- Did We Really Love?
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Did We Really Love? 우리가 정말 사랑했을까
(Uri-ga Jeong-mal Sarang-hae-sseul-kka)Genre Drama Produced by Park Jong Network MBC Original run 1999-Jan-27 – 1999-May-25 No. of episodes 44 Original time slots Unknown Did We Really Love?, aka True to Love or Have We Really Loved? Hangul 우리가 정말 사랑했을까 Hanja (None) Revised Romanization Uri-ga Jeong-mal Sarang-hae-sseul-kka McCune-Reischauer Uri-ga Chŏng-mal Sarang-hae-ssŭl-kka 
DVD cover for Did We Really Love?
Did We Really Love? (aka True to Love or Have We Really Loved?) is a South Korean drama series broadcast by MBC in 1999. Starring Korean superstar Bae Yong Joon, the series portrays the struggles between love, happiness, and the pursuit of material success.
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Plot summary
This story is about three people, Jae-Ho, Shih-Yung and Suk-Ho. Jae-ho and his sister Jae-Young are abandoned by their mother to escape poverty. Because of this, Jae-Ho doesn't understand what love is. And so, he has a dream of becoming rich, thinking that there is no such thing as love, only money. He works hard his whole life while supporting himself and his sister through college. He works at a seafood wholesale market selling crabs to vendors. He lives with his aunt who has taken him and his sister in after their mother abandoned them.
With his big dreams and ambitions, he pretends to be rich while in school, in order to gain the attention of Hyun-soo, who is from a very rich family. Thus, he tries to get her to like him so he can marry into her family and become rich. But during this process, he falls in love with his Psychology teacher, Shih-Yung. He battles with his feelings and his ambitions, and ultimately picks love over money. Even though they go through hardship, he realizes that he couldn't survive without both, and so he gives up on Shih-Yung for money and wishes her happiness. He only does this because everything seems to go wrong while he is with Shih-Yung. He loses his job, all his money, and his aunt's house gets seized. He thinks that if he has money, none of this would have ever happened. Through all the stress, he finds out that he has brain cancer and expresses his desire to die.
Cast
- Bae Yong Joon as Kang Jae-ho
- Kim Hye Soo as Lee Shin-young
- Yoon Son Ha as Cho Hyun-soo
- Lee Jae Ryong as Song Kil-jin
- Kim Young Ae as Jung Jin-sook (Jae-ho's aunt)
- Joo Hyun as Lee Byung-kuk (Shin-young's dad)
- Yoon Yeo Jung as Choi Hae-ja (Shin-young's mom)
- Park Sang Min as Park Suk-koo (Jae-ho's best friend)
- Lee Na Young as Kang Jae-young (Jae-ho's younger sister)
- Kim Young Mi as Ko Mi-sun (Jae-young's neighbor)
- Na Moon Hee as Shin Shin-ja (Mi-sun's mom)
- Lee Kye In as Suh Dal-kwon (Jin-sook's neighbor)
- Yang Hee Kyung as Jung In-sook (Dal-kwon's wife/Hee-jin's stepmom)
- Kim Ga Yeon as Kyoung-hee
- Yoon Yong as Min-chul (Jae-ho's friend)
- Kim Hae Sook as Jae-ho's mother
Production credits
- Producer: Park Jong
- Scriptwriter: No Hee Kyung
See also
- List of Korea-related topics
- List of Korean television shows
- Contemporary culture of South Korea
External links
Categories:- 1999 television series debuts
- 1999 television series endings
- Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation television dramas
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