| Alt Name: | Firebird | ||||||
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| Director: | Lee Hyun-jik | ||||||
| Runtime: | 35 minutes | ||||||
| Executive Producer: | Park Young-soo | ||||||
| Composer: | Choi Cheul-ho | ||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||
| Budget: | [1] | ||||||
| Network: | SBS TV | ||||||
| Num Episodes: | 120 | ||||||
| Related: | Phoenix (2004) |
Phoenix 2020 is a South Korean television romantic drama series directed by Lee Hyun-jik starring Hong Soo-ah,[2] Lee Jae-woo, Seo Ha-jun and Park Young-rin. The series is a reboot of the 2004 MBC series[3] of the same name and includes 120 episodes.[4] The story follows a rich woman and a poor man who marry, get divorced, and meet again after their fortunes have reversed.[5] [6] It premiered on SBS TV on October 26, 2020, and aired on weekdays at 8:35a.m. KST until April 9, 2021.
Wealthy chaebol, Lee Ji-eun (Hong Soo-ah) falls in love with the poor Jang Sae-hoon and marries against their families' wishes. Ji-eun was engaged to Sae-hoon's family friend, Seo Jeong-in (Seo Ha-jun), but he was in a committed relationship with another woman. The couple was expecting a child despite the lack of approval from Jeong-in's father. Ji-eun and Sae-hoon eventually divorce, and Jeong-in later dies. After ten years, Ji-eun and Sae-hoon meet again but with swapped lifestyles. Once affluent, Ji-eun lost her fortune while Sae-hoon became a rich entrepreneur. Their changes in wealth allow them to view the world differently and understand each other leading to their reunification.
However, they both have other love interests. Ji-eun meets Seo Jeong-min (Seo Ha-jun), heir to the Seorin Group and Jeong-in's twin brother, and they start going out while Sae-hoon is dating his girlfriend, Mi-ran. At the same time, Jeong-min's ambitious stepmother, Choi Myung-hwa, wants to hang on to Seorin Group at all costs. She is Mi-ran's mother but living under an assumed name and has not seen Mi-ran in years. Jeong-min dislikes Myung-hwa, and Seo Moon-soo (chairman of Seorin Group, Jeong-min's father, and Myung-hwa's husband) plans to remove her.
The show ends with a series of legal cases against Seorin Group, ironically brought to court by Jeong-min himself after he tires of his father's controlling tendencies. Seo Moon-soo is angry at his only living son after Jeong-in's death. In the legal chaos, Moon-soo jettisons Myung-hwa but she kills him and stays with her daughter. Ji-eun and Jeong-min break up, and Ji-eun and Sae-hoon start to work together again.
On June 30, 2020, SBS announced their remake of the 2004 drama Phoenix with the original writer, Lee Yoo-jin. The remake ran for 120 episodes, a much longer run compared to the original's 26 episodes. Lee Yoo-jin commented on the story, "It seems to be a different story from the original. The setting of reunion between Lee Ji-eun and Jang Se-hoon is changed, but the reunion and love journey of the two are different from the original. After reuniting the once-loved man and woman, the process of recovering and understanding the wounds that have been inflicted on each other has been depicted, rather than the ending of achieving love again."[12] The filming started in the second half of 2020[13] and a production presentation was held on October 20, 2020.[14]
The television series first aired on October 26, 2020, on SBS TV and aired on weekday mornings until April 9, 2021.
