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Love & Secret
2014 South Korean TV series or program From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Love & Secret[1] (Korean: 달콤한 비밀; RR: Dalkomhan bimil; lit. 'Sweet Secret') is a 2014 South Korean daily drama starring Shin So-yul and Kim Heung-soo.[2][unreliable source?][3] It aired on KBS2 from November 11, 2014 to April 3, 2015 on Mondays to Fridays at 19:50 for 102 episodes.[4][5]
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Plot
Han Ah-reum, the daughter of the Korean Vice-Minister for Culture, returns home with a child born out of wedlock, a fact that will shame her family and ruin the chances of her father becoming the Minister for Culture. Cheon Sung-woon, heir of the Winner fashion and clothing company, is being backed into an arranged marriage that he does not want. When the paths of the two cross and re-cross, initial hostility turns into love. However, the secret of Ah-reum's illegitimate daughter may become a barrier to true love.
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Cast
Main characters
- Shin So-yul as Han Ah-reum
- Fashion student who was pregnant with Phillip's daughter, Tiffany, but was abandoned by him. She becomes a single mother despite the stigma that it brings, and later becomes a designer at Winner's in order to provide for her daughter, where she meets and falls in love with Cheon Sung-woon.
- Kim Heung-soo as Cheon Sung-woon
- Director of the Winner's Group, he falls in love with Ah-reum and breaks off an arranged marriage with Go Yoon-yi. He persists in wanting to marry Ah-reum even after it is discovered that she is a single mother.
- Yang Jin-woo as Phillip Choi
- Hedge fund manager who abandons Ah-reum for a financially more lucrative marriage, but seeks a divorce from his wife once he has extracted what he wants from it. When Ah-reum rejects him, he becomes obsessed with winning her back, and taking custody of Tiffany. He uses Winner's need for expansion capital to manipulate Sung-woon and Ah-reum
- Yeon Min-ji as Go Yoon-yi
- Corporate lawyer, and Sung-woon's friend since childhood. She is from an impoverished background, and Sung-woon's family paid for her education with the intention of marrying her to him. When Sung-woon breaks off their engagement, she helps Phillip and betrays Winner's in order to drive Sung-woon and Ah-reum apart.
Supporting characters
- Han family
- Jung Dong-hwan as Han Pan-suk
- Ah-reum's father, the vice-minister for culture and candidate to become minister. He ruins his career and reputation for probity in order to protect Ah-reum.
- Kim Hye-ok as Oh Myung-hwa
- Ah-reum's mother, a housewife who suffers early onset dementia, which Phillip uses to snatch Tiffany and paint Ah-reum as an unfit mother.
- Son Seung-won as Han Jin-woo
- Ah-reum's younger brother, a medical student and talented singer.
- Park Joon-myun as Oh Sun-hwa
- Choi Seung-kyung as Kwon Young-soo
- Yang Han-yeol as Kwon Hyuk-min
- Chun family
- Kim Eung-soo as Chun Do-hyung
- Hwang In-young as Lee Soo-ah
- Heo Jin as Lee Hae-bang
- Jo Hyun-do as Chun Sung-ho
- Extended cast
- Jo Hyun-sik as Secretary Jang
- Im Baek-chun as Kim Sung-chul
- Yoo Hee-do as Woo Sang-joon
- Son Se-bin as Heo Anna[6]
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Ratings
- The blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings
- NR denotes that the drama did not rank in the top 20 daily programs on that date
- Episodes 71-73 affected by Korean New Year
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Awards and nominations
International broadcast
The series aired, one week after initial broadcast, on KBS World with subtitles.
References
External links
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