Friends (2002 TV series)

Friends
Hangul	프렌즈
Revised Romanization	Peurenjeu
McCune–Reischauer	P'ŭrenjŭ

*Friends*
Friends
	Official poster
Directed by	Nobuhiro Doi and Han Chul-soo
Starring	Won Bin; Kyoko Fukada;
Country of origin	South Korea; Japan;
No. of episodes	4
Production
Running time	129 minutes (per 2 episodes)
Original release
Network	TBS; MBC;
Release	February 4 –; February 5, 2002

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 [Sales Lady], and Ji-Hoon, a South Korean film student [Aspiring movie director], meet in Hong Kong. Despite a rocky meeting and their language barrier, they become good friends. In time, they eventually head back to their respective countries but only after exchanging email addresses – promising to keep in touch and eventually meet again. But with fate pushing them to see each other again, Tomoko decides to go to South Korea to meet Ji-hoon again but some 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

Official site
Friends at IMDb