Awards

At the 20th Korean Producers’ Award held on 28 February 2008 at the SBS Open Hall, Coffee Prince won the best TV drama award. At the 44th Baeksang Arts Awards held on April 24, 2008 in Seoul, handing out top honors to the films and television programs of the previous year, Yoon Eun Hye and Producer Lee Yoon Jung won the following awards : BEST ACTRESS: Yoon Eun Hye (Coffee Prince 커피프린스 1호점, MBC) EST NEW PRODUCER: Lee Yoon Jung (Coffee Prince, MBC) Won 2007 MBC Acting Awards: Top Excellence in Acting (Yoon Eun Hye) 2007 MBC Acting Awards: Excellence in Acting (Gong Yoo) 2007 MBC Acting Awards: Best PD Award (Kim Chang Wan) Nominated 2007 MBC Acting Awards: Excellence in Acting (Chae Jung Ahn) 2007 MBC Acting Awards: Excellence in Acting (Lee Sun Gyun) 2007 MBC Acting Awards: Best New Actor (Lee Eon) 2007 MBC Acting Awards: Best Drama 2007 MBC Acting Awards: Best Couple Award (Yoon Eun Hye and Gong Yoo) 2007 MBC Acting Awards: Best Couple Award (Chae Jung Ahn and Lee Sun Gyun) 2007 MBC Acting Awards: Popularity Award (Gong Yoo) 2007 MBC Acting Awards: Popularity Award (Yoon Eun Hye)

Cast

* Yoon Eun Hye as Go Eun-Chan * Gong Yoo as Choi Han-Gyul * Lee Sun Gyun as Choi Han Seong * Chae Jung Ahn as Han Yoo Joo * Kim Ja Ok as Han Kyul's mom * Choi Il Hwa as Han Kyul's dad * Kim Young Ok as Han Kyul's grandmother * Park Won Sook as Eun Chan's mom * Kim Chang Wan as Hong Gae Sik (ex-Coffee Prince president) * Kim Jae Wook as No Sun Ki * Kim Dong Wook as Jin Ha * Lee Han Wie as Mr. Ku (the butcher that likes Eun Chan's mom) * Han Yeh In as Go Eun Sae (Eun Chan's sister) * Kim Jung Min as DK (Yoo Joo's ex-boyfriend) * Ban Hye Ra as Han Yoo Joo's mother * Choi Eun Seo (the girl who wants to learn to make waffles) * Min Seo Hyun * Yoon Seung Ah * Jo Hyun Sook * Han Da Min as Han Byul * Lee Joon Ha

Story

Choi Han Kyul, played by Gong Yoo, is the cocky son of a very rich family who runs a damaged food corporation. He doesn't believe in love and certainly doesn't want to get married despite his family's requests. On the other hand, Go Eun Chan, played by Yoon Eun Hye, is a 24-year old tomboyish female who gets mistaken for a guy quite often. She takes up every job possible — waitress, food deliverer, etc — and has the responsibility of taking care of her mother and younger sister. Eun Chan accidentally meets Han Kyul twice, once on a delivery and once during a robbery. During the robbery, Eun Chan's delivery motorcycle ends up being damaged. Han Kyul, not knowing that Eun Chan is actually a girl, decides to hire Eun Chan as a false "lover" so that he can escape the blind dates arranged by his grandmother. Meanwhile, Han Kyul's cousin, Choi Han Seong, is an established music producer and his ex-girlfriend Han Yoo Joo, who Han Kyul secretly loved for nine years, is a famous artist who studied in New York. The two were lovers for about 8 years but their relationship ended when Yoo Joo broke up with Han Seong. Two years after they separated their paths cross again when Yoo Joo returns to Seoul. After getting an ultimatum from his grandmother, Han Kyul takes over a run-down severely damaged old coffee shop, later renamed Coffee Prince, to prove his ability, both to his grandmother and Yoo Joo. In order to attract female customers, he only hires good looking male employees. In a struggle with money, Eun Chan, whom Han Kyul has already mistaken as a boy, hides her gender to get a job at Coffee Prince. Soon feelings start to spark between Eun Chan and Han Kyul. Because he's unaware that Eun Chan is a girl, Han Kyul starts to question his sexuality. Book With the death of her father, Eun Chan has to support her family, consisting of a foolish, spendthrift mother and younger sister. Due to her short hair, baggy clothing and general boyish behavior, she often gets mistaken for a boy and her sister often uses her as her 'boyfriend' to get rid of boys who follow her around. Eun Chan is also proficient at Taekwondo, and is strong for a girl. Han Gyul is the heir of a large company. He's rich, carefree and doesn't take life seriously enough. He first meets Eun Chan when one of her sister's boyfriends attempts to steal a handbag belonging to Yoo Joo (a woman that Han Gyul secretly likes). Eun Chan, not knowing who the boy is, catches him but lets him go when she realizes who it is. This gives Han Gyul the impression that the two have been planning the incident together, and when she comes the day after to collect money to fix her scooter, he insults her by telling her that he thinks she's just a thief. All this time, he thinks that Eun Chan is male. After being forced by his grandmother to take on a coffee shop (that is to become Coffee Prince) and improve its sales, Han Gyul goes for a 'prince' concept and tries to hire good-looking boys as servers to attract female customers. Eun Chan is employed, and as she works at Coffee Prince, she falls in love with Han Gyul. Han Gyul too feels affection for Eun Chan. Not knowing that Eun Chan is actually a girl, this leads him to confusion about his sexuality and he tries to distance himself from her. Although the drama version is very similar, there is nothing in the book about Eun Chan going abroad to become a barista.