This is 1996 TV Series okey
First Love
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Promotional image
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Hangul
| 첫사랑
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Revised Romanization
| Cheotsarang
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McCune?Reischauer
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Genre
| Romance
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Written by
| Jo So-hye
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Directed by
| Lee Eung-jin
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Starring
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Country of origin
| South Korea
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Original language
| Korean
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No.
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| 66
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Producer
| KBS
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Network
| KBS2
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Release
| 7 September 1996
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1996-09-07
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20 April 1997
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1997-04-20
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First Love
(
Korean
:
첫사랑
) is a South Korean television series starring
Lee Seung-yeon
,
Choi Soo-jong
and
Bae Yong-joon
. It aired on
KBS2
from September 7, 1996 to April 20, 1997 on Saturday and Sunday at 19:55 for 66 episodes.
It is currently the second
highest-rated Korean drama of all time
, based on single episode viewership ratings, reaching 65.8% on its final broadcast on April 20, 1997. Its average rating for its entire run was 52.6%. In 1997, the series aired on
China Central Television
to commercial success and is widely considered the beginning of the
Korean Wave
.
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Plot
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Brothers Sung Chan-woo and Sung Chan-hyuk and their sister Sung Chan-ok live in the poor countryside outside with their father Sung Duk-bae, trying to get by as a farming family.
The stern and hard-working Chan Woo and his older brother Chan Hyuk, an aspiring artist, are both in love with Hyo-kyung. She returns Chan-hyuk 's affection. After learning the two are dating, Chan-woo finds it hard to be around her, though she tries to continue to be friendly with him. Lee Jae-ha (Jo Kyung Hwan), Hyo Kyeong's gangster father, is against her dating a poor artist.
A mysterious accident leaves Chan-hyuk paralyzed. Chan-woo, now a law student, gives up his career and joins the underground world of the mafia to seek revenge on Hyo Kyung's family for his own family's suffering.
As the series progresses, Chan-woo is still in love with Hyo-kyung and is torn between his love, the loyalty to his brother and desire for revenge. As the paralyzed Chan-hyuk grows distant to Hyo-kyung, she became drawn to Chan-woo. There was also the childhood friend Kang Suk-hee with a crush on Chan-woo.
Cast
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- Choi Soo-jong
as Sung Chan-hyuk
- Lee Seung-yeon
as Lee Hyo-kyung
- Bae Yong-joon
as Sung Chan-woo
- Song Chae-hwan as Sung Chan-ok (Chan-hyuk and Chan-woo's sister)
- Choi Ji-woo
as Kang Suk-hee
- Park Sang-won
as Kang Suk-jin (Suk-hee's brother)
- Lee Hye-young
as Park Shin-ja
- Son Hyun-joo
as Ju Jung-nam (guitarist)
- Bae Do-hwan as Oh Dong-pal
- Jo Kyung-hwan as Lee Jae-ha (Hyo-kyung's father)
- Yoon Mi-ra
as Hyo-kyung's mother
- Kim In-moon as Sung Duk-bae (Chan-woo's father)
- Jeon Yang-ja as Chairman Jun (Suk-jin's mother)
- Park Jung-soo
as Shin-ja's mother
- Kim Tae-woo
as Park Hyung-ki (Chan-woo's classmate)
- Song Hye-kyo
as one of the students being tutored by Hyo-kyung
- Cha Tae-hyun
as Chan-woo's friend
- Michael Bratvold as French exchange student
International broadcast
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Due to Bae Yong-joon's popularity post-
Winter Sonata
,
First Love
was aired in Japan on
NHK
in 2005.
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See also
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References
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