About Coffee Prince
Go Eun-chan is a scrappy young woman who has spent her life shouldering the debts of her late father and the dreams of her widowed mother and little sister. Tomboyish, broke, and forever taking on odd jobs, she is so often mistaken for a young man that she barely bothers to correct anyone anymore. Her world collides with that of Choi Han-gyeol, the spoiled, restless heir to a food conglomerate, who is being pressured by his grandmother into an endless parade of marriage meetings he wants no part of.
To dodge the matchmaking, Han-gyeol hires Eun-chan to pose as his gay lover, certain she is a man. When his grandmother hands him a failing cafe to turn around or lose his inheritance, he reopens it as Coffee Prince, a shop staffed entirely by good-looking young men, and brings Eun-chan on board. As the two work side by side, bickering and slowly relying on each other, Han-gyeol finds himself falling for someone he believes to be another man, a feeling that throws his whole sense of himself into turmoil.
What follows is a warm, funny, and surprisingly tender story about love that refuses to fit neatly into the boxes people expect. Surrounded by the misfit baristas of the cafe and a parallel romance involving Han-gyeol's music-producer cousin, the series builds to the revelation of Eun-chan's secret and the question of whether honesty can survive it. Anchored by the luminous chemistry of its leads, Coffee Prince became one of the defining Korean dramas of its era and a touchstone of the genre.
