Live Your Own Life (Korean: 효심이네 각자도생) is an ongoing South Korean television series starring Uee, Ha Jun, and Go Joo-won. The series is about a daughter who devoted her whole life to her family, but now breaking away because of hard time they gave and living an independent life.
DIRECTOR– Kim Hyeong-il
WRITTEN BY– Jo Jeong-seon
EPISODES– 50
GENRE– Family, Romance
LANGUAGE– Korean
COUNTRY– South Korea
NETWORK– KBS2
RELEASE DATE– September 16, 2023
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TRAILER
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SYNOPSIS
When Lee Hyo-Sim (Uee) was a child, her father left their family, which included her mother and two siblings. Seeing her mother with tears, Lee Hyo-Sim decided to be a good daughter. After graduating from high school, Lee Hyo-Sim got a job as a fitness trainer and began to support her family.
Now, Lee Hyo-Sim works as a fitness trainer at a gym in Gangnam. She is still breadwinner of her family and devoted to them. Somehow, she begins to place herself first and try to have a life independently from her family. Her family also tries to become independent and stop living off Lee Hyo-Sim.
Meanwhile, Lee Hyo-Sim gets involved with Kang Tae-Ho (Ha-Joon). He is a director in the planning department of a large company. He is smart, confident, and a good looking man.
Main Cast
- Uee as Lee Hyo-sim, third sibling, trainer from TS Fitness
- Ha Jun as Kang Tae-ho
- Go Joo-won as Kang Tae-min, heir to Taesan Group
Supporting Cast
Hyo-sim’s family
- Yoon Mi-ra as Lee Seon-soon, Hyo-sim’s mother
- Nam Sung-jin as Lee Hyo-seong, Hyo-sim’s older brother
- Lim Ji-eun as Yang Hee-joo, Hyo-seong’s wife
- Seo Seol-hwan as Lee Hyo-jun, Hyo-sim’s second brother, high school student
- Kim Do-yeon as Lee Hyo-do, Hyo-sim’s younger brother
- Lee Ga-yeon as Ruby, Hyo-seong and Hee-joo’s eldest daughter
- Lee Joo-won as Lee Phillip, the youngest son of Hyo-seong and Hee-joo. Elementary student.
Tae-ho’s family
- Jeong Young-sook as Choi Myung-hee, Tae-ho’s grandmother
- Lee Hwi-hyang as Jang Sook-hyang, Jin-beom’s wife, Tae-hee’s mother.
- Noh yeong-guk (Ep. 1~7) – Kim Kyu-chul (Ep. 8~50) as Kang Jin-beom, the current chairman of Taesan Group, Sook-hyang’s husband.
- Lee Kwang-ki as Yeo Jin-su, executive director, Taesan Group
- Kim Bi-joo as Kang Tae-hee, the precious daughter of Taesan Group. Jang Sook-hyang’s daughter.
Uicheon Villa
- Jeon Won-ju as Bang Geun-soon, Uicheon Villa building owner, her children and grandchildren have immigrated to the United States.
- Park Geun-soo as Park Woo-joo, a golf instructor
- Kim Yu-ha as Park Ga-on, the cutie of Uicheon Villa. An elementary school student.
TS Fitness
- Kang Shin-jo as Yang Jeon-min
- Rho Sang-bo as Hwang Chi, a dumb trainer
- Lee Ye-sol as Min Ga-young, a trainer
- Jin Tae-hyun as Jang Seon-woo, a trainer
- Yoon Ye-in as a talkative old lady who always comes in first at 6 a.m
- Choo Eun-kyung as Kang Jeong-suk
- Lee Chun-sik as Hwang No-sik, a grandfather who likes to talk about politics.
- Park Ki-sun as Choi In-soo, current orthopedic surgeon
- Kim Jong-hoon as Choi Mi-nam, the trainer who caused a commotion at TS Fitness because he couldn’t distinguish between public and private affairs.
Others
- Nam Bo-ra as Jeong Mi-rim, an aspiring celebrity
- Lim Ju-eun as Choi Sook-yung, daughter of the president and anchor of Korea’s best full-length TV live.
- Lee Seung-cheol as Chairman Choi, president of TV Live
- Ahn Hong-jin as Park Jong-min, private loan man
- Lee Ho-jae as Kang Geun-man, Tae-ho’s grandfather, the first chairman of Taesan Group
- Park Hyung-joon as Kang Joon-beom, Tae-ho’s father, he was so capable during his lifetime that he was likely to be the successor to Taesan but died in an accident at Daegwallyeong Pass.
Extended Cast
- Park Yeo-reum as Han So-ra, nurse
- Kim Mi-ra as Madame Seo, concubine of Taesan Group’s first chairman Kang Geun-man.
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