Happy Sisters Explained

Native Name:	Hangul: 해피 시스터즈
Creator:	Hong Chang-uk
Opentheme:	Look at Me by BP Rania
Country:	South Korea
Language:	Korean
Num Episodes:	120
Executive Producer:	Kim Yong-jin
Camera:	Single-camera
Runtime:	40 minutes
Company:	SBS Plus
Network:	SBS TV

Happy Sisters is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Shim Yi-young, Han Young, Oh Dae-gyu, Kang Seo-joon, Lee Shi-kang, and Ban So-young. The series airs daily on SBS from 8:30 a.m. to 9:10 a.m. (KST).

Plot

A TV series depicting how women who live in our times are searching for their identity through beautiful and intense love.

Cast

Main

• Shim Yi-young as Yoon Ye-eun^[1]
• Han Young as Yoon Sang-eun
• Oh Dae-gyu as Choi Jae-woong
• Kang Seo-joon as Lee Jin-seop
• Lee Shi-kang as Min Hyung-joo^[2]
• Ban So-young as Jo Hwa-young

Supporting

People around Lee Jin-seop

• Im Chae-moo as Lee Sung-pil
• Kim Seon-hwa as Jin Mal-shim
• Oh Young-shil as Yang Hye-jung
• Heo Eun-jung as Lee Se-ran
• Lee Ye-bin as Lee Byung-sook

People around Joo Man-bok

• Kim Dong-gyun as Joo Man-bok
• Bo Ra-na as Go Da-hong
• Lee Sang-mi as Kang Deok-ja
• Lee Sung-uk as Hwang Soo-chan
• Go Na-hee as Hwang Soo-ji

Others

• Kim Young-im as Na Seung-mi
• Sung Doo-seop as Cha Do-hoon
• Jung Geun as Gong Il-sam
• Kim Ha-rim as Noh Yoo-ra
• Lee Young-eun as Choi Jin-hee
• Seo Jung-woo as Cha bi-seo
• Min Joon-hyun
• Lee Seol-goo

Original soundtrack

Part 3

Ratings

• In this table, represent the lowest ratings and represent the highest ratings.
• NR denotes that the drama did not rank in the top 20 daily programs on that date.
• N/A denotes that the rating is not known.

