War of Money (Korean: 쩐의 전쟁 ; RR: Jjeonui Jeonjag; also known as Money's Warfare) is a 2007 South Korean television drama series adaptation of Park In-kwon's comic of the same name. Starring Park Shin-yang and Park Jin-hee,
Originally scheduled for 16 episodes, due to its popularity it was extded to 20, but only Park Shin-yang starred in the four-episode bonus round.
Geum Na-ra was once a top-ranked investmt banker, until his life falls apart wh his debt-ridd father commits suicide after constantly being harassed by loan sharks. Traumatized, his mother collapses and is rushed to the hospital. Na-ra applies for a bank loan but is flatly died, and his disgruntled boss takes advantage of Na-ra's troubles and uses them as an excuse to fire him. His mother evtually dies, despite his and his sister Eun-ji's (Lee Young-eun) desperate efforts to obtain cash to pay for her hospital fees. Newlywed Eun-ji had become a room salon hostess, while Na-ra agreed to break up with his longtime girlfrid Lee Cha-yeon (Kim Jung-hwa) in exchange for cash from Cha-yeon's disapproving grandmother Madam Bong (Yeo Woon-kay). Believing that it's the source of all evil, Na-ra declares war on money and becomes obsessed with avging his parts' deaths. However, realizing the only way to defeat his emy is to understand the emy, Na-ra decides to become a loan shark himself, and begins working as a ruthless money collector for the notorious loan shark Ma Dong-po (Lee Won-jong), while learning the trade secrets along with life's philosophies from the old and legdary pro Dokgo Chul (Shin Goo) who reluctantly takes Na-ra under his wing.
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Na-ra ters into a rivalry with Ha Woo-sung (Shin Dong-wook), another moneylder who works for Madam Bong and has secretly loved Cha-yeon for years. Th Na-ra meets Seo Joo-hee (Park Jin-hee). Joo-hee was supposed to marry a divorced man to solve her family's financial problems, but on the day of the wedding, Na-ra showed up to collect the debts and ded up ruining her plans. Joo-hee vows to take her revge on him but she falls in love with him instead. Wh Na-ra learns that his gangster boss Ma Dong-po was the very man responsible for his father's death, he keeps his cool, waiting for the right time and the right place to seek his revge. Meanwhile, competition betwe banks and loan sharks is getting tse and a war over money threats to erupt.
Because of the series' high viewership ratings of over 30%, SBS filmed an additional four episodes featuring new characters and a new plot not found in the original comic, titled War of Money Bonus Round. Park Shin-yang was the only main cast member who reprised his role (Park Jin-hee and Shin Goo were unable due to scheduling conflicts). Among his costars were Kim Ok-vin, who played Geum Na-ra's girlfrid, and Park Hae-mi, who portrayed a physically-challged moneylding tycoon. Under the theme poetic justice or dilemma, the bonus round did not focus on revge, but on Na-ra's new challges as an ingious debt collector. Ratings were also successful, recording over 25%.
According to his contract, Park Shin-yang was paid ₩45 million per episode for the original 16 episodes. But to appear in the four extra episodes, he negotiated a fee of ₩170 million per episode.
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The producers agreed, but later reged on the deal, alleging that Park tried to capitalize on the drama's high popularity by asking for too much money. Park took legal action, and in November 2009, he won the lawsuit, with the Seoul District Court ruling (upheld by the Seoul High Court) that although the guarantees promised in the extra contract were three times higher than those paid for Park's appearances in the original contract, the two contracts were indepdt of each other, and the second contract was legal and binding.
Consequtly, the Corea Drama Production Association (CODA) banned Park from appearing in any dramas produced by members of the association for an indefinite period. Calling Park's ₩170 million per episode fee higher than the fee paid to an outsourcing production company by a broadcaster, CODA said such exorbitant actor's salaries shouldn't be tolerated since it adversely affects the drama production industry, from writers and producers to technical staff. Following CODA's announcemt, about 5, 600 overseas fans issued a joint petition to dounce the decision.
A Japanese drama remake also titled War of Money (銭の戦争 , Zei no Sso ), starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Yuko Oshima, will air on Fuji TV in January 2015.
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