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Boys Over Flowers

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Boys Over Flowers

Details

  • Title: 꽃보다 남자 / Kkotboda Namja
  • Also known as: Boys Before Flowers / Boys Over Flowers
  • Genre: Romance, Comedy
  • Episodes: 25
  • Broadcast network: KBS2
  • Broadcast period: 2009-Jan-05 to 2009-Mar-31
  • Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55
  • Related TV Shows: see Boys Over Flowers (disambiguation)
  • Original Soundtrack: Boys Over Flowers OST

Synopsis

Geum Jan Di is an ordinary girl whose family owns a dry cleaning store.

While delivering dry cleaning to a student at the prestigious Shin Hwa High School, she saves his life by stopping his attempt at jumping off the roof and is given a full swimming scholarship.

She attends Shin Hwa High and soon is terrorized by the leader of F4 (the four richest and most popular boys at the school) Gu Jun Pyo.

Although Jun Pyo persists on bullying her, he begins to find himself attracted to Jan Di. However, Jan Di has a crush on Yoon Ji Hoo, Jun Pyo's best friend.

When she realizes that Ji Hoo is merely a close friend and that she really loves Jun Pyo the couple are thrown into a dilemma as Jun Pyo's mother sets out to break them up and find a more suitable match for her son.

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Cast

Boys Over Flowers Correlation Chart
Main Cast
F4
Extended Cast
Cameo Appearances

Production Credits

Episode Ratings

See Boys Over Flowers/Episode Ratings

Recognitions

  • 2009 KBS Drama Awards: Excellence Award, Novella Drama - Actress (Koo Hye Sun)
  • 2009 KBS Drama Awards: Best New Actor Award (Lee Min Ho)
  • 2009 KBS Drama Awards: Best New Actress Award (Kim So Eun)
  • 2009 KBS Drama Awards: Best Couple Award (Lee Min Ho and Koo Hye Sun)
  • 2009 KBS Drama Awards: Netizen Award (Koo Hye Sun)
  • 2009 2nd Korea Junior Star Awards: TV Drama Newcomer Award (Kim Hyun Joong)
  • 2009 11th Mnet Asian Music Awards: Best OST - "Because I'm Stupid" (Boys Over Flowers OST) by SS501
  • 2009 Seoul International Drama Awards: Most Popular Drama Award
  • 2009 Seoul International Drama Awards: Most Popular Actor Award (Kim Hyun Joong)
  • 2009 45th Baeksang Arts Awards: Best New Actor Award (Lee Min Ho)
  • 2009 45th Baeksang Arts Awards: Popularity Award (Kim Hyun Joong)

Notes

  • The drama is a Korean adaptation of the famous Japanese manga Hana Yori Dango by Kamio Yoko.
  • The cast and crew spent a week filming in the South Pacific in New Caledonia and on Waiheke Island. Filming also includes Macau and Jeju Island.
  • Due to Koo Hye Sun's injury, Group Eight decided to air a Special on 2009-Mar-02 and the 17th Episode aired the day after.
  • Park Shin Hye, Jang Geun Suk, and Choi Si Won were offered as the lead roles but they declined.
  • Actress Jang Ja Yun, who played the role of Park Sun Ja (Sunny), committed suicide on March 7, 2009. At the beginning of chapter 18, the following text appears: "We offer our condolences for Jang Ja Yun, we pray for her to rest in peace."
  • According to a series of statements by scriptwriter Yoon Ji Ryun, he said that Gu Jun Pyo at the beginning was not the protagonist of the drama, but Yoon Ji Hoo, and so most of the time on screen (with Jan Di) was for him.
  • In 2011 it began broadcasting in Latin America on Pan American Television channels (Peru) with the title "Los Chicos son Mejores que las Flores", Puerto Rico TV (Puerto Rico), SERTV (Panama), Mexiquense TV (Mexico), Ecuador TV (Ecuador), ETC TV and MEGA (Chile) on MEGA it came out with the title "Casi el Paraíso".
  • A second season was planned but due to the drama's director having second thoughts he only filmed a special titled "the reunion of the F4".
  • Actor Kim Hyun Joong immediately went to buy the complete Japanese manga "Hana Yori Dango" once he accepted the role.

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