Memory (Korean Drama)

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Drama: Memory (literal title)
Revised romanization: Gieok
Hangul: 기억
Director: Park Chan-Hong
Writer: Kim Ji-Woo
Network: tvN
Episodes: 16
Release Date: March 18 - May 7, 2016
Runtime: Fri & Sat 20:30
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Park Tae-Suk (Lee Sung-Min) is a lawyer. One day, he is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

Notes

"Memory" takes over tvN's Fri & Sat 20:30 time slot previously occupied by "Signal" and followed by "Dear My Friends" May 13, 2016.
Filming begins January, 2016.

Cast



Lee Sung-Min	Kim Ji-Soo	Lee Joon-Ho	Yoon So-Hee	Park Jin-Hee
Park Tae-Suk	Seo Young-Joo	Jung Jin	Bong Sun-Hwa	Na Eun-Sun



Lee Ki-Woo	Ban Hyo-Jung	Jang Gwang	Nam Da-Reum	Kang Ji-Woo
Shin Young-Jin	Kim Soon-Hee	Park Chul-Min	Park Jung-Woo	Park Yeon-Woo



Jeon No-Min	Moon Sook	Song Seon-Mi	Song Jae-Ha	Heo Jung-Do
Lee Chan-Moo	Hwang Tae-Sun	Han Jung-Won	Kim Je-Hoon	Kang Yoo-Bin



Yeo Hoi-Hyeon	Park Joo-Hyung	Park Jun-Keum	Choi Duk-Moon	Kim Min-Sang
Lee Seung-Ho	Cha Won-Suk	Jang Mi-Rim	Joo Jae-Min	Joo Sang-Pil



Yoon Kyung-Ho	Lee Jung-Kil
Kim Chang-Soo	Shin Hwa-Sik

Additional Cast Members:

Jung Young-Ki - Kwon Myung-Soo
Ham Sung-Min - Kwon Myung-Soo (young)
Song Ji-In - Yoon Sun-Hee
Jeon Jin-Ki - head director
Yun Ji-On - assistant director
Choi Min-Young - Kim Myung-Soo
Son Sung-Chan - Myung-Soo's father
Kim So-Yeon - Kim Soo-Ji
Han Seo-Jin - Kwon Mi-Joo
Lee Hee-Jin - Do In-Kyung
Shin Jae-Ha - Kang Hyun-Wook
Song Ji-Ho - Chun Min-Gyoo
Kan Mi-Youn - Young-Jin's ex-girlfriend
Park Min-Jung - Choi Yeo-Kyung
Kim Keum-Soon - wife of pork belly restaurant owner
Seo In-Sung - Park Dong-Woo
Kim Pyung-Jo - Detective Kim
Kang Shin-Il - Kim Sun-Ho (cameo)
Son Young-Soon
Kim Jae-Hyun
Kim Jung-Wook
Jang Yoo-Sang
Tae Won-Seock
Lee Jin-Hee
Seo Dong-Suk
Jung Jong-Yul
Shin Soo-Hyun

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Awards

Hot Star Award (Lee Ki-Woo) - 2016 (9th) Korea Drama Awards - October 7, 2016

Comments

Lulu Feb 06 2024 8:36 pm How did Lee Sung Min not win an award for his Memory performance. He was spectacular.

Park Min Jan 22 2023 4:07 pm A little messy from episode 12 to 16 but it's still a good show.

heiho May 26 2020 8:46 am this drama is great. i can't believe i haven't watched it until now. it's really underrated. all actors and actresses are really great. it's really heartwarming and sad too.

it's out of nowhere but i think park tae suk's house complex is similar to the one with anchor lee's house in find me in your memory. maybe because i really like that drama i just remember it when i saw park tae suk's house. but maybe expensive house complexes in south korea are similar. lol

kkutchil Mar 26 2020 12:01 am Watch this drama earlier this year and I'm sad why I just found this great masterpiece just now. This is 100% recommended. It's a must watch. Especially if u looking for family themed drama. This drama is so overwhelming.

kdramaddict Oct 03 2017 8:01 am 100/10 A MUST WATCH!

