Beautiful World (TV series)

Beautiful World (Korean: 아름다운 세상; RR: Areumdaun Sesang) is a 2019 South Korean television series starring Park Hee-soon, Choo Ja-hyun, Oh Man-seok, Cho Yeo-jeong, Nam Da-reum and Kim Hwan-hee. It aired on JTBC from April 5 to May 25, 2019.[3]

Beautiful World
Promotional poster
Hangul아름다운 세상
Genre
Written byKim Ji-woo
Directed byPark Chan-hong
Starring
Country of originSouth Korea
Original language(s)Korean
No. of episodes16
Production
Executive producer(s)Lee Jung-hee
Running time60 minutes
Production company(s)MI Inc.[2]
NK Mulsan
DistributorJTBC
Release
Original networkJTBC
Picture format1080i (HDTV)
Audio formatDolby Digital
Original releaseApril 5 (2019-04-05) –
May 25, 2019 (2019-05-25)
External links
Website

Synopsis

The series follows the story of a boy who becomes critically injured due to an incident of school violence and his family who seeks the truth and fights for justice in his name.[4]

Cast

Main
A high school physics teacher.[5]
Moo-jin's wife who runs a bakery named after their children.[5]
The chairman of a private school foundation.[5]
Jin-pyo's wife who is from a wealthy family.[5]
Moo-jin and In-ha's son who is a third year middle school student when he becomes a victim of school violence.[6]
Sun-ho's younger sister who attends the same school.[6]

Supporting
  • Hwang Tae-kwang as Lee Sang-woo
A rich man who inherited a fortune from his parents.[7]
A boy who lives without hope for the future in an unfortunate environment.[8]
Dong-soo little sister.
  • Seo Dong-hyun as Oh Joon-seok
Jin-pyo and Eun-joo's son.[9]
  • Lee Ji-hyun as Lim Sook-hee[10]

Ratings
  • In this table, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.
  • N/A denotes that the rating is not known.
Ep. Broadcast date Average audience share
(AGB Nielsen)[11]
NationwideSeoul
1 April 5, 2019 2.178% N/A
2 April 6, 2019 2.926% 3.099%
3 April 12, 2019 3.053% 3.515%
4 April 13, 2019 3.306% 4.006%
5 April 19, 2019 3.346% 3.637%
6 April 20, 2019 3.267% 3.621%
7 April 26, 2019 3.334% 3.665%
8 April 27, 2019 4.001% 4.553%
9 May 3, 2019 3.727% 3.921%
10 May 4, 2019 3.451% 3.804%
11 May 10, 2019 4.222% 4.451%
12 May 11, 2019 4.643% 4.885%
13 May 17, 2019 4.087% 4.505%
14 May 18, 2019 4.331% 5.284%
15 May 24, 2019 4.910% 4.871%
16 May 25, 2019 5.785% 7.076%
Average 3.785% —[lower-alpha 1]
  • This drama airs on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS).

Notes
  1. Due to some ratings not recorded, the exact average rating is unknown.

References
  1. "추자현, JTBC 드라마 '아름다운 세상'로 복귀…4월 방송 예정". Naver (in Korean). Sports DongA. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  2. "JTBC '아름다운 세상' 박희순·추자현, 오만석·조여정 캐스팅 확정". JTBC News (in Korean). JTBC Content Hub Co., Ltd. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
  3. Jung, Da-min (April 5, 2019). "New JTBC drama brings up school violence issue". The Korea Times. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  4. [아름다운 세상] 프로그램 정보. JTBC (in Korean). Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  5. [공식] 박희순·추자현·오만석·조여정, '아름다운 세상' 캐스팅 확정. Naver (in Korean). Seoul Economy Daily. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
  6. "'아름다운 세상' 남다름X김환희, 출연 확정…남매로 만난다[공식]". Nate (in Korean). Herald Pop. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
  7. "Hwang Tae-kwang to Star in "Beautiful World" with Park Hee-soon and Choo Ja-hyun". HanCinema. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
  8. "서영주, JTBC 신작 '아름다운 세상' 출연…상처 입은 소년 한동수役". Naver (in Korean). Tenasia. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
  9. "배우 서동현, JTBC '아름다운 세상' 출연…남다름·김환희와 호흡". Naver (in Korean). Tenasia. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
  10. "배우 이지현, JTBC '아름다운 세상' 합류…박희순x추자현 호흡". Naver (in Korean). TV Report. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
  11. "AGB Daily Ratings: this links to current day-select the date from drop down menu". AGB Nielsen Media Research (in Korean).
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