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East Of Eden |
This is a special MBC project with 56 episodes total, and a historical genre circa 1960 - 2000. ' East Of Eden ' is a revengeful story of two men who were born at the same time in a same hospital and Song Seung-heon is going to act one of the two, Lee Dong-chul.
SYNOPSIS~
This story will go back to the 1960s, the era of major student protesting activities.
Lee Ki-Cheol, a front-runner of the student protests is thrown into guilt when his lover's older brother dies instead of him, and he arrives at the coal-minining region of
Kang-Won provence. There he tries to stop the evil-acts of Shin Tae-Hwan (Yoo Dong-Geun) of the TaeBaek coal mining station, by organizing a labor union but he is eradicated at the hands of Shin Tae-Hwan. Lee Ki-Cheol's eldest son, Lee Dong-Cheol (Song Seung-Heon) witnesses the event and vows to seek revenge. Meanwhile, a nurse at TaeBaek hospital, Miae, who suffered violation from Shin Tae-Hwan switches Shin's newborn son with Lee Ki-Cheol's son. Thus, Lee Ki-Cheol's son grows up as Shin Tae-Hwan's son Shin Myeong-Hoon,while Shin Tae-Hwan's son grows up as Lee Ki-Cheol's son
Lee Dong-Wook. Lee Dong-Wook is recruited into his older brother Lee Dong-Cheol's revenge plan over their father's death, and Dong-Wook enrolls in law school at the Seoul University, and becomes a prosecutor. Meanwhile, Shin Myeong-Hoon is raised as heir of a conglomerate, and goes over to Hong Kong to begin a new life as the right-hand man of a Korean casino godfather.
This is the intense epic centered around these characters who realize their fates have been switched, and the events of modern history intertwined with their lives.