Beautiful Days

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For the English music festival, see Beautiful Days (festival).

Beautiful Days
Hangul:	아름다운 날들
Revised Romanization:	Areumdaun naldeul
McCune-Reischauer:	Arŭmdaun naltŭl

Beautiful Days is the name of a 24-episode, Korean TV drama series aired in 2001 on SBS network. It is one of the most popular exported Korean drama series. The leads, Lee Byung Hun, Ryu Shi Won and Choi Ji Woo won Top 10 awards at SBS Awards, 2001, Lee Byung Hun also won Best Performing Actor while Choi Ji Woo won Special Production Actress Award for this drama.

[edit] Storyline

As in so many of the latest Korean drama series, Beautiful Days involves conflicts in family relationships, as well as a love triangle. The main character played by Lee Byung Hun as Lee Min Chul, has returned from studying in the USA, to take an active role in his father's prospering music business.

The location used Tower Records in Sinchon, (near Sinchon Station), Seoul - now Shinara Records - as 'Victory Records', the headquarters of this fictional family's music business.

It turns out that the father was involved in unethical practice in the past, as well as murdering the father of Min Chul's step-brother, San Jae. Into the scene comes two orphanage girls, YeonSoo and Sena, whom share a sisterly bond. This is also where Sena became inspired to become a popstar after a visit during their childhood of the Victory Records boss on a charity event. Both girls arrive in Seoul to start their adult lives, and become involved in the lives of the step-brothers, Min Chul and San Jae. A complex drama unfolds, with the love of the main characters threatened by a terminal illness. The original script had intended that the character of Yeon Soo would die, but in response to a flood of protest letters from anguished viewers, the drama lets her live. Sena goes on to become a famous popstar.