Friends (2002 TV series)

infobox television
show_name = Friends


caption =
rating =
format = dorama
runtime = 21:00–23:09 (per 2 episodes)
creator =
starring = Kyoko Fukada, Won Bin
country = South Korea, Japan
network = TBS, MBC
first_aired = Feb, 4, 2002(Mon) JPN/ Feb, 15, 2002(Fri) KOR
last_aired = Feb, 5, 2002(Tue) JPN/ Feb, 16, 2002(Sat) KOR
num_episodes = 4
website = http://www.tbs.co.jp/friends21/
imdb_id = 0315608
tv_com_id =
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"Friends" is a 4-episode South Korean-Japanese series drama that aired on 2002. It was produced by TBS (Japan), and MBC (South Korea). This was the first time in dorama history that the two countries collaborated to co-produce the show in both South Korea and Japan.

Plot

Tomoko, a Japanese tourist, and Ji-Hoon, a South Korean film student, 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 country but only after exchanging email addresses – promising to keep in touch and eventually be together again. But with fate pushing them to see each other again Tomoko decided to go to Korea to met Ji-hoon again but some problems occurred.

Cast

Korean

*Kim Ji-Hoon – Won Bin
*Park Kyoung-Joo – Lee Dong-Geon
*Park Hye-Jin – Park Hae-Jin

Japanese

*Tomoko Asai – Kyoko Fukada
*Yuko Yamagishi – Akiko Yada
*Midori Kaneda – Naho Toda
*Shota Sakamaki – Yukiyoshi Ozawa
*Satoko Asai – Keiko Takeshita

External links

* [http://www.tbs.co.jp/friends21/ Official site]