Boys Over Flowers (2009)

Jandi is an average high school girl whose parents operate a Laundromat. One day while she delivers laundry to Shin-hwa high school, where only the children of the wealthiest family are accepted, she accidentally saves a student from a suicidal attempt. After this incident, she is accepted to this prestigious school as a varsity swimmer. Jandi meets four rich and good-looking boys known as ‘F4(Flower 4)’, who cause trouble to those who speak out against them. Jandi, who has strong sense of justice, cannot bear the saucy behavior of Gu Jun-pyo, the leader of F4, and does not bring herself to his knees. The next day, she finds a ‘Red Card’ inside her locker and the whole school starts bulling her. Jandi escapes to the stairway and unexpectedly meets Yoon Ji-hu, the other member of F4, and receives his handkerchief.

Jandi gets Jihoo’s help when students attack her at the locker room. Jandi, who cannot stand Junpyo’s smugness, goes to see Junpyo and kicks him right in the face. Rather than paying her back, Junpyo finds his curiosity about this girl who reminds him of his older sister, Junhee. After school finishes, unknown guards kidnap Jandi. She wakes up and notices unbelievable things are happening right in front of her eyes...

After coming back from the school trip, Junpyo’s curious feeling for Jandi grows even bigger. Jandi meets Jihu who is having a hard time because of Seohyeon and Junpyo hears about this. Jandi worries about Jihu and goes to see him, but encounters Junpyo who is waiting for her with jealous eyes. At Seohyeon’s birthday party, Seohyeon announces that she’s going to France, leaving everything behind. When Jandi goes to say goodbye to her, she sees the scene of Jihu declaring his love for Seohyeon.

While Jandi and Junpyo are out on a date, they are accidently locked in a cable car. Junpyo suffers from high fever and Jandi nurses him all night. This quickly spreads to the whole school and Jandi gets attention from other students as Junpyo’s girlfriend. Jandi’s friend Minjee brings her to a club, where she finds a guy who reminds her of Jihu. The next day morning, Jandi wakes up in a hotel room and she can’t remember what happened the night before.

Junpyo believes in Jandi’s innocence and treats her wounds. This moves Jandi’s heart, and Junpyo finally announces that Jandi is his girlfriend. At that moment, Jihoo, who came back from Paris, appears in front of them. During the weekend, Junpyo and the F4 take Jandi and her friend Ga-eul to New Caledonia. There, Junpyo takes Jandi to breathtaking sceneries, but Jandi’s mind is still on Jihoo.

Thinking of the reminiscene with Seohyeon, Jihoo gets depressed. While Jandi is comforting him, Jihoo kisses Jandi. Junpyo bursts with rage and jealousy, and returns to Seoul alone. He announces that he is going to dismiss Jihoo from F4 and expel Jandi from school. However, the unexpected supporter Junhee, the sister of Junpyo, appears in front of the two.

Junpyo and Jihu square off in a sports match. The fate of Jandi and Jihu hangs on this game. They compete in horse-riding and racing, and Junpyo grows more jealous as he watches Jandi roots for Jihu. Before the final battle begins, Junpyo goes to meet Jandi.

At last Jihu and Jandi go on an official date. Invited to Jihu's house, Jandi smiles bitterly at the remnants of Seohyun found all over the house. Tailing the two, Junpyo discovers that he still has feelings for Jandi. Meanwhile, Jandi rushes to the hospital upon hearing that Junpyo has been in an accident. There, she realizes her true feelings for Joon-pyo.

Junpyo and Jandi keep fighting and making up, and they get to know each other. However, Junpyo’s excessive presents makes Jandi hard to keep up with his pace. She continues to avoid Junpyo and Jihoo comes to the swimming pool and cheers her up. Jandi and Junpyo go out on a date with Gaeul and her new boyfriend. However, Jandi and Gaeul’s boyfriend get uncomfortable to each other.

Yijeong unexpectly sees Gaeul on the street and helps to revenge her bad boyfriend. Jandi clears up her misunderstanding about Junpyo, and the two go out on a date on Valentine’s Day. They bump into Junpyo’s mother, and Junpyo tells her not to do anything bad to Jandi. The mother, who doesn’t even think of F4 as the friends of Junpyo, starts her next action to cut Jandi off from Junpyo as she thinks Jandi is ridiculously improper to her son.

Jandi starts a part time job as a model on the cover of textbook, only to find out that she’s been deceived. In the dangerous moment, a mysterious man comes to the rescue of Jandi, and soon vanishes. The man turns out to be Jeha, a freshman at Shinhwa High School. Jandi and her purported fan, Jeha become friends. Unhappy with Jandi, who spends all her time working at her part-time job, Junpyo finally explodes at seeing Jandi on the magazine cover with model Haje. And Jandi finds the second “Red Card” in her locker.

Jeha kidnaps Jandi and Junpyo goes to rescue her alone. Jeha and his friends beat Junpyo, but Junpyo bears it. F4 members get into the scene, finish off the situation. When Jeha tries to hit Junpyo again, Jandi protects him. The two are hospitalized, but find out the feeling for each other again. The friends go on a ski trip together, and Junpyo gives Jandi a custom-made necklace. However, Jandi accidently loses it and braves the snowstorm to look for it.

Time has passed by; F4 are now college students and Jandi is in her senior year at high school (12th grade). Jandi keeps practicing swimming and works part-time, and awaits Junpyo. Jihoo suggests her to record her message in a video and send it to Junpyo, and he also takes her to the hospital and checks the condition of her shoulder. Jandi finds out that she won’t be able to swim anymore and now it’s too late to cure. Confused and toubled, Jandi goes to Macau to meet Junpyo. She gets surprised at the magnificent look of Hotel Shinhwa, but doesn’t get overwhelmed. However, when Jandi finally gets a chance to see Junpyo, he only gives her the cold shoulder.

