Asian Drama

Jin Soo Ji is a psychiatrist at Haedeul Hospital and a celebrity who is considered the most sought-after for variety shows. In addition to medical treatment, she is a hot shot who has never slept more than three hours a day due to tight schedules such as broadcasts, book concerts, and fan signing events. However, her perfect life, which seemed to be on a roll forever, starts to fall apart.

It all begins with Chae Woo Ri, the new doctor. He is talented, humorous, and full of justice. Therefore, in the eyes of a doctor who believes understanding and trust of patients are the top priority, Soo Ji seems to be a selfish person who only cares about her own success, and they naturally become enemies in the hospital.

However, when Soo Ji disappears due to various scandals, he starts to understand her pain. What will happen between Soo Ji and Woo Ri, who were at each other's throats from the beginning?

(Source: KOCOWA+)

Episodes: 120

Duration: 30 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Sisters Lee Hye Won and Lee Hye Ji were very close when they were children. After their parents divorced, they were separated. Lee Hye Won went to live with her father, and Lee Hye Ji went to live with her mother. Their lives went down different paths, but they both went through difficult times.

As an adult, Hye Won looks perfect, but she carries emotional wounds. Her life is dominated by her stepmother. Her fiancé is Yoon Ji Chang, and they are going to marry soon. Yoon Ji Chang is the son of Yoon Yi Cheol, who owns JY Group.

Meanwhile, Hye Ji has lived through poverty, loneliness, and domestic violence due to her mother and her stepfather. She badly wants to change her life and takes up the new name of Bae Do Eun. She then meets Yi Cheol, who is the owner of JY Group. To reboot her life, she enters into an affair with Yi Cheol. Then, she meets her older sister, Hye Won, for the first time since they were children.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 103

Duration: 40 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

The kind and tolerant grandmother reunites with her granddaughter, who went missing 12 years ago in an accident. From being strangers, they gradually become close, and during their time together, the secrets they carry are slowly revealed. In the end, the grandmother saves the granddaughter, who had lost hope in life.

Mai Cheng Huan, a post-95 girl born into an ordinary family in Shanghai, proposed marriage to her boyfriend, Xin Jia Liang, at the urging of her mother, Liu Wan Yu. However, the favorable economic conditions of the Xin family made this originally equal emotional relationship unbalanced.

At the same time, Mai's mother's excessive intervention in her daughter's life-long events accelerated the breakup between Mai Cheng Huan and Xin Jia Liang. Between being filial to her parents and being loyal to herself, Mai Cheng Huan struggled to find a way. She gradually broke away from her mother's strong care and became more focused and enterprising in her work.

Mai Cheng Huan's transformation has been recognized by her step-grandmother, and she entrusts her with the most important task of hotel management. Yao Zhi Ming, the step-grandmother's grandson and a professional hotel manager, gradually understands and agrees with Mai Cheng Huan during cooperation with her, and the two become working partners and go hand in hand.

But in real life, Yao Zhi Ming was surrounded by the true feelings of the Mai family, and his relationship with Mai Cheng Huan gradually heated up. From "Cheng Huan's knees" to "self-achievement", Mai Cheng Huan has embarked on an extraordinary growth path that belongs to her alone.

(Source: Chinese = Baidu)

Adapted from the novel "Stories of Mai Chenghuan" (承欢记) by Yi Shu (亦舒).

Episodes: 38

Duration: 45 min.

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Why did the girl have to die? The mother becomes the tycoon's father's lover... The father becomes the tycoon's wife's hair stylist... The uncle becomes the tycoon's daughter's Korean tutor... And the sister becomes a journalist investigating the tycoon's son... The family of the high school girl disguise themselves to infiltrate the tycoon's life in order to uncover the truth behind their beloved daughter's death. Revealing shocking truths on the way, this is a story about an imposter family tackling mysteries and seeking revenge!

(Source: YTV)

Episodes: 10

~~ Adapted from the web novel "Yi Tai San Bao: Zong Cai Die Di Zhui Qi Pao" (一胎三宝: 总裁爹地追妻跑) by Zi Su (紫苏).

It is a family comedy series that tells the story of a family that is the most economical in the world, trying every possible means to take advantage of their neighbors, but also discovering many things that no one dares to say.

