Celebrity's Sweetheart (스타의 연인

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Hangul,Pronounced or ; Korean: 한글 Hangeul/Han'gŭl or 조선글 Chosŏn'gŭl/Joseongeul the Korean alphabet, is the native alphabet of the Korean language. It is a separate script from Hanja, the logographic Chinese characters which are also sometimes used to write Korean...

, a.k.a. A Star's Lover) is a 20-episode romance melodrama starring Choi Ji-woo

Choi Ji-woo

Choi Ji-woo is a South Korean actress.- Career :Choi was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, and made her debut in the 1995's War and Love, after which she adopted the stage name Choi Ji-woo....

 and Yoo Ji-tae. The series aired on SBS from December 10, 2008 to February 12, 2009.

Plot

As the ghostwriter for star actress Lee Ma-ri’s bestselling travel essay "Lovers in Asuka," Chul-soo gets to meet Lee Ma-ri one day. Around that time, Lee Ma-ri also has a chance meeting with Jung Woo-jin, who happens to have the same name as her first boyfriend. She feels her heart flutter for the first time since her former boyfriend Kang Woo-jin suddenly vanished from her life. Lee Ma-ri finds out that Jung Woo-jin became interested in her after reading her travel essay, which was actually ghostwritten. So she tries to brush up her knowledge of culture by contacting Chul-soo for private lessons. So this is how Chul-soo and Lee Ma-ri meet again. However, Chul-soo's life becomes complicated after Lee Ma-ri enters his life. Meanwhile, Byung-joon, a friend of Chul-soo and a journalist, discovers that Chul-soo is the actual writer of the travel essay, "Lovers in Asuka" and so he proposes that Chul-soo sell a story about Lee Ma-ri's personal life. He urges Chul-soo to seriously consider his proposal because he knows that Chul-soo needs the money desperately for his ailing sister. While Chul-soo weighs his options, Jung Woo-jin returns to Korea and Lee Ma-ri becomes more concerned about improving her cultural and literature understanding so she asks Chul-soo to live at her home to teach her intensively. Amidst this, Lee Ma-ri and Jung Woo-jin begin to see each other more frequently and Chul-soo becomes indispensable to Ma-ri as a private tutor. One day, Chul-soo realizes that he is no longer needed by Ma-ri and this triggers conflicting emotions within him. Since Chul-soo is pressed for money to pay for the operation that his sister desperately needs, he decides to sell his story about Ma-ri's personal life to his journalist friend Byung-joon. When the story about Ma-ri turns into a big scandal, Woo-jin’s resolve to marry Ma-ri becomes stronger and he proposes marriage to her. As a wedding gift, Jung Woo-jin tells Ma-ri that he'll bankroll a documentary film based on her travel essay, "Lovers in Asuka." He then asks his former professor to recommend a couple of writers for his documentary film and that is how Chul-soo and Eun-young join the film project as writers. So Chul-soo and Ma-ri meet again during the filming of the documentary...

Main Cast

• Choi Ji-woo
  Choi Ji-woo
  Choi Ji-woo is a South Korean actress.- Career :Choi was first discovered when she won a talent audition organized by MBC in 1994, and made her debut in the 1995's War and Love, after which she adopted the stage name Choi Ji-woo....
  
   ... Lee Ma Ri
• Yoo Ji-tae ... Kim Chul Soo
• Lee Ki Woo ... Jung Woo Jin
• Cha Ye Ryun ...Choi Eun Young
• Ki Tae Young ... Son Ha Young
• Choi Phillip ... Kang Woo Jin

Supporting Cast

• Lee Joon Hyuk ... Min Jang Soo (Ma Ri's bodyguard)
• Sung Ji Roo ... Seo Tae Suk (CEO of Ma Ri's management agency)
• Yang Hee Kyung ... Lee Seung Yeon (Ma Ri's stylist)
• Shin Min Hee ... Kim Yu Ri (Chul Soo's sister)
• Jung Woon Taek ... Jun Byung Joon
• Shim Eun-Jin ... Ye Rin
• Ban Hyo Jung ... Ma Ri's grandmother
• Kwak Hyun Hwa ... Lee Eun Sil
• Lee Seung Hyung ... Choi Seung Wook
• Yoon Joo Sang ... Professor Ahn
• Lee Jong Nam ... Choi Ryun Hee
• Kim Ji Young ... Kim Ok Ja
• Kim Ye Ryung ... Lee Ji Soon
• Kim Ji Sook ... Bo Young (Chul Soo's mother)
• Bae Ki Bum ... Chul Soo's father
• Lee Dong-gun
  Lee Dong-gun
  Lee Dong-gun is a South Korean actor.-Career:Lee made his debut in 1998 as an actor and singer. However, he has long since given up his singing career...
  
   ... Eun Young's friend (cameo, ep20)
• Ji Jin-hee ... actor / Ma Ri's ex-boyfriend (cameo, ep8)
• Lee Young Eun ... student (cameo, ep1)
• Gong Hyung-jin ... director (cameo, ep1)
• Shin Hyun-jun
  Shin Hyun-jun
  Shin Hyun-jun is a popular actor from South Korea. He is well known for portraying Ki-bong in the movie Barefoot Ki-bong and the photographer in South Korea's most popular music video "Because I'm A Girl" performed by KISS. He is best known as 아랍왕자 due to his foreign look and long eyelashes...
  
   ... department store magnate (cameo, ep1)
• Kim Ji-suk ... actor (cameo, ep1)
• Min Joon Hyun ... entertainment journalist
• Song Young Kyu

External links

• http://tv.sbs.co.kr/starlover/
• Celebrity Sweetheart at SBS Global
• 'Celebrity's Sweetheart' Knocks on Viewer's Hearts Korea Times. December 2, 2008.
• Mega drama duo signals hot winter Korea Herald. December 1, 2008.