Asian Drama

The 'Universe League', which will create a boy group, will be held in a completely different format from Season 1. It is a league-style audition where the final winning team that wins the Prism Cup debuts. Three representative K-pop artists will become the managers of each club. They select team members through a trainee draft and compete against each other. This was combined with the sports element of combining the best members of each club through a trade of exchanging trainees. Through this, 'Universe League' is expected to be a differentiated audition that shows more dynamic competition.

(Source: Korean = sports.khan.co.kr)

Episodes: 10

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Airs On: Friday

During the summer in the present day, Jeon Youn Ha runs a vacation cottage located deep in the woods. His peaceful life is shaken by the sudden appearance of a mysterious woman named Yoo Sung A.

In the early 2000's, Koo Sang Joon ran the same vocation cottage as Jeon Young Ha did years later. Koo Sang Joon and his family also lived there, but, during the summer, something happened at his vacation cottage and Koo Sang Joon lost everything because of that. At that time, Yoon Bo Min worked as a police officer at the nearest police substation from the vacation cottage. 20 years later, Yoon Bo Min is transferred to the same police substation where she worked before and she begins to work there as the chief. She enjoys solving things and begins to observe Jeon Young Ha closely.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 8

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Airs On: Thursday

In her final year of high school, Lee Hong Ju fell head over heels in love. But this first brush with love ended in heartbreak. Ever since, she has been deeply skeptical when it comes to everything love-related. A decade later, she has become an animation producer when fate reunites her with her former crush, Hu Yeong, in a cafe.

He has returned to South Korea from the United States and is now a 29-year-old financial planner. They are both hit by a wave of emotions. Could a fresh chance at romance be in the cards? Or has too much water passed under the bridge?

(Source: Viki)

Adapted from the webtoon "Uyeonilkka?" (우연일까?) written by Nam Ji Eun (남지은) and illustrated by Kim In Ho (김인호).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday

Set in 1960s South Korea. The series follows two men through their bromance and the obstacles they face during a turbulent time in the country’s history.

It depicts the story of Park Doo Chil, who is known as Uncle Samsik, who always has three meals a day, even during the war, and Kim San, an elite man from the Korean Military Academy, who wants to create a country where everyone lives well.

(Source: Korean = Naver || Translation = Deadline.com)

Episodes: 16

Airs On: Wednesday

Takei plays Yoshino Nao, a girl who fails the entrance exams of her target high school. She winds up enrolling in a technical high school called Kenritsu Asuka Kougyou Koukou, also known by the nickname "Asuko." Out of the 148 entering freshmen, only three are girls, and Nao is the only one in her class. --Tokyograph

Pei Yun is a talented violinist and the only daughter of wealthy business tycoon Mu Tian Hong. One day she is abducted by bandits during an outing with friends and is saved by Ye Yao Hua, a kind-hearted tea farmer. The two fall in love, but Pei Yun's prideful father wants her to wed her well-to-do cousin Mu Li Qun, who also loves Pei Yun. However, the strong-willed Pei Yun insists on marrying Yao Hua. On the day of Pei Yun and Yao Hua's highly publicized engagement ceremony, Li Qun hires someone to bump Yao Hua's motorbike cart off a cliff. In addition to Yao Hua and his mother, the cart was also carrying Zou Ping Wei and Fang Ru Han, a loving couple offered a ride by Yao Hua to attend their daughter Xiao Die's violin competition. As a result of the accident, Ping Wei became paralyzed from the waist down while Ru Han was diagnosed with leukemia. In order to help take care of the ill-fated Zou family, Yao Hua would frequently come in contact with Ru Han, inciting gossip amongst the neighbors. Li Qun takes advantage of the situation to perpetuate misunderstandings between Yao Hua and Pei Yun.

Shakeela works as a maid in an upper-class family of Nadia. Nadia's daughter Hafsa's marriage decides to take place with Samad. In order to made arrangements of the marriage and to serve as helping hands Shakeela stays at Nadia's house along with her daughters; Zeba and younger Farah. Zeba, a college-going and educated girl comes across with there Sahil, Nadia's son suffering from [Down's syndrome]. At night, everyone is busy in the functions of marriage that Zeba receives call from Hashim who is Zeba's fiancé. He demands to see her and calls him in an under-constructed building. Zeba first denies but later agrees to meet him due to his insistence. Zeba goes there and someone rapes her. She comes back where everyone is already looking for him. She enters with Samad from the main gate and everyone there mistakes Samad as a culprit. Zeba is taken to hospital where doctor changes the reports as Siraj had already called him and ordered him to decalare her as a patient of Hysteria. Doctor does so and disappointed Zeba goes to her home with her mother.

Yuki Rin’s parents passed away and she has been living with her older brother Koichiro. Koichiro was an IT engineer who worked for the government until he was recruited by a vicious cyber crime group one year ago. That was when Rin’s ordinary, happy life crumbled. She miraculously survived despite taking her brother’s bullet. Then she was brought into FACE, a cyber crime special investigation unit which the Cabinet created in secret, on the strength of her profiling ability by Minegishi Shugoro. Believing in Minegishi, Rin joins the unit’s members to combat cyber crime which can destabilize the nation.

Since the final scene, there are stories yet to be told. That being so, the gang has returned to complete the story.

The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Ibaraki Prefecture. Her father Minoru has gone to Tokyo to work in order to earn extra money. However, her life completely changes when her father does not come back for the New Year. Mineko asks her family to let her go to Tokyo to find him and promises to send money home. In the autumn of 1964, she and two childhood friends Tokiko and Mitsuo are hired to start working at a small factory in Tokyo’s working class neighborhood. After work each day, Mineko searches for her father and gets disheartened at times. Mineko overcomes challenges and starts to lay down roots in Tokyo as she experiences many meetings and farewells amid the laughter and tears with regulars, people of the shopping street, friends, and colleagues. But will she be able to find her father?

High school delinquent Masaya Funabashi, better known as ‘Devil Ma-kun’, decides to reform his image by joining the Japanese Tea Ceremony Club.

Adapted from the manga "A Bad Boy Drinks Tea!" (お茶にごす。) by Nishimori Hiroyuki (西森博之).