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Romance Full of Life

2017 South Korean television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ28469839
Source-derived summary

Romance Full of Life (Korean: 생동성 연애; Hanja: 生動性戀愛; RR: Saengdongseong yeonae; lit. 'Vivid Love') is a 6-episode South Korean television drama starring Yoon Shi-yoon and Cho Soo-hyang. The drama is one of the "Three Color Fantasy" drama trilogy by MBC. The drama's color is Green. It was preceded by The Universe's Star (White) and it will be followed by Queen of the Ring (Gold). It aired on Naver TV Cast every Tuesday at 0:00 (KST) starting from February 14, and on MBC every Thursday at 23:10 (KST) starting from February 16, 2017.

Plot

Story about So In-sung (Yoon Shi-yoon) a dork looking guy, who has been preparing for the examination to become a police officer for 4 years. Despite failing the exam 8 times, In-sung has a positive personality. He then applies for a high paying part-time job called "Experiment Full of Life" and becomes a super-hero and all the ladies fall for him .

Cast

Main

Yoon Shi-yoon as So In-sung

Cho Soo-hyang as Wang So-ra

Supporting

Kang Ki-young as Jo Ji-sub

Kim Min-soo as Gong Moo

Jang Hee-ryung as Kim Tae-yi

Hwang Young-hee as In-sung's mother

Ji Dae-han as Convenience store manager

Kim Ji-eun as Student

Woo Do-im as Song Ae-kyo

Lee Jin-kwon as Supporting

Others

Kim Ji-eun as Nurse (ep. #1-2)

Special appearance

Woo Hyun as In-sung's father

Kim Seul-gi as Fisherwoman (ep.6)

Production

The drama is pre-produced and a co-production between Naver and iMBC.

This drama marks the directing debut of the director Park Sang-hoon and his second work after directing the movie A Mere Life.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Romance Full of Life” as 2017 South Korean television series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Romance, Full and Life can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2017 South Korean television series. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28469839. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from Romance Full of Life” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.