# Dear My Friends

Dear My Friends (Korean: 디어 마이 프렌즈) is a South Korean television series starring Go Hyun-jung, Kim Hye-ja, Na Moon-hee, Go Doo-shim, Park Won-sook, Youn Yuh-jung, Joo Hyun, Kim Young-ok and Shin Goo. It aired on cable network tvN on Fridays and Saturdays at 20:30 (KST) for 16 episodes from May 13 to July 2, 2016.

## Synopsis

The stories between friends in their golden years of their lives. People who say some words like "It is not the end, we're still alive".

## Cast
### Main

* Go Hyun-jung as Park Wan – age 37, a Japanese translation writer
* Kim Hye-ja as Jo Hee-ja – age 72
* Na Moon-hee as Moon Jeong-ah – age 72, Hee-ja's classmate, Seok-gyun's wife
* Go Doo-shim as Jang Nan-hee – age 63, Park Wan's mother, Hee-ja and Jeong-ah's classmate and successful owner of a jjamppong shop
* Park Won-sook as Lee Young-won – age 63, Nan-hee's classmate, a former actress and advertising model
* Youn Yuh-jung as Oh Choong-nam – age 65, Nan-hee and Young-won's senior
* Joo Hyun as Lee Seong-jae – age 72, a former attorney, Hee-ja and Jeong-ah's school friend
* Kim Young-ok as Oh Ssang-boon – age 86, Nan-hee's mother
* Shin Goo as Kim Seok-gyun – age 75, Jeong-ah's husband

### Extended

* Zo In-sung as Seo Yeon-ha – age 32, Park Wan's friend, Slovenia resident
* Lee Kwang-soo as Yoo Min-ho – early age 30, Hee-ja's youngest son
* Nam Neung-mi [ko] as Gi-ja – age 72
* Baek Seung-do [ko] as Yang Joo-young – Choong-nam's parental nephew
* Byeon Woo-seok as Son Jong-sik – Choong-nam's outside nephew
* Yeom Hye-ran as Soon-young – Jeong-ah's first daughter
* Kwon Hyuk as Oh Se-oh – Jeong-ah's first son-in-law
* Kang Eun-jin as Kim Ho-young – Jeong-ah's second daughter
* Han Jeong-hyun as Soo-young – Jeong-ah's third daughter
* Kim Jeong-hwan as Jang In-bong – Ssang-boon's son, Park Wan's uncle
* Cha Jong-ho [ko] as Pal-dal – Nan-hee's jjamppong shop employee
* Jeong Eui-soon as Nan-hee's jjamppong shop employee
* Ji Yi-soo as Sang-sook – Nan-hee's jjamppong shop employee
* Go Bo-gyeol as Ha-neul – Hee-ja's youngest daughter-in-law
* Lee Kwang-soo as Bong-yi – Seok-gyun's elementary school alumni
* Go Jin-myung as security colleague
* Kwak In-joon [ko] as professor Yang
* Kim Tae-hoon as professor Lee

### Supporting

* Joo Boo-jin as cathedral congregation member
* Choi Jae-seop as Hee-ja's son
* Jo Seung-yeon as Hee-ja's son
* Park Sung-yeon as Hee-ja's daughter-in-law
* Park Soo-bin as Hee-ja's daughter-in-law
* Kang Moon-kyung
* Yoo Pil-ran
* Kim Pil
* Kim Hak-yim
* Jo Hye-won
* Kim Kyung-ae [ko]
* Kim Byung-choon [ko]
* Kim Hak-sun
* Ok Joo-ri
* Park Gwi-soon [ko] as taxi driver
* Noh Nam-seok
* Kwon Jae-hyun as Soon-cheol
* Lee Jeong-goo as priest
* Baek Eun-kyung
* Goo Bon-young
* Kim Yeon-hee
* Shin Shin-beom as Seok-gyun's younger brother
* Kim Mi-ryang as Seok-gyun's sister-in-law
* Kim Jeong-soo
* Jin Seok-chan
* Woo Sang-wook as young Kim Seok-gyun
* Nam Jeong-hee [ko] as elderly nursing home care helper
* Kwon Hyuk-soo as nursing home care helper
* Kim Ya-ni

### Cameo appearances

* Shin Sung-woo as Han Dong-jin – early age 40, a publisher representative, an editor-in-chief
* Sung Dong-il as professor Park
* Jang Hyun-sung as Il-woo – Nan-hee's jjamppong shop regular customer
* Lee Won-jong as Jang Ho-jin – Nan-hee's father
* Song Yong-tae [ko] as Yoo Jeong-cheol – Hee-ja's husband
* Daniel Henney as Mark Smith – Hee-ja's male neighbor, photographer
* Chae Gook-hee [ko] as Seo Yeon-hee – Yeon-ha's older sister, Slovenia resident
* Ha Jae-young [ko] as Dae-cheol – Young-won's ex-husband
* Lee Soon-jae
* Kim Ji-young

