Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life

Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life (Korean: 사랑은 뷰티풀 인생은 원더풀; RR: Sarangeun Byutipul Insaengeun Wondeopul; lit. Love is Beautiful, Life is Wonderful) is a 2019–2020 South Korean television series starring Seol In-ah, Kim Jae-young, Jo Yoon-hee, Yoon Park and Oh Min-suk. The series aired on KBS2 every Saturday and Sunday from 19:55 to 21:15 (KST) from September 28, 2019 to March 22, 2020.[2]

Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life
Promotional poster
Hangul사랑은 뷰티풀 인생은 원더풀
Genre
Created byKBS Drama Production
Written byBae Yoo-Mi
Directed byHan Joon-Seo
Starring
Country of originSouth Korea
Original language(s)Korean
No. of episodes100[lower-alpha 1]
Production
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time35 minutes[lower-alpha 1]
Production company(s)HB Entertainment
DistributorKBS
Release
Original networkKBS2
Picture format1080i (HDTV)
Audio formatDolby Digital
Original releaseSeptember 28, 2019 (2019-09-28) –
March 22, 2020 (2020-03-22)
External links
Website

Synopsis

This is a story about love and deception. The deceptions come in every form - outright lies, obfuscations, failure to speak up, misleading silence, misdirection, rampant insincerity. Against this tidal wave, the main characters fight to find happiness. Their battles never fail to engage.

Essentially, it tells of three intersecting families. The first consists of a father, Kim Yeong-Woong (Park Yeong-gyu) a former athlete who has been unemployed for decades, his put upon wife, Seon Woo-yeong (Kim Mi-sook), and three daughters. The oldest, Kim Seol-Ah (Jo Yoon-hee) through a combination of brains, beauty and grit, has managed to become a popular TV announcer. The middle one, Kim Cheong-Ah (Seol In-ah) our heroine, is honest, kind, and open-hearted. The youngest, Kim Yeon-Ah (Jo Yoo-jung), taking after her father, is a budding athlete, a tennis player, still in high school.

The second family is the inevitable chaebol family. No dads around. Instead, the Chairwoman of the Inter Marketing group, Hong Hwa-Young (Park Hae-mi), is a nasty, self-centered bully. She has one son, Do Jin-Woo (Oh Min-suk), the Vice Chairman, who becomes infatuated with Kim Seol-Ah and marries her against his mother’s fierce opposition. Kim Seol-Ah marries him for his money and position, as she straightforwardly tells him, and abandons her family as the price of marrying into the elite. The Chairwoman’s sister, Hong Yoo-Ra (Na Young-hee), is a well-regarded and supremely honest judge, with two sons. The older, Goo Jun-Hwi (Kim Jae-Young), after completing military service and spending time abroad, joins Inter Marketing as a low level executive in the sports marketing department. He doesn’t let on that his cousin is the Vice Chairman and he manages to sustain this deception deep into the series, with comic effect within his department but not so comic in his dealings with Kim Cheong-Ah (it is never explained why it takes so long for Kim Cheong-Ah to find out, especially after Kim Seol-Ah returns home). Goo Jun-Hwi is actually the largest shareholder of the company, but he keeps his identity secret from the whole company because he is a humble person and likes to keep a low profile life. He was also greatly affected by the death of his brother. He was studying international law overseas but due to his brother's death and receiving a suicide letter that his brother sent him that said that he wanted to be a basketball player, Jun-Hwi decides to discontinue his career in the legal field and comes to Korea instead to work in his family's company. He comes back to Korea a very jaded and anti-social individual who does not care for relationships with others and just focuses on his work, until he meets Kim Cheong-Ah.

Nine years before the main action of the drama begins, the younger brother, Goo Jun-Gyeom (Jin Ho-eun), distraught after killing an old lady in a hit and run, decides to kill himself after his mother covers up the crime and effectively frames a young delinquent, Kang Shi-Wol (Lee Tae-sun), who had the misfortune to be passing by around the time of the accident. Through an online service he meets Kim Cheong-Ah, then a high school drop-out who also decided to kill herself after being savagely bullied at school (the bullying included both psychological torture and brutal physical assault which her family failed to notice). On her way to meet in person at a riverside villa rented by Goo Jun-Gyeum, she meets Goo Jun-Hwi in the train (he’s in uniform on his way back to his military base) and slightly falls for him. They part and she then meets the younger brother, with whom she spends a wonderful day before beginning their preparations to commit suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. But, perhaps believing that both no longer want to go through with it, she falls asleep. Nevertheless, as she sleeps, he takes sleeping pills stolen from his mother, slips out of the villa, goes to the river, and drowns himself. Cheong-Ah wakes up and sees a letter that Jun-Gyeom left for her that tells her to live because she is a victim. She realizes what is happening and dives into the river to save him, dragging him out and performing CPR, but she is too late.

