Asian Drama

A drama about an adopted woman who struggles to make a family.

Cha Dae Hyun works as an auto mechanic. He has a strong passion and talent for working on cars. Thanks to his grandfather, who ran a car repair shop in the countryside, he developed his love for cars. With his personal life, Cha Dae Hyun has a crush on Noh Yu Hwa, but he is shy about expressing his feelings to her. She works as a manager at the car repair center where Cha Dae Hyun works. She has a charming personality, but she also carries an emotional scar that she can't forget.

Hae Joon works as a detective. He is polite to others, but passionate when investigating cases. He begins an investigation into an unnatural death case that took place on a mountain. While investigating the case, Hae Joon meets Seo Rae. She is the former wife of the deceased man. Hae Joon is suspicious of her, but he also becomes interested in her.

Frustrated by life with her boyfriend, thirty-something Wako can't stop herself from being interested in high schooler Yumeaki, despite the age gap.

A fresh romantic musical set against the backdrop of the Greek island of Skopelos! Hae-jin, a chef who suddenly broke up through Kakao, left for Skopelos, Greece, the same island he promised to come with for the summer vacation. Hae-jin opened a Korean restaurant called Farewell Restaurant. For couples' last farewell before their breakups, they play music and comfort them. And then one day, Eleni, a Greek girl came… and he falls in love again.

A woman slowly drinks herself to death as she is physically and emotionally used by one man after another.

Hyun Joo had a hard life after losing her mother to a brain tumor at a young age. It was her husband Kim Do Yeong, who saved her. However, she finds out that she will also die soon like her late mother. The fear of leaving her family in the same pain and agony she went through as a child is bigger than the fear of dying. This leads her to tell her husband, “I’ve fallen in love with someone else”, as she hides her pain. During the last moments of her life, she goes off to find true love in.

Lin Yu, who plans everything, and Chen An An, a smart and quick-witted girl were deskmates in high school for a short time. After eight years of separation, they reunited and live under the same roof. Despite different personalities and dispute, they often comfort each other. However, what they don't know is that a wonderful fate called "Vivian" has already sprouted eight years ago and connected the hearts of these two. Because of "Vivian", they fell in love with each other. And eventually they will bid farewell to "Vivian" and be a better version of themselves.

A fantasy mystery drama about a man and woman who share the same emotional state.

Eun Gye Hoon is a chef who sets up a restaurant in the town where his twin sister went missing 20 years ago. He finds himself randomly experiencing emotions one day, spontaneously crying and laughing, and it turns out that they are the emotions of a woman named Noh Da Hyun.

The youngest partner at one of the nation’s most prestigious law offices, Oh Soo Jae has already proven she has what it takes to be one of the country’s best lawyers. Driven by her self-righteous principles and a never-ending desire to win, Soo Jae is well on her way to becoming one of TK Law Firm’s top attorneys. But when one of her cases takes an unexpected turn, Soo Jae is forced to watch as all of her hard work comes crumbling down around her. Demoted at work, Soo Jae is forced to take on the role of adjunct professor at a local law school. Determined to win back her position within the firm, Soo Jae does her best to settle into her new role but the sting of demotion still lingers. Only after meeting Gong Chan, a university student whose path frequently crosses with Soo Jae, does that sting begin to lessen. Despite carrying the burdens of a painful past, Gong Chan’s warm heart remains strong, especially as his affection for Soo Jae grows.

Obviously smitten with Soo Jae, Gong Chan stays by her side, even as she struggles to find a way back into the firm’s good graces. Will her determination and Gong Chan’s support be enough to restore her position, or will the powers that be continue to push her down?

Lee Ra El was a girl who idolized her loving parents – a highly intelligent father and a strikingly beautiful mother. But when cruel forces beyond their control cause her father’s death, her family crumbles. Embittered by this terrible experience, she vows revenge on the super-rich people who orchestrated this terrible tragedy. Her prime target is Kang Yoon Kyum, the CEO of the lucrative LY Group business empire, and one of the ringleaders of the plot that ultimately destroyed her family.

Lee Ra El’s weapon of choice is divorce. By placing herself at the center of a legal battle worth a staggering USD 1.6 billion, she hopes to bring Kang Yoon Kyum and LY Group down once and for all. But in order to do so, she will need to wage a bitter legal struggle and fight powerful forces both inside and outside the courtroom. However, this plan has been in the pipelines for 13 years for Lee Ra El, who believes she will use all of her guile to catch Kang Yoon Kyum out when he least expects it. Can revenge bring her the satisfaction she craves – or will it end up consuming her?

Bo Young, who suffers from a rare disease that becomes dangerous if she is too emotional, meets Cheol Gi, a rural young man, and falls in love.

Through an exclusive matchmaking agency, women strive to marry a desirable bachelor and into the highest echelon of society.

