Plus Nine Boys

Plus Nine Boys
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Also known as	'Boys Whose Ages End in Nine Age Ending in Nine Boy'
Genre	Romance, Comedy
Written by	Park Yoo-mi
Directed by	Yoo Hak-chan
Starring	Kim Young-kwang Yook Sungjae Oh Jung-se Choi Ro-woon
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language(s)	Korean
No. of episodes	14
Release
Original network	tvN
Original release	August 29 (2014-08-29) – October 11, 2014 (2014-10-11)
External links
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Plus Nine Boys (Hangul: 아홉수 소년; RR: Ahobsu Sonyeon; lit. "Boys Whose Ages End in Nine") is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Kim Young-kwang, Yook Sungjae, Oh Jung-se and Choi Ro-woon. It aired on tvN from August 29 to October 11, 2014 on Fridays and Saturdays at 20:50 for 14 episodes.

The romantic comedy series is about four males who each confront different challenges in love and work at the cusp of a new decade in their lives.

There is a common Korean belief that anything plus nine (gu in Korean) is always "cursed" and brings about more hardship than usual, including the ninth year of every decade in one's life.

Gu Kwang-soo is 39 years old. He was once the brilliant PD (production director) of the nation's top live music program. But his fall from grace occurs when members of an indie band he'd cast drop their pants onstage and flash the entire country during a live broadcast (based on a real-life incident on MBC in 2005). Kwang-soo loses his position and gets shunted to another program, a low-rated trivia quiz show. He is desperate to get married, but his workaholic ways leave him little time to date. Kwang-soo often thinks about "the one who got away," his ex-girlfriend Joo Da-in who left him heartbroken when she suddenly broke up with him one day after publicly rejecting his marriage proposal. When they meet again, Da-in is a single mother whose life revolves around her young daughter Eun-seo, and they've just moved in to the apartment one floor above Kwang-soo's. Kwang-soo lives with his superstitious older sister Bok-ja and her three sons, Kang Jin-gu, Kang Min-gu, and Kang Dong-gu.

Kang Jin-gu is 29 years old. He is a tour planner for a large vacation travel agency, and he's self-assured, good at his job, and popular with women. But he starts having to reevaluate his whole future when he falls into a one-sided love for the first time in his life. Jin-gu almost confesses his romantic feelings for his friend and co-worker Ma Se-young, who's from a small town, is outspoken and rough around the edges but very loyal. But apart from his fear of being rejected, Jin-gu learns that his stoic best friend Park Jae-bum also likes Se-young.