Also known as Cruel Love Written by Lee Yoo-jin Country of origin South Korea | Genre Romance, Melodrama Directed by Kwon Kye-hong | |
Starring Kwon Sang-woo
Lee Yo-won
Kim Sung-soo | ||
Bad Love (Hangul: 못된 사랑; RR: Motdoen Sarang) is a 2007 South Korean television drama series starring Kwon Sang-woo, Lee Yo-won, and Kim Sung-soo. It aired on KBS2 from December 3, 2007 to February 5, 2008 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
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Despite lackluster domestic viewership ratings, it recorded high export revenues from Japan and Taiwan due to Kwon's Korean Wave appeal.
Synopsis
Na In-jung struggles with her love between the rather cold and rebellious Yong-ki and a successful businessman, Soo-hwan. Kang Yong-ki is a pop culture artist. He was separated from his first love, Jo Ann, and still carries the wound that he suffered from their relationship. His half sister is Joo-ran who is married to Soo-hwan. Soo-hwan begins an affair with In-jung but he only has ambition for the CEO position of Yong-ki's father's company. Soon after he discovers that his ambition does not fill the emptiness that he has inside and realizes he needs In-jung. 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?
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International broadcast
Under the title Cruel Love, it aired in the Philippines beginning June 22, 2009 on the GMA Network. The Tagalog-dubbed version was re-aired three times worldwide on GMA Life TV from April 7, 2014 to June 11, 2014; November 17, 2014 to January 21, 2015 and September 21, 2015 to November 25, 2015.
It premiered in Japan on cable channel WOWOW on September 19, 2008. This was followed by re-airings on terrestrial network TBS and on cable channel KNTV from June 18 to August 21, 2012.