Lee Jang-woo
So Ji-sub
Lee Jang-woo

A high-budget war epic, Road Number One commemorates the sixty years that have passed since the Korean War. It's based around the historical Route 1, a national highway that served as the main passageway between North and South Korea during the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. Lee Jang Woo, the son of a poor peasant, has been in love with his master's daughter, Soo Yeon, since childhood. He joins the military in order to put her through medical school and becomes a brilliant officer, leading his men to victory through guerilla warfare. Mistakenly believing that Jang Woo was killed in battle, Soo Yeon becomes engaged to military officer Tae Ho. Jang Woo returns on the eve of their wedding, and the two are briefly, painfully united, but the eruption of war tears them apart once again, forcing him to fight alongside Tae Ho on top of everything. Jang Woo keeps fighting to get back to his love, but the war continues to find new ways to keep them apart. Leading drama stars So Ji Sub and Kim Ha Neul portray star-crossed lovers who are torn apart by war.
Lee Jang-woo
So Ji-sub
Lee Jang-woo
Kim Soo-yeon
Kim Ha-neul
Kim Soo-yeon
Yoon Sam-soo
Choi Min-soo
Yoon Sam-soo
Shin Tae-ho
Yoon Kye-sang
Shin Tae-ho
Oh Jong-ki
Son Chang-min
Oh Jong-ki
Kim Soo-hyuk
Kim Jin-woo
Kim Soo-hyuk
Kim Soo-hee
Nam Bo-ra
Kim Soo-hee
U.S. Marine Corps Platoon Leader
Julien Kang
U.S. Marine Corps Platoon Leader
Jo In-sook
Han Yeri
Jo In-sook
Heo Chan-shik
Noh Young-hak
Heo Chan-shik
Yang Kang-tae
Song Jae-hee
Yang Kang-tae
young Soo-yeon
Kim Yoo-jung
young Soo-yeon
The more I watch war themed dramas the more I'm convinced that this genre is best fit in a movie format instead of a drama. It's still a decent drama but consistency is rarer than winning the lottery especially with how they decided to end it. That time-skip ending was objectively and undeniably bad! What's even worse was how they tried to justify the time skip. Even if the writer was suborn and wanted to force a time skip ending, there were definitely many other ways to better layout the necessary elements to execute it in a meaningful and impactful way instead of creating a mockery.
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