top of page

Smile, Dong Hae

Details

  • Title: Smile, Dong Hae / 웃어라 동해야
  • Also known as: Smile Again
  • Genre: Romance, Family
  • Episodes: 159
  • Network: KBS1
  • First episode: October 4, 2010
  • Final episode: May 13, 2011
  • Air time: Monday - Friday 20:25

Synopsis

Dong Hae was raised in America by his beautiful but unmarried and mentally deficient mother, Anna Laker, who was adopted there. He goes to Korea for a short-track skating competition and brings his mother along in secret, arranging for her to be picked up at the airport by his girlfriend, Yoon Sae Wa, an ambitious TV announcer who harbors a secret disdain for Anna's disability. Dong Hae meets Bong Yi, a poor assistant chef, when Sae Wa prioritizes her job and sends her to meet Anna instead. After Sae Wa later betrays him, Dong Hae begins to search for his father, creating a new family and finding new romance along the way.

Cast

  • Ji Chang Wook as Dong Hae / Carl Laker
  • Do Ji Won as Anna Laker / Jo Dong Baek (Dong Hae's mother)
  • Alex as Lee Tae Hoon
  • Oh Ji Eun as Lee Bong Yi
  • Lee Jang Woo as Kim Do Jin
  • Park Jung Ah as Yoon Sae Wa

Main Role

Supporting Role

Lee family
  • Im Chae Moo as Lee Kang Jae
  • Lee Bo Hee as Gye Sun Ok
  • Kim Yoo Suk as Lee Pil Jae
  • Lee Joon Ha as Lee Song Yi (Pil Jae's daughter)

Kim family
  • Kang Suk Woo as Kim Joon
  • Jung Ae Ri as Hong Hye Sook
​
Yoon family
  • Park Hae Mi as Byun Sool Nyeo
  • Lee Joo Yeon as Yoon Sae Young

Others
  • Kim Sung Won as Jo Pil Yong (Anna's birth father)
  • Jung Young Sook as Kim Mal Sun (Anna's birth mother)
  • Choi Yoon So as Baek Yoo Jin
  • Lee Jung Ho as Lee Dae Sam
  • Kang Chul Sung as Home Shopping PD
  • Jung Eun Woo as Kim Sun Woo
  • Kim Sung Hoon as policeman
  • Kim Jin Soo as Bang Ki Nam
  • Kim Yoon Hee as Jung Soon Hye
  • Go Do Young as Jung Sun Ae

Cameo

  • Shin Dong Yub as hotel restaurant kitchen assistant
  • Yoon Jong Shin as hotel restaurant kitchen assistant

Production

  • Producer: Moon Bo Hyun
  • Directors: Kim Myung Wook, Mo Wan Il
  • Assistant Director: Lee Jae Hoon
  • Screenwriter: Moon Eun Ah
bottom of page