Lovers | |
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Created by | Kim Eun-sook Shin Woo-chul |
Based on | Turn Around and Leave by Lee Man-hee |
Written by | Kim Eun-sook |
Directed by | Shin Woo-chul |
Starring | Kim Jung-eun Lee Seo-jin |
Music by | Park Se-jun |
Country of origin | South Korea |
No. of episodes | 20 |
Production | |
Producer | Gu Bon-geun |
Production locations | South Korea Hainan Island, China |
Original release | |
Network | SBS TV |
Release | November 8, 2006 January 11, 2007 | –
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Lovers (Korean: 연인; RR: Yeon-in) is a South Korean television series starring Kim Jung-eun and Lee Seo-jin who play a plastic surgeon and a gangster who enter into an unlikely romance.[1][2][3] The series is based on the Lee Man-hee stage play Turn Around and Leave, the same work that inspired the 1998 blockbuster film A Promise starring Jeon Do-yeon and Park Shin-yang.[4] It aired on SBS from November 8, 2006 to January 11, 2007 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
It is the third and final installment of the "Lovers" trilogy by writer Kim Eun-sook and director Shin Woo-chul. Unlike previous installments Lovers in Paris (which Kim also starred in) and Lovers in Prague which were partly shot in Europe, Lovers filmed on location in China's Hainan Island.