A Devoted Fan Helps A Star Shine Brighter In ‘Fan Letter Please’

Sometimes the best PR person a star can hire is a 10-year-old. That’s the case in Fan Letter Please, the four-episode MBC k-drama starring Choi Soo-young and Yoon Park. Choi plays Han Kang-hee, a popular actress, who started her career as a child.

Lately Kang-hee’s career is not doing that well—and it has a lot to do with her image. Her bad attitude in dealing with fans and co-workers has not generated the right kind of headlines. Nor is she very interested in improving that image. Life has taught her you can’t trust people, so it’s a waste of time to build relationships. A friend or a fan that adores you one day may hate you the next.

She might think that way because she’s never met one of her most devoted fans. It’s 10-year-old Bang Yoo-na played winningly by Shin Yeon-woo. Yoo-na is as loyal as a fan can be and that fandom is a bright spot in her life, much of which is spent being treated in a children’s hospital. Yoo-na, who has leukemia, makes her dad promise to send Kang-hee a fan letter in which she requests a response. That might present a problem since Kang-hee throws away fan letters.

When Yoo-na’s letter does not get a response, her dad, Bang Jung-seok, decides to write one and pretend it’s from Kang-hee. Perhaps the letter will cheer his daughter up and satisfy her as a fan. He’s right that it will cheer her up but wrong that her desire to communicate with Kang-hee will stop there. Yoo-na keeps writing more letters and he has to keep writing more answers.

It’s not too hard to figure out what Kang-hee might say since Jung-seok knew her in high school. It seems like a harmless, if time-consuming, deception until Kang-hee finds out that someone is claiming to have received multiple letters from her. She’s naturally mad that anyone has cast her in a positive light.

Jung-seok’s deception might just polish her image and save her career.

Choi Sooyoung, a member of the k-pop group Girls Generation, recently appeared in the dramas If You Wish Upon Me, Move To Heaven, So I Married An Anti-Fan and Run On. Yoon Park appeared in Forecasting Love and Weather, Gaus Electronics and Search. Shin Yeon-woo appeared in Sisyphus The Myth, Zombie Detective and Missing: The Other Side. The drama is available on Viki.com in the US.