Robber (TV series)

Robber (lit. "Con Man") is a 2008 South Korean television series starring Jang Hyuk and Lee Da-hae. It aired on SBS TV from January 2 to February 28, 2008 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.

This is the first time that Jang and Lee were paired together onscreen; they would later star in The Slave Hunters (2010) and Iris II (2013).

Plot
After graduating from high school, Jin Dal-rae begins working at a local bank in Pyeongchang County. There, she meets Jang Tae-oh, a mountain climber, and she follows him to Seoul, where they get married. Dal-rae becomes pregnant, but before the baby is born, Tae-oh is killed in a freak accident in the mountains. Dal-rae moves in with her mother-in-law, Lee Soon-seom, and together the two women raise her daughter, Yoo-jin.

Several years pass, and Soon-seom herself encourages Dal-rae to move on, even setting her up on blind dates. During one such date, Dal-rae meets the elderly and wealthy Chairman Kim, who isn't really looking for a young wife, but searching for a prospective spouse for his socially inept son Jin-goo. Chairman Kim is impressed with Dal-rae's kindness and integrity, and is determined that she become his daughter-in-law.

Meanwhile, Dal-rae also encounters Kwon Oh-joon. Oh-joon was once a boxer, but he quit because he didn't want to mess up his "pretty boy" face. Since then, he has been masquerading as a fund manager, but in reality he is a con artist who lives off lonely, gullible women by scamming them. His sister Oh-sook is married to an abusive husband, and Oh-joon has been paying off her debts, but he soon grows desperate with the loan sharks hounding him and threatening to kill him unless he pays up. Learning that Dal-rae has been saving to start her own business, she becomes his next target. But as he gets to know her and her family, Oh-joon finds himself falling in love for real.

Cast

 * Jang Hyuk as Kwon Oh-joon
 * Lee Da-hae as Jin Dal-rae
 * Kim Jung-tae as Kim Jin-goo
 * Kim Hae-sook as Lee Soon-seom, Dal-rae's mother-in-law
 * Hong Kyung-in as Kim Man-doo, Oh-joon's friend
 * Son Byong-ho as Kim Ho-jin, gangster boss
 * Yoon Yoo-sun as Kwon Oh-sook, Oh-joon's sister
 * Kim Hwan-hee as Jang Yoo-jin (nicknamed "Soon-dae"), Dal-rae's daughter
 * Kang Ki-hwa as Kim Yeon-ah
 * Choi Eun-sook
 * Kim In-ae as Chairman Kim, Jin-goo's father
 * Ma Dong-seok as Jong-goo, debt collector
 * Im Hyung-joon as Joong-sik, the other debt collector
 * Seo Yoo-jung as Oh-joon's ex-girlfriend
 * Jung Gyu-woon as Jang Tae-oh, Dal-rae's husband
 * Kim Eun-joo as Young-sook (cameo, ep 1)
 * Shin Seung-hwan