Through the interference of Kim Cheong-Ah's mother, everyone (except Kim Cheong-Ah, her mother and Goo Jun-Hwi -who received a suicide note mailed by his brother to him before his death) believes that the younger brother died a heroic death trying to save her. It becomes too late for Kim Cheong-Ah to reveal that her mother had lied and she too becomes part of the deception. And perhaps in her heart, she believes the day she spent with him actually did save her, even if it did not save him. Over a period of time, Hong Yoo-Ra, still unaware of the truth, looks out for Cheong-Ah and befriends her. Cheong-Ah cannot bring herself to tell her what really happened. Over the years, both to atone and to conceal her crime, Hong Yoo-Ra includes Kang Shi-Wol in a program where, with her family's money, she sponsors young offenders to try to reintegrate them in society. Goo Jun-Hwi does not destroy his brother's letter but he hides it from his mother. He continues to wonder why his brother did it and eventually begins concerted efforts to find out. Eventually, Jun-Hwi finds out that Cheong-Ah is the girl that was with Jun-Gyeom on the night that he died. However, because she tells Jun-Hwi that she never wanted Jun-Gyeom's brother or Jun-Gyeom's mother to know about how the brother actually died, Jun-Hwi does not reveal his identity to her.

Back to the present, nine years later, Do Jin-Woo, is having an extended affair with his secretary, Moon Hae-Rang (Jo Woo-ri). Hae-Rang is needy and clingy but she seems to offer Jin-Woo the love and affection his wife has never shown him. The two of them get in a car accident during a tryst and both fall into a coma. An extended side plot concerns the Chairwoman's efforts to frame Cheong-Ah's friend, Baek Rim (Kim Jin-yeop) for an accident clearly caused by Jin-Woo. During the hospitalization, Seol-Ah meets Hae-Rang’s brother, Tae-Rang, whom she at first thinks Hae-Rang’s husband. Tae-Rang is actually the chef-owner of a restaurant in the Inter Market headquarters building. The two gradually fall for each other. Hae-Rang wakes up after a few weeks and somehow falls into the good graces of the Chairwoman, who decides to use her to break up her comatose son's marriage. She makes it impossible for Seol-Ah to nurse her husband, throws Hae-Rang in her face, and repeatedly bullies her. Finally, goaded and intimidated beyond endurance by the Chairwoman, Seol-Ah divorces her husband even though he is still in a coma. When he wakes up, a year after the accident, he rejects Hae-Rang and tries, initially in abusive fashion but later with more contrition and restraint (and no lack of persistence against equally determined rejection by Seol-Ah as well as his mother's vociferous objections), to get his ex-wife back. A significant amount of comedy is drawn from his attempts to ingratiate himself with his former in-laws as part of a protracted campaign to win back Seol-Ah. Whether he will succeed in melting his ex-wife's fragile frozen heart is a key driver of the drama.

Meantime, Cheong-Ah and Jun-Hwi meet again and she falls for him again. Although sullen and cold-hearted, he begins to fall for her and to soften in the process. He becomes a more warm and thoughtful person because of Cheong-Ah's influence. Because of Jun-Hwi’s determination to hide his identity, it takes a very long time for Cheong-Ah to discover that it was his brother who committed suicide or that his mother is the judge, who has befriended her. But the hiding of his identity was also to protect Cheong-Ah as he knew that it would hurt her if she knew the truth. As she had told him, that she never wanted Jun-Gyeom's brother or mother to find out the true details of Jun-Gyeom's death. Cheong-Ah and Jun-Hwi are also very important characters in the drama to having those around them change.

