[tvN] MC Mong, Park Yeh Jin, Kang Kyeong Joon
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Scheduled premiere: July 4th, 2007
When: Wednesday/Thursday nights on tvN at 11 P.M.
Total Episodes: 24
Cast: MC Mong, Park Yeh Jin, Kang Kyeong Joon, Jang Hyun Sung
The drama is an adaptation of the popular internet comic turned manhwa (graphic novel) by Kang Do Ha. The manhwa is critically acclaimed having won many awards and is so popular there is also a musical adaptation.
Story
Introduction to the first volume:
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Catsby, twenty-something nobody, loses his girl-friend to another man.
A richer man. His pal Houndu treats him to wine, women and song, but there's no forgetting the lost Persu. The thousand humiliations of youth are poured upon Catsby, who feels far too much to begin with, and whose prospects go from bad to worse. Now he's petrified by his father, now drunk on the floor, now freaking over a blind-date, now convinced it's all for nothing. And that's just volume one of this groundbreaking new series.
No detail however vulgar or delicate is left out as the angst of youth is beautifully dissected.
A richer man. His pal Houndu treats him to wine, women and song, but there's no forgetting the lost Persu. The thousand humiliations of youth are poured upon Catsby, who feels far too much to begin with, and whose prospects go from bad to worse. Now he's petrified by his father, now drunk on the floor, now freaking over a blind-date, now convinced it's all for nothing. And that's just volume one of this groundbreaking new series.
No detail however vulgar or delicate is left out as the angst of youth is beautifully dissected.
Read the rest at your own risk. Stoyline and unfolding plots will be spoiled..
Second volume:
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Catsby is wrestling with a whole new set of life's challenges in this volume. His first love is gone for good - or is she? Meanwhile, a new woman arrives on the scene with some very interesting ideas about what couples can get up when there's no one else around. And Catsby's trusted confidante and drinking buddy Houndu begins to reveal some surprising predilections of his own - like a weakness for married women (whose husbands he just happens to be working for!).
Third volume:
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Volume 3 finds our hero slowly heading down the road to maturity, thanks to his deepening relationship with his new girlfriend Sun. But it wouldn't be Catsby without plenty of hilarious and touching detours along the way - like an ill-fated job interview, learning to shop (or have your sweetie shop) for winter clothes, and discovering that your "shadow" happens to look a lot like your ex-girlfriend.
Meanwhile, the nearby housing development is going to be called "Provence" - but as Catsby learns, he can travel to a Provence of the mind whenever he's alone with a certain someone. Will true love find a way? Will our hero ever learn to support himself? And will Houndu ever be able to shake the flu?
Meanwhile, the nearby housing development is going to be called "Provence" - but as Catsby learns, he can travel to a Provence of the mind whenever he's alone with a certain someone. Will true love find a way? Will our hero ever learn to support himself? And will Houndu ever be able to shake the flu?
Fourth volume:
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The fourth and most wrenching Catsby yet starts with an ominous dream - featuring some all-too-literal "mixed signals" - and only grows more intense from there, as Catsby and his buddy Houndu find themselves navigating the deeper waters of love, whether requited or unrequited.
See abject poverty force Catsby into a new role as housekeeper, and find out whether the warmth of a beating heart can turn a humble offering of spicy rice cakes into the richest meal imaginable...
See abject poverty force Catsby into a new role as housekeeper, and find out whether the warmth of a beating heart can turn a humble offering of spicy rice cakes into the richest meal imaginable...
Fifth volume:
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Persu has a shocking announcement to make that reverberates through the lives of all the characters. Now that she's pregnant, Catsby, who has been slowly building a happy relationship with Sun, starts to reconsider the decisions he's made. Meanwhile, Persu's husband finds strength to overcome the tragedy of his past and starts looking to a future - a future that includes Persu and her baby. And then Houndu has a day of reckoning of his own.
And still going.. the sixth volume is scheduled to come out this summer and probably more volumes to come..
How much the actual drama will follow the manhwa's story is up to the discretion of the writer of the drama, so storylines and plots in the drama may not follow exactly as the manhwa.
Cast
MC Mong as Catsby
Park Yeh Jin as Persu
Kang Kyeong Joon as Houndu
Jang Hyun Sung as Burdock (Persu's new man)
Kang Hae Min as Sun
Characters
Catsby
Catsby is a twenty-something feline down on his luck. He finds out he's in love only when his lover leaves him to marry another man.
Persu
Persu is Catsby's girlfriend of six years. One day out of the blue, she leaves Catsby with a wedding invitation... a wedding of herself and a man other than Catsby. Persu is a mysterious woman who invites Catsby to her wedding without reserve while telling him to wear a tie that her husband will be wearing at the wedding.
Houndu
Houndu is a dog-about-town and faithful friend of Catsby. He is ever-ready to help Catsby forget his worries with cheap food, bad booze, floozies. A real pal.
Sun
Sun is a "C-class" woman Catsby meets through a matchmaker. She is an extrovert who doesn't hesitate to act on her feelings even when they can come off as a bit strange.
credits
Since the manhwa has a 16+ age rating and the drama will be on a cable channel, I'm pretty sure this will garner a 19+ warning and wil NOT be a kid-friendly drama, like the previous tvN dramedy Hyena.