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.