40 Fun Facts About Strong Girl Bong-soon

Which MMA fighter and wrestler signed on to executive produce an American remake of Strong Girl Bong-soon?

Ronda Rousey was attached in 2018 as an executive producer, her first move into scripted television. The script, titled Strong Girl, was never picked up to pilot.

In Strong Girl Bong-soon, which out-of-control vehicle does the 1.6-metre-tall Do Bong-soon bring to a halt?

A bus that runs out of control is no match for Do Bong-soon, a small-framed heroine the Korean press likened to Wonder Woman.

In Strong Girl Bong-soon, what job does CEO Ahn Min-hyuk offer Do Bong-soon after watching her fight off thugs?

Bodyguard is the job he offers because an unknown man has been threatening him. She plans to refuse until she hears the company is Ainsoft, where she longs to work.

What does Ainsoft, the company run by Ahn Min-hyuk in Strong Girl Bong-soon, make?

Video games are Ainsoft's business, which is why Do Bong-soon wants in: she dreams of making one with herself as the main character.

Which actress, known for Scandal Makers and A Werewolf Boy, plays the title role in Strong Girl Bong-soon?

Park Bo-young wanted the part before a channel was even attached, then waited months for a male lead to be cast opposite her.

Which singer-turned-actor plays chaebol heir Ahn Min-hyuk, his first leading role, in Strong Girl Bong-soon?

Park Hyung-sik saw his popularity and endorsement offers jump after the series, and he returned to the character for a guest appearance in a 2023 spin-off.

In Strong Girl Bong-soon, which act would cost Do Bong-soon her inherited powers under the family curse?

Harming an innocent person strips the gift away, which is exactly what the kidnapper tricks her into doing. Her mother had already lost the same power when she was young.

In Strong Girl Bong-soon, Do Bong-soon's superhuman strength is handed down only to which members of her family?

The women alone inherit it: her mother and grandmother were both born with the same power, while her brother Do Bong-ki has none.

Early in Strong Girl Bong-soon, what does Do Bong-soon wrongly believe about her new boss Ahn Min-hyuk?

That he is gay is a rumour so widespread that it dents his company's share price, and Ahn Min-hyuk sometimes plays along with it in front of her.

Which Squid Game actress leads Strong Girl Nam-soon, the 2023 spin-off of Strong Girl Bong-soon?

Lee Yoo-mi, an Emmy winner for Squid Game, leads the spin-off, in which the original couple turn up for a brief guest appearance.

What is the profession of In Guk-doo, Do Bong-soon's childhood friend and crush in Strong Girl Bong-soon?

Police detective In Guk-doo is a hot-headed idealist who keeps being moved between departments, and for much of the story he has no idea what his friend can do.

Which South Korean network aired Strong Girl Bong-soon as its Friday and Saturday night drama?

JTBC was still an underdog channel, and the show's star admitted she hesitated when she learned the drama would air on cable.

In Strong Girl Bong-soon, which profession does Do Bong-ki, the brother their mother always favours, work in?

Doctor Do Bong-ki works at the very hospital where the gangsters flattened by his sister, and Ahn Min-hyuk's secretary, end up as patients.

In the Strong Girl Bong-soon finale, which children of Do Bong-soon and Ahn Min-hyuk inherit her strength?

Twin daughters are born after the couple's wedding, and both inherit so much power that simply minding the babies becomes hard work.

What sentence does serial kidnapper Kim Jang-hyun receive in the final episode of Strong Girl Bong-soon?

Life imprisonment is handed down for one murder and four abductions, while Ahn Min-hyuk takes the public credit for the capture so Do Bong-soon's secret stays safe.

In Strong Girl Bong-soon, what kind of business does kidnapper Kim Jang-hyun own, with a hideout beneath it?

A car scrapyard hides the underground cells, and Do Bong-soon pulls three captives out of it just as the whole site explodes.

Which fairy-tale villain is the title figure of the play linked to the kidnappings in Strong Girl Bong-soon?

Bluebeard and his seven brides is the play's subject, and rumours tie its staging by a small theatre company to the man abducting victims in Dobong-dong.

In Strong Girl Bong-soon, the shop run by Do Bong-soon's father Do Chil-goo is named after which nut?

Walnut is in the name: Do Chil-goo is the boss of Dobong Walnut, where Ho Soon-yi works as a part-timer.

Na Kyung-shim, Do Bong-soon's best friend in Strong Girl Bong-soon, comes from which South Korean port city?

Busan is home for Na Kyung-shim, and she is snatched by the kidnapper while walking at night on her way back there to see her mother.

In Strong Girl Bong-soon, who ordered the attacks meant to keep Ahn Min-hyuk from the succession?

His half-brother Ahn Dong-suk, a sibling he had trusted, hired the Baek Tak gang to keep him from a shareholders' meeting; the two talk it through and reconcile.

