White Nights 3.98
{{Short description|1998 South Korean television series}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}
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| based_on = {{based on|White Nights 3.98|Han Tae-hoon}}
| writer = Kang Eun-kyung
| director = Kim Jong-hak
| starring = Choi Min-soo
Shim Eun-ha
Lee Byung-hun
Lee Jung-jae
Jin Hee-kyung
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| country = South Korea
| language = Korean
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 20
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| location = Korea
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| runtime = Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 (KST)
| company = Seoul Broadcasting System
| channel = Seoul Broadcasting System
| first_aired = {{start date|1998|8|31|df=yes}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1998|11|3|df=yes}}
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White Nights 3.98 ({{korean|백야 3.98||Baekya 3.98}}) is a 1998 South Korean television series based on the novel of the same title by Han Tae-hoon. It aired on SBS from August 31, 1998 to November 3, 1998.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hankyung.com/life/article/1998110301951|title=[방송가] SBS '백야 3.98' 씁쓸한 퇴장|date=3 November 1998|website=The Korea Economic Daily|access-date=24 February 2021|archive-date=19 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519151351/https://www.hankyung.com/life/article/1998110301951|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sisajournal.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=90018|title=[방송] 극본 빈약, 연출은 요란|date=1 October 1998|website=Sisa Journal|access-date=24 February 2021|archive-date=19 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519151505/http://www.sisajournal.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=90018|url-status=live}}
Cast
=Main=
- Choi Min-soo as Kwon Taek-hyeong, major in the Korean People's Army
- Kim Jung-woo as young Taek-hyeong
- Kim Min-sung as teenage Taek-hyeong
- Shim Eun-ha as Anastasia Jang
- Kwon Hae-kwang as young Anastasia
- Lee Eun-ju as teenage Anastasia
- Lee Byung-hun as Min Gyeong-bin, Korean Central Intelligence agent and former Air Force first lieutenant
- Shin Joo-ho as young Gyeong-bin
- Lee Jong-soo as teenage Gyeong-bin
- Lee Jung-jae as Lee Young-jun
- Jin Hee-kyung as Oh Seong-shim
- Wang Hee-ji as Hong Jung-yeon
- Song Hye-kyo as teenage Jung-yeon
- Yoo Jun-sang as Kim Jin-seok, ANSP intelligence agent
- Kim Jung-ho as teenage Jin-seok
=Supporting=
- Jung Hyung-ki as General Kwon Ki-wook, Taek-hyeong's father and member of Unit 124
- Kim Eun-sook as Ki-wook's wife
- Lee Seok as General Kwon Dong-wook, Ki-wook's brother
- Park Woong as Anatoly Jang, father of Anastasia, Soviet nuclear physicist, and deputy director of the Irkutsk Atomic Energy Institute
- Jo Kyung-hwan as Yuri Kim, Chechen mafia boss
- Shin Hyun-joon as Peter Kim, son of Yuri
- Im Hyeok-ju as Min Se-yoon, father of Gyeong-bin and captain of the Jongno Police Station
- Park Soon-cheon as Se-yoon's wife
- Kim Young-ae as Hong Young-sook, Agency for National Security Planning and Consul General to Russia, aunt of Jung-yeon
- Park Sang-won as Air Force major Choi Sang-gyu
- Kim Ye-ryeong as Sang-gyu's wife
- Park Eun-bin as Choi So-young, Sang-gyu's daughter
- Nam Sung-hoon as ANSP personnel
- Jo Hyung-ki as Park Seon-bae, ANSP agent sent to Russia
- Lee Seung-hyung as ANSP agent sent to Russia
- Lee Hee-do as ANSP agent sent to Kazakhstan
- Choi Jong-hwan as Major Lee Young-hu, Young-jun's older brother and commanding officer of Jang Baek-ho troop
- Nam Na-kyung as Yoon Sook-kyung, Young-hu's wife
- Kwak Jung-wook as Lee Min-ki, Young-hu's son
- Son Ho-gyun as Yasuda, Pyongyang gangster boss
- Yoon Yong-hyun as Yasuda's underling
- Kim Ki-beom as "Crocodile," Yasuda's underling
- Jung Ui-gap as "Crayfish," Yasuda's underling
- Kim Byung-ki as Oh Geuk-chul, father of Seong-shim and lieutenant general of the Korean People's Army
- Song Kwi-hyun as Geuk-chul's deputy
- Shim Yang-hong as Chairman of Wildcat crash investigation committee
- Jung Dong-hwan as Colonel Woo
- Lee Ki-young as Choi Deuk-gu, Jang Baek-ho troop
- Kim Se-jun as Oh Dae-gyu, army doctor of Jang Baek-ho troop
- Jung Woong-in as Baek Seung-je, signaller of Jang Baek-ho troop
- Jung Sung-mo as Kim Il-gu, former Air Force first lieutenant
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Official website|https://programs.sbs.co.kr/drama/whitenight/about/50598}}
- [https://allvod.sbs.co.kr/search/00000229773/22000017942?type=program&time=30 White Nights 3.98] at SBS Collection
- [https://www.spcnet.tv/Korean-Dramas/White-Night-398-review-r1203.html White Nights 3.98 review] at SPCNET
{{Kang Eun-kyung}}
Category:Korean-language television shows
Category:1998 South Korean television series debuts
Category:1998 South Korean television series endings
Category:Seoul Broadcasting System television dramas
Category:Television shows written by Kang Eun-kyung