ハ・ジウォン『カーテンコール』@ 香港South China Morning Post【2022年のベスト韓国ドラマ(Best K-dramas of 2022)】

去年の年末にKBS、MBC、SBS演技大賞が開催されて、
先月香港の英字紙「South China Morning Post」で
2022年のベスト韓国ドラマ(Best K-dramas of 2022)という記事が公開されて、
KBSドラマ『カーテンコール』で主演を務めたジウォンオンニも言及されました。💓


Best K-dramas of 2022: Lee Jong-suk, Lee Seung-gi and Kim Nam-gil among grand prizewinners in end-of-year drama awards at KBS, SBS and MBC
2023.1.9

Korea’s top three broadcasters, KBS, SBS and MBC, held their annual awards shows in quick succession just ahead of the new year

Unlike the American awards calendar, the Korean content industry holds its awards shows throughout the year – that is, except for KBS, SBS and MBC, Korea’s top three broadcasters, which hold their annual shows in quick succession just ahead of the new year.

These days, cable channels like TvN and JTBC and steaming services such as Netflix and Disney+ are arguably more well known for their drama content, but KBS, SBS and MBC – the original homes of K-drama – remain extremely important platforms.

While other awards shows focus on all dramas released during the year and seek to highlight on-screen and off-screen talent, these broadcasters seek to place the spotlight on their own offerings and celebrate the stable of actors in their shows.

Ha Ji-won in a still from Curtain Call.

For decades, many actors used to get their starts by entering in-house competitions held by these broadcasters. They would remain with the channels for several years as they built their careers, and the awards shows were a way of recognising their work.

Case in point is actress Ha Ji-won, who started out at KBS and has returned to the broadcaster several times. She won the grand prize at the KBS Drama Awards in 2006 for Hwang Jin-yi and she returned in December to pick up an actress top excellence award for Curtain Call.

Curtain Call was the most prolific winner of the night, scooping six prizes at the 2022 KBS Drama Awards. Ha’s co-star Kang Ha-neul took an actor top excellence award.


去年の年末に開催されたKBS、MBC、SBS演技大賞に焦点を当てる記事ですが、
演技大賞で受賞した作品2022年のベスト韓国ドラマ(Best K-dramas of 2022)が紹介されて、
ジウォンオンニが『カーテンコール』で最優秀女優賞を受賞したことも取り上げられました。✨

最近TvNやJTBCのようなケーブルチャンネルやNetflixやディズニー+などの
OTTサービスの作品が注目されていますが、
韓国ドラマの元祖であるKBS、SBS、MBCは相変わらず非常に重要なプラットフォームであり、
演技大賞で受賞してキャリアをスタートする俳優がたくさんいるし、
キャリアを積むにつれて、演技大賞は演技の実力が認められる形でもあります。🌟

「KBSでスタートし、数回放送局に復帰した俳優ハ・ジウォンさんが代表的だ。
2006年、KBS演技大賞で『ファン・ジニ』で大賞を受賞し、
12月に復帰して『カーテンコール』で最優秀女優賞を受賞した。

『カーテンコール』は2022年KBS演技大賞で6つの賞を受賞し、最も数多くの賞を獲得した。
ハ・ジウォンの共演者であるカン・ハヌルが最優秀男優賞を受賞した。」

16年ぶりにKBSのドラマに出演して、
さらに『カーテンコール』で最優秀女優賞を受賞したジウォンオンニ。
テレビ局が主催する演技大賞に参加して、
最優秀女優賞を受賞したのは2017年のMBC演技大賞以来!✨
久しぶりに受賞者としてステージに立つジウォンオンニを見ることができて、本当に感無量でした。🥹
今年も授賞式や映画祭でジウォンオンニの姿を見ることができたら嬉しいです。

余談ですが、アマゾンプライムビデオで配信されている『カーテンコール』は
「South China Morning Post」でも取り上げられたので、
ここに外国人記者のレビューなどの関連記事を貼っときます。


K-drama Curtain Call: Ha Ji-won, Kang Ha-neul headline comforting family melodrama set in high society

K-drama Curtain Call: Ha Ji-won, Kang Ha-neul headline comforting family melodrama set in high society
2022.11.3

  • Ha Ji-won plays a woman separated from her husband (Kang Ha-neul) in the Korean war, and the granddaughter of the same woman, who’s built a hotel empire
  • Kang also plays the woman’s North Korean criminal grandson, and an actor hired to impersonate him, in a series where nearly every character is good at heart
Ha Ji-won as Ja Geum-soon, who becomes separated from her husband (Kang Ha-neul) in a Korean war evacuation and goes on to found a business empire, in a still from Curtain Call.

An ageing hotel tycoon’s desire to reconnect with her long-lost North Korean family, and her grandchildren’s family business succession concerns, collide in new KBS melodrama Curtain Call.

