| Alt Name: | Seduction |
| Genre: | Romance Melodrama Erotica Drama |
| Director: | Park Young-soo |
| Starring: | Kwon Sang-woo Choi Ji-woo Lee Jung-jin Park Ha-sun |
| Composer: | Oh Seung-eun |
| Country: | South Korea |
| Language: | Korean |
| Num Episodes: | 20 |
| Executive Producer: | Han Jung-hwan |
| Producer: | Cho Yoon-jung |
| Location: | South Korea, Hong Kong |
| Runtime: | Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 (KST) |
| Company: | Victory Contents |
| Channel: | Seoul Broadcasting System |
Temptation is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Kwon Sang-woo, Choi Ji-woo, Lee Jung-jin and Park Ha-sun.[1] It aired on SBS from July 14 to September 16, 2014, on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.[2] [3] [4] [5] The drama reunites Choi Ji-woo and Kwon Sang-woo who both starred in the 2003 hit melodrama Stairway to Heaven.[6]
Cha Seok-hoon is a naive man who grew up a rural village in Gangwon Province. His intellect gets him into the country's top university despite his family's economic plight, and he takes on all sorts of part-time jobs, from quick services to construction work, in order to earn his tuition.
He then meets Na Hong-joo, a girl also from a poor family. Hong-joo is resigned to a miserable existence, until Seok-hoon brings happiness and hope into her life. They get married, and Hong-joo is a calm and understanding wife, always the first to sacrifice and make concessions. However, Seok-hoon finds himself plunged into massive debt due to a failed business venture with another partner.
Yoo Se-young is a hotel heiress, trained to take over her father's company from a young age. Called a "woman of iron," she is a workaholic and a headstrong leader, and has no interest in love or marriage. One of her family friends is rich playboy Kang Min-woo, who unsuccessfully tried to seduce her in the past. Min-woo has everything he could ever want, and approaches life with the philosophy that you should have a hundred different faces for a hundred different women. He got married only because it was a requirement for his inheritance.
While on a business trip to Hong Kong, Se-young meets Seok-hoon and Hong-joo, and for her amusement, she makes them a dangerous offer to test their marriage: In exchange for paying off Seok-hoon's debts so that he could avoid going to jail, she asks for three days with him.
Seok-hoon makes a crucial choice and takes the deal. But his strange relationship with Yoo Se-young jeopardizes his marriage. Upon their return to Korea, Seok-hoon and Hong-joo's marriage is unable to survive this crisis of trust, and they eventually divorce. Meanwhile, Se-young finds herself genuinely falling for Seok-hoon.
| Episode # | Original broadcast date | Average audience share | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TNmS Ratings[9] | AGB Nielsen[10] | ||||||
| width=100 | Nationwide | width=100 | Seoul National Capital Area | width=100 | Nationwide | width=100 | Seoul National Capital Area |
| 1 | July 14, 2014 | 9.6% | 11.9% | 7.6% | 8.6% | ||
| 2 | July 15, 2014 | 8.3% | 10.3% | 8.0% | 9.1% | ||
| 3 | July 21, 2014 | 8.2% | 9.9% | 9.0% | 10.3% | ||
| 4 | July 22, 2014 | 8.4% | 10.8% | 8.3% | 9.3% | ||
| 5 | July 28, 2014 | 8.8% | 10.5% | 9.0% | 9.3% | ||
| 6 | July 29, 2014 | 8.5% | 10.4% | 8.9% | 9.6% | ||
| 7 | August 4, 2014 | 6.9% | 8.7% | 8.3% | 9.3% | ||
| 8 | August 5, 2014 | 8.3% | 10.3% | 9.5% | 10.7% | ||
| 9 | August 11, 2014 | 7.2% | 9.5% | 8.6% | 9.2% | ||
| 10 | August 12, 2014 | 7.4% | 9.6% | 8.6% | 9.3% | ||
| 11 | August 18, 2014 | 7.9% | 9.6% | 8.1% | 9.0% | ||
| 12 | August 19, 2014 | 8.3% | 10.7% | 8.8% | 9.3% | ||
| 13 | August 25, 2014 | 8.1% | 9.8% | 9.6% | 10.6% | ||
| 14 | August 26, 2014 | 8.4% | 10.9% | 10.0% | 10.7% | ||
| 15 | September 1, 2014 | 9.3% | 11.1% | 11.3% | 12.2% | ||
| 16 | September 2, 2014 | 8.5% | 11.0% | 10.1% | 11.4% | ||
| 17 | September 8, 2014 | 6.7% | 8.2% | 6.6% | 7.2% | ||
| 18 | September 9, 2014 | 8.1% | 9.8% | 8.3% | 8.9% | ||
| 19 | September 15, 2014 | 7.7% | 9.6% | 8.8% | 9.7% | ||
| 20 | September 16, 2014 | 10.1% | 12.6% | 10.8% | 11.7% | ||
| Average | 8.2% | 10.3% | 8.9% | 9.8% | |||
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Supporting Actress | ||||
| Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Drama Special | ||||
| Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Drama Special | ||||
| Excellence Award, Actor in a Drama Special | ||||
| Netizen Popularity Award | ||||
| Best Couple Award | ||||