LOVER IN PARIS ~ Astro Prima ~ 6PM/Mon-Fri ~ 4 June 07

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Plot

Han Ki-joo is a CEO (and the son of the top CEO) of GD Motors (which is based on the sucessful Korean motor company GM Daewoo). He has been living in Paris for two years after his failed marriage to Baek Seung-kyung. He is charismatic and a smart man and he has been groomed all his life to take over the position of the Chairman of the company, the next commander of GD Motors.

Kang Tae-young is the beloved daughter of a film director. She is carrying on her father? wish and is studying film in Paris. To make ends meet, she works as a housekeeper for Han Ki-joo. She is a simple yet spunky girl with an optimistic outlook on life, she may be goofy at times but her warm, spontaneous personality makes everyone gravitate towards her.

Yoon Soo-hyuk is the free-spirited vagabond nephew of Han Ki-joo who dropped out of design school in the United States to live with him in Paris. He shares a close and intimate relationship with Han Ki-joo, although Han Ki-joo being the uncle is not much older than him. Han Ki-joo gives the freedom that he yearns for and supports him monetarily to pursue the kind of life he wishes.

Being the man with high standards, Kang Tae-young is quickly fired by Han Ki-joo as a housekeeper. However, when he realises that she is from the same hometown as the wife of a potential business partner, he is quick to capitalise on that and hires her to be his girlfriend to warm up to his business partner. She agrees in exchange for getting back her job as a housekeeper. During the two dates that he takes her out, she is smitten by the entire fairy tale of the event. In turn he finds himself unexpectedly captivated by the chatty, unpretentious girl.

However, the fake girlfriend plan backfires on him, and both part ways on bad terms in Paris.

Yoon Soo-hyuk also meets her on a different occasion and is taken by her immediately. He sees through her insecurities and her weaknesses and his heart goes out to her and wants to protect her.

Recalled by his father, Han Ki-joo returns to Korea, and Kang Tae-young takes the same plane back as well to attend to her father? death anniversary. Both are reunited coincidentally back in Seoul and manage to have their misunderstandings resolved. She prepares to return to Paris to continue her studies, and parts with him. Unfortunately, her uncle has squandered away her family house and run away, leaving her with her young cousin and the debts he has incurred.

While trying to sort out her family problems and retrieve her father? camera that was confiscated by the creditors, she meets Han Ki-joo again. Through multiple coincidental encounters, he finds himself attracted to her. Despite his commanding presence and being the next chief of his family's business, on the relationship front he is a complete retard. But his heart starts to yearn for a relationship that he has never experienced before.

Yoon Soo-hyuk returns to Korea as well to track Kang Tae-young down. He puts up at her place and tries to win her heart. But he is devastated when he realised that his beloved uncle is also vieing for her affection.

The situation is further complicated with the introduction of Moon Yoon Ah, the daughter of an influential politician whom Han Ki-joo's father has selected to be Han Ki-joo's wife. She also happens to be Kang Tae-young's classmate in high school and she is determined to win Han Ki-joo to be her husband.

