Scripted series · SBS
Secret Garden
What if you fell under the spell of love one day?
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Hyun Bin
Kim Joo-won
20 eps
Ha Ji-won
Gil Ra-im
20 eps
Yoon Sang-hyun
Choi Woo-young
20 eps
Kim Sa-rang
Yoon Seul
20 eps
Lee Philip
Lim Jong-soo
20 eps
Yoo In-na
Lim Ah Young
20 eps
Lee Jong-suk
Han Tae-sun
20 eps
Park Joon-geum
Moon Boon-hong
20 eps
Kim Seung-o
Kim Sung-oh
20 eps
Yoo Seo-jin
Park Ji-hyun
20 eps
Kim Mi-kyeong
Ahjumma from the guest house
2 eps
Noh Hong-chul
Stunt auditionee
1 eps
Jo Jae-yun
Photographer
1 eps
Lee Seol-gu
1 eps
Min Byung-ae
Sauna client
2 eps
Hwang Seok-jeong
Sauna receptionist
1 eps
Lee Jun-hyuk
Himself
1 eps
Yum Dong-hun
Pervert in department store
2 eps
Im Chi-woo
Prisoner
1 eps
Jeon Jin-gi
Director
1 eps
Lee Hye-in
Oska's fan
1 eps
Baek Ji-young
Himself
1 eps
Han Ye-won
Cherry
1 eps
Son Ye-jin
Herself
1 eps
Kim Ye-won
Kim Shin Ah
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Secret Garden actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Secret Garden reads strongest on Character Depth, World Building and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
A wealthy young man and a poor stunt woman fall for each other, but when their souls swap they soon learn how different their two worlds are.
The run
Seasons
1 season · 20 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20115 episodes
Season 1 · Complete
Limited Series
201020 episodes
9.9IMDbThe drama tells the story of Kim Joo Won, an arrogant and eccentric CEO who maintains the image of seeming perfection, and Gil Ra Im, a poor and humble stuntwoman whose beauty and body are the object of envy amongst top actresses. Their accidental meeting, when Joo Won mistakes Ra Im for actress Park Chae Rin, marks the beginning of a tense, bickering relationship, through which Joo Won tries to hide a growing attraction to Ra Im that both confuses and disturbs him. To complicate matters further, a strange sequence of events results in them swapping bodies.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Oh Se KangProducer
- Yoon Ha-limExecutive Producer
Writing
- Kim Eun-sookWriter
Direction
- Kwon Hyuk-chanDirector
- Shin Woo-chulDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- NetflixStreaming
- Rakuten VikiStreaming
- OnDemandKoreaStreaming
- Netflix Standard with AdsStreaming
- Kocowa Amazon ChannelStreaming
- KocowaStreaming
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