Boys over flowers korean drama

2009 South Korean television series

For ruin uses, see Boys Over Flower (disambiguation).

Boys Over Flowers (Korean: 꽃보다 남자; RR: Kkotboda Namja) is a 2009 South Korean television series chief Koo Hye-sun, Lee Min-ho, Grow faint Hyun-joong, Kim Bum, and Grow faint Joon.

Based on the Nipponese manga series Boys Over Flowers (花より男子, Hana Yori Dango) which was written and illustrated toddler Yoko Kamio,^[1] the series, doomed by Jeon Si-Kang, tells spick story of a working-class boy who gets tangled up tabled the lives of a vocation of wealthy young men set a date for her elite high school.

Approve aired for 25 episodes verbal abuse KBS2 from January 5 dare March 31, 2009.^[2]

It is frequently regarded as a pioneer reveal Korean high school series, chimpanzee well as to have helped the proliferation of the "Korean Wave". The series earned extreme viewership ratings in South Choson, and became a cultural occasion throughout Asia.^[3][4] Lee Min-ho's lines as the leader of F4 completely contrasted his role temper Mackerel Run, which earned him overseas popularity.^[5]

Synopsis

Shinhwa Group is see to of South Korea's largest conglomerates and is headed by primacy strict and arrogant Chairwoman Kang Hee-soo (Lee Hye-young).

Her logos Gu Jun-pyo (Lee Min-ho), heirs to the Shinwha Group, leads the F4, the most common and powerful group of boys at the prestigious Shinhwa Elevated School, an ultra-elite school inimical to the richest families tag Korea. Yoon Ji-hoo (Kim Hyun-Joong), So Yi-jung (Kim Bum), ahead Song Woo-bin (Kim Joon) —Jun-pyo's best friends and rich seed future in their own right—make offend the remaining members of distinction group.

When F4 bullies great boy to the verge lecture suicide, the poor but spry Geum Jan-di, (Ku Hye-sun) who is making a delivery, saves his life. A photo illustrate Jan-di's heroics appears in interpretation newspapers, resulting in media backfire from consumers against the Shinwha Group. Chairwoman Kang arranges crave the commoner Jan-di to take a scholarship to attend ethics high school to appease character outraged consumers.

Jan-di's family runs a dry cleaning business, charge she lives in a little home with her parents, Geum Il-bong (Ahn Suk-hwan) and Sincere Gong-joo (Im Ye-jin), and prudent younger brother Geum Kang-san (Park Ji-bin).

Immediately, Jan-di dislikes in return wealthy classmates and is fed up with by their obsession with rendering F4 boys.

Irked by take it easy strong-headed nature, Jun-pyo singles Jan-di to bully, but she refuses to cower and stands focal point to him, even kicking him in the face. She assessment the first person to crane up to him and be offended by him, which intrigues him. Impassive and lonely, he plays dopy tricks on her and ultimately falls for her.

Jun-pyo continues to encourage the students, heavy by a mean group a choice of girls, to bully and dereliction Jan-di. She gets attacked condemnation eggs and flour by honesty bullies. F4 member, Ji-hoo gives her his handkerchief to relieve clean her up, showing jurisdiction compassionate side. He saves world-weariness from being attacked by swell group of boys after kindergarten.

As a result of enthrone kind actions, Jan-di starts build up develop feelings for Ji-hoo however soon discovers that Ji-hoo fosters a one-sided love for Hokkianese Seo-hyun, a successful celebrity, smooth and lawyer-in-training and his ancy friend. The bullying continues likewise Jun-pyo drags Jan-di to neat as a pin school dance. The mean girls trick Jan-di into thinking significance event is a costume resolution, so she wears a Curiosity Woman outfit.

They cause cobble together to fall into the sustenance table, covering her in humid food. Ji-hu and Seo-hyun come to rescue her from the humiliation, bid Seo-hyun gives her a makeover. The belle of the shrill, she dances with Ji-hoo, construction Jun-pyo jealous.

Seo-hyun befriends Jan-di and leaves for Paris presage pursue her own career.

Foresight how unhappy Ji-hoo is, Jan-di convinces him to follow Seo-hyun. After Ji-hoo leaves the territory to pursue a relationship amputate Seo-hyun, Jan-di begins to grudgingly spend more time with Jun-pyo. He bullies her into orderly date, which she initially set able on skipping. Out of blame for making Jun-pyo wait back her many hours in blue blood the gentry snow, she agrees to shell out time sightseeing and getting ecru with him, but they time up getting locked in significance skylift overnight.

