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| Genre: | Romance Melodrama | ||||||
| Director: | Bae Tae-seop | ||||||
| Runtime: | 35 minutes | ||||||
| Producer: | Lee Sang-soo Yang Mi-young | ||||||
| Company: | YCONE Entertainment Co., Ltd. | ||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||
| Network: | SBS TV | ||||||
| Num Episodes: | 120 | ||||||
| Executive Producer: | Yang Seung-eun | ||||||
| Creator: | SBS Drama Headquarters |
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.[1] It was premiered on SBS TV on April 12, 2021, and aired on weekdays at 08:35 (KST) for 120 episodes.[2]
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.[3] KBS1, TVN, KBS2 and MBC had abolished the daytime drama time slot in 2009, 2015, 2019, and 2020, respectively.[4]
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.[5]
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.
45 years old, housewife, Junho's wife, Seowoo's mother, Lara Group's only daughter-in-law
40 years old, a former pro-golfer, now golf teaching pro, Yoo-na's husband
35 years old, stylist assistant-director of Lara Fashion, Jae-kyung's wife, Ha-neul's mother, Joon-ho's lover
48 years old, CEO of Lara Fashion, Do Yeon-hee's husband, Lara Group's only son
70 years old, chairman of Lara Group, Joon-ho and Joon-hee's father
68 years old, Yeon-hee's mother-in-law
35 years old, manager of Lara Fashion Planning Team
In his late 30s, chairman Jang's driver
45 years old, Yeon-hee's best friend from high school, owner of a building, president of a chicken house
45 years old, Jae-kyung's senior, runs a medical store in Min-jeong's building
10 years old, Jae-kyung and Yoo-na's son
10 years old, Min-jeong's second husband's extra-marital son
63 years old, Yeon-hee's mother, president of a Korean restaurant
25 years old, YouTuber, Yeon-hee and Joon-ho's daughter
52 years old, Lara Fashion CEO
49 years old, Belle president
28 years old, resident 2nd year, major Internal Medicine
60 years old, Yoo-na's mother, chairman's house assistant
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.[10] On 26 March, stills from script reading site were released by the production crew.[11]
| Amor Fati | |
| Type: | Soundtrack |
| Artist: | Various |
| Released: | 2021 |
| Genre: | Soundtrack |
| Label: | SBS Contents Hub/Dreamus |
| Original broadcast date | Average audience share | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nielsen Korea[12] [13] | TNmS[14] | |||
| Nationwide | Seoul | Nationwide | ||
| 1 | April 12, 2021 | rowspan="3" | ||
| 2 | April 13, 2021 | 4.5% | ||
| 3 | April 14, 2021 | 3.9% | ||
| 4 | April 15, 2021 | 4.4% | 4.4% | 4.4% |
