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만남

만남 poster
Genre
drama television series
Country
South Korea

How it feels

This South Korean drama series follows two families whose lives are connected by a strange chain of fate against the backdrop of modern Korean history from the 1950s to the mid 1980s. It depicts the dramatic and turbulent events of those decades.

historicalmelodramaticsweepingemotionalfamily-drivenperiodseriousnostalgic

What happens

《만남》은 1999년 10월 18일부터 2000년 4월 8일까지 방영된 한국방송공사 2TV 아침드라마로, 아침드라마에서 보기 드물게 선이 굵은 시대극을 도입하여 화제가 됐으며, 50년대부터 80년대 중반까지 파란만장한 한국 현대사를 배경으로 묘한 인연의 사슬로 얽힌 두 가족의 이야기를 그린다. 하지만, 비정상적 출생 이야기를 다루었다는 지적이 있었으며 담당 연출자 김재현 PD는 그 이후 연출활동을 접었다. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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