Star's Lover


Star's Lover is a 2008 South Korean television series starring Choi Ji-woo and Yoo Ji-tae that aired on SBS. A love story between a star actress and an ordinary man, director Boo Sung-chul said the series was inspired by the 1999 film Notting Hill.

Plot

Lee Ma-ri is a top star in South Korea and throughout Asia. The head of her management agency, Seo Tae-suk, hires a ghostwriter to help transform Ma-ri's image. Poverty-stricken university lecturer Kim Chul-soo takes the job in order to earn money to repay his ex-girl friend, who paid for his college tuition. Whilst they are in Japan he falls in love with Ma-ri. However, when the travel essay book Lovers in Asuka, written by Chul-soo on Ma-ri's behalf, becomes a bestseller, Ma-ri gets caught up in the controversy generated by the ghost writing. The two lovers try to continue their relationship away from media attention, but obstacles abound: eligible young executive Jung Woo-jin, who pursues Ma-ri; Ma-ri's first love Kang Woo-jin, who suddenly vanished from her life; Chul-soo's ex-girlfriend Choi Eun-young ; and the manipulative Seo Tae-suk, who seeks to control everything in Ma-ri's life.

Cast

Main characters

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Production

As of the twelfth episode Choi was reported to have worn 147 outfits, thus averaging 12 ensembles per episode, with episode two alone featuring 25 different outfits. The sheer volume of clothing and range of styles is in line with her character as a top actress.
Many of the scenes were filmed on location in Seoul and Busan.
It first aired in Japan on satellite channel WOWOW beginning May 1, 2009. Reruns followed on terrestrial network TBS from September 27 to October 22, 2010, and on cable channel KNTV from November 9 to December 4, 2009.
In Thailand it first aired on Modernine TV in 2011.