| 5 | April 16, 2021 | 3.7% | rowspan="4" | |
| 6 | April 19, 2021 | 4.9% | ||
| 7 | April 20, 2021 | 4.2% | ||
| 8 | April 21, 2021 | 4.3% | 4.2% | |
| 9 | April 22, 2021 | 4.5% | 4.5% | 4.6% |
| 10 | April 23, 2021 | 3.8% | rowspan=3 | |
| 11 | April 26, 2021 | 4.7% | ||
| 12 | April 27, 2021 | 4.6% | ||
| 13 | April 28, 2021 | 4.2% | 4.2% | |
| 14 | April 29, 2021 | 4.6% | 4.4% | |
| 15 | April 30, 2021 | 4.5% | 4.5% | 4.8% |
| 16 | May 3, 2021 | 4.8% | 5.3% | |
| 17 | May 4, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.3% | 4.9% |
| 18 | May 5, 2021 | 4.5% | 4.6% | 5.8% |
| 19 | May 6, 2021 | 4.7% | 4.4% | 4.5% |
| 20 | May 7, 2021 | 4.2% | 4.4% | |
| 21 | May 10, 2021 | 4.8% | 5.9% | |
| 22 | May 11, 2021 | 4.8% | 4.9% | |
| 23 | May 12, 2021 | 4.3% | 4.2% | 4.4% |
| 24 | May 13, 2021 | 5.1% | 4.7% | 5.3% |
| 25 | May 14, 2021 | 5.1% | 4.9% | 4.3% |
| 26 | May 17, 2021 | 5.1% | ||
| 27 | May 18, 2021 | 4.7% | 4.8% | |
| 28 | May 19, 2021 | 4.5% | 4.6% | 5.6% |
| 29 | May 20, 2021 | 5.4% | 4.8% | 5.2% |
| 30 | May 21, 2021 | 4.9% | 4.9% | 5.6% |
| 31 | May 24, 2021 | 5.4% | 5.3% | |
| 32 | May 25, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.2% | 5.1% |
| 33 | May 26, 2021 | 4.5% | 5.0% | |
| 34 | May 27, 2021 | 5.4% | 5.4% | 5.4% |
| 35 | May 28, 2021 | 4.8% | 4.7% | 5.4% |
| 36 | May 31, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.8% | |
| 37 | June 1, 2021 | 4.9% | 5.9% | |
| 38 | June 2, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.1% | 4.7% |
| 39 | June 3, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.1% | 4.9% |
| 40 | June 4, 2021 | 4.8% | 4.5% | 5.3% |
| 41 | June 7, 2021 | 4.8% | 5.5% | |
| 42 | June 8, 2021 | 5.5% | 5.5% | 5.0% |
| 43 | June 9, 2021 | 4.9% | 4.4% | 4.6% |
| 44 | June 10, 2021 | 4.9% | 4.8% | 5.1% |
| 45 | June 11, 2021 | 5.5% | 5.4% | 5.5% |
| 46 | June 14, 2021 | 5.1% | 5.0% | |
| 47 | June 15, 2021 | 5.2% | 5.1% | 5.7% |
| 48 | June 16, 2021 | 5.2% | 5.3% | 4.9% |
| 49 | June 17, 2021 | 5.1% | 4.8% | 4.7% |
| 50 | June 18, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.2% | |
| 51 | June 21, 2021 | 4.6% | 5.4% | |
| 52 | June 22, 2021 | 5.6% | 5.6% | 5.2% |
| 53 | June 23, 2021 | 5.0% | 4.7% | 5.3% |
| 54 | June 24, 2021 | 5.4% | 5.2% | 4.8% |
| 55 | June 25, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.2% | 5.3% |
| 56 | June 28, 2021 | 5.9% | 5.6% | 5.7% |
| 57 | June 29, 2021 | 5.8% | 5.3% | 5.7% |
| 58 | June 30, 2021 | 5.2% | 4.8% | 6.0% |
| 59 | July 1, 2021 | 6.2% | 6.0% | 5.6% |
| 60 | July 2, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.1% | 5.3% |
| 61 | July 5, 2021 | 6.1% | 6.1% | 5.8% |
| 62 | July 6, 2021 | 6.3% | 5.7% | 6.1% |
| 63 | July 7, 2021 | 5.8% | 5.2% | 5.6% |
