Alt Name: | The Good Woman and the Bad Woman Good Wife, Bad Wife |
Genre: | Romance Drama |
Director: | Lee Dae-young Lee Dae-yoon |
Starring: | Choi Jin-sil Lee Jae-ryong Sung Hyun-ah Jeon No-min |
Country: | South Korea |
Language: | Korean |
Num Episodes: | 176 |
Producer: | Choi Yi-seob |
Location: | South Korea Saipan |
Channel: | Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation |
Bad Woman, Good Woman is a 2007 South Korean television series starring Choi Jin-sil, Lee Jae-ryong, Sung Hyun-ah, and Jeon No-min. It aired on Mondays to Fridays at 19:45 on MBC from January 1 to July 13, 2007 for 140 episodes.[1] [2]
The daily drama explores the true meaning of family and love, as a wife who considers herself a "good woman" agonizingly finds out about her husband's 6-year-long affair.[3] [4]
Se-young is (Choi Jin-sil) is a devoted wife and mother who greatly values her family and home life. She loves her doctor husband Geon-woo (Lee Jae-ryong) very deeply, and affectionately takes care of her old mother-in-law who is afflicted with dementia, as well as her daughter whom she did not give birth to. But unbeknownst to her, for the past six years Geon-woo has been having an affair with his first love, Seo-kyung (Sung Hyun-ah), who herself is married to Tae-hyun (Jeon No-min). Things come to a head when Geon-woo and Seo-kyung take their families to Saipan for an international medical seminar. Se-young and Tae-hyun are looking forward to a second honeymoon with their respective spouses, not knowing that Geon-woo and Seo-kyung are secretly meeting for trysts. When Se-young discovers her husband's infidelity, her world goes to pieces.[5]