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Country of Origin: Korea
Channel: locally aired on ABS-CBN (distributed
by MBC)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Started:May 28, 2007 (Philippine Premier)
Status: Current
Director: Pyo Min-soo
Writer: Jeong Yoo-jeong
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Which Star Are You From is a South
Korean television drama that airs originally on
MBC South Korea. It is locally shown on ABS-CBN.
This romantic comedy series is also known as 'What's
Your Star?' or ''What Star Are You From?'.
Considered to be actress Jeong Ryeo-Won's (My Name
is Kim Sam-Soon) major feature series, the show
also stars Kim Rae-Won (Attic Cat) and banks not
only on the popularity of its lead actors, but in
its very enjoyable storyline.
Kim plays Choi Seung-Hee, a young director who
just made a successful international film debut.
Following his success in Australia, he meets the
girl of his dreams, Lee Hye-su (Jeong Ryeo-Won),
an aspiring musician. After spending a lovestruck
romp on Australia, they planned to get married.
Hye-su, however, discovers her mother does not approve
of Choi. Driving to eat out one day, Seung-hee suddenly
proposes to Hye-su, and while putting the ring on
her finger, Seung-hee careens wildly on the road
to get out the way of a truck. The accident causes
Lee's death. Choi then spends the next three years
in reclusion, drinking and holing himself up in
his apartment.
Han Jeong-hoon (Park Shi-hoo), who runs a film
company, urges Director Kim to finish his grieving
and to start working on film again. Choi pulls all
his energy to push Hye-su out of his thoughts. On
the day he decided to go out and to continue working,
he sees a young woman at the sidewalk who looked
exactly like his beloved Hye-su. Struck by the utter
similarity, he starts to follow the girl to her
hometown, which turned out to be a far-flung province.
The girl, named Kim Bok-shil (also played by Jeong
Ryeo-Won), realizing Choi had nowhere else to stay
for the night, offers her home as an inn. Being
poor, she considers all opportunities a chance to
get good money.
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After spending the night at the fake inn, the two
also spends the morning together searching for fresh
mountain water and encountering a wild boar in the
process. Choi does not reveal his identity to Kim,
and Kim mistakes him for a bum waiting to pass a
long overdue exam. While walking on the countryside,
Choi is inspired by the beauty of his surroundings
and gets ready to prepare for his next film. He
then returns to Seoul and later comes back to Kim's
village to shoot. They see each other again, and
Bok-shil realizes Seung-hee is a renowned director.
Bok-shil then posiitons herself as a rice-server
for the crew and comes to the set everyday. By a
stroke of luck, Han Jeong-hoon, also on the set,
absent-mindedly offers Bok-shil a job at the film
company. Jeong-hoon is also struck by the similarity
of Bok-shil and Hye-su.
Bok-shil starts work in Seoul as an assistant for
Director Choi. In the hopes of saving enough money
for her mother's surgery, Bok-shil braves the demands
of her work despite her clumsy and awkward ways.
Seung-hee finds himself being attracted to Bok-shil
because of her face, initially, and then later on
because of her unique charm and humor.
Hye-su's family, by chance, sees Bok-shil and realizes
she is the long lost sister of Hye-su. Hye-su's
mother, determined not to lose another daughter,
runs an investigation to find out Bok-shil's real
identity. Proving that Bok-shil is really Lee Hye-rim,
her lost younger daughter, she pleads Bok-shil/Hye-rim
to leave her rural life and adopted mother to embrace
her true lineage. Through Yoon Mi-hyeon (Kang Jeong-hwa),
the film company's music director who turned to
be her cousin, Bok-shil realizes she is the sister
of Hye-su, Director Choi's former girlfriend. She
is now conflicted on how to tell the truth to Seung-hee,
who is now also falling for her. After the initial
shock and confusion, Seung-hee was able to overcome
his fears and admits he is in love with Hye-rim
as Kim Bok-shil. Bok-shil's real mother, pained
yet again for her younger daughter's choice, becomes
determined to put an end to the relationships. Her
hate for the director has come full-circle, and
Choi now has the chance to do what he wasn't able
to do for Hye-su.
A highly enjoyable and light-hearted series, the
story manages to look over the clichés and
fairytales plots to focus on the changes on each
character. The story gets its strength from the
concept of loving how a person looks versus loving
the person as a whole. With filmmaking as the backdrop,
the story makes many references to formulating scripts,
literature, directing and others. The series is
also heads above mediocre love stories. It is well
acted by Jeong and Kim, both award-winning TV and
film actors. Jeong, who has lived in Australia in
real life, is most notable for being very versatile,
transforming completely from role to role, making
it hard to imagine that the same actress plays the
same roles.
'Which star are you from?' warms the heart and
opens Korean culture yet again to audiences worldwide.
[ CAST
]
Jeong Ryeo Won - Kim Bok-shil/Lee Hae-rim/Lee Hye-su
Kim Rae Won - Choi Seung-hee
Park Shi-hoo - Han Jeong-hoon
Kang Jeong-hwa - Yoon Mi-hyeon
[ TRIVIA
]
The apartment where Bok-shil's friend lives is also
the famous apartment from Attic Cat, the show which
shot Kim Rae-Won to fame. It even has the same table
sitting outside.
Jeong Ryeo-Won actually lived in Australia in real
life. She and her family immigrated there when she
was in 5th grade, and she only recently went back
to South Korea in 1999. Australia is where Jeong's
character Hye-soo and Kim's character Choi supposedly
met and fell in love. Jyeong's other character,
Bok-shil, has never been to Australia or at the
airport. In one scene, Bok-shil even commented on
how beautiful Australia looked in Choi's shots and
wished that she could go there someday.
