ATHENA : Goddess of War

Title: 아테나: 전쟁의 여신 / Athena: Jeonjaeng-ui Yeoshin / Athena: Goddess of War

Genre: Action, thriller, romance
Episodes: 20
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2010-Dec-13 to 2011-Feb-21
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55
Official Site : http://tv.sbs.co.kr/athena/
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Synopsis

Sometime in the near future, the Korean peninsula attempts to reunify. The South Korean government, which needs enormous funds for the unification to succeed, develops a landmark new technology called the TWR. The TWR is a high speed nuclear reactor and other countries want the technology.

To prevent terror in the aftermath of the TWR breakthrough, the government establishes a new organization named NTS (National Anti-Terror Service). Jung-Woo (Jung Woo-Sung) is transferred to the NTS group from the NIS. He's excited about the transfer and hopes to live the life of a real agent, but then discovers his main responsibility is to watch North Korean defectors.

One day, Jung-Woo is given the order to travel to Italy to track terrorists from North Korea. Jung-Woo goes to Italy with Ki-Soo (Kim Min-Jong). Ki-Soo is a former North Korean agent who has defected to South Korea. Ki-Soo's specialty is information on the European region. Up until now, Ki-Soo was one of the North Korean defectors that Jung-Woo had to monitor.

While in Italy, Soo-Young (Lee Bo-Young), the daughter of the South Korean President Jo Myeong-Ho (Lee Jeong-Kil), is kidnapped by terrorists. To solve the case the Korean government sends additional NTS agents including Jae-Hee (Lee Ji-A) to Italy. The NTS agents are able to negotiate with the terrorists, but during their negotiations Hye-In (Su-Ae) suddenly appears. Jung-Woo and the other agents are surprised. Hye-In works as a guide at the exhibition hall in the NIS building. Jung-Woo has always held strong feelings towards Hye-In, but he has never expressed his feelings towards her. Following Hye-In, Son-Hyuk (Cha Seung-Won), the chief of the East Asia branch of Department of Homeland Security in the U.S., suddenly appears as well. The NTS agents are mystified by their appearance.

Jung-Woo learns that there is a secret "solutions" group within the NTS whose sole responsibility is to solve problems that others agencies can not. More surprisingly, Hye-In is part of that group.

Other mysterious cases start to occur and Jung-Woo's intuition leads him to believe that there is unfathomable conspiracy occurring to rearrange the power structure of the entire world. That conspiracy is led by Athena.

What is the real identity of Athena and what does Hye-In and Son-Hyuk hide in their NTS "solutions" group?


Main Cast
Jung Woo Sung as Lee Jung Woo

Soo Ae as Yoon Hye In

Cha Seung Won as Son Hyuk

Lee Ji Ah as Han Jae Hee

Kim Min Jong as Kim Ki Soo

Choi Si Won as Kim Joon Ho

Extended Cast
Lee Jung Gil as Jo Myung Ho
Jung Han Yong as Jung Hyung Joon
Kim Seung Woo as Park Chul Young
Yoo Dong Geun as Kwon Yong Gwan
Son Ji Hoon (손지훈) as Hong Jin Suk
Kim Young Ae as Choi Jin Hee
Lee Han Wie as Park Sung Chul
Jun Gook Hwan as Han Jung Pil
Park Yong Soo as Hwang Ho Young
Park Yong Ki as Yoo Kang Ho
Sean Richard as Randy
Oh Chang Suk as Lee Dong Hun
Oh Yoon Ah as Oh Sook Kyung
Oh Sun Hwa (오선화) as Young Mi
Lee Min Ji as Jessica (DIS staff)
Lee Ji Hyun as NTS staff
Choi Gun Woo (최건우) as Special Agent B2
Kim Ah Young (김아영) as Special Agent B4
Jung Hwan as Seo Min Hyuk
Yoo Ha Jin (유하진) as NTS staff
Jung Chan Woo as Chul Kyu
Ricky Lee Neely as Viktor Sevcenkov / Sasha
Lee Jae Yong as Captain Kim Ho Bin
Choi Yong Min as Nam Dong Shik
Jung Ho Bin as Kang Chul Hwan
Kim Jin Geun as Park Suk Ho
Myung Ji Yun as Hong Soo Jin
Yoo Tae Woong as Kim Sun Hwa’s husband
Kim Dan Bi (김단비) as NTS agent
Bang Kil Seung (방길승) as SWAT commander
Do Ye Sung (도예성) as Jung Kyung Won
Heo Tae Hee as BoA’s manager
Ahn Jin Kyung (안진경)
Park Chul Min
Im Sung Kyu as an Athena operative
Lee Bo Young as Jo Soo Young (cameo, ep 3-5)
BoA as herself (cameo, ep 7-8)
SHINee as themselves (cameo, ep 7)
Girls’ Generation (cameo)
Chu Sung Hoon as black agent (cameo)
Max Changmin as Choi Tae Hyun (cameo, ep 17)
Kim So Yun as Kim Sun Hwa (cameo, ep 17, 20)
Jin Goo as black agent (cameo)
Park Sung Woong as Jin Young (cameo)
Douglas Day Stewart as director of Son Hyuk’s firm (cameo)
Ryu Dam (cameo)
Kim Byung Man (cameo)