Amor Fati (TV series)

Amor Fati is a South Korean television romantic drama series directed by Bae Tae-seop for SBS. The series, starring Choi Jung-yoon, Ahn Jae-mo and Bae Seul-ki, is a healing drama about two women. For one, 'family' is everything, and for the other 'success' is all. It was premiered on SBS TV on April 12, 2021, and aired on weekdays at 08:35 (KST) for 120 episodes.

Incidentally Amor Fati was the last morning soap opera aired on South Korean television. As after three years of being unable to rate above 10%, SBS announced on September 14, 2021 that it would abolish the 30-year old time slot and expand its daytime news and lifestyle programming in its place. KBS1, TVN, KBS2 and MBC had abolished the daytime drama time slot in 2009, 2015, 2019, and 2020, respectively.

Synopsis
Amor fati is a Latin phrase meaning 'love of fate' or 'love of destiny'. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche quoted it as his formula for human greatness.

Amor Fati is a healing drama, which depicts the resetting of lives of its characters who rise up from despair. A woman to whom her family is everything, gets the shock of her life when she learns about the affair of her husband to a woman to whom success is everything. The story of the series tells their battle and how her spirits rise from despair with the help of another man going through a similar situation.

Main

 * Choi Jung-yoon as Do Yeon-hee
 * 45 years old, housewife, Junho's wife, Seowoo's mother, Lara Group's only daughter-in-law


 * Ahn Jae-mo as Han Jae-kyung
 * 40 years old, a former pro-golfer, now golf teaching pro, Yoo-na's husband


 * Bae Seul-ki as Kang Yoo-na
 * 35 years old, stylist assistant-director of Lara Fashion, Jae-kyung's wife, Ha-neul's mother, Joon-ho's lover


 * Park Hyung-joon as Jang Joon-ho
 * 48 years old, CEO of Lara Fashion, Do Yeon-hee's husband, Lara Group's only son

Supporting

 * Lara group
 * Kim Jong-goo as Jang Cheol-yong
 * 70 years old, chairman of Lara Group, Joon-ho and Joon-hee's father


 * Yoon Mi-ra as Go Sang-hye
 * 68 years old, Yeon-hee's mother-in-law


 * Kim Yeo-jin as Jang Joon-hee
 * 35 years old, manager of Lara Fashion Planning Team


 * Park Sun-Jun as Hwang Cheol-Oh
 * In his late 30s, chairman Jang's driver


 * Shopping mall
 * Jung Ae-yun as Jo Min-jeong
 * 45 years old, Yeon-hee's best friend from high school, owner of a building, president of a chicken house


 * Kim Hong-pyo as Park Yoon-cheol
 * 45 years old, Jae-kyung's senior, runs a medical store in Min-jeong's building


 * Jung Ji-hoon as Han Ha-neul
 * 10 years old, Jae-kyung and Yoo-na's son


 * Koo Bon-jun as Hwang Woo-joo
 * 10 years old, Min-jeong's second husband's extra-marital son


 * Do Yeon-hee's family
 * Lee Kyung-jin as Seo Soon-boon
 * 63 years old, Yeon-hee's mother, president of a Korean restaurant


 * Jang Yoo-bin as Jang Seo-woo
 * 25 years old, YouTuber, Yeon-hee and Joon-ho's daughter


 * Others
 * Kwon Jae-hwan as Seo Min-gu
 * 52 years old, Lara Fashion CEO


 * Eun Hee-soo as Jin Hye-jin
 * 49 years old, Belle president


 * Hong Jun-ki as Seo Hyeong-jin
 * 28 years old, resident 2nd year, major Internal Medicine


 * Lee Hwa-young as Sin Hyeong-ja
 * 60 years old, Yoo-na's mother, chairman's house assistant

Production
Park Hyung-joon is appearing in the SBS morning drama after 7 years. He last appeared in 2014 morning drama You're Only Mine. Bae Seul-ki last appeared in a daily drama four years back in Still Loving You (2016) on KBS1. Yoon Mi-ra made an appearance in the SBS 2018 morning drama I Am the Mother Too. Choi Jung-yoon is coming back to television drama after six years. She last appeared in the 2014-2015 drama, Cheongdam-dong Scandal. On 26 March, stills from script reading site were released by the production crew.