Vampire Idol

Vampire Idol (Korean: 뱀파이어 아이돌) is a 2011 South Korean youth sitcom that ran on MBN from 2011 to 2012.

Vampire Idol
Promotional poster
Genre	Sitcom
Written by	Ha Chul-song Lee Sung-eun Park Ji-hyun Park Ran Park Yeon-kyung Choi Yoon-chul
Directed by	Lee Geun-wook Yoo Yong-hee Baek Seung-joo
Starring	Lee Jung Kang Min-kyung Shin Dong-yup Kim Soo-mi Lee Soo-hyuk Kim Woo-bin Hong Jong-hyun
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of episodes	79
Production
Running time	Mondays to Saturday at 20:30 (KST)
Production company	SidusHQ
Original release
Network	Maeil Broadcasting Network
Release	December 5, 2011 (2011-12-05) – March 30, 2012 (2012-03-30)

Synopsis

A naïve vampire prince from Vampire planet visits Earth to see a live performance of his favorite idol contender. He remains stuck on Earth with his three trusted and loyal servants. He then decides to join the competition himself and struggles to become a global pop idol.^[1]

Cast

Main characters

• Lee Jung as Prince (Wang-ja)

He gets everything perfect: appearance, character, talent, and attitude. But only when he is the prince of Vampire planet, on Earth he is considered the exact opposite and hated on for being "unattractive."

• Kang Min-kyung as Min-Kyung

19 years old. She works as a road manager in the talent agency. Later she becomes the vocalist in a girl group.

• Shin Dong-yup as Dong-yup

Manager of a talent agency. He's in charge of Vampire Voice. Everything he says is a lie and he's very good at it.

• Kim Soo-mi as Soo-mi
  • Song Soo-hyun as young Soo-mi

61 years old. She works for the talent agency and is in charge of providing meals in the boarding house for the members of Vampire Voice.

• Lee Soo-hyuk as Soo-hyuk/Mukadil Paejua^[2]

22 years old. He is one of Prince's servants. He is the vocalist of Vampire Voice and also plays the guitar and drums. He has a serious personality and is very vampire-like, always craving blood.

• Kim Woo-bin as Woo-bin/Gabri Rates

22 years old. He is one of Prince's servants. He has super-sharp hearing.

• Hong Jong-hyun as Jong-hyun/Yariru Genius

He is a genius with an IQ of 790. He is also very socially awkward.

Supporting characters

• Hwang Kwang-hee as Kwang-hee^[3]
• Bang Min-ah as Min-ah
• Chun Woo-hee as Woo-hee
• Kim Soo-yeon as Soo-yeon
• Lee Yu-bi as Yu-bi
• Oh Kwang-rok as Kwang-rok
• Kim Dong-soo as Dong-soo
• Kim Sook as Oh Sook/Jenny
• Don Spike as Teacher Don
• Oh Hee-joon as Kwang-hee's manager
• Lee Hae-in as Hae-in
• Kim Sung-hoon

Cameo appearances

• Kim Wan-sun as Do Woo-mi
• Jay Park as J^[4]
• Lee Eui-jung
• Jung Hee-chul as himself (ep.07)
• Moon Joon-young as himself (ep. 07) ^{[5][unreliable source?]}

International broadcast

In Thailand aired on MCOT Family beginning July 18, 2015.^[6]

See also

• Vampire film
• List of vampire television series