Golden Apple (TV series)

Golden Apple
Genre	Romance, Drama
Written by	Kwon Ki-young
Directed by	Shin Chang-seok Park Kyung-ri Lee Geon-joon
Starring	Park Sol-mi Kim Ji-hoon Ji Hyun-woo Go Eun-ah Jung Chan
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language(s)	Korean
No. of episodes	30
Production
Executive producer(s)	Park Soo-dong
Location(s)	Korea
Running time	Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 (KST)
Broadcast
Original channel	Korean Broadcasting System
Original run	16 November 2005 (2005-11-16) – 23 February 2006 (2006-02-23)
Chronology
Preceded by	My Rosy Life
Followed by	Goodbye Solo
External links
Website

Golden Apple (Hangul: 황금사과; RR: Hwangkeum Sakwa) is a South Korean television series starring Park Sol-mi, Kim Ji-hoon, Ji Hyun-woo, Go Eun-ah and Jung Chan. It aired on KBS2 from November 16, 2005 to February 23, 2006 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 30 episodes. The story about four siblings living in a village in the 1960s, and a woman fighting to clear her dead father's name after he is wrongly accused of her stepmother's murder.^[1]

Golden Apple received average viewership ratings of 17.43%, making it the 13th highest-rated Korean drama in 2006.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Kim Chun-dong (Choi Il-hwa) is a widowed farmer with one daughter, Kyung-sook (Lee Young-ah), and two sons, Kyung-gu (Kim Myung-jae) and Kyung-min (Park Ji-bin). Kyung-sook is committed to maintaining the household after the passing of their mother, and the villagers praise her sweet, cheerful nature and hardworking attitude. Everyday chores leave her little time for fun, but she does shed her tough exterior for Park Jong-gyu, the farm owner's son. A student at Seoul National University, Jong-gyu visits on occasion to the delight of Kyung-sook.

Her father Chun-dong marries again, and the woman (Bang Eun-hee) has a six-year-daughter, Keum-shil (Yoo Yeon-mi). The new siblings live a humble but happy life in the countryside. But the marriage is not a happy one and Keum-shil's mother continues her affair with Park Byung-sam (Lee Deok-hwa) a rich landlord in the village who is running for a seat in the Parliament. After the election, her body is discovered floating in the river and Chun-dong is wrongly accused of being the killer. He confesses after being tortured by the police and later dies in custody before the trial. Park Byung-sam, who is in fact Keum-shil's real father, orders his brother-in-law Jung (Lee Ki-young) to adopt Keum-shil, then gives him a job at the Intelligence Office in Seoul.

Years later, Kyung-sook (Park Sol-mi) has also moved to Seoul and is working hard to raise her brothers (Kim Ji-hoon, Ji Hyun-woo). She vows that she will clear her father's name and find the real killer. Park Byung-sam remains her number one suspect even though she was in love with his son, Jong-gyu (Jung Chan).