Friends (2002 TV series)

Friends
Official poster
Starring	Won Bin, Kyoko Fukada
Country of origin	South Korea, Japan
No. of episodes	4
Production
Running time	21:00–23:09 (per 2 episodes)
Release
Original network	TBS, MBC
Original release	Feb, 4, 2002(Mon) JPN/ Feb, 15, 2002(Fri) KOR – Feb, 5, 2002(Tue) JPN/ Feb, 16, 2002(Sat) KOR
External links
Website

Friends
Hangul	프렌즈
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.

Plot

Tomoko, a Japanese tourist, and Ji-Hoon, a South Korean film student, 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

Japanese

• Tomoko Asai – Kyoko Fukada
• Yuko Yamagishi – Akiko Yada
• Midori Kaneda – Naho Toda
• Shota Sakamaki – Yukiyoshi Ozawa
• Satoko Asai – Keiko Takeshita

International Broadcast

Country	Network(s)
Philippines	GMA-7

External links

• Official site
• Friends at IMDb