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Love Can't Wait |
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Synopsis |
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Does a high school senior only have to study? A naive high school girls big plan
to get married!
is a special love story of a high school senior at a girls school with an IQ of
98 but ranking first in looks in her school and of a poor college student studying
law.
Eun-min meets Tae-kyeong, a college student, when she goes to the university library
to run an errand for her sister. She instantly falls in love and lies to him about
being a scenario writer and starts dating him. Tae-kyeong of course also falls
in love with the charming Eun-min. However, Eun-min’s lie doesnt last long. Eun-min
and Tae-kyeong meet each other again as private tutor and student…
Tae-kyeong tells Eun-min, who hates studying more than anything, that she should
do something else if she doesnt want to go to college, and drags her to the HAJA
Center. The reason she listened to him without any further worries is because
she believed that he would not ask her to do something thats not right. She has
faith in him. She thought that she would be able to live a different life if she
were with him. Tae-kyeong was the first thing that had ever been only hers. Therefore,
Eun-min decides to get married to him! The marriage was her first accomplishment.
The ten-million-won-leased room in the basement that the in-laws found for them
has no windows. But why worry about not having a window? One can just draw windows
on the wall, place a bucket under the leak in the ceiling and hold a rat-catching
event with Tae-kyeong in case there are rats! For some time at first, poverty
was just a game for her…
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Kim Tae-kyeong (College
student 25) / Hong Kyeong-min The second of three children
of Kim Cheol-hwan and Jang Soon-ja. He has always been lonely growing up
with a strict and too serious father and a mother who was always busy due to
hard living conditions. He made his own lunch box, studied on his own, and had
to check the weather forecast to see if he had to take his umbrella on his own.
Although he hasn't received an allowance since middle school, he managed to buy
a computer and clothes on his own and even treat his friends so that they
wouldn't realize how poor he was. He thinks that there's no need to blame his
poor parents, because he can always get what he wants with his own efforts
without burdening his parents. He proudly thinks of himself quite highly as a
person. He himself believes that he is well-off compared to others, including
his parents and siblings despite his background. With the right height and
decent looks, his intelligence was also confirmed when he entered the best
school in Korea. He is a young man with a fervent soul, confident that he has a
good personality and good values. He's never in his life brought contempt upon
himself and he's never been really scolded by his parents. He's been
complimented by people in town and been recognized by teachers and friends.
Fiercely independent and with a strong sense of responsibility, he is also very
sincere and possesses reasonable values. Despite his young age, he is very
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Seo Eun-min (senior at a
girl's high school 19) / Lee Young-ah Second daughter of
Seo Jin-heung and Jang Yeon-sook. She thought she was special. She thought
she'd always play in a flower garden. Never in her wildest dreams had she
considered of putting mud on her hands, walking in mud or being looked down on
by others. She is a bright, cheerful and fearless child who once thought that
even car accidents that often happen to others would escape her! If the first
hardship in life was her parent's divorce, then the second hardship came with
her marriage to Tae-kyeong at an early age. She starts to have a terrible
relationship with her mom after she gets married to Tae-kyeong and moves into a
windowless ten-million won leased room in a basement. One can just draw windows
on the wall, place a bucket under the leak in the ceiling and hold a
rat-catching event with Tae-kyeong in case there are rats! For some time at
first, 'poverty' was just a game for her... Although she thought all she had to
put up with was the discomfort of being poor, she gradually comes to realize
that poverty damages one's self-esteem and brings self-contempt. The poverty she
experiences through her marriage to Tae-kyeong makes her grow up really
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Seo Eun-joo (Eun-min's
sister) / Choi Jeong-yoon Scenario writer. When it comes to
work she is very precise, but has no interest in housework whatsoever and
doesn't have the slightest motivation to do it. Since she was little she liked
to wear pants more than skirts, and had more boyfriends than girlfriends.
Although she may seem a little wild due to her informality and over-confidence
she is actually an honest woman with many lovely traits. She is easy-going and
social and strongly dislikes anything serious. She will tape her torn skirt with
scotch tape and staple buttons back on that fall off; she cleans her room once a
month at the most. It's a disaster to the point that she has to jump over her
belongings and kick anything that gets in her way. She has a cool and open
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Hwang Young-min / Choi
Kyu-hwan Scenario writer. He grew up as the only man in his
household, which consisted of his grandmother, mother and his sister, who is in
a wheel chair. Having served as a cook in the military, he's quite confident
about his cooking and is also good at cleaning due to his neat personality.
After majoring in creative writing at a junior college and finishing his
military obligation, he sees Seo Eun-joo's scenario while doing some monitoring
at a movie company. Once he starts working as a co-writer it is Eun-joo's
workroom that upsets his sense of cleanliness. Seo Eun-joo is a woman who often
uses his toothbrush, not being able to distinguish her own from his, wears his
clean and neatly folded socks and leaves her underwear lying around everywhere.
However, they never fight. Being thoughtful enough, he takes care of Eun-joo and
starts to feel some affection toward her. Eun-joo criticizes him when he makes
soup for her when she is drunk and when he folds her underwear that's been
hanging out on the veranda for days by saying, "I didn't ask for a housemaid. I
was looking for a co-writer." He's a righteous man who doesn't cross the road
at a red light even if it's empty at 3 a.m. He's also a courteous member of the
young generation who washes the paper cups that Eun-joo throws away and recycles
them.
