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Official poster | |
Directed by | Nobuhiro Doi and Han Chul-soo |
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Country of origin |
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No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Running time | 129 minutes (per 2 episodes) |
Original release | |
Network | |
Release | February 4 (2002-02-04) – February 5, 2002 (2002-02-05) |
Friends | |
Hangul | 프렌즈 |
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Revised Romanization | Peurenjeu |
McCune–Reischauer | P'ŭrenjŭ |
Friends is a 4-episode South Korean-Japanese short drama that aired in 2002. It was produced by TBS (Japan), and MBC (South Korea). This was the first time in drama history that the two countries collaborated to co-produce the show in both South Korea and Japan. It was originally broadcast on February 4–5 in Japan and February 15–16 in South Korea.
Plot
Tomoko, a Japanese tourist, and Ji-hoon, a South Korean film student and aspiring movie director, meet in Hong Kong. Despite a rocky meeting and the language barrier, they become friends. Over time, they eventually head back to their respective countries but only after exchanging email addresses, promising to keep in touch and meeting again. Tomoko decides to go to Korea to work as a tour guide and sees Ji-hoon again, but problems occur.
Cast
Korean
- Kim Ji Hoon – Won Bin
- Park Kyoung-joo – Lee Dong-gun
- Park Hye-jin - Han Hye-jin
- Gyu-han - Dokgo Young-jae
- Soo-kyung - Sunwoo Eun-sook
Japanese
- Tomoko Asai – Kyoko Fukada
- Yuko Yamagishi – Akiko Yada
- Midori Kaneda – Naho Toda
- Shota Sakamaki – Yukiyoshi Ozawa
- Satoko Asai – Keiko Takeshita
External links
Films and television series directed by Nobuhiro Doi | |
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- 2002 South Korean television series debuts
- 2002 South Korean television series endings
- MBC TV television dramas
- Japanese drama television series
- 2002 Japanese television series debuts
- 2002 Japanese television series endings
- Television shows set in Hong Kong
- Television shows written by Yoshikazu Okada
- South Korean romance television series
- Television shows about Zainichi Korean people
- Fiction about interracial romance