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FOREWORD
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Author's Comment:
In order to fit the entire five-year-long saga of All About Eve into only 20 episodes, at times weeks, months, or even years pass between successive scenes, leaving viewers to their own imaginations to fill in the 'rest of the story'.
One of these periods of intermittant coverage is a nine-month stretch in Episodes 11-12 unofficially known as the 'Cold War'. It begins at the end of Episode 10, when a business crisis that erupts at MBS as the Autumn season begins, also instigates a personal crisis between Hyung-Chul and Sun-Mi that continues through the following Spring to just before Sun-Mi's 25th birthday.
Concurrent with this setback is Sun-Mi’s brief but turbulent tenure on the MBS Seven O’clock News, bookended by a pair of on-air faux pas she commits. The first incident, in Episode 11, rewards Sun-Mi with the coveted news anchor slot, while the second incident, in Episode 12, hands it back to Young-Mi. From this low point in both Sun-Mi's career and personal life, Episode 12 concludes on a pair of rising notes: the debut of Hyung-Chul's new program, Eve's Morning, and a Spring thaw in the Cold War, portending a reconciliation between Sun-Mi and Hyung-Chul in the next Episode.
But what isn't included in the episodes leaves a number of unanswered questions: When did the threatened announcer layoff, the main cause of the dispute between Hyung-Chul and Sun-Mi, happen, and if it didn't, why? When did Hyung-Chul move to a new apartment? Why did Sun-Mi begin hosting the radio program, Musical Postcards, which is first shown at the beginning of Episode 13? What happened in the conflict between rival Directors Yoon and Kim, such that Hyung-Chul gained the power to replace Kim's Morning Show with Eve's Morning? And perhaps most important to the plot development, why did the dispute between Sun-Mi and Hyung-Chul drag on sooooo long, and after all that time, what prompted Hyung-Chul to make the decisive move that brought them back together?
Answering these questions was the
impetus behind writing this extended, or 'uncut' version of AAE. The episodes
were divided into parts to accomodate new scenes and dialog,
and printed in blue text to distinguish them
from the original scenes and dialog, which are property of MBS and YesAsia respectively.
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Main Characters: |
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Jin Sun-Mi............................. |
MBS Rookie Announcer, Morning Show anchor |
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Yoon Hyung-Chul................... |
MBS Director of Planning and Programming |
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Huh Young-Mi........................ |
MBS Rookie Announcer and Sun-Mi’s rival; 7PM News anchor |
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Kim Woo-Jin.......................... |
MBS videographer; Sun-Mi’s childhood friend and Young-Mi’s fiancée |
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Supporting Characters: |
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Yoo Joo-Hee.......................... |
Female Announcer Team Leader; Hyung-Chul’s former fiancée; anchors the New at Nine |
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Kim Sun-Dal.......................... |
Male Announcer Team Leader, anchors the 7PM News, the Morning Show, and Eve's Morning |
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Lee Kyung-Hee...................... |
Senior Female Announcer in charge of radio programming |
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Shin Ki-Jong.......................... |
Senior Male Sports Announcer |
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Choi Jin-Soo.......................... |
Rookie Sports Announcer and Cho-Jeh’s boyfriend |
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Jin Gwi-Sung......................... |
Sun-Mi’s widower father |
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Song Jin-Suk......................... |
Woo-Jin’s widowed mother |
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Jo Cho-Jeh............................ |
Sun-Mi’s college friend |
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Bae In-Su.............................. |
Young-Mi’s former boyfriend, now a gangster |
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