| Hello Monster | |
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| Also known as | I Remember You |
| Genre | Romance Thriller Mystery Police procedural |
| Written by | Kwon Ki-young |
| Directed by | Noh Sang-hoon Kim Jin-won |
| Starring | Seo In-guk Jang Nara |
| Composer(s) | Lee Pil-ho |
| Originallanguage(s) | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Production | |
| Executiveproducer(s) | Choi Jin-hee Park Ji-young Jung Sung-hyo |
| Producer(s) | Hwang Ui-kyung Lee Na-jung Park Woo-ram |
| Editor(s) | Kim Young-joo |
| Cinematography | Park Sung Kim Kyung-ho |
| Running time | 70 minutes Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 (KST) |
| Productioncompany(s) | CJ E&M |
Hello Monster (Hangul: 너를 기억해; RR: Neoreul Gieokhae; lit. I Remember You) is a 2015 South Korean television series starring Seo In-guk and Jang Na-ra. It aired on KBS2 from June 22 to August 11, 2015 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.Its early working title was Hello Monster transliterated in Korean (Hangul: 헬로 몬스터), which was retained as the international English title.
PLOT :
Genius profiler Lee Hyun returns home to Korea after something from a case he’s been sent triggers a memory he thought he’d lost forever. Unbeknownst to him, one of his team members, Detective Cha Ji-an, has been investigating him for some time. She is aware that his father was murdered and his brother disappeared under mysterious circumstances involving a criminal named Lee Joon Young -- whom they both want found and incarcerated. Each seeks to unravel the other, unaware that they’ve been drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse by a master player and that both truth and evil are closer and far more twisted than they think.
CAST :
Seo In-guk as Lee Hyun / David Lee
Hong Hyun-taek as young Lee Hyun
Lee Hyun was a "strange child" who caught the attention of his father, a police inspector, who later confined the child in a small room to prevent him from breeding criminal thoughts. An intelligent child, he later studies abroad and becomes a reputed professor. Strangely, he loses his childhood memories, and a series of events lead him to return to South Korea. There he tries to solve numerous murder cases that seem to be linked to one another.
Jang Na-ra as Cha Ji-an
Cha Ji-an's father mysteriously disappeared together with Lee Joon-young, a convicted prisoner who was said to have escaped from confinement. She becomes a police inspector and meets Lee Hyun, the boy she has been stalking since her childhood. Their similar circumstances lead them together as they work to solve criminal cases.
Choi Won-young as Lee Joon-ho / Lee Joon-young
Do Kyung-soo as young Lee Joon-young
Born as a result of rape, Joon-young was neglected as a child. He soon bred murderous thoughts and became a murderer who eventually escaped from prison.
Park Bo-gum as Jung Sun-ho / Lee Min
Hong Eun-taek as young Lee Min
Lee Min shared a close relationship with Lee Hyun as a child and often confided his darkest secrets to him. He feels neglected later on as he was seemingly abandoned by his brother after his father was murdered. He later appears nearly 20 years later using the name Jung Sun-ho.