| Glass Slippers | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | SBS |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Language(s) | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 munutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | SBS |
| Original run | March 2, 2002 – July 28, 2002 |
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| Korean name | |
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| Hangul | 유리구두 |
| Hanja | 琉璃구두 |
| Revised Romanization | Yuri Gudu |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yuri Kudu |
Glass Slippers (aka Glass Shoes) was a 40-episode South Korean drama series, first broadcast by SBS in 2002 starring Kim Hyun Ju and Kim Ji Ho as the two orphaned sisters Yun-hee and Tae-hee.
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Yun-hee and her elder sister Tae-hee were born into a one-parent family; their mother having died giving birth to Yun-hee. Their devoted father vowed not to marry again and struggled to raise them but was killed in a car accident while already suffering from leukemia. The girls were left to fend for themselves but a series of events caused by gangsters separated the sisters for fifteen years. Yun-hee grew up as Sun-Woo and was abused by the Hee family (Seung-hee especially), who had been forced to adopt her because she was knocked down by their truck. Meanwhile, Tae-hee spent fifteen years with her grandfather and became a successful entrepreneur. Another male character, Chul-woong, frequently stood up for Sun-woo, and once ransacked the Yee househld when Sun-woo was being abused. Seung-hee later pretended to be Yun-hee when a letter from Tae-hee enquiring after her sister arrived. At this point, Sun-woo took refuge at Chul-woong's house.
Internal strife develops when a man called Jae-hyuk decides to take revenge on the sister's grandfather, who had indirectly caused his grandfather's death as a child. Shortly before the sisters are reunited, their grandfather is killed in a car accident. Chul-woong is then stabbed to death by gangsters after a reunion with Yun-hee, who is herself kidnapped by gangsters on their wedding day.
At the beginning of the drama, both sisters harbor feelings for Jae-hyuk, while he and Chul-woong both have designs on Yun-hee, even though Jae-hyuk is engaged to Tae-hee. Seung-hee meanwhile, is keen on Chul-woong, which makes her jealous of Yun-hee. She becomes even more jealous and spiteful when she realizes that Yun-hee is the sister Tae-hee was looking for as she grew up in what she believed was a poor household. In the end, Yun-hee marries Chul-woong after realizing how great his affection was for her in sacrificing his life to protect her.
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