The Korean mega hit ‘The Heirs’on TV Derana
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Following the popular demand for South Korean soap dramas ‘The heirs also known as The Inheritors television series starring Lee Min-ho the Famous Gu Jum Pyo of “Boys over flowers” and Park Shin-hye will be telecast on TV Derana from December 15.
This trendy drama is set in a high school populated by the privileged and super-rich. The series follows a group of rich, privileged, and elite high school students as they are groomed to take over their families’ business empires. These wealthy students seem to have everything under control, except their love lives. Kim Tan (Lee Min-ho) is a handsome and wealthy heir to a large Korean conglomerate who is sent to study abroad in the U.S. In reality, it’s a form of exile, as his elder half-brother back home, Kim Won (Choi Jin-hyuk) schemes to take over the family business.
While in the States, Kim Tan bumps into Cha Eun-sang (Park Shin-hye), who has arrived from Korea in search of her older sister who claims that she is in need of money for her wedding. When Kim Tan’s fiancée, Rachel Yoo (Kim Ji-won), arrives to bring him back to Korea, his heart is torn between love and duty. Both Eun-sang and Kim Tan return to Korea, only to meet again. Slowly, he finds himself falling for her, later realizing that she’s the daughter of his family’s mute housekeeper.
International broadcasting rights of this award winning drama series were sold to 13 countries and it had the highest selling price in Japan among all the 2013 Korean dramas. And as of January 26, 2014, the series has garnered more than one billion views on Youku, China’s biggest video streaming site. The other countries that telecast the series include Singapore, Malaysia, Israel, United Arab Emirates, etc.