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, Kim Young-kwang,

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and

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. It aired on Channel A from December 21, 2011 to March 8, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:20 for 24 episodes. It is based on the same-titled book published in 2003 that chronicles the real-life success story of how a young man named Lee Young-seok turned a small 350-square-feet vegetable store in 1998 into a nationwide franchise with 33 branches.

Plot

Han Tae-yang is a hardworking, talented young man who will do anything to make his tiny vegetable stand a success. He hires a couple of "lost boys" who become his employees and friends: Nam Yoo-bong, a successful yet lonely farmer with zero love life; Lee Chan-sol, an idol trainee whose talent agency throws him out after nine years due to a hushed scandal, so he ends up working in a host club; Yoon Ho-jae, a certifiable genius with a lack of social skills that makes him unhireable to big companies; and Jung Ki-young, a homeless man who doesn't talk much. Tae-yang also falls in love with Mok Ga-on, but she is hiding a huge secret. She is actually Jin Jin-shim, an orphaned girl. When her friend, the real Mok Ga-on, died when they were teenagers, Ga-on's ambitious mother Choi Kang-sun took Jin-shim in and told her to pretend to be her daughter, since Ga-on is the illegitimate daughter of a

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businessman. Desperate for a family, Jin-shim agreed, and now named Ga-on, she has a devoted but toxic relationship with Kang-sun. Ga-on also has feelings for Tae-yang, but she is torn between him and a wealthy heir, Lee Seul-woo.

Cast

as Han Tae-yang **

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as young Tae-yang *

as Mok Ga-on/Jin Jin-shim **

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as young Jin-shim **Park So-young as young Ga-on * Kim Young-kwang as Lee Seul-woo *

as Jung Dan-bi *

as Choi Kang-sun *

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as Han Tae-in **

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as young Tae-in *

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as Hwang Soo-ja *

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as Jung Goo-gwang *Kim Do-yeon as Yeon Boon-hong *

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as Mok In-beom *

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as Nam Yoo-bong *

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as Lee Chan-sol *Song Ji-hyuk as Yoon Ho-jae *Noh Sung-ha as Jung Ki-young *Lee Eun as Hong Jung-ah *Sa Mi-ja as Park Geum-soon *?? as driver of Ga On's mom

References

External links

''Bachelor's Vegetable Store'' official Channel A website
* {{Channel A dramas Channel A television dramas 2011 South Korean television series debuts 2011 South Korean television series endings Korean-language television shows Television shows based on South Korean novels