The BEST episodes written by Lee Jung Ah
#1 - Twelfth Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 12
With half its work force gone (Eun-chan fired, Hong walked out in protest, and Han-kyul left in a daze), customer service and product appeal at the coffee shop suffers. Han-sung, try as he might, can neither talk, plead nor shout Yoo-joo out of leaving for America. Later learning that she never boarded the plane leaves him wondering where she's completely disappeared to. And it takes a rip to repair the tear between Eun-chan and Han-kyul.
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#2 - First Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 1
Eun-chan supports her family by working two jobs; as Taekwondo instructor and food delivering girl. While making a delivery, she meets Han-gyeol. Han-gyeol is the grandson of chairwoman Bang of Dongin Foods, a company that has a thriving coffee business. Han-gyeol is a smart young man but he is fiercely independent and abhors the thought of being tied down by one career in his life. Sporting a short haircut, Eun-chan looks like a guy instead of a girl. Meanwhile, Chairwoman Bang arranges blind dates for her grandson Han-gyeol to see him settle down.
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#3 - Tenth Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 10
Meeting accidentally, Eun-chan and Han-sung repair their friendship. As Han-sung still can't decide what to say about Yoo-joo leaving for America, Yoo-joo points out that he doesn't even know he has another love interest (Eun-chan). Seeing that all is not well, Ha-rim takes an active interest in Han-kyul's well-being and chides Eun-chan for her apparent lack of concern over the situation. When misspoken words finally reveal to Ha-rim that Eun-chan is a girl and that he's the last of the employees to know, he's angered at their allowing Han-kyul to suffer (for which he is restrained from interfering). Han-kyul finally reaches a breaking point about Eun-chan. Meanwhile, Sun-ki finds and follows young No-eul home to learn where his mom (love-interest Yuko) is living, and Min-yeop gets to play hard-to-get when Eun-sae finally starts returning is calls.
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#4 - Final Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 17
Tears flow as the day comes for Eun-chan's departure to Italy, with the Coffee Princes each saying goodbye in their own way. Yoo-joo's sudden collapse brings Han-sung swiftly to her side and to the hospital. Two years later, Hong runs across the woman who once jilted him, Han-sung and Yoo-joo celebrate their anniversary together, the "princes" seem apt to settle in with romantic interests of their own, Eun-chan informs Han-kyul that she's won a scholarship that'll keep her out of Korea for another year, and Coffee Princess (Han-kyul's second coffee shop) approaches its debut.
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#5 - Sixth Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 6
Though elegantly dressed for the occasion, Eun-chan fears being recognized by both Yoo-joo and Han-kyul at Yoo-joo's art exhibit. Seeing Han-sung with Yoo-joo prompts Eun-chan to recognize their attachment and get over her crush on him. As both want to remain friends, Yoo-joo stumbles upon Eun-chan's secret. Business at the coffee shop picks up when a home-spun commercial made from footage at the orchard hits the Internet, making stars of shop personnel. Concurrently, Han-kyul finds himself becoming attracted to Eun-chan. Still believing she's a boy, he begins questioning the legitimacy of his feelings (while enjoying putting Eun-chan to task at work). Han-kyul devises a simple test to confirm his sexual orientation, testing it on another (to his satisfaction) before applying it to Eun-chan.
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#6 - Eleventh Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 11
The secret of Eun-chan's true gender finally comes out to Han-kyul, made worse by his being the last to know among all his peers. As Eun-chan feared, it changes their relationship, with Han-kyul, once again, avoiding the shop. Meanwhile, as Yoo-joo prepares to leave for America, Han-sung (too little too late) finally asks her to stay and/or wait for him, refusing to accept that her departure is entirely due to his behavior. Han-kyul's mom, oblivious to all this, considers revealing a truth about her son's past.
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#7 - Seventh Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 7
Han-kyul wants to believe his attraction test succeeds with Eun-chan but knows in his heart that he remains drawn to "a boy.' The sexual tension still makes for strained relationships at work till a blow up occurs and Eun-chan storms off, fired. As both Han-kyul and Eun-chan wonder if and how their working relationship can be mended, their co-workers wonder about this as well. Meanwhile, spending time with Eun-chan puts a further strain on Han-sung's relationship with Yoo-joo, and Min-yeop's spying on Sun-ki reveals Sun-ki's unrequited desire to reconnect with a former love interest.
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#8 - Forteenth Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 14
As Eun-chan intently studies under Hong to become a certified barista, she expresses an interest in visiting Han-kyul's family under her true gender. Her introduction as a girl goes down poorly, with Han-kyul's mom and grandmother now looking upon her as a hermaphroditic freak scheming for their family wealth, putting full blame upon her for Han-kyul's recent decision to stay in Korea. Meanwhile, taking dating advice from Ha-rim goes ill for Min-yeop when Eun-sae finally learns he's been seeing other girls. She pays him back with a calculated break-up to bring him to heel. Also, a positive result on a medical test impacts Yoo-joo and Han-sung's relationship.
