Thirty-Nine

📊 Series Specifications

Network JTBC
Episode Runtime ~72 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 12
Original Language KO

Thirty-Nine (2022)

Created by Yu Young-ah , Kim Sang-ho
⭐ 4.2 / 5 (67 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 12 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Series Status:

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Synopsis

Leaning on each other through thick and thin, a trio of best friends stand together as they experience life, love and loss on the brink of turning 40.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Thirty, Nine

Cha Mi-jo announces her sabbatical to her two best friends. Chance encounters and sweet-scented peonies draw Kim Seon-u and Mi-jo together.

E2 One Absurd Day

Unable to let her go, Kim Jin-seok asks Jeong Chan-young to rethink their breakup. Mi-jo receives a heart-racing confession... and heartbreaking news.

E3 Something I Had Never Thought Of

Jin-seok's wife confronts Chan-young. Lacking the courage to tell Chan-young the diagnosis, Mi-jo takes her anger out on someone else.

E4 Choice

Chan-young and Jin-seok tearfully reveal their secrets to each other. A friend's sighting of Kim So-won at an unlikely place rattles Seon-u.

E5 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2

Chan-young creates a bucket list of her to-do items for loved ones. Mi-jo consoles a guilt-ridden Seon-u, who blames himself for So-won's sorrows.

E6 Conviction

At an impromptu dinner for four, Seon-u's dad shows his affinity for Mi-jo and aversion for So-won. Chan-young's mom stops by while Jin-seok is over.

E7 The Inconvenient Truth

Chan-young finds information on Mi-jo's birth mother and auditions to achieve a long-awaited dream. So-won moves into the orphanage.

E8 When You Think It's the End

Seon-u asks his father to apologize to So-won. Chan-young's mom demands answers from the trio. Mi-jo learns of her biological mother.

E9 A Thousand Nights Over and Over Again

Mi-jo's conversation with her birth mother leaves her distraught. Chan-young excitedly plans her mom's birthday, but nearly misses the celebration.

E10 He Who Dances Must Pay the Piper

When a strange man comes looking for Mi-jo at her clinic, she seeks answers from her adoptive mother. Jang Joo-hee expresses her frustration and fear.

E11 About Romance

Joo-hee and Mi-jo take Chan-young out to capture her smile after hearing she's taken her funeral photo. Mi-jo's parents invite Seon-u over for a meal.

E12 Samseong-dong, Hyochang-dong and Gocheok-dong

Chan-young gets the chance to say goodbye to loved ones at an unforgettable brunch. Worried about Mi-jo, she leaves behind a surprise gift.