Cha Seung-won
Kim Sun-ah
The drama ‘City Hall’ is about two people working as public officials finding each other in their daily hectic routines and falling for each other.
Shin Mi-rae (Kim Sun-ah) is a low ranking official and has had to menial tasks for her seniors for the last 7 years. All that changes when she wins a pageant and eventually becomes mayor.
Although the name could be deceiving, City Hall is not intended to be a political drama. “Politics just happened to appear because of the backdrop. But that’s not what the series is about. I wanted to show our ideals: ideal mayors, politicians, and public officials as ordinary people, just like us,” writer Kim Eun-sook said.
On a side note, I believe they’re actually filming this drama in city hall. A crew was seen last week filming a man getting wet in the Cheonggyecheon river, and I myself unknowingly at the time walked in between a camera and a staged dinner table with a man and a woman nicely dressed sitting. The woman had the hairstyle of Kim Sun-ah.