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Becoming a Billionaire
2010 South Korean TV series or program From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Becoming a Billionaire (Korean: 부자의 탄생; Hanja: 富者의 誕生; RR: Bujaui tansaeng; lit. 'Birth of a Rich Person') is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Ji Hyun-woo, Lee Bo-young, Lee Si-young and Namkoong Min.[1] It aired on KBS2 from March 1 to May 4, 2010, on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
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Plot
Choi Seok-bong believes he is the son of a billionaire that had a one-night stand with his mother. While working as a bellboy at a luxury hotel, Seok-bong practices the qualities he thinks a billionaire's heir would have; all these efforts are for the day he meets his birth father. But one day, Seok-bong is diagnosed with breast cancer, which only has a 50 percent survival rate. Seok-bong doesn't have enough money for treatments, and finds it absolutely ridiculous that a billionaire's heir would die because he has no money. Finding his biological father may be Seok-bong's only hope, so he turns to Lee Shin-mi, the heiress of Ohsung Group and a notorious penny-pincher, for help.[2][3]
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Cast
Main characters
- Ji Hyun-woo as Choi Seok-bong
- Park Gun-woo as teenage Choi Seok-bong
- A bell boy at Ohsung Hotel in the first few episodes.
- Lee Bo-young as Lee Shin-mi
- Kim So-hyun as young Lee Shin-mi
- The heiress of Ohsung Group, and a strict and frugal person. Ohsung Hotel director in the first few episodes.
- Namkoong Min as Chu Woon-seok
- An ambitious man whose goal is to revive his father's company, Frontier Group, and who is interested in Shin-mi. Near the end of the drama, he silently declares his love for Tae-hee when she visits him in prison.
- Lee Si-young as Bu Tae-hee
- A spoiled heiress of Buho Group who is interested in Woon-seok. / Bu Tae-hee's mother (ep. 11, cameo)
Supporting characters
- The CEO's
- Yoon Joo-sang as Lee Jung-hyun
- CEO of Ohsung Group, father of Shin-mi
- Kim Eung-soo as Bu Gwi-ho
- CEO of Buho Group, father of Tae-hee
- Park Young-ji as Chu Young-dal
- CEO of Frontier Group, father of Woon-seok
- Extended cast
- Shin Da-eun as Han So-jung
- Shin-mi's secretary
- Kim Dong-gyun as Mr. Yoo
- Employee of Ohsung who works as a spy for Woon-seok.
- Jung Joo-eun as Yoon Mal-ja
- Tae-hee's secretary
- Kim Ki-bang as Park Kang-woo
- Seok-bong's best friend
- Park Min-ji as Park Kang-sook
- Kang-woo's sister
- Ok Ji-young as Bang Soo-jin
- Weekly magazine reporter
- Sung Ji-ru as Woo Byung-doo
- A homeless wanderer with an interest in molybdenum, Seok-bong's irksome acquaintance, uninvited roommate, and later, business partner.
- Jang Yoo-joon as Woo Bung-eo
- Byung-doo's son who is musically talented.
- Kim Mi-kyung as Kang-woo's mother
- Jung Han-yong as Kang-woo's father
- Min Wook as Ha Joon-tae
- Son Ho-young as young adult Ha Joon-tae
- The ailing owner of the license to the mining rights of a molybdenum mine.
- Park Chul-min as Kim Dal-soo
- Hotel captain at Ohsung Hotel, and later Lee Jung-hyun's butler
- Cameos
- Son Ho-young as Seok-bong's father
- Lee Won-jong as Seok-bong's middle school math teacher
- Choi Song-hyun as Seok-bong's mother when she met Ha Joon-tae
- Jang Tae-sung as Ohsung Hotel bellman
- Lee Han-wi as Teriah Park
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Ratings
International broadcast
Its Japanese broadcasting rights were sold to NHK (along with another KBS drama The Great Merchant) for US$3 million.[6] It also aired on Fuji TV as part of the network's "Hallyu Alpha Summer Festival," and on cable channel KNTV beginning July 2, 2014.[7]
It aired in Thailand on Workpoint TV from March 10, 2014, to April 4, 2014.[8][unreliable source?]
References
External links
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