My ID is Gangnam Beauty (2018)
A beauty who feels unfamiliar with her beauty.
Bullied for her looks, Mi-rae gets plastic surgery hoping for a better kind of life but faces new challenges in college. Based on a hit Korean webtoon.
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Cast & Crew
- Director
- Choi Seong-beom
- Kang Mi-rae Im Soo-hyang
- Do Kyeong-seok Cha Eun-woo
- Hyeon Su-a Jo Woo-ri
- Yeon U-yeong Kwak Dong-yeon
- Na Hye-seong Park Joo-mi
- Do Kyeong-hee Kim Ji-min
- Yu-jin Lee Tae-seon
- Kang Tae-sik Woo Hyeon
Videos
Season 1
2018
16 episodes
Season 1 of My ID is Gangnam Beauty premiered on July 27, 2018
This series tells the story of Kang Mi-rae, a girl once bullied for her looks. As a result, she became insecure, cautious around people and withdrawn. However, Mi-rae decides she wants a fresh start away from bullying and gets plastic surgery to transform her face. When she begins university, she meets Do Kyeong-seok from their middle school days, who sees people for what they are on the inside and not the outside; he then becomes attracted to Mi-rae. As Mi-rae begins to get teased once more and labeled "Gangnam Beauty", the cold, aloof but kind inside Kyeong-seok becomes the one person that stands up for her and in the process, Mi-rae begins to recover her lost confidence and discovers that true beauty is not on the outside.
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Keywords
- plastic surgery
- romcom
- romance
- beauty standards
- college life
- psychological
- based on webcomic or webtoon
- youth
- school bullying
- adapted from a webtoon