Korean Drama - Cruel Love / Bad Love / 不好的爱情

I have just started watching this Korean drama which started showing on Starhub Channel 55 on 6 September ,10.30pm every Saturday. The drama was shown in Korea in December 2007. I had came across the DVD set in Blue Max awhile back and the sales staff was promoting the drama to me but i did not buy it then as i did not really know what the drama was about. However I watched the first episode on TV and was drawn to the drama because of actress Lee Yo Won as i really like her acting in "Surgeon Bong Dal Hee" and have been looking forward to her next drama.

Lee Yo Won stars as Na In Jung who struggles with her love between the rather cold and rebellious pop culture artist Kang Yong Ki (Kwon Sang Woo ) and a successful businessman, Lee Soo Hwan (Kim Sung Soo). She used to be a beautiful and graceful cellist and had staked her everything on her first love, Soo Hwan. She loves him even though she knows he is married but he coldheartedly breaks up with her. She does her best to get over him, believing that her suffering is a punishment for stealing another woman's husband. She ended up in a small village selling fried chicken after her mother died and her father was seriously wounded in a car accident the night she suffered a miscarriage when Soo Hwan left her.

5 years later In Jung met Yong Ki when he came to the small village. Yong Ki 's first love, Jo Ann had commited suicide as his father objected to their relationship and he still carries the wound that he suffered from their relationship and her death. He is an illegitimate son of a conglomerate owner and has never received love as a child. His half sister is Joo Ran who is married to Soo Hwan. Yong Ki meets In Jung and after much bickering falls for her confident personality but their relationship is hampered by In Jung's first love, Soo Hwan. Believing that his unhappiness is due to his kind heart, Yong Ki decides to protect his love by all means.

Soo Hwan had an affair with In Jung 5 years ago but he only had ambition for the CEO position of Yong Ki's father's company. He is now a successful businessman but he discovers that his ambition and successes do not fill the emptiness that he has inside his heart and realizes that In Jung is the one that he needs and truely loves. But In Jung and Yong Ki have already fallen in love with each other. Will In Jung go back to her first love or stay with Yong Ki?

(Source: http://www.kbs.co.kr/drama/badlove/issue/paper/index.html)

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