Choi Ji-woo considers Noh Hee-kyung remake Most Beautiful Goodbye

16 October 18, 2017October 18, 2017

Choi Ji-woo considers Noh Hee-kyung remake Most Beautiful Goodbye

by girlfriday

Oh I would love to see Choi Ji-woo (Woman With a Suitcase) in this remake. Star writer Noh Hee-kyung is remaking her very first drama, The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World, 21 years after the original aired in 1996. The 4-episode MBC mini-drama has since been novelized and made into a stage play and a movie, and is now getting a new life on tvN this winter, just in time for the holidays.

The heartwarming family drama is about a self-sacrificing mother who receives a terminal cancer diagnosis and prepares to say goodbye to her family, and was written by Noh as a tribute to her own mother two years after her death. I know, prepare ALL of the tissues. It was the work that made Noh Hee-kyung famous, and earned her a Baeksang with her debut television series.

The drama was originally being planned for a revival on MBC, but the strike brought it over to tvN, where it will now be helmed by Dear My Friends’ PD Hong Jong-chan. That can only mean good things… as long as you enjoy being emotionally gutted and drained of all your tears. But hey, that’s what we’re signing up for with this series, right?

Won Mi-kyung (All’s Well With a Happy Home) will play the leading role of the thankless, devoted mother who was never appreciated by her family (played by Na Mun-hee in the original). She gets a late-stage cancer diagnosis, bringing her ungrateful kids, husband, and mother-in-law together in support of her at the very end of her life. Kim Young-ok (Dear My Friends) will reprise her role from the original series as the mother-in-law with Alzheimer’s, and Choi Ji-woo is considering an offer to costar as the daughter (played by Lee Min-young in the original). The production team and cast for the remake is lining up to be pretty amazing, and I’m hoping that since it’s a short series, Choi Ji-woo won’t hesitate to sign on.

The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World will follow Saturday-Sunday drama Revolutionary Love this December.

Via DongA

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1 Nessa🌹

October 18, 2017 at 7:19 AM

Ugh Break my heart, why don’t you

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2 Dakchigo

October 18, 2017 at 7:20 AM

Huh, weird. They aged up the daughter (20-year old Lee Min-young to 42-year old Choi Ji-woo) and the mother-in-law (59-year old Kim Young-ok to her 80-year old self), but not the dying woman (55-year old Na Mun-hee to 57-year old Won Mi-kyung)...

Anyway, I'm a bit more curious about why Noh Hee-kyung wanted to revisit this again for TV. I'm sure she has her usual poignant reasons and profound insights, but I find it interesting since her writing has changed a lot (some say not for the better) over the past two decades.

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3 iamgeralddd

October 18, 2017 at 7:24 AM

Noh hee kyung is coming back! *prepare for red carpet and a box of tissues*

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4 immawish

October 18, 2017 at 7:36 AM

UH YES YES YES YES YES. Choi Jiwoo in a mellow. I mean her crying scene on Twenty Again made me bawled, this one might made me idk man.

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5 lemoncello

October 18, 2017 at 8:08 AM

*grabbing tissue already * 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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6 xhuizini

October 18, 2017 at 9:43 AM

Choi Ji-woo is one the first kdrama actress I saw on local television, so of course no matter how tragic this is gonna end, you can bet I'm still gonna watch this, so you can stop giving me reasons to watch it now.