
The Impossible Heir
2024

A drama about an elderly woman from North Korea who doesn’t have much time left to live and a theatre actor who acts as her grandson in order to fulfill her final wish.
Episode 1Oct 31, 2022 · 60m · ★ 8.0The Chair of Nakwon Hotel, Ja Geum-sun, yearns to meet her family left behind long ago in North Korea. There is tension in her South Korean family: her grandson Se-jun tries to sell the hotel, while granddaughter Se-yeon fights to stop her brother. Meanwhile, someone seeks out Jae-heon, an unknown theater actor, for an unusual task.
Episode 2Nov 1, 2022 · 64m · ★ 7.5As Se-yeon tries to stop the disposal of hotel, her ex-fiancé, Dong-je, appears. Meanwhile, after accepting Sangcheol’s proposal, Jae-heon considers who to recruit to help carry out his mission. The curtain finally rises on a grand play, created and performed for one particular person.
Episode 3Nov 7, 2022 · 60m · ★ 8.0Geum-sun greets the arriving couple, Jae-heon and Yoonhee, with a face full of excitement and touched emotion. However, each member of the household has their own opinions and feelings about the newcomers, especially since Jae-heon will receive a stake in the hotel. Se-yeon takes Jae-heon on a tour of Seoul, hoping to influence him to her side.
Episode 4Nov 8, 2022 · 60m · ★ 8.0Jae-heon and Yoonhee try their best to maintain their cover as Geum-sun’s grandson and his wife. They put their heart and soul into acting as Ri Moon-seong and Jang Jinsook, trying to bring joy to Geum-sun while avoiding the suspicions of her family and others who could reveal their true identities.
Episode 5Nov 14, 2022 · 62m · ★ 9.0Se-yeon persuades Geum-sun to have Jae-heon work at the hotel. Since he has plenty of experience working in part-time jobs, Jae-heon quickly adapts and shows his talents. But not everyone welcomes Jae-heon, and they are trying to make things difficult for him.
Episode 6Nov 15, 2022 · 61m · ★ 9.0Se-jun accelerates his plan to sell the hotel. Se-yeon meets her ex-fiancé Dong-je, who owns a 4% stake and will become the casting vote for the disposal of hotel Nakwon. Meanwhile, Jae-heon, Yoon-hee, Se-yeon, and Dong-je have an unexpected dinner together.
A drama about an elderly woman from North Korea who doesn’t have much time left to live and a theatre actor who acts as her grandson in order to fulfill her final wish.
Ha Ji-wonPark Sae-yeon
Kang Ha-neulYoo Jae-heon / Ri Moon-sung
Goh Doo-shimJa Geum-soon
Sung Dong-ilJung Sang-chul
Kwon Sang-woo
Steve Sanghyun NohRi Moon-sung
Ji Seung-hyunPark Se-joon
Choi Dae-hoonPark Se-gyu
Hwang Woo-seul-hyeHyun Ji-won
Jung Zi-soSeo Yoon-hee
Bae Hae-sunYoon Jung-sook
Kim Hyun-sookHong Ra Kyung
Son Jong-hakKim Seung Do
Han Jae-yeongJang Tae Joo
Yim Sa-rangReceptionist
Seol Woo-inJung Ji-seul
Josh Newtonhotel party attendee
Baek Jin-heeJin Suk
Adam StrandtGuest
Choi Dong-guTheatre Group DirectorA lot of names were thrown around in the beginning with not a lot of context, so you had to make a mental note to connect them later on—a really annoying practice, to say the least. Supposedly, the male lead was in China before coming to SK, but the drama made it a running joke for a couple of episodes that he was a caveman. This made the whole family meeting and living together a bit too cringe. There were many ways to approach such a scenario, but it seems the writer took the lazy route. Some scenes were stretched really thin and became too awkward to continue, like that one scene of both leads and Sang Chul talking about the old hotel staff photo. The drama would've benefited from having more grandchildren and better interconnected stories between them. Although there were three grandchildren, the middle one was an insignificant sidekick and didn't contribute to the dynamic as much as I hoped. The ending brought a change of heart to all of the opposing characters, but some of them didn't seem genuine in the slightest.
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