Ha Ji-won, Kang Ha-neul and Go Doo-shim lead a cast filled with recognisable names in this high-society drama centred around a chaebol (family-run Korean corporation). Though most Korean dramas these days generally seek to vilify these powerful companies, Curtain Call is cut from more old-fashioned cloth.

This is a family drama where nearly everyone is essentially good at heart. At the centre of it is Ja Geum-soon (Go), a poor woman who was separated from her family during the Korean war, relocated in the south, and worked her way up to become the leader of the Nakwon Group, the top hotel chain in the country.

The series begins with a show-stopping sequence portraying a chaotic wartime evacuation during which families are torn apart as they try to board ships to escape to safety.

In this wrenching scene, Geum-soon and her husband, played by Ha and Kang, dramatically make their way to a boat, but while Geum-soon manages to get on, her husband and son fail to join her on the vessel.

Impressively staged though this scene is – it clearly ate up a sizeable chunk of the budget – it’s hard to get away from the fact that it is reminiscent of one in the 2014 Korean blockbuster Ode to My Father, which opens with a very similar scenario set during the “Hungnam Evacuation”.

The parallels don’t end there. The show later features a tearful reunion between Geum-soon and her grown-up son, which mirrors Ode to My Father’s emotional recreation of Finding Dispersed Families, broadcast in 1983, a landmark KBS programme that reunited families separated by the war.

After being separated, Geum-soon begins her new life alone running the humble Nakwon Inn overlooking a harbour on Korea’s southern coast. But every time she hears a foghorn her trauma is reawakened.

The Nakwon Inn and the 1950s shanty town that surrounds it then fade to the present-day, where the gleaming Nakwon Hotel towers above the sands of Haeundae Beach in Busan. This gleaming high-rise is the crown jewel of the Nakwon chain and is just about to open.

Kang Ha-neul in a still from Curtain Call. He plays both Geum-soon’s criminal grandson and an actor hired to impersonate him

Geum-soon wanted to fashion her latest hotel after a lighthouse, to symbolically help her lost family find their way to shore.

Park Se-yeon (also played by Ha), the tycoon’s granddaughter and the manager of this new hotel, is devoted to Geum-soon, and works tirelessly to protect Nakwon’s name and keep the chain in the family.

Se-yeon’s siblings include the dilettante Se-gyu (Choi Dae-hoon) and eldest son Se-joon (Ji Seung-hyun), who thinks the family should look to the future and sell.

In fact, Se-joon calls a shareholders’ meeting on the day of the hotel’s opening, and Se-yeon only finds out at the last minute – her invitation was conveniently lost in the mail.

Go Doo-shim (left) as Ja Geum-soon and Ha Ji-won as her granddaughter, Se-yeon, in a still from Curtain Call.

Se-joon controls enough shares to authorise a sale, but in the nick of time, Geum-soon, the firm’s top shareholder, makes a surprise appearance. It’s a surprise because she is supposed to be in hospital. Geum-soon doesn’t have long to live.

Meanwhile, Geum-soon’s long-time right-hand man Jeong Sang-cheol (Sung Dong-il) has secretly been looking for her North Korean grandson with the help of a detective. He succeeds in tracking him down, only to discover that he has become a violent criminal operating in China.

Determined to keep this fact from his employer but eager to grant her last wish to meet her grandson again, Sang-cheol comes up with a new plan.

Ha Ji-won (left) and Kang Ha-neul in a still from Curtain Call.

Enter struggling actor Yoo Jae-hoon, also played by Kang, who works odd jobs and is currently performing as a North Korean soldier in a tiny play.

Sang-cheol approaches him with an unusual offer. In exchange for 500 million won, he is asked to play the part of Geum-soon’s grandson for three months.

Other characters in the mix include Se-yeon’s ex-fiancé Bae Dong-je, who, in a bid to get back together, becomes the first person to occupy the hotel’s VVIP room at a cost of 20 million won, for a period that also stretches to three months.

There’s also Jae-hoon’s friend Seo Yoon-hee (Jung Ji-so). Jae-hoon ropes Yoon-hee into his act, asking her to play his wife, though he seems oblivious to her real feelings about him.

Ha Ji-won in a still from Curtain Call.

Curtain Call has the unfortunate distinction of being the first Korean drama to debut in the wake of the deadly crowd crush that occurred in Itaewon, Seoul, on October 29. Given the panicked masses in its opening evacuation scene, the show briefly offers an uncomfortable parallel, before quickly adopting a softer tone.

With its familiar faces and its focus on a rich and powerful family that isn’t made up of tyrants, Curtain Call is comfort viewing through and through, and through Jae-hoon’s character in particular, offers us the vicarious promise of lifting us out of our lives and into the lap of luxury.

Curtain Call is streaming on Prime Video.


