Righteous Love (TV series)

Jang Hee-tae (Uhm Tae-woong) and Kim Il-ri (Lee Si-young) first met when she was 18, fourteen years prior to the events in the series, when he went to the hospital for a circumcision operation, and he mistakenly ended up in urology while looking for the orthopedics department, then crashes into him while they both leave the facility. He then ended up being her substitute teacher for a few months while waiting to go study in the US, because the official teacher was on leave. While she was a student Il-ri develops a crush on him, and is left seriously injured when a car speeds towards them and crashes into her, while she manages to push him out of the way. After that, he is persuaded to leave to the US, and she starts working as a house painter after one year of recovery at the hospital. Seven years later, they meet again by chance, fall in love, then get married and have a typical, happy marriage. In the present day he works as a marine researcher on fishery boat, while Il-ri gets attracted to a carpenter she works with, Kim Joon (Lee Soo-hyuk).

• Uhm Tae-woong as Jang Hee-tae - A Marine biologist husband of Kim Il-ri. They initially met at he hospital where he was undergoing a circumcision operation, then he was briefly a substitute teacher at her school while waiting to go to the US to study. He first suspected his wife was having an affair by receiving a message from an anonymous number. After confirming the suspicion and throwing a fit, he filed a divorce petition and started living separately. Another problem arise in their family causing the two of them to stay together which made things difficult. But after realizing that he still loves his wife he decided to get back with Il-ri, however this time Il-ri refused because she doesn't think he will forgive her, and she was hurt when he initially wanted to divorce her.
• Lee Si-young as Kim Il-ri - A hard-laborer who only finished high school, Il-ri married her high school sub-professor Jang Hee-tae after they met again after 7 years. However, as soon as they got back from their honeymoon vacation, Hee-tae's sister collapsed which gave her the decision to not have children and treat Hee-soo as her baby as Hee-soo's body is paralyzed. When she accepted a part-time work from her co-worker, she met carpenter Kim, whom she find herself attracted to. The two of them found mutual feelings but is later discovered by her husband causing a crack in their perfect marriage and filed a divorce. But after different trials in their family, she decided to leave carpenter Kim and got back together with Hee-tae.
• Lee Soo-hyuk as Kim Joon - Found by his grandfather at his doorstep, Kim Joon grew up following his grandfather's footsteps by becoming a carpenter. He hired someone to be the painter for his new studio and did not expect it to be a girl. At first being cold and grouchy with Il-ri and her chattering, he later fell in love with her even with the knowledge of Il-ri being married.
• Choi Yeo-jin as Jang Hee-soo - Hee-tae's sister who was once a ballerina but because of her collapsing and becoming a paralytic, she could only observe around her family, often imagining herself having conversations with her family in her head.
• Lee Young-lan as Mrs. Go
• Im Ha-ryong as Jang Min-ho
• Park Jeong-min as Jang Ki-tae
• Seo Jeong-yeon as Kim Boon-ja
• Han Eu-ddeum as Kim Yi-ri
• Ryu Hye-rin as Jung Soo-young
• Han Do-woo as Choi Duk-bae
• Han Soo-yeon as Yoo Sun-joo
• Kim Ki-moo as Hwang Jung-goo
• Han Seung-yoon as Lee Suk
• Kim Sung-ki as Mart Grandpa
• Seo Tae-hwa as Professor Park
• Hong Tae-ui as Park Min-ki
• Jin Hee-kyung as Kim Joon's mother
• Park Jin-seo
• Hwang Gun
• Gong Hyung-jin (cameo)
• Lee Si-eon (cameo)
• Sung Ji-ru (cameo)

• It aired in Vietnam on VTV3 from August 25, 2016.
• It aired in Malaysia on TV9 (Malaysia) started December 2017.