# Cruel Love

Cruel Love (Korean: 못된 사랑; RR: Motdoen Sarang; lit. Bad Love) is a 2007 South Korean television drama series starring Kwon Sang-woo, Lee Yo-won, and Kim Sung-soo. It aired on KBS2 from December 3, 2007, to February 5, 2008, on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
Despite lackluster domestic viewership ratings, it recorded high export revenues from Japan and Taiwan due to Kwon's Korean Wave appeal.

## Synopsis

Na In-jung struggles with her love between the rather cold and rebellious Yong-ki and a successful businessman, Soo-hwan. Kang Yong-ki is a pop culture artist. He was separated from his first love, Jo Ann, and still carries the wound that he suffered from their relationship. His half sister is Joo-ran who is married to Soo-hwan. Soo-hwan begins an affair with In-jung but he only has ambition for the CEO position of Yong-ki's father's company. Soon after he discovers that his ambition does not fill the emptiness that he has inside and realizes he needs In-jung. But In-jung and Yong-ki have already fallen in love with each other. Will In-jung go back to her first love or stay with Yong-ki?

## Cast
### Main characters

* Kwon Sang-woo as Kang Yong-ki
* Lee Yo-won as Na In-jung
* Kim Sung-soo as Lee Soo-hwan
* Cha Ye-ryun as Park Shin-young / Jo Ann
* Kim Ga-yeon as Kang Joo-ran, Soo-hwan's wife and Yong-ki's half-sister

### Supporting characters

* Park Geun-hyung as Chairman Kang Woo-taek, Yong-ki's father
* Song Ok-sook as Lee Jin-sook, Joo-ran's mother
* Kim Chang-wan as Hwang In-soo
* Bang Eun-hee as Park Chan-sook
* Kim Min-jung as Soo-hwan's mother
* Choi Yong-min as In-jung's father
* Yu Ji-in as In-jung's mother
* Choi Sung-min as Yoon Sil-gang
* Jung Woo as Han Jung-woo
* Kim Hyang-gi as Lee Mi-so, Soo-hwan's daughter
* Yoon Hee-seok as Yong-ki's friend
* Lee Ha
* Lee Joo-seok

## Ratings

| Date | Episode | Nationwide | Seoul |
| 2007-12-03 | 01 | 7.8% | - |
| 2007-12-04 | 02 | 7.5% | - |
| 2007-12-10 | 03 | 8.2% | - |
| 2007-12-11 | 04 | 11.6% (14th) | 11.8% (12th) |
| 2007-12-17 | 05 | 9.2% | - |
| 2007-12-18 | 06 | 8.7% | - |
| 2007-12-24 | 07 | 6.3% | - |
| 2007-12-25 | 08 | 9.2% | - |
| 2007-12-31 | 09 | 8.7% | - |
| 2008-01-01 | 10 | 8.7% | - |
| 2008-01-07 | 11 | 9.1% | - |
| 2008-01-08 | 12 | 7.9% | - |
| 2008-01-14 | 13 | 8.0% | - |
| 2008-01-15 | 14 | 7.8% | - |
| 2008-01-21 | 15 | 8.5% | - |
| 2008-01-22 | 16 | 7.1% | - |
| 2008-01-28 | 17 | 7.1% | - |
| 2008-01-29 | 18 | 6.0% | - |
| 2008-02-04 | 19 | 6.6% | - |
| 2008-02-05 | 20 | 6.8% | - |
| Average | Average | 8.0% | - |

## International broadcast

Under the title Cruel Love, it aired in the Philippines beginning June 22, 2009, on the GMA Network. The Tagalog-dubbed version was re-aired three times worldwide on GMA Life TV from April 7, 2014, to June 11, 2014; November 17, 2014, to January 21, 2015, and September 21, 2015, to November 25, 2015.
It premiered in Japan on cable channel WOWOW on September 19, 2008. This was followed by re-airings on terrestrial network TBS and on cable channel KNTV from June 18 to August 21, 2012.

## Remake

In 2014, a licensed remake titled "Bring back my love to me", was filmed. It aired on TV channels "Inter" (Ukraine) and Russia-1 (Russia). It received a rating of 7.826 of 10 on Kinopoisk.