Loving You

Title: 러빙유 / Leobing Yu
Episodes: 12
Broadcasted by: KBS
Broadcast period: 2002

Cast & Credits

Park Yong Ha as Lee Hyuk
Eugene as Jin Da Rae
Lee Yu Ri as Cho Su Kyong
Lee Dong Wook as Lee Min
Director : Lee Geon Jun
Writer : Kim Jong Hyeon & Shin Hye Jin

Synopsis

Jin Da Rae (Eugene) is the daughter of a female diver in Cheju Island. After her father mysteriously passes away she tries to uncover the truth about his death. One day she coincidentally saves Hyuk (Park Yong Ha) from torrent waters. Hyuk works for an orange farm opposed to his father’s wish that Hyuk should take over his resort development business. Da Rae and Hyuk gradually fall in love. However, their love is put to a risky test after Hyuk’s half-brother (Lee Dong Wook) also discovers his love for Da Rae. While all 3 of them get entangled in a complicated love triangle, Da Rae finds out that Hyuk is connected to her father’s death.

Lovers in Prague

Title: 프라하의 연인 / Peurahaui Yeonin
Also known as: Praha Lovers
Episodes: 18
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2005-09-24 to 2005-11-20
Air time: Saturday & Sunday 9:45 PM

Synopsis

The presidents daughter, Yoon Jae-hee (Jun Do-yeon) is living in Prague working as an official in the consulate under foreign affairs. Choi Sang-hyun (Kim Joo-hyuk) is a detective who goes to Prague in order to look for his girlfriend, Hye-joo (Yoon Se-ah). Sang-hyun who loves Hye-joo very much has been paying for Hye-joo’s tuition, and was planning to marry her in the future. However one day, after Sang Hyun receives the presidential letter of commendation, Hye-joo (who is in Prague) tells Sang-hyun never to look for her again.

Sang-hyun ends up going to Prague to find Hye-joo. Sang-hyun meets Jae-hee and misunderstandings arrive between them. Sang-hyun ends up thinking Jae-hee is a prostitute but later asks her to help him translate (because he only spoke Korean) when he gets into a little problem with a pick-pocketer. Coincidentally, Jae-hee’s roommate is Hye-joo. Later, Sang-hyun learns that she is pregnant with another man’s baby. Hye-joo tells Sang-hyun she loves the other man even if he is much older because he is wealthy. Ji Young-woo (Kim Min-joon) is from a prominent family, he was Jae-hee’s former boyfriend, but had left her due to his own reasons, and still harbors feelings for her.

Apparently, Young Woo’s father was the man who got Hye Joo pregnant!

3 months later, back in Korea, Jae-hee gets pulled over for speeding. The officer who pulled her over is Sang-hyun…the two then form a love story.

Cast

Jun Do Yeon as Yoon Jae-hee
Kim Joo Hyuk as Choi Sang-hyun
Kim Min Joon as Ji Young-woo
Yoon Se Ah as Kim Hye-joo
Lee Jung Kil as Yoon Jung-han
Jung Dong Hwan as Ji Kyung-hwan (Young-woo’s father)
Yoon Young Joon as Suh Yoon-kyu
Kim Seung Ok as Hwang Dal-ho (Sang-hyun’s partner)
Kim Na Woon as Shin Kwang-ja
Lee Sun Ho (Andy) as Ji Seung-woo (Young-woo’s younger half brother)
Jang Geun Suk as Yoon Gun-hee
Kwak Ji Min as Jung Yeon-soo
Ha Jung Woo as Ahn Dong-nam (Jae-hee’s bodyguard)
Park Jae Min as Mrs. Young

Production Credits

Chief Producer: Goo Bon Geun
Producer: Kim Yang
Script Writer: Kim Eun Sook
Director: Shin Woo Chul, Kim Hyung Sik
Assistant Director: Oh Jin Suk, Kwon Hyuk Chan

Lovers in Paris

Title: 파리의연인 / Pa-ri-eh yun-in
Also known as: My Sweetheart In Paris / Romance in Paris
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 20
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2004-06-12 to 2004-08-15
Air time: Saturday & Sunday 9:55 PM

Synopsis

This romantic drama is set in the romantic city of Paris, France. A weird twist of fate connects three people from completely different worlds to one place where they begin to develop feelings towards each other. At first none of them realize what they are getting themselves into, but as they get to know each other more and more their feelings toward each other begin to deepen…

This drama begins when Tae Young decides to go to Paris to work on writing a scenario that would truly capture the essence of this romanic and beautiful city of Paris. There she meets Gi Ju while working at a friend’s stall and Soo Hyuk when her bicycle breaks down. Gi Ju asks her to act as his fiance so he could get the interest of a client he was meeting in Paris. While at a party hosted by this client something goes wrong to reveal the truth about their relationship. There they decide to call the whole thing quits and break up. They both go to Korea where fate pulls them back together.

Tae Young, Gi Ju and Soo Hyuk begin to develop friendships with Tae Young and end up feeling more feelings towards her than they initially thought. The thing about both of them having feelings towards one girl was that Gi Ju was Soo Hyuk’s uncle and they had grown up like best friends since they were only about 7 years apart. Their feelings towards her slowly begin to be revealed causing heartache for all the people around them.

Cast

Kim Jung Eun as Kang Tae-young
Park Shin Yang as President Han Ki-joo
Lee Dong Gun as Yoon Soo-hyuk (Ki-joo’s nephew)
Oh Joo Eun as Moon Yoon-ah (daughter of Congressman Moon)
Kim Suh Hyung as Baek Seung-kyung (Ki-joo’s ex-wife)
Jung Ae Ri as Han Ki-hae (Soo-hyuk’s mother)
Kim Sung Won as Chairman Han Sung-hoon (Ki-joo’s father)
Park Young Ji as Director Choi Won-jae (President Han’s right-hand man)
Jo Eun Ji as Lee Yang-mi (Tae-young’s friend in Paris
Yoon Young Joon as Kim Seung-joon (Ki-joo’s secretary)
Sung Dong Il as Kang Pil-bo (Tae-young’s uncle)
Kim Young Chan as Kang Gun (Tae-young’s little cousin)
Lee Se Chang as Park Jung-hak (CEO of J Motors)
Kim Sang Soon as Congressman Moon Ji-hwan (Yoon-ah’s father)
Suh Kwon Sook as Mrs. Moon (Yoon-ah’s mother)

Production Credits

Producer: Kim Yang
Director: Shin Woo Chul
Writer: Kim Eun Sook, Kang Eun Jung

Trivia

Lovers in Paris won the prize for the best TV drama at the 41st Baeksang Art Awards (2005-05-20)

Lovers in Paris is the first of three romantic dramas with a setting in Europe. The second drama is Lovers in Prague