‘KBS Drama Special 2024’‘s third one-act drama ‘Youngbok, Sachiko’ will deliver warm emotions with humanity that does not disappear even in tragedy.

KBS 2TV’s ‘Youngbok, Sachiko: Drama Special 2024’ (written by Go Woo-jin, directed by Park Dan-bi), which will air at 10:45 p.m. on the 26th, is a story of a fierce and heartbreaking journey between two women who can never get close, Youngbok, a Korean wife, and Sachiko, a Japanese wife, who fought over one husband a year before the outbreak of the Korean War.

Kang Mi-na and Choi Ri will play Im Seo-rim‘s Korean wife Gu Young-bok and Japanese wife Sachiko. Ha Jun will play Im Seo-rim’s husband. Kang Mi-na and Choi Ri, who play the roles of a Korean and a Japanese wife, respectively, over Ha-jun, are romantic rivals who engage in a fierce war of nerves, but as time passes, they will captivate viewers with their womance as they comfort each other.

Before liberation, Young-bok married Im Seo-rim, a missing international student, to avoid being taken to a comfort station. In place of her husband, whom she had never seen before, she took care of her sick in-laws. At the age of nineteen, when she would have burst into laughter just by seeing fallen leaves, Young-bok grew into an adult who could not smile. After liberation, her husband Seo-rim, whom she had longed to see so much, appeared in a dream, but by his side was her pregnant Japanese wife, Sachiko. Seo-rim, Young-bok, and Sachiko, who unintentionally became the husbands of two wives, begin to live two lives under one roof.

Young-bok quickly opens his heart to Seo-rim‘s compassion and small affections. Unable to tolerate the existence of a concubine, she warns Sachiko to return to Japan after giving birth, and they have a tense standoff. However, the two wives who were struggling to take over Seorim receive desperate news. As a result, Yeongbok and Sachiko, who had resented each other more than anyone else, become each other’s greatest comfort.

Kang Mi-na, Choi Ri, and Ha-jun portray the changing companionship of the characters during the turbulent times of liberation and the Korean War with solid acting skills. Even in the midst of tragedy, it is expected to leave a deep impression and lingering impression with the undying love for humanity and the friendship of two women.

The third one-act drama of ‘KBS Drama Special 2024’, KBS 2TV ‘Yeongbok, Sachiko’, will air on Tuesday the 26th at 10:45 PM.

Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com Reporter jhj@donga.com