Korean Drama

Title: 사랑과 야망 / Sa-rangkwa Ya-mang / Love and Ambition
Chinese title : 爱情与野望
Episodes: 80
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2006-Feb-04 to 2006-Nov-12
Air time: Saturday & Sunday at 21:45

Synopsis

Park Tae-joon (Jo Min Ki) is an intelligent law student and a filial son to his parents who runs a mill. His has a younger brother, Tae-soo (Lee Hoon) not quite as academic still quite smart and a known brat in town, and a younger sister, the kind and gentle hearted Sun-hee (Lee Yoo Ri). From the same town as Tae-Joon, Kim Mi-ja (Han Go Eun), his love interest is sick and tired of living in poverty and desires to leave their small town for a better life. One day after their father’s death, the family learns that they will lose their home as a pledge due to an assurance their father has made before his death.

From the poverty stricken post war era of the 1950s to the modern times of Korea, this TV-series follows a family and the surrounding characters who rode the drastic changes with passion.

Cast

Han Go Eun as Kim Mi Ja
Jo Min Ki as Park Tae Joon
Lee Hoon as Park Tae Soo
Lee Yoo Ri as Park Sun Hee
Choo Sang Mi as Jung Ja
Lee Seung Yun as Song Hye Joo
Maeng Sang Hoon as Kim Mi Ja’s dad
Lee Min Young as Eun Hwa
Yoon Gi Won as Sung Kyun (Tae Soo’s friend)
Park Joon Geum as Hong Jo’s mother
Kim Sung Hoon as gangster
Lee Ji Oh as Hoon Yi
Ahn Yong Joon
Jung Jae Soon
Nam Seung Min
Yoon Hae Young
Jang Ki Bum
Lee Sang In

Production Credits

Screenwriter: Kim Soo Hyun
Producer: Yoon Young Mook with Lee Hyun Suk
Director: Kwak Young Bum

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