| Overview: | Unaware of the consequences that will tear apart her marriage, one wife makes the difficult choice of sleeping with another man to save her husband's life. Victim of Love illustrates the sacrifices that people make for love.
Victim of Love aka Salt Doll is a melodrama on-location filming in Hokkaido, Japan, and a Korean version of Hollywood's 1993 acclaimed blockbuster Indecent Proposal which stirred up much controversy with its provocative premise. In this SBS's TV drama, Hwang Soo Jung (HurJun) takes on a much talked about role that mirrors Demi Moore's character in the original Hollywood film, playing a wife who sleeps with a wealthy man in exchange for money so she can pay for her husband's hospital fees. This drama marks the actress's long awaited comeback from a five-year hiatus brought on by Hwang's arrest for drugs and her scandalous affair with a married man. Rounding up the cast are Kim Young Ho (Song Of The Prince) who plays Hwang's tormented husband and Kim Yoo Seok (My Ugly Sweetie), who delivers an outstanding performance as the "other man". Capturing each character's emotional turmoil and the moral ramifications of their actions, Victim of Love brings to light one of the most prevalent problems in our society: adultery.
Cha So-young's {Hwang Soo Jung} dropped out of her studies after getting married Park Yeon-woo (Kim Young Ho). She always held the belief that the life of a loved one is more important than anything else in the world. One day, she was dealt a cruel twist of fate when she had to decide whether to sleep with Kang Ji-suk (Kim Yoo Suk), an old acquaintance, in order to get the operation fee to save her husband's life. So-young eventually accepted his offer out of desperation. After the money-for-sex tryst, So-young barely managed to regain some normalcy. However, her marriage was turned upside down when Ji-suk's fiancee Seo Yi-hyun (JeongAe Yeon)cameto inform Yeon-woo about the illicit relationship between So-young and Ji-suk...! Yeon-woo was losing control of his life after learning the truth. Their marriage fell apart and in the end, she lost her husband and son all because of one decision she made to keep her family together...
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