Golden Apple | |
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Genre | Romance, Drama |
Written by | Kwon Ki-young |
Directed by | Shin Chang-seok Park Kyung-ri Lee Geon-joon |
Starring |
Park Sol-mi Kim Ji-hoon Ji Hyun-woo Go Eun-ah Jung Chan |
Country of origin | South Korea |
Original language(s) | Korean |
No. of episodes | 30 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Park Soo-dong |
Location(s) | Korea |
Running time | Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 (KST) |
Release | |
Original network | Korean Broadcasting System |
Original release | 16 November 2005 | – 23 February 2006
Chronology | |
Preceded by | My Rosy Life |
Followed by | Goodbye Solo |
External links | |
Website |
Golden Apple (Hangul: 황금사과; RR: Hwang-geum Sagwa) is a South Korean television series starring Park Sol-mi, Kim Ji-hoon, Ji Hyun-woo, Go Eun-ah and Jung Chan. It aired on KBS2 from November 16, 2005 to February 23, 2006 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 30 episodes. The story about four siblings living in a village in the 1960s, and a woman fighting to clear her dead father's name after he is wrongly accused of her stepmother's murder.
Golden Apple received average viewership ratings of 17.43%, making it the 13th highest-rated Korean drama in 2006.
Kim Chun-dong (Choi Il-hwa) is a widowed farmer with one daughter, Kyung-sook (Lee Young-ah), and two sons, Kyung-gu (Kim Myung-jae) and Kyung-min (Park Ji-bin). Kyung-sook is committed to maintaining the household after the passing of their mother, and the villagers praise her sweet, cheerful nature and hardworking attitude. Everyday chores leave her little time for fun, but she does shed her tough exterior for Park Jong-gyu, the farm owner's son. A student at Seoul National University, Jong-gyu visits on occasion to the delight of Kyung-sook.
Her father Chun-dong marries again, and the woman (Bang Eun-hee) has a six-year-daughter, Keum-shil (Yoo Yeon-mi). The new siblings live a humble but happy life in the countryside. But the marriage is not a happy one and Keum-shil's mother continues her affair with Park Byung-sam (Lee Deok-hwa) a rich landlord in the village who is running for a seat in the Parliament. After the election, her body is discovered floating in the river and Chun-dong is wrongly accused of being the killer. He confesses after being tortured by the police and later dies in custody before the trial. Park Byung-sam, who is in fact Keum-shil's real father, orders his brother-in-law Jung (Lee Ki-young) to adopt Keum-shil, then gives him a job at the Intelligence Office in Seoul.