Reply 1997
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Title: 응답하라 1997 / Reply 1997
Chinese Title: 回答1997
Also Known as: Answer to 1997 / Answer Me 1997
Genre: Sitcom
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: tvN
Broadcast period: 2012-July-24 to 2012-Sep-18
Air time: Tuesday 23:00 (2 episodes back to back)
Synopsis
This drama will focus on the extreme fan culture that emerged in the 1990s when idol groups took center stage and K-pop was blossoming.
It tells the story of 6 former high school friends from a school in Busan who meet again in 2012 and brings back memories to 1997 when they were still high school students. Moving back and forth between the ’90s and today, the story centers on the life of Sung Si Won (Jung Eun Ji), who idolizes boyband H.O.T. and her 5 high school friends.
Cast
Main Cast
Jung Eun Ji as Sung Si Won
Seo In Guk as Yoon Yoon Je
Shin So Yool as Mo Yoo Jeong
Hoya as Kang Joon Hee
Eun Ji Won as Do Hak chan
Lee Shi Un as Bang Sung Jae
Extended Cast
Sung Dong Il as Sung Dong Il (Shi Won’s father)
- Kang Kyun Sung (강균성) as young Dong Il (ep 9)
Lee Il Hwa as Lee Il Hwa (Shi Won’s mother)
- Park Cho Rong as young Il Hwa (ep 9)
Song Jong Ho as Yoon Dae Woong (Yoon Jae’s brother)
No Ji Yeon (노지연) as Jang Dan Ji
Jung Kyung Mi (정경미) as Kyung Mi / Eun Dok Ki
Kim Sun Ah (김선아) as Sun Ah / Eun Gak Ha
Cameos
Kim Gook Jin as MC of Star Date (ep 1)
Tony Ahn as himself (ep 1, 3)
Kim Ye Won (김예원) as Sung Song Joo (Shi Won’s older sister) (ep 4, 9)
Siwan as ROTC student (ep 4)
Lee Yoon Suk (이윤석) as Lee Dong Gyu (ep 5)
Kim Jong Min (김종민) as doctor (ep 5)
Shin Bong Sun (신봉선) as Busan club H.O.T. president (ep 6)
Choo Min Ki as Chu Shin Soo (ep 8 )
Kim Tae Won (김태원) as karaoke room guest (ep 8 )
Jung Myung Ok (정명옥) as karaoke room guest (ep 8 )
Jung Joo Ri as karaoke room guest (ep 8 )
Park Ji Yoon as Joon Hee’s sixth older sister (ep 8 ) / seventh older sister (ep 10)
Ryu Dam as Lee Dae Ho (ep 8 )
Yoon Bo Mi (윤보미) as young Moon Jung Mi (Yoon Jae’s mother in 1968) (ep 9)
Yang Joon Hyuk (양준혁) as Yoon Joon Hyuk (Yoon Jae’s father in 1968) (ep 9)
Son Jin Yeong as young Joon Hyuk (ep 9)
Kim Ki Wook (김기욱) as cell phone store salesman (ep 9)
Yoon Hyung Bin as Eun Dok Ki’s husband (ep 10)
Yang Se Hyung (양세형) as Eun Gak Ha’s husband (ep 10)
Ahn Young Mi (안영미) as Sechs Kies fanclub president (ep 10)
Kang Yoo Mi as H.O.T. fanclub president (ep 10)
Shin Dong Yup as MC of 1998 Golden Disk Awards (ep 10)
Lee Joo Yeon as Joo Yeon (ep 14, 16)
Lee Sol Ji (이솔지) as Lee Sol Ji (TV program MC) (ep 15)
Go In Bum as Shi Won’s great uncle (ep 15)
G.NA as Choi Jin Ah (Yoon Jae’s blind date) (ep 15)
Bae Da Hae (배다해) as Shi Won’s colleague (ep 16)
Lee Soo Geun (이수근) as hired driver (ep 16)
Production Credits
Director: Shin Won Ho (신원호)
Screenwriter: Lee Sun Hye (이선혜), Kim Ran Joo (김란주)
Episode Title
| Episode | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Eighteen |
| 2 | Becoming more and more different |
| 3 | What you see is not everything |
| 4 | Fair play |
| 5 | Life's counterattack |
| 6 | Love makes you do things you’ve never done |
| 7 | Future hopes |
| 8 | D-day |
| 9 | The thread of fate |
| 10 | The reason why I like you |
| 11 | The fairness of relationships |
| 12 | The meaning of hands |
| 13 | Later...no, now |
| 14 | Love Is Ordered by the Heart |
| 15 | While i loved you |
| 16 | The reason why first loves don’t last |
Episode Ratings
| Date | Episode | Average Rating (%) | Peak (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-07-24 | 1 & 2 | 1.20 | 1.80 |
| 2012-07-31 | 3 & 4 | 1.20 | 1.70 |
| 2012-08-07 | 5 & 6 | 1.60 | 2.10 |
| 2012-08-14 | 7 & 8 | 3.25 | 4.56 |
| 2012-08-21 | 9 & 10 | 3.00 | 3.80 |
| 2012-08-28 | 11 & 12 | 3.46 | 4.43 |
| 2012-09-04 | 13 & 14 | 3.70 | 4.70 |
| 2012-09-11 | 15 | 4.17 | 5.52 |
| 2012-09-18 | 16 | 7.55 | 9.47 |
Source: TNmS Media Korea
*** Note: This drama is aired on Pay-TV channel which has fewer viewers than Free-TV channels. So, please don’t be surprised with the low rating. ***
Note
The last episode of this drama aired on four cable channels: tvN, OCN, Mnet, and O’live. Therefore, the ratings was combined from these four channels. (Source)
Awards
