{{Short description|South Korean television series}} {{Infobox television | image = Bachelor's Vegetable Store poster.jpg | image_size = 250 | caption = Promotional poster | alt_name = | genre = Melodrama <br /> Comedy <br /> Romance | based_on = {{based on|''Bachelor's Vegetable Store''|Kim Young-han and Lee Young-seok}} | writer = Yoon Sung-hee | director = Lee Joon-hyung | starring = Ji Chang-wook<br />Wang Ji-hye<br />Kim Young-kwang<br />Park Soo-jin<br />Hwang Shin-hye | music = Lee Pil-ho | open_theme = | end_theme = | country = South Korea | language = Korean | num_episodes = 24 | executive_producer = Cho Sung-won<br />Park In-taek | producer = Song Byung-soo | editor = | location = Korea | cinematography = | camera = | runtime = | company = Touch Sky Production | channel = Channel A | first_aired = {{start date|2011|12|21}} | last_aired = {{end date|2012|3|8}} | related = }} '''''Bachelor's Vegetable Store''''' ({{Korean/auto|hangul=^총각네 야채가게|rr=yes}}) is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Ji Chang-wook, Wang Ji-hye, Kim Young-kwang, Park Soo-jin and Hwang Shin-hye. It aired on Channel A from December 21, 2011 to March 8, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:20 (KST) for 24 episodes.
It is based on the same-titled book published in 2003 that chronicles the real-life success story of how a young man named Lee Young-seok turned a small 350-square-feet vegetable store in 1998 into a nationwide franchise with 33 branches.<ref>{{cite web|title=Veggie Store gets its bachelor, broadcaster, and leading lady|url=http://www.dramabeans.com/2011/11/veggie-store-gets-its-bachelor-broadcaster-and-leading-lady/|website=Dramabeans|access-date=2014-06-22|date=3 November 2011|archive-date=2022-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127080101/https://www.dramabeans.com/2011/11/veggie-store-gets-its-bachelor-broadcaster-and-leading-lady/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=CEO와 특별한 하루: 이영석 총각네야채가게 대표|url=http://www.asiae.co.kr/news/view.htm?idxno=2009112711334579036|website=10Asia|language=ko|access-date=2014-06-22|date=27 November 2009|archive-date=2021-11-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123224405/http://www.asiae.co.kr/news/view.htm?idxno=2009112711334579036|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chonggakne.com/ |title=Home |website=chonggakne.com |access-date=2014-06-22 |archive-date=2014-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140601032303/http://www.chonggakne.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Synopsis== Han Tae-yang (Ji Chang-wook) is a hardworking, talented young man who will do anything to make his tiny vegetable stand a success. He hires a couple of "lost boys" who become his employees and friends: Nam Yoo-bong (Lee Kwang-soo), a successful yet lonely farmer with zero love life; Lee Chan-sol (Shin Won-ho), an idol trainee whose talent agency throws him out after nine years due to a hushed scandal, so he ends up working in a host club; Yoon Ho-jae (Song Ji-hyuk), a certifiable genius with a lack of social skills that makes him unhireable to big companies; and Jung Ki-young (Noh Sung-ha), a homeless man who doesn't talk much.
Tae-yang also falls in love with Mok Ga-on (Wang Ji-hye), but she is hiding a huge secret. She is actually Jin Jin-shim, an orphaned girl and Tae-yang‘a childhood best friend/first love. When her friend, the real Mok Ga-on, died when they were teenagers, Ga-on's ambitious mother Choi Kang-sun took Jin-shim in and told her to pretend to be her daughter, since Ga-on is the illegitimate daughter of a chaebol businessman. Desperate for a family, Jin-shim agreed, and now named Ga-on, she has a devoted but toxic relationship with Kang-sun. Ga-on also has feelings for Tae-yang, but she is torn between him and a wealthy heir, Lee Seul-woo (Kim Young-kwang).
==Cast== ===Main=== * Ji Chang-wook as Han Tae-yang<ref>{{cite web|last=Choi|first=Eun-hwa|title=Ji Chang Wook On Always Being the 'Good Guy'|url=http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/2164/ji-chang-wook-on-always-being-the-good-guy|work=enewsWorld|access-date=2014-06-22|date=15 December 2011|archive-date=2015-12-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211001242/http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/2164/ji-chang-wook-on-always-being-the-good-guy|url-status=live}}</ref> ** Oh Jae-moo as young Tae-yang * Wang Ji-hye as Mok Ga-on / Jin Jin-shim ** Chae Bin as young Jin-shim ** Park So-young as young Ga-on * Kim Young-kwang as Lee Seul-woo * Park Soo-jin as Jung Dan-bi
===Supporting=== * Hwang Shin-hye as Choi Kang-sun<ref>{{cite web|last=Choi|first=Eun-hwa|title=Hwang Shin Hye on Acting as a Mother|url=http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/2173/hwang-shin-hye-on-acting-as-a-mother|work=enewsWorld|access-date=2014-06-22|date=15 December 2011|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002043/http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/2173/hwang-shin-hye-on-acting-as-a-mother|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Lee Se-young as Han Tae-in ** Roh Jeong-eui as young Tae-in * Park Won-sook as Hwang Soo-ja * Jang Hang-sun as Jung Goo-gwang * Kim Do-yeon as Yeon Boon-hong * Jeon No-min as Mok In-beom * Lee Kwang-soo as Nam Yoo-bong<ref>{{cite web|last=Choi|first=Eun-hwa|title=Lee Kwang Soo on the End of ''Bachelor's Vegetable Store''|url=http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/4169/lee-kwang-soo-on-bachelors-vegetable-store|work=enewsWorld|access-date=2014-06-22|date=9 March 2012|archive-date=2014-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210204638/http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/4169/lee-kwang-soo-on-bachelors-vegetable-store|url-status=live}}</ref> * Shin Won-ho as Lee Chan-sol * Song Ji-hyuk as Yoon Ho-jae * Noh Sung-ha as Jung Ki-young<ref>{{cite web|last=Choi|first=Eun-hwa|title=Sung Ha Cast in ''Bachelor's Vegetable Store''|url=http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/1744/sung-ha-cast-in-bachelors-vegetable-store|work=enewsWorld|access-date=2014-06-22|date=24 November 2011|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214504/http://mwave.interest.me/enewsworld/en/article/1744/sung-ha-cast-in-bachelors-vegetable-store|url-status=live}}</ref> * Lee Eun as Hong Jung-ah * Sa Mi-ja as Park Geum-soon * ?? as driver of Ga-on's mom
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130114201513/http://tv.ichannela.com/drama/chonggakne/ ''Bachelor's Vegetable Store'' official Channel A website] {{in lang|ko}} * {{hancinema drama|Bachelor__s_Vegetable_Store}} {{Channel A dramas}}
Category:Channel A television dramas Category:2011 South Korean television series debuts Category:2011 South Korean television series endings Category:Korean-language television shows Category:Television shows based on South Korean novels