Asian Drama

The Empress is in her early 30s, but she is still not married. Since the 1st successor to the throne died, the royal family is in search for a new successor. Incidentally, they come to know of a young man who was, in fact, the prince's son of a woman who left the Palace in order to keep her pregnancy a secret. The young man's name was Lee Hoo, more commonly known to his friends as Kang Hoo.

Lee Hoo worked as a delivery boy at a Chinese restaurant and was known for his 7-minute maximum delivery time. Lee Hoo had been brought up as more of a punk than a prince so his habits and his way of conversing were very different from the people of royal blood. Although he had never dreamt of living in the Palace, he one day finds himself immersing himself in its grandeur and improving himself to prove that he indeed deserves to be called the Successor to the throne.

He soon finds out that not only will he be facing lessons to the path of royalty, and dilemmas of love and of stature, but he will also learn to compete for the position he had been, first and foremostly, called for.

A parallel story to Until We Meet Again (2019). Tells the story of how Win and Team get to know one another through the swim club, and eventually develop a relationship. They grow their relationship as Win helps Team deal with his childhood trauma, and Team helps Win feel wanted.

With great luck, Yang Chu Mo, who is an outgoing and optimistic girl, was admitted into the key art university, Xingchen Music College. At the same time, she met Mu Liu Nian there, who is the famous person of the school. She recognized that he is the little boy next door who she had been pursuing in childhood. After that, she was so happy that she played a piano music to remind him. However, Mu Liu Nian felt it’s too terrible to listen to. Yang Chu Mo’s piano skills were too bad. But Mu Liu Nian was so picky about music. It’s so miserable for them to get along with each other. In order to get the prize money of 10,000 yuan in the piano competition of the school, Yang Chu Mo, who ranked at the bottom of the class, wanted to be the partner of Mu Liu Nian, the piano genius. Unexpectedly, she was rejected. In order to win the heart of her childhood sweetheart back, Yang Chu Mo chose to express her feeling by playing the piano.

Gifted with the ability to see ghosts, Treekarn must overcome the fear of the undead as he discovers the truth about a long-last love from his past.

"I love you not because of who you are, but because of who l can be in front of you."

Because of an accident when he was five years old, Yu Shi developed a second personality named Noah.

Noah is a quiet and emotionless persona. For years, Noah has protected Yu Shi as he grew up. But that was until he met Wu Zheng.

Yu Shi wanted to be with Wu Zheng, but Noah didn't trust Wu Zheng. Although Wu Zheng likes Yu Shi as well, his relationship with Shao Jie, the woman he’s been set up with, continues to disturb Yu Shi.

Despite having a tragic childhood, Wu Zheng restores Yu Shi’s faith in this turbulent world. Now the question is, can Wu Zheng, a straight man, break through the constraints of the world and face his feelings for Yu Shi bravely?

Story of the only daughter of the Grand Marshal, Sang Qi, who becomes the only female student at the Imperial College due to a gamble.

She was tasked to make Yan Yunzhi, the number one young master of Yan Kingdom, accept her embroidered pouch and her invitation to the Lantern Festival. If she does not succeed, she must replace the famed musician to perform in the festival. Initially, Sang Qi thought this would be an easy task. However she was chased away each and every time she went to Yan Manor. When she knew that Yan Yunzhi is studying at the Imperial College, she decides to enter the college in order to complete her mission. After numerous begging and persuasion attempts by her father, the Emperor finally accepts Sang Qi's requests to enroll into the Imperial College. Thus with her good childhood friend Zhuo Wenyuan and other brocade-uniformed young masters, she embarks on campus life and becomes the only female student to be enrolled in the Imperial College in history.

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Hua Qianci.

It tells the story of two childhood friends, Li Yi Mu and Xiong Qi Qi, who were born on the same day in the same town. Xiong Qi Qi is lazy and likes to stay at home, while Li Yi Mu is a serious perfectionist. Despite their contrasting personalities, Li Yi Mu stays by Xiong Qi Qi's side throughout her life, protecting her and guiding her to realize her dreams. Xiong Qi Qi also realizes Li Yi Mu's efforts and decides to reciprocate him with small acts of bravery and warmth.

