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만남 (1996)

만남 poster
Genre
drama television series
Country
South Korea

How it feels

A housewife in her eleventh year of marriage lives with her ten-year-old daughter, her emotionally detached but gentle husband, and her patient mother-in-law. Her world is shaken when her husband's company goes bankrupt and she discovers he has a mistress.

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What happens

《만남》은 1996년 3월 25일부터 같은 해 9월 14일까지 방영되었던 SBS 아침연속극으로 그 동안 뚜렷한 주관에 생활력을 가진 여성 역할을 해 온 이휘향 (유강애 역)이 평범한 주부 역으로 변신을 시도했다. 결혼생활 11년째에 접어든 강애는 10살의 딸과 무덤덤하지만 여린 남편, 인내심 강하고 속 깊은 시어머니와 한 집에 살고 있다. 그러던 어느날 남편의 회사가 부도가 나고 그와중에 남편에게 정부 유미가 있다는 사실이 밝혀지며 충격에 휩싸인다. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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