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South Korea · Drama · 2021

Mine

마인 Also known as Blue Diamond

Netflix, tvN · 16 episodes · 70 min · Saturday, Sunday · 15+ (Teens 15 or older) Completed

Drama Mystery Romance
8 May 2021
Premiere
27 Jun 2021
Finale
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Synopsis

Mine centers on the Hyowon Group, a chaebol family whose wealth and public image hide the private struggles of the women who married into it. Seo Hi-soo, a former top actress who became the family's second daughter-in-law, and Jung Seo-hyun, the first daughter-in-law and director of the family's Seohyun Gallery, each spend the series pushing back against the roles the family expects them to play.

As Hi-soo tries to protect her position within a household run on appearances and old money, and Seo-hyun quietly manages the gallery and the fallout of her own marriage to eldest son Han Jin-ho, the two women who start out as rivals inside the same family end up finding an unexpected alliance. Around them, Hi-soo's husband Han Ji-yong and Jin-ho's son from a previous marriage, Han Soo-hyuk, add further strain to a household already full of secrets.

Lee Bo-young stars as Seo Hi-soo and Kim Seo-hyung as Jung Seo-hyun in the 16-episode series, which aired on tvN from May to June 2021 and was notable as one of the first mainstream Korean dramas to center a lesbian storyline among its main cast.

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Best scenes

Spoiler warning: the following describes key moments from the ending.

  • Episode 16: the family's head housekeeper, Joo, turns out to be the one who killed Han Ji-yong, striking him with a fire extinguisher while he was strangling Seo Hi-soo; the two men then fall down the stairs together.
  • Episode 16: Seo Hi-soo admits she faked amnesia after her husband's death so that their son, Ha-jun, would never learn the truth about his father.
  • Episode 16: Jung Seo-hyun is named chairwoman of Hyowon Group after her son gives up his position as heir to be with the person he loves.
  • Episode 16: Seo-hyun reunites with her first love, tells her "I miss you," and later says the line that gives the drama its title, "Mine. It's mine," as she stops hiding who she is.
  • Mid-series: Hi-soo confronts the parents of the boy who bullied her son at school, telling them, "You didn't touch Seo Hee-soo, you touched Ha-jun's mother."

Filming locations

The Hyowon family mansion, including its private art-gallery scenes, was filmed at Museum SAN, an art museum in Oak Valley, Wonju, Gangwon-do, designed by architect Tadao Ando.

Visual design and costumes

Director Lee Na-jeong said she deliberately avoided showing wealth as "extravagant and flashy"; her team spent roughly four months researching how real upper-class households in Korea actually live, decorate, and dress, so the show's luxury would read as restrained rather than showy — a contrast she wanted against the two leads' own emotional emptiness.

Sculptures by artist Park Sang-soo were placed throughout the sets scene by scene, giving the production a "modern and refined" quality rather than overt opulence.

Themes and messages

Director Lee Na-jeong described Mine as a female-centric story about identity and solidarity between two women who start out distrusting each other. She built the wealthy Hyowon household as a deliberately lavish backdrop specifically to "magnify the contrast" between the family's outward luxury and the emptiness and darkness the two lead women actually live with.

The series is also notable as one of the first mainstream Korean dramas to center a same-sex relationship among its main characters rather than treat it as a side plot.

Interesting facts

  • Mine was one of the first mainstream Korean dramas built around a lead lesbian relationship rather than a side plot; Kim Seo Hyung said she took the role because "it was a romance," not because of the sexual-minority angle itself.
  • The finale drew the drama's highest ratings of the run: 10.512% nationwide, 11.221% in Seoul.
  • Screenwriter Baek Mi-kyung also wrote Strong Girl Bong-soon (2017) and Melting Me Softly (2019).
  • Kim Seo Hyung said reuniting on set with actress Kim Jung-hwa, who plays her character's first love, felt natural from their very first scene together, "as though they'd worked together for months."

Episodes

Ep Title Air date Status Rating
1 The Strangers 2021-05-08 Aired
2 The Wings of Icarus 2021-05-09 Aired
3 The Gray Area 2021-05-15 Aired
4 Strait is the Gate 2021-05-16 Aired
5 The Sixth Sense 2021-05-22 Aired
6 The Uncomfortable Truth and false Peace 2021-05-23 Aired
7 Love is Just a Dream 2021-05-29 Aired
8 How an Elephant Gets Through a Door 2021-05-30 Aired
9 A Toast to the Devil 2021-06-05 Aired
10 The Real Mother 2021-06-06 Aired
11 Some Enchanted Week 2021-06-12 Aired
12 Crime and Sin 2021-06-13 Aired
13 They All Lie 2021-06-19 Aired
14 Fighting in the Dark 2021-06-20 Aired
15 The Judgement Day 2021-06-26 Aired
16 Glorious Women 2021-06-27 Aired

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