K-drama midseason recap: Curtain Call – hotel family drama starring Kang Ha-neul and Ha Ji-won struggles with clichés

K-drama midseason recap: Curtain Call – hotel family drama starring Kang Ha-neul and Ha Ji-won struggles with clichés
2022.12.3

  • Curtain Call stars Kang Ha-neul as actor Yoo Jae-hoon, who pretends to be the long- lost North Korean grandson of a dying hotel chain entrepreneur (Go Doo-shim)
  • The series hasn’t capitalised on its strong start, as the cliched storyline plods along, although the breakdown of the charade at its core could change that
K-drama Curtain Call features Go Doo-shim as dying hotel chain entrepreneur Ja Geum-soon (left) and Ha Ji-won as her granddaughter Park Se-yeon.

This article contains spoilers.

Curtain Call, the KBS drama currently streaming on Amazon about a dying hotel chain entrepreneur whose right-hand man hires an actor to pose as her long-lost North Korean grandson, is riddled with clichés.

All stories feature elements that are familiar to us but they also need suspense to keep us engaged, which only happens when we’re not sure what is going to happen, or when. Clichés result when a story lacks that suspense.

Following a pleasant and cleanly established set-up, Curtain Call has struggled to find a compelling answer to the eternal question that plagues every storyteller: what now?

Stage actor Yoo Jae-hoon (Kang Ha-neul) arrived on the doorstep of Nakwon Group chairwoman Ja Geum-soon (Go Doo-shim) as her grandson Ri Moon-sung at the end of episode two, with his theatre troupe colleague Seo Yoon-hee (Jung Ji-so) in tow as his wife.

The set-up is so familiar that we know it can only end one way: Jae-hoon and Yoon-hee have to be found out. The question then becomes when and how, and what will happen afterwards?

Geum-soon already has three real grandchildren, who are all guaranteed a chunk of Nakwon Group shares when she dies. These include granddaughter Park Se-yeon (Ha Ji-won), the general manager of the flagship Nakwon Hotel who wants to keep the chain in the family.

Then there’s her stoic eldest grandson Se-joon (Ji Seung-hyun), who is trying to sell the group. Meanwhile, middle child Se-gyu (Choi Dae-hoon) is an aimless dilettante who still doesn’t know what he wants from life.

Both Se-yeon and Se-joon need support from other shareholders to achieve their conflicting desires. One of those shareholders is Bae Dong-je (Kwon Sang-woo), Se-yeon’s ex-fiancé, who is currently camped out in the VVIP suite at her hotel as he attempts to win her back.

Kang Ha-neul as actor Yoo Jae-hoon (left) and Go Doo-shim as Ja Geum-soon in a still from Curtain Call.

The appearance of Moon-sung creates a much bigger variable. He has no shares, but since his arrival Geum-soon has been happier than any of them have ever seen her before. It’s only a matter of time before she cuts him into the will.

Se-yeon is delighted by Moon-sung’s arrival and quickly develops a bond with him, urging him to be familiar with her and call her noona (older sister). She takes him sightseeing and shopping, and is the first to suggest to Geum-soon that they find him a job in the company.

Her kindness seems genuine, but she’s clearly also conscious that her family’s inheritance pie is about to change. Getting close to Moon-sung is also a strategic move.

Jung Ji-so as Seo Yoon-hee in a still from Curtain Call.

This risky subterfuge, which has been orchestrated by Geum-soon’s kindly right-hand man Jung Sang-cheol (Sung Dong-il), proceeds exactly as you would expect it to. The three real grandchildren’s relationships with Moon-sung proceed in line with how much they have to lose or gain by his presence.

Meanwhile, Jae-hoon and Yoon-hee have been working hard to keep up their performance, but there are several moments that almost give them away.

It starts with small things like a drop in their accent and intensifies when they have close calls with people that know them, including Se-yeon’s friend Song Hyo-jin (Jung Eugene), who previously hired Jae-hoon, and Yoon-hee’s mother (played by Jang Hye-jin), who works as a lawyer for Se-joon.

One of the show’s few inspired moments happens when Moon-sung, who shouldn’t have a licence, drives with Se-yeon beside him and they are caught at a police checkpoint. Improvising, Jae-hoon pretends to be mute and finds a way to exit the car and write down his real ID information without Se-yeon noticing.

The cliffhanger at the end of episode eight, the midpoint of the season, is the turning point where the gambit finally starts to fall apart. Se-yeon shows Hyo-jin a picture of Moon-sung, who she recognises as Jae-hoon.

It seems unlikely that Jae-hoon will be able to talk his way out of this one, so the question now is how will Se-yeon react?

Jung Eugene as Song Hyo-jin in a still from Curtain Call.

Since she loves her grandmother so much, will she opt to keep up the facade? She also has the hotel chain to consider, since Moon-sung’s share of the inheritance is a mirage, and perhaps even some complicated feelings for a man who she now knows isn’t her relative.

Also on a collision course is the real Moon-sung (Noh Sang-hyun), who has just boarded a boat from China headed to South Korea in search of his grandmother.

Hopefully the journey from here on out will start to present us with a few surprises, but clichés haven’t been Curtain Call’s only problem.

Curtain Call is streaming on Prime Video

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