Lovers (South Korean TV series)

Lovers
Created byKim Eun-sook
Shin Woo-chul
Based onTurn Around and Leave
by Lee Man-hee
Written byKim Eun-sook
Directed byShin Woo-chul
StarringKim Jung-eun
Lee Seo-jin
Music byPark Se-jun
Country of originSouth Korea
No. of episodes20
Production
ProducerGu Bon-geun
Production locationsSouth Korea
Hainan Island, China
Original release
NetworkSBS TV
ReleaseNovember 8, 2006 (2006-11-08) 
January 11, 2007 (2007-01-11)

Lovers (Korean: 연인; RR: Yeon-in) is a South Korean television series starring Kim Jung-eun and Lee Seo-jin who play a plastic surgeon and a gangster who enter into an unlikely romance. The series is based on the Lee Man-hee stage play Turn Around and Leave, the same work that inspired the 1998 blockbuster film A Promise starring Jeon Do-yeon and Park Shin-yang. It aired on SBS from November 8, 2006 to January 11, 2007 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.

It is the third and final installment of the "Lovers" trilogy by writer Kim Eun-sook and director Shin Woo-chul. Unlike previous installments Lovers in Paris (which Kim also starred in) and Lovers in Prague which were partly shot in Europe, Lovers filmed on location in China's Hainan Island.