Soo-im's husband and a professor of neurosurgery. He will stop at nothing in order to get rivals out of the way. He is very ambitious and is obsessed with maintaining a good track record to elevate his status in the hospital. He holds Min-hyuk in absolute contempt and delights in the latter's misfortunes. Doctor of the Joo-nam University Hospital. Seo-jin's husband and a professor of orthopedics. She hides a past and secret life that she tries to escape from. Because of her high success rate in getting students accepted, Seo-jin was determined to hire her as her daughter's tutor. She is a well-known tutor only accessible to the elite and only caters to two students at a time. Her loyalty changes easily as well depending on who she is with. But she finds it difficult to keep secrets. She bribes Seo-jin with gifts into trusting her with information. When Woo-joo got arrested, she offered the services of a lawyer.Ī friend of Seo-jin who tries to get her child to do everything with Seo-jin's daughter so he can be successful. She changes her ways and becomes protective of her sons from their father's harsh teaching methods. She is the most down to earth out of all mothers in the complex and the only mother who is a step-mother.Ī woman who befriends Soo-im, and starts to look down on how the other moms treat everyone and their kids. She knows who Seo-jin really is, as she knew her from when they were younger. She is disliked by the other parents for disrupting the status quo. She went as far as to create a back story and hire people to pretend as her parents.Ī new member of the neighborhood who disapproves of the other parents' methods for getting their kids to university, believing it is too harsh. She hides her past from everyone except her husband and in-laws who knew that she grew up poor with an alcoholic father who sold oxblood and offal.
Yeom Jung Ah as Han Seo Jin / Kwak Mi HyangĪn overzealous mother who wants nothing more than her daughter to get into Seoul National Medical University.It is a comic satirical drama that closely looks behind the scenes at the materialistic desires of the upper-class parents in Korea and how they ruthlessly secure the successes of their families at the cost of destroying others' lives. The drama describes all the ins and outs of how the wealthy make their children enter a top university. Most of the residents are doctors and law school professors of the university. It was built by the first president of Joo Nam University, the most prestigious university in Korea. SKY Castle, a private luxury condo community, where wealthy doctors and professors live. For the families living at Sky Castle, an exclusive residential community that's home to Korea's elite, their children's success means everything.