A young man named Kengo Kosaka suffers from extreme mysophobia. Due to his compulsive disorder, he is unable to maintain a relationship with anyone. Kengo Kosaka is also a lonely young man. Meanwhile, high school student Hijiri Sanagi has scopophobia. Because of her fear of being stared at, she refuses to go to school. Both Kengo Kosaka and Hijiri Sanagi do not expect to find love with another person, but they meet and fall in love. They have happy days, but...

It tells the story of the educated youth Song Da Jiang and Chen Yue Qing who adopted an abandoned baby Qiao Sheng after they became a couple. But Qiao Sheng was naughty ever since she was a child. In order to let Qiao grow up and mature, Song Da Jiang implemented a "fake bankruptcy" plan.

Tells the story of a father who goes undercover into an enemey's base to find his long-lost son during the Anti-japanese war.

Adapted from the novel "Mon Kammatep" by "Orasa Tossanut".

Two teenage boys from starkly different backgrounds find themselves joined in a common search to discover how to do the right thing and find happiness in life. One boy, whose father is an alcoholic, works hard to care for his younger brother and sister, while the other enjoys the privileges of a wealthy family, but is starved for his father's love. Their friendship reflects the sadness, pain, and sometimes cruelty that can enter into the relationships between fathers and sons in today's society.

Oh Woori is the assistant writer of a popular drama series. She has vowed to remain a virgin until she marries, and has shied away from romantic relationships in a bid to remain chaste until she marries. She is dating the devoted police officer Lee Kang Jae, but when she attends a routine medical exam, a terrible mix-up takes place and she is accidentally artificially inseminated. She later discovers her pregnancy, and demands the hospital gets to the bottom of the case.

Eventually she discovers that the donor whose child she is now pregnant with is none other than the CEO of a notable cosmetics firm named Diamond Cosmetics. This CEO, named Raphael, is going through a messy divorce with his wife Lee Ma Ri, a beautiful woman who does not want to split for her husband, chiefly for financial reasons. But when Raphael learns he is to be a father, things get very complicated – particularly after her realizes that there is a secret past connection that links him to Oh Woori!

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Remake of American TV series "Jane the Virgin" [2014], which in turn, is loosely remade from the Venezuelan telenovela "Juana la Virgen" [2002].

Episodes: 14

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday

Ratings: 6.4

Park Tae-joon is an intelligent law student and a filial son to his parents who runs a mill. His has a younger brother, Tae-soo not quite as academic still quite smart and a known brat in town, and a younger sister, the kind and gentle hearted Sun-hee. From the same town as Tae-Joon, Kim Mi-ja, his love interest is sick and tired of living in poverty and desires to leave their small town for a better life. One day after their father’s death, the family learns that they will lose their home as a pledge due to an assurance their father has made before his death.

From the poverty stricken post war era of the 1950s to the modern times of Korea, this TV-series follows a family and the surrounding characters who rode the drastic changes with passion.

The story of three siblings and a mysterious stranger who wants to escape their frustrating lives.

Set in Sanpo Village, a place where usually the influx of people leaving is higher than the ones moving in. There lives the three Yeom siblings, Chang Hee, Mi Jung, and Ki Jung who all want to escape from a life that is clogged up with 'no answer'.

One day, a mysterious man named Mr. Goo suddenly moves into their neighborhood. He is a drunkard, degenerate, and looks like he has many burdens and secrets. His cautious personality and preference to remain in his own business, made him the talk of the town, leading even the timid Mi Jung, the youngest child of the three siblings, to approach him.

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The story begins when men and women in their mid-40s meet each other again after 30 years, in a class reunion set up by a former classmate. With their current life hidden, they all enjoy the reunion and return to their respective lives, only to find out that two of the members begin to meet frequently, causing old flames to spark again and turn into a dangerous love affair. The struggles between families and burdens of reality are described in detail, but as they solve the mystery, the friendships and love between them remain unchanged after a number of conflicts and reconciliations. The story depicts the solitude and the pain of middle age in modern life which forces the responsibility of parenthood and spouses on them and provides a chance to look back on the lives they unknowingly abandoned long ago.

She faces poverty, something that is more scary and unfamiliar to her than sadness. But she proudly recovers her original place by believing in herself. Many people regard accumulation of riches as the ultimate value of life. However, we have now reached a point where we need to look back and reconsider our life goals. This drama series revolves around a twenty-something woman who is suddenly thrown into the cold world together with her immature brothers, after losing her father to a sudden accident. Within a very short period, she experiences the two extreme facets of life. Coming face-to-face with poverty, something that is more scary and unfamiliar than sadness, she also has to withstand psychological downfall, which is more difficult than her loss of wealth. Fortunately, there is a man standing next to her, quietly supporting her. She overcomes her crisis thanks to this simple, warm-hearted man and his family, finally recovering her original place through her own strength and means. Through this young woman and stories about people around her, this drama series intends to ponder about the true and worthy values that we need to pursue to make our lives more meaningful.