Three further intersections. First, the Moon father, Moon Jun-Ik (Jung Won-joong), is a police captain. Cheong-Ah, in part motivated by a desire to save people and pay back her debt for her role in Jun-Gyeom's suicide, has been studying for years to become a police officer. When she finally succeeds on the 15th try, she’s assigned to Moon’s police station. This being a story of deception, everyone conceals Hae Rang’s cheating from the father, whom they fear would collapse from shock if he found out. Hae-Rang was also one of the leaders of the girls who bullied Cheong-Ah at school. Keeping this from Captain Moon takes a lot of selfless and never really explained restraint on the part of multiple characters. One important point here is that the Moon children, Tae-Rang, Hae-Rang and a younger brother, Pa-rang (Ryu Ui-hyun) were all adopted by the kindly Moon Joon-Ik. (They are all aware that they were adopted. In Hae-Rang's case, this was at the age of 8 after multiple bad experiences with foster families.) Second, Goo Jun-Hwi identifies Kim Yeon-Ah as an athlete to be sponsored and, while she deserves the sponsorship, which Jun-Hwi promotes before he learns who her family is, she is sometimes used as a pawn in the conflicts between her family and the chaebol. Third, Kang Shi-Wol has a twin sister, from whom he was parted at the age of five - he has a single photograph of the two of them at age five as a keepsake. His search for her parallels his efforts to clear his name of the hit and run. It was later revealed that his twin sister is Moon Hae-Rang.

That’s an extended set-up for a 100-episode drama, in which true love must be born, develop, flourish and prevail against lies and deceptions (most of them eventually revealed in damaging ways to the deceivers) and much selfishness. At times provocative and infuriating, it is nevertheless a captivating story.

Cast

Main

Supporting
  • Kim Mi-sook as Seon Woo-yeong
  • Park Yeong-gyu as Kim Yeong-woong
  • Jo Yoo-jung as Kim Yeon-ah
  • Na Young-hee as Hong Yoo-ra[6]
  • Park Hae-mi as Hong Hwa-yeong
  • Jung Won-joong as Moon Joon-ik
  • Jo Woo-ri as Moon Hae-rang[5]
  • Ryu Ui-hyun as Moon Pa-rang
  • Kim Jin-yeop as Baek Rim
  • Lee Tae-sun as Kang Shi-wol
  • Park Yeong-soo as Na Tae-pyeong
  • Kim Bo-jung as Oh Deok-hee
  • Jin Ho-eun as Gu Joon-gyeom

Special appearances

Original soundtrack

Part 1
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."123 Love" (123 사랑)
  • Gamdongis
  • roz
  • Ki Hyun-suk
  • Gamdongis
  • roz
  • Ki Hyun-suk
Hello Ga-Young3:39
2."123 Love" (Inst.) 
  • Gamdongis
  • roz
  • Ki Hyun-suk
 3:39
Total length:7:18

Part 2
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."The Way" (길)
  • Kim Beom-joo
  • Kim Si-hyuk
  • Kang Tae-kyu
  • Kim Beom-joo
  • Kim Si-hyuk
  • Cha Ye-oul
Sohyang4:59
2."The Way" (Inst.) 
  • Kim Beom-joo
  • Kim Si-hyuk
  • Cha Ye-oul
 4:59
Total length:9:58

Part 3
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."How Can I Do" (어떻게 해)
  • Park Jung-hee
  • Kim Seung-jae
  • Kim Seung-Jae
  • Park Ga-young
  • Mo Soo-Jin
Acoustic Collabo3:21
2."How Can I Do" (Inst.) 
  • Kim Seung-Jae
  • Park Ga-young
  • Mo Soo-Jin
 3:21
Total length:6:42

Part 4
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."Start" (시작)Han JunLee Yu-jinA.C.E (Kim Byeong-kwan & Chan)3:17
2."Start" (Inst.) Lee Yu-jin 3:17
Total length:6:34

Part 5
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."Remember Me"
  • Kim Ah-reum
  • Miyao
  • Jade
  • Sungjin
D:amant3:45
2."Remember Me" (Inst.) 
  • Jade
  • Sungjin
 3:45
Total length:7:30

Part 6
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."What I Can Do For You" (내가 해줄 수 있는 일)
  • Hoe Jang-nim
  • Choi In-hee
  • Hoe Jang-nim
  • Choi In-hee
  • Kim Hyun-suk
  • Kim Chan-hyuk
Na Yoon-kwon5:00
2."What I Can Do For You" (Inst.) 
  • Hoe Jang-nim
  • Choi In-hee
  • Kim Hyun-suk
  • Kim Chan-hyuk
 5:00
Total length:10:00