	Original broadcast date	Average audience share
		TNmS^[3]		AGB Nielsen^[4]
		width=100	Nationwide	width=100	Seoul	width=100	Nationwide	width=100	Seoul
1	December 4, 2017	9.8%	7.2%	8.8%	7.6%
2	December 5, 2017	9.4%	7.2%	8.7%	8.2%
3	December 6, 2017	9.4%	7.7%	8.2%	7.6%
4	December 7, 2017	9.2%		8.3%	7.8%
5	December 8, 2017	9.3%		8.5%	7.8%
6	December 11, 2017	9.6%	8.3%	9.0%	8.0%
7	December 12, 2017	10.4%		9.1%	8.5%
8	December 13, 2017	9.4%	7.4%	8.7%	7.7%
9	December 14, 2017	10.1%	7.5%	8.6%	8.9%
10	December 15, 2017	9.8%	7.5%	8.9%	8.2%
11	December 18, 2017	10.6%	7.9%	9.0%	8.4%
12	December 19, 2017	10.3%	7.7%	9.2%	8.5%
13	December 20, 2017	9.6%	7.5%	9.4%	9.1%
14	December 21, 2017	10.4%	8.3%	9.3%	8.2%
15	December 22, 2017	9.5	7.5	9.8%	8.9%
16	December 25, 2017	8.4%	7.8%
17	December 26, 2017	11.1%	9.2%	8.6%
18	December 27, 2017	11.2%	8.3%	9.0%	8.0%
19	December 28, 2017	10.5%	8.0%	10.6%	9.6%
20	December 29, 2017	10.0%	7.3%	9.8%	8.6%
21	January 1, 2018	8.0%	7.4%
22	January 2, 2018	10.7%	9.2%	8.5%
23	January 3, 2018	10.1%	7.8%	9.7%	9.2%
24	January 4, 2018	10.9%	9.8%	9.4%
25	January 5, 2018	11.0%	10.2%	9.3%
26	January 8, 2018	11.0%	10.1%	9.7%
27	January 9, 2018	11.0%	10.0%	9.2%
28	January 10, 2018	10.7%	9.9%	9.3%
29	January 11, 2018	12.0%	10.3%	9.5%
30	January 12, 2018	11.7%	10.4%	9.7%
31	January 15, 2018	12.5%	10.0%	9.0%
32	January 16, 2018	11.2%	10.1%	9.3%
33	January 17, 2018	11.6%	10.0%	9.2%
34	January 18, 2018	11.7%	10.9%	9.7%
35	January 19, 2018	12.2%	10.2%	9.3%
36	January 22, 2018	11.4%	10.2%	9.5%
37	January 23, 2018	12.1%	11.5%	10.4%
38	January 24, 2018	13.1%	11.1%	10.1%
39	January 25, 2018	13.1%	10.6%	9.7%
40	January 26, 2018	12.8%	11.7%	10.7%
41	January 29, 2018	13.2%	10.7%	9.5%
42	January 30, 2018	12.8%	11.4%	9.5%
43	January 31, 2018	13.7%	11.7%	10.3%
44	February 1, 2018	13.8%	12.3%	11.0%
45	February 2, 2018	13.6%	11.3%	10.1%
46	February 5, 2018	14.5%	11.7%	9.7%
47	February 6, 2018	13.5%	11.9%	10.5%
48	February 7, 2018	14.1%	12.0%	10.9%
49	February 8, 2018	9.7%	8.3%
50	February 12, 2018	12.8%	11.3%	10.4%
51	February 13, 2018	12.9%	11.1%	9.8%
52	February 14, 2018	10.7%	9.0%	8.1%
53	February 19, 2018	10.8%	8.7%	7.7%
54	February 20, 2018	11.7%	8.8%	8.1%
55	February 21, 2018	11.1%	9.4%	8.1%
56	February 22, 2018	13.7%	11.5%	9.8%
57	February 23, 2018	13.5%	11.1%	9.7%
58	February 26, 2018	12.7%	10.5%	9.0%
59	February 27, 2018	13.2%	11.2%	10.1%
60	February 28, 2018	13.2%	10.3%	8.7%
61	March 1, 2018	13.7%	11.1%	9.8%
62	March 2, 2018	14.0%	11.1%	9.9%
63	March 5, 2018	14.2%	11.6%	10.1%
64	March 6, 2018	13.7%	11.1%	10.0%
65	March 7, 2018	13.1%	10.0%	8.5%
66	March 8, 2018	13.8%	10.8%	9.7%
67	March 9, 2018	13.8%	11.0%	9.4%
68	March 12, 2018	13.5%	10.7%	8.9%
69	March 13, 2018	12.8%	10.2%	9.2%
70	March 15, 2018	13.4%	10.8%	9.3%
71	March 16, 2018	13.9%	11.8%	10.4%
72	March 19, 2018	14.0%	10.8%	9.3%
73	March 20, 2018	13.7%	10.7%	9.3%
74	March 21, 2018	14.3%	11.2%	9.2%
75	March 22, 2018	13.9%	11.2%	9.8%
76	March 23, 2018		11.8%	10.1%
77	March 26, 2018	13.6%	10.7%	9.2%
78	March 27, 2018	14.0%	11.5%	10.3%
79	March 28, 2018	13.9%	11.2%	9.9%
80	March 29, 2018	14.0%	11.5%	10.3%
81	March 30, 2018	13.6%	11.1%	9.8%
82	April 2, 2018	12.9%	11.5%	10.5%
83	April 3, 2018	13.2%	11.3%	10.3%
84	April 4, 2018	14.4%	10.8%	9.8%
85	April 5, 2018	14.6%	11.8%	11.0%
86	April 6, 2018	13.8%	12.1%	11.0%
87	April 9, 2018	13.1%	11.1%	9.9%
88	April 10, 2018	13.3%	11.4%	10.4%
89	April 11, 2018	13.5%	11.3%	9.8%
90	April 12, 2018	13.7%	12.1%	10.7%
91	April 13, 2018	13.3%	12.0%	10.9%
92	April 16, 2018	13.9%	11.5%	9.6%
93	April 17, 2018	14.2%	11.9%	10.6%
94	April 18, 2018	12.9%	11.1%	9.7%
95	April 19, 2018	13.8%	12.0%	10.8%
96	April 20, 2018	13.7%	11.7%	10.2%
97	April 23, 2018	12.8%	11.5%	10.2%
98	April 24, 2018			10.1%
99	April 25, 2018	13.8%	12.3%
100	April 26, 2018	12.9%	11.3%	9.8%
101	April 30, 2018	12.9%	10.2%	8.4%
102	May 1, 2018	13.1%	10.7%	9.4%
103	May 2, 2018	12.6%	11.8%	11.0%
104	May 3, 2018	13.9%	11.9%	10.9%
105	May 4, 2018	13.0%	11.2%	9.9%
106	May 7, 2018	12.5%	10.7%	10.0%
107	May 8, 2018	13.5%	11.4%	10.1%
108	May 9, 2018	12.9%	11.3%	10.1%
109	May 10, 2018	13.1%		9.9%
110	May 11, 2018	13.0%	11.5%	10.5%
111	May 14, 2018	13.8%	11.2%	10.1%
112	May 15, 2018	12.1%	11.0%	10.4%
113	May 16, 2018	13.6%	10.7%	9.5%
114	May 17, 2018	14.0%	11.6%	11.1%
115	May 18, 2018	14.4%	11.6%	10.9%
116	May 21, 2018	13.8%	10.9%	9.9%
117	May 22, 2018	10.0%	9.8%	8.8%
118	May 23, 2018	14.4%	11.4%	10.2%
119	May 24, 2018	14.0%	12.0%	10.9%
120	May 25, 2018	13.0%	11.2%	9.7%
Average

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref.
2018	11th Korea Drama Awards	Best New Actor	Lee Shi-kang		^[5]
	SBS Drama Awards	Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Daily and Weekend Drama	Oh Dae-gyu
		Excellence Award, Actress in a Daily and Weekend Drama	Shim Yi-young

Notes and References

1. News: Hong. Se-young. ko:심이영, ‘해피시스터즈’ 출연확정…“둘째 출산 4개월만” [공식입장]. http://sports.donga.com/3/all/20171012/86711557/1. February 17, 2018. Sports Donga. October 12, 2017. Korean.
2. News: Choi. Ji-yoon. 이시강, SBS '해피시스터즈' 주연…심이영과 호흡. February 17, 2018. Korea Sport Economy. October 19, 2017. Korean.
3. Web site: TNMS Daily Ratings on Naver. Korean. TNMS Ratings. February 17, 2018.
4. Web site: AGB Daily Ratings: this links to current day-select the date from drop down menu. Korean. Nielsen Korea. February 17, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20170317134758/http://www.nielsenkorea.co.kr/tv_terrestrial_day.asp?menu=Tit_1&sub_menu=1_1&area=00. March 17, 2017. dead.
5. Web site: http://www.kdfo.org/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=116. ko:2018코리아드라마어워즈 후보 공개. September 22, 2018. KDFO.org. ko. September 27, 2018. October 6, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211006014315/http://www.kdfo.org/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice. dead.