Here's
the perfect chance to see Korean Wave stars Lee Byung Hun
(All In, Beautiful Days) and So Ji Sub (
I Am Sorry, I Love You, Something Happened In Bali)
before they became household names across Asia. First
aired in 2001, Long Way features Lee Byung Hun, So
Ji Sub, and Park Jin Hee (Money's Warfare, Come
Back Soon-Ae!) in a family values-themed drama that
serves up plenty of warm and fuzzy holiday sentiments for
the audience to savor. Due to Lee Byung Hun's huge
popularity in Japan, the two-part series also aired on NHK
in 2005.
A
good daughter doesn't want to disappoint her father. So
Sun Joo (Park Jin Hee) panics when she realizes that her
father's wish to meet her boyfriend Ki Hyun (So Ji Sub)
isn't going to happen. Right before the New Year holiday,
Ki Hyun said goodbye, leaving Sun Joo scrambling for ways
to break the bad news to her father, who has long been
urging her to get married. But not all is lost. At the
train station, Soo runs into one of her customers from
work, Woo Sik (Lee Byung Hun). Woo Sik is an orphan who
spends most of the holidays volunteering as a driver,
offering rides to people visiting family or relatives.
Suddenly, an idea pops into her head, and she strikes a
devious deal with Woo Sik, asking him to act as her
boyfriend in exchange for payment. The arrangement was
only going to last for three nights and four days, but...
