Jerry Yan starred in the Taiwanese adaptation of the popular manga series Boys Over Flowers by Kamio Yoko, Meteor Garden. Meanwhile, Win Metawin was part of the cast of F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers.

The four male stars used the series’ influence to promote their boy band, also called F4 — for “Flower Four” — making “Meteor Garden” an early example of the genre known as idol ...

One of the biggest stars in the Mandarin-speaking world, Hsu became a familiar face even in the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand ... Meteor Garden would later form the Taiwanese boyband F4 ...