Love & Secret

Love & Secret is a 2014 South Korean daily drama starring Shin So-yul and Kim Heung-soo. It aired on KBS2 from November 11, 2014 to April 3, 2015 on Mondays to Fridays at 19:50 for 102 episodes.

Plot
Han Ah-reum, the daughter of the Korean Vice-Minister for Culture, returns home with a child born out of wedlock, a fact that will shame her family and ruin the chances of her father becoming the Minister for Culture. Chun Sung-woon, heir of the Winner fashion and clothing company, is being backed into an arranged marriage that he does not want. When the paths of the two cross and re-cross, initial hostility turns into love. However, the secret of Ah-reum's illegitimate daughter may become a barrier to true love.

Main characters

 * Shin So-yul as Han Ah-reum
 * Fashion student who becomes pregnant with Phillip's daughter Tiffany, but is abandoned by him, becomes a single mother despite the stigma that it brings. She becomes a designer at Winner's in order to provide for her daughter, where she meets and falls in love with Cheon Sung-woon.


 * Kim Heung-soo as Cheon Sung-woon
 * Director of the Winner's Group, falls in love with Ah-reum and breaks off an arranged marriage with Go Yoon-yi, persists in wanting to marry Ah-reum even after it is discovered that she is a single mother


 * Yang Jin-woo as Phillip Choi
 * Hedge fund manager, abandons Ah-reum for a financially more lucrative marriage but seeks a divorce from his wife once he has extracted what he wants from it, when Ah-reum rejects him becomes obsessed with winning back Ah-reum and taking custody of Tiffany, uses Winner's need for expansion capital to manipulate Sung-woon and Ah-reum


 * Yeon Min-ji as Go Yoon-yi
 * Corporate lawyer, and Sung-woon's friend since childhood, from an impoverished background Sung-woon's family paid for her education with the intention of marrying her to him, when Sung-woon breaks off their engagement she helps Phillip and betrays Winner's in order to drive Sung-woon and Ah-reum apart

Supporting characters

 * Han family
 * Jung Dong-hwan as Han Pan-suk
 * Ah-reum's father, vice-minister of culture, candidate to become minister, ruins his career and a reputation for probity in order to protect Ah-reum


 * Kim Hye-ok as Oh Myung-hwa
 * Ah-reum's mother, housewife, suffers early onset dementia which Phillip uses to snatch Tiffany and paint Ah-reum as an unfit mother


 * Son Seung-won as Han Jin-woo
 * Ah-reum's younger brother, a medical student and talented singer


 * Park Joon-myun as Oh Sun-hwa
 * Choi Seung-kyung as Kwon Young-soo
 * Yang Han-yeol as Kwon Hyuk-min


 * Chun family
 * Kim Eung-soo as Chun Do-hyung
 * Hwang In-young as Lee Soo-ah
 * Heo Jin as Lee Hae-bang
 * Jo Hyun-do as Chun Sung-ho


 * Extended cast
 * Jo Hyun-sik as Secretary Jang
 * Im Baek-chun as Kim Sung-chul
 * Yoo Hee-do as Woo Sang-joon
 * Son Se-bin as Heo Anna

Ratings

 *  The blue numbers  represent the lowest ratings and  the red numbers  represent the highest ratings
 * NR denotes that the drama did not rank in the top 20 daily programs on that date


 * Episodes 71-73 affected by Korean New Year

International broadcast
The series aired, one week after initial broadcast, on KBS World with subtitles.