This drama will focus on the extreme fan culture that emerged in the 1990s when idol groups took center stage and K-pop was blossoming.
It tells the story of 6 former high school friends from a school in Busan who meet again in 2012 and brings back memories to 1997 when they were still high school students. Moving back and forth between the ’90s and today, the story centers on the life of Sung Shi Won (Jung Eun Ji), who idolizes boyband H.O.T. , and her 5 high school friends.
CHARACTERS
Translation by Dramabeans
Sung Shi-won (Jung Eun-ji)
A a girl who lives for H.O.T. and H.O.T. alone. She’s in love with Tony Ahn, who guests in a cameo as himself, so that she can do embarrassing things like wait outside his house to tell oppa that she loves him. They pull out all the stops, like the baggy overalls and the exact car he drove that year. Shi-won is last place in her class and has her head firmly in the clouds (when her exasperated father asks what she’s going to be when she grows up, her totally heartfelt answer: “I’m going to be Tony oppa’s wife!”), but she’s also forthright and sassy.
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Yoon Yoon-jae (Seo In-gook)
is the boy next door, first in his class and the quiet sensitive type. He’s grown up with Shi-won all his life and as teenagers, he falls in love with her. It looks like a really sweet and heartbreaking first love, because at first his competition is just Tony oppa, but then…
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Mo Yoo-jung (Shin So-yool)
Sung Shi-won partner in crime, and her character is known for falling in love at the drop of a hat. Every day it’s someone new, whether idols or real boys. But one day she asks Shi-won if it’s okay that she confessed her feelings to Yoon-jae…
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Do Hak-chan (Eun Ji-won)
The army brat from Seoul. His popularity is instantaneous for two reasons — (1) he’s good at sports; (2) he’s got a porn collection that rivals the naughty video store. HA. His one weakness is ACTUAL girls, because he goes from cool and charismatic to a babbling, spastic idiot around the opposite sex.
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Kang Joon-hee (Hoya)
Yoon-jae’s BFF, who suddenly starts to spend a lot of time with Shi-won. Ruh-roh. Joon-hee loves to dance and also harbors a deep dark secret.
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Bang Sung-jae (Lee Shi-un)
He is the mile-a-minute talker and one-man rumor mill of the group. He wants to be a rapper and is mostly concerned with everyone else’s business.
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Extended Cast
Sung Dong Il as Sung Dong Il (Shi Won's father)
Kang Kyun Sung (강균성) as young Dong Il (ep 9)
Lee Il Hwa as Lee Il Hwa (Shi Won's mother)
Park Cho Rong as young Il Hwa (ep 9)
Song Jong Ho as Yoon Tae Woong (Yoon Jae's brother)
No Ji Yeon (노지연) as Jang Dan Ji
Jung Kyung Mi (정경미) as Kyung Mi / Eun Dok Ki
Sun Ah (선아) as Sun Ah / Eun Gak Ha
Cameos
Kim Gook Jin as MC of Star Date (ep 1)
Tony Ahn as himself (ep 1, 3)
Kim Ye Won (김예원) as Sung Song Joo (Shi Won's older sister) (ep 4, 9)
Siwan as ROTC student (ep 4)
Lee Yoon Suk (이윤석) as Lee Dong Gyu (ep 5)
Kim Jong Min (김종민) as doctor (ep 5)
Shin Bong Sun (신봉선) as Busan club H.O.T. president (ep 6)
Choo Min Ki as Chu Shin Soo (ep 8)
Kim Tae Won (김태원) as karaoke room guest (ep 8)
Jung Myung Ok (정명옥) as karaoke room guest (ep 8)
Jung Joo Ri as karaoke room guest (ep 8)
Park Ji Yoon as Joon Hee's sixth older sister (ep 8) / seventh older sister (ep 10)
Ryu Dam as Lee Dae Ho (ep 8)
Yoon Bo Mi (윤보미) as young Moon Jung Mi (Yoon Jae's mother in 1968) (ep 9)
Yang Joon Hyuk (양준혁) as Yoon Joon Hyuk (Yoon Jae's father in 1968) (ep 9)
Son Jin Young (손진영) as young Joon Hyuk (ep 9)
Kim Ki Wook (김기욱) as cell phone store salesman (ep 9)
Yoon Hyung Bin (윤형빈) as Eun Dok Ki's husband (ep 10)
Yang Se Hyung (양세형) as Eun Gak Ha's husband (ep 10)
Ahn Young Mi (안영미) as Sechs Kies fanclub president (ep 10)
Kang Yoo Mi as H.O.T. fanclub president (ep 10)
Shin Dong Yup as MC of 1998 Golden Disk Awards (ep 10)
Lee Joo Yeon as Lee Joo Yeon (Tae Woong's doctor) (ep 14, 16)
Lee Sol Ji (이솔지) as Lee Sol Ji (TV program MC) (ep 15)
Go In Bum as Shi Won's great uncle (ep 15)
G.NA as Choi Jin Ah (Yoon Jae's blind date) (ep 15)
Bae Da Hae (배다해) as Shi Won's colleague (ep 16)
Lee Soo Geun (이수근) as hired driver (ep 16)
AWARDS
2012 6th Korea Drama Award
Best male rookie - Seo In Guk (Answer Me 1997)
Best couple - Eungchil couple Seo Inguk & Jung Eunji (Answer Me 1997)
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Miscellaneous :
Dramabeans Recap
[ Episodes 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-6 | 7-8 | 9-10 | 11-12 | 13-14 ] 15 l 16
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