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Also known as
  
Hundred Year Bride

Directed by
  
Yoon Sang-ho

Original language(s)
  
Korean

Final episode date
  
12 April 2014

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Written by
  
Baek Young-sook

Country of origin
  
South Korea

First episode date
  
22 February 2014

Number of episodes
  
16

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Starring
  
Lee Hong-giYang Jin-sungSung Hyuk

Network
  
Chosun Broadcasting Company

Genres
  
Comedy, Romance Film, Fantasy, Melodrama

Cast
  
Lee Hong‑gi, Yang Jin‑sung, Shin Eun‑jung, Choi Il‑Hwa, Park Jin‑joo

Similar
  
Emergency Couple, Cunning Single Lady, Monstar, Three Days, I Need Romance

Bride of the Century (Hangul: 백년의 신부; RR: Baeknyeonui Sinbu) is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Lee Hong-gi and Yang Jin-sung. It aired on cable channel TV Chosun from February 22 to April 12, 2014 for 16 episodes. The story of the fantasy/romance drama revolves around a family curse that causes the first wife of the first born son to die.

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Plot

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Taeyang Group is the largest conglomerate in South Korea. The Choi family who runs Taeyang has supposedly been under a curse for a hundred years that the first bride of the eldest son will always die. When the wealthy heiress Jang Yi-kyung(Yang Jin-sung) disappears right before her wedding to chaebol heir Choi Kang-joo (Lee Hong-gi), Na Doo-rim(Yang Jin-sung), a lookalike impostor, is brought in to take her place. Unlike the cold and calculating Yi-kyung, Doo-rim is sweet and sunny, and Kang-joo genuinely falls in love with her. As the wedding plans progress, Kang-joo and Yi-kyung's mothers both scheme and plot behind the scenes.

Cast

  • Lee Hong-gi as Choi Kang-joo

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    A good-looking and educated second-generation chaebol heir. He has a prickly personality, and is self-indulgent and bad at relationships. But he is goodhearted underneath it all, and is harboring pain from his childhood.
  • Yang Jin-sung as Na Doo-rim / Jang Yi-kyung

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    Na Doo-rim is a sweet, homely girl who comes from a southern island village. Jang Yi-kyung is a chic, cold and calculating woman who wants to marry into the Choi family. Doo-rim and Yi-kyung are doppelgängers.
  • Sung Hyuk as Jang Yi-hyun
    • Yi-kyung's half-older brother. He is the operations manager of Ohsung Construction.
  • Jang Ah-young as Lee Roo-mi

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    An upper-class young woman with looks and brains who went to a prestigious university. Roo-mi becomes Doo-rim's rival for Kang-joo's heart.
  • Nam Jeong-hee as Park Soon-bok
    • Doo-rim's grandmother.
  • Park Jin-joo as Oh Jin-joo
    • Doo-rim's childhood friend.
  • Choi Il-hwa as Choi Il-do
    • Kang-joo's father, and CEO of Taeyang Group.
  • Kim Seo-ra as Kim Myeong-hee

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    Kang-joo's mother. The unloved wife of a wealthy man who tries to destroy her son's relationship with a girl from a poor family.
  • Jung Hae-in as Choi Kang-in
    • Kang-joo's younger brother, and an idol singer.
  • Kang Tae-hwan as Secretary Kim
  • Shin Eun-jung as Ma Jae-ran
    • Yi-kyung's mother, and CEO of Ohsung Construction.
  • Kim Ah-young as Sung Joo-shin
  • Kim Yoo-jung as Leeann
  • Im Byung-ki as Butler Jang
    • Butler of the Choi family.
  • Kwon Eun-ah as Ahn Dong-daek
    • Butler Jang's wife.

    Production

    Filming began in Namhae on December 9, 2013.

    After having dinner with the drama crew on December 16, 2013, an accident occurred on an icy street which lead to Lee Hong-gi suffering a dislocated shoulder and facial scratches. He was prescribed six weeks of rest and returned to the set on January 10, 2014.

    Reception

    It received a good response in Korea for a cable drama, with a peak viewership rating of 1.451%.

    According to one of China's biggest internet portal sites QQ, Bride of the Century ranked number one on weekly and monthly charts in both March and April 2014, exceeding 100 million views. It was also ranked as the most searched phrase on China's microblogging service Weibo.

    International broadcasting rights have been sold to Japan, U.S., China, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries. A Chinese remake is expected to air at the end of 2014.

    Ratings

    Note: Lower ratings are due to TV Chosun being a pay cable channel.

    International broadcast

  •  Philippines: TV5 - Aired beginning July 7, 2014.
  •  Japan: TBS - Aired beginning August 1, 2014.
  •  Thailand: PPTV - Aired beginning July 13, 2015.

    • References

    Bride of the Century Wikipedia
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