Round Six depicts a story of people who decide to become the players of a mysterious survival game that has a whopping 40-million-dollar prize at stake. Gi-hun, played by Lee Jung-jae, seems defeated by life after being fired from his job. He decides to join the survival game to win prize money. Sang-woo, played by Park Hae-soo, is Gi-hun’s childhood friend and he also joins the game as he gets in trouble at work despite all the hard work he has done to be where he is at now.

The literal translation of Round Six’s Korean title is ‘Squid Game’ (오징어 게임), which is the street game Gi-hun and Sang-woo played together when they were young. It’s quite a physical game that only ends when there’s a final winner, much like the survival game they play now. It’s named as such because players are to draw different geometric shapes on the ground, which, as a whole, look like a squid.

Nobuto Urita is a boxer, who loves his sport more than anything. No matter how hard he tries, Nobuto Urita keeps losing his matches. Meanwhile, Kazuki Ogawa spars with Nobuto Urita at the same gym. He is a boxer with elite talent and skills. Unlike Nobuto Urita, Kazuki Ogawa will likely win a championship. Kazuki Ogawa is also engaged to Chika Amano. She is a childhood friend of Nobuto Urita and also his first love.

In the summer vacation of junior year, Xia Zhi Xun, who was studying in Taipei , brought his art classmate Chen Nuan Nuan, who had a crush on him, and returned to Daxi, Taoyuan, his hometown after seven years of absence. His forgotten childhood. Memories bit by bit, maybe it is the way home guided by the gods.

Talented youth Qin Ming just stepped out into society. With the help of Lin Dang and others, he slowly steps out of his childhood trauma and become a renowned medical examiner who can take charge of the whole bureau.

A new murder happened with the same M.O. as 15years ago. Did they catch the wrong person? Or the murderer had an accomplice? The nightmares and memories Qin Ming experience resurface again.

Do Hyun, a college student and his friends have lost their childhood memories and they are living their lives in their own way. One day, Do Hyun is introduced to Jin Ho who lost his parents in an accident as a child. Do Hyun’s friends also heard Jin Ho's story and they decided to become Jin-ho’s friends. In the meantime, Do Hyun gets interested in hypnosis that Jin Ho receives to treat his trauma due to an accident and he tries to do it. Since that day, Do Hyun and his friends keep experiencing strange things and they all feel to have been hypnotized as recollecting memories of Seung Min, who was with them at a nursing home when they were young but already dead. Who hypnotized them and why did the memories of Seung Min come back?

"Why do I need to choose and give up between work, love, and friend?" It is the office romance of the office couple Seol and JungWoo and Seol's childhood friend TaeHwan who enters the company KOGAS.

Aims to deliver a message about justice through a “live courtroom show” that the whole nation participates in. Is Kang Yo Han, the titular “devil judge” who emerges amidst chaos and confusion, a hero of the people or a demon who wears the mask of the law?

Kang Yo Han is a head trial judge who wears legal robes in order to hunt down villains. He is the “devil judge” who wears the mask of the law and punishes the greedy and power-hungry through the courtroom show. He creates an aura of mystery around himself with his handsome face and elegant tastes, but it is impossible for anyone to know what he is truly thinking inside.

Jung Sun Ah is Kang Yo Han’s greatest rival and the executive director of a CSR (corporate social responsibility) foundation. With her beauty and her brains, she is closely involved with many important people, including Kang Yo Han, and has the power to shake up the nation.

Kim Ga On is an associate trial judge who shines as the one ray of hope in a dystopian world. He lost his parents when he was a child and spent a rough childhood, but he worked himself to the bone in order to get his first appointment as a judge. He has patience and endurance, but he is thrown into chaos while observing the actions of Kang Yo Han.

Yoon Soo Hyun is a police detective in a regional investigation unit who is on the hunt for Kang Yo Han’s secrets. She and Kim Ga On have been friends since childhood and grew up like siblings. Even though she is quite popular due to her easygoing personality and good looks, only Kim Ga On is oblivious to her charms.

A 33-year-old fashion marketing director at a home shopping channel company has developed a tough, prickly outer shell in order to succeed in the workplace. After multiple failed relationships, she has given up on the idea of ever finding love. A 26-year-old songwriter with a carefree spirit returns home after living abroad for seventeen years. Raised by his mother's friend and her daughter, who is now that 33-year-old fashion marketing director. But she only remembers him as the kid she was forced to play with when her mom was too busy. When these two meet again, he attempts to heal her jaded sense of romance.

31-year old Lin Yang is accomplished at work but does not have her own else and even her apartment was rented.