KyeongMi Aug 21 2017 1:47 am Alzheimer is a good topic to dig in. Im very obsessed of the escalation of symptoms.. I really like the appearances of 2 supportive couple, Jung Jin and Sun Hwa. To me, Jung Jin looks a lots like actor Kwon Sang Woo at young age while Sun Hwa resemble actress Park Si Yeon at many aspects (sexy, cold, mysteriously attractive). This make me think of the time when best actors and actresses are gonna be reborn :D

Joan Mar 28 2017 10:10 pm i watched this drama late... I love the story. Kim Ji soo's acting is especially captivating to me

jisoo Dec 07 2016 2:29 am I was immediately drawn to the drama from the start and it is indeed a great great piece!! I loved Lee Sung Min ever since Misaeng and he impressed me further with his acting in Memory!! Junho and the secretary is also suuuper cute!! A total must watch!!!!!

Yellowg Sep 24 2016 1:02 pm This is by far the best k drama that ive seen. 10/10 amazing cast and story.

Farrah Sep 06 2016 1:51 pm I love this drama so much. Havent seen any drama since Pinocchio. Frankly, I watched this drama at first just because of Jun Ho. As time passed by, I fell in love with the story itself. Although I kinda sad with the ending because they didnt show how the locked up the bad guy etc, it's still a great drama. And they are all really great actors/actresses! A big thumbs up all the way from Malaysia *love*

Sabrina Jul 13 2016 8:29 pm Just finished watching this drama. Probably not the best one around, but still a very touching and great drama! I love how Lee Sung Min's character slowly changed as the time went. But my most favorite character is Seo Young Joo♡ Kim Ji Su is a really great actress, and she played her character perfectly♡ I never thought Lee Sung Min & Kim Ji Su as a couple, but the chemistry is totally there!

Anyway, I think everyone is quite obsessed with Dong Woo's death, which was happened 15 years ago, especially the mother. A son's death must be painful, but 15 years should have been heal some wound.

Disagreeing with most people who say this drama has a quick and kinda bad ending, I think this drama ends beautifully. And the fact that Park Tae Seok said "I love you" to his wife in his voice record made me cry so much, it's so touching because he always appeared to be a not-so-lovely husband.

I recommend this drama to everyone who wants to have a break from cheesy and easy mainstream romance drama!♡

asdfghjkl Jul 09 2016 8:36 pm I love this drama so bad i was able to finish it today.

loksdsds Jun 30 2016 5:29 am This drama is absolutely amazing... everyone needs to watch it!

Megux Jun 28 2016 9:51 am This is one of the best k dramas that ive ever watched... amazing cast...loved every minute of it!

Stephanie Rountree May 08 2016 1:56 pm This is one of the best dramas! Lee Sung-Min's acting is incredible, as always!

nnn May 08 2016 9:02 am btw junho's acting skill is no joke

nnn May 08 2016 8:58 am the ending was too fast! i wanted to see Shin Youngjin's poor face and hanged himself or something. I also expected to see Sunhwa&Jungjin's relationship clearer :'< Over all, it's a good drama! I think tvN dramas are really my style ;)

nnn May 08 2016 8:51 am it has ended :<

Mariana May 08 2016 3:31 am It's sad that this drama has come to an end, but I've loved every minute of it. I truly enjoyed watching this drama and it is really worth watching. One of the best!!

Mariana May 08 2016 3:26 am It's sad that this drama has come to an end, but I've loved every minute of it. I truly enjoyed watching this drama and it's really worth watching. One of the best!!

Kiyomi Mori May 08 2016 12:44 am Such a fantastic drama! Worth watching. Great writing & excellent cast.

Kathleen May 07 2016 11:34 pm This movie was very good! So sad and a great story line. I miss Korean movies like this! However I did not enjoy the ending! It was too fast, skipped important events that was covered in the story. Such a disappointing ending!

gt May 07 2016 11:29 pm Great show! Forgiveness instead of revenge.

