''While You Were Sleeping'' () is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Lee Chang-hoon,

Choi Won-young Choi Won-young (; born Choi Seong-wook on January 10, 1976) is a South Korean actor. Career Choi Won-young made his acting debut in 2002's ''Sex Is Zero'', and has since appeared in both film and television. But his most notable roles have be ...

Oh Yoon-ah Oh Yoon-ah (born October 14, 1980) is a South Korean actress and a former racing model. Career Oh Yoon-ah began her career as a racing model ("race queen" or "pit babe"), and in 2000 she won the first Cyber Race Queen Contest. She became an en ...

and

Lee Young-eun Lee Young-eun (born August 9, 1982) is a South Korean actress. She is best known for starring in Korean dramas such as ''Likeable or Not'', ''Obstetrics and Gynecology Doctors'', '' While You Were Sleeping'', and ''Can't Stand Anymore''. Persona ...

. The daily

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

aired on SBS on Mondays to Fridays at 19:15 from May 16 to November 9, 2011 for 120 episodes.

Plot

Oh Shin-young (

) is a hospital cafeteria

nutritionist A nutritionist is a person who advises others on matters of food and nutrition and their impacts on health. Some people specialize in particular areas, such as sports nutrition, public health, or animal nutrition, among other disciplines. In many c ...

with a bright personality, who is happily married to Yoon Min-joon (

), who works in the sales department of a food company. But while giving birth, Shin-young falls into a

vegetative state A persistent vegetative state (PVS) or post-coma unresponsiveness (PCU) is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than true awareness. After four weeks in a vegetative stat ...

induced by the hospital's chief

obstetrician Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), which is a surgi ...

Go Hyun-sung (

). Hyun-sung is Min-joon's ex-girlfriend who is still in love with him, despite being married to Chae Hyuk-jin ( Lee Chang-hoon), the director of a food company and Min-joon's boss. When Hyuk-jin learns of his wife's betrayal, he plans his revenge.

Cast

;Main characters * Lee Chang-hoon as Chae Hyuk-jin *

as Yoon Min-joon *

as Go Hyun-sung *

as Oh Shin-young ;Hyuk-jin's family *

Jung Dong-hwan Jung Dong-hwan (born August 5, 1949) is a South Korean actor. Jung began his career in theater, then was most active in Korean cinema in the 1980s, with leading roles in ''Late Autumn'' (1982), ''Jung-kwang's Nonsense'' (1986), and ''A Top Knot ...

as Chae Dae-pil *

Park Joon-geum Park Joon Geum (born 29 July 1962) is a South Korean actress. An alumnus of Kyung Hee University, Department of Dance, she is also a visiting professor in College of Culture and Arts Engineering, Kangwon National University. She made her actin ...

as Mrs. Jang * Baek Min-hyun as Chae Woo-jin *Kim Jin-woo as Chae Hwan-hee ;Min-joon's family *Kim Ha-kyun as Yoon Hwang-goo *

Song Ok-sook Song Ok-sook (born August 14, 1960) is a South Korean actress. She has appeared in supporting roles in numerous television dramas, including ''Winter Sonata'', ''Beethoven Virus'', ''More Charming by the Day'', and '' Missing You''. Song is al ...

as Na Pil-boon *

Lee Sung-yeol Lee Sung-yeol (; born August 27, 1991), known mononymously as Sungyeol, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Infinite and its sub-group Infinite F. Biography Lee Sung-yeol was born and raised in Yongi ...

as Yoon So-joon ;Hyun-sung's family *Kim Hak-chul as Go Kyung-ho *Ahn Hae-sook as Lee Hye-ja ;Shin-young's family *Kang Ye-sol as Oh Shin-hye *Lee Duk-hee as Shin Sook-hee ;Extended cast *

Ahn Ji-hyun Ahn Ji-hyun (, born July 10, 1992) is a South Korean actress. Filmography Television series Film Music video References External links Ahn Ji-hyun at Koom Entertainment * * 1992 births Living people 21st-century South Korean ...

as Maeng Hyun-joo *Min Joon-hyun as Chae Dae-pil's secretary *Lee Bum-hak as Bum-goo *Park Woo-chun

Awards and nominations

References

External links

''While You Were Sleeping'' official SBS website
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