I'm Sorry, I Love You

GENERAL INFORMATION

I'm Sorry, I Love You

KOREAN DRAMA

Synopsis

Cha Moo Hyuk was adopted by an Australian family but was abused and left homeless at an early age. One day, he comes across Song Eun Chae, the coordinator for Choi Yune, a famous singer in Korea whom she is secretly in love with. Her fateful encounter with Moo Hyuk ends up affecting not only her life but that of her precious Yune as well.

Because of an accident involving his ex-girlfriend, Moo Hyuk is left with 3 months to live. This leads him to head back to Korea in search of his biological mother. The discoveries he makes change his heart from longing to revenge. Even with all this darkness surrounding him, he finds an unexpected source of happiness with someone he did not expect to love.

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THE CAST

CHARACTERS SUMMARY

MAIN CHARACTERS

Abandoned as a child and adopted in Australia, he works the streets of Melbourne as a part-time con artist. A bullet lodged in his head leaves him little time, and he returns to Korea to find his birth mother.

Choi Yune's fashion coordinator and childhood friend, who has loved him from a distance for years.

A famous singer, and the centre of Eun Chae's world.

A well-known actress.

A celebrated actress, and Yune's mother.

Others

Guest role, episode 1.

Cameo, as a dancer.

An assassin.

EXTENDED CHARACTERS

VARIETIES

Audience

Date Episode National AGB Nielsen (%) Seoul AGB Nielsen (%) National TNmS (%) Seoul TNmS (%)
November 8th, 2004 01 16.6 16.1
November 9th, 2004 02 16.7 16.1
November 15th, 2004 03 19.3 18.5
November 16th, 2004 04 17.1 16.9
November 22nd, 2004 05 19.3 19.8
November 23rd, 2004 06 17.7 18.5
November 29th, 2004 07 15.4 16.5
November 30th, 2004 08 15.3 17.0
December 6th, 2004 09 17.5 18.2
December 7th, 2004 10 19.6 20.1
December 13th, 2004 11 20.3 20.3
December 14th, 2004 12 22.5 21.7
December 20th, 2004 13 22.7 23.2
December 21st, 2004 14 27.4 27.1
December 27th, 2004 15 25.7 25.6
December 28th, 2004 16 28.6 29.2
Average 20.3 20.1

MORE DETAILS

Broadcast period: November 8, 2004 - December 28, 2004
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55
Runtime: 70 minutes
Drama OST: I'm Sorry, I Love You OST
Viewership ratings: 15.3% - 28.6% (TNmS, nationwide)

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Director: Lee Hyung Min
Screenwriter: Lee Kyung Hee
Producer: Jung Sung Hyo
Executive producer: Kim Jong Sik (KBS Drama Operations Team)
Production company: GROUP EIGHT

RECOGNITIONS

Year Award Recognition
2004 KBS Drama Awards Excellence Award, Actor — So Ji Sub
2004 KBS Drama Awards Best New Actor — Jung Kyung Ho (nominated)
2004 KBS Drama Awards Best New Actress — Im Soo Jung
2004 KBS Drama Awards Best Child Actor — Park Gun Tae
2004 KBS Drama Awards Netizen Award, Actor — So Ji Sub
2004 KBS Drama Awards Netizen Award, Actress — Im Soo Jung
2004 KBS Drama Awards Popularity Award, Actor — So Ji Sub
2004 KBS Drama Awards Popularity Award, Actress — Im Soo Jung
2004 KBS Drama Awards Best Couple Award — So Ji Sub and Im Soo Jung
2005 41st Baeksang Arts Awards Best TV Drama
2005 41st Baeksang Arts Awards Best Actor (TV) — So Ji Sub
2005 41st Baeksang Arts Awards Best New Actress (TV) — Im Soo Jung (nominated)
2005 41st Baeksang Arts Awards Best Screenplay (TV) — Lee Kyung Hee (nominated)
2005 41st Baeksang Arts Awards Most Popular Actor (TV) — So Ji Sub (nominated)
2005 41st Baeksang Arts Awards Most Popular Actress (TV) — Im Soo Jung (nominated)
2005 32nd Korean Broadcasting Awards Best Drama

NOTES & VARIETIES

"MiSa" is short for "Mianhabnida, Saranghabnida" — the drama's Korean title. The nickname stuck because the full title is such a mouthful.
Two versions exist: the original 2004 broadcast, and a Director's Cut released a year later as a special DVD set. Lee Hyung Min recut it himself, adding scenes and changing some of the music and editing.
It was a phenomenon in Korea, and gave rise to the term "MiSa Pye-in" for someone obsessed with it.
The official website went down more than once under the traffic, and passed a million posts shortly after the drama ended.
Where most Korean dramas of the time rated modestly, this one climbed as high as 29% for its final episode.
It did less well abroad, largely through poor marketing and scheduling — though it still turns up as the number one K-drama in fan polls run in China and Japan.
It took the KBS2 Monday-Tuesday 21:55 timeslot left by "Oh! Pil Seung And Bong Soon Young" and was followed by "Delightful Girl Choon Hyang".
A new version was announced for the drama's 20th anniversary.
It was remade four times abroad: "Bir Aşk Hikayesi" ("A Love Story") in Turkey, on Fox TV from March 26, 2013, with Seçkin Özdemir and Damla Sönmez; a Chinese version, "Sorry, I Love You" (对不起,我爱你), released January 3, 2014; a Thai one on ONE HD from March 2, 2016; and "Gomen, Aishiteru" in Japan for TBS, with Tomoya Nagase, Shinobu Otake and Kentaro Sakaguchi.
G&G Entertainment released a 35-minute animated version, "Between of One Year", made up of highlights from the drama plus new scenes covering the year between Moo Hyuk's death and Eun Chae's. Lee Kyung Hee, who wrote the drama, supervised the script. It came out on DVD on February 6, 2008.
It aired abroad from 2005 on: Vietnam on HTV9 from October 11, 2005; Japan on TV Tokyo from May 17, 2006; Thailand on Channel 3 from September 27, 2008; and Indonesia on Indosiar from February 13, 2013.
In episode 29 of SBS's "My Absolute Boyfriend", the line "Will you eat with me or live with me?" is credited to this drama, along with So Ji Sub and Im Soo Jung by name.

ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK(S)

RELATED

Chinese
Sorry, I Love You (2014)
Thai
I'm Sorry I Love You (GMM One, 2016)
Japanese
Gomen, Aishiteru (TBS, 2017)
Turkish
Bir Aşk Hikayesi (Fox TV, 2013)

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