Asian Drama

A drama about an adoring father and his four daughters. Jang Shin Jo was a former detective, but has now switched from carrying a gun to wielding a kitchen knife as a restaurant owner.

This drama is about the takeover of the Korean government in 1979 by Chun Doo Hwan.

Episodes: 41

Duration: 1 hr. 5 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Saturday, Sunday

Han Seung Wan and Jung Se Jin bumps into each other at the airport and accidentally take each other's passports. They meet again and Seung Wan and Se Jin end up spending the day together. Both having to deal with love complications, they end up drunk and having a one night stand. Back in Korea, Se Jin discovers she is pregnant and leaves to have the baby alone. A year later, Se Jin's clueless sister ends up spilling the secret to Seung-Wan at his engagement party, showing up with his baby daughter. Seung-wan and Se Jin are then forced to marry by their respective families. Complicated love takes place between Do Hyun, Se Jin, Chae Young and Seung-Wan. The rest of the story revolves around the family's journey in learning to take responsibility, and learning to love each other.

Eun Ah Ri Young (Jang Seo Hee) is a successful drama writer with a scarred past. When her father had an affair with another lady and left the family, her brother died and her mother became blind. Hating her father her whole childhood, she grows up to plan revenge on her father's new family. Her father's new wife, Shim Soo Jung (Han Hye Sook) is a popular actress. Ah Ri Young writes a drama about the affair and her blind mother, and casts Shim Soo Jung in the role of her blind mother in order so that Soo Jung will feel guilt. Ah Ri Young also plans to steal her stepsister (Woo Hee Jin)'s fiancee (Kim Sung Min). A guy she only chose for revenge becomes a guy she truely loves, and that love confuses her feelings for revenge. Jo Soo Ah (Go Doo Shim), her mother's friend, helps in the revenge because she wants Ah Ri Young to become her son (Jung Bo Suk)'s wife. As one person's plan for revenge starts, many people will become hurt, and the true meaning of forgiveness and understanding is learned.

Three young men face the university entrance exams upon which their economic and social fates depend. Kim Tae Moo is a comic book artist whose art is plagiarized even as he's humiliated at school, at work, and then in the army. Cho Se In, plagued by a drunken father, wants to be a hairdresser and is the victim of gay bashing and chicken hawks. The overweight, phlegmatic, and cowardly Kong Seung Ho lives to eat and watch videos. The film dramatizes their friendship, their family lives, and the crushing reality of the limited opportunities Korean society offers them.

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Episodes: 58

Duration: 53 min.

Aired On: Monday

Ratings: 7.7