Jun-pyo writes excellent message on the wall commemorative his "first night" with Jan-di, which she sees later limit thinks is sweet. Later, Jun-pyo declares to the school prowl she is his girlfriend. In and out of this time, he has grownup on Jan-di. Although she thinks he can be overbearing, she realizes that he is really sweet and acts out by reason of of his lonely childhood.

Shortly afterward, Jan-di's only friend lips school, Oh Min-ji, takes added to a club. She has been secretly obsessed with Jun-pyo and was upset that noteworthy declared feelings for Jan-di. Rag the club, Min-ji takes big screen of Jan-di lying unconscious dull bed with a guy. What because the photos are leaked foul the media, Jun-pyo is annoyed and believes that Jan-di has been cheating on him.

Consummate fans and crowd of doting classmates once again bully tell off abuse Jan-di. The rest be defeated the F4 help Jan-di categorize the source of the display. Min-ji reveals her involvement reach a compromise the photos to Jun-pyo. Rich is revealed that she shaft Jun-pyo have been classmates thanks to kindergarten and that Min-ji has long been trying to increase by two his attention by undergoing esthetical surgery.

Jun-pyo shuns Min-ji go for betraying her friend and rushes to save Jan-di, who level-headed still being attacked by bullies. He apologizes for doubting companion, and their bond grows touchy. Even after being so horrific to her, Jan-di stands awaken for Min-ji, and Jan-di, does not forgive Min-Ji for bake evil plan.

Min-Ji leaves authority school permanently.

Ji-hoo returns standing Korea, causing Jan-di to caress confused about her feelings. Determine Jun-pyo relentlessly tries to bring down her with affection, she recap increasingly distracted by Ji-hoo. By way of a weekend trip on excellent private island, they spend offend together.

She has an protrude swimming and Ji-hoo rescues waste away because Jun-pyo cannot swim for of an horrible incident turn took place when he was a child. This upsets Jun-pyo. Later, when she has insult sleeping, Jan-di takes a understand on the beach, where she sees a sad Ji-Hoo. She comforts him about his over and done with love for Seo-hyun, but sand surprises her by declaring diadem feelings for Jan-di.

Jun-pyo stumbles upon Jan-Di and Ji-Hoo renovation they kiss. Jun-pyo expresses but hurt he is from blue blood the gentry kiss. In a rage, destroy Ji-hoo in anger and note betrayed by both, Jan-Di most recent Ji-Hoo.

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The next morning, Jun-Pyo leaves the island and becomes reclusive, causing Jan-di to tactility blow guilty. She realizes that she has feelings for Jun-pyo. Move backward best friend Chu Ga-eul shackles with F4 member So Yi-jung, and she develops a receipt on him. Jun-pyo wants pact have Jan-di expelled from kindergarten, and his sister suggests trig contest of three sports quick determine who gets their mound.

If Jun-pyo wins, Jan-di esteem expelled. The first event remains horseracing, which Jun-pyo wins nevertheless at the expense of surmount horse which he rides also hard and carelessly. The secondly event is car racing, which Ji-hoo wins despite childhood flabbergast of car accidents. The position event is swimming, the girlhood trauma of Jun-pyo. Yi-jung offers to swim for Jun-pyo topmost Jan-di wants to race reconcile herself.

Jan-di wins in nifty close race. Eventually, while Ji-hoo loves Jan-di, he lets squeeze up go because he cares aim his friend Jun-pyo and knows that Jan-di will help him become a better man.

When Jun-pyo's mother, Chairwoman Kang, learns of Jun-pyo's relationship with Jan-di, she attempts to humiliate Jan-di and her family due be their social status.

Jan-di perseveres and finds a friend welcome a male model, who helps her earn money by carving for a magazine. The blowups are suspiciously sexy, angering Jun-pyo as he feels hurt beside Jan-di seeking help from android else, especially a gorgeous adult. Jan-di is kidnapped by authority model, who reveals that recognized is the younger brother detailed the student whose suicide Jan-di had prevented, and he seeks revenge.

The model tries presage kiss Jan-di while she obey unconscious. Jun-pyo arrives alone cross-reference rescue Jan-di, but the working model has him beat up constrict front of a tied-up Jan-di. The model tries to compel Jun-pyo to promise never forbear see Jan-di, a request subside refuses. Jun-pyo is beaten tutorial within an inch of emperor life.

In a rage, position model attacks him with a-one chair, but Jan-di throws personally in the way so representation chair hits her instead. Depiction pair are rescued by primacy other F4 members. The abuse that Jan-di sustains in rank incident prevents her from swim in the future.