Part 7
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."Bad Love" (나쁜 사랑)Jin Kyo-junJin Kyo-junYoon Ye-kyu3:52
2."Bad Love" (Inst.) Jin Kyo-jun 3:52
Total length:7:44

Part 8
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."Close To You" (한걸음 또 한걸음)Kang Tae-kyu
  • Jung Woo-sik
  • Jung So-ri
Jin Won3:46
2."Close To You" (Inst.) 
  • Jung Woo-sik
  • Jung So-ri
 3:46
Total length:7:32

Part 9
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."So We Are" (그래서 우리는)
  • Kim Do-hyung
  • Gya Gya-mel
  • Kim Do-hyung
  • Flame Man (불꽃남자)
Do Hyung4:16
2."So We Are" (Inst.) 
  • Kim Do-hyung
  • Flame Man (불꽃남자)
 4:16
Total length:8:32

Part 10
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."Love is Coming" (그대 오는 날)Kang Tae-kyuJung Woo-sikHong Jin-young3:39
2."Love is Coming" (Inst.) Jung Woo-sik 3:39
3."Love is Coming (Acoustic Ver.)"Kang Tae-kyuJung Woo-sikHong Jin-young3:41
4."Love is Coming (Acoustic Ver.)" (Inst.) Jung Woo-sik 3:41
Total length:14:40

Part 11
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."I Want To Hear You" (니가 듣고싶다)
  • Ppake
  • Aile
  • Kang Tae-kyu
  • Ppake
  • Aile
  • Space Rain (우주비)
  • Doo
Hwan & Seo Seok-jin (N.CUS)4:35
2."I Want To Hear You" (Inst.) 
  • Ppake
  • Aile
  • Space Rain (우주비)
  • Doo
 4:35
Total length:9:10

Part 12
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."Love Always Run Away" (사랑은 늘 도망가)Kang Tae-kyu
  • Hong Jin-young
  • Jung Woo-sik
Kim Yang4:20
2."Love Always Run Away" (Inst.) 
  • Hong Jin-young
  • Jung Woo-sik
 4:20
Total length:8:40

Part 13
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."Destiny"
  • LoF!
  • NIA
  • LoF!
  • Yeun
NIA3:38
2."Destiny" (Inst.) 
  • LoF!
  • Yeun
 3:32
Total length:7:00

