| Friends | |
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| Directed by | Nobuhiro Doi and Han Chul-soo |
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| No. of episodes | 4 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 129 minutes (per 2 episodes) |
| Original release | |
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| Release | February 4 – February 5, 2002 |
| Friends | |
| Hangul | |
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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 [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