Don't Dare to Dream

Don't Dare to Dream, also known by its literal title Jealousy Incarnate, is a 2016 South Korean television series starring Gong Hyo-jin, Jo Jung-suk, Ko Kyung-pyo, Lee Mi-sook, Park Ji-young, Lee Sung-jae, and Seo Ji-hye. It aired on SBS every Wednesday and Thursday at 22:00 from August 24 to November 10, 2016, for a total of 24 episodes.

WWW tv.sbs.co.kr/jealousy

Synopsis

Weather caster Pyo Na-ri and news anchor Lee Hwa-shin work at the same broadcasting station, with a complicated history between them. Na-ri once harbored feelings for Hwa-shin, but when she crosses paths with the wealthy and well-mannered Go Jung-won — a close friend of Hwa-shin — tensions and romantic dilemmas emerge. Meanwhile, rivalries in both love and career between other characters further complicate relationships.

Cast

Main

Gong Hyo-jin as Pyo Na-ri
Jo Jung-suk as Lee Hwa-shin
Ko Kyung-pyo as Go Jung-won
Lee Mi-sook as Kye Sung-sook
Park Ji-young as Bang Ja-young
Lee Sung-jae as Kim Rak
Seo Ji-hye as Hong Hye-won

Supporting

Crazy 18

Moon Ga-young as Lee Ppal-gang, Hwa-shin's niece
Kim Jung-hyun as Pyo Chi-yeol, Na-ri's brother
Ahn Woo-yeon as Oh Dae-goo

People around Hwa Shin

Park Jung-soo as Hwa-shin's mother
Yoon Da-hoon as Lee Jong-shin, Hwa-shin's brother and Ppal-gang's father

People around Jung Won

Choi Hwa-jung as Kim Tae-ra, Jung-won's mother and Kim Rak's sister
Park Sung-hoon as Secretary Cha

People at SBC broadcasting company

Kwon Hae-hyo as Oh Jong-hwan
Jung Sang-hoon as Choi Dong-ki
Yoo Jae-myung as Uhm Ki-dae
Park Hwan-hee as Keum Soo-jung
Park Eun-ji as Park Jin
Seo Yu-ri as Hong Ji-min
Kim Ye-won as Na Joo-hee
Jun Ji-an as Im Soo-mi
Yoo Jung-rae as Kan Mi-young
Lee Chae-won as Yang Sung-sook
Park Seo-young as Jang Hee-soo
Sung Chang-hoon as New agency staff
Lee Myung-haeng as 7 o'clock news anchor

People at Rak Villa

Seo Eun-soo as Lee Hong Dan, Na-ri and Chi-yeol's step mother
Sul Woo-hyung as Pyo Bum, Na-ri's step brother
Suh Hyun-suk as Lee Seung-han

People at Sun Hospital

Bae Hae-sun as Keum Suk-ho, Oncologist
Park Jin-joo as Nurse Oh Jin-joo

Extended

Min Jung-sub
Song Ha-rim as School office clerk who attended the festival
Yeo Un-bok as surgeon
Choi Kyu-sik as Taxi driver
Lee Do-yeop
Jang Hae-min
Lee Yoon-sang as Executive Officer of Yonee Group's hotel
Kwan Eun-soo

Special appearances

BamBam as Guy in Thailand nightclub
Vivian Cha as Guy's girlfriend
Yoo Jae-myung as news anchor
Lee Jung-eun as Orthopaedist
Oh Se-deuk as Chinese restaurant chef
Jung Kyung-sun as Pyo Na-ri's mother
Han Ji-min as Han Ji-min, Hwa-shin's blind date
Kim Kyung-ran as announcer open recruitment judge
Ahn Hye-kyung as announcer applicant
Jun Hyun-moo as announcer applicant
Oh Jung-yeon as announcer applicant
Kim Yoon-sang as announcer applicant
Lee Sun-kyun Na-ri's blind date
Ko Sung-hee as Hong Soo-young, Hwa-shin and Jung-won's first love

Broadcast rights bidding

KBS 2TV and SBS both expressed interest in broadcast rights for Don't Dare to Dream. When the casting was first announced in February 2016, the drama was then in talks to air on KBS 2TV, but SBS decided to join the bidding war. In April 2016, it was announced that SBS won the drama's broadcast rights.

Miscelleanous

The show has been analyzed as "a case study of the application of the Tie-Up Theory to a romantic narrative as a form of simulation of human mating processes with social cognition valence".