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| The everyday worries of women who have reached the marriageable age -
Long time ago it was so...
When at school they would ask, “ What is your future dream? ” and girls would
write, “… to be a wise and good housewife”. A wise and good housewife means
exactly what it says; a wise mother and a good wife but such words have slowly
started to vanish, why?
As society changes and more women start to launch themselves into it, and education
levels become the same as men, unlike earlier times, being a wise and good housewife
has become a product of the past. It has gotten to the point where if you say
that you’d like to become a wise and good housewife people will laugh at you.
Maybe these words to the new generation means sacrifice and obedience. Still
how could such nice words change into such a bad meaning because of the change
in generations? Is it not enough just being a wise mother and good wife, even
though you were born to a prestigious home, received higher education than others,
and have a job where you can pour your skills into? In America, a country more
advanced than ours in many ways, education teaches that women show superior
household skills, that this is the most valuable work, and is the best choice
one could make. It is a great worry that our country reverses this thought and
makes it into a less important role.
The characters are not just spiritless and subservient women who know nothing
else but love, and are dragged here and there by men, they are just ordinary
college graduates worrying about their future, marriage and family. It’s time
we had a drama with characters who worry about the ordinary and draw the importance
of a woman’s role in a family. It’s time we show how a modern housewife lives
and dreams of a day where women will wish to be housewives once again.
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Hong Nah Young - Kang Sung
Youn
(Director of the Advertising Events Department)
I surely
will get married and live happily! ? Insidious
character A restless and tomboyish
older single woman, but once she makes up her mind to get something done she
does everything to get it done. Her top priority these days is to get married!
Nothing but marriage! Next year she’ll be 34! She has trouble falling asleep
thinking that the word marriage will be thrown out of her life forever if she
doesn't get married before she reaches her mid 30's. She grew up thinking she
was born a princess. She had never even thought of living with her in-laws,
marrying an eldest son and carrying out the ancestral rites. However, what if
the husband she dreamed of wanted such a housewife, what would her answer be?
"Yes!" without a second thought. Since her goal is getting married anyways...
She panics after reading an article one day in the newspaper saying that women
in their mid 30's go through premature menopause and fall into a depression
thinking that they must get married and have kids before they turn 40. Moreover,
even bald-headed guys getting ready for their second marriages are coming out to
the marriage meetings... Now there is no more time left... So, even though she
is still a princess she lowers herself a little bit to find her mate, even after
all the somewhat useful ones were taken by all the common girls. Gosh! She can
only think that she should get herself together and just jump in. Just wait and
see.. there's nothing I can't do! Living with the in-laws? Ancestral rites?
That's not the problem. I'lll do anything from making kimchi to pepper paste,
Lets just get married first! For sure I'm going to get married to someone who
has the looks, all the conditions I want and will only love me! Apart from her
nervousness she still is fit to be a princess but she falls in love and
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Jung Jae Won - Yoon Dah Hoon
(Head of Exported Cars Sales department)
I'm
going to get married now with someone pretty, has lots of money, and power! ? A
not so prudent man.
An old single man whose biggest problem is his
self-confidence which is nothing but boastful.
Has nothing in his name but
his used car he's had for 6 years.
But like a science fiction cartoon
character who yells yea~~ when the boat comes in on the Han river.
He was
born as the first child and got all the attention which made him strongly
believe he was a prince.
Because of a mother who showed favoritism strongly
between her children he always got more than his siblings.
But in life you
must pay a price for everything; nothing is free.
He started to become
insincere and dishonest in his studies and life, not knowing of the expectations
his family had of him because he was the first child, although he did not choose
to be it, and what would become of him if he did not fulfill these expectations.
His very own mother, the one that loved him so much and gave him everything he
wanted and more, even started to scorn him and he started to learn the hardships
of life. And as he watches all the love he once received moving to his little
brother Jae June, he tries to get this love back but cannot narrow the
difference. Jae June has become a doctor so he feels an inferiority complex and
when it gets bad, a feeling of self-accusation overcomes him. Because of this
his boasting becomes even worse day by day and to fulfill himself he spends a
lot of money which leaves him with a huge credit card bill and no money.
Now
his only goal is to find a fit mate and get married so that he can get out of
the house with the family that treats him colder and colder every day, and
someday return with riches and resume his place and honors of the first child.
So his only concern is looking for a rich woman to marry driving the company's
demo car around.
Of course he would be very thankful if she had the money,
looks, and personality!
But... his mother starts to show a little
expectation towards him when it comes down to finding someone to marry.
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Kwan Eun Sun - Lee So Yeun
(Advertising Events Representative)
I'm going to
become a housewife! - A woman who is calculative and
manipulative
Nah young's colleague.
Always puts herself in other
people's shoes, is spirited, and always has a smile on her face. But when there
is something she wants she gets it.
A born playgirl..
She knows all the
things you need to know about being in a relationship.
She thinks the same
way about marriage as Nah young which is the reason why she thinks its better to
meet a lot of people instead of looking for one and marrying him. She feels that
this is thoughtless. She knows well that love cannot feed her. She puts
significant importance on marriage but she thinks that instead of keeping a
non-meaningful marriage together, divorce would be better.
Finding one man
who has a supreme goal out of all the men she meets...
Having a man as just a
lover she doesn't care who it may be, but to marry she wants someone who is
responsible and conservative. Even though she doesn't want to get married
because she doesn't like kids and housework she knows that if she doesn't hurry
she'll lose all the good men. Her goal is to have fun while she can yet get
married to the perfect man without him knowing about her past, but one day while
fishing for that perfect man... She meets Jae June through Nah Young and gets
hit with the cupids arrow as soon as she sees him.
