Alice (South Korean TV series)
A human sci-fi drama about time travel and lost emotions.
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Alice is a 2020 South Korean television series starring Kim Hee-sun and Joo Won. It aired on SBS from August 28 to October 24, 2020, on Fridays and Saturdays at 22:00 (KST) for its entire run. The show is billed as a human sci-fi drama involving a woman who looks like a deceased person and a man who has lost his emotions, connected through time travel. In the year 2050, the agency Alice sends clients back in time to visit deceased loved ones for closure.
Alice also polices time incursions. Agents Yoon Tae-yi (Kim Hee-sun) and Yoo Min-hyuk (Kwak Si-yang) travel to 1992 to retrieve the Book of Prophecy, which predicts certain people's fates and the end of time travel. However, an agent working for the Teacher finds young Tae-yi and kills her father for the book. Before dying, her father gives the final page to little Tae-yi.
Tae-yi and Min-hyuk obtain the book and have the agent arrested. When Tae-yi discovers she is pregnant by Min-hyuk, he advises abortion due to radiation risks from time travel. She disappears with the book to raise the child. Tae-yi renames herself Park Sun-young and raises her son, Park Jin-gyeom (Joo Won).
Born with alexithymia, he struggles to recognize emotions and is called a psychopath by classmates. He unknowingly has the ability to manipulate time in life-and-death situations. In 2010, Jin-gyeom finds his mother murdered and vows to find her killer. Detective Go Hyeon-seok (Kim Sang-ho) and classmate Kim Do-yeon (Lee Da-in) care for him.
By 2020, Jin-gyeom becomes a detective under Hyeon-seok and learns about time travelers, Alice, the Teacher, and the truth behind his mother's death. The main cast includes Kim Hee-sun as Yoon Tae-yi and Park Sun-young, with Kim Ji-yu as young Tae-yi. Joo Won plays Park Jin-gyeom, with Moon Joo-won and Moon Woo-jin as younger versions. Supporting roles include Kwak Si-yang as Yoo Min-hyuk, Lee Da-in as Kim Do-yeon, Kim Sang-ho as Go Hyeon-seok, and Choi Won-young as Seok Oh-won.
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Other cast members include police station staff, Alice employees, and people around Yoon Tae-yi, as well as special appearances by Jang Hyun-sung, Park In-soo, and others. This series marks Joo Won's first acting role after completing his mandatory military service on February 5, 2019.
Cast
Kim Hee-sun plays two roles: Yoon Tae-yi, a brilliant physicist who looks exactly like Park Sun-young, and Park Sun-young herself, a woman whose mysterious death leaves her son with a strange final request. Kim Ji-yu portrays a younger version of Tae-yi. Joo Won is Park Jin-gyeom, a detective who cannot feel or show emotions and was raised only by his mother. Moon Joo-won and Moon Woo-jin appear as Jin-gyeom at different ages.
Kwak Si-yang plays Yoo Min-hyuk, a skilled time traveler and agent for Alice who sacrificed someone he loved for the organization. Lee Da-in plays Kim Do-yeon, a reporter and Jin-gyeom’s only friend, who has liked him since high school. Kim Sang-ho is Go Hyeon-seok, the senior detective who worked on Park Sun-young’s murder case and later raised Jin-gyeom with his wife. Choi Won-young plays Seok Oh-won, who runs the Kuiper Institute of Advanced Science.
The cast also includes Lee Jae-yoon, Jung Wook, Jihyuk, Choi Hong-il, Kim Kyung-nam, Hwang Seung-eon, Yang Ji-il, Nam Kyung, Choi Jung-woo, Oh Young-sil, Yeonwoo, Bae Hae-sun, Min Jun-ho, Oh Se-young, Lee Su-woong, Yoon Joo-man, Jang Hyun-sung, Park In-soo, Oh Yeon-ah, Seo Yi-soo, and Lee Seung-hyung.
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- Wikipedia: Alice (South Korean TV series) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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