Wife Returns | |
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Also known as | Return of the Wife |
Genre | Drama, Family |
Written by | Lee Hye-sun |
Directed by | Lee Yong-seok |
Starring |
Kang Sung-yeon Jo Min-ki Yoon Se-ah Park Jung-chul Kim Mu-yeol |
Country of origin | South Korea |
Original language(s) | Korean |
No. of episodes | 116 |
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Running time | Mondays to Fridays at 19:20 (KST) |
Release | |
Original network | Seoul Broadcasting System |
Original release | November 2, 2009 | – April 16, 2010
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Two Wives |
Followed by | Three Sisters |
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Wife Returns (Hangul: 아내가 돌아왔다; RR: Anaega Dolawatda; also known as My Wife is Back) is a South Korean television series starring Kang Sung-yeon, Jo Min-ki, Yoon Se-ah, Park Jung-chul, and Kim Mu-yeol. It aired on SBS from November 2, 2009 to April 16, 2010 on Mondays to Fridays at 19:20 for 116 episodes. The melodrama deals with a broken family, betrayal, adultery and revenge with a dash of violence.Wife Returns revolves around a woman who gets revenge on the husband of her identical twin sister. The sister was forced to leave her husband and their child by her mother-in-law.
The series was part of the "Wife Trilogy," which includes Temptation of Wife and Two Wives.
Jung Yoo-hee (Kang Sung-yeon) grew up in an orphanage with her sister, but lost contact with her after she was adopted by foster parents who lived overseas. Her own foster parents stopped communicating with her after a length of time and Yoo-hee life was filled with unhappiness. That is until she met Yoon Sang-woo (Jo Min-ki), a man that swept her off of her feet. The couple ran away to an island and married. Soon they had a daughter, but their daughter became sick due to a heart disorder. Yoo-hee, desperate to save her daughter, turned to her mother-in-law, who offered to pay for her granddaughter's operation under one condition. That condition required Yoo-hee to leave Sang-woo and never come back. Yoo-hee, wanting to save her daughter's life, left Sang-woo. Sang-woo, unaware of the reasons why Yoo-hee left him, eventually remarried Min Seo-hyun (Yoon Se-ah). Han Kang-soo (Kim Mu-yeol) has loved Yoo-hee since they were children. He even proposed to her years before, but Yoo-hee said no and chose Sang-woo. After she leaves Sang-woo, Kang-soo comes back into Yoo-hee's life. They move to Seoul. Yoo-hee still can't forget Sang-woo and on one fateful day, she meets him once again.