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Love me when you can |
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| Running time |
30 min |
| Starring |
Ha Hee-ra, Kim Yun-suk  |
| Director |
Jang Kun-soo, Kim Woo-sun |
| Writer |
Suh Young-myung |
| Episode |
169 Eps |
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Synopsis |
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| What is the happy life that women dream of? How can we define true happiness and success desired and pursued by women? Despite drastic increase in divorce rates, there are still countless women going through divorce in the shadows, facing so many problems.Through the main character ‘Oh Sun-ae’, this drama series narrates in detail the aftereffects and the wounds accompanying divorce. The greatest victims of emotional divorce and irresponsible love that are neither pragmatical nor realisitic, are none other than our own children. Korea is said to be a country with the second highest divorce rates in the world. But in terms of divorce process or this emotional warfare, we have only been outwardly influenced by the western culture, and perhaps no one has treated the children of the divorcing couple as individual persons.This drama intends to show that divorce signifies the end of a marriage, not the end of the relationship with their children. |
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Oh Sun-ae (Ha
Hee-ra) Becoming pregnant right after graduating from
college, Oh Sun-ae married the baby’s father without having the opportunity to
work professionally even for a day. Living as an ordinary at-home wife and mom,
she has faithfully served her husband, her 10-year old daughter and her in-laws
for 13 years. Sun-ae lost her first child, and has
lived with her in-laws without a word of complaint. She cared for her bedridden
father-in-law (he has since died), married off an older spinster sister-in-law
(she lives in another country), and played servant to endlessly visiting guests.
Buried under housework, her life has been restricted to the boundaries of her
home without any opportunity to enjoy a decent outing. Being of a naturally
bright, kind and generous disposition, she doesn’t have much complaint and
considers this life as her own kind of happiness. Then she discovers that her
husband has been having an affair with another woman for over a year. She can
understand and endure any kind of situation confronting her, but cannot forgive
her husband’s betrayal. Literally loosing her senses, she divorces her husband
without giving any thought to the consequences. But that’s when the real
problems start! Let alone gaining the custody rights, she is sent out into
the streets without a penny of divorce settlement. She has no one else to turn
to but her younger brother. Sun-ae realizes that she should have looked for a
job and examined all possible consequences before getting a divorce, instead of
acting rashly with rage. But it was too late. She ends up moving into her
brother’s house, and starts to search for a new transitional point in her life.
She meets her new fate in the name of Kang Jin-wu. She also starts a business
together with her brother who has lost his job, and succeeds in becoming a proud
woman of independence. |
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Ha Dong-gyu (Kim Yun-seok) -
Oh Sun-ae’s husband Director of a cosmetic companies
supplying to a home-shopping company. Outside his home, he is regarded as a
stylish and romantic guy, but in his house he becomes reserved and displays
patriarchal traits. This dual character is the result of his mother’s influence
rather than his innate nature. He has been having an affair with Bae Yeong-jo
for over a year. When his infidelity is revealed,
he tells his raging wife demanding for a divorce, “If I divorce you where will
you go, how will you live?” It may seem that he is trying to calm his wife, but
in truth, it’s a false gesture for him to gain time to stash his assets so he
won’t have to provide her with any settlement (His mistress also has a role in
encouraging this). Such scheming personality is also largely due to his mother
Park Geum-rae’s influence, perhaps implying his hidden mama’s boy character
defect. He divorces Sun-ae, and marries his mistress Yeong-jo, but his end is
tragic. Yeong-jo only wanted the man she loved. She did not need his daughter,
his mother nor his sister Joeng-hwa, torn between getting married or breaking
up. They were extras that she had no use for. Her discord with Dong-gyu’s young
daughter is particularly serious, and acts as a cause for their initial
conflicts. Dong-gyu truly gets back all the cruel things he did to Sun-ae.
Ultimately, he divorces Yeong-jo, and ends up penniless.
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Kang Jin-wu (Byun Woo-min) -
Medical Doctor The man Oh Sun-ae feels new affections for
after her divorce. Kang Jin-wu befriends Sun-ae when she comes to consult
him about her daughter’s psychological problems. A graduate of Yale
University, he is a gentle and kind Child Psychiatrist, who harbors a deep and
painful wound in his heart. He married the woman he fell in love with while
studying in the US, but he lost his bride to a car accident on their way back
from their honeymoon. So legally he has never been married. He went to the same high school as Sun-ae’s ex-husband,
so he could be considered as Dong-gyu’s friend, but they had never been close.
Because of Jin-wu’s strong background and outstanding intelligence, Dong-gyu
always felt inferior, and they had different circle of friends. But when
Dong-gyu finds out about Jin-wu’s relationship with his ex-wife of all people,
he becomes really agitated by it. Such attitude is another reason for conflict
with Yeong-jo, and a complicated triangle with Dong-gyu and Sun-ae develops.
In the end, Jin-wu is the man who helps Sun-ae find happiness again.
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Bae Yeong-jo (Jea Su-weon) -
Supervisor of External Relations at a Model Agency Career
woman with a stylish and sensual appearance. She is having a passionate affair
with Oh Sun-ae’s husband Ha Dong-gyu. A realist who never stands for personal
damage, she meets Dong-gyu while selecting an advertising model for his company,
and falls in love. She does not pester him to get a divorce, nor does she
feel the need for a marriage. However, she quickly marries Dong-gyu as soon as
he gets a divorce, and realizing that he does not want to pay settlement to
Sun-ae, she engineers him to rip his ex-wife off. When her life with Dong-gyu becomes uncomfortable, she
ruthlessly ditches him, and makes him and his family experience the very same
situation that Sun-ae had to go through before. As a child, Yeong-jo’s father deserted her and her mother
for another woman, making her harbor subtle hostility for mankind. She harbors
simultaneous animosity for first wives, whom she considers to be stupid
creatures, and for empty desires of man. This is the result of psychological
wounds suffered during her childhood.
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