A 10 billion won insurance murder case causes Oh Ha Naui to lose everything. She sets out to take revenge upon Chun Mi Ja who caused her misfortune.

The story takes place in a beautiful pavilion in 1930's Suzhou. Jade is a famous songstress courtesan, marrying into the noble house. She develops a dubious relationship with a female cousin of the family and also being admired secretly by her butler. LAN, the cousin, is a modern woman who wants to be independent and serves her country, but when she meets the charismatic Shing, an official from the North, all her plans go astray. These two women's love bears no fruit with their men and in the end, they have only each other to lean on.

Kim Sun Ja was born and raised in Busan, Korea in the early 20th century, while Korea was under Japanese rule. She falls in love with a man named Koh Han Su. She can see that he is a powerful person and from a different social class from her, but she is unaware of his complete background. Meanwhile, a church priest named Baek Isak comes to stay at the lodge run by Kim Sun Ja's mother. When he learns of Kim Sun Ja's situation, he tries to give her advice, but, when he experiences her unwavering conviction, he offers to marry her. Kim Sun Ja soon moves to Japan and faces difficult times as a Korean immigrant living in a unfamiliar land.

In New York in 1989, Baek Solomon is determined to succeed in the corporate world. A company wants to build a new hotel in Tokyo, but a Korean woman refuses to sell her land where the hotel is to be built. Baek Solomon offers to his bosses to travel to Tokyo and persuade the woman to sell her land to the hotel group. He also goes to see his family there.

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Adapted from the novel "Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee (이민진).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 54 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Friday

The birth of a child has caused an inflection point and a rift in the intimate relationship of a loving young couple, and the once affectionate campus couple eventually goes their separate ways. After the baptism of life, they move forward steadily in their respective life tracks. However, the child's sudden onset of leukemia disrupts the originally peaceful reunited family. The divorced couple's peaceful lives are forced to let go of their differences due to the child's malady and join hands again to fight against fate. The fate of several families is thus closely linked. In the process of saving the child, the adults are also being saved by the child, reconciling with the past and themselves.

Based on Wang Xiaoshuai's movie.

Lin Duo Mei is a healthy and innocent young heiress who's happily married with her husband Chen Xiao Fei ; her brother Lin Duo Jun is also about to get married with Wen Xin.

Wen Xin has been exploited and mistreated by her adopted family and has lived in misery ever since she she got separated from her blood brother. To escape her miserable life, she seduces and marries Lin Duo Jun. But on the wedding day, she's horrified to realize that her new brother-in-law, Lin Duo Mei's husband, Chen Xiao Fei, is none other than her first love and ex-boyfriend from whom she had been forced to separate by his mother who wanted him to marry Lin Duo Mei so that he would get her father's company and avenge his father.

Their reunion makes their feelings resurface and they end up having an affair. This is when Lin Duo Mei meets Ye Nan Di who falls in love with her, despite knowing she's married. When Wen Xin and Chen Xiao Fei's relationship and schemes end up ruining Duo Mei's family, Ye Nan Di stays by her side to help her revive her family, retrieve her father's business and punish those who wronged her.

(Source: Chinese = Baidu)

Episodes: 108

Duration: 45 min.

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

Ratings: 7.3

Rushing along the road every day with a vibrant mix of passengers of all kinds, what taxi drivers see and hear is far more varied than one can ever imagine. Retired taxi driver HO KAU (Kent Cheng) returns to the job after his son HO KA-PO (Raymond Wong) is convicted of causing death by dangerous driving. The incident has exacerbated the already fractious relationship between the father and the son. PO works for KAU after his release from prison. Before long, he has another serious road accident, in which KAU is also involved and severely injured, both mentally and physically. PO feels so guilty towards his father and comes to understand the importance of careful driving. He maintains a high degree of vigilance while driving but still gets picked on constantly by female traffic police officer KO LAI-SAM (Kate Tsui). As time goes by, the pair have gradually developed a strong attachment to each other and finally become lovers. But PO's ex-girlfriend CHEUNG HIU-MAN (Sonija Kwok) and SAM's grandmother KO LI SHUK-CHING (Lee Heung Kam) turn out to be the biggest obstacle to their relationship, leaving the pair stranded in dismay along the tunnel of love.

A drama centered around the district of Gangnam and Seo Cho Hee, a woman who struggles to improve the quality of life with a house. It has a realistic family message that happiness is not about the house but about the family that lives in it.

It revolves around Bong Seon Hwa and her family surrounding a confectionery company. She underwent an unfortunate childhood, but due to her strong and positive personality, she rises up. Growing up in same neighborhood she had a long relationship with Moon Sang Hyuk. But, when she unjustly loses her family due to a tragedy born out of an unstoppable desire, she pledges revenge in the mixed fate and love.