I R I S

Title: 아이리스 / IRIS
Genre: Action, mystery, thriller, romance
Episodes: 20
Broadcast network: KBS2

Production :
Writer: Kim Hyun-jun
Director: Kim Gyu-tae
Main Casts :

Kim Seung-woo Lee Byung-heon,
Jeong Jun-ho Kim Tae-hee
Kim So-yeon T.O.P

Brief Synopsis
National Security System (NSS) Top 707 agents Hyun-jun and Sa-woo are blood brothers who swore to trust each other and unchanging friendship for life. They meet agent Seung-hee there and both fall in love with her. But Hyun-jun and Seung-hee become close and Sa-woo fights to hide his feelings for Seung-hee. One day, they are immediately sent on a mission to Hungary. When they successfully finish off their job with immaculate teamwork and are celebrating it, a message arrives to Hyun-jun asking him to meet in secret.

Baek-san, an executive of NSS who had been waiting for Hyun-jun orders a solo mission. Despite the tight protection of bodyguards, Hyun-jun succeeds his mission. But before escaping, Hyun-jun gets wounded by his targets' head security bodyguards, and later he is shockingly betrayed by his most trusted friend, Sa-woo. Hyun-jun tries to escape with Seung-hee's help, but he ends up losing Seung-hee. And his car also explodes; they are both misled into thinking that the other had died. Hyun-jun gets saved by an unidentifiable "Voice" and learns the secret identity of a group called, "Iris".

1 year later, with the two Koreas about to be reunified, Hyun-jun makes his return. After spending a nightmarish life of being betrayed and losing everything, Hyun-jun returns to get revenge on those who threw him into the living hell. With the help of the President, Hyun-jun returns to his post in the NSS. Starting a fight against "Iris", the secret society that tries to interfere with reunification, Hyun-jun now puts everything on the line for the battle of his life.

Notes

>>Filming sites include Hungary, Russia, Japan, China and the U.S.
>>The production cost for this drama is 20 million dollars, making it the most expensive Korean drama to date (10/2008).
>>Japanese distribution rights for the drama series “Iris” was sold to TBS for a record ¥ 400,000,000 / ? 5,300,000,000 ($4.3 million USD).
>>This drama is somewhat based on the film Shiri.

Source: http://www.korean-drama-guide.com/Iris-kbs-2010-korean-drama.html
http://www.koreandrama.org/?p=887#more-887

The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince

Theme:
romance, comedy

Written by:
Lee Sun Mi, Jang Hyun Joo

Directed by
Lee Yoon Jung

Starring

Yoon Eun Hye Gong Yoo
Lee Sun Gyun Chae Jung Ahn
Kim Chang Wan Kim Dong Wook
Kim Jae Wook Lee Eon
Kim Young Oak Kim Ja Wook
Choi Il Hwa Park Won Sook
Han Ye In Lee Han Wie

Opening theme
랄랄라, It's Love! lalala, It's Love!- 더 멜로디(The Melody)

Ending theme
Go Go Chan!![고고찬!!] - 티어라이너(Tearliner)(Feat.(YoCho))

No. of episodes
20 +5 (special)
Choi Han Kyul, played by Gong Yoo, is the cocky son of a very rich family who runs a damaged food corporation. He doesn't believe in love and certainly doesn't want to get married despite his family's requests. On the other hand, Go Eun Chan, played by Yoon Eun Hye, is a 24-year old tomboyish female who gets mistaken for a guy quite often. She takes up every job possible — waitress, food deliverer, etc — and has the responsibility of taking care of her mother and younger sister. Eun Chan accidentally meets Han Kyul twice, once on a delivery and once during a robbery. During the robbery, Eun Chan's delivery motorcycle ends up being damaged. Han Kyul, not knowing that Eun Chan is actually a girl, decides to hire Eun Chan as a false "lover" so that he can escape the blind dates arranged by his grandmother. Meanwhile, Han Kyul's cousin, Choi Han Seong, is an established music producer and his ex-girlfriend Han Yoo Joo, who Han Kyul secretly loved for nine years, is a famous artist who studied in New York. The two were lovers for about 8 years but their relationship ended when Yoo Joo broke up with Han Seong. Two years after they separated their paths cross again when Yoo Joo returns to Seoul.

After getting an ultimatum from his grandmother, Han Kyul takes over a run-down severely damaged old coffee shop, later renamed Coffee Prince, to prove his ability, both to his grandmother and Yoo Joo. In order to attract female customers, he only hires good looking male employees. In a struggle with money, Eun Chan, whom Han Kyul has already mistaken as a boy, hides her gender to get a job at Coffee Prince. Soon feelings start to spark between Eun Chan and Han Kyul. Because he's unaware that Eun Chan is a girl, Han Kyul starts to question his sexuality.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1st_Shop_of_Coffee_Prince

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