He is a former NIS agent.Ī high-ranking agent in the 7th division of the Control Bureau.Ī newcomer Control Bureau agent and a former cop, intent on killing Seo-hae, who he believes killed his mother. The head of the 7th division of the Immigration and Foreign Affairs, also known as the Control Bureau. He tries to change the future when Seo-hae encounters him on her way to the Uploader. He is later in a vegetative state after the shooting at the Busan Expo, waking up during the war and learning of Tae-sul's death in the past. The chairman of Quantum and Time and Seo-jin's father, who aids Sigma to cure his wife of ALS. A future version of her, named "Agnes", later appears, running an orphanage for children who crossed over from the future to the past.
Like her father, she is in league with Sigma. She previously dated Han Tae-sul before becoming the fiancée of Eddie Kim, though they later break up.
Quantum and Time Ĭo-CEO of Quantum and Time and Tae-sul's best friend, though their friendship begins to drift apart due to Tae-sul's erratic behavior.Ī psychiatrist and daughter of the chairman of Quantum and Time, Kim Han-yong. Chae Jong-hyeop as "Sun" / Choi Jae-sunĪ former restaurant worker who becomes wealthy with Seo-hae's help, he aids the lead characters because of his fondness towards Seo-hae.He faked his death to track down Sigma, whom he found out to be his younger brother's former classmate and the mastermind behind the future war as well as the rise of Tae-sul as the CEO of Quantum and Time. Tae-sul's protective older brother who supposedly died ten years ago. A battle-hardened elite warrior, she travels to the past to save Tae-sul from death and prevent him from inventing the Uploader, a time machine capable of launching people and things to the past, including a nuke. She lived in a bunker for eight years before coming out to explore and scavenge the war-torn Korea. He gets involved in a conspiracy to start a war when he saves the flight he was on from crashing down to the ground, only to see unexplained things that lead him to uncovering the real reason behind his older brother's unexplained death.Ī mysterious woman from the future intent on saving the war ravaged world from destruction. Rude and arrogant at first, he later becomes more understanding after meeting Seo-hae. Sartre paid tribute to him in his obituary notice: 'Camus could never cease to be one of the principal forces in our cultural domain, nor to represent, in his own way, the history of France and of this century.An unfathomable event introduces an engineer ( Cho Seung-woo) to dangerous secrets and to a woman ( Park Shin-hye) from the future who has come looking for him.Ī genius engineer, CEO and the co-founder of the company Quantum and Time. Much of Camus's work is available in Penguin. An instant bestseller, the book received widespread critical acclaim, and has been translated and published in over thirty countries. His last novel, Le Premier Homme ( The First Man), unfinished at the time of his death, appeared for the first time in 1994. He was killed in a road accident in 1960.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. During the late 1950s Camus renewed his active interest in the theatre, writing and directing stage adaptations of William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun and Dostoyevsky's The Possessed. After the war he devoted himself to writing and established an international reputation with such books as La Peste ( The Plague 1947), Les Justes ( The Just 1949) and La Chute ( The Fall 1956). He edited and contributed to the underground newspaper Combat, which he had helped to found. His first two important books, L'Etranger ( The Outsider) and the long essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe ( The Myth of Sisyphus), were published when he returned to Paris.Īfter the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He went to Paris, where he worked on the newspaper Paris Soir before returning to Algeria. His early essays were collected in L'Envers et l'endroit ( The Wrong Side and the Right Side) and Noces ( Nuptials). He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist as well as organizing the Théâtre de l'équipe, a young avant-garde dramatic group. His childhood was poor, although not unhappy. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.Īlbert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger- now one of the most widely read novels of this century- in 1942.