From KBS Global Article:
Park Sun-young and Ryu Soo-young have been selected as the leads in the new KBS TV2 miniseries “Eighteen Vs. Twenty-Nine,” to premiere March 7 following “Sassy Girl Chun-hyang.” The new drama is based on the internet novel “The 4321 Days We Shared,” a heart-wrenching story about coming to terms with reality. The main characters are 29-year-old Yoo Hye-chan (played by Park) and her husband Kang Sang-young (played by Ryu).
The story begins
with Hye-chan getting into a car accident and
mentally reverting to an 18-year-old girl when she
suffers from retrograde amnesia. In the story, the
character Kang Sang-young, who is the same age with
Hye-chan and who married her after 10 years of
dating, is a top-rated entertainer in Korea.
The viewer ratings of the KBS miniseries "18, 29"
have recorded 18.5 percent, the highest since its
debut on March 7 and attesting to the unrivaled
popularity of the Monday-Tuesday series. The success
of this drama, which is currently in its ninth
episode, can be largely ascribed to the impressive
acting of its lead actress Park Sun-young, who
portrays a 29 year-old housewife who has mentally
reverted to an 18 year-old. The drama's lead actor,
Ryoo Soo-young, is also highly credited with
breaking away from his usually serious image and
transforming into a sassy and outgoing character.
In the eighth episode, which aired on March 29, Hye-chan (played by Park Sun-young) learns that Sang-yeong (played by Ryu Soo-young) has quit his role on a television show because of her, and tries to apologize to him. But contrary to her expectations, the two end up fighting. Just when she feels more frustrated than ever, her "savior" Kim Noon (played by Lee Joong-mun) confesses his feelings for her at a drive-in theater.
Critics say the drama's popularity has soared since two of its male characters -- Hye-chan's husband, who does his best to help his wife recover her memory, and the youthful Kim Noon, who falls for the pure-hearted and cheerful personality of Hye-chan -- started squaring off over Hye-chan, staging a war of love transcending age.
Synopsis:
Relive your youth in the hilarious and heart-warming
K-Drama Eighteen, Twenty Nine! Yoon Hye Chan (Park
Sun Yong, KBS Best supporting Actress Winner for Oh!
Phil-Seung, Bong Soon-Young) is a twenty-nice
year-old wife whose marriage is on the rocks. Her
husband Kang Sang Yeong (Ryu Soo Young) is the
"Handsome King", a popular commercial film model and
entertainer, but Hye Chan wants to be rid of him!
She speeds to court to file for divorce, but the
unthinkable happens; she gets into an accident, and
reawakens from her trauma with the mind of an
eighteen year-old girl!
Suddenly, Hye Chan is back in the nineties, when she
was a sassy, silly teenager. She reverts to a time
when she still listened to popular dance group Seo
Tae Ji and Kids, and was in love with her senior
Jeong Shi Woo. She also despised Kang Bong Man, the
most popular guy at school, because she thought he
was shallow. Bu Kang Bong Man would become an actor
one day, and would change his name to Kang Sang
Yeong, her future husband! For Sang Yeong, seeing
his wife revert to their high school days changes
him, and he strives to mend their shattered
marriage. But as Hye Chan's memory slowly returns,
will she go through with her plans to divorce Sang
Yeong? Or will being 18 again change her life when
she's 29 ?
