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, Sung Hyun-ah, and

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. It aired on Mondays to Fridays at 19:45 on MBC from January 1 to July 13, 2007 for 140 episodes. The daily

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explores the true meaning of family and love, as a wife who considers herself a "good woman" agonizingly finds out about her husband's 6-year-long affair.

Plot

Se-young is (

) is a devoted wife and mother who greatly values her family and home life. She loves her doctor husband Geon-woo (

) very deeply, and affectionately takes care of her old mother-in-law who is afflicted with

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, as well as her daughter whom she did not give birth to. But unbeknownst to her, for the past six years Geon-woo has been having an affair with his first love, Seo-kyung ( Sung Hyun-ah), who herself is married to Tae-hyun (

). Things come to a head when Geon-woo and Seo-kyung take their families to Saipan for an international medical seminar. Se-young and Tae-hyun are looking forward to a second honeymoon with their respective spouses, not knowing that Geon-woo and Seo-kyung are secretly meeting for trysts. When Se-young discovers her husband's infidelity, her world goes to pieces.

Cast

Main characters

as Lee Se-young *

as Song Geon-woo * Sung Hyun-ah as Yoon Seo-kyung *

as Kim Tae-hyun

Supporting characters

*Lee Hyo-choon as Lee Kyung-seon *

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as Mrs. Song *

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as Song Jin-ah *

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as Song Ji-woo *

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as Kim Bong-dal *Nam Yoon-jung as Choi Mal-ja *Chae Jin-geon as Kim Tae-wook *

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as Kim Tae-hee *Lee Sang-gil as Kim Woo-ram *Yoo Seo-jin as Lee So-young *Kyung Joon as Han Sang-jin *

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as Jang Ji-seon *Han In-soo as Seo-kyung's father *Park Hye-won *Lee Jin-sung *Song Min-jung as nurse *

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Gwi-ok * Kim Young-sun as Yeon Byeon-daek

References

External links

''Bad Woman, Good Woman'' official MBC website

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