Amor Fati () is a South Korean drama directed by Bae Tae-seop for SBS. Starring Choi Jung-yoon, Ahn Jae-mo and Bae Seul-ki it is a healing drama about two women. For them, "family" is everything, while the others view it as "success". It premiered on SBS TV on April 12, 2021, and aired on weekday at 08:35 (KST) for 120 episodes.
Incidentally Amor Fati was the last morning soap opera aired on South Korean television. 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. KBS1, TVN, KBS2 and MBC had abolished the daytime drama time-slot in 2015, 2019, and , respectively.
Synopsis Amor Fati is a healing drama that 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.
Cast Main Choi Jung-yoon as Do Yeon-hee, Jun-ho's wife and Seo-woo's 45-year-old mother who works as a housewife, as well as Lara Group's only daughter-in-law. Ahn Jae-mo as Han Jae-kyung, Yoo-na's 40-year-old husband. A former pro-golfer, Jae-kyung is a golf teacher in the present time. Bae Seul-ki as Kang Yoo-na, a 35-year-old stylist assistant-director of Lara Fashion. She is Jae-kyung's wife, Ha-neul's mother, Joon-ho's girlfriend. Park Hyung-joon as Jang Joon-ho, the 48-year-old old CEO of Lara Fashion. He is Do Yeon-hee's husband and Lara Group's only son.
Supporting Lara Group Kim Jong-goo as Jang Cheol-yong, the 70-year-old chairman of Lara Group who is Joon-ho and Joon-hee's father. Yoon Mi-ra as Go Sang-hye, Yeon-hee's 68-year-old mother-in-law. Kim Yeo-jin as Jang Joon-hee, the 35-year-old manager of Lara Fashion Planning Team. Park Sun-Jun as Hwang Cheol-oh, Chairman Jang's driver in his late 30s. Shopping mall Jung Ae-yun as Jo Min-jeong, Yeon-hee's best friend from high school who is 45 years old. She serves as president of a chicken restaurant. Kim Hong-pyo as Park Yoon-cheol, Jae-kyung's 45-year-old senior who runs a medical store in Min-jeong's building Jung Ji-hoon as Han Ha-neul, Jae-kyung and Yoo-na's ten-year-old son. Koo Bon-jun as Hwang Woo-joo, the 10-year-old surrogate son of Min-jeong's second husband. Do Yeon-hee's family Lee Kyung-jin as Seo Soon-boon, Yeon-hee's 63-year-old mother who serves as president of a Korean restaurant. Jang Yoo-bin as Jang Seo-woo, Seo-woo is a 25-year-old YouTuber who is Yeon-hee and Joon-ho's daughter. Others Kwon Jae-hwan as Seo Min-gu, the 52-year-old CEO of Lara Fashion. Eun Hee-soo as Jin Hye-jin, the 49-year-old Belle president. Hong Jun-ki as Seo Hyeong-jin, a 28-year-old man who majored Internal Medicine. Lee Hwa-young as Sin Hyeong-ja, Yoo-na's 60-year-old mother who works as chairman's house assistant.
Production Park Hyung-joon appeared in the SBS morning drama after seven years, having last appeared in You're Only Mine in 2014. Bae Seul-ki last appeared in a daily drama four years ago in The Shining Eun-soo in 2016 on KBS1. Yoon Mi-ra appeared in the SBS 2018 morning drama I Am the Mother Too. Choi Jung-yoon came back to television drama after six years, having last appeared in Cheongdam-dong Scandal that aired between 2014 and 2015. On 26 March 2021, stills from script reading site were released by the production crew.
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Viewership
Original broadcast date Average audience share Nielsen Korea TNmS Nationwide Seoul Nationwide 1 April 12, 2021 rowspan="3" 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=3 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=5 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% rowspan="3" 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% rowspan=2 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% rowspan=2 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 6.9% 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% 7.3% 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
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