'Penthouse: War in Life' Season 2: Release date, plot, cast, trailer and all you need to know about SBS Kdrama
'Penthouse: War in Life' season 2 will return soon and with it the show will return to being one of the best-rated shows in the history of Korean network SBS. The first season of the show had aired on Mondays and Tuesdays at 10 pm KST. However, the days of broadcast for the second season will be different. The show portrays the lives of the top 1% of South Korea's rich and their families. In fact, the show had grabbed attention for portraying rich teenagers as bullies who almost push a young highschool girl to death.
Release date
'Penthouse: War in Life' Season 2 is slated to take over the slot previously occupied by the show 'Delayed Justice' and is expected to begin airing on January 30 if there are no unexpected delays.
Plot
Season 1:
The first season of the show centered on Shim Su-ryeon finding out the truth about her husband Dan-tae and how he had switched her baby at birth. However, unknown to even her husband, Su-ryeon's baby was brought upon an orphanage and as if the stars had aligned, she appears in front of Su-ryeon as a tutor who works for the kids living at Hera's Palace called Min Seol-ah. Neither mother nor daughter realizes the truth about their relationship, not until it is too late. Just when Su-ryeon learns about her daughter, she also watches Seol-ah get pushed from the 45th floor of their apartment and that launches a search for vengeance and justice with unexpected and thrilling plot twists.
Season 2:
At the end of Season 2, Su-ryeon is killed by Dan-tae who ends up blaming her ally Yoon-hui with the help of circumstantial evidence. While Yoon-hui did kill Seo-ah while she was drunk and disoriented, she was on her way to confess in jail when Dan-tae had used her worry for her own daughter Ro-na to get to her and use her in his plan. Of course, an unexpected ally, Logan Lee, had arrived to help her escape but the last scene saw her lying on the floor after she stabbed herself hinting at how the second season will see another round of vengeance-seeking.
Cast
The show stars an extensive cast with four families playing lead roles. Following is a list in the order of the family that they belong to.
Shim Su-Ryeon's Family
Lee Ji-Ah as Su-ryeon
While Su-ryeon did die in the first season, there have been hints so far about actor Ji-ah reappearing as the biological mother of the twins who happens to be a doppelganger of Su-ryeon.
Uhm Ki-Joon as Joo Dan-tae
Joo Dan-tae by the end of Season 1 had given in to his desire to kill his wife and take over all her wealth. He succeeds in doing the same with the help of his lover Cheon Seo-jin and now the two of them live in the Penthouse of Hera's Palace. How will their lives change in Season 2 would be interesting to watch.
Kim Young-Dae as Joo Seok-hoon
Seok-hoon is one of the twin children of Dan-tea and is involved in bullying Seol-ah while she had tutored him and the other highschool students who lived in Hera's palace. He is the adopted son of Su-ryeon and is also a victim of domestic violence.
Han Ji-Hyun as Joo Seok-kyung
Seok-kyung is the other part of the twin and in comparison to her brother, she is not book smart but has a great voice leading her father to train her to be a part of a classical singing orchestra. He lets his children become dangerously competitive and overlook the actions that might hurt other individuals around them.
Cheon Seo-Jin's Family
In Season two of the show, Seo-jin's family would mainly comprise of two members.
Kim So-yeon as Seo-jin
Kim So-yeon will portray the role of Seo-jin who works with Dan-tae to remove Su-ryeon from his family, to vacate the Penthouse of her presence and be the lady of the manor instead. In this attempt, she also ends up killing her own father who almost takes away her expected raise to become the founder of their powerful foundation.
Choi Ye-Bin as Ha Eun-byeol
Eun-byeol is a young girl whose psyche has been attacked by her mother's unrealistic expectations. As a result of this, she suffers a mental breakdown and after witnessing her mother kill her grandfather, her mental well-being goes for a toss. So it will be interesting to see whose side Eun-byeol would be on now that she is back to staying with her mother after a scary attempt to kill herself.
Oh Yoon-hui's family
Unlike the other families, Yoon-hui and her daughter are not rich, but instead, end up finding out the hard way that the rich live their lives much differently than they do. So when Su-ryeon helps them get a leg up in terms of economic class, they experience the same feeling as what Cinderella would have experienced after a makeover by Fairy Godmother!
Eugene as Oh Yoon-hui
Yoon-hui shares a past with Seo-jin where the two of them had gone to the same music school. Yoon-hui had excelled as a singer, but Seo-jin was not up to mark and yet she manages to win first prize because of her father's connection, leaving Yoon-hui in a pitiful state. In a confrontation, Seo-jin even attacks Yoo-hui physically but ends up blaming it all on her poor classmate.
Kim Hyun-soo as Bae Ro-na
Ro-na who happens to be Yoon-hui's daughter is a spoiled brat who doesn't appreciate the efforts that her mother puts into her life and has for the most part always argued or been angry with her mother. She is the reason why her mother had even gone to the extent of killing a young girl, but at the moment Ro-na is not aware of the same. So now that her mother may just be dead, how will Ro-na cope up in the new season?
Trailer
The trailer of the new season has not been released by the network as of now, but do keep up and we will bring you the latest Kdrama news!
However, a teaser of the upcoming season was released in South Korea which shows Yoon-hui out for revenge while her daughter Ro-na gets bullied in school.
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