Asian Drama

After suffering from serial paranormal events, a wealthy family living in LA summons a young rising shaman duo Hwa Rim and Bong Gil to save the newborn of the family. Once they arrive, Hwa Rim senses a dark shadow of their ancestor has latched on the family in a so-called 'Grave Calling'.

In order to exhume the grave and relieve the ancestor, Hwa Rim seeks help from top-notch geomancer Sang Deok and mortician Yeong Geun. To their dismay, the four find the grave at a shady location in a remote village in Korea. Unaware of the consequences, the exhumation is carried out, unleashing a malevolent force buried underneath.

(Source: showbox.co.kr)

Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

In his 40s, the stuntman Woo-seok wishes to go back to the prime of his life in 1997, before a facial scar ended his acting dreams. One day, he purchases five talismans from an unknown monk, hoping to change his life. However, during a film shoot, a car accident transports him back to his high school days in 1997. Now living as the high school student, he embarks on a project to revamp his past life, which was filled with a troublesome father, son, and husband.

'Crime Scene' is a mystery game show in which six celebrity players become suspects in a murder case and they have to prove themselves innocent while at the same time try to solve the mystery of who killed the victim among them like the game 'Clue'.

Four ex-couples live under one roof for three weeks to find love-new or re-visited. Knowing everyone’s ex is in the house, they must hide who that is by pretending to be strangers. While keeping that a secret, they try to get to know others and build new relationships throughout their stay. Through the EX-REVIEW and EX-CHAT systems, singles have opportunities to learn about their new date partners from the ex of that person. Will new relationships begin? Or do ex-couples rekindle their feelings?

(Source: CJ ENM)

Episodes: 16

Duration: 2 hr. 6 min.

Aired On: Friday

Celebrities are here to find your home sweet home! The show features two teams of celebs competing to help their clients find the new houses for them. As "real estate coordinators," celebs visit realtors and discover houses that fit the needs of the clients. They aren't afraid of cold weather, continuous allies to go through, nor stiff steps to climb. In the end, clients grades how much they are happy with celebs' proposals. Which team will get the clients pleased?

Tobob Love is a food travel reality show featuring celebrities who love eating delicious food. Their two-day trip to a local area explores hidden gems - good yet famous restaurants. The celebs do several tasks to get perks, have excellent meals, and express their honest thoughts on the food.

A new factual talk show explores human nature by examining the lives of two characters with the exact nature but different life paths and the devastating consequences that 'one difference' makes.

Nowadays Parenting My Dear Child is a show that provides parenting/child caring consults to families. The clients - usually parents who have problems with child care - asks to help them how to care for children properly. Then, a group of celebrities who have experiences in child care, as well as child care and parenting experts, will offer solutions and helps training. The show also provides knowledge and trendy information on how to raise the children. Ultimately, the program aims to make changes in families, relatives, friends, and everyone in society for providing better care for children.

Episodes: N/A

Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Friday

No planning, no googling, and of course, no famous spots! Jun and Kwak embark on unplanned food trips following recommendations from locals. This is the adventure of two foodies that captures the stories of people and the flavors of the neighborhood.

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FUN RESTAURANT is a new variety show where celebrities are competing to make a new F&B product for the convenience store franchise. The program looks at the celebs' daily lives that are filled with constant development on some exciting and delicious menus. Celebs compete every week, and the winner's cuisine turns to the product that will sell the stores the next day. The profits will be donated to support children. The casts are led by Lee Kyung-kyu, who has had his own development into an actual product, and Lee Young-ja, the Muk-bang genius, and food aficionado.

City Fishers, the most popular fishing variety show in Korea, comes back with the new season. Let's enjoy the new fishing trip with the three Lees, who are still crazy about fishing, and the guest anglers.

Episodes: 10

Si Young has been chosen to play the lead role in an experimental art film centered around her dance major. Along with her college friend Chae Yoon, they perform geometric dance routines as part of a shamanic ceremony as directed by the film's director. However, their world is turned upside down when a production team member suddenly falls from the roof, but their seemingly lifeless body begins to move and come to life.