Celebrities’ moms observe their sons and record precious moments in “Mom’s Diary.”

Running Man is a reality-variety show that stars Yoo Jae Suk and many other celebrities. In each episode, they must complete missions at famous landmarks to win the race. The missions almost always feature running, hence the title, and the name tag ripping game is filled with tension as each member struggles to survive.

Park Do Ra is a bright, brave woman with a challenging personality who became a top actress because her mother, Baek Mi Ja, said it was the only way to escape poverty. After earning fame and fortune as a top star, all Do Ra wants to do is rest and enjoy her riches, but her mother keeps causing trouble. Mi Ja always adorns herself in luxury, even more than any top star, thanks to Do Ra's success. However, Mi Ja wants more. Do Ra can't handle her tight schedule due to Mi Ja's desires and wants to quit her new drama "Straightforward Romance," but she can't because she met her first love, Go Pil Sung, the assistant director.

Pil Sung is passionate about his job but tries to leave "Straightforward Romance" because of Do Ra, who was very particular to him when he was young. Unfortunately, an unusual assignment to exclusively lead her falls in his lap. Will Do Ra find her happiness by escaping her mother's never-ending desires?

(Source: Viki)

Episodes: 50

Duration: 1 hr. 20 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Saturday, Sunday

This program is to recollect the daily lives of celebrities and form its unique sympathies among the singles within South Korea by showing celebrities' lives without significant filtering.

Celebrity dads are left to care for their kids alone for 48 hours without the help of anyone, while their wives leave the home to enjoy some relaxing time off. The wives are shown leaving the home before the 48 hours begins and coming back to greet their family once the 48 hours have ended. During the 48 hours, the dads and children are either doing a task the wives have written out for the dads to complete or the dads exploring new activities with their kids. Occasionally celebrity friends of the dads will stop by to interact with the kids.

When something happens between a couple, it’s surprising how each person’s interpretation and memory of it differs from the other’s. By watching the daily life of a celebrity couple that faces challenges and conflict as we all do, the program offers a perspective from both male and female while asking viewers to reflect on the value of finding a soulmate and sharing their lives with another person.

A relationship that's closer than anything, and yet feels like the most distant relationship on earth - a father and daughter's.

As time goes by, these two who got distanced start clearing up misunderstandings and hidden feelings, try to understand each other better and forgive each other.

(Source: Korean = OnDemandKorea || Translation = Jungjeon-mama at MyDramaList)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Wednesday

The Tenpo period near the end of the Edo period. Katsuie's wife, Onobu, struggles to make ends meet, but never ceases to smile innocently. Her husband is Katsu Kokichi. His arms are very strong and she can't say she doesn't like it when asked. Her son, Rintaro, is clever, intelligent, aspiring to study Dutch studies, and eventually saves the people of Edo as "Katsu Kaishu."

The era is the reform of Tenpo. In addition to the noisy world, every time Kokichi brings in trouble, he is confident. Furthermore, Rintaro falls in love with Fukagawa geisha! Katsuya continues to make a fuss.

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Episodes: 30

Duration: 45 min.

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

When Aihara Ame was a high school student in Nagasaki, she wasn’t confident in herself due to her past. Asano Taiyo was a student attending the same school as Aihara Ame. He was the only person who talked to her brightly. With him, she was able to see her life positively for the first time in her life. She had feelings for him. After her graduation, she went to Tokyo to fulfill her dream of becoming a patissier without telling Asano Taiyo about her feelings for him.

After 8 years, she returns to Nagasaki. One day, she meets Asano Taiyo, whom she has never forgotten, and is elated to see him again. An accident soon occurs, and Aihara Ame falls into deep despair. A man appears in front of her and introduces himself as a guide from the afterlife. He tells her that if she gives her heart to him, he will make a miracle for her.

Meanwhile, Asano Taiyo is a bright person. His family has operated a fireworks shop for generations in Nagasaki. His dream is to become a fireworks expert and succeed his father in their family business. Even though he is a bright and honest person, he didn't tell Aihara Ame about his feelings for her when they were together. He meets Aihara Ame, whom he has never forgotten, again for the first time in 8 years.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Duration: 54 min.