Ratings
  • In this table, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.
  • N/A denotes that the rating is not known.
  • Each night's broadcast is divided into two 40-minute episodes with a commercial break in between.
Ep. Original broadcast date Average audience share
AGB Nielsen[7] TNmS
Nationwide Seoul Nationwide
1 September 28, 2019 17.1% 15.9% 19.3%
2 19.6% 17.8% 22.2%
3 September 29, 2019 20.2% 19.1% 20.9%
4 24.1% 23.0% 25.3%
5 October 5, 2019 18.5% 17.2% 19.2%
6 20.7% 19.6% 22.0%
7 October 6, 2019 21.7% 20.6% 20.8%
8 25.7% 24.2% 24.6%
9 October 12, 2019 19.2% 18.0% 18.0%
10 22.2% 21.3% 20.1%
11 October 13, 2019 20.3% 19.1% 19.4%
12 24.0% 22.5% 23.0%
13 October 19, 2019 16.9% 15.3% 17.7%
14 20.2% 19.1% 20.7%
15 October 20, 2019 20.5% 19.3% 20.4%
16 23.6% 22.2% 24.0%
17 October 26, 2019 13.6% 12.7% N/A
18
19 October 27, 2019 18.8% 17.9% 18.7%
20 23.0% 22.0% 22.6%
21 November 2, 2019 17.3% 16.6% 17.7%
22 20.3% 20.0% 20.9%
23 November 3, 2019 20.6% 19.7% 19.5%
24 23.6% 22.4% 22.6%
25 November 9, 2019 17.2% 16.0% 16.9%
26 20.2% 18.6% 19.9%
27 November 10, 2019 20.7% 20.2% 19.5%
28 24.0% 22.9% 22.8%
29 November 16, 2019 17.9% 16.0% 17.3%
30 20.8% 18.6% 20.4%
31 November 17, 2019 20.9% 19.7% 19.3%
32 25.0% 23.5% 23.1%
33 November 23, 2019 19.2% 18.1% 18.3%
34 23.2% 21.7% 22.3%
35 November 24, 2019 24.4% 23.2% 22.4%
36 28.3% 26.7% 26.1%
37 November 30, 2019 19.6% 18.3% 19.3%
38 23.3% 21.7% 23.5%
39 December 1, 2019 23.5% 22.3% 21.1%
40 27.8% 26.2% 26.0%
41 December 7, 2019 20.2% 18.2% N/A
42 24.0% 21.9%
43 December 8, 2019 23.6% 22.5% 22.5%
44 27.3% 26.2% 25.6%
45 December 14, 2019 19.5% 18.4% 20.1%
46 23.2% 22.0% 23.8%
47 December 15, 2019 23.7% 23.5% 22.1%
48 27.0% 26.3% 26.4%
49 December 21, 2019 21.9% 21.0% 20.3%
50 25.7% 24.3% 24.3%
51 December 22, 2019 24.4% 22.5% 23.6%
52 27.7% 26.4% 27.4%
53 January 4, 2020 19.4% 19.5% 18.2%
54 23.8% 23.6% 22.8%
55 January 5, 2020 24.7% 23.5% 24.0%
56 29.0% 28.2% 28.0%
57 January 11, 2020 18.4% 17.2% 19.9%
58 23.1% 21.8% 24.9%
59 January 12, 2020 24.0% 22.8% 23.3%
60 26.5% 25.4% 26.9%
61 January 18, 2020 21.9% 21.1% 20.5%
62 26.1% 25.1% 24.5%
63 January 19, 2020 23.4% 22.3% 22.4%
64 27.8% 26.4% 27.0%
65 January 25, 2020 17.4% 16.8% 15.7%
66 21.0% 20.5% 19.1%
67 January 26, 2020 21.8% 20.9% 21.1%
68 25.0% 23.7% 25.7%
69 February 1, 2020 20.9% 19.6% 20.5%
70 25.0% 23.7% 25.0%
71 February 2, 2020 23.9% 23.1% 23.7%
72 28.0% 26.7% 28.0%
73 February 8, 2020 21.3% 19.9% 20.1%
74 26.1% 24.4% 25.1%
75 February 9, 2020 25.2% 23.4% 24.9%
76 28.8% 26.9% 28.9%
77 February 15, 2020 20.9% 20.1% 19.8%
78 25.0% 24.0% 24.0%
79 February 16, 2020 27.5% 27.3% 25.7%
80 30.4% 29.9% 29.1%
81 February 22, 2020 22.4% 21.3% 21.0%
82 26.9% 26.0% 25.6%
83 February 23, 2020 26.4% 25.1% 26.3%
84 30.6% 29.2% 30.3%
85 February 29, 2020 22.6% 22.4% 20.8%
86 27.0% 25.9% 25.8%
87 March 1, 2020 27.2% 26.0% 25.6%
88 31.5% 30.3% 29.4%
89 March 7, 2020 24.3% 22.7% 22.5%
90 29.5% 27.5% 26.3%
91 March 8, 2020 28.8% 27.6% 27.1%
92 32.3% 31.0% 31.1%
93 March 14, 2020 15.9% 14.8% 16.3%
94 26.3% 24.6% 24.5%
95 March 15, 2020 28.8% 27.9% 28.5%
96 31.2% 30.3% 30.6%
97 March 21, 2020 25.4% 24.9% 24.5%
98 29.6% 29.3% 28.0%
99 March 22, 2020 29.2% 28.8% 27.8%
100 32.0% 31.5% 31.5%
Average 23.5% 22.4% —[lower-alpha 2]

Awards and nominations
Year Award Category Recipient Result Ref.
2019 KBS Drama Awards Excellence Award, Actor in a Serial Drama Oh Min-suk Won [8][9]
Yoon Park Nominated
Excellence Award, Actress in a Serial Drama Seol In-ah Won
Jo Yoon-hee Nominated
Kim Mi-sook Nominated
Best New Actor Kim Jae-young Won
Best New Actress Jo Woo-ri Nominated
Best Couple Kim Jae-young & Seol In-ah Nominated
Jo Yoon-hee & Yoon Park Nominated
Netizen Award Kim Jae-young Nominated
Seol In-ah Nominated
Jo Yoon-hee Nominated

Notes
  1. In order to circumvent Korean laws that prevent commercial breaks in the middle of an episode, what would previously have been aired as single 70 minute episodes are now being repackaged as two 35 minute episodes, with two episodes being shown each night with a commercial break between the two.[1]
  2. Due to some ratings not recorded, the exact average rating is unknown.
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