| Phoenix | |
| Type: | Soundtrack |
| Artist: | Various Artists |
| Released: | 4 November 2020 |
| Genre: | Soundtrack |
| Original broadcast date | Average audience share | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nielsen Korea[15] [16] | TNmS[17] | ||||
| °Nationwide | °°Seoul | Nationwide | |||
| 1 | October 26, 2020 | 5.2% | |||
| 2 | October 27, 2020 | 4.6% | 5.4% | ||
| 3 | October 28, 2020 | 4.7% | |||
| 4 | October 29, 2020 | 4.8% | 5.4% | ||
| 5 | October 30, 2020 | 3.4% | |||
| 6 | November 2, 2020 | 5.0% | |||
| 7 | November 3, 2020 | 5.2% | 5.2% | ||
| 8 | November 4, 2020 | 4.7% | 5.2% | ||
| 9 | November 5, 2020 | 5.2% | 5.0% | ||
| 10 | November 6, 2020 | 4.3% | |||
| 11 | November 9, 2020 | 5.1% | 5.0% | ||
| 12 | November 10, 2020 | 4.5% | |||
| 13 | November 11, 2020 | 4.7% | 5.2% | ||
| 14 | November 12, 2020 | 5.1% | 4.6% | 5.4% | |
| 15 | November 13, 2020 | 5.2% | |||
| 16 | November 16, 2020 | 4.8% | 5.2% | ||
| 17 | November 17, 2020 | 4.5% | 5.0% | ||
| 18 | November 18, 2020 | 4.1% | 5.0% | ||
| 19 | November 19, 2020 | 4.6% | rowspan="2" | ||
| 20 | November 20, 2020 | 5.0% | |||
| 21 | November 23, 2020 | 5.5% | 5.1% | 5.5% | |
| 22 | November 24, 2020 | 5.4% | 5.1% | 5.3% | |
| 23 | November 25, 2020 | 4.9% | 5.6% | ||
| 24 | November 26, 2020 | 5.3% | 5.2% | 5.7% | |
| 25 | November 27, 2020 | 5.5% | 5.6% | ||
| 26 | November 30, 2020 | 5.0% | 6.0% | ||
| 27 | December 1, 2020 | 5.3% | 5.6% | ||
| 28 | December 2, 2020 | 5.1% | 5.4% | ||
| 29 | December 3, 2020 | 5.7% | 5.3% | 6.2% | |
| 30 | December 4, 2020 | 5.1% | 5.6% | ||
| 31 | December 7, 2020 | 5.4% | 5.2% | ||
| 32 | December 8, 2020 | 5.1% | 5.7% | ||
| 33 | December 9, 2020 | 5.8% | 5.5% | 5.1% | |
| 34 | December 10, 2020 | 5.9% | 5.6% | 5.3% | |
| 35 | December 11, 2020 | 5.3% | 4.9% | 5.9% | |
| 36 | December 14, 2020 | 5.4% | 5.8% | ||
| 37 | December 15, 2020 | 5.9% | 5.4% | ||
| 38 | December 16, 2020 | 5.5% | 5.4% | ||
| 39 | December 17, 2020 | 5.8% | 5.4% | 5.6% | |
| 40 | December 18, 2020 | 5.8% | 5.8% | 5.4% | |
| 41 | December 21, 2020 | 5.9% | 5.9% | 5.5% | |
| 42 | December 22, 2020 | 5.7% | 5.6% | ||
| 43 | December 23, 2020 | 5.0% | 5.2% | ||
| 44 | December 24, 2020 | 5.5% | 5.0% | 5.8% | |
| 45 | December 25, 2020 | 5.0% | 4.8% | 5.6% | |
| 46 | December 28, 2020 | 5.7% | 5.4% | ||
| 47 | December 29, 2020 | 5.6% | 5.6% | ||
| 48 | December 30, 2020 | 5.5% | 5.7% | ||
| 49 | December 31, 2020 | 6.4% | 6.3% | 6.3% | |
| 50 | January 1, 2021 | 4.2% | |||
| 51 | January 4, 2021 | 5.8% | 6.9% | ||
| 52 | January 5, 2021 | 5.8% | 6.1% | ||
| 53 | January 6, 2021 | 5.4% | 5.9% | ||
| 54 | January 7, 2021 | 6.1% | 6.0% | ||
| 55 | January 8, 2021 | 6.2% | 6.3% | ||
| 56 | January 11, 2021 | 5.7% | 6.6% | ||
| 57 | January 12, 2021 | 5.9% | 6.0% | ||
| 58 | January 13, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.7% | ||
| 59 | January 14, 2021 | 6.2% | 6.2% | 5.5% | |
| 60 | January 15, 2021 | 5.3% | 6.1% | ||
| 61 | January 18, 2021 | 5.4% | 6.2% | ||
| 62 | January 19, 2021 | 6.5% | 6.3% | 6.2% | |
| 63 | January 20, 2021 | 6.0% | 5.8% | 5.4% | |