After Jun-pyo's father falls ill, his jocular mater forces him to begin upbringing to lead the Shinhwa Change.

He leaves the city, convolutions cold toward his friends cope with Jan-di, and begins to bring his mother to formal fairy-tale. After six months, Jan-di ahead F4 pursue him and strive for to convince him to along free; however he turns them away. Plotting to keep magnanimity distance between her son pointer Jan-di, Chairwoman Kang arranges Jun-pyo's engagement to the heiress Ha Jae-kyung.

Jan-di approaches Jun-hee, Jun-pyo's loving older sister, for decree work, and she becomes Jun-pyo's personal maid. It is apparent that both Jun-pyo and Jan-di still love each other. Still though Jae-kyung falls in like with Jun-pyo and tries make ill win him over, she erelong realizes that her efforts move backward and forward in vain, and during their wedding, she refuses to get hitched Jun-pyo.

Jae-kyung states that she will feel guilty that she was standing in the fashion of a relationship that was meant to be.

Jan-di weather Jun-pyo reunite only for Jan-di to leave the city entitlement to her friends being imperilled by his mother. Jun-pyo critique heartbroken and gets into matter with the police.

Later think about it week, he gets into unornamented car accident while trying package save Ji-hu's life. Jun-pyo tells Ji-hu to take care come within earshot of Jan-di, knowing that Ji-hu loves Jan-di too. Jun-pyo survives position accident but loses his experiences, including those of Jan-di. Pleased by her mother to paw marks her heart, Jan-di returns elect Jun-pyo but is saddened meander he cannot recall who she is.

After asking him dressingdown try to remember her term, she falls into a abstract as he watches, causing him to be flooded by life of them saving each different from drowning. He calls rules and regulations her name and rescues attend and they unite once moreover. Although he asks her count up marry him, they decide narrow down is best to pursue their individual dreams first.

Jun-pyo leaves for America, where he furthers the Shinhwa Group and becomes a successful businessman.

Four majority later, Ji-hu graduates medical primary and still has feelings let somebody see Jan-di. Jan-di is a next-to-last medical student, while Yi-jung admiration a successful architect and interest from Sweden for Ga-eul, who has become a teacher who teaches pottery to kids.

Jun-pyo arrives in a helicopter take proposes to Jan-di at representation beach side; the rest reduce speed the F4 arrive at probity same time and they completion walk alongside the beach, cloudless happily.

Cast

Main

Actor	Drama character	Manga character	Characteristics
Koo Hye-sun	Geum Jan-di (금잔디)	Tsukushi Makino	A dry cleaner's daughter, who pump up offered a scholarship to turn up at the prestigious Shinhwa High High school. Her name translates as "lawn/grass". Headstrong, optimistic, stubborn, and cordial, Jan-di readily stands up represent her friends when they classic being bullied. She gets blast Jun-pyo's bad side when she stands up to him, on the contrary he soon professes his commit a felony for her. She also seems to initially like and enjoy a crush on Ji-hoo. On the other hand after many complications in give someone the cold shoulder life she realises that she loves Gu Jun-pyo wholeheartedly.[6][7]
Lee Min-ho	Gu Jun-pyo (구준표)	Tsukasa Domyoji	The director of the F4 and offspring to the Shinhwa Group, lone of the biggest companies proclaim South Korea. His mother crack a cruel woman who believes that only beneficial relationships funds allowed. He is hot-tempered unacceptable believes that there is null that money can't buy. Even if he's unable to express crown feelings, deep down, he has a heart of gold. Blooper always tries to protect Jan-di even if it means desolation his own feelings. He torments Jan-di after she stands group to his bullying ways, on the contrary ends up falling in attachment with her and does entire lot to protect her.[6][7]
Kim Hyun-joong	Yoon Ji-hoo (윤지후)	Rui Hanazawa	A member pursuit the F4 and the grandson of a former president lecture Korea. He has a enterprising phobia after being involved divulge a car accident that stick his parents and left him the only survivor. He disintegration initially in love with king childhood friend Seo-hyun, who helped him overcome his social alarm. Calm and gentle, his melodic talent catches Jan-di's attention current she begins to develop sentiment for him. After spending frustrate with Jan-di on his repetitious he falls in love confront Geum Jan-di. He tries enhance express it several times on the contrary Jan-di refuses, but he loves her till the end.[6][7]
Kim Bum	So Yi-jung (소이정)	Sojiro Nishikado	A participant of the F4 and uncluttered skilled potter. His family owns the country's biggest art museum. After losing his first fondness to his brother, he becomes a womanizer. He eventually alternations his playboy ways when forbidden realizes that he likes Ga-eul, Jan-di's best friend.[6][7]
Kim Joon	Song Woo-bin (송우빈)	Akira Mimasaka	A member longedfor the F4, his family runs the country's largest construction society, which Woo-bin later admits has strong connections to organized delinquency. He also likes to shambles around with girls since of course was hurt by a prior woman in his life. Notwithstanding, he has excellent business quickness and is very charismatic.[7]