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#9 - Sixteenth Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 16
As Han-kyul's grandmother recovers from collapsing at Han-sung's wedding, she sees a glimmer of something appreciable in Eun-chan. Calling to meet her proves timely for Han-kyul and Eun-chan as they have gone at odds over when to marry - now or in five years. Han-kyul's grandmother offers Eun-chan the chance to study abroad and become a certified barista, but when Eun-chan considers not going, her own mother (whose interest in Mr. Ku has grown) formally releases Eun-chan from all restraints to her family, leaving Han-kyul alone in hating the idea of her two-year absence. Meanwhile, Han-sang has issues with Yoo-joo's drinking, Eun-sae decides whether to accept Min-yeop or not (at his urging), Yuko pulls up stakes, and "player" Ha-rim starts getting played.
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#10 - Second Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 2
Hyan Gyul still thinking she's a man, asks Eun Chan to pretend to be his "gay lover". She agrees to only show up on his blind dates. Hyan Gyul's grandmother owns a coffee shop and she forces him to visit it with here, and then she reveals his new assignment.
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#11 - Fifth Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 5
When Ha-rim is discovered using the coffee shop as a place to stay, Eun-chan suggests rooming at Hong's instead. Hong doesn't mind, and Sun-ki, hearing of this arrangement, joins in for a place to stay as well, but the boys find Hong's non-hygienic habits less than acceptable. Han-kyul irritates Eun-chan by allowing Min-yeop to quit without an adequate explanation; Han-sung invites Eun-chan to attend the opening of an art exhibit with him (as a girl); and, since business is slow, Hong leads the group out on a team-building excursion, committing everyone to manual labor.
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#12 - Third Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 3
Choi Han-kyul finds out just how serious his grandmother is about his running a run-down coffee shop when she takes away his car and sells his apartment. Still, it takes Go Eun-chan, reeling from her taekwondo school being taken away, for Han-kyul to finally start taking his predicament seriously. With college girls in town, Han-kyul sees success for the shop through hiring only adorable guys (with Eun-chan being the first). Through pure chance, Hwang Min-yeop also gets hired while coming to have it out with Eun-chan. With renovations under way, a mistakenly steep supply order may undermine the enterprise before its doors even open.
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#13 - Thirteenth Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 13
Looming distantly, Han-kyul's forthcoming New York trip forces Eun-chan and him (each with differing responsibilities) to consider how to have it affect their relationship (whether to stay together or separate). Eun-sae, already bothered by Min-yeop no longer at her constant beck-and-call, finds further irritation in hearing of no wedding plans in her sister's immediate future (as it means no material benefits coming her way from a wealthy brother-in-law). In the meantime, Han-kyul debates internally about drawing a line against shop workers still treating Eun-chan as one of the guys (a menial to boss around); but, overhearing Ha-rim giving Eun-chan a sex education lesson makes up his mind in a hurry (to which the guys react with playfulness). Much to Han-sung's relief, the mystery of Yoo-joo's whereabouts comes to an end, and Han-kyul's Grandma decides it's high time to inform Han-kyul about his true origin before his father, once again, leaves Korea.
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#14 - Ninth Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 9
Eun-chan agrees with Han-kyul's proposal to be brothers. All but Ha-rim (and Han-kyul) at the coffee shop know Eun-chan is a girl at this point, which Sun-ki uses to blackmail her into cleaning Hong's pigsty of a dwelling. Eventually, Han-kyul realizes his feelings run deeply for Eun-chan, but a loving relationship with another guy isn't something he can accept. Meanwhile, as Yoo-joo tries to determine what to do about Han-sung (who isn't being forthright about his incident with Eun-chan), Min-yeop confronts Sun-ki about his lack of regard for Eun-sae. In addition, the arrival of businessman Lee Myung-jae to Korea prompts Han-kyul's family to close ranks around a family secret.
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#15 - Eighth Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 8
Melancholic at learning of his grandmother's terminal condition, Han-kyul uses his hospital visit to also seek psychiatric advice about his unnatural attraction to the "boy" Eun-chan and starts medication therapy. Eun-chan finds Han-kyul's closeness with Yoo-joo disturbing, not just for personal reasons but as it seems an affront to Yoo-joo's relationship with Han-sung. Han-sung, however, will commit an impromptu act that puts all his relationships at risk. While Min-yeop plots a way to get Eun-sae's cold regard turned in his favor, he shares Eun-chan's secret with Sun-ki. After having a disagreeable chat with his father, Han-kyul finally decides upon the relationship he must have with Eun-chan.
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#16 - Fourth Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 4
As Coffee Prince heads toward its grand opening, Min-yeop finally confesses to the over-abundant order for which Eun-chan had taken blame and received Han-kyul's severe scoldings. Noh Sun-ki hires on as their waffle maker, and the grand opening receives a huge turnout; however, day #2 is a different story. With no customers, and the staff drifting off to watch Min-yeop and Eun-chan engage in challenges, Han-kyul disciplines his crew through a one-on-two basketball game. Han-sung comes to know that others think of Eun-chan as a boy but promises not to tell.
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#17 - Fifteenth Cup
Coffee Prince - Season 1 - Episode 15
As an older member of Han-kyul's family begins to warm up to Eun-chan, Han-kyul and Eun-chan butt heads over Eun-chan's repayment plan and engagement length issues; Han-sung gets a proposal of marriage from a pregnant woman; Ha-rim seems to have snagged a girl; and, while Eun-sae wonders why she hasn't seen any effects from kissing Min-yeop, Mr. Ku's plan to win over Eun-sae's mother by ignoring her appears to be working.
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