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Kim Cheol-hwan (Tae-kyeong's
father) / Baek Il-sup When talking about his stubbornness,
he's never lost to anyone. He believes that he's always right. Although his wife
and children complain that he's too conservative and stiff to talk to, he still
thinks that it's the right way for him to be with his family. It's his
stubbornness that keeps him alive. He came to Seoul when Tae-kyeong was five
wanting to raise his children well after realizing how hard life is with only a
middle ? school diploma. While living as a sailor in Yeosoo of Jeon-nam
province. In this process he leaves an indelible wound on his family. He left
his daughter Tae-hee as a 'nanny' to his next door
neighbors. He managed to find his daughter again three years later when she was
on the streets begging with a blind couple, but this is still a wound that
remains in his family. Whenever Tae-hee is drunk she brings up the incident
again and sadly blames everything on her father, which also hurts him deeply.
The role of a father he thinks is… "Not starving his children and not letting
them be called an orphan by others." But his children start to talk
differently as they grow older. They dare to compare him to other fathers,
complain about not having been given more and blame him for the wounds that have
led to their distorted personalities. "Do I know how much parents’ deficiencies
are detrimental towards the formation of the personalities of their children?"
He thinks that if he knew that those brats would turn out to be like this he
should have abandoned them at an orphanage a long time ago. He's a stubborn,
obstinate man who does not think he is the slightest bit unjust. He's a loner
who doesn't know how to rely on his children or wife or even tell them that he
loves them until the day he dies.
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Jang Soon-ja (Tae-kyeong's
mother) / Jang Hae-sun There's nothing she hasn't tried
since she came up from Yeo-soo. She worked in a restaurant, worked as a peddler,
and as a housemaid. Not even once has she put make up on her face, and she cuts
her hair at home. The only time she got a perm was right before her older son
got married. Although she's talkative, dissimulating and a greedy snob, her love
for her children is so strong that she would even walk in flames if something is
bothering them. She's a typical mom who cries and laughs because of her
children.
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Kim Tae-hee (Tae-kyeong's
sister) / Yoon Hae-young Self-acclaimed writer, referred to
as a literary aspirant by others. The same year she graduated from a junior
college, majoring in creative writing, she was somehow fortunate enough to be
nominated as a new literary writer. Since then her writing hasn't been printed.
She is an old maid who insists on thinking herself a writer while others call
her a literary aspirant. She has no sense of reality, having never done
corporate work with the excuse of having to write, and has never really dated
after carrying the torch a few times. She's about to fall into depression now
that marriage seems to have gone out of her way and she seems to have no talent
in writing whatsoever. Her life was actually set the year she graduated from
elementary school. When her family left for Seoul, her father took her to
someone's house. She would have been old enough to understand at the age of
thirteen, but he left without a promise of returning. She waited for a year,
taking care of three children in that house. Only after 2 years did her father
come to pick her up and this was already after the wound in her heart had
deepened. After that…she lived with a growing belief that no one would love
someone who was abandoned by her own father. She grew a temper and yelled
whenever she felt like it. Having already experienced that no one is out there
to protect her, she persistently took care of herself. She didn't have friends
or anyone else close to her. The vicious cycle has continued until today. She
simply hates her home. She hopes to leaves the house with her stiff father who
won't listen, the house with her father who sold her away, the house that only
hurts her as quickly as possible. She just wants to escape the sound of her
father's constant yelling...
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Kim Tae-soo (Tae-kyeong's
older brother, video rental store owner) / Lee Doo-il Since
he was a child, he was never really self-confident being weighed down by his
fiery father and smart, good-natured brother. While Tae-kyeong overcame his
hot-tempered and stubborn father, Tae-soo grew up living in the shadows of his
father. His childhood dream was to be a soccer player. He was quite recognized
in school for his talent. When it was time to go on to high school, he even
received offers from high schools famous for their soccer teams. Although he
wanted to play soccer, his father disliked the idea and Tae-soo never dared to
go against his father's will. He decided he could just play soccer in the town's
early morning soccer league. Therefore, he went into an engineering high school
and that was the end of his studies. He's optimistic, lazy and laid back. He
might have a lot of complaints about his mother but is always obedient to her,
and gives in to his brother every time. In the living room, he stands on his
mother's side and in the kitchen he changes to be on his wife's side. He doesn't
see the need for beating others since losing makes life so much easier. He
thinks that not offending his father and maintaining peace in the house is the
greatest filial duty. Although he doesn't have any big hopes, his only dream is
to get lost in the desert. He just wants to live everyday as he did the day
before, watching videos and comics in his shop. He's a little worried that he
and his wife, Hee-jung, have not had a child yet, but he doesn't really mind it
so much. He doesn't want his wife to make a big fuss about it. He's someone who
never upsets anyone, lacks a little bit in humor but is warm-hearted and truly
cares for his wife's younger sister, Hee-soo.