## Ratings

Average TV viewership ratings :
| Ep. | Original broadcast date | Title | Average audience share | Average audience share | Average audience share |
| Ep. | Original broadcast date | Title | Nielsen Korea | Nielsen Korea | TNmS |
| Ep. | Original broadcast date | Title | Nationwide | Seoul | Nationwide |
| 1 | May 13, 2016 | Sorry, I'm Not Curious About You Guys. (미안하지만, 난 당신들이 궁금하지 않아요) | 4.895% | 4.386% | 4.0% |
| 2 | May 14, 2016 | I Can Do It Alone. I Can Live Alone. (혼자 할 수 있어요. 혼자 살 수 있어요.) | 4.000% | 3.729% | 4.1% |
| 3 | May 20, 2016 | Down to the Braless Street with a Torn Jeans (노브라에 찢어진 청바지를 입고 길 위에서) | 4.676% | 4.875% | 4.1% |
| 4 | May 21, 2016 | Please, I Beg Everyone, Don't Say You Know Everything About Us. (부디, 부탁하건대 당신들, 우릴 다 안다 하지 마세요.) | 3.420% | 3.124% | 3.0% |
| 5 | May 27, 2016 | Don't Be Lonely. I'm Beside You. (외로워 마세요. 그대 곁에 내가 있어요.) | 4.489% | 4.648% | 4.5% |
| 6 | May 28, 2016 | The Way You Can Return, The Way You Can't Return (되돌아 갈 수 있는 길 되돌아 갈 수 없는 길) | 3.874% | 4.119% | 3.5% |
| 7 | June 3, 2016 | The Wind Blows. The Waves Are Hitting. (바람이 분다. 파도가 친다) | 4.989% | 5.888% | 3.9% |
| 8 | June 4, 2016 | As If Nothing Had Happened (마치 아무 일도 없었던 것처럼) | 3.970% | 4.053% | 3.2% |
| 9 | June 10, 2016 | Life Is Really Very Beautiful, Isn't It? (인생 정말 아름답지 아니한가) | 5.211% | 5.328% | 4.5% |
| 10 | June 11, 2016 | Honing the Sword of Revenge 1 (복수의 칼날을 갈며 1) | 4.486% | 4.550% | 3.8% |
| 11 | June 17, 2016 | Honing the Sword of Revenge 2 (복수의 칼날을 갈며 2) | 5.467% | 5.909% | 4.6% |
| 12 | June 18, 2016 | What I Was Aware Of, A Hundred of My Sins. What I Was Unaware Of, Tons of My Sins. (내가 알고 지은 죄, 백가지. 내가 모르고 지은 죄, 천가지 만가지) | 5.294% | 5.015% | 4.1% |
| 13 | June 24, 2016 | Like a Mother to the End, Like a Fighter to the End 1 (끝까지 엄마답게, 끝까지 투사처럼 1) | 5.942% | 5.744% | 5.1% |
| 14 | June 25, 2016 | Like a Mother to the End, Like a Fighter to the End 2 (끝까지 엄마답게, 끝까지 투사처럼 2) | 5.383% | 5.972% | 4.4% |
| 15 | July 1, 2016 | When Did We Ever Look at You This Long? (우리가 언제 당신을 이렇게 오래 바라봐 준 적 있었나?) | 8.087% | 9.259% | 6.8% |
| 16 | July 2, 2016 | Our Love Story (우리들의 러브 스토리) | 6.870% | 7.222% | 6.0% |
| Average | Average | Average | 5.066% | 5.239% | 4.4% |
| In the table above, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings. This series aired on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS). ||||||

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
| 2016 | 9th Korea Drama Awards | Best Screenplay | Noh Hee-kyung | Won |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Best Actress | Go Hyun-jung | Nominated |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Best Actress | Kim Hye-ja | Nominated |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Best Content Award, Drama | Dear My Friends | Won |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Two Star Award | Shin Goo | Nominated |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Two Star Award | Youn Yuh-jung | Nominated |
| 2016 | tvN10 Awards | Best Kiss Award | Zo In-sung and Go Hyun-jung | 4th place |
| 2017 | 53rd Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Drama | Dear My Friends | Won |
| 2017 | 53rd Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Director | Hong Jong-chan | Nominated |
| 2017 | 53rd Baeksang Arts Awards | Best Screenplay | Noh Hee-kyung | Won |

## Remake

A Chinese remake of the same name aired on Hunan TV in 2017.