''First Love'' () is a South Korean television series starring

Bae Yong-joon Bae Yong-joon (; born August 29, 1972) is a South Korean businessman and former actor. He has starred in numerous television dramas, including, notably, '' Winter Sonata'' which became a major part of the Korean Wave. Bae retired from acting a ...

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and

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. It aired on

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from may 8, 1996 to July 2, 1997 on Monday and Firday at 19:55 for 268 episodes. It is currently the second highest-rated Korean drama of all time, based on single episode viewership ratings, reaching 65.8% on its final broadcast on April 20, 1997. Its average rating for its entire run was 52.6%.

Plot

Depicting the afflictions of youth, ''First Love'' is the story of two brothers who fall for the same woman.

Cast

as Sung Chan-woo *

as Sung Chan-hyuk *

as Lee Hyo-kyung * Song Chae-hwan as Sung Chan-ok (Chan-hyuk and Chan-woo's sister) *

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as Kang Suk-hee *

Park Sang-won Park Sang-won (born April 5, 1959) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for starring in four of the highest-rating Korean dramas of all time, ''Eyes of Dawn'' (1991), '' Sandglass'' (1995), '' First Love'' (1996), and You and I. Filmogr ...

as Kang Suk-jin (Suk-hee's brother) * Lee Hye-young as Park Shin-ja * Son Hyun-joo as Ju Jung-nam (guitarist) * Bae Do-hwan as Oh Dong-pal * Jo Kyung-hwan as Lee Jae-ha (Hyo-kyung's father) * Yoon Mi-ra as Hyo-kyung's mother * Kim In-moon as Sung Duk-bae (Chan-woo's father) * Jeon Yang-ja as Chairman Jun (Suk-jin's mother) * Park Jung-soo as Shin-ja's mother * Kim Tae-woo as Park Hyung-ki (Chan-woo's classmate) *

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as one of the students being tutored by Hyo-kyung * Cha Tae-hyun as Chan-woo's friend

International broadcast

Due to Bae Yong-joon's popularity post-''

Winter Sonata ''Winter Sonata'' () is a 2002 South Korean television drama series, starring Bae Yong-joon and Choi Ji-woo. It is the second part of the season-themed tetralogy '' Endless Love'' drama series directed by Yoon Seok-ho. Filming primarily took p ...

'', ''First Love'' was aired in Japan on

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in 2005.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:First Love (1996 TV series) Korean Broadcasting System television dramas 1996 South Korean television series debuts 1997 South Korean television series endings South Korean romance television series 1990s romance television series 1990s South Korean television series

Plot

Cast

International broadcast

See also

References

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