Becoming a Billionaire
| Becoming a Billionaire | |
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| Also known as | Birth of the Rich Birth of a Rich Man |
| Genre |
Comedy Romance |
| Written by | Choi Min-ki |
| Directed by | Lee Jin-seo |
| Starring |
Ji Hyun-woo Lee Bo-young Lee Si-young Namgung Min |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language(s) | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Lee Han-ho |
| Location(s) | Seoul, Korea |
| Running time | 60 minutes Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 (KST) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Korean Broadcasting System (South Korea) |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | March 1 – May 4, 2010 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Master of Study |
| Followed by | Secret Agent Miss Oh |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Becoming a Billionaire (Hangul: 부자의 탄생; RR: Bujaeui Tansaeng; lit. "Birth of the Rich") is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Ji Hyun-woo, Lee Bo-young, Lee Si-young and Namgung Min. It aired on KBS2 from March 1 to May 4, 2010 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
Choi Seok-bong believes he is the son of a billionaire, from 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 for help to Lee Shin-mi, the heiress of Ohsung Group and a notorious penny-pincher.
Its Japanese broadcasting rights were sold to NHK (along with another KBS drama The Great Merchant) for US$3 million. 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.
It aired on Thailand on Workpoint TV from March 10, 2014 to April 4, 2014.
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