| 64 | January 21, 2021 | 5.5% | 5.1% | 6.0% | |
| 65 | January 22, 2021 | 5.7% | 5.5% | ||
| 66 | January 25, 2021 | 5.7% | 5.2% | 5.8% | |
| 67 | January 26, 2021 | 6.1% | 6.3% | ||
| 68 | January 27, 2021 | 5.1% | 5.9% | ||
| 69 | January 28, 2021 | 6.0% | |||
| 70 | January 29, 2021 | 5.7% | 5.5% | 5.8% | |
| 71 | February 1, 2021 | 5.4% | 5.8% | ||
| 72 | February 2, 2021 | 5.6% | 5.9% | ||
| 73 | February 3, 2021 | 5.5% | 5.2% | 5.7% | |
| 74 | February 4, 2021 | 5.7% | 5.1% | 5.9% | |
| 75 | February 5, 2021 | 5.0% | 5.8% | ||
| 76 | February 8, 2021 | 5.1% | 6.0% | ||
| 77 | February 9, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.5% | ||
| 78 | February 10, 2021 | 4.9% | 4.8% | ||
| 79 | February 11, 2021 | 4.7% | |||
| 80 | February 12, 2021 | ||||
| 81 | February 15, 2021 | 5.8% | 5.6% | ||
| 82 | February 16, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.4% | ||
| 83 | February 17, 2021 | 5.2% | 4.8% | 4.9% | |
| 84 | February 18, 2021 | 5.7% | 5.6% | 5.8% | |
| 85 | February 19, 2021 | 5.4% | 5.3% | 5.5% | |
| 86 | February 22, 2021 | 5.1% | |||
| 87 | February 23, 2021 | 5.1% | 5.1% | ||
| 88 | February 24, 2021 | 4.8% | 4.6% | ||
| 89 | February 25, 2021 | 5.5% | 5.4% | 4.8% | |
| 90 | February 26, 2021 | 3.7% | rowspan="2" | ||
| 91 | March 1, 2021 | 5.0% | |||
| 92 | March 2, 2021 | 5.5% | 5.4% | ||
| 93 | March 3, 2021 | 5.2% | 5.3% | ||
| 94 | March 4, 2021 | 5.9% | 5.3% | 5.9% | |
| 95 | March 5, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.4% | ||
| 96 | March 8, 2021 | 5.1% | 4.7% | ||
| 97 | March 9, 2021 | 5.9% | 5.4% | 5.2% | |
| 98 | March 10, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.3% | 5.2% | |
| 99 | March 11, 2021 | 5.4% | 5.1% | 5.1% | |
| 100 | March 12, 2021 | 5.2% | 5.7% | ||
| 101 | March 15, 2021 | 4.6% | |||
| 102 | March 16, 2021 | 5.5% | 5.5% | 5.7% | |
| 103 | March 17, 2021 | 4.8% | 5.2% | ||
| 104 | March 18, 2021 | 5.4% | 5.1% | 5.5% | |
| 105 | March 19, 2021 | 5.8% | 5.6% | 6.4% | |
| 106 | March 22, 2021 | 5.2% | 6.2% | ||
| 107 | March 23, 2021 | 5.4% | 5.5% | 5.7% | |
| 108 | March 24, 2021 | 5.0% | 4.9% | 5.7% | |
| 109 | March 25, 2021 | 5.4% | 5.6% | 5.5% | |
| 110 | March 26, 2021 | 5.2% | 4.9% | 6.1% | |
| 111 | March 29, 2021 | 5.8% | 6.3% | ||
| 112 | March 30, 2021 | 5.9% | 5.6% | 6.4% | |
| 113 | March 31, 2021 | 5.8% | 5.5% | 6.3% | |
| 114 | April 1, 2021 | 5.7% | 5.4% | 6.3% | |
| 115 | April 2, 2021 | 6.3% | 5.9% | 6.9% | |
| 116 | April 5, 2021 | 5.9% | 5.8% | 6.2% | |
| 117 | April 6, 2021 | 5.3% | 5.9% | ||
| 118 | April 7, 2021 | 5.4% | 5.2% | 4.8% | |
| 119 | April 8, 2021 | 5.5% | 5.4% | 5.9% | |
| 120 | April 9, 2021 | 5.7% | 5.7% | 5.5% | |
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| Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result | Ref. |
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| 2020 | SBS Drama Awards | Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Mid/Long-length Drama | Lee Jae-woo | [18] | |
| Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Mid/Long-length Drama | Hong Soo-ah | ||||
| Excellence Award, Actor in a Mid/Long-length Drama | Seo Ha-joon |