2013 49th Baeksang Arts Awards: Best New Actress (Jung Eun Ji)
Poster
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September 14th, 2012 at 10:18 pm
@Jennie nice number 200 heehee. oh is that y i m having so much probs watching KDs lately! how do u know it’s bec of this show? dcrazy site must be crazy heavy which is y it is always not loading right. i m watching SUFBB, it was good in the beginning but slowed down in the middle, then i get less interested in their issues.. reply is still da best!
September 15th, 2012 at 1:58 am
Just watched ep 15, and no, nope, uh uh… doesn’t matter if Yoon Jae feels bad about his hyung. Shin won is not portable property that they can’t just pass back and forth to each other. Her feeling matter, too… it matters the most, actually. And she clearly doesn’t love hyung. Plus, after that big speech Yoon-Jae gave to his hyung about fighting for his love, if he gives up now because of guilt, I will murder him. Well, from the preview, it looks like Shin Won’s working pretty hard on that murdering business, so maybe I’ll just leave it to her. Anyway, we all know who the baby daddy, is so why are they still playing that guessing game with us?
September 15th, 2012 at 12:37 pm
@kdfan I am having the same problems too with Dramacrazy, up to the point where I gave up and went over to Epdrama. Read that a lot of blogs offering soft subs to Reply 1997 have either been removed or blocked and some of those with hard subs had been taken off, which is probably why Kimchi is out – probably for the same reason? TvN is known to be pretty tough and due to the immense popularity of Reply 1997, they are working extra hard to prevent “poor netizens” like us from watching. Really, not that we have a choice, we can’t watch live, we can’t subscribe but we are major contributors in making them gain international recognition, right? If they are worried that we won’t buy the DVD, for collectors like me, if it’s good, I will definitely get a copy. Just worrying that I won’t get to see the final
@Tonberry The writer is probably having too much fun fooling around with us but smart gals like us aren’t taking it lol. I mean, we are down to the last episode, unless Shi Won had a mental breakdown or she had a memory lost during that time gap, TW being the dad is simply unthinkable
September 15th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
You guys are still worried abt TW being the dad? You can’t be! That became out of the Qn the min. SW confessed that she liked YJ in that old car 2 eps ago. By now, the two brothers arriving at the maternity ward at the same time is just a running joke, with a hood, a wink n a chuckle.
September 15th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
@KDaddict We are just playing along with the writer and having lots of fun doing so. As far as I’m concerned,it was a done deal a couple of episodes ago
September 15th, 2012 at 2:46 pm
@Jennie
Eonnie why are they doing that? ahh it would be a big disappointment not to watch the ending if they will take down every sites…besides here in the philippines we can’t access viki.com so epdrama, dramacrazy, dramafans and kimchidramas are the only sites that are available here in the Philippines, though not as fast as viki.com to subs it’s still ok with us…too bad kimichidramas is out (hope they’ll be back soon).
yes my daughter is very smart…too smart sometimes that i really want to smack her in the head (joke),hehehe! she knows that i really love reply 1997 coz that’s the only show i watch on tuesdays (or wednesday here coz we have to wait for someone to upload it), she watches Arang with me so she knows that after Reply 1997 it’s her turn to watch Arang & TTBY (by thursday & friday)…she’s 8 so i guess she’s already allowed to watch idol dramas,hehehe!
only a few more days…i really can’t wait!!! too stressed with what to expect with ending…though i’m really loving TVN shows i still hope that the ending will be daebak!
September 15th, 2012 at 3:06 pm
i think i’m going to die from waiting for the ep16 of this drama…it’s really good…i know that yoonjae is the baby’s father but why are the writers still confusing us? one thing is know is that I REALLY LOVE THIS DARMA!!
