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Weightlifting Fairy, Kim Bok-joo

Broadcasting
Year of Production
2016
Content Type
TV Drama (Short)
Platform
TV Channel
Target Age
Family
Quantity
70(min) 16Quantity Input

Summary

Bok-joo is a weightlifter who is pursuing her dream of winning the gold medal but she then finds romance for the first time in her life. While she is a women who trains with heavy steel weights, she is also very feminine when it comes to relationships. To focus solely on weightlifting would jeopardize her relationship but leaving her weightlifting career for love would keep her from attaining her dreams. Can she find a way to have love as well as glory at the age of 20? The characters within this drama are elite athletes in weightlifting, swimming and rhythmic gymnastics who work hard to reach their goals in life. It covers their coming-of-age stories and relationships through hectic life.

Company Profile

Broadcasting

MBC America

Founded in 1991 in Los Angeles, California, MBC America broadcasts, distributes, and sells programs from MBC in Korea to United States, Canada, and Latin America.

MBC is a public broadcaster established in 1961 in Korea, and it has become a leading broadcaster in the Korean content industry by producing popular dramas and entertainment shows for 60 years. MBC's content has been exported to 50 countries in Asia and around the world, and its representative programs include "King of Mask Singer," "Physical 100," and "Daejanggeum."

MBC America is a U.S. subsidiary of MBC and is responsible for broadcasting rights and format sales of all of MBC's content, including dramas, entertainment, and documentaries, in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America.

MBC America is actively collaborating with famous broadcasters and production companies in the United States, and it has sold the format of "The Masked Singer" to FOX and the format of "Celebrity Show Off" to TBS in the United States. "The Masked Singer" format has been sold to more than 50 countries around the world. In the US, FOX's "The Masked Singer" continues to air its 11th season.

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