In Strong Girl Bong-soon, which kitchen item does Do Bong-soon use to floor an intruder at Ahn Min-hyuk's home?

A frying pan and a single blow are all she needs. The intruder was sent to stop Ahn Min-hyuk from attending a vote on who would inherit his father's company.

Jo Hee-ji, the girlfriend of In Guk-doo in Strong Girl Bong-soon, plays which instrument in a city orchestra?

Cello is her instrument, and her career wins out: by the finale Jo Hee-ji has left to join an orchestra in Vienna.

In Strong Girl Bong-soon, con man Jo Dal-bong poses as a holy monk said to come from which country?

India is the claimed homeland of the monk Nizamuddin, a fraud played by guest star Kwon Hyuk-soo across episodes 12 to 14.

Which actor plays both gangster Kim Kwang-bok and Ainsoft team leader Oh Dol-ppyeo in Strong Girl Bong-soon?

Kim Won-hae doubles up as lookalikes: Do Bong-soon breaks the gangster's teeth, then finds his spitting image running her team at work.

Which screenwriter, who later created The Lady in Dignity and Mine, wrote Strong Girl Bong-soon?

Baek Mi-kyung once quit writing to run an English academy in Daegu, and she has called this drama the project she holds the deepest affection for.

Before Strong Girl Bong-soon, the actors playing Ahn Min-hyuk and Do Chil-goo co-starred in which period drama?

Hwarang had begun airing only two months earlier, with the future Ahn Min-hyuk cast as a young and distrustful king.

Before Strong Girl Bong-soon, its lead actress played a timid chef possessed by a spirit in which tvN hit?

Oh My Ghost was her first television series in seven years, and her fee made her the highest-paid actress to have appeared on its channel at the time.

Jung Eun-ji, who sang You're My Garden for the Strong Girl Bong-soon soundtrack, belongs to which girl group?

Apink's main vocalist Jung Eun-ji sings the first track on the soundtrack album; she was already known as an actress from Reply 1997.

Which girl group recorded Double Trouble Couple, the top-charting Strong Girl Bong-soon soundtrack song?

Mamamoo's track peaked at number 46 on South Korea's Gaon chart, well ahead of the three other songs from the series that charted.

The actor who plays Ahn Min-hyuk in Strong Girl Bong-soon debuted in 2010 as a member of which boy band?

ZE:A, also known as Children of Empire, debuted as a nine-member group with the single album Nativity.

In Strong Girl Bong-soon, Ahn Min-hyuk's father is chairman of which fictional family conglomerate?

Ohsung Group grew out of a construction firm he founded, and he names Ahn Min-hyuk, his fourth son, as the next boss in front of the whole family.

Strong Girl Bong-soon traces its heroine's gift to a stone-throwing ancestor at which 1593 Korean victory?

Battle of Haengju is where the drama places Park Gae-bun, a fighter said to have felled enemy soldiers by hurling stones during the Japanese invasions.

Which song on the Strong Girl Bong-soon soundtrack is sung by the actor who plays Ahn Min-hyuk?

Because of You was the eighth and last part of the soundtrack to be released, and it reached number 85 on South Korea's Gaon chart.

Which former member of the girl group I.O.I sang Pit-A-Pat on the Strong Girl Bong-soon soundtrack?

Kim Chung-ha finished fourth on the survival show Produce 101 to earn her place in I.O.I, and launched a solo career once the group disbanded.

At which ceremony, first held in 2017, did the star of Strong Girl Bong-soon win a Best Actress award?

The Seoul Awards gave her its drama Best Actress prize at the very first edition, where her co-star also took home a popularity award.

Which American network developed a remake of Strong Girl Bong-soon in 2018 but never ordered a pilot?

The CW bought the script from Fear the Walking Dead writer Melissa Scrivner-Love, who reimagined the heroine as an indestructible former war photographer.

In Strong Girl Nam-soon, the spin-off of Strong Girl Bong-soon, in which country does the lost heroine grow up?

Mongolia is where Gang Nam-soon vanishes as a child and is raised by a shepherd couple, before she travels to South Korea to look for her parents.

How is Gang Nam-soon, heroine of the 2023 spin-off Strong Girl Nam-soon, related to Do Bong-soon?

Her second cousin Gang Nam-soon is born with the same gift, inherited through a mother and grandmother who both share it.

Near the end of Strong Girl Bong-soon, what does Kim Jang-hyun strap to Do Bong-soon on the Ainsoft rooftop?

A time bomb set for five minutes is tied to her while she is powerless; her gift returns just in time and she hurls it skyward, where it bursts like a firework.

Which actor earned a Baeksang Best New Actor nomination for playing In Guk-doo in Strong Girl Bong-soon?

Ji Soo had appeared in Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo the year before, and playing the hot-tempered rookie put him on the shortlist at the 53rd Baeksang Arts Awards.