
Original Title: 응답하라 1997 | Eungdaphara 1997
Also known as: Respond 1997; Answer Me 1997; Answer to 1997; Respond to 1997; Contéstame 1997
Broadcast network: tvN
Episodes: 16
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In 1997 six friends are in their last year of high school in Busan. Sung Shi Won is forty-eighth in a class of forty-eight and her whole world is H.O.T. — Tony in particular, whom she fully intends to marry. Her best friend Yoo Jung falls for a different idol every week and has just defected to Sechs Kies, which Shi Won treats as treason. Yoon Jae, the boy next door who has all but lived at the Sung house since his parents died, is first in that same class and quietly in love with her; his best friend Jun Hee is quietly in love with him.
Fifteen years later the six meet again over dinner, thirty-three years old now, and two of them announce they are getting married. Which two is the question the drama spends sixteen episodes not quite answering — while it reconstructs, in obsessive detail, what it was to be eighteen in 1997, when K-pop was new and a fan club was something you fought over.
1 Six friends meet for a high school reunion, and it is time to go back to 1997. Shi Won sings an oldie at the karaoke in front of her parents. She can hardly believe it has been fifteen years since she and her friends swooned over every member of H.O.T.
2 A flashback to 1997 finds Shi Won handing her father a terrible report card — forty-eighth in a class of forty-eight. Those monkey-faced performers have done it this time: he tears the H.O.T. posters off her wall and threatens to adopt Yoon Jae instead.
3 Shi Won ventures to Seoul with the other H.O.T. devotees. One is missing: Yoo Jung, who has defected to Sechs Kies. Shi Won meets Tony at last, then comes home to a short, ragged haircut as punishment.
4 The Korea-Japan World Cup qualifier. Everyone gathers in front of the television and nobody, not even a roach, is outside — except that Shi Won forgot to order the fried chicken, so the whole room watches hungry.
5 Shi Won and her parents have a fender-bender, and her parents seize the chance to fake injuries in front of the other driver. They end up in hospital as a precaution, where her father is cleared of any accident injury and handed a startling diagnosis instead.
6 After surgery, Shi Won's father complains about his crowded hospital room and waits for the results. Shi Won gets into a fangirl brawl over the use of a classroom VCR — it starts innocently and turns serious enough that Yoon Jae is called out of a basketball game.
7 Shi Won's grades threaten to keep her out of university, so she writes fanfic instead and finds an audience. When a teacher humiliates her by reading a romantic H.O.T. fantasy of hers to the class, it wins her an invitation to a writing contest.
8 A countdown to two D-days. In the present, two hundred days until Tae Woong learns whether he will be president. In the past, one day until Yoon Jae plans to declare himself — with a puppy — to a Shi Won who is already taken.
9 Yoon Jae gives the puppy to a delighted Jun Hee instead, while Tae Woong, newly resigned from teaching, drifts around the house with nothing to do. Shi Won gets a fashionable and ridiculous new hairdo that her father offers to pay her to undo.
10 The group goes out to an underage nightclub, where Jun Hee performs a dance routine. It has Shi Won and Yoo Jung squealing, but Jun Hee is less interested in impressing girls than in impressing Yoon Jae.
11 Shi Won's parents leave for a cruise, unaware of her secret night job. Her father, sure that crime is rising, wants Yoon Jae to stay over. She refuses — until the night a stranger follows her home from work and Yoon Jae's line is busy.
12 Yoo Jung and Shi Won are trying on hair clips when Hak Chan walks past with Dan Ji. Shi Won insists he only has eyes for Yoo Jung, who marches outside to find out. Shi Won packs her H.O.T. posters for Seoul while Tae Woong buys a ring.
13 It is 2005. Yoon Jae is a successful judge, Tae Woong rich enough to consider going back to teaching, Yoo Jung teaches kindergarten, Hak Chan is studying film, Jun Hee is a medical intern and Sung Jae a civil servant. Where Shi Won is, nobody says.
14 Sung Jae gets a break from his job when Hak Chan and Yoo Jung take him hiking, and thanks Hak Chan for the video that made him so popular at work — Hawaii clearly taught him more than film. Shi Won, meanwhile, decides between Tae Woong and Yoon Jae.
