Seoul 1945

Choi Woon-hyuk grows up a prodigy from a mining family, caught from an early age between two women who will shape the rest of his life: Kim Hae-kyung, the headstrong eldest daughter of tenant farmers working as a servant, and Moon Suk-kyung, a pianist raised in the comfort of her pro-Japanese father's wealth. Korea's liberation from Japan in August 1945 throws their fixed positions into disorder, as the class lines that once separated a servant's daughter from an heiress start to shift along with the country's politics.

As Woon-hyuk, Hae-kyung and Suk-kyung's rivalry plays out against ideological rifts opening up across the peninsula, wealthy heir Lee Dong-woo becomes tangled in the same web of loyalty and ambition. Love and old grudges get pulled into the larger fight over what kind of country Korea will become, with the drama tracking its characters through the years leading up to national division.

Seoul 1945 stars Ryu Soo-young, Han Eun-jung and So Yoo-jin, and aired on KBS1 across 71 episodes from January 1 to September 26, 2006.