Against the better judgment of all around them, Han Ki-joo and Kang Tae-young open their hearts to each other. But their union will not be smooth sailing with a scheming Moon Yoon Ah and an emotionally wounded Yoon Soo-hyuk plotting to split them up. Meanwhile, a CEO at GD Motors tries to bring Ki-joo down and created a scheme with the designer for GD Motors, Yoon Soo-hyuck to spill the latest car design to the rival of GD Motors. The new car is announced and GD Motors is petrified by the fact that the lastest and the best design was stolen. Later, Ki-joo figures out that his beloved nephew, Soo-hyuk did this, but forgives him. The fact that Ki-joo forgave him so easily and lovingly drives Soo-hyuk crazy. After getting into a car accident while blazing through the streets of Seoul to attempt to erase his guilt, he gets amnesia and loses his recent memories. (He only pretends he does not remember anything to let go of Tae-young so she can go after her true love, Ki-joo.) Moon Yoon Ah, after all those times, decides to let go of Ki-joo and throws her engagement ring into Han-River. With two "obstacles" out of the way, Ki-joo and Tae-young can finally get together. Unfortunately because of Ki-joo's families' dislike for Tae-kyung, the couple decides to be separated temporarily. Tae-young goes back to Paris and Ki-joo stays in Korea and overlook a new car development. After 2 years, the new car is announced and is a success. Ki-joo, immediately after the ceremony, catches a flight to Paris. For some time, they do not know where each other is and go on with their lives. Then one day, just as the series started, but this time instead of Tae-young, it's Ki-joo who throws a coin into a fountain and wishes to see Tae-young again. As he turns and put his leg around his bike, he sees Tae-young standing there. They both are stunned. The next scene shows the couple sitting by a river. Tae-young breaks the silence and asks, "If we had not met in Paris, do you think we still would have ended up together?" Ki-joo answers, "Most likely we would have." The scene suddenly switches to an outdoor coffee house and Tae-young with her old hair style is sitting on a chair sipping coffee. There are Ki-joo and probably a potential client in the back. Tae-young's voice over narrates a story. "Behind Tae-young sat the lover she always has dreamed of, but of course, she did not have the slightest idea." The next scene shows Tae-young in Korea, busily typing the same story on a computer. She looks at the clock and busily organize her stuff and leaves. (She is a housekeeper for an unknown person just like in Paris, but this time in Korea.) On her way out, she sees a newspaper with large headline that tells of a "cinderella" girl who got engaged to a rich guy (Picture of Tae-young and Ki-joo). She scoffs and says that that kind of romance never happens to a normal person. She leaves the house she keeps. As it turns out, the housekeeper Tae-young is selling stuffed dolls on a street of Seoul. When she leaves her cart unattended for some time, a lady (about 40-50) comes up to Tae-young's cart and sabotages it for being it her "spot." When Tae-young comes back, she is shocked to find her cart totally destroyed and automatically assumes that the car parked next to her cart is responsible. She kicks the car until the alarm goes off. Surprised Ki-joo comes up and asks her what she thinks she is doing. Tae-young asks for a compensation. When she asks for a sum beyond the reasonable amount, Ki-joo realizes that he had forgotten to bring his wallet says he will go to his house and bring back the money. Tae-young does not like the idea for he can just take off. So she snatches up Ki-joo's key and gets into the car. She and Ki-joo drives off and Tae-young asks if she can make a stop at an apartment. Ki-joo is surprised because the apartment she want to make a stop at is his. They both stare at each other and Tae-young asks if she had seen him somewhere. The series ends with the scene of the couple driving away from the camera above.

    * Explanation*

When the couple in Paris sits by a river and Tae-young asks if they would have ended up loving each other even if they did not mit in Paris, the story changes the view and shows an alternate universe/scenario where they do not meet in Paris, but in Korea as a housekeeper and a rich CEO (similar to what happened in Paris).

In conclusion, there are four Tae-youngs leading their own lives in alternate story lines. The first one is the one the viewers have seen for the last 20 episodes. The second one is the one writing a story about a romantic love in Paris. The third one is the one IN the story (may/may not count as a Tae-young). and the fourth one is the one in the newspaper.

The writer of the series stated that she meant the series to be fantasy like with twisted/refreshing/head-scratching ending for basically all Korean dramas are about: switched babies who find out their real parents later, two "star-crossed" lovers with familes who do not approve of his/her lover, triangle love story, and etc. Although Lovers in Paris followed the usual pattern of Korean drama, it was extremely popular for the setting (Paris), music, dance scenes, romantic lines, the actors, refreshing ending (other Korean dramas drags on and ends up parents of the lovers accepting their sons/daughthers lovers), and so on.

EXTRA: Although the writer of the series did an incredible job of writing an excellent story, she has been given less than normal pay for her high-quality story, indicating that even successful Korean drama writers achieve very little in terms of money.


from: wikipedia.org

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Success in Korea

Lovers in Paris got a 51.8% audience rating, a first in the history of Korean television. Even though the ratings were inconsistent it managed to beat its timeslot rivals. It has been SBS's most successful show ever.

Aja became a very popular expression after being used in this drama. It was also romanized as aza in the drama "Full House" where it was used in the phrase "aza aza, fighting".