Kiyomi May 07 2016 12:35 am How many episodes does this drama have? 16 episodes or 20 episodes? This drama really is Excellent! Tune In

Dwicky Woo May 05 2016 9:23 am first, i watched it because Lee Junho. but now really love this drama, especially the sad scene of Park tae seok's family. it always touching .. T.T

Mia May 05 2016 6:43 am This drama is so good!!! One of the best dramai've watch. Story line, actor, music, how camera take the scene, those are so good. Actually i got bored till the third episode (i got excited before for every saturday and sunday because of the very good signal and maybe signal made huge expectation for this drama, so i got bored easily when this drama was not as tense as signal). I stopped for a while though not to watch this again. But i try again, and this drama turned so good in every episode. I love each episode. I ever cried after i finished one episode because that was so good. Hahahaha

K May 01 2016 3:32 am Only up to ep 7 but it is great! You can always trust TvN from Reply 1988, Signal to this. All have been great. And surprised that Junho is a really good actor! I hope it does well till the end. :)

gQx Apr 30 2016 8:48 am whats the song at the end of episode 13? where can i find it? what s its name?

Anti Apr 24 2016 8:38 pm Recommended Drama!!! Must Watch !!

Love U Junho :D

miss_myeon Apr 24 2016 10:33 am and of course uri tae seok lawyer nim.. lee sung min such a great actor.. really great actor. i cried a lot when watched ep 12.. i love seo young joo character too, such a super wife and super mom..

once again .. hwaiting memory !!

miss_myeon Apr 24 2016 10:26 am this is the best drama which has alzheimer theme.

another korean drama which full of romance and comedy its interesting too.. but this kind of drama, teach us about many things, especially to love our family and do some good deeds,  do something we wont regret. many good lesson from this drama.

jung woo has cute face, when he grow up i think he will be more popular and handsome.. junho acting as jeong jin is good too.. hwaiting memory !! thousand thumbs up

kunal Apr 24 2016 4:50 am its prove that in korean people not appiricate good story line and good acting then only like chick type boys thats way they descedent of sun which has not great story and not so called chemistry between lead pair but compare actrsses last drama before this in that chemistry between lead is great(Zo In-Sung) but in this drama memory all actors are brillant becoz i am from india i like this story very much we indian like human drama very much so all of them watch remaning episode give higest rating to this drama keep it good drama guysssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

kunal Apr 24 2016 4:42 am one of the best drama of summer better then descedent of sun

sculli Apr 23 2016 8:54 pm good acting in this drama, not too many main cast out of place. even some unknown like yeo hoehyun is quite good, pretty boy with evil conscious, hope he redeems his character late on.

Akajishi Apr 22 2016 8:41 pm This is a goooooood drama. I've never cried while watching a kdrama before but this was exceptionally moving. At the same time, I really enjoyed watching every episode. Impressive acting of Lee Sung Min, he is really a great great great actor. And by the way, what a irresistibly adorable relationship between Junho and Yoon So Hee.

pinecone Apr 18 2016 12:40 pm Yoon Sohee's role in this drama is the best! Such a sexy woman *thumbs up

pinecone Apr 18 2016 12:24 pm this drama is more about family Remember is about judicature, ascendancy, manipulation, etc..

pinecone Apr 18 2016 12:14 pm i wanted to watch this drama because i'm a fan of Yoon Sohee and now i've been watching it because of my interest towards the plot. i love this drama!

ps: i recently watched 'Remember War of the Son' and the popular alzheimer topic surely got me like "what the heck?!?" but i realised it soonly that the plots are totally different.

macci Apr 16 2016 10:06 pm lee sung min is so good, an hour watching him goes by so fast. they can lose the sappy ost though.

Omaima Apr 13 2016 4:17 am This drama is soooo good and heartbreaking The most drama I look forward to watching it currently

THADI Apr 10 2016 12:00 pm completed 7 episodes, wonderful drama. it is a shame that people are under appreciate this drama and keep repeating about Alzheimer..Remember is completely different to this one and this is really interesting than remember it seems. Completely different plots. Also, this is way better than boring Descendants of the Sun. Great acting, good plot about a man who is fighting for his family.

