Actor Jung Gyu-woon (left) and actress Lee Soo-kyung in SBS drama "Love You A Thousand Times" [SBS]

Major broadcaster SBS announced today that its TV series ¡°Love You Thousand Times¡± will go on air in Bulgaria starting next month, making it the first Korean show to be exported to the European country.

According to a press release from SBS Contents Hub, the drama will be shown on Diema F, one of the five channels of Bulgaria's cable network NOVA which is a subsidiary of British DBS distributor and TV broadcaster VIASAT.

¡°Europe has been showing much interest in Korean dramas ever since the 2010 MIPCOM where we introduced various Korean dramas,¡± an official at SBS Contents Hub was quoted as saying. ¡°If the response is good, they said they'll hope to continue importing Korean dramas. They're looking into seven other SBS dramas as well right now."

¡°Love You Thousand Times,¡± written by Kim Sa-kyung and produced by Kim Jung-min, was a popular 55-part series that aired from August 2009 to March 2010 in Korea. Its final episode scored a viewership rating of 29.7 percent, according to data by Total National Media Statistics (TNmS).

Starring Lee Soo-kyung and Jung Gyu-woon, the drama is about a girl named Goh Eun-nim (played by Lee) a surrogate mother in the past, discovering the meaning of happiness through her love for Baek Gang-ho (played by Jung) as they overcome various obstacles. The drama also features love-interest and conflicts of other couples including that between idol actors Heechul from the popular boy band Super Junior and Park Soo-jin from girl group Sugar.

Lee debuted in 2003 as a CF model and has since appeared in numerous dramas including ¡°Dear Heaven (KBS, 2005)," ¡°Soulmate (MBC, 2006),¡± ¡°Golden Era of Daughter In Law (KBS, 2007)¡± and most recently ¡°The President (SBS, 2010).¡±

Jung debuted in 2004 with mobile drama ¡°Five Stars¡± and also appeared in many popular dramas including ¡°Hello My Teacher (SBS, 2005), ¡°Women of the Sun (KBS, 2008), ¡°Hateful But Once Again (KBS, 2009) and ¡°Dr. Champ (SBS, 2010)¡±. He will appear in new KBS drama ¡°Sign¡± which starts its run today.

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