| Overview: | After the runaway success of Lovers in Prague and Lovers in Paris, PD Shin Woo Chul (Lovers in Prague) and writer Kim Eun Sook (Lovers in Paris & Lovers in Prague) team up once more for the third and final installment in the Lovers Franchise. While the previous two dramas were shot in Europe, Lovers stays a little closer to home with location shooting on China's balmy, breezy Hainan Island. With a different backdrop but the same winning formula, the long-awaited drama slowly but surely pulled audiences in, recording ratings of over 25% for its final episode. Lovers stars Lovers in Paris heroine Kim Jung Eun and the ruggedly handsome Lee Seo Jin (Pheonix/Damo) as a conflicted couple, with notable supporting appearances from Kim Gyu Lee (The Immortal Lee Soon Shin), Jung Chan (Angels in My Heart), and Lee Han (Goodbye Solo). The drama is based on the Lee Man Hee play Turn Around and Leave, the same work that inspired the 1998 blockbuster film A Promise starring Jeon Do Yeon and Park Shin Yang.
On the outset, Ha Kang Jae (Lee Seo Jin) and Yoon Mi Joo (Kim Jung Eun) couldn't be further apart. He is a gang leader, a man of few words and many scars; she is a beautiful and successful plastic surgeon who excels at all she does. Loner Kang Jae, after a tumultuous childhood growing up in an orphanage, has no need for family, while Mi Joo has a large family of siblings adopted by her minister father. When the two meet by chance, an unlikely romance begins, with their differences both driving them apart and pulling them inexorably back together.
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