In her boring life, suddenly appears 24-year old Lu Zheng An. Lu Zheng An was her neighbour who grew up with her, and has returned from studying overseas. He tries hard to enter her life, and eventually succeeds in moving into her house and intruding into her work. Lin Xiang constantly reminds herself that Lu Zheng An is a younger brother, but ultimately could not withstand Zheng An's charms. Her boring life and sleeping heart was awakened with the appearance of Zheng An, and she finds herself falling for him.

Lei Hao Yang is a cat spirit who gets irritated by humans claiming themselves as the most intelligent species on the planet. To Lei, it’s a joke how incredible the stupidity of humankind is, as shown by the huge number of humans crazy about cats. However, there is one human to whom Lei feels indebted to - Jiang Ke Qi. To pay her back for saving his life when he was young, Lei has set up a company to secretly provide her with a stable job and high income. When he feels the time is right for her to succeed him as the boss, he realizes that he has fallen victim to the human love that he once so strongly despised.

(Source: Taiwan Pavilion, Chinese = Wikipedia || Edited by/Translation = olivestulip at MyDramaList)

Episodes: 7

Duration: 15 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

Aired On: Friday, Saturday

Presenter: Dennis Yang [楊志光]

Producer: Pan Xin Hui [潘心慧]

Yamada Atsuhisa is an ordinary man, with a wife and a 5-year-old daughter. He is close to his childhood friend Takeda. One day, Atsuhisa leaves his office during work hours and goes back home early. There, he witnesses his wife and an unknown man having sex, but Atsuhisa is unable to express his feelings like anger, frustration, and depression. His relationship with his wife and his friend Takeda becomes distorted.

Warnruk, a female investigator, gets transferred to her small hometown in order to investigate the homicide of Chankrapor, who was murdered and buried underneath a Chan por tree.

There she meets the forensics doctor of the area, who although likes to question her intelligence, also teams up with her in order to find the murderer. Together with them is Trichai, a young and handsome lieutenant, who is always ready to help.

However, the catch of this case is that the deeper you search, the thicker the fog becomes.

Li Hui Zhen used to be gorgeous, but years of declining family fortune added much pain to her life, and her looks slowly drifted away. Her friend Bai Hao Yu, on the other hand, was once an ordinary looking guy and grew up to be suave, successful, and immensely likable. So when she comes across him years later and witnesses their reversal of fortune, Li Hui Zhen is too embarrassed to even meet him and instead asks her stylish friend and roommate Xia Qiao to assume her identity.

However, that amazing plan also has a problem in that Bai Hao Yu is actually Li Hui Zhen’s boss, and she now has to pretend to be someone else while working for him. Slowly, even without knowing her true identity, Bai Hao Yu becomes attracted to Li Hui Zhen. Li Hui Zhen's supervisor Lin Yi Mu also starts to take an interest in his new intern. Can Li Hui Zhen break away from the insecurity that came from once being pretty and open up to the man she truly cares about, or will she forever live in fear because she thinks she once was pretty?

Kida and Makoto have been friends since childhood. Later they befriend Yocchi, the new transfer student. Neither of them have parents, so they spend time with each other daily, essentially growing up together. An incident occurs when they are twenty and that tears their world apart. Years later, both boys are employed in the criminal underworld, with Kida as a negotiator and Makoto as a trading company’s CEO. It has now taken them ten years to get revenge on the world that changed their fates, so many years ago.

Adapted from the novel "The End of the Tiny World" (名も無き世界のエンドロール) by Yukinari Kaoru (行成薫).

Mal Ja, who is a part-time worker at a PR company, loves all living creatures but has experienced trauma with horses. Pebbles, her best friend, would like her to be something more and feels threatened by the arrival of a jockey who shows interest in Mal Ja.

Continuation of the web drama "Love in Real Time". Hong Yun tries to stop rumors of her breaking up with Hae Jin, but it isn't easy to deal with. In despair, the girl asks her friend Ye Chan to pretend to be her boyfriend and he has to agree, because he has been accustomed to protecting his friend since childhood and cannot now leave her in trouble.

On Oh-aew's last day in Phuket, Teh will take him around to travel to various places that hold the memories where they grew up.

Promoting the spirit of Chinese women's volleyball is a story about a group of young people who fight for their dreams.

