Asian Drama

Seo Jung Won is an investigative reporter and the host of the current affairs television program “Let’s Get Grabbed by the Collar.” Thanks to her unique and straightforward way of exposing all kinds of torts committed by culprits—all whilst making sarcastic remarks—she gains great popularity and attracts the general public’s attention.

When Jung Won is accused of murder, she joins with detective Kim Tae Hyun, and sets out to find the truth. Also helping her are her husband Seol Woo Jae and Woo Jae, respectively.

(Source: Soompi)

Adapted from the web novel "Myeoksal Hanbeon Jabhibsida" (멱살 한번 잡힙시다) by Nyureoki (뉴럭이).

Episodes: 16

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday

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Tells the story of an investigation into a murder case that takes place on a remote seaside road.

Story is set in the Anti-Japanese War period. It tells the story of Xia Ji Cheng, a proud son from a wealthy high-ranking political family, who originally wanted to go to the Navy to fulfill his dream of becoming a captain. However, an unexpected trip to Shanghai changes his life completely and he becomes a low-ranked police officer.

(Source: Chinese = Douban)

Episodes: 34

Duration: 45 min.

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

Mima Taro is a writer who has hit a slump. Tired of city life, he moves into the house he inherited from his father in the mountainous Hayabusa. When he joins the fire brigade, he becomes involved in a series of arson cases and suspicious incidents. As Taro searches for the truth, a huge conspiracy comes to the surface.

Adapted from the novel "Hayabusa Shobodan" (ハヤブサ消防団) by Ikeido Jun (池井戸潤).

About the friendship and love between 4 police officers working at a police station who each have their own problems. Shikahama Suzunosuke is suspended from work due to a mistake he made while Mabuchi Haruhi works at the general affairs department.

Hajime Madoka is a police officer in the Special Accounts Section and has been dispatched from the headquarter to Mancho Police Station with a special order to cut costs. Madoka oversees the budget used on investigations and proposes cost-cutting measures to the detectives. At the same time, Madoka looks at cases from the angle of "money" and solves them using her unique methods.

(Source: DramaWiki)

Episodes: 11

Duration: 54 min.

Aired On: Monday

The story revolves around a company called “Office AIR Cleaning” that specializes in providing a unique break-up service for those who cause trouble to others due to their selfish in-house extramarital affairs.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the web comic "Onsha no Furin no Kudan: Zettai ni Wakare Sasemasu" (御社の不倫の件～絶対に別れさせます～) by Tatsuki Yuuma (樹ユウマ).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Tuesday

Na Moon Young is married to Cha Sung Jae, but Cha Sung Jae suddenly disappears. Na Moon Young tries to find her husband and uncover the secret behind his disappearance.

Meanwhile, Ha Yeon Joo is neighbors with Na Moon Young. There is also a mysterious man named Do Jin Woo who holds a key to the secret of Cha Sung Jae's disappearance.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 12

Airs On: Saturday, Sunday

Oda Teruasa, a gifted high school senior who is the heir of Japan's wealthy trading company Oda Group, lost everything 13 years ago when his father was murdered by a mysterious organization. The culprit was, in fact, after a weathered key which was in Seiji's possession.

Whoever acquires this key will allegedly see their fortune rise with the number of keys they collect, and with 99 keys, one can gain control over everything in this world. Entrusted with this key by his father just before the fatal incident, Teruasa managed to escape overseas, and since then, he has traveled the world, accumulating knowledge and experiences.

Returning to Japan after 13 years to avenge his father, Teruasa finds himself entangled in the "Akuma Game", a life-threatening battle of wits against rivals aiming for the demonic key.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the manga series "Acma:Game" (アクマゲーム) written by Mebu (メーブ) and illustrated by Megumi Koji (恵広史).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 55 min.

Airs On: Sunday

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Episodes: 24

Duration: 10 min.

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

The story revolves around a company called “Office AIR Cleaning” that specializes in providing a unique break-up service for those who cause trouble to others due to their selfish in-house extramarital affairs.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the web comic "Onsha no Furin no Kudan: Zettai ni Wakare Sasemasu" (御社の不倫の件～絶対に別れさせます～) by Tatsuki Yuuma (樹ユウマ).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Tuesday

Zhen Ren is a surgeon who succeeded in achieving his father's dying wish. With the help of ER director Pan, he joined Haicheng Hospital and took steps forward to save a patient during a Whipple procedure. Zheng Ren devoted everything to being a doctor, and his skills caught the attention of genius doctor Su Yun, who began to study Zheng Ren's methods. Su Yun comes to accept and admire Zheng Ren as a colleague after witnessing his selflessness when they both signed up for the frontline rