| Twelve Men in a Year | |
|---|---|
Promotional poster for Twelve Men in a Year | |
| Also known as | 12 Signs of Love |
| Genre | Romance Comedy |
| Written by | Hwang Jo-yoon |
| Directed by | Oh Jong-rok |
| Starring | Yoon Jin-seo On Joo-wan |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language(s) | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Production | |
| Running time | Wednesdays and Thursdays at 23:00 (KST) |
| Production company(s) | LDV Media HMG Entertainment |
| Distributor | CJ E&M |
| Release | |
| Original network | tvN |
| Original release | February 15 – April 5, 2012 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Manny |
| Followed by | Queen In-hyun's Man |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Twelve Men in a Year (Hangul : 일년에 열두남자; Hanja : 一年에 열두男子; RR : Ilnyeone Yeoldu Namja, also known as 12 Signs of Love) is a 2012 South Korean television series, starring Yoon Jin-seo and On Joo-wan. It aired on tvN from February 15 to April 5, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 23:00 for 16 episodes. [1]
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, has been used to write the Korean language since its creation in the 15th century by King Sejong the Great. It may also be written as Hangeul following the standard Romanization.
Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation. Hanja-mal or Hanja-eo refers to words that can be written with Hanja, and hanmun refers to Classical Chinese writing, although "Hanja" is sometimes used loosely to encompass these other concepts. Because Hanja never underwent major reform, they are almost entirely identical to traditional Chinese and kyūjitai characters, though the stroke orders for some characters are slightly different. For example, the characters 教 and 研 are written as 敎 and 硏. Only a small number of Hanja characters are modified or unique to Korean. By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in Japan and Mainland China have been simplified, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding Hanja characters.
The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea proclaimed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to replace the older McCune–Reischauer system. The new system eliminates diacritics and apostrophes in favor of digraphs.
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The romantic comedy series is based on the 2005 German novel Zwölf Männer hat das Jahr by Martina Paura. [2]
Romantic comedy is a genre with light-hearted, humorous plotlines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily". Another definition suggests that its "primary distinguishing feature is a love plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled".
