Meteor Garden certainly seems to be evergreen.
After the Taiwanese idol drama adapted from the Japanese manga Boys Over Flowers (1992 to 2003) blazed a trail in 2001, the story resurfaced in various other forms on television - first with a Japanese cast in 2005 and then a South Korean one in 2009.
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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on July 19, 2018, with the headline Meteor Garden blooms again with China reboot. Subscribe