White Nights 3.98
| White Nights 3.98 | |
|---|---|
 Poster | |
| Genre | Action Drama |
| Based on | White Nights 3.98 by Han Tae-hoon |
| Written by | Kang Eun-kyung |
| Directed by | Kim Jong-hak |
| Starring | Choi Min-soo Shim Eun-ha Lee Byung-hun Lee Jung-jae Jin Hee-kyung |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language | Korean |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Production | |
| Production location | Korea |
| Running time | Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 (KST) |
| Production company | Seoul Broadcasting System |
| Original release | |
| Network | Seoul Broadcasting System |
| Release | 31 August – 3 November 1998 |
White Nights 3.98 (Korean: 백야 3.98; RR: Baekya 3.98) is a 1998 South Korean television series based on the novel of the same title by Han Tae-hoon. It aired on SBS from August 31, 1998 to November 3, 1998.[1][2]
Cast[edit]
Main[edit]
- Choi Min-soo as Kwon Taek-hyeong, major in the Korean People's Army
- Kim Jung-woo as young Taek-hyeong
- Kim Min-sung as teenage Taek-hyeong
- Shim Eun-ha as Anastasia Jang
- Kwon Hae-kwang as young Anastasia
- Lee Eun-ju as teenage Anastasia
- Lee Byung-hun as Min Gyeong-bin, Korean Central Intelligence agent and former Air Force first lieutenant
- Shin Joo-ho as young Gyeong-bin
- Lee Jong-soo as teenage Gyeong-bin
- Lee Jung-jae as Lee Young-jun
- Jin Hee-kyung as Oh Seong-shim
- Wang Hee-ji as Hong Jung-yeon
- Song Hye-kyo as teenage Jung-yeon
- Yoo Jun-sang as Kim Jin-seok, ANSP intelligence agent
- Kim Jung-ho as teenage Jin-seok
Supporting[edit]
- Jung Hyung-ki as General Kwon Ki-wook, Taek-hyeong's father and member of Unit 124
- Kim Eun-sook as Ki-wook's wife
- Lee Seok as General Kwon Dong-wook, Ki-wook's brother
- Park Woong as Anatoly Jang, father of Anastasia, Soviet nuclear physicist, and deputy director of the Irkutsk Atomic Energy Institute
- Jo Kyung-hwan as Yuri Kim, Chechen mafia boss
- Shin Hyun-joon as Peter Kim, son of Yuri
- Im Hyeok-ju as Min Se-yoon, father of Gyeong-bin and captain of the Jongno Police Station
- Park Soon-cheon as Se-yoon's wife
- Kim Young-ae as Hong Young-sook, Agency for National Security Planning and Consul General to Russia, aunt of Jung-yeon
- Park Sang-won as Air Force major Choi Sang-gyu
- Kim Ye-ryeong as Sang-gyu's wife
- Park Eun-bin as Choi So-young, Sang-gyu's daughter
- Nam Sung-hoon as ANSP personnel
- Jo Hyung-ki as Park Seon-bae, ANSP agent sent to Russia
- Lee Seung-hyung as ANSP agent sent to Russia
- Lee Hee-do as ANSP agent sent to Kazakhstan
- Choi Jong-hwan as Major Lee Young-hu, Young-jun's older brother and commanding officer of Jang Baek-ho troop
- Nam Na-kyung as Yoon Sook-kyung, Young-hu's wife
- Kwak Jung-wook as Lee Min-ki, Young-hu's son
- Son Ho-gyun as Yasuda, Pyongyang gangster boss
- Yoon Yong-hyun as Yasuda's underling
- Kim Ki-beom as "Crocodile," Yasuda's underling
- Jung Ui-gap as "Crayfish," Yasuda's underling
- Kim Byung-ki as Oh Geuk-chul, father of Seong-shim and lieutenant general of the Korean People's Army
- Song Kwi-hyun as Geuk-chul's deputy
- Shim Yang-hong as Chairman of Wildcat crash investigation committee
- Jung Dong-hwan as Colonel Woo
- Lee Ki-young as Choi Deuk-gu, Jang Baek-ho troop
- Kim Se-jun as Oh Dae-gyu, army doctor of Jang Baek-ho troop
- Jung Woong-in as Baek Seung-je, signaller of Jang Baek-ho troop
- Jung Sung-mo as Kim Il-gu, former Air Force first lieutenant
References[edit]
- ^ "[방송가] SBS '백야 3.98' 씁쓸한 퇴장". hankyung.com. 3 November 1998.
- ^ "[방송] 극본 빈약, 연출은 요란". 시사저널. 1 October 1998.
External links[edit]
- Official website (archived)
- White Nights 3.98 at SBS Collection
- White Nights 3.98 review at SPCNET