Almost Love

Ji-hwan (Kwon Sang-woo) and Dal-rae Kim Ha-neul) are old friends and they have grown up in the same neighborhood. Ji-hwan admires Hong Kong movie star "Jacky Chan" and wants to be a world action star. Dal-rae has a desire to be an actress. They always bear grudges against each other with their private weak parts, and they quarrel everyday, however they are great friends who care for each other.One day, Dal-rae goes out with Young-hoon who is in the same Taekwondo group as Ji-hwan. Young-hoon is a student representative of the department as well as an all-round athlete. Ji-hwan is also dating a girl, Ji-min, a gorgeous glamour girl who has a well-shaped figure.It seems that there would be no problem between the good friends Ji-hwan and Dal-rae, but somehow a strange atmosphere arises after they start seeing someone else. Everybody knows it is more than just a friendship, except Ji-hwan and Dal-rae.

Jeon Ji-hyun

Jeon Ji-hyun born on October 30, 1981. She first became well-known as a commercial model and as a TV actress. Although she made her film debut in the little-watched White Valentine in 1999, it was not until later in the year when she was featured in an advertisement for an audio system that she became a popular sensation. The dancing and attitude expressed in the ad made her into an icon for Koreans in their late teens and early twenties.
After continuing her TV and modelling career, Jeon made her first well-publicized film appearance in late 2000 with Il Mare. A handsomely-shot melodrama set on Kanghwa Island, the film did respectably well at the box office (despite opening on the same day as JSA) and solidified her status as a star.
Jeon's breakout film was comedy My Sassy Girl, which became a huge hit both in Korea and throughout Asia with its tale of a gullible college student and his slightly unhinged girlfriend. The film spent two weeks at #1 in Hong Kong, and turned her into Korea's most recognizable star in the Chinese-language market. Two years then passed before she appeared in her next film, an "occult thriller" titled The Uninvited which wowed critics but failed to catch on with viewers. Throughout this time she was a constant presence in TV ads and on billboards in Korea and also in other Asian countries.
2004 saw her return to the big screen in another film by Kwak Jae-yong, the director of My Sassy Girl. Windstruck cast her in the role of a policewoman, but many viewers felt it was too similar to My Sassy Girl. There were also signs that her popularity had started to suffer because of overexposure in advertisements. Nonetheless, Windstruck became the best-performing film ever in Japan, where My Sassy Girl was not as well known.
Jeon's next project Daisy teamed her with Jung Woo-sung (who frequently appears together with her in advertisements), and drew attention for its 100% location shooting in the Netherlands, and for using the Hong Kong director Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs). Nonetheless the film disappointed at the box-office and drew weak appraisals from viewers.
In late 2006 it was announced the Jeon would be making her long-predicted jump to Hollywood to take the lead role in Blood: The Last Vampire. The international co-production is the live-action adaptation of a popular Japanese anime.


Awards she received are:

Z 2002 Daejong (GrandBell) Film Festival: Best Actress / People’s Choice
Z 1999 SBS Actors Awards: Best New Actress
Z 1999 Baeksang Arts Awards: Best New Actress


Some of her most loved movies and series are:

Daisy (2006)


Windstruck (2004)


The Uninvited (2003)


My Sassy Girl (2001)


Il Mare (2000)


Happy Together (1999)


White Valentine (1999)


Steal My Heart (1998)

Han Chae-young

Han Chae Young was born Kim Ji Young at 13 September 1980. She is a South Korean actress and referred to as "the Barbie Doll of Korea."

Critics have praised her work in the television drama, Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang, which is a present-day version of the historical story, Chunhyang. Critics doubted the series would succeed, but it has proved a favourite among young adults. There, Han plays a fun-loving, free-spirited young woman.


Some of her most loved movies and series are:

Fireworks (2006)


Only You (2005)


Sassy Girl, Chun-hyang (2005)


Wild Card (2003)


Autumn In My Heart (2000)

Bae Yong-joon

Bae Yong-joon born on August 29, 1972 spent the first nine years of his show biz career in TV dramas, gradually building up a tremendous fan base across Asia, and particularly in Japan, that has made him one of Korea's most famous stars. His debut came in the 1994 TV drama Love Greeting, and from 1995 to 2002 he went on to appear in nine more TV dramas. Have We Really Loved? (1999), Hotelier (2001) and especially Winter Sonata (2002) gave him tremendous exposure throughout Asia. In Japan in particular, Winter Sonata enjoyed unprecedented popular success, particularly among middle-aged women. Bae was subsequently dubbed with the honorific nickname "Yonsama", and became the most famous Korean star in Japan. Japanese prime minister Koizumi even joked, perhaps not untruthfully, that Bae's popularity had outstripped his own.
Meanwhile his film debut, outside of a brief walk-on in the film Bbilgu in 1995, came after he was already quite famous, in E J-yong's 2003 period drama Untold Scandal. The film, in which he portrayed a womanizing aristocrat quite unlike his popular image from TV dramas, was a hit in Korea and also performed well in Japan. By the time he made his second film April Snow in 2005, his popularity had grown to the extent that an intense media frenzy followed him throughout the shooting schedule. The film, about a man who discovers his wife's infidelity after she falls into a coma, opened weakly in Korea but set a new box office record for a Korean film in Japan.
In fall of 2006, Bae is scheduled to return to TV dramas with the lead role in Taewangsasingi, where he plays an emperor from the Goguryeo Dynasty who lived from 375-413.