DAEBAK!!
September 15th, 2012 at 11:25 pm
@shem,
Why are the writers still trying to confuse us? It’s called a “running gag”. A joke between the writer and the audience that runs thru the duration of the show. It is almost like a theme, a thread that unites all the eps in a show. It happens often in comedies.
@Jennie,
I know that you know the mystery’s been solved. Just trying to help calm some jittery nerves out there.
September 16th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
PULL-EASSEE. we all know who the father is. I dont understand why they are trying to confuse us.. if they wanted to add the last minutes of ep 15 in, why did they show who the father was in the middle? coz then, if it wasnt in ep 15, we wouldn’t know what to expect… who did she have the kid with? who’s the father? But, either way, its a reeaalllyyyy good drama! finished it in 2 days. (:
Can’t wait for the last ep! Joon Hee is hawt as. <3 why does he have to be gay? ): not being mean. i respect lesbians, gay and bi-sexuals. (:
September 16th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
@Lenny
I think it’s hot that he’s gay.
Wish they’d given him a love interest, too. It’s sad that he’s the only one without anyone at the end.
September 16th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
@Tonberry I miss you, gal. Where have you been? I am hoping that the writer will give us some kind of a closure for Joon Hee – maybe a love line from his new room mate? And Sung Jae too
September 16th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
ONE OF THE BEST KDRAMAS of the year!
I wonder why this drama is so under rated. hopefully, more people could watch this. I can no longer wait for the finale this week! WHO’S THE BABY DADDY!! hahaha please let it be Yoon Jae!! 
Watching this reminds me so much of How I met your mother.
This drama is so unpredictable leaving you questions after question every episode. The story plot is so great touching every aspects of life — family,friends,school,fangirling,love. I so love the quote in every episode very inspiring.
September 17th, 2012 at 9:28 am
Where can I watch the 1st Ep??
September 17th, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Here’s a funny video I found about Seo IG telling us about How To Be Yoon Yoon Jae : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvdyHarR2B4
September 18th, 2012 at 9:49 am
@Jennie I m getting very worried. Even epdrama has taken the show down..
September 18th, 2012 at 9:57 am
best drama 2012. better than arirang and 2 the beautiful u …recommended!!!
September 18th, 2012 at 10:01 am
i have no idea, i cry when i saw they kiss in 15 ep…it’s such a beautiful kiss…!!
September 18th, 2012 at 5:05 pm
@kdfan Me too. Going to try tving for live streaming. Not sure if it works. Keeping my fingers crossed.
September 18th, 2012 at 6:10 pm
dramacrazy is still ok, if someone is still looking where to watch episodes 1-15 here’s a link of episode 15…
http://www.dramacrazy.net/korean-drama/reply-1997-episode-15/
@Jennie
Eonnie hope you can share a link later for live streaming…i really wanna watch it too…hehehe!
September 18th, 2012 at 6:16 pm
@Jennie
and thanks for the link about how to be yoon jae…it was really funny…i even saw another video of SIG in a show (i dont know the title but he was in a taxi) and got a little disappointed when they ask Eun Ji of what’s her reaction when SIG sent him a recorded message shouting “I LOVE YOU EUN JI!” but she said that it was “burdensome”…ahhh SIG was saying that he feels a little something for Eun Ji but she said doesn’t feel the same…
September 18th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
@ance Sorry it’s late but had to feed my kids first heehee. The link I have :
http://www.tving.com/live/player/C00551 Just went there. Very confusing and have to keep on refreshing. I don’t think it works cos maybe have to subscribe. For live recaps : http://www.vingle.net/posts/51115-Live-Recap-Answer-to-1997-Korean-Drama-EP-16-LAST-EP
September 18th, 2012 at 10:51 pm
i love EunJi + SeoInGuk!!!!
September 18th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
@ance It works but have to keep refreshing and plenty of adverts. Watching it now
September 19th, 2012 at 12:17 am
@Jennie
thanks eonnie! motherly duties first of course…it’s 11 here so my 2 girls are asleep,hehehe! i have all time to watch it now…thanks again…ohhh i hope it works here! *crossed fingers*
thanks again!
September 19th, 2012 at 12:44 am
This is surely the best drama of the year, from episode 1 to episode 16. I’m so happy and sad at the same time. I will surely hold dear this drama because everything is just perfect. The PD surely made my day in the finale because they also mentioned DBSK
TW becomes the president of DBSK fan club and played a song by DBSK too. Oh I miss the boys from DB5K!! I shall definitely add this drama to my collection. Now back to rewatching all the kissing parts again and there are so many of them LOL
Did you manage to see it live?
@ance Daebak ending