1. Kim Eun-sook wrote the popular television dramas Lovers in Paris, Secret Garden, A Gentleman's Dignity, The Heirs, Descendants of the Sun, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, Mr Sunshine, and The Glory.
17 Facts About Kim Eun-sook
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Kim Eun-sook chose another European setting for her next drama, Lovers in Prague.
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Kim Eun-sook said she wanted to feature a romance in which the woman's social status is higher than her partner, and wanted to make the social difference between the two main characters as extreme as possible by making the heroine the daughter of the president of South Korea.
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Kim Eun-sook tried her hand at writing for the big screen in the 2006 melodrama Fly High.
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The film was a critical and box office disappointment, and Kim Eun-sook soon returned to her milieu, television.
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Kim Eun-sook said she used politics as a backdrop for the romance to show her idealism regarding public officials.
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Kim Eun-sook won Best Writer at the Seoul International Drama Awards, the Korea Drama Awards, and the Korea Content Awards.
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Kim Eun-sook said she wrote the hero of 2013 drama He Who Wishes To Wear the Crown Endures Its Weight: Heirs specifically for actor Lee Min-ho.
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Kim Eun-sook starred opposite Park Shin-hye in a Gossip Girl-esque trendy drama set in a high school populated by the uber-rich.
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Kim Eun-sook said the biggest difference was writing about 18-year-olds when her previous characters had been in their thirties and forties, calling The Heirs "a teen romance for grown-ups".
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Three years since The Heirs, Kim Eun-sook announced that she would be coming back with a human melodrama about a man and a woman who bond gradually as they save lives in disaster zones and end up falling in love.
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However, in an interview, Kim Eun-sook Won-seok stated that said there were some parts that could have been improved on if the show had been shot as it was being aired, per local industry norm.
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Kim Eun-sook returned to free-to-air television with the series The King: Eternal Monarch on SBS.
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Kim Eun-sook worked again with Lee Min-ho of The Heirs and Kim Go-eun of Guardian: The Lonely and Great God in the leading roles.
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Kim Eun-sook reunited with Descendants of the Sun star Song Hye-kyo in the Netflix's series The Glory.
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Kim Eun-sook's trademark is slick and glossy romantic comedies with fast-flying banter.
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Some critics have opined that Kim Eun-sook writes shallow characters, and she is as polarizing as she is successful.