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Our Blues

2022 South Korean television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ110627977 ↗
Source-derived summary

Our Blues (Korean: 우리들의 블루스) is a 2022 South Korean television series starring Lee Byung-hun, Shin Min-a, Cha Seung-won, Lee Jung-eun, Uhm Jung-hwa, Han Ji-min, and Kim Woo-bin. The series revolves around the sweet and bitter lives of people at the end or beginning of life, and depicts their stories in an omnibus format against the backdrop of Jeju Island. It premiered on tvN on April 9, 2022, and aired every Saturday and Sunday at 21:10 (KST) with 20 episodes. It is available for streaming on Netflix in selected regions. It is also one of the highest-rated dramas in Korean cable television history.

Cast

Main

Lee Byung-hun as Lee Dong-seok, a truck merchant who was born in Jeju.

Ryu Hae-jun as young Lee Dong-seok

Shin Min-a as Min Seon-ah, a single parent with a child who came to Jeju and works with Lee Dong-seok.

Kim Ah-song as young Min Seon-ah

Lee Jung-eun as Jeong Eun-hee, the owner of a fish store who has a bubbly charm.

Shim Dal-gi as young Jeong Eun-hee

Cha Seung-won as Choi Han-soo, who returns to his hometown of Jeju as a perfect urban man and Jeong Eun-hee's first love.

Kim Jae-won as young Choi Han-soo

Uhm Jung-hwa as Go Mi-ran, Eun-hee's best friend from her high school days and her benefactor.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Our Blues” is 2022 South Korean television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Blues, South and Korean, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Blues, South and Korean is the immediate research focus.
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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 Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110627977. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Our Blues” 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.