GENERAL INFORMATION
KOREAN DRAMA
Original Title: 응답하라 1994 | Eungdaphara 1994
Also known as: Respond 1994; Answer Me 1994; Answer to 1994; Respond to 1994; Contéstame 1994
Broadcast network: tvN
Episodes: 21
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Synopsis
In 1994 a boarding house in Sinchon takes in students who have come to Seoul from everywhere else — Jeolla, Chungcheong, Gyeongsang — and who are known to each other almost entirely by nicknames: Sseureki, Chilbong, Samcheonpo, Haitai, Binggeure. The house belongs to Sung Dong Il and Lee Il Hwa, whose daughter Na Jung studies computer engineering, follows basketball with a devotion that alarms her father, and lives among these boys without much noticing them.
Nineteen years later the same group gathers at Na Jung's housewarming, and one of the men there is her husband. Which one is the question the drama withholds for twenty-one episodes while it works back through the year Seo Taiji and Boys broke up the charts, the basketball league took over the country, and the Sampoong department store came down.
It shares a writer, a director and a pair of parents with Reply 1997, but it is not its sequel: different house, different people, different story.
THE CAST
CHARACTERS SUMMARY
MAIN CHARACTERS
Others
Special appearances and cameos
EXTENDED CHARACTERS
Na Jung's family
Young versions
Others
SYNOPSIS BY EPISODE
EPISODES 01-10
1 Na Jung does her best to win the attention of the basketball player Lee Sang Min. Jang Guk Young moves up from the countryside and promptly gets lost trying to find the Shinchon boarding house.
2 Na Jung finally pays the price for a weak back. More students move into the house, widening the pool of prospective sons-in-law for Sung Dong Il and Lee Il Hwa.
3 Na Jung has her first crush at the age of twenty.
4 Na Jung's family gets through a difficult anniversary, and Na Jung takes matters into her own hands where her crush is concerned.
5 For the first time, there is a downside to living at the Shinchon boarding house.
6 As the school year winds down, the easy familiarity between the boarders starts to cause trouble.
7 Over the summer break, some of the boarders get to know each other rather better.
8 The summer of 1994 goes on, relationships keep shifting, and secrets come out.
9 Someone in Binggeure's family finds out that he has dropped out of school.
10 Almost everyone spends the New Year in Samcheonpo, where several relationships change for good.
EPISODES 11-21
11 With Yoon Jin and Samcheonpo now openly together, the others start to work out how they feel.
12 With love in the air all round the house, will any of it rub off on Na Jung and Sseureki?
13 Sseureki reaches a decision about where he and Na Jung stand. Now he only has to tell her.
14 Sseureki and Na Jung are finally together, with a few obstacles still in front of them.
15 Relationships are tested by the news about Seo Taiji and Boys, and by Sseureki and Na Jung having to sneak around.
16 Decisions and circumstances begin to change the people of the Shinchon boarding house, and what they are to each other.
17 As Sseureki and Na Jung take things further, more obstacles seem to be heading their way.
18 Money troubles and a failing economy force a decision that will test how strong a relationship really is.
19 Chilbong comes back to visit, and takes the chance to spend some time with Na Jung.
20 Chilbong keeps trying to make the most of his time with Na Jung. Whether any of it counts for anything is another matter.
21 At last we learn who Na Jung married, and see everything that led to the wedding.
VARIETIES
Audience
| Date | Episode | National AGB Nielsen (%) | Seoul AGB Nielsen (%) | National TNmS (%) | Seoul TNmS (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 18, 2013 | 01 | 2.858% | 3.137% | ||
| October 19, 2013 | 02 | 2.264% | 2.491% | ||
| October 25, 2013 | 03 | 3.185% | 3.528% | ||
| October 26, 2013 | 04 | 4.020% | 4.449% | ||
| November 1, 2013 | 05 | 4.778% | 4.932% | ||
| November 2, 2013 | 06 | 5.698% | 5.789% | ||
| November 8, 2013 | 07 | 5.991% | 5.631% | ||
| November 9, 2013 | 08 | 7.242% | 7.100% | ||
| November 15, 2013 | 09 | 8.090% | 7.782% | ||
| November 16, 2013 | 10 | 8.719% | 9.244% | ||
| November 23, 2013 | 11 | 9.071% | 9.008% | ||
| November 29, 2013 | 12 | 9.046% | 9.810% | ||
| November 30, 2013 | 13 | 9.228% | 9.573% | ||
| December 6, 2013 | 14 | 9.241% | 8.676% | ||
| December 7, 2013 | 15 | 8.067% | 8.031% | ||
| December 13, 2013 | 16 | 8.068% | 7.769% | ||
| December 14, 2013 | 17 | 7.892% | 8.509% | ||
| December 20, 2013 | 18 | 8.258% | 8.046% | ||
| December 21, 2013 | 19 | 9.064% | 9.800% | ||
| December 27, 2013 | 20 | 9.670% | 10.464% | ||
| December 28, 2013 | 21 | 11.509% | 11.962% | ||
| Average | 7.128% | 7.297% |
MORE DETAILS
| Broadcast period: | October 18, 2013 - December 28, 2013 | |
| Air time: | Friday & Saturday 21:00 | |
| Drama OST: | Reply 1994 OST | |
| Runtime: | 60 - 90 minutes | |
| Viewership ratings: | 2.264% - 11.509% (Nielsen Korea, nationwide) |
PRODUCTION CREDITS
| Screenwriters: | Lee Woo Jung, Kim Ran Ju | |
| Director: | Shin Won Ho | |
| Producer: | Lee Myung Han | |
| Production company: | tvN |
RECOGNITIONS
| Year | Award | Recognition |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8th Cable TV Broadcasting Awards | Grand Prize (Daesang) |
| 2014 | 50th Baeksang Arts Awards | Best New Actor — Jung Woo |
| 2014 | 7th Korea Drama Awards | Best Production Director — Shin Won Ho |
| 2014 | 7th Korea Drama Awards | Best New Actress — Min Do Hee |
| 2014 | 7th Korea Drama Awards | Best Couple Award — Kim Sung Kyun and Min Do Hee |
| 2014 | 3rd APAN Star Awards | Excellence Award, Actor — Jung Woo |
| 2014 | 3rd APAN Star Awards | Best New Actor — Son Ho Jun |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Best Content Award, Drama |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Special Acting Award — Sung Dong Il |
NOTES & VARIETIES
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