Bouchra Siroua Apr 08 2016 11:32 pm I don't know why people keep insisting on comparing between memory and remember war of the sun, okay the two dramas are treating alzheimer but the plots are totally and completely different. One has nothing to do with the other! So please stop comparing they are both great dramas with amazing cast, I loved remember, the actors did a great job and i'm not ready to forget it and now i'm enjoying memory it's one of the best ongoing dramas so far and i'm sure that I won't forget this drama also!

wrands Apr 02 2016 6:28 pm feel bad for the wife, as a stay at home wife how can she live up to the comparison of the ex wife being a judge...

anjili sammy Apr 01 2016 6:07 pm this is just like the drama REMEMBER which now finished....

Sya Mar 28 2016 5:38 am I agree with @Light . Actually this drama has so much more than just Alzheimer's. The plot is very interesting as the lead has so much more story to convey about him rather than just his disease and lawyer cases and that definitely will make you feel mysterious as well as curious.

Besides, the younger leads 'love story' is so mesmerizing for me. Jung Jin and Sun Hwa are going to make a cute couple. I really miss Junho's acting, btw. He is such a cutie pie! (Pardon me being bias xxD)

After all, this is a good drama (as I just watch 4 episodes of it) and I recommend all of you to give it a try (:

zaizai Mar 26 2016 11:19 am somehow you can feel how frustated the main actor, i think the actor really did a great job! TvN nowdays really made me excited *applause*

PRINCESS Mar 24 2016 7:28 am Long wait for the next episode , only 2 days a week on air, should be 5 days a week.

Light Mar 23 2016 1:53 am When I saw the rating of this drama I was shocked. It's unfair to give such a low rating if you haven't watched it and just base your rating on a comparison.

Yes, Remember has a (slightly) similar story and yes, at the moment everyone is going crazy about DotS.

BUT this is page is supposed to be about this drama and nothing else (get your act together, people!)

On to my opinion about the first two episodes: I actually really liked them. Even though we find out about Park Tae-Suk's disease right at the beginning, there seems to be so much more than just the Alzheimer topic. To me, this drama seems to be a bit on the mysterious side, actually. I don't want to add any spoilers, so I'll just end my post here.

If you haven't started watching yet, you should give it a try!

siwan Mar 22 2016 9:38 pm this is definitely better than Remember, actually comparing the two is insulting to this drama.

siwan Mar 22 2016 9:14 pm one minor gripe with the character lee ki woo, when the script is intelligent and the actors are great, that is to say, not a melodrama, why use stereotype like spoilt evil good looking chaebol who collects gundam, surely a normal looking character would do a better job of portraying conceit and selfishness without the distraction of the flashy stereotype.

siwan Mar 22 2016 7:22 pm another of their funny joke, law firm's name is 'too nice', tae shin, thats written on the wall behind the director's desk.

drama addict Mar 22 2016 2:57 am @gt Lee Sung-min may be not your typical korean pretty boy, but he's seriously good actor. People gave credit to Im Siwan in Misaeng but I'd say he's the best actor in the drama.

dpsht Mar 20 2016 5:05 pm @gt

looks like someone is learning about what actually makes a good drama and that acting is more than skin deep. good for you.

gt Mar 20 2016 11:16 am Initially I was put off by the ugly lead and low ratings but it got better with the 2nd episodes. This is a show with some bite in it. I will give it a go.

dumdum Mar 20 2016 5:42 am for poepl who can appreciate a quality story, this drama and the one on jtbc are the goto dramas at the moment. no need to get upset. let all the teenyboppers and ahjumma fight over who is prettier between song joongki and yoon seung ho, or who ships who. their 'analysis' of those dramas for for good laugh.

reina Mar 20 2016 5:24 am Totally agree with @weina , it looks like takuya kimura's i'm home

putri Mar 20 2016 3:32 am watched today and overall is good. TvN never dissapointed me

like REMEMBER ? not at all, how dare you people judge it when you don't event watch it

siwan Mar 20 2016 2:12 am guess its their inside joke to make the front reception of a law firm look like jail cell. high hopes for the current korean cable networks dramas. even if this is only half as good as misaeng, we are still in for a treat.

