Tree of Heaven | |
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Also known as | Heaven's Tree Trees in Heaven |
Genre | Romance, Melodrama |
Written by |
Moon Hee-jung Kim Nam-hee |
Directed by | Lee Jang-soo |
Starring |
Lee Wan Park Shin-hye |
Country of origin | South Korea |
Original language(s) |
Korean Japanese |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Huh Woong |
Producer(s) | Ko Kyung-hee |
Location(s) | Japan |
Running time | Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 (KST) |
Release | |
Original network | Seoul Broadcasting System |
Original release | 8 February | – 9 March 2006
Chronology | |
Preceded by | My Girl |
Followed by | Bad Family |
External links | |
Website |
Tree of Heaven (Hangul: 천국의 나무; RR: Cheon-guk-ui Na-mu) is a 2006 South Korean-Japanese series starring Lee Wan and Park Shin-hye . It aired on SBS from February 8 to March 9, 2006 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 10 episodes. The drama is also the final entry in director Lee Jang-soo's Heaven Trilogy which included Beautiful Days in 2001 and Stairway to Heaven in 2003.
Also known as Tengoku no ki (天国の樹?), the series was filmed completely in Japan and featured a cast of both Korean and Japanese actors.
Bright and optimistic Korean Japanese teenager Hana (Park Shin-hye) lives at a small hot springs inn owned by her mother. When her mother decides to marry a Korean man, she tries her best to reach out to her odd, introverted stepbrother-to-be Yoon Seo (Lee Wan), who likes to walk barefoot in the snow. He rebuffs her initial efforts, but her cheer eventually wins him over. With their parents on honeymoon, together Hana and Yoon Seo stand up to Hana's spiteful aunt Yoko (Kim Chung) and cousin Maya (Asami Reina), and the two develop an increasingly close relationship over time. Yoon Seo is forward in his love for Hana, but despite feeling the same way, she is unwilling to break the taboo of a romance between step-siblings. After graduating from high school, she leaves for Tokyo with her admirer Fujiwara Ryu (Asahi Uchida), and loses contact with Yoon Seo. 2 years later, Hana, Yoon Seo, and Maya meet again. Time has led them down very different roads, but the love and the rivalry remain the same.