Coffee Prince

The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince (커피프린스 1호점, or Coffee Prince) is a South Korean drama that began airing on July 2, 2007. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Lee Sun-mi. It stars Yoon Eun Hye from Princess Hours, Gong Yoo from One Fine Day, Lee Sun Gyun from White Tower and Chae Jung Ahn. The drama is a love story between a tomboyish woman pretending to be a man and a young food empire mogul. It contains "pseudo-homosexual" elements, because the man does not initially know of the tomboyish woman's true gender.

Cast

• Yoon Eun Hye as Go Eun-Chan
• Gong Yoo as Choi Han-Gyul
• Lee Sun Gyun as Choi Han Seong
• Chae Jung Ahn as Han Yoo Joo
• Lee Eon as Hwang Min Yeop

Synopsis

Choi Han Kyul (Gong Yoo), is the cocky son of a very rich family who runs a damaged food corporation. He doesn't believe in love and certainly doesn't want to get married despite his family's requests. On the other hand, Go Eun Chan (Yoon Eun Hye), is a 24-year old tomboyish female who gets mistaken for a guy quite often. She takes up every job possible — waitress, food deliverer, etc — and has the responsibility of taking care of her mother and younger sister. Eun Chan accidentally meets Han Kyul twice, once on a delivery and once during a robbery. During the robbery, Eun Chan's delivery motorcycle ends up being damaged. Han Kyul, not knowing that Eun Chan is actually a girl, decides to hire Eun Chan as a false "lover" so that he can escape the blind dates arranged by his grandmother. Meanwhile, Han Kyul's cousin, Choi Han Seong, is an established music producer and his ex-girlfriend Han Yoo Joo, who Han Kyul secretly loved for nine years, is a famous artist who studied in New York. The two were lovers for about 8 years but their relationship ended when Yoo Joo broke up with Han Seong. Two years after they separated their paths cross again when Yoo Joo returns to Seoul.
After getting an ultimatum from his grandmother, Han Kyul takes over a run-down severely damaged old coffee shop, later renamed Coffee Prince, to prove his ability, both to his grandmother and Yoo Joo. In order to attract female customers, he only hires good looking male employees. In a struggle with money, Eun Chan, whom Han Kyul has already mistaken as a boy, hides her gender to get a job at Coffee Prince. Soon feelings start to spark between Eun Chan and Han Kyul. Because he's unaware that Eun Chan is a girl, Han Kyul starts to question his sexuality. @wikipedia

Inevitably, the series was filmed MBC Korean melodrama is one of the most talked about in 2007 despite the fact that Coffee Prince aka Keopi Peurinseu a Hojeom 'only' occupied the highest rank in second place for business throughout the playback rate.

Interestingly, a similar case had also experienced Goong aka Princess Hours a year earlier. Incidentally, both are equally starring Yoon Eun-hye who called his acting experience rapid progress. Even for his role this time, a former actress BabyVOX personnel until reckless chop her long hair.

Just like other Korean series, is not complete without a mention talking Coffee Prince row of actors that appear. Of course, remember the first name is Gong Yoo who appear cold. Also, do not miss Lee Seon-gyoon and Chae Jeong-ahn that can heat up the conflict.

Coffee Prince feels more complete with rows of neat songs that have colored the series lasted 17 episodes of it, call it start from The Melody with Goodbye to Coffee Hanchan Ottae voiced by Humming Urban Stereo featuring Yojo.

Although the ending of this romantic drama is to be expected, plus the story is a little long-winded at the end, but for fans of Korean melodrama in particular who want to see what his best chemistry between two main actors, Coffee Prince abstinence to miss.