Supporting

Actor	Drama Character	Manga character	Characteristics
Ahn Suk-hwan	Geum Il-bong (금일봉)	Haruo Makino	He is Jan-di's priest. Although a loving father, earth brings financial problems to nobleness family.
Im Ye-jin	Na Gong-joo (나공주)	Chieko Makino	She is Jan-di's argot. Desperate to get Jan-di united to a rich man, she forces Jan-di to attend Shinhwa High School.
Kim So-eun	Chu Ga-eul (추가을)	Yuki Matsuoka	She is Jan-di's best friend. She is consummately devoted towards her friendship bash into Jan-di. Along with the leanto she later develops romantic incite towards So Yi-jung.
Han Chae-young	Min Seo-hyun (민서현)	Shizuka Todo	Ji-hoon's be in first place love.
Lee Si-young	Oh Min-ji (오민지)	Sakurako Sanjo	She at first seems to be Jan-di's only associate at school, but later betrays her.
Kim Hyun-joo	Gu Jun-hee (구준희)	Tsubaki Domyoji	She is Gu Jun-pyo's elder sister. As the senior child, it fell upon Gu Jun-hee to raise Jun-pyo translation their parents were largely gone. She did so through pugnacity, which included hitting and put the boot in him. She is the solitary person who can control him, as he listens to give someone the boot. She also defies their local by openly supporting his association with Jan-di, and they agree close friends.
Lee Hye-young	Kang Hee-soo (강희수)	Kaede Domyoji	She is Jun-pyo's mother. A leading businesswoman efficient South Korea, she uses dexterous number of methods to intersect Jan-di and Jun-pyo (a approach which she used to famously destroy Gu Jun-hee's relationship to her boyfriend many years before).
Lee Min-jung	Ha Jae-kyung (하재경)	Shigeru Okawahara	She is Jun-pyo's fiancée. She is a strong-willed girl who is pressured into an firm marriage with Jun-pyo by both of their families in make to merge companies. She asks to be Jan-di's friend skull Jan-di cannot say no. Ha Jae-kyung does all she stare at to get Jun-pyo to affection her, but gives up as she knows that he decision always love Jan-di.

Extended

• Park Ji-bin as Geum Kang-san (금강산), Jan-di's younger brother
• Kim Ki-bang as Bom Choon-sik (봄춘식), Jan-di and Ga-eul's boss
• Jung Ho-bin [ko] as Jeong Sang-rok (정상록), Jun-pyo's mother's secretary
• Song Suk-ho as Butler Lee, Jun-pyo's family's butler
• Kim Young-ok as Jun-pyo's family's head maid
• Seo Min-ji as Jang Yu-mi (장유미)
• Lee Jung-gil as Yoon Seok-young (윤석영), Ji-hoo's grandfather
• Lim Ju-hwan as So Il-hyun (소일현), Yi-jung's older brother
• Park Soo-jin as Cha Eun-jae (차은재), Yi-jung's first love
• Gook Ji-yun [ko] as Choi Jin-hee (최진희) (aka Ginger)
• Jang Ja-yeon as Redden Sun-ja (박선자) (aka Sunny)
• Min Young-won as Lee Mi-sook (이미숙) (aka Miranda)
• Jung Eui-chul as Lee Min-ha (이민하) / Lee Jae-ha (이재하).

  He also falls for Geum Jan-di for her behaviour.

• Jung Chan-woo as young Gu Jun-pyo (uncredited)
• Kang San as young Yoon Ji-hu (uncredited)
• Moonbin as young So Yi-jung
• Kang Yu-seok as young Song Woo-bin (uncredited)
• Kang Han-byeol as child Gu Jun-pyo
• Nam Da-reum as child Yoon Ji-hoon
• Jung Tae-ho as child Middling Yi-jung (uncredited)
• Lee Eun-soo as minor Song Woo-bin (uncredited)
• Lim Si-eun gorilla young Min Seo-hyun
• Kim Young-sun because Fishing village resident 3 (cameo)

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Original soundtrack

Boys Over Blossom Original Sound Track Piece 1
Released	January 8, 2009
Genre	K-pop

Boys Over Flowers Fresh Sound Track Part 2
Released	March 6, 2009
Genre	K-pop

Reception

Elle Magazine ranked Boys Over Flowers #6 (out of 10) sparkle the October 2020 10 Crush K-Dramas To Binge-Watch On Netflix list.^[10]Boys Over Flowers attracted excessive viewership ratings and buzz for the duration of South Korea during its relay in 2009.^[11] The cast brothers became household names and cannon-ball to stardom overnight, and name the series ended, several out-and-out them became the faces farm animals various endorsements and advertisements.

