White Nights 3.98
White Nights 3.98 is a 1998 South Korean television series based on the novel of the same title by Han Tae-hoon and directed by Kim Jong-hak. It aired on SBS from August 31, 1998 to November 3, 1998.
The series was criticized for director Kim Jong-hak's reliance on self-replication reminiscent of his earlier work Sandglass, the actors' awkward Russian dialogue, computer graphics, and writing, resulting in low viewership ratings.
Premise
After the collapse of Cold War ideology, in the rapidly shifting situation on the Korean Peninsula, Taek-hyeong and Gyeong-bin clash in pursuit of their nations' interests, while Anastasia finds love even in the most extreme circumstances.Cast
Main
- Choi Min-soo as Kwon Taek-hyeong, major in the Korean People's Army
- *Kim Jung-woo as young Taek-hyeong
- *Kim Min-sung as teenage Taek-hyeong
- Shim Eun-ha as Anastasia Jang
- *Kwon Hae-kwang as young Anastasia
- *Lee Eun-ju as teenage Anastasia
- Lee Byung-hun as Min Gyeong-bin, Korean Central Intelligence agent and former Air Force first lieutenant
- *Shin Joo-ho as young Gyeong-bin
- *Lee Jong-soo as teenage Gyeong-bin
- Lee Jung-jae as Lee Young-jun
- Jin Hee-kyung as Oh Seong-shim
- Wang Hee-ji as Hong Jung-yeon
- *Song Hye-kyo as teenage Jung-yeon
- Yoo Jun-sang as Kim Jin-seok, ANSP intelligence agent
- *Kim Jung-ho as teenage Jin-seok
Supporting
- Jung Hyung-ki as General Kwon Ki-wook, Taek-hyeong's father and member of Unit 124
- Kim Eun-sook as Ki-wook's wife
- Lee Seok as General Kwon Dong-wook, Ki-wook's brother
- Park Woong as Anatoly Jang, father of Anastasia, Soviet nuclear physicist, and deputy director of the Irkutsk Atomic Energy Institute
- Jo Kyung-hwan as Yuri Kim, Chechen mafia boss
- Shin Hyun-joon as Peter Kim, son of Yuri
- Im Hyeok-ju as Min Se-yoon, father of Gyeong-bin and captain of the Jongno Police Station
- Park Soon-cheon as Se-yoon's wife
- Kim Young-ae as Hong Young-sook, Agency for National Security Planning and Consul General to Russia, aunt of Jung-yeon
- Park Sang-won as Air Force major Choi Sang-gyu
- Kim Ye-ryeong as Sang-gyu's wife
- Park Eun-bin as Choi So-young, Sang-gyu's daughter
- Nam Sung-hoon as ANSP personnel
- Jo Hyung-ki as Park Seon-bae, ANSP agent sent to Russia
- Lee Seung-hyung as ANSP agent sent to Russia
- Lee Hee-do as ANSP agent sent to Kazakhstan
- Choi Jong-hwan as Major Lee Young-hu, Young-jun's older brother and commanding officer of Jang Baek-ho troop
- Nam Na-kyung as Yoon Sook-kyung, Young-hu's wife
- Kwak Jung-wook as Lee Min-ki, Young-hu's son
- Son Ho-gyun as Yasuda, Pyongyang gangster boss
- Yoon Yong-hyun as Yasuda's underling
- Kim Ki-beom as "Crocodile," Yasuda's underling
- Jung Ui-gap as "Crayfish," Yasuda's underling
- Kim Byung-ki as Oh Geuk-chul, father of Seong-shim and lieutenant general of the Korean People's Army
- Song Kwi-hyun as Geuk-chul's deputy
- Shim Yang-hong as Chairman of Wildcat crash investigation committee
- Jung Dong-hwan as Colonel Woo
- Lee Ki-young as Choi Deuk-gu, Jang Baek-ho troop
- Kim Se-jun as Oh Dae-gyu, army doctor of Jang Baek-ho troop
- Jung Woong-in as Baek Seung-je, signaller of Jang Baek-ho troop
- Jung Sung-mo as Kim Il-gu, former Air Force first lieutenant