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Becoming a Billionaire
English Title
Becoming a Billionaire
Korean Title
부자의 탄생
中文題目
富翁的诞生
タイトル
セレブの誕生
Writer
Choi Min-gi
Director
Lee Jin-seo
Cast
Ji Hyun-woo Lee Bo-young Namgung Min Lee Si-young
Production Year
2010
Duration
70mn. * 20eps.
Synopsis
“Becoming a Billionaire”, based on a theme saying not a good family but zealous effort let a person make a fortune, is a romantic comedy drama illustrating a success story of both an heiress of a business tycoon and a man who believes himself that he is a hidden son of a big business family.
Initiating the TV audience into how to get into the top 1% class in Korea (so called the Royal Family), \'Becoming a Billionaire\' is picturing on how to make a fortune with different purposes and methods.
Although living in a rooftop room and working at a hotel as a houseman now, Choi Seok-bong is convinced that he is a hidden son of a big business family. Seok-bong practices himself to be qualified as a billionaire’s heir in order to prepare himself when he meets his father someday. All these efforts are for the day he meets his birth father. One day, while just hoping to escape from his poverty by meeting his father, he is diagnosed with testicular tumor...
Although Lee Sin-Mi is an heiress of Osung Group and a member of the royal family belonging to the top 1% class in Korea, she is a notorious penny-pincher who drinks only cheap coffee at 100 won from a vending machine not to mention Dutch treat. Even though she is cold-blooded as far as money is concerned, she has a tender heart as a woman.
Born as an heir of Frontier Group, Choo Woon-seok, who will be in a love triangle with Lee Sin-mi and Seok-bong, is a typically well-born and well-bred person in the Royal Family. Also, he is a prominent figure who made Frontier Group having been out of the top 100 in the business ranking enter the top 30 within five years. He approaches to Sin-mi to be a son-in-law of the head of Osung Group which is ranked number one in financial circles.
Boo Tae-hee is an heiress of Buho Group, the rival company of Osung Group. She has only two words that explain her clearly: Money Talks. As a Korean version of Paris Hilton, she is an heiress of Buho Group that competes against Osung Group. However, there is one thing that she cannot have her way. It\'s love. She comes to declare an all-out war to Osung Group in order to get Choo Woon-seok back...