Friends (2002 TV series)

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Friends
Official poster
Directed by	Nobuhiro Doi and Han Chul-soo
Starring	Won Bin Kyoko Fukada
Country of origin	South Korea Japan
No. of episodes	4
Production
Running time	129 minutes (per 2 episodes)
Release
Original network	TBS MBC
Original release	February 4 (2002-02-04) – February 5, 2002 (2002-02-05)
External links
http://www.tbs.co.jp/friends/ Website

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. It was originally broadcast on February 4–5 in Japan and February 15–16 in South Korea.

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
• Gyu-han - Dokgo Young-jae
• Soo-kyung - Sunwoo Eun-sook

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
Thailand	Channel 7

External links[]

• Official site
• Friends at IMDb