Don't Dare to Dream

Don't Dare to Dream, also known as Jealousy Incarnate, is a 2016 South Korean television series starring Gong Hyo-jin, Jo Jung-suk, Go Kyung-pyo, Lee Mi-sook, Park Ji-young, Lee Sung-jae, and Seo Ji-hye. It aired every Wednesday and Thursday at 22:00 (KST) on SBS from August 24 to November 10, 2016, for 24 episodes.

Synopsis
Weather caster, Pyo Na-ri (Gong Hyo-jin), and news anchor, Lee Hwa-shin (Jo Jung-suk), are long-time colleagues at SBC broadcasting station. Na-ri had a crush on Hwa-shin three years ago but things change when she meets the perfect man Go Jung-won (Go Kyung-pyo), a chaebol heir and close friend of Hwa-shin.

Meanwhile, Sung-sook (Lee Mi-sook) and Ja-young (Park Ji-young), who are rivals in both love and career, get entangled with Kim Rak (Lee Sung-jae), a restaurant owner and landlord of the building where Na-ri lives.

Main

 * Gong Hyo-jin as Pyo Na-ri
 * Na-ri is a weather broadcaster with an optimistic personality. Graduating from a third-rate college and having no money or connections, Na-ri is full of insecurities, but continues to persevere and work hard to keep her place at the station. She used to have a crush on Hwa-shin for 3 years.


 * Jo Jung-suk as Lee Hwa-shin
 * Hwa-shin is a star reporter and news anchor with a great education and family background. He has a proud, competitive and macho personality; and gets jealous when Na-ri is with Jung-won as he starts developing feelings for her.


 * Go Kyung-pyo as Go Jung-won
 * A polite, friendly man who is serious when it comes to love. Jung-won is the boss of a publishing company, and a chaebol heir of a large corporation that manages several luxury clothing brands. He falls for Na-ri at first sight.


 * Lee Mi-sook as Kye Sung-sook
 * A reporter-turned-anchorwoman. Jong-shin's first wife and Ppal-gang's mother.


 * Park Ji-young as Bang Ja-young
 * Department head of SBC station and announcer. Jong-shin's second wife.


 * Lee Sung-jae as Kim Rak
 * Chef and owner of a restaurant, and landlord to Nari and her family. A kind and caring man who cares for his tenants like family. Jung-won's uncle.


 * Seo Ji-hye as Hong Hye-won
 * The daughter of the Senior Secretary to the President for Public Affairs and a news anchor for the 7PM news. She's intelligent and capable in her career. However, in her 29 years of life, she hasn't had one ordeal to deal with and she doesn't believe people are equal, making her conceited.

Crazy 18

 * Moon Ga-young as Lee Ppal-gang, Hwa-shin's niece
 * Kim Jung-hyun as Pyo Chi-yeol, Na-ri's brother
 * Ahn Woo-yeon as Oh Dae-goo

People around Hwa Shin

 * Park Jung-soo as Hwa-shin's mother
 * Yoon Da-hoon as Lee Jong-shin, Hwa-shin's brother and Ppal-gang's father

People around Jung Won

 * Choi Hwa-jung as Kim Tae-ra, Jung-won's mother and Kim Rak's sister
 * Park Sung-hoon as Secretary Cha

People at SBC broadcasting company

 * Kwon Hae-hyo as Oh Jong-hwan
 * Jung Sang-hoon as Choi Dong-ki
 * Yoo Jae-myung as Uhm Ki-dae
 * Park Hwan-hee as Keum Soo-jung
 * Park Eun-ji as Park Jin
 * Seo Yu-ri as Hong Ji-min
 * Kim Ye-won as Na Joo-hee
 * Jun Ji-an as Im Soo-mi
 * Yoo Jung-rae as Kan Mi-young
 * Lee Chae-won as Yang Sung-sook
 * Park Seo-young as Jang Hee-soo
 * Sung Chang-hoon as New agency staff
 * Lee Myung-haeng as 7 o'clock news anchor

People at Rak Villa

 * Seo Eun-soo as Ri Hong-dan, Na-ri and Chi-yeol's step mother
 * Sul Woo-hyung as Pyo Bum, Na-ri's step brother
 * Suh Hyun-suk as Lee Seung-han

People at Sun Hospital

 * Bae Hae-sun as Keum Suk-ho, Oncologist
 * Park Jin-joo as Nurse Oh Jin-joo

Extended

 * Min Jung-sub
 * Song Ha-rim as School office clerk who attended the festival
 * Yeo Un-bok as surgeon
 * Choi Kyu-sik as Taxi driver
 * Lee Do-yeop
 * Jang Hae-min
 * Lee Yoon-sang as Executive Officer of Yonee Group's hotel
 * Kwan Eun-soo

Special appearances

 * BamBam as Guy in Thailand nightclub (Ep. 1)
 * Vivian Cha as Guy's girlfriend (Ep. 1)
 * Yoo Jae-myung as news anchor
 * Lee Jung-eun as Orthopaedist
 * Oh Se-deuk as Chinese restaurant chef
 * Jung Kyung-sun as Pyo Na-ri's mother
 * Han Ji-min as Han Ji-min, Hwa-shin's blind date (Ep. 11)
 * Kim Kyung-ran as announcer open recruitment judge (Ep. 14)
 * Ahn Hye-kyung as announcer applicant (Ep. 14)
 * Jun Hyun-moo as announcer applicant (SBS announcer) (Ep. 14)
 * Oh Jung-yeon as announcer applicant (Ep. 14)
 * Kim Yoon-sang as announcer applicant (SBS announcer) (Ep. 14)
 * Lee Sun-kyun Na-ri's blind date (Voice) (Ep. 15)
 * Ko Sung-hee as Hong Soo-young, Hwa-shin and Jung-won's first love (Ep. 17)

Broadcast rights bidding
KBS 2TV and SBS both expressed interest in broadcast rights for Don't Dare to Dream. When the casting was first announced in February 2016, the drama was then in talks to air on KBS 2TV, but SBS decided to join the bidding war. In April 2016, it was announced that SBS won the drama's broadcast rights.

Miscelleanous
The show has been analyzed as "a case study of the application of the Tie-Up Theory to a romantic narrative as a form of simulation of human mating processes with social cognition valence".