Their model daughter Se-Ri is overseas in Harvard, leaving a large shadow hanging over despairing students Seo-Joon and Ki-Joon. Next up we have Seung-Hye whose family is ruled with an iron fist by Professor Min-Hyuk Cha. Younger daughter Ye-Bin is the tearaway of the family though, struggling with her studies and ultimately the odd one out. At the center of this is Seo-Jin, a woman striving for perfection, typified by her orthopedic husband Joon-Sang and trophy daughter Ye-Seo. The families themselves are all complex and feature many moving parts – each important to the story being told here.

On the surface, each of these live the idyllic life but under this glossy façade is a far more damning and shocking truth. The story here introduces us to four women who live a life of perfection within the walls of Sky Castle, a neighborhood reserved for elite families. Well written, hard hitting and thought provoking, Sky Castle is a fantastic Korean drama and a sobering look at a system that hurts people just as much as it helps. Specifically, Sky Castle revolves around four different households who are faced with this very question. What would you do for success? If the reward was your child given the best start possible in life, would you lie? Would you cheat? Or would you go so far as to kill? In Korea’s highly competitive hierarchical world, this is a very real and dangerous question encapsulating the heart of this drama.

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