Awards he received are:

Z 2004 40th Baeksang Rookie Award
Z 2003 Blue Dragon Best Newcomer & Popular Star award
Z 2002 KBS Drama Popular Actor Award & Best Actor Award
Z 2002 38th Bak Sang Popularity award
Z 1997 33rd Bak Sang Popularity award
Z 1996 KBS Drama The Excellent Actor Award & The Popular Actor Award
Z 1995 KBS Drama Rookie Award & Photogenic Award


Some of his most loved movies and series are:

April Snow (2005)


Untold Scandal (2003)


Winter Sonata (2002)


Hotelier (2001)


Did We Really Love?(1999)


First Love (1996)


Papa (1995)

Ha Ji-won

Ha Ji-won born on June 28, 1979 made her television debut in 1997 on KBS TV. She won a Grand Bell award as the Best New Actress of 2000 with her debut film Truth or Dare, and a Blue Dragon award for Best Supporting Actress with her second film, the popular melodrama Ditto (2000). After achieving wider public recognition as a "horror queen" for her roles in Ahn Sung-ki's films A Nightmare and Phone, she has branched out into a variety of roles such as that of a cheerleader in Sex is Zero, which was one of most successful comedies of the year 2002.
Thanks to the huge success of her TV drama, Damo in which she starred as a female detective in the Chosun Dynasty and Something That Happened in Bali in which she played a poor girl who was loved by two rich men played by Jo In-sung and So Ji-seop, she gained a reputation as an A-list actress. Her subsequent roles in three comedies -- Reversal of Fortune, 100 Days With Mr. Arrogant, and Love, So Divine -- were not as successful with audiences, however. In early 2005 she starred in the melodrama Daddy-Long-Legs, based on a famous novel by Jean Webster.
Ha's next role saw her once again play a Chosun-era female detective, this time in acclaimed director Lee Myung-Se's Duelist. Probably her highest-profile role to date, the film sees her teams up with Ahn Sung-ki to catch an elusive criminal played by Kang Dong-won.


Awards she received are:

Z 2006 KBS Drama Best Actress Award (Hwang Jin-i)
Z 2004 Baek Sang Best Actress Award
Z 2000 Blue Dragon Best Supporting Actress Award
Z 2000 Pusan Film Critics Assn. Awards Best New Actress (Truth or Dare)


Some of her most loved movies and series are:

Miracle On 1st Street (2006)


Hwangjin-i (2006)


My Lovely Week (2005)


Duelist (2005)


Fashion 70s (2005)


Daddy-Long-Legs (2004)


Love So Divine (2004)


Something Happened In Bali (2004)


My Love Ssagajy (2003)


Damo (2003)


Reversal Of Fortune (2003)


Sex Is Zero (2002)


Phone (2002)


Secret (2001)


The Horror Game Movie Nightmare (2000)


Ditto (2000)

Choi Ji-woo

Choi Ji Woo is one of the most popular actresses in Asia, and has a large fanbase in Southeast Asia. She is also very popular in Japan, and it is here that she was nicknamed 'Asian Princess'.
Born on June 11, 1975, in Gyeonggi Paju, South Korea, she made her debut in the 1995 drama War and Love, from which she changed her name to Choi Ji Woo. Choi was noted for her role in the drama series First Love. Choi co-starred with actor Bae Yong Joon in the Korean Drama Series Winter Sonata in March 2002. This particular drama was a big success, and it made Choi famous across Asia. She is also called "Princess Ji Woo" by her Japanese fans.
Choi has also gained a wide Japanese following from her movie, Everybody Has Secrets, where she co-starred with Lee Byung Hun. Beautiful Days (2001), Winter Sonata (2002) and Stairway to Heaven (2003/04) are among the most popular Korean dramas in Asia, and have all contributed to her popularity throughout Asia.


Awards she received are:

Z 2006 Timeless Beauty Acting Award (Seoul)
Z 2005 Korean Movie Association: Special Award
Z 2005 41th BaekSang Award: Special Award (contribution to Hallyu Wave)
Z 2004 40th BaekSang Awards: Popularity Award (TV Part)
Z 2003 SBS Acting Award: Best Actress for Special Production Award (Stairway to Heaven)
Z 2003 SBS Acting Award: Top 10 Popularity Award selected by netizens
Z 2003 Golden Award: Popularity Award in movie part ("The Romantic President")
Z 2002 KBS Acting Awards: Popularity Award
Z 2002 KBS Acting Awards: Best Actress Award (Winter Sonata)
Z 2002 Best Dresser Awards: TV Talent Category
Z 2002 38th BaekSang Arts Awards: Popularity Award (TV Part)
Z 2001 SBS Acting Awards: Best Actress for Special Production Award (Beautiful Days)
Z 2001 SBS Acting Awards: Top 10 Popularity Award selected by netizens
Z 2000 MBC Acting Awards: Great Female Performer Award (Mr. Duke)
Z 1999 Video Music Awards: Golden Video Actress Award (MV "For Your Soul")
Z 1998 34th BaekSang Arts Awards: Newcomer Actress Award ("The Hole")
Z 1998 21st Grand Bell Awards: Newcomer Actress Award ("The Hole")
Z 1995 Korean Isabelle Adjani Award

Some of her most popular and loved movies and series are:

Now and Forever (2006)


Shadowless Sword (2005)


Everybody has Secrets (2004)


Stairway to Heaven (2003)


The Romantic President(2002)


Winter Sonata (2002)


Beautiful Days (2001)


Mr. Duke (2000)


Truth (2000)


No Where To Hide (1999)


First Kiss (1998)


First Love (1996)