(Source: ktalpha.kr)

Duration: 1 hr. 40 min.

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Episodes: 10

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Friday

Eun Soo Hyun is a psychology professor and a famous writer, but her life has completely changed. Her young son dies unjustly. Making things worse, the person responsible for her son’s death isn’t punished by the law. Eun Soo Hyun loses hope in this world. She decides to punish the person responsible for her son’s death by herself. Her life is still in pain and despair. Somehow, Eun Soo Hyun gets involved with other people who suffer from pain similar to hers and solves their mysterious cases. They slowly get healed in the process.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 14

Airs On: Friday, Saturday

Six residents try to uncover unprecedented incidents and mysteries in apartments in South Korea in this true-story mystery variety show that transcends time and space! Each episode will be based on real events and have a unique setting in a different period and location, stimulating viewers’ investigative skills and memories of each era.

Who will be the main character who will solve the secret?

(Source: tvN)

Episodes: 10

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Friday

At her dad’s funeral, a 14-year-old girl Hwang Kyung Eon meets her uncle Jae Min, a complete stranger to her until then. Jae Min, a callow swindler, bilks his niece out of her father’s insurance money. Learning what her uncle did, Kyung Eon blindsides him with his secret and demands her money back, but Jae Min unashamedly refuses. To get her money back, Kyung Eon agrees to play Jae Min’s daughter in his next scam, managing to trick and earn the trust of a pharmacist named Jum Hee. As the scheme ripens, Kyung Eon grows uneasy, longing to have the family she never had. Slowly, the three begin to care about each other in this fake relationship.

The series follows J-Hope of BTS across the world – from Seoul to his native town Gwangju as well as Osaka, Paris and New York – mingling with dancers across genres.

(Source: koreaherald.com)

Episodes: 6

Airs On: Thursday, Friday

Man Jae at his brink of life, even sold his name to survive. In the world of ruthless barge where no one can trust, he held out a threadlike-life with a calculation ability. One day, he decides to retire for his soon to-be-born child and takes on the big final commission. The moment he thought that everything was going smoothly, he was framed for embezzlement of 100 billion won due to his unidentified 'investor' and faced his own obituary. A political consultant, Mrs. Shim, appears to Man Jae when he is trapped in a hellish private prison and lives as a 'dead man', offering a deal with his life as collateral. Man Jae accepts the offer to regain his name, family, and life.

(Source: HanCinema)

Duration: 1 hr. 49 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Miss Trot 3 Gala Show

Tuesday Night is the Best is a new singing contest where the latest Trot Queens from Miss Trot 2 and the legendary singers have singing matches. They cover hit songs that people have loved: from the traditional trot songs to the old K-pop, ballads, and dance tracks. The winners can get prizes that they can give lucky viewers at home.

Let's enjoy celebrities' 'VS' game - the trendy conversation format that sets two contrasting situations and asks people's opinions - in the new season of 'The Strongest Heart.'

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Sing Again 3's Top 7 embarks on a road trip to meet and greet viewers in person and give special street performances in a new travel/music show.

Detectives are watching! A realistic case log of detectives chasing the truth.

(Source: Naver)

The story depicts parasites that fall from space and begin to kill to gain their own power by controlling the human brain and body by living off human hosts. The story revolves around Jung Soo In, who is infected with a parasite on her hand and starts a strange cohabitation as it fails to steal her brain.

Seol Kang Woo chases parasitic water to find his missing sister, and Choi Jun Kyung is the team leader of the parasitic life team ‘The Grey’ and lives only to exterminate the parasitic water after losing her husband to the parasitic water.

(Source: Korean = Newsen Media)

Adapted from the manga series "Kiseijuu" (寄生獣) by Iwaaki Hitoshi (岩明均).

Episodes: 6

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Airs On: Friday

In Season 2, a new batch of 100 contestants at their physical peak will enter the arena and compete to be the last one standing after an elimination-style fight to the finish. And just like last season, anyone, regardless of age, sex, nationality or weight class, can win the hefty cash prize and be awarded the title of having the “ideal physique."