JJ Mar 19 2016 8:48 pm Oh come on, same with remember? Watch it first then you can tell the difference. TvN nowdays never disappoint me

weina Mar 19 2016 1:31 am bears slight resemblance to dorama Im home with kimutaku

nomnom Mar 18 2016 6:42 pm with a few exceptions, tvn doesnt disappoint, hope this is the case here. a drama that doesnt rely on pretty faces or chessy overseas production is generally a good sign, especially with mr charismatic lee sung min. for unknown reasons, korean dramasthemes do come in pairs, lets hope this is the better of the two.

agnes anita Mar 18 2016 5:50 pm again about Alzheimer , actually i hv enough with this issue, but why tvN , i really love many drama from tvN but i hate alzheimer issue, i think i'll skip this one

Nikaa Mar 18 2016 12:10 pm I was so angry when I saw what the drama is about... It looks like a COPY of my favourite drama Remember... I can't be sure because I haven't seen it but if I'm right... ugh why can't some people have their own ideas!!!

Red Velvet Cake Mar 09 2016 8:09 am Watching this coz of Lee Junho!

jerry apag Mar 07 2016 1:58 am i think this drama will be promising :)

Dam Bi Mar 06 2016 7:14 pm Another alzheimer's drama )': why

Ray Mar 04 2016 5:27 pm He's a great actor I'm sure he will be so good in his role..

rolmaths Feb 13 2016 2:54 pm same as remember????????!!!

suk2014 Feb 05 2016 10:22 am @GreenEyedBandita: nothing accurate when its comes to fiction. Even John Green can create cancer treatment in The Fault In Our Stars. If they can deliver the feeling, Im okay with it. If i want that accuracy i need to study medical or pyscology. But im not interested in it. My passion is just for fiction.

GreenEyedBandita Jan 23 2016 12:10 am @suk2014 All three of the drama's dealing with mental illness were entertaining but completely medically and ethically inaccurate. So far the alzheimer's drama's have been wonderful to watch but have taken serious poetic license with the disease. Korean Drama's rarely even attempt to be medically factual.

Seventeen Jan 20 2016 7:42 pm Last year's theme was split personalities and mental disorders and I think this year's is alzheimer's and possible other degenerative diseases

suk2014 Dec 15 2015 2:37 am Alzheimer mode-

Start by Bubblegum, followed by Remember. Next is this, Memory. I hope this three can make me understand about Alzheimer patient more like I get a lot of information about psychiatry world from It's Okay, That Love, Hyde Jekyll, Me and Kill Me Heal Me.

monstar ❤ Dec 13 2015 10:36 pm So many dramas about Alzheimer's lately. Hope people who actually have to deal with this in real life find inspiration. Sad reality.

bii Dec 13 2015 10:49 am the dramas that this guy is at is always realistic and touching like misaeng im sure there are other lead actors like in misaeng im hoping hyun bin and lee yo won will be one of the leads omg so excited hyun bin's action movie will air at 2017 so he must have time for this even tho i want him to rest but i have a feeling this drama is good!!!!

lee catnip Nov 29 2015 8:52 am Glad award-winning actor Lee Sung Min is taking the lead. This must be a touching story; can't wait to see this.

Jane Nov 04 2015 2:53 am Just because of "Alzheimer", we couldn't conclude it has same plot yet...

But, Lee Bo Young & Jisung want to separate private and work life...I really want them together but they say they don't want to act together...hopefully it will change in the future >_<

diddiex Nov 03 2015 2:24 pm Lol, same plot as the drama Remember with Park Min Young.

Parkshinmi Oct 31 2015 12:38 am @Nisa Omg!!! It will daebak if Lee bo young and jisung act together!!!kyaaaaa~~~~

Nisa Oct 30 2015 6:19 am Cast Lee Bo Young as the female lead please... I don't know what's the story plot of this drama is all about,none of us do anyway hehe,but i have been missing her acting so much.. To have Ji Sung to play as the male lead isn't all too much either,right???? Haha

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