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3''Cinderella's Sister'' (Hangul: 신데렐라 언니, lit. ''Cinderella's Older Sister'', also known as Cinderella's Stepsister), is a KoreanDrama that ran between March and June 2010 for 20 episodes. The family dynamics are set in a small winery that a conglomerate is attempting to take over. It stars Moon Geun-young as Eun Jo, Seo Woo as Goo Hyo Sun, Chun Jung-myung as Hong Ki Hoon, and Ok Taec-yeon (from Music/TwoPM as Han Jung Woo.
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8* AbusiveParents: Eun Jo, who has no real father figure until her mother marries Dae Seong, repeatedly ignores Dae Seong's attempts to help/befriend her[[spoiler: and never quite gets a chance to tell him that she appreciates him. Then he dies.]]
9* AllLoveIsUnrequited:
10** Hyo Seon likes Ki Hoon, who likes Eun Jo, who rejects Ki Hoon.
11** Jung Woo likes Eun Jo, who thinks of him as a kid brother.
12%%* BrokenBird: rather obviously, Eun Jo.
13%%* CallingTheOldManOut: Ki Hoon
14%%* ChekhovsGun: Letter Ki Hoon writes to Eun Joo.
15* DaddysGirl: Hyo Seon was the darling of everyone who worked at the winery[[spoiler:--until her father dies]]
16%%** Ki Hoon - Oh so much!
17%%** Jung Woo counts, with his [[AbusiveParents abusive foster father]]
18%%* DefrostingIceQueen: Eun Jo, steadily enough.
19* DramaticShattering: Done by Go Dae Seong, against the ceramic wine pots using an axe.
20* FreudianExcuse: Song Kang Sook is the root of all this: her biological daughter Eun Jo in the first half of the series, and her stepdaughter Hyo Seon in the latter half
21%%* FriendlyEnemy: Hong Ki Hoon, as the illegitimate younger son of the Hong Winery conglomerate.
22* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Go Hyo Seon and Song Eun Jo are always fighting despite and because they're half-sisters. Hyo sun is especially jealous of her new stepsister, Eun Jo.
23* [[SheIsAllGrownUp He's All Grown up]]: Eun Jo doesn't recognize Jung Woo after 8 years because of this.
24* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Eun Jo
25* KidsAreCruel: Go Jun Soo, who doubles it with [[LonelyRichKid Lonely Rich Kid]].[[spoiler: His [[WhenYouComingHomeDad "When's Daddy coming home?"]] after Dae Seong dies tugs at heartstrings.]]
26* LoveTriangle: Hyo Seon and Eun Jo both like Ki Hoon. Ki Hoon and Jung Woo both like Eun Jo.
27%%* ParentalFavoritism: Hyo Seon[[spoiler:--until her father dies]]
28%%* PoorCommunicationKills: Ki Hoon and Eun Jo
29* PrecociousCrush: Jung Woo's had a crush on Eun Jo, who's several years older than him, since he was in elementary school.
30%%* RoyalBrat: Little Go Jun Soo
31%%* SpoiledBrat: Hyo Seon, later little brother Jun Soo
32%%* ToughLove: Kang Sook to daughter Eun Jo
33* WickedStepmother: Song Kang Sook. Subverted in that, for the first eight years, she chose her stepdaughter over her biological one.
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