Description
Boys Over Flowers is a 2009 South Korean television series that earned high viewership ratings in South Korea and popularity throughout Asia. It stars Ku Hye-sun, Lee Min-ho, Kim Hyun-joong, Kim Bum, Kim Joon and Kim So-eun. It aired for 25 episodes on KBS2 from January 5 to March 31, 2009
The series is about an average girl who gets tangled up in the lives of an arrogant rich boy and his friends, and is based on the Japanese shōjo manga series Boys Over Flowers (花より男子 Hana Yori Dango) written by Yoko Kamio. The series is the fifth television adaptation of the manga following the Taiwanese Meteor Garden and its sequel Meteor Garden II, and the Japanese Hana Yori Dango and its sequel Hana Yori Dango Returns. The newest edition of this series is Meteor Garden, a Chinese adaptation.
Company Information
We relentlessly seek to be “Creative”, both in Contents Production and Business. Through Creativity, we want our audience overwhelmingly entertained and stimulated both emotionally and intellectually.
Crisscrossing productions from Drama Series and Musicals to Stage Play, Group Eight will always be Original, Experimental and Masterful.
We will always seek to Reach out to the Broader Audiences, beyond Korea and Asia to America and Europe.
We will always be the Pioneer in Adopting New Platforms both in Analogue and Digital domains.
Category & Business Type
TV Show
Category : Producer
Business Type : Program Copyright Deals
Main Business
1) One-Stop In-House Production
Group8 can independently identify, plan, develop, produce, market and distribute its own TV Drama Production.
2) Dedicated Strong Planning Team
Rather than relying on an individual star writer, Group8 has fortified its own systematic planning ability. Focusing on identifying creative and trendy contents from various sources, contents creative team along with promising rookie writers develop them into quality drama scripts.
3) Pre-produced System
When necessary, Group8 rather completes production before on-air to achieve the better quality of contents and to gain the bargaining power over any platforms in terms of negotiation, pricing and IP Rights.
Plan and Goal
- We will negotiate broadcasting rights through meetings with major Mideast companies (broadcasters) and discuss with SBSCH to promote formal contracts
- About the Korean historical drama, the contents of the Mideast market have a lot of potential business areas that can be derived.