IT'S OKAY TO NOT BE OKAY

It’s Okay to Not Be Okay

Also known as: Psycho But It’s Okay

Genre: Romance, Fantasy

Episodes: 16 (To Be Confirmed)

Broadcast network: tvN

Broadcast period: 2020-Jun-20 to 2020-Aug-09

Air time: Saturday & Sunday 21:00

Synopsis

This drama is about a caregiver at a psychiatric ward who does not believe in love and a children’s book author with an antisocial personality disorder heal each other’s emotional wounds.

Moon Kang Tae (Kim Soo Hyun) works in the psychiatric ward. His job is to write down the patients’ conditions and to deal with unexpected situations, like if patients fight or they run away. He only earns about 1.8 million won (~$1,600 USD) a month. Meanwhile, Ko Moon Young (Seo Ye Ji) is a popular writer of children’s literature, but she is extremely selfish, arrogant and rude.

Cast

Main Cast

Kim Soo Hyun as Moon Kang Tae

Seo Ye Ji as Ko Moon Young

Oh Jung Se as Moon Sang Tae

Mental Hospital’s workers

Park Gyu Young as Nam Joo Ri (mental health nurse)

Kim Chang Wan as Oh Ji Wang (director)

Kim Mi Kyung as Kang Soon Duk (chef, Joo Ri’s mother)

Jang Young Nam as Park Haeng Ja (senior nurse)

Jang Kyu Ri as Sun Byul (nurse)

Seo Joon (서준) as Kwon Min Suk (psychiatrist)

Choi Woo Sung (최우성) as Oh Cha Yong (ward assistant)

Mental Hospital’s patients

Lee Ul as Ko Dae Hwan (Moon Young’s father, diagnosis: dementia)

Kim Ki Chun as Kan Phil Ong (diagnosis: post-traumatic stress disorder)

Jung Jae Kwang (정재광) as Joo Jung Tae (diagnosis: alcohol dependence)

Ji Hye Won (지혜원) as Lee Ah Reum (diagnosis: depression)

Kang Ji Eun (강지은) as Park Ok Ran (diagnosis: borderline personality disorder)

Joo In Young (주인영) as Yoo Sun Hae (diagnosis: dissociative personality disorder)

Children’s Literature Publishing Company

Kim Joo Hyun as Lee Sang In (CEO)

Park Jin Joo as Yoo Seung Jae (Art director)

Others

Woo Jung Won as Do Hee Jae (Moon Young’s mother, crime novelist)

Kang Ki Doong as Jo Jae Soo (Kang Tae’s friend, self-employed)

Production Credits

Production Companies: Studio Dragon, Story TV, Gold Medalist

Director: Park Shin Woo

Screenwriter: Jo Yong