Wild Chives and Soy Bean Soup: 12 Years Reunion (Hangul: 달래 된, 장국: 12년만의 재회; RR: Dalrae Doen, Jang-guk: Yisimnyeonmanui Jaehoe) is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Lee So-yeon, Namgung Min, Lee Tae-im, Yoon So-hee, Lee Won-keun and Ryu Hyoyoung. It aired on jTBC from March 22 to June 29, 2014 on Saturdays and Sundays at 20:45 for 26 episodes.
The title is a pun, and can also mean Jang Gook Becomes Dal-rae: Reunion in 12 Years. The female protagonist's name Jang Gook means "clear soup with doenjang" which she later changes to Dal-rae, meaning "azalea."
In 2002, on the night of Korea's momentous World Cup win, high school sweethearts Jang Gook and Yoo Joon-soo sleep together and Jang Gook ends up pregnant. They are given permission to marry by Joon-soo's father, but after a horrible accident Jang Gook loses the baby. Their mothers who were against the relationship from the beginning, take advantage of the situation and splits them up. Jang Gook then leaves Korea to live in the U.S., and changes her name to Jang Dal-lae. Twelve years later, they reunite and get entangled in each other's lives again. The only problem is that Yoo Joon-soo doesn't know it's her and Jang Gook doesn't want him to know.
Main characters
Lee So-yeon as Jang Gook / Jang Dal-lae
Yoon So-hee as young Jang Gook
Gook is a high school senior at the start of the story. She is a good student who has achieved the highest ranking in her classes and got knocked up. After losing her father in a tragic accident, she moves from Busan to Seoul with her mother and younger brother, Hoon. She meets and begins a relationship with her classmate Yoo Joon-soo.
Namgung Min as Yoo Joon-soo
Lee Won-keun as young Yoo Joon-soo
Joon-soo is a high school senior at Daehan High School. He is handsome, friendly, and a good student. His father is the vice principal of the school. His family owns the building in which Jang Gook's family operates a dumpling restaurant. Over the course of twelve years, Joon-soo goes from the son of a prominent wealthy household to struggling as the eldest provider for a family that scrapes by from paycheck to paycheck. Prideful and temperamental, he seems tough on the outside but is vulnerable underneath it all.
Lee Tae-im as Joo Da-hae
Ryu Hyoyoung as young Joo Da-hae
Da-hae is an ace student who received the highest math score in all of Korea. She is humiliated when her father's adultery becomes public knowledge. Da-hae has been friends with Joon-soo since childhood, and is in love with him. When Joon-soo rejects Da-hae to date Gook, she is devastated.
Jang Gook/Dal-rae's family
Bae Jong-ok as Choi Go-soon
Oh Seung-yoon as Jang Hoon
Ra Yoon-chan as young Jang Hoon
Seo Woo-rim as Yeo Il-sook
Kim Young-ran as Yeo Sam-sook
Um Hyo-sup as Jang Gook's father
Yoo Joon-soo's family
Park Hae-mi as Pyung Beom-sook
Chun Ho-jin as Yoo Jung-han
Kim Shi-hoo as Yoo Joon-sung
Choi Won-hong as young Yoo Joon-sung
Danny Ahn as Yoo Soo-han
Jung Kyung-soon as Yoo Jung-sook
Joo Da-hae's family
Ji Soo-won as Kim Young-hee
Lee Han-wi as Joo Chul-soo
Nhã Phương as Ha-mi
Choi Ro-woon as Joo Hong
Extended cast
Jung Chan as Heo Se-min
Jung In-sun as Kang Ham-cho
Lee Young-eun as young Kang Ham-cho
Lee Yong-Joo as Park Moo-chul, childhood friend of Joon-soo
Han Min as young Park Moo-chul
Ah Young as Park Moo-hee
Lee Do-yeon as young Park Moo-hee
Shin Dong-mi as Yeo-ok
Jung Kyu-soo as Mr. Kang
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