She makes up lies so that
Nah young and Jae June don't meet then she uses her dating expertise to get Nah
young and Jae Won together.
But how could this be Jae Won in Jae June's older
brother!
It is the perfect marriage but for one thing Nah Young would become
her elder.
Nah Young can you break up?
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Jung Jae June - Bae Soo Bin
(Obstetrics and Gynecology Resident Doctor)
I'm
going to become a wise father and good husband! - An over considerate and
indecisive man.
A conservative and indrawn character, he seems to
be indecisive because he thinks too much about others. Its so extreme that
sometimes he seems slow. This thoughtfulness toward others can seem like a
concern toward them but on the other hand it can seem like he's trying to lessen
his losses and annoyances. It makes him a unique individual at the same time. In
another words he doesn't give other people trouble and doesn't want trouble from
other people either. He puts all he can into his work but instead of becoming a
doctor which gives him little leisure time he wishes to have a less demanding
job so that he can enjoy time with his family when he gets married. Getting
married is his wish but the real reason he wants to get married is because he
loves children and wants to have children of his own. Being a doctor and
somewhat successful (unlike his brother) his mother expects a lot from him which
stresses him out and sometimes makes him want to get away from it all. He is
dissatisfied about all these expectations of him but more so he is disappointed
of his hopeless brother.
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Jae Won's Father - Joo Hyun
(retired)
He was an ove - conservative person...
His
strictness was so extreme that it took over everything but as he ages he loses
power to his wife. This marks the beginning of his years of suffering. The man
who always sat in the corner of his wife's store and kept his peace suddenly
declares his independence as he gets an obedient daughter-in-law.
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Jae Won's Mother - Jung
Young Sook
(Snack store owner)
I'm going to live
my life the way I want to! Nah Young's mother's high school
friend.
Knows all of Nah Young's mother's deepest secrets, who is now a
wealthy wife and a perfect housewife..
She seems like a very liberal woman
but actually she is very conservative and has a tendency to overreact to
everything because she feels the need to be compensated for how she has lived.
She was so conservative that she insisted on marrying the guy she had her
first kiss with but later sees her friends that had many lovers in their lives
living a better life than hers and she feels angry and mortified.
In
addition she wakes up from her sleep just thinking about the sacrifices she made
for her dictating husband.
She decides not to live the way she has and also
not to raise her daughter in such a conservative way. But at the sudden
appearance of Nah Young she feels a cloud over the freedom she was enjoying.
Living with her daughter-in-law she finds herself doing the house chores again.
Son! Can you please get divorced?
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Jung Suhk Soon - Choo Sahng
Mee
(Representative of an Advertising company)
I'm going to work all my life!
Suhk
Soon is Jae Won's little sister.
She also is Nah Young's friend and
colleague.
Suhk Soon is very optimistic.
Work comes before anything; she
is a true career woman.
Nothing comes before her success at work and in
society, not even marriage.
Won't even think about getting married before
sleeping with someone... but thinks that this is totally reasonable. She says
that it is totally impossible to get married without even having sex with the
one you're going to live with all your life. She believes this wholeheartedly,
without even changing expressions and looking at you as if you were crazy if you
disagree..
But still she withholds a purity towards love and tries the best
she can to keep the relationship going.
If possible her dream is to lead a
splendid single life.
She can't understand Nah Young's extreme desire to
marry. Instead she thinks Nah Young looks foolish and pitiful. So she tries to
change Nah Young train of thought and, in turn, Nah Young tries to change Suhk
Soon.
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Jae Won's Grandma (78.
doesn't work)
Grandma who feels like she's still in her
teens.
It seems that she doesn't care about the household chores and only
cares about herself. But she is very wise because she knows that if she says
something to her daughter-in-law she'll start nothing but trouble. Because of
this reason she feels kind of bad that she gets no respect at her son's house
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Nah Young's Father - Kim
Yong Gun
(Executive of a Big Company)
Has a conservative
character but is a wise father and good husband. He falls into a great dilemma
after finding out the secrets of his wife when he thought his marriage was the
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Nah Young's Mother - Park
Jung Soo (Housewife)
I've lived my life the way I
wanted to so...
Jae Won's mother's high school friend.
She is
very disturbed with meeting Jae Won's mother because she knows all of her
deepest secrets. She seems like a very conservative person but in the past she
was a well known playgirl. With her belief that its better to meet a lot of men
there were times that she met more than 2 men at a time. She even got pregnant
before getting married but had an abortion. After that she found a way to go to
a marriage meeting that Jae Won's mother was supposed to go to and ended up
marrying the man, her current husband. She is now leading a very conservative
and perfect life as a housewife and mother. But in wanting to forget about her
past she stopped talking to Jae Won’s mother. After meeting her husband, she
often thinks about her past she and realizes that how she lived her life in her
younger years was very wrong and feels awfully sorry about it. She does not want
her daughter to make the same mistakes so she decides to foster her children in
a more conservative environment. Until now she was leading a perfect life but
with Jae Won's mother's appearance she feels like a bomb waiting to explode in a
war field... Daughter! Can you please get divorced?
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Hong Kang Soo - Doh Han(
Architect student)
What's a wise mother and good
wife? - A character with great flexibility
Nah Young's younger
brother.
Thinks that life is living it to its fullest and something only you
can do by yourself and that this is a way of respecting yourself and others.
The new generation where the word, sacrifice, cannot be understood or
comprehended. A wise character who believes that sacrifice will become a regret
sooner or later. In that sense he cannot understand his sister and mother.
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