Season 1 Plot
Choi Hangyeol is the grandson of Chairwoman Park of Dongin Foods, a company that has a thriving coffee business. He has never had a job and does not care for responsibility. Hangyeol is hung up on his first love, Han Yoojoo, who only sees him as a friend. Go Eunchan is a 24-year-old tomboy who is often mistaken for a guy. Her father died when she was 16 years old and since then she has taken over as the breadwinner in her family. When Hangyeol and Eunchan meet, he, not knowing that she is a girl, decides to hire her to pretend to be his gay lover so that he can escape the blind dates arranged by his grandmother. After getting an ultimatum from his grandmother, Hangyeol takes over a rundown old coffee shop, later renamed "Coffee Prince," to prove that he's capable, to both his grandmother and Yoojoo. In order to attract female customers, he only hires good-looking male employees. Eunchan, desperate for money, continues to hide her gender to get a job at the Coffee Prince.
Coffee Prince Season 1 aired on July 2nd, 2007.
Season 1 Episodes
1. First Cup
Go Eunchan supports her family by working two jobs: as a Taekwondo instructor and a food delivery girl. While making a delivery, she meets Choi Hangyeol, the grandson of chairwoman Bang of Dongin Foods, a company that has a thriving coffee business. Hangyeol 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, Eunchan looks like a guy instead of a girl. Meanwhile, Chairwoman Park Soonyoung arranges blind dates for her grandson Hangyeol to see him settle down.
2. Second Cup
Hangyeol still thinking she's a man, asks Eunchan to pretend to be his "gay lover". She agrees to only show up on his blind dates, and he must buy her clothes and any time he touches her will be extra, and he has to give her an advance payment. Desperate, he agreed. Eunchan has feelings for Hangyeol's cousin, Choi Hanseong, but then his ex-girlfriend Han Yoojoo returns and says she wants to get back together with him. Hangyeol's grandmother owns a coffee shop, and she forces him to visit it with here, and then she reveals his new assignment.
3. Third Cup
Hangyeol is forced to take over the Coffee Prince shop by his grandmother, and he enlists Eunchan's help.
4. Fourth Cup
It is the grand opening for Coffee Prince, but business is harder to bring in than they expected.
5. Fifth Cup
The Coffee Princes head out to the countryside for their first team-building retreat, but one more person learns of Eunchan's secret.
6. Sixth Cup
Eunchan goes on her first "date" with Hanseong. Hangyeol struggles with his unexpected feelings for Eunchan.
7. Seventh Cup
Hangyeol fires Eunchan, which affects them, and all of the other Princes, more than either of them cares to admit.
8. Eighth Cup
Still confused, Hangyeol proposes that he and Eunchan become sworn brothers.
9. Ninth Cup
Hangyeol and Eunchan celebrate their momentary bliss of brotherhood, but it is quickly shattered.
10. Tenth Cup
As the Coffee Prince Concert quickly approaches, the relationships between Eunchan and Hangyeol, and Yoojoo and Hanseong begin to fall apart.
11. Eleventh Cup
Eunchan wishes to reveal her true identity. Yoojoo receives an offer from the States that threatens her relationship with Hanseong.
12. Twelfth Cup
Betrayed on all sides, Hangyeol hesitates on forgiving Eunchan. Meanwhile, Yoojoo prepares to leave for New York.
13. Thirteenth Cup
Hangyeol and Eunchan enjoy the "honeymoon phase" of their relationship, despite their awareness that he might leave for the States in a month.
14. Fourteenth Cup
Eunchan is introduced to Hangyeol's family as his new girlfriend. Yoojoo tells Hanseong that she is expecting.
15. Fifteenth Cup
Yoojoo and Hanseong's wedding makes Hangyeol more anxious to marry Eunchan.
16. Sixteenth Cup
Hangyeol's grandmother is in the hospital, but that doesn't stop her from meddling in his relationship with Eunchan.
17. Final Cup
Eunchan leaves for Italy to study to become a barista for two years.