- Which Star Are You From
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show_name = Which Star Are You From
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genre =Drama
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starring =Kim Rae-won Jung Ryo-won
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country = KOR
language = Korean
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num_episodes = 16
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runtime = 60 minutes
network = MBC
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first_aired =March 13 ,2006
last_aired =May 2 ,2006
releases = PHIABS CBN
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website = http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/drama/byul/
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tv_com_id ="Which Star Are You From" (넌 어느 별에서 왔니; "Neon Eoneu Byeoleseo Wassni") is a
South Korea n television drama that airs onMunhwa Broadcasting Corporation ("MBC").One of MBC's newest romantic comedy series is "What's Your Star?", also popularly known as "What Star Are You From?", the Korean name is 넌 어느 별에서 왔니.
Considered to be
actress Jeong Ryeo-Won's (My Name is Kim Sam-Soon) major feature series, the show also stars Kim Rae-Won (Rooftop Room Cat ) and banks not only on the popularity of its lead actors, but the success of its storyline.Plot
Kim plays Choi Seung-Hee, a young director who just made a successful international film debut. Following his success in
Australia , he meets the girl of his dreams, Lee Hye-su (Jeong Ryeo-Won), an aspiring musician. After spending a lovestruck romp on Australia, they planned to get married. Hye-su, however, discovers her mother does not approve of Choi. Driving to eat out one day, Seung-hee suddenly proposes to Hye-su, and while putting the ring on her finger, Seung-hee careens wildly on the road to get out the way of a truck. The accident causes Lee's death. Choi then spends the next three years in reclusion, drinking and holing himself up in his apartment.Han Jeong-hoon (Park Shi-hoo), who runs a film company, urges Director Kim to finish his grieving and to start working on film again. Choi pulls all his energy to push Hye-su out of his thoughts. On the day he decided to go out and to continue working, he sees a young woman at the sidewalk who looked exactly like his beloved Hye-su. Struck by the utter similarity, he starts to follow the girl to her hometown, which turned out to be a far-flung province. The girl, named Kim Bok-shil (also played by Jeong Ryeo-Won), realizing Choi had nowhere else to stay for the night, offers her home as an inn. Being poor, she considers all opportunities a chance to get good money.
After spending the night at the fake inn, the two also spends the morning together searching for fresh mountain water and encountering a wild
boar in the process. Choi does not reveal his identity to Kim, and Kim mistakes him for a bum waiting to pass a long overdue exam. While walking on the countryside, Choi is inspired by the beauty of his surroundings and gets ready to prepare for his next film. He then returns toSeoul and later comes back to Kim's village to shoot. They see each other again, and Bok-shil realizes Seung-hee is a renowned director. Bok-shil then posiitons herself as a rice-server for the crew and comes to the set everyday. By a stroke of luck, Han Jeong-hoon, also on the set, absent-mindedly offers Bok-shil a job at the film company. Jeong-hoon is also struck by the similarity of Bok-shil and Hye-su.Bok-shil starts work in Seoul as an assistant for Director Choi. In the hopes of saving enough money for her mother's surgery, Bok-shil braves the demands of her work despite her clumsy and awkward ways. Seung-hee finds himself being attracted to Bok-shil because of her face, initially, and then later on because of her unique charm and humor.
Hye-su's family, by chance, sees Bok-shil and realizes she is the long lost sister of Hye-su. Hye-su's mother, determined not to lose another daughter, runs an investigation to find out Bok-shil's real identity. Proving that Bok-shil is really Lee Hye-rim, her lost younger daughter, she pleads Bok-shil/Hye-rim to leave her rural life and adopted mother to embrace her true lineage. Through Yoon Mi-hyeon (Kang Jeong-hwa), the film company's music director who turned to be her cousin, Bok-shil realizes she is the sister of Hye-su, Director Choi's former girlfriend. She is now conflicted on how to tell the truth to Seung-hee, who is now also falling for her. After the initial shock and confusion, Seung-hee was able to overcome his fears and admits he is in love with Hye-rim as Kim Bok-shil. Bok-shil's real mother, pained yet again for her younger daughter's choice, becomes determined to put an end to the relationships. Her hate for the director has come full-circle, and Choi now has the chance to do what he wasn't able to do for Hye-su.
A highly enjoyable and light-hearted series, the story manages to look over the clichés and fairytales plots to focus on the changes on each character. The story gets its strength from the concept of loving how a person looks versus loving the person as a whole. With filmmaking as the backdrop, the story makes many references to formulating scripts, literature, directing and others. The series is also heads above mediocre love stories. It is well acted by Jeong and Kim, both award-winning TV and film actors. Jeong, who has lived in Australia in real life, is most notable for being very versatile, transforming completely from role to role, making it hard to imagine that the same actress plays the same roles.
Major Cast
*Jeong Ryeo Won - Kim Bok-shil/Lee Hye Su/Lee Hae-rim
*Kim Rae Won - Choi Seung-hee
*Park Shi-hoo - Han Jeong-hoon
*Kang Jeong Hwa - Yoon Mi hyoonBroadcast outside Korea
* "Which Star Are You From?" was started in the
Philippines overABS-CBN part of primetime since MondayMay 28 ,2007 .Production details
*MBC Media, released 2006
*Directed by Pyo Min-soo
*Written by Jeong Yoo-jeongTrivia
*Jeong Ryeo-Won actually lived in Australia in real life. She and her family immigrated there when she was in 5th grade, and she only recently went back to South Korea in 1999. Australia is where Jeong's character Hye-soo and Kim's character Choi supposedly met and fell in love. Jyeong's other character, Bok-shil, has never been to Australia or at the airport. In one scene, Bok-shil even commented on how beautiful Australia looked in Choi's shots and wished that she could go there someday.
*According to ASTA TV, the title of this drama is based on the "belief that everyone comes from a different planet before they are born." [ [http://www.koreanwiz.org/at/drama-whatisyourstar.html What Is Your Star? ] ]Soundtrack
* The soundtrack used in the Philippines entitled "Catch Me I'm Falling" is sung by
Toni Gonzaga . [http://youtube.com/watch?v=rcVoemsjgrI]References
External links
* [http://files.tagworld.com/3bcd1b0db1badd9b4ad385787cdfd394afc1.jpeg Tagworld]
* [http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/drama/byul/ _ko. iMBC.com 넌 어느 별에서 왔니] ko icon, official site
* [http://content.mbc.co.kr/e_mbc/drama.asp?idx=208 Drama "Which Star Are You From"] , MBC - Global Media
* [http://www.hancinema.net/korean_drama_What__s_Your_Star__i_.php Korean Movie Database entry]
* [http://files.tagworld.com/50de1659edb8e70246889aa4d5327004ffed.jpeg Jeong Ryeo Won]
* [http://files.tagworld.com/3bcd1b0db1badd9b4ad385787cdfd394afc1.jpeg Kim Rae Won]
* [http://www.spcnet.tv/reviews/productions.php?pID=645 Which Star Are You From Reviews - spcnet.tv]
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