Dongsimcho

Dongsimcho (1959)

DramaRomance

Lee Suk-hui (Choe Eun-hui) lost her husband to the Korean War eight years ago. She runs a dressmaking shop that has fallen into debt. When Kim Sang-gyu (Kim Jin-gyu), the executive director of a publishing company, helps her pay off debts, she falls in love with him. He, however, is engaged to the daughter of his boss, Ok-ju (Do Geum-bong). His sister (Ju Jeung-nyeo) pushes him to marry the boss's daughter, hoping that will bring him rapid success. Meanwhile, Suk-hui's grown-up daughter Gyeong-hui, wanting her mother to be happy, urges her mother to marry Sang-gyu, but Suk-hui vacillates between social mores and her own happiness. Even though she and Sang-gyu truly love each other, she decides to leave him and heads for her country home after selling her house in Seoul. Hearing the news, he who is ill in bed hurries to Seoul station, but it is too late. All he can do is just to stand on the platform and to watch her train pulling away.

Director: Shin Sang-ok
Writer: Lee Bong-rae

Casts

	Choi Eun-hee as Lee Sook-hee
	Um Aing-ran as Oh Kyung-hee
	Kim Jin-kyu as Kim Sang-gyu
	Ju Jeung-nyeo as Mrs. Kim (Sister of Sang-gyu)
	Kim Seok-hun as Han Ki-cheol (Sang-gyu's friend)
	Kim Dong-won as Chairman (President of publishing company)
	Han Eun-jin as Mrs. Park (Mother of Okju)
	Do Kum-bong as Ok-joo Lee (Sang-gyu's fiancé)
	Kim Seung-ho as Busan President Kim (Trader)
	Lee Min as Shin Dong-il (President of a securities company)
	Ju Seon-tae as Bokdeokbang owner
	Seo Wol-yeong as Mrs. Lee
	Yang Im as Miss Song (Securities Company employee)
	Jeong Yeon-ja as Bogja (Shin Dong-il's old lover)
	Choe Eun-yeon as Mrs. Lee's housekeeper
	Nam Yang-il as Pharmacy clerk

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