A volleyball team faces the prospect of disbandment after being defeated by old time champions in the recent student leagues. Yi An Le is a naturally gifted volleyball player who joins the team. Although her teammates are skeptical about her at first, Yi An Le's kindness, courage and persistence help her forge strong friendships along the way.

The underdog team that was once looked down upon clears the city league to make it to the provincial league. However, the journey towards becoming champions is not as easy as it looks. Yi An Le is caught in complicated relationship with volleyball ace Ye Man Yang, her childhood friend Fu An Yan and teammate Qiu Yuan Ya.

Their personal problems getting in the way of their teamwork, the Mingyang team suffers a terrible loss. In the face of mounting pressures, can they still achieve victory?

“Supper” is a shabby Korean Diner in the countryside near a small train station. Young Shin is in her third year of high school, but while her classmates go straight to academies after school, she rushes to the market to buy cheap ingredients for the diner. The regular customers who bought daily meal tickets for 4 dollars, and enjoyed a generous, delicious warm dinner, became the “Supper” family. Since Young Shin was little, she learned how to cook from Gyung Soo, the owner of the Diner. She grew up with Da Jung, Jung Hoon and Oh Bok. Jung Hoon, moved to the countryside with his father after he divorced Jung Hoon’s mother. Oh Bok, was raised by his grandmother and uncle, after his parents abandoned him. Da Jung, and her parents, ate at “Supper” because both her parents worked. They became closer than most siblings over 12 years. Four young people show up in Gyung Soo’s life, unraveling a lively story of love, friendship, ambition and forgiveness.

(Source: Mbc)

Episodes: 120

Teh and Oh-aew were best friends until a boyhood line of reasoning turned them into rivals.

Years later as they're preparing for university admissions, both pursuing interests in the field of Communication Arts, the two meet in a Chinese language class.

Their reunion awakens complicated and unstable feelings.

Part 2 is a continuation of freshly united lovers' story as they begin College.

Kamijo Ren is the director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Liaison Division. His father is a former police officer. An incident in Ren’s childhood triggered his thirst for power and he has his sights set on heading the police force by becoming its Superintendent General someday. Ren believes topping the faction that he belongs to is the shortcut to fulfilling his aspiration. He is driven by ambition and has no qualms carrying out work, no matter how dirty it is. His childhood friend Mizuki Sawa, a senior detective in the First Investigation Division, often opposes his stance and mindset as a detective but is the only one who knows about his past.

Sabu and Eiji were best friends since they were small. They served as poor trainees in a traditional umbrella store. When they grew up, it was time for them to turn on a new leaf and live on their own. Unforturnately, Eiji was falsely accused as a thief. He was then isolated in a deserted island and forced to work as a coolie. Eiji was very angry and upset. He kept on thinking of ways to take revenge on the person who falsely incriminate him. During this period, Sabu kept on supporting Eiji and visiting him in jail. At the beginning, Eiji was jealous of Sabu and became hostile to him. As time went by Eiji met many pals in the jail and they worked hard to fight against many difficults. Finally, Eiji learnt to compromise to his fate. After many years of isolation, when Eiji was about to recover his freedom, a cruel fact was revealed to him by Sabu and it drove Eiji crazy.....

A movie about a white hacker club 'Better World' and a genius hacker 'HEX' having an inevitable showdown with the black hackers as the Songdo International Exchange was hacked in the fourth industrial revolution.

This will adapt from Thai literature, title as Khun Chang Khun Paen. Wanthong is a fictional character in this story, be the main character in the first part, a beautiful woman who gets involved with two men and ends up with a tragedy.

Tien Xiao-Xiang is a fan of author Si-Yi and Tarot cards. But deep down, she has another love, childhood sweetheart Li Zhu-Hao. Just when she sees the perfect opportunity to reveal her love to him from fortunetelling, Li Zhu-Hao confesses his feelings to her best friend Song Yi-Jing! But Song Yi-Jing has a condition for Li Zhu-Hao, that is to help three couples to date. They are: aloof and misandric art professor Stone and lovesick gym owner Liu Zhi-Liang; the most unpopular weirdo in school, Ah-Yu, and the subject of her nonstop public displays of love, campus hunk Danny Lo; mob boss lady Yu and philosophy student Ah-Shan. To make it happen for these three unlikely couples is almost like mission impossible.

Adapted from the novel "Do You Love Me as I Love You" (可不可以，你也剛好喜歡我) by Si Yi (肆一).