This is the story of four youngsters, a man and three women who will love him, who grew up together in Beijing and will go through the twists and turns in life.

In the winter of 1979, Yang Shu Mao returns home after graduating. He hopes to climb the social ladder and become a business to be at the level of his first love, Shi Xiao Na, a rich heiress. With that objective, he works with his childhood friend Zhao Ya Jing who's secretly in love with him. However, Shi Xiao Na always stepped in between them. But when Shi Xiao Na's father, considering Yan Shu Mao too humble to be his son-in-law, sanctions him, Yang Shu Mao realizes the social difference between him and Shi Xiao Na and drifts away from her.

Yang Shu Mao then realized that Ye Fei, his other childhood friend, is the most perfect partner for him. But his mother thinks otherwise, as she is much closer to Zhao Ya Jing and wants her as her daughter-in-law.

Huang Cai Wei was engaged to Bai Qian Feng when he went missing on a business trip and presumed dead. She was then forced to marry his brother Bai Qian Sheng. His obvious favoritism of her incited jealousy in his other wives, especially his primary wife Ma Fu Fang. Huang managed to outmaneuver many of the women's ploy using her wits. But when her fiance returned home alive, she was placed in precarious situation where she couldn't free herself from.

Han Gyul and Go Un is a young couple raising their newborn Woo Rim. Not too long ago, they got scammed by a real estate agent and lost their entire fortune leaving them homeless. Eventually, they lug their belongings and try to sleep at Jjimjilbangs every night. Han Gyul provides delivery service driving a scooter and Go Un put up flyers carrying Woo Rim. However, it seems impossible to find a place to live by their endeavors alone. One day, Woo Rim gets hurt at a Jjimjilbang and the couple’s situation becomes more desperate. They end up temporarily staying at a house of this elderly woman whom Han Gyul got to know through his delivery service work. Han Gyul tells Go Un that this lady is visiting the US for a month but the whole thing feels suspicious to her. Homeless illustrates the despair of the younger generation toward housing problems. The couple dreams to live a life like a model house that appears in the first scene, but the reality is the opposite.

(Source: JIFF)

Duration: 1 hr. 23 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Ratings: 6.7

Adapted from the web novel "Xiao Ri Zi" (小日子) by Yi Bei (伊北).

Episodes: 26

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Amiko lives in Hiroshima, Japan. She is a little different from other girls. Her family consists of her father, pregnant mother, and an older brother. Her father is nice to other people and her mother teaches calligraphy. Amiko has classmate Ri-kun, whom she likes. Amiko is honest and naive. Her behavior sometimes makes people feel embarrassed.

Adapted from a novel of the same name.

The story follows three generations of a Taiwanese Indigenous family (Atayal tribe) that begins to fall apart when its head dies. With his passing, "Gaga" — the traditional beliefs for maintaining the order between people and nature — also vanishes. On the verge of being broken, the family witnesses the first snowfall in a very long time…

Eun Sung, the daughter of Dong Gu and Chun Young, dreams of becoming successful, but she is an actress that nobody knows. It has been more than three years since she joined the theater with an ambitious dream, but she still has to put up posters and clean the theater and only gets to practice when the other actors are not around. Sun Woo, the son of Jung Ae and Ki Seok, is a promising Hollywood film director who always achieves his goal. Eun Sung and Sun Woo fall in love with each other and decide to get married.

However, they realize Dong Gu and Jung Ae were sworn enemies who divorced 30 years ago. This ill-fated relationship between parents and children fights over their marriage. The story of how people who hate each other the most become the wildest, weirdest, yet hilarious family begins now!

(Source: Viki)

Episodes: 120

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Lee Hyo Shim is a skilled fitness trainer at her local gym, but, despite her top physical form, she’s bent under the weight of providing for her family. After her father walked out, it had been up to her to support her mother and three brothers. While this task might have been noble when she was younger, after years of thanklessly slaving for her family, she’s ready to finally live for herself.

(Source: Dramabeans)

Episodes: 50

Tong Xiao Qi and Li Wen Yu shocked their families and friends when they got married after dating less than 33 days. None as much as Tong's controlling mother. In order to stay together and protect their independence, the newly wed battled his mother's interference by borrowing tactics straight out ancient Chinese war book Thirty-Six Stratagems.