Dal-ja's Spring
Dal-ja's Spring is a 2007 South Korean romantic comedy television series starring Chae Rim, Lee Min-ki, Lee Hyun-woo, Lee Hye-young and Gong Hyung-jin. It aired on KBS2 from January 3 to March 15, 2007, on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 22 episodes.
Chae Rim won a Top Excellence Award in Acting at the 2007 KBS Drama Awards.
Plot
Oh Dal-ja is a managing director at a home shopping network. 33 years old and single, marriage is heavy on her mind, mostly due to societal and familial pressure. Although she has everything - a successful career, supportive friends, a loving family - she still dreams of the perfect romance and marriage. She falls for her flirty colleague Shin Se-do, but after he dumps her for Wee Seon-joo, the stylish host of the home shopping TV show, Dal-ja decides to seek revenge. Enter Kang Tae-bong, a guy 6 years younger with a mysterious past. For , Tae-bong signs a dating contract with Dal-ja to pretend to be her boyfriend for three months. But then Dal-ja meets Uhm Ki-joong, seemingly the perfect man: rich, good-looking, intelligent, and courteous, but recently separated from his wife. For the first time in her life, Dal-ja finds herself in a love triangle.Dal-ja's Spring comically and candidly deals with issues in Korean society, such as women dating younger men, the everyday social pressures encountered by single women over 30, and mothers juggling work and family.
Cast
Main characters
- Chae Rim as Oh Dal-ja
- Lee Min-ki as Kang Tae-bong
- Lee Hyun-woo as Uhm Ki-joong
- Lee Hye-young as Wee Seon-joo
- Gong Hyung-jin as Shin Se-do
Supporting characters
- Seo Young-hee as Jang Soo-jin, Tae-bong's ex-girlfriend
- Lee Kyung-jin as Jung Jung-ae, Dal-ja's mother
- Kim Young-ok as Lee Kkeut-soon, Dal-ja's grandmother
- Kil Yong-woo as Kang Soon-hong, Tae-bong's father
- Kwon Ki-sun as Son Young-shim, Tae-bong's mother
- Kim Na-woon as Go Soon-ae, Dal-ja's pregnant best friend and colleague
- Jang Young-nam as Ki-joong's ex-wife
- Yang Hee-kyung as Team leader Kang
- Kim Sung-kyum as Tae-bong's grandfather
- Oh Kyung-soo as Nam Dae-soo, department director
- Kim Jae-wook as Choon-ha, Tae-bong's friend working at Dongdaemun Market
- Seo Young as Hong Ji-hee
- Kim In-tae as Se-do's father
- Choi Eun-seo as Hee-yeon
- Lee Mi-so as Ki-joong's secretary
Ratings
Source:Soundtrack
- 기적 같은 사랑 - Lee Kyung-hwa
- Sweet Lover - Park Hye-kyung
- To You Mine - Pearl's Day
- 추억을 열다 - Soyeon
- 내 손을 잡아줘 - K-Jun
- 나쁜 사랑 - M.R.J
- 심장 - Eun-young
- Impression
- Ya-Ya-Ya
- 추억을 열다
- Lively Breeze
- Surprise
- To You Mine
- Miracle
- 너에 기억
- 기적 같은 사랑