Miniseries · MBC
W: Two Worlds Apart
The Life Between Books And Humans.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Lee Jong-suk
Kang Cheol
16 eps
Han Hyo-joo
Oh Yeon-joo
16 eps
Jung Yoo-jin
Yoon So-hee
16 eps
Lee Tae-hwan
Seo Do-yoon
16 eps
Lee Si-eon
Park Soo-bong
16 eps
Park Won-sang
Han Cheol-ho
16 eps
Kim Eui-sung
Oh Sung-moo
16 eps
Kang Ki-young
Kang Seok-beom
16 eps
Heo Jeong-do
Park Min-soo
16 eps
Cha Kwang-soo
Son Hyun-suk
16 eps
Nam Kee-ae
Kil Soo-sun
16 eps
Ryu Hye-rin
Sun-mi
16 eps
Park Choong-seon
Kang Chul's Father
16 eps
Kim Na-woon
Kang Chul's Mother
16 eps
Lee Se-rang
Kil Soo-young
16 eps
Seo Shin-ae
Kang Chul's Younger Sister
16 eps
Park Min-ha
Young Oh Yeon-joo
16 eps
Yang Hye-ji
Yun-hee
16 eps
Jung Zi-so
Teenage Oh Yeon-joo
16 eps
Ri Min
Team Leader Park
16 eps
Jin Hyun-kwang
Policeman
16 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How W: Two Worlds Apart actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
W: Two Worlds Apart reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
After being pulled into the webtoon world created by her father, a surgical resident gets entangled in a murder mystery involving the story's hero.
The run
Seasons
1 season · 16 episodes.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Oh Sung-moo Has Disappeared!
Yeon Joo’s professor urgently calls Yeon Joo and asks her to get a spoiler about a popular graphic novel series, W, from her father. He promises that he will give her the opportunity to perform a surgery if she does, so she visits her father.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E03
Episode 3
S00E02
Unfinished Story
S01E16
After W Ends
S01E15
Which Kind of Ending Will It Be?
S01E14
Secret of the Tablet
S01E13
For the Last Episode of W
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
- Kim Sang-hunProducer
- Oh Min-suProducer
- Son Hyung-SukExecutive Producer
Direction
- Jung Dae-yoonDirector
- Park Seung-wooDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- Rakuten VikiStreaming
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