Celebrity's Sweetheart
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Celebrity's Sweetheart (스타의 연인
, a.k.a. A Star's Lover) is a 20-episode romance melodrama starring Choi Ji-woo
and Yoo Ji-tae. The series aired on SBS from December 10, 2008 to February 12, 2009.
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Hangul,Pronounced or ; Korean: 한글 Hangeul/Han'gŭl or 조선글 Chosŏn'gŭl/Joseongeul the Korean alphabet, is the native alphabet of the Korean language. It is a separate script from Hanja, the logographic Chinese characters which are also sometimes used to write Korean...
, a.k.a. A Star's Lover) is a 20-episode romance melodrama starring Choi Ji-woo
Choi Ji-woo
Choi Ji-woo is a South Korean actress.- Career :Choi was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, and made her debut in the 1995's War and Love, after which she adopted the stage name Choi Ji-woo....
and Yoo Ji-tae. The series aired on SBS from December 10, 2008 to February 12, 2009.
Plot
As the ghostwriter for star actress Lee Ma-ri’s bestselling travel essay "Lovers in Asuka," Chul-soo gets to meet Lee Ma-ri one day. Around that time, Lee Ma-ri also has a chance meeting with Jung Woo-jin, who happens to have the same name as her first boyfriend. She feels her heart flutter for the first time since her former boyfriend Kang Woo-jin suddenly vanished from her life. Lee Ma-ri finds out that Jung Woo-jin became interested in her after reading her travel essay, which was actually ghostwritten. So she tries to brush up her knowledge of culture by contacting Chul-soo for private lessons. So this is how Chul-soo and Lee Ma-ri meet again. However, Chul-soo's life becomes complicated after Lee Ma-ri enters his life. Meanwhile, Byung-joon, a friend of Chul-soo and a journalist, discovers that Chul-soo is the actual writer of the travel essay, "Lovers in Asuka" and so he proposes that Chul-soo sell a story about Lee Ma-ri's personal life. He urges Chul-soo to seriously consider his proposal because he knows that Chul-soo needs the money desperately for his ailing sister. While Chul-soo weighs his options, Jung Woo-jin returns to Korea and Lee Ma-ri becomes more concerned about improving her cultural and literature understanding so she asks Chul-soo to live at her home to teach her intensively. Amidst this, Lee Ma-ri and Jung Woo-jin begin to see each other more frequently and Chul-soo becomes indispensable to Ma-ri as a private tutor. One day, Chul-soo realizes that he is no longer needed by Ma-ri and this triggers conflicting emotions within him. Since Chul-soo is pressed for money to pay for the operation that his sister desperately needs, he decides to sell his story about Ma-ri's personal life to his journalist friend Byung-joon. When the story about Ma-ri turns into a big scandal, Woo-jin’s resolve to marry Ma-ri becomes stronger and he proposes marriage to her. As a wedding gift, Jung Woo-jin tells Ma-ri that he'll bankroll a documentary film based on her travel essay, "Lovers in Asuka." He then asks his former professor to recommend a couple of writers for his documentary film and that is how Chul-soo and Eun-young join the film project as writers. So Chul-soo and Ma-ri meet again during the filming of the documentary...Main Cast
- Choi Ji-wooChoi Ji-wooChoi Ji-woo is a South Korean actress.- Career :Choi was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, and made her debut in the 1995's War and Love, after which she adopted the stage name Choi Ji-woo....
... Lee Ma Ri - Yoo Ji-tae ... Kim Chul Soo
- Lee Ki Woo ... Jung Woo Jin
- Cha Ye Ryun ...Choi Eun Young
- Ki Tae Young ... Son Ha Young
- Choi Phillip ... Kang Woo Jin
Supporting Cast
- Lee Joon Hyuk ... Min Jang Soo (Ma Ri's bodyguard)
- Sung Ji Roo ... Seo Tae Suk (CEO of Ma Ri's management agency)
- Yang Hee Kyung ... Lee Seung Yeon (Ma Ri's stylist)
- Shin Min Hee ... Kim Yu Ri (Chul Soo's sister)
- Jung Woon Taek ... Jun Byung Joon
- Shim Eun-Jin ... Ye Rin
- Ban Hyo Jung ... Ma Ri's grandmother
- Kwak Hyun Hwa ... Lee Eun Sil
- Lee Seung Hyung ... Choi Seung Wook
- Yoon Joo Sang ... Professor Ahn
- Lee Jong Nam ... Choi Ryun Hee
- Kim Ji Young ... Kim Ok Ja
- Kim Ye Ryung ... Lee Ji Soon
- Kim Ji Sook ... Bo Young (Chul Soo's mother)
- Bae Ki Bum ... Chul Soo's father
- Lee Dong-gunLee Dong-gunLee Dong-gun is a South Korean actor.-Career:Lee made his debut in 1998 as an actor and singer. However, he has long since given up his singing career...
... Eun Young's friend (cameo, ep20) - Ji Jin-hee ... actor / Ma Ri's ex-boyfriend (cameo, ep8)
- Lee Young Eun ... student (cameo, ep1)
- Gong Hyung-jin ... director (cameo, ep1)
- Shin Hyun-junShin Hyun-junShin Hyun-jun is a popular actor from South Korea. He is well known for portraying Ki-bong in the movie Barefoot Ki-bong and the photographer in South Korea's most popular music video "Because I'm A Girl" performed by KISS. He is best known as 아랍왕자 due to his foreign look and long eyelashes...
... department store magnate (cameo, ep1) - Kim Ji-suk ... actor (cameo, ep1)
- Min Joon Hyun ... entertainment journalist
- Song Young Kyu
External links
- http://tv.sbs.co.kr/starlover/
- Celebrity Sweetheart at SBS Global
- 'Celebrity's Sweetheart' Knocks on Viewer's Hearts Korea Times. December 2, 2008.
- Mega drama duo signals hot winter Korea Herald. December 1, 2008.