The Time We Were Not in Love
The Time We Were Not in Love is a 2015 South Korean television series starring Ha Ji-won and Lee Jin-wook, adapted from the award-winning 2011 Taiwanese drama In Time with You. It aired on SBS from June 27 to August 16, 2015 on Saturdays and Sundays at 22:00 for 16 episodes.
Plot
Oh Ha-na and Choi Won are both 34 years old and have been best friends since high school. For the past seventeen years they have been present for every milestone in each other's lives; but, through missed timing, a romance has never developed between them.Cast
Main
- Ha Ji-won as Oh Ha-na
- Lee Jin-wook as Choi Won
- Yoon Kyun-sang as Cha Seo-hoo
- Choo Soo-hyun as Lee So-eun
Supporting
People around Oh Ha-na
- Shin Jung-geun as Oh Jung-geun, Ha-na's father
- Seo Ju-hee as Kim Soo-mi, Ha-na's mother
- Lee Joo-seung as Oh Dae-bok, Ha-na's younger brother
People around Choi Won
- Jin Kyung as Choi Mi-hyang
- Kang Rae-yeon as Kang Na-young, Ha-na and Won's friend
- Choi Dae-chul
- Jang Hee-soo as Choi Won's mother
- Lee Dong-jin as Song Min-gook
- Jang Sung-won as Bong Woo-jin
- Seo Dong-gun as Jang Dong-gun
People at Tandy
- Choi Jung-won as Joo Ho-joon, Ha-na's two-timing ex-boyfriend
- Woo Hyun as Byun Woo-sik
- Hong In-young as Hwang Bit-na
- Go Won-hee as Yoon Min-ji
- Park Doo-shik as Eun Dae-yoon
- Bae Woo-hee as Hong Eun-jung, Ha-na's hoobae and later Dae-bok's girlfriend
Guest and cameo appearances
- Jo Young-gu as Manager at shoe company
- Hong Seok-cheon as Airplane passenger
- Park Joon-myun
- Kim Myung-soo as Ki Sung-jae
- Choo Sung-hoon
- Yoon Sang-hyun
- On Joo-wan
- Shin Eun-kyung as Gu Yeon-jung
- Jang Su-won
- Park Jong-hoon as Professor
Production
Television director Jo Soo-won and screenwriter Min Hyo-jung were originally hired for the series. Then on May 15, 2015 Jo dropped out of the project due to "creative differences" with production company iWill Media; he returned a week later on 22 May, and a statement was released that Min had been replaced with screenwriters Jung Do-yoon and Lee Ha-na.The series' first teaser trailer was released online on June 6, 2015, then taken down a few days later after its concept was confirmed to have been plagiarized from the 2014 animated short film Jinxy Jenkins, Lucky Lou.