15 Yoo Jung gets the surprise of her life when Hak Chan introduces her to his parents as his girlfriend. Shi Won causes a quarrel between the brothers, who both admit they love her; Tae Woong stands aside for Yoon Jae, on the condition that he gets his chance if Yoon Jae fails.
16 March 2013, and Shi Won's parents are pacing a hospital corridor waiting for news of their grandchild. When the doctor appears she has no news for them — only a question. Where, and who, is Shi Won's husband?
| Date | Episode | National AGB Nielsen (%) | Seoul AGB Nielsen (%) | National TNmS (%) | Seoul TNmS (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 24, 2012 | 01 | 1.20% | |||
| July 24, 2012 | 02 | 1.20% | |||
| July 31, 2012 | 03 | 1.20% | |||
| July 31, 2012 | 04 | 1.20% | |||
| August 7, 2012 | 05 | 1.00% | |||
| August 7, 2012 | 06 | 1.00% | |||
| August 14, 2012 | 07 | 3.25% | |||
| August 14, 2012 | 08 | 3.25% | |||
| August 21, 2012 | 09 | 3.00% | |||
| August 21, 2012 | 10 | 3.00% | |||
| August 28, 2012 | 11 | 3.46% | |||
| August 28, 2012 | 12 | 3.46% | |||
| September 4, 2012 | 13 | 3.70% | |||
| September 4, 2012 | 14 | 3.70% | |||
| September 11, 2012 | 15 | 4.17% | |||
| September 18, 2012 | 16 | 7.55% | |||
| Average | 2.83% |
| Broadcast period: | July 24, 2012 - September 18, 2012 | |
| Air time: | Tuesday 23:00 | |
| Drama OST: | Reply 1997 OST | |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes (60 for the final two episodes) | |
| Viewership ratings: | 1.00% - 7.55% (TNmS, nationwide) |
| Screenwriters: | Lee Woo Jung, Lee Sun Hye, Kim Ran Ju | |
| Director: | Shin Won Ho | |
| Production company: | tvN |
| Year | Award | Recognition |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5th Style Icon Awards | Top 10 Style Icons — Seo In Guk and Jeong Eun Ji |
| 2012 | 5th Korea Drama Awards | Best Couple Award — Seo In Guk and Jeong Eun Ji |
| 2012 | 5th Korea Drama Awards | Best New Actor — Seo In Guk |
| 2012 | 14th Mnet Asian Music Awards | Best OST — "All For You", Seo In Guk and Jeong Eun Ji |
| 2012 | 4th Melon Music Awards | Best OST — "All For You", Seo In Guk and Jeong Eun Ji |
| 2012 | 1st K-Drama Star Awards | Rising Star Award — Seo In Guk |
| 2012 | 1st K-Drama Star Awards | Rising Star Award — Jeong Eun Ji |
| 2012 | 1st K-Drama Star Awards | Best OST — "All For You", Seo In Guk and Jeong Eun Ji |
| 2012 | 1st K-Drama Star Awards | Best Couple Award — Seo In Guk and Jeong Eun Ji |
| 2012 | 1st K-Drama Star Awards | Acting Award, Actress — Jeong Eun Ji (nominated) |
| 2012 | 1st DramaFever Awards | Best Kiss — Seo In Guk and Jeong Eun Ji |
| 2012 | 1st DramaFever Awards | Best Couple Not Meant To Be — Seo In Guk and Hoya |
| 2012 | 2012 Soompi Gayo Awards | Top Drama/Movie OST — "All For You" |
| 2013 | 7th Cable TV Broadcasting Awards | Grand Prize (Daesang) |
| 2013 | 49th Baeksang Arts Awards | Best New Actress (TV) — Jeong Eun Ji |
| 2013 | 49th Baeksang Arts Awards | Best New Actor (TV) — Seo In Guk (nominated) |
| 2013 | 49th Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Screenplay (TV) — Lee Woo Jung (nominated) |
| 2013 | 8th Seoul International Drama Awards | Best Series Drama (nominated) |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Special Acting Award — Sung Dong Il |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Best Content Award, Drama |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Made in tvN, Actor in Drama — Seo In Guk |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Best Kiss Award — Seo In Guk and Jeong Eun Ji |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Best Actor — Sung Dong Il (nominated) |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Made in tvN, Actress in Drama — Jeong Eun Ji (nominated) |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Scene Stealer Award, Actress — Lee Il Hwa (nominated) |
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