Couple Palace" is a real couple matching program. It contains the real stories of 100 single men and women heading toward marriage. The journey unfolds at "Couple Palace", a collection of perfect ideal types in terms of appearance, economic power, and qualifications.

(Source: Korean = dispatch.co.kr)

Episodes: 10

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Tuesday

When the illegitimate son of a Korean conglomerate owner partners with his ambitious childhood friend, the duo will stop at nothing to seize their place at the top of the societal food chain.

Born into an impoverished single-parent household with nothing but his good looks and charm, Kang In Ha is ravenous for success. Determined to make something of himself, no matter the cost, In Ha, discovers that his father is the chairman of the hugely successful Kang Oh Group and leaves his life of poverty behind.

Shunned by the rest of his new family, In Ha partners with his intellectually gifted friend Han Tae Oh, hatching a plan from a young age to take over the company and seize their spots at the top of society. Realizing success early on, the pair steadily begin their ascent until an equally ambitious woman with a similarly troubled past threatens to derail their plans forever.

(Source: butwhytho.net)

Episodes: 12

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Wednesday

Na Ah Jeong works as an extra actress. She's talented as an actress, but she has not been recognized for her work at all. She has experience acting as a married woman, but in real life, her dating life is on the back burner due to her difficult reality. She has a male friend named Lee Do Han, whom she has known for 15 years.

Do Han is the son of a chaebol family that runs the LJ Group. He is pushed to get married by his family, but he has a secret that he can't marry. Do Han turns to his friend Ah Jeong and asks if she would act like his wife and daughter-in-law of his family. She accepts the offer and prepares to play the first leading role in her life as Do Han's wife.

At that time, she has an unexpected disrupter. That person is Lee Ji Han, who is Do Han’s younger brother. Ji Han has ambitions to make his older brother, Do Han, the successor of the LJ Group. Ji Han works hard to achieve his goal, but his plan is disrupted by his brother's sudden wedding announcement. Ji Han now tries to prevent his brother's wedding and he brings Yoon Chae Won into the picture as his brother's potential bride.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the webtoon "Wedding Impossible" (웨딩 임파서블) written by Song Jung Won (송정원) and illustrated by Lee Chung (이청).

Episodes: 12

Duration: 1 hr. 20 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday

An ordinary 24-year-old college student, Han Joo. On the surface, she appears to be a hardworking job seeker facing the harsh reality, but secretly, she nurtures her dream of becoming a singer by operating a cover song SNS account called 'Plii,' all while keeping her identity hidden.

On the other hand, there's a member of the popular idol group S.E.Z., Do Gook. Approaching the end of his contract, he decides to seek out Plii, whom he has admired, for a collaboration project as he prepares to go solo. However, it turns out that the two were classmates in college! Han Joo, who must conceal her identity as Plii, and Do Gook, who needs to find Plii. Can they really uncover each other's true identities?

(Source: Korean = TVING)

Adapted from the webtoon "Secret Playlist" (플레이,플리) by 2F (이에프).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 55 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Saturday

Han Tae Yi lost his will to live after the death of his older brother, who was a genius jazz pianist. To Tae Yi, transfer student Yoon Se Heon is truly an uninvited guest. Se Heon has been playing jazz that reminds Tae Yi of his brother since the first day he transferred to school and gets on Tae Yi’s nerves.

Se Heon also suspects that Tae Yi has a suspicious relationship with his friend Seo Do Yoon. Se Heon, who longs to play jazz freely and escape the eyes of his strict classical music professor father and Tae Yi, who wants to give up everything, was assigned to the same group for joint performance evaluation.

As they practice together, they find themselves developing complex emotions for one another. However, just as their relationship begins to deepen, Song Joo Ha, a senior student who was suspended from school, returns to school, and his presence begins to stir up things between Tae Yi and Se Heon.

(Source: welcon.kocca.kr/en)

Adapted from the webtoon "Jazz for Two" (재즈처럼) by Keul Ra Jyu (클라쥬).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 30 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Wednesday