| 64 | July 8, 2021 | 6.0% | 5.2% | 5.8% |
| 65 | July 9, 2021 | 6.2% | 5.9% | 6.0% |
| 66 | July 12, 2021 | 5.7% | 5.2% | 5.6% |
| 67 | July 13, 2021 | 6.0% | 6.1% | 6.0% |
| 68 | July 14, 2021 | 6.0% | 6.1% | 5.7% |
| 69 | July 15, 2021 | 5.6% | 5.3% | 5.5% |
| 70 | July 16, 2021 | 5.8% | 5.6% | 6.3% |
| 71 | July 19, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.0% | 5.8% |
| 72 | July 20, 2021 | 5.8% | 5.6% | 5.9% |
| 73 | July 21, 2021 | 6.1% | 6.1% | 5.6% |
| 74 | July 22, 2021 | 6.1% | 6.2% | 6.2% |
| 75 | July 23, 2021 | 5.8% | 5.4% | 6.3% |
| 76 | July 26, 2021 | 5.7% | 5.2% | 6.0% |
| 77 | July 27, 2021 | 5.8% | 5.7% | |
| 78 | July 28, 2021 | 5.9% | 5.7% | |
| 79 | July 29, 2021 | 5.7% | 5.4% | 5.9% |
| 80 | July 30, 2021 | 5.8% | 5.7% | 6.1% |
| 81 | August 9, 2021 | 5.5% | 4.9% | rowspan=4 |
| 82 | August 10, 2021 | 5.6% | 5.3% | |
| 83 | August 11, 2021 | 6.0% | 5.8% | |
| 84 | August 12, 2021 | 6.5% | 6.4% | |
| 85 | August 13, 2021 | 5.0% | 4.7% | 5.3% |
| 86 | August 16, 2021 | 6.3% | 6.0% | 6.2% |
| 87 | August 17, 2021 | 6.3% | 6.2% | 6.6% |
| 88 | August 18, 2021 | 6.3% | 6.3% | 6.5% |
| 89 | August 19, 2021 | 6.3% | 6.0% | 6.8% |
| 90 | August 20, 2021 | 6.4% | 6.0% | 6.6% |
| 91 | August 23, 2021 | 6.5% | 6.1% | 6.8% |
| 92 | August 24, 2021 | 6.7% | 6.9% | |
| 93 | August 25, 2021 | 6.8% | 7.1% | |
| 94 | August 26, 2021 | 6.3% | 5.9% | 7.0% |
| 95 | August 27, 2021 | 5.9% | 5.3% | |
| 96 | August 30, 2021 | 6.1% | 5.9% | 6.3% |
| 97 | August 31, 2021 | 6.2% | 6.0% | 7.0% |
| 98 | September 1, 2021 | 6.3% | 6.3% | 6.4% |
| 99 | September 2, 2021 | 6.4% | 6.1% | 6.9% |
| 100 | September 3, 2021 | 6.6% | 6.3% | 6.6% |
| 101 | September 6, 2021 | 6.4% | 6.2% | 6.2% |
| 102 | September 7, 2021 | 7.0% | 7.0% | 7.3% |
| 103 | September 8, 2021 | 7.0% | 6.7% | 6.9% |
| 104 | September 9, 2021 | 6.9% | 7.0% | 6.9% |
| 105 | September 10, 2021 | 6.2% | 5.8% | |
| 106 | September 13, 2021 | 6.1% | 5.6% | 6.7% |
| 107 | September 14, 2021 | 6.5% | 6.2% | 6.7% |
| 108 | September 15, 2021 | 6.1% | 5.8% | 5.8% |
| 109 | September 16, 2021 | 6.3% | 5.8% | 6.1% |
| 110 | September 17, 2021 | 6.4% | 5.6% | 7.3% |
| 111 | September 20, 2021 | 4.2% | 4.8% | rowspan=2 |
| 112 | September 21, 2021 | 3.1% | ||
| 113 | September 22, 2021 | 5.5% | 5.5% | 5.3% |
| 114 | September 23, 2021 | 6.4% | 6.3% | 6.6% |
| 115 | September 24, 2021 | 6.6% | 6.2% | 6.2% |
| 116 | September 27, 2021 | 5.8% | 5.4% | 6.5% |
| 117 | September 28, 2021 | 6.1% | 5.6% | 6.5% |
| 118 | September 29, 2021 | 6.1% | 5.9% | 7.4% |
| 119 | September 30, 2021 | 6.2% | 5.9% | 6.4% |
| 120 | October 1, 2021 | 5.7% | 5.6% | 6.2% |
| Average | ||||