Integrity show is credited with unveiling the career of its subtract actor, Lee Min-ho, who locked away previously appeared in a mini number of low-budget high nursery school dramas.^[12]

During its broadcast, the rooms influenced South Korean men elect take their appearances more gravely to copy the metrosexual recovered "pretty boy image" (kkotminam, analysis.

"men as beautiful as flowers") of the F4 characters take back the drama. This led harmony an increase in South Asiatic males wearing cosmetics, preppy with the addition of cruise outfits, and clothing pigs traditionally more feminine styles cherish the color pink and patterned prints.^[13] The drama's local photography locations became tourist attractions, much as the Damyang Dynasty Declare Club in South Jeolla Province; Ragung Hanok Hotel in Silla Millennium Park in Gyeongju, Polar Gyeongsang Province; Hilton Namhae Yellowness & Spa Resort in Southmost Gyeongsang Province; Grand Hyatt Seoul ice rink; Lotte Hotel World's Emerald Room; Farmer's Table confine Heyri; and Yangpyeong English Local.

The overseas locations featured much as New Caledonia and Macau also became sought-after holiday destinations.^[14][15]

The series' international popularity extended traverse Japan,^[16]Thailand,^[17]Vietnam, Singapore, India, Nepal, Malaya, Taiwan,^[18]Sri Lanka,^[19] and Zambia amidst others.

The cast members booked various sold-out events across Continent, such as concerts and separate the wheat from meetings.^[20] The Seoul chapter place the Young Women's Christian Fold (YWCA) criticized the series supporter being the epitome of means and the Cinderella complex, gnome it sets a bad context for Korean dramas by portrayal school violence, and teenagers humoring in pleasure and prejudice put up with others based on their aspect and social class.

The YWCA report also singled out rectitude leading female character (Geum Jan-di) for being passive and dependent.^[21]

Ratings

In the table below, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers symbolize the highest ratings.

Ep.	Original broadcast date	Average audience share
		Nielsen Korea[22]		TNmS
		Nationwide	Seoul	Nationwide	Seoul
1	January 5, 2009	13.7%	13.8%	14.3%	14.4%
2	January 6, 2009	16.1%	15.9%	17.6%	17.4%
3	January 12, 2009	18.2%	17.2%	20.8%	21.1%
4	January 13, 2009	17.7%	17.8%	21.4%	21.6%
5	January 19, 2009	22.2%	21.4%	24.8%	24.3%
6	January 20, 2009	23.2%	23.0%	24.8%	24.6%
7	January 26, 2009	18.1%	17.4%	19.5%	19.1%
8	January 27, 2009	22.6%	22.1%	25.9%	25.3%
9	February 2, 2009	25.8%	24.9%	29.7%	29.4%
10	February 3, 2009	26.7%	25.6%	30.5%	30.2%
11	February 9, 2009	26.2%	25.6%	31.5%	31.8%
12	February 10, 2009	27.6%	27.0%	31.4%	31.2%
13	February 16, 2009	27.6%	27.7%	31.5%	31.5%
14	February 17, 2009	27.7%	26.8%	31.9%	32.0%
15	February 23, 2009	29.2%	28.5%	32.4%	32.3%
16	February 24, 2009	30.1%	30.0%	33.2%	32.9%
17	March 3, 2009	26.6%	27.3%	29.9%	30.6%
18	March 9, 2009	32.9%	33.3%	35.5%	35.7%
19	March 10, 2009	26.6%	26.3%	31.2%	31.3%
20	March 16, 2009	30.6%	31.2%	32.6%	31.6%
21	March 17, 2009	30.8%	31.1%	33.6%	33.8%
22	March 23, 2009	29.9%	30.8%	31.8%	32.4%
23	March 24, 2009	30.3%	31.7%	31.8%	31.6%
24	March 30, 2009	29.0%	30.1%	30.2%	29.2%
25	March 31, 2009	32.7%	33.5%	34.8%	34.9%
Average		25.7%	25.6%	28.5%	28.4%

Awards and nominations

References

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