Success in the Philippines and Japan

It was aired as a "koreanovela" on a primetime slot in the Philippines under ABS-CBN. It only began with a 27.1% rating on its first airing but soared to 36% only a week later and became a top-rater on its timeslot. (Spoilers)The episode when Ki-ju Han plays the piano on Tae-young is the highest rated episode on its time slot. It scored 50.6%, and became a consistent top rater until on its final episode, which was 46.8%.

In Japan, it was aired for the first time in January 1, 2005 through Nippon TV satellite and become a major hit with its peak rating of 26.1%.


from : wikipedia.org

isabel

kembali lagi...dan kali ni tayang kat Astro Prima lak pulak....

so siapa yg x pernah tgk gi leh ler layan...

kayla

haaaa????  ya ke???? :
terperanjatnye ....
prima pun tayang crite korea gak :pompom:

janganle alih bahasa :pray:

isabel

klu dah tayang kat Astro mesti ler dia dwi bahasa...

so don't worry..

bel pun terasa gak Prima ni mcm buang tabiat aje...nak tayang lak citer Korea....

Bolayan

kul 6pm? uhukk ,sah aku tak leh nengok

kayla

aa'ah lupa lak ... astro kan ada button dwi bahasa tu ....
tapi hopefully ada subtitle ...
kekadang astro ni mereng .. jdorama yg tayang kat aec dulu takde sub

kayla

astro kan selalu ulang2 ... try le cari waktu ulangan dia ...

Bolayan

uhukkks... betul la kata ko kayla
baru aku teringat... okeh okeh okeh
walaupon aku dah tengok citer tuh tapi best gak layan lagikkk

Bolayan

kalo astro ada satu channel yg khas utk Kdrama dan Jdrama best gak ek..... tengok dia dah selitkan kat astro prima lak, meriah btol

isabel

tapi entah lak bila dia nak buat ulangan sbb kat Prima kan kul 10 - 12 slot citer Spanish..so rasanya ulangan utk citer ni selepas kul 12 mlm..

Ley

eh..citer nie nk main lagi ek..awat tk pasan lak iklan die nie...

Ley

aku masih arap kt astro memana..tygkan  jdorama:pray:

kayla

ko nangis sikit punyelah kat atas tu ....aku ingatkan belum pernah tengok lagi ...
rupanye dah tengok ....

hehehe ...actually aku pun dah tengok gak ....
nak ulang lagi sekali esp kalau cakap korea n ada sub ....

kalau ada satu channel khas jdorama & kdrama alamat mengadap tv le 24/7 ....

[ Last edited by  kayla at 31-5-2007 09:38 PM ]

kayla

hai ley ...lama tak nampak ko

aku baru je namapk iklan dia smlm kat astro prima ....
patutnye dorang iklankan kat channel lain kan ....
aku jrg bukak astro prima ni ... okey actually aku tak pernah bukak ..
tapi smlm masa tengok grey anatomy kat ntv7 terbukak lak ati nak check channel 8 ni masa iklan...
terus nampak iklan crite ni ...rupanye isnin-khamis ..ari jumaat tadak ...

tu lah kan ...aku pun harap2 sgt astro akan tayang jdorama balik semula (with subs yg kita fahami of course) ...:pray:

chimei

WOW!!..tayang lagi..bestnye

Ley

hei kayla...

aku ade jer kt cnie..tkpon..lepak kt umah si lin...ade lagi umah baru airah nun jau kt sinun...meh lerr memeriahkan umah airah kt sinun

nzhass79

ne-minna,

citer ni 1st impression aku mmg tak kenan tul ngan hero ngan heroin....
tapi biler layan2 jadik cam best....
mula2 sebab jalan citer dia.. dan kedua sebab pembawaan watak tu ... mmg kena
kesimpulannyer, citer nih berjaya menukarkan aku nyer pandangan...

Ley

btui..park shin yang..pn yg aku tau drama nie..jer yg penah aku nengok blakon....
sbb tk kenal sgt kt die..memula aku pk die nie blom kawin uper nyer udah...
tapi aku suka watak kang tae young..cm gegileer ckit

kayla

park shin yang ni banyak berlakun filem rasanya ....

masa memula mmg le biasa2 je kat dia ni .... pastu cair siot ....
watak dia dalam ni cool gile ...aku suka
padan betul ngan tae young yg gegila ....

tapi aku tak suka LDG dlm ni ....