White Nights 3.98

White Nights 3.98
Genre	Action, Drama
Based on	White Nights 3.98  by Han Tae-hoon
Written by	Kang Eun-kyung
Directed by	Kim Jong-hak
Starring	Choi Min-soo Lee Byung-hun Shim Eun-ha
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language(s)	Korean
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	20
Production
Location(s)	Korea
Running time	Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 (KST)
Release
Original network	Seoul Broadcasting System
Original release	31 August 1998 – 3 November 1998
Chronology
Preceded by	Song of the Wind
Followed by	Eun-shil

White Nights 3.98 (Hangul: 백야 3.98; RR: 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.

Cast

Main characters

• 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 characters

• 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

External links

• Official website (archived)
• White Nights 3.98 at SBS Collection
• White Nights 3.98 review at SPCNET