WithS2 group completed publishing English subtitles of popular Korean TV drama, Midas. Here is a brief preview of Midas Korean Drama...



Are money and the wealthy inherently bad or is society plagued with a distorted view that equates them with sordid greed? Midas examines the underlying struggle surrounding desire, greed, power and ethics within society and within the individual inside the setting of the Korean financial world. At the macroscopic level, Midas provides a glimpse of the hazy, inescapable relationship between money and the law – the delicate dealings, both in the open and behind closed doors, that constantly adjust the precarious balance of power. However, as the drama begins, the depiction of the struggle pans in closer and the substance of the drama plays out within its characters and their internal struggles and development. Midas follows handsome, bright, and successful financial and legal genius Kim Do Hyun. Kim Do Hyun has a poor background, abandoned by his father and raised by a poor but devoted mother who worked in an open market and died early. He invests the small money his mother left him and pays own way through the best university. Successful as a fund manager for 3 years, Kim Do Hyun moves into law because of, as he puts it, the spell of money and the temptation offered by the outstretched hands of those in power. He is devoted to his fiancee, Lee Jung Yeon, a nurse from a common family, and he has simple desires such as driving a nice car next to the woman he loves. However, his childhood memories are permeated with the stench of open market fish and his mother’s fuss over money, and throughout his years in the financial world, Kim Do Hyun has learned that money is power and without it, everything else pales. With everything he has going for him, he learns that those with money can still make him feel insignificant. As he finds himself entering into the sphere of influence of the powerful and wealthy Yu family, particularly Yu In Hye, CEO of Lone Asia hedge funds, we follow his internal struggles and the metamorphosis of his character as well as the other characters in the story. As the drama unfolds, Yu In Hye’s remark in the opening episode that “when law is dominated by money, all that’s left is sordid greed” promises to be an echoing prophecy. This drama is penned by the famous writer Choi Wan Gyoo (of Jumong, All In, Love Story In Harvard, and many others) and directed by Kang Shin Hyo (of Tazza). Midas will be replacing Athena:Goddess of War with a start date of February 22,2011.