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"The world is beautiful because there is a little sun among the crowd that radiates warm light." "Extraordinary Attorney Woo" explores people with autism spectrum disorders.

"Extraordinary Attorney Woo" (이상한 변호사 우영우/Abnormal Lawyer/Extraordinary Attorney Woo) is a Korean ENA TV program broadcast from June 29 to August 18, 2022, with music broadcast in the second week. On the day of the finale, it topped Netflix's global viewing champion with a total viewing time of 400 million hours, and also made the main actors and supporting actors become popular first. The heroine Park Eun-bin even won the 2023 Baeksang Art Film Department Grand Prize!

The series tells the story of a 27-year-old woman named "Woo Young-woo" who suffers from autism and becomes a lawyer in a large law firm. The biggest difficulties that "Woo Young-woo" faces in his life as a lawyer are the disease itself and prejudice. Through the process of getting to know the seemingly strange "Woo Young-woo", the audience can communicate and resonate with "Woo Young-woo" without any barriers, and discuss people with autism spectrum disorders, combining current affairs to touch on novel and truly touching social issues such as disease, LGBTQ, North Korean defectors and laborers.

Creating a "strange but relatable" protagonist is a personal challenge, and the message conveyed must not be missed. The series does not feature autistic people, but also focuses on female autistic people. The crew focuses on describing the "humanity" of the characters, abandons stimulating elements, pays attention to vulnerable groups, and conveys the message that autism is not a "defect", bringing out the meaning that autism is just a single type of human characteristic, which is different from persistent developmental disorders.

The lead actress Park Eun-bin created Woo Young-woo's unique voice, expression and mannerisms, making him smart, cute and lovable. After watching the first episode of "Lawyer Woo Young-woo", you will be deeply attracted by Woo Young-woo's magical power. We experience various emotions and situations in our daily lives, and there may be unhappy times, but what we learned from Yu Yingyu is that the reason why there is beauty in the world is because there are little suns among the people who continue to emit warm light.

Cast :

Park Eun-bin 박은빈 as Woo Young-woo

Kang Tae-oh 강태오 as Lee Joon-ho

Kang Ki-young as Jung Myeong-seok

Jeon Bae-soo 전배수 as Woo Kwang-ho

Baek Ji-won 백지원 as Han Sun-young

Chen Qingzhi plays the governor Mei

Ha Yoon-kyung 하윤경 as Choi Soo-yeon

Joo Jong Hyuk as Kwon Min Woo

Joo Hyun-young 주현영 as Dong Grami

Lim Sung-jae 임성재 as Kim Min-sik

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