Romance in the Hotel -- Hotelier

I am introducing another TV series of Bae Yong Jun. I know Bae after I have watched this series. It is called "Hotelier"and it is from the year 2001. Guess what, all the actors and actress in this TV series are very popular now. No doubt, Bae Yong Jun is one of them The other co-stars are Kim Seong Woo (from IRIS), Song Yun Ah (from On Air) and beautiful Song Hye Kyo (from Full House and Autumn in My Heart). So, you can see that there are many big stars in this TV series! :P

"Hotelier" contains a total of 20 episodes. The word "Hotelier" literally means "a person who owns or runs a hotel". The drama was set in Seoul Hotel, a five-star hotel which embarked on expensive, construction upgrading. It also around the story of romance. The story is about Jin Young, a very open-minded and energetic woman, worked for the Seoul Hotel. Her ex-boyfriend Tae Joon resigned and had left for Vegas three years earlier due to an unfortunate incident w/ a guest. The owner of the hotel had always believed in Tae Joon even more so than his own son, Young Jae. When he died of a heart attack, his wife realized that Jin Young must go to Vegas to bring Tae Joon back so he could help run the hotel, which was falling into pieces. Their rival, Kim Book Man, was determined to acquire the Seoul Hotel.

Title        : Hotelier / 호텔리어 / Ho-te-li-eo
Genre      : Drama, Romance
Episodes : 20
Story       :
President Choi, hotelier of Seoul Hotel, died from a heart attack hours after Kim Bok-Man, his old friend, informed him of serious plans his company, Hankang Distribution, had to buy over shares of Seoul Hotel. He was succeeded by his wife, Yun Bong-sook, who had never assumed any positions in the past to run the hotel. The reason for Yun assuming the position was to carry on the works of her late husband. Her son, Choi Young-Jae, was a dissolute man who refused to work and was capable of taking drugs.

Yun was confronted by pressures from Kim, who was making his way to buy up Seoul Hotel's shares. To fend off the competitor, Yun sends one of the hotel managers, Suh Jin Young, to America to try to rehire Seoul Hotel's former Head Manager, Han Tae-Jun (Kim Seung Woo), who was forced to resign after a scandal involving the hotel. Han was taking care of a drug-addicted, dissolute Korean-American girl who was nearly forced to take drugs.

Kim was looking forward to make his attack and hired Attorney Frank Shin Dong-Hyuk (Bae Yong Jun), a wealthy Korean-American takeover businessman, to assist him in buying over the hotel's shares through various means. Frank Shin agrees to the job only after meeting Suh Jin Young (Song Yun Ah) when she travels to America (to find Han) and learns that she actually works at this "Seoul Hotel" of Bok-Man's proposal. Travelling to Seoul Korea for the first time since he left as a child, Frank and his loyal business assistant Leo move into a "Seoul Hotel" chalet to purportedly conduct their secret business with Bok-Man.

Kim learnt of Seoul Hotel's mismanagement through Frank Shin's infiltration as a double-agent. Whilst carrying out his duties, Frank found himself in love with Suh. Suh was later torn between relations with Frank and Han Tae-Jun.

Seoul Hotel proprietress Yun Bong-sook's dissolute son Choi Young-Jae fell in love with Kim Yun-Hee (Song Hye Kyo), the daughter of Hankang Distribution's manager Kim Bok-Man, during a nightclub meeting. However, relations went downhill as Kim Yun-Hee developed a crush on Han after a birthday party held at Seoul Hotel.
Han was weighed with duties of defending the hotel from their competitors at the same time protecting Kim from her abusive father and Suh Jin Young from falling in love with Frank. Han was also burdened with the additional duty of mending the ways of the previously dissolute Choi.
Frank soon discovered his dissolute sister, whom had been in Han's care. They went to meet their father, who called them by their Korean names, Dong-hyuk and Dong-hee. Frank's attitude changed as he switched sides to helping Seoul Hotel.
Han Tae-Jun and Frank eventually re-established Seoul Hotel's position, but Yun was diagnosed with cancer and died soon after. Frank and Suh were engaged; Han travels to Las Vegas where Kim Yun-hee was sent to study business. This implies that they will eventually meet.

For me, I think Bae Yong Jun is very good looking in this series and he always dressed in very smart and made him very smart-looking! :P So, if you are interested to catch this series, please click into "Hotelier"! 
Enjoy watching! ^.^