The F4 comes to Macau and joins Jandi. They meet Junpyo and ask why he’s ignoring Jandi, but he only says that Jandi is no longer related to him. Jandi acts as if she’s alright, but can’t stop crying in front of Jihoo who looks like understanding everything. Jihoo helps the two to meet up, but Junpyo reconfirms the end of their relationship. When Jihoo and Jandi are about to go back to Korea, they unexpectedly meet Jihoo’s friend and were invited to his house in suburbs..

Back from Macau, Jandi is having a hard time trying to brace herself up. The Master of the restaurant where Jandi works, asks her to visit the old doctor’s office, who often comes to the restaurant, and this refreshes Jandi. Jandi talks to Junhee about her true feeling and Junhee asks her mother not to make Junpyo a victim. Junpyo comes back to Korea and goes to Shinhwa University. Junpyo's mother invites Jandi to his birthday party, where she learns about Junpyo’s engagement with Jaekyeong, the girl who Jandi met in Macau.

After the birthday party, Jaekyung shows her interest to Junpyo. With her easy going personality, Jaekyung becomes friend with Jandi. Although Jandi likes Jaekyung’s untainted and friendly attitude, she feels uncomfortable. Jihu runs into his grandfather while taking saddened Jandi to her volunteer work at the clinic. Yijung and Woobin fail to seclude Jaekyung from Junpyo. With Gaeul’s help, Yijung finally reunites Junpyo and Jandi.

As the merger of Shinhwa group and JK group begins, Junpyo and Jaekyung go out on their first date. However, all the places Jaekyung wants to go with Junpyo remind him of Jandi. Jaekyung senses it and asks Junpyo to kiss her as a lover. Jihoo and Jandi see this while they are talking on the stairway… Yijung witnesses his father with a woman at his workroom and has a big argument. Suffering deeply, Yijung thinks of Eunjae, his first love. Gaeul signs up for the pottery class, where she meets Cha Eunjae, the student teacher.

Coming back from the resort, Jandi and Jihoo visit a Buddhist temple to clear their mind. However, when Jandi returns, she finds out that her parents have decided to move to a fishing village to earn money. Junpyo wakes up and finds out that Jaekyung has prepared him breakfast. Jaekyung says that she always dreamt of this, and Junpyo feels pity for her. Yijung tells junpyo that Jandi stopped swimming because of her shoulder injury, and Junpyo feels guilty and regrets. Jandi moves to a rooftop house and is surprised when Junpyo unexpectedly shows up as her neighbour. Gaeul decides not to hide her feeling anymore and asks Yijung out on a date. Yijung first turns it down but comes back to see her a few days later.

Jihu runs out of the clinic and wanders in the rain. Jandi's heart aches for Jihu, as she nurses him all night long. At the same time, Junpyo awaits Jandi at the rooftop house. Yijung takes Gaeul out to the club, chats with other girls, and makes her uncomfortable. However, knowing his pain in the heart, Gaeul pities him instead. After finding out the whereabouts of Junpyo, his mother confines him to the house. Then she goes to Jandi to humiliate her in front of everyone. The next day, F4 and Gaeul visit Jandi to comfort her and they start to renovate rooftop room. Jaekyeong takes Junpyo out from home and joins them. When they all start ‘the truth game’, the tension starts rising.

Jandi becomes Junpyo’s personal maid and controls over Junpyo’s naughty behavior. While she was in Junpyo’s room to wake him up, Jaekyung and Junpyo’s mother enter the room and get shocked to see her. The mother wants to kick her out from the house immediately, but the head maid and Jaekyung intervene in. Seokyeong collapses at the clinic and Jandi takes him to Jihoo’s house. Jandi tries to reconcile the two and now they start to live under the same roof. Gaeul now knows that Eunjae was Yijung’s first love, and tries her best to bring them back together.

Junpyo’s mother rushes the wedding, and Jaekyung asks Jandi to be her bridesmaid. On the day before the wedding, F4, Jandi and Gaeul arrive at Jeju Island for the wedding, and the complication between Junpyo, Jaekyung, Jandi and Jihoo reaches the climax. Junhee advises Junpyo not to do something that he is going to regret. Junpyo goes down on his knees and ask Jaekyung to break off the engagement.

The wedding finally starts and Junpyo appears. However, Jaekyung maps out a plan and ruins the wedding. Junpyo and Jandi sneak out to the resort and spend time together. Jaekyung returns the necklace to Jihoo and leaves for New York the next day. Jandi and Junpyo’s happy moment is about to end as the break up brings about a crisis to Shinhwa group. Now Junpyo’s mother is angry at Jandi.

With Gaeul’s effort, Yijung now finds out Eunjae’s declaration that he missed three years ago. Gaeul brings Yijung to the rooftop, uncovers his eyes, and the message magically appears in front of him. Junpyo’s mother finds out that Junpyo and Jandi are dating secretly and starts to harrass people around Jandi. Finding out who got them into difficulty, Jandi makes up her mind...

Jihu finds out Jandi’s whereabouts. He expects Junpyo to come with him, but Junpyo disappoints Jihoo again by refusing to go. Jandi arrives at the fishing village, but people expect her as the fiance of the heir of Shinhwa Group. When it's revealed that she isn't, Jihu suddenly appears in front of her and settles the situation.

Jandi leaves a lunch box for Junpyo, who still can't remember her. Jun-pyo vaguely remembers something about Jan-di as he eats lunch, but Yumi's lie crushes Jandi’s last hope. Jandi and F4 are invited at Junpyo and Yumi’s pool party, where they hear surprising news.