A Hundred Year Legacy () is a 2013 South Korean television series starring Eugene and Lee Jung-jin. Revolving around themes of food, love and family, the warm human drama is about a modest Seoul noodle house that's been operated by the same family for three generations. It aired on MBC from January 5 to June 23, 2013, on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:50 for 50 episodes.
The early working title was Third Generation Noodle House ().
It won Drama of the Year at the 2013 MBC Drama Awards.
Plot Min Chae-won is the eldest granddaughter of a family living in an outskirts of Seoul who have been running a noodle factory for three generations. Married for three years to Chul-gyu, whose rich family owns the major corporation Golden Dragon Food, Chae-won has had a difficult life because her mother-in-law fiercely opposed the match and would not accept her.
When her husband cheats on her, she detaches herself from her in-laws and decides to divorce him. Her mother-in-law has her falsely committed to a mental institution as revenge for the divorce. She returns to the noodle factory and struggles to modernize and expand it. Chae-won later meets Lee Se-yoon, the son of a wealthy household, who is infamous for his disparaging treatment of all those around him. They both nurse wounds from their past romantic relationships.
Cast Eugene as Min Chae-won Lee Jung-jin as Lee Se-yoon Choi Won-young as Kim Chul-gyu Yoon A-jung as Kim Joo-ri Shin Goo as Uhm Pyung-dal Jung Hye-sun as Kim Kkeut-soon Jung Bo-seok as Min Hyo-dong Jeon In-hwa as Yang Choon-hee Kim Myung-soo as Uhm Ki-moon Park Joon-geum as Do Do-hee Seo Young-hoon as Uhm Seul-hong Kwon Oh-joong as Uhm Ki-choon Kim Hee-jung as Gong Kang-sook Lee Tae-woo as Uhm Bo-reum Sunwoo Sun as Uhm Ki-ok Park Yeong-gyu as Kang Jin Cha Hwa-yeon as Baek Seol-joo Nam Myung-ryul as Lee Dong-kyu Park Won-sook as Bang Young-ja Gong Jung-hwan as Se-yoon's seonbae Hwang Sun-hee as Eun-seol Shim Yi-young as Ma Hong-joo Oh Ha-nee as Ha-nee Seo Kwon-soon as Hong-joo's mother Jeon Sung-ae as Mrs. Park Baek Bo-ram as shaman ("mudang") Min Joon-hyun as Chairman Bang's reporter Lee Hyun-woo
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Recipient Result 2013 Top Excellence Award, Actor Lee Jung-jin Excellence Award, Actress Eugene Best Production Director Joo Sung-woo Excellence Award, Actress Eugene Drama of the Year A Hundred Year Legacy Top Excellence Award,Actor in a Drama Serial Lee Jung-jin Top Excellence Award,Actress in a Drama Serial Eugene Park Won-sook Golden Acting Award, Actor Jung Bo-seok Writer of the Year Gu Hyun-sook Lifetime Achievement Award Park Won-sook 2014 Bronze Remi Awardfor Dramatic TV Series A Hundred Year Legacy
References
External links
A Hundred Year Legacy at MBC Global Media