meet her separated family again someday when the ceasefire line between the two Koreas disappears.
After 15 years in South Korea, Geumsoon meets a man who understands her, and she starts a new family. ‘Nak Won Inn’ flourishes under her management as South Korea’s economy grows and it becomes the prestigious ‘Hotel Paradise’. Time passes and Geumsoon has 3 children in South Korea who could one day inherit the prospering hotel business. However, she learns that her son, who has left North Korea, also has a son. She hopes to meet this grandson before she dies.
Character intros:
Yoo Jaehun (Kang Ha-neul) – A person full of self-love and self-esteem, he has a positive and optimistic personality. Although he grew up as an orphan, he believes that doing what makes him happy is more important than money, which led him to become an actor. He hopes to star on TV to show other orphans that they too can become whoever they want, despite their background. But this is a big dream, and he has yet to even get past his small town’s local theater. He doesn’t let this get him down as he believes that the right opportunity will come to him eventually.
In order to survive, he takes on a variety of part-time jobs. He immerses himself into each
job with the idea that these experiences can help him in future acting roles. Believing that a true professional is one who tries their best, he naturally becomes a jack of all trades and impresses others with his professional-level skills in just about every field. So when he takes on the role of a North Korean at his local theater, he gets noticed by a man who offers him a once-in-a-lifetime role —to become an old woman’s North Korean grandson… in real life. He has no choice but to accept the offer, and as with any job he takes on, he becomes the perfect
grandson. But a problem arises when he falls in love with the woman’s niece. As his head and his heart fight for control, will he be able to successfully see the end of this three-month play?
Park Seyeon (Ha Ji-won) – Seyeon is Geumsoon’s youngest grandchild and general manager of Paradise Hotel. She losther parents as a child and believes that she is the only one in her family who can rightfully take over her grandmother’s hotel. While others from conglomerate families were attending prestigious foreign schools, she attended a local university and worked part time at Paradise Hotel, learning almost every aspect of the business.
Unlike her peers, she grew up with, she can relate to people of different backgrounds. She uses public transportation for her everyday commute, but has no problem taking a quick weekend trip to New York to see her favorite broadway show. Seyeon believes she’s the only one of her siblings who can truly lead the hotel, unlike her eldest stepbrother who left Korea to attend an American university and her older stepbrother who couldn’t care less about the family business. And as the only biological granddaughter, Geumsoon dotes on her more than
her brothers. Will she be able to fight back her feelings and join forces with her stepbrother to save the hotel? Or will she end up having to marry her ex-fiance in an effort to win against her eldest stepbrother?
Bae Dongje (Kwon Sang-woo) – Heir of distribution chain conglomerate, Samwoo Group. Bae Dong Jae, born into a wealthy family, is described as very handsome with an aura of royalty. He has his own firm logic and
conviction in his words, so he is a man of the kind who never listens to nonsense. His words and actions are always bold, although they are not very considerate of others’ feelings. However, Bae Dong Jae gets shaken by something he has lost in the past.
Ja Geumsoon (Go Doo-shim) – Geumsoon married and had a child in her late teens. But while traveling to the South to avoid war, she was tragically separated from her family. She opens an inn with the hope of reuniting with her family. She named it “Paradise Inn” to provide a bit of paradise to those affected by the war and those with nowhere to go. This was the start of what is now one of Korea’s leading hotel chains. She meets a businessman staying as a guest at Paradise Inn who had fallen in love with her despite all she’s been through, eventually winning over her heart. Together they start a family with the birth of their son, and with her husband’s help, she buys land to convert her small inn into a hotel which soon becomes the best hotel in Korea.
Life with her new family blooms with the success of her hotel and her son’s growing family, until she receives news that her previous husband had died but their baby had survived. After multiple delays of the reunion of families separated by the war, in 2000, she meets her grandson whom her son had had later in life. She can’t forget the moment and the feeling of his tiny hands in hers. But this would be the last time she sees them. Her husband and his family passes away in the ’80. The only family she has left are her grandchildren in the South. She has three months left to live, and her only wish is to meet her grandson one last time.
Jung Sangcheol (Sung Dong-il) – The former manager of Paradise Hotel and the right-hand man of the general manager. He has a noble, neat face, straight posture, and a soft voice, reminiscent of an English gentleman. But he has a past one could never imagine. Growing up an orphan, he had become a gangster in order to survive. Until one day, he puts his life on the line to save Geumsoon, who was being threatened with a knife. To repay him, Geumsoon takes care of him and nurses him back to health. As he recovers, she hires him to work for her at her hotel. It was then he decides that he would devote his life to her. He knows everything about Geumsoon more than her own family does. So when he learns of her past, he uses his connections to locate her grandson in the North. But when they discover his whereabouts, he’s no longer the young and innocent child he was during the
reunion. After defecting from the North, he had become a smuggler and drug dealer in order to survive. Would a reunion between Geumsoon and her grandson really be the best for her? But when news of Geumsoon’s declining health arises, Sang-cheol suddenly gets an idea —what if he hires an actor to play her grandson? He has just the perfect person in mind…
Seo Yoonhee (Jung Ji-so) – No-name actress who lives life to the fullest and member of the super-elite. An unknown theater actress but a super-elite who enjoys her life. As a fellow performer in a troupe with Yoo Jae-hun, she is loved by the director due to her fluidity in playing any role, along with her tremendous script memorization and unique agility.
Ri Moonsung (Noh Sanghyun) – The real grandson of Geumsoon. He is a smuggler from North Korea and a gangster belonging to a Korean-Chinese drug organization. He turned against the organization and
inflicted numerous casualties, then disappeared.