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Kang Hee-jeong (Tae-kyeong's
sister-in-law) / Kim Ji-young She grew up as an orphan,
finished high school and started to work at a supermarket in town where she met
her husband Tae-soo. Her affection for her younger sister is so strong that she
married Tae-soo only after he made the promise to raise her sister like his own.
She felt on top of the world when Hee-soo entered medical school. She was so
happy to finally have a 'family' when she got married. She was able to put up
with her mother-in-law's scolding through the love given to her by her
father-in-law. Despite the fact that she's always short of money, she remains
optimistic by, remembering the difficult days when she had to sleep outside
homeless with her sister. The fact that her husband's earnings are not
sufficient is not really a cause for worry. She believes that the two will be
able to survive somehow now that they're living in an era where everyone's
better off. The only wish she has is that her husband would gain more confidence
and belief in the family. She's a person who is self-sacrificing and always
considerate of others.
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Kang Hee-soo (Hee-jeong's
younger sister) / Jo Yoon-hee She's stubborn, gentle in
appearance, but sturdy in spirit. Living at the expense of her in-laws since
middle school, she always felt ill at ease having to tolerate being unable to
raise her voice even once. She has always felt alone after her sister got
married. Thinking that she was now on her own in this world she seemed to grow
more affectionate towards her in-laws but in reality they remain strangers to
her, with the exception of Tae-kyeong. She misses the times when she was living
with her sister alone in a single room. But she tries not to reveal her true
feelings to her sister. It was Yoon Ki-hoon's comic books that allowed her to
endure the lonely times. Since she was little, she read his books so many times
that she has now almost memorized them. Although the books are now out-of-print
she still owns all the short pieces. She spent countless hours copying the
pictures from the comic books. She got in trouble and was caught by her sister,
but Hee-soo wouldn't stop. She wrote fan letters to Yoon Ki-hoon, and went to
his workplace in Ganghwado to draw a wall painting. Through Tae-kyeong, she
starts to work as a pupil for Yoon
Ki-hoon...
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Jang Yeon-sook (Eun-min's
mother) / Park Won-sook She's the CEO of a luxury ceramics
company. Even when she was young, she was quite different from the other
moms. Whenever there was left-over cold rice, she fed her two daughters with
it telling them that it was their share, and when Eun-joo asked her on the day
of her college examination why her mother didn't pray for her daughter like the
other moms, Yeon-sook would simply answer that it'd be unfair if she prayed
since someone else would fail if Eun-joo passed the exam. Before she got
divorced from her husband, who supposedly had an affair, Yeon-sook never even
dreamt that the pottery which she started as a hobby would lead to her new
company. All she had left from her divorce was barely enough money to open up a
small shop. She opened her own small shop and started selling the home ceramics
she had personally made. Her unique ceramic ware appealed to the housewives of
the Gangnam area as useful for receptions and weddings. She became successful
the through word - of - mouth and soon was much better off financially. Her
current company came to exist with the help of an online shopping mall. When she
expanded her businesses on-line slightly earlier than others, things got much
better. Sometimes she would wake up to find that sales had doubled overnight.
When the on-line shopping mall grew in size, the off-line company came to stand
in form. She now even has a gallery that sells high quality ceramics of lesser -
known potters and a factory that makes home ceramics. This all took about ten
years. She believes that her troubled times are over now that she was able to
overcome some critical moments of bankruptcy due to excessive expanding of the
company. Now that her company is stable again, her only wish is for her two
daughters to grow up well.
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Jang In-sook (Eun-min's
aunt, runs a real estate agency in town) / Sunwoo Yong-nyeo
When Eun-min's family moves into her town, she finds a house for the family
and remains close to them. A long time friend of Tae-kyeong's mother from town,
she dislikes her sister Jang Yeon-sook, who has both more money and more
potential and who indirectly tends to ignore In-sook. Although Yeon-sook was a
trouble maker as a child, she's doing well now which supposedly gives her the
right to act that way. Before Eun-min gets married, In-sook moves in with
Eun-min's family and takes care of the housekeeping, often causing disturbances
inside the house.
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Yoon Ki-hoon (Divorced,
cartoonist) / Lee Hyeon-woo Eun-joo's senior in college.
While in college, Eun-joo first started to write as she worked part time as a
story-teller for Yoon Ki-hoon. Due to his comparably long hair for a man and
free way of dressing, older people think of him as a rag picker while women
consider him bohemian. After he's been given a award by a comic magazine in high
school, he became quite famous and successful as a cartoonist. The one thing
lacking is that he sent his son away to his ex-wife after getting divorced and
now lives by himself. He believes that men should be manly and women should
be feminine. He hates women who brag about themselves. He likes simple-minded
women who seem a little dumb who he can easily manage. Anyone like this with
money would be great. He's a character who at the latter part of the drama
builds up a love triangle with Tae-hee and Hee-soo and causes some turmoil in
Tae-kyeong's household.
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Oh Young-shim (Eun-min's
friend) / Na Eun A friend Eun-min meets through Tae-kyeong,
Young-shim enters Eun-min's mother's company with Eun-min, and the two together
develop their own line of ceramic accessories. She's a little strange and
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