Moon Young-nam

In this Korean name, the family name is Moon.
Moon Young-nam
Born (1960-03-13) March 13, 1960 (age 64)
Hwacheon, Gangwon, South Korea
Alma materSeoul Women's University
OccupationScreenwriter
Years active1992–present
Korean name
Hangul
문영남
Revised RomanizationMun Yeong-nam
McCune–ReischauerMun Yŏng-nam

Moon Young-nam (born March 13, 1960) is a South Korean television screenwriter.[1] Moon began writing dramas in the early 1990s, but it was Terms of Endearment (2004) and My Rosy Life (2005) that brought her praise for taking clichéd and predictable tearjerker plots (Korean: 신파; RR: shinpa) and making them into powerful melodramas with a fresh spin, filled with ironically named characters.[2][3] In her dramas, Moon often delves into the harsh realities of married life with candidness and wit, and her style has been consistently popular with local audiences, resulting in high viewership ratings for Famous Princesses (2006), First Wives' Club (2007), Three Brothers (2009) and Wang's Family (2013).[4][5][6][7]

  1. ^ "Moon Young-nam". Naver (in Korean). Retrieved 2014-11-28.
  2. ^ "Korean Weekly News - February 27". Twitch Film. 27 February 2006. Archived from the original on 11 December 2014. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
  3. ^ "Korean Weekly News - Easter Edition". Twitch Film. 16 April 2006. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
  4. ^ "Good Old Wives' Club Nears 40% Viewer Rating". KBS Global. 10 July 2008. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
  5. ^ Oh, Jean (16 October 2009). "Another weekend hit for KBS?". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
  6. ^ Kim, Sun-young (16 June 2010). "Review: TV series Three Brothers - Final episode". 10Asia. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
  7. ^ "Meet the lovely daughters of the Wang family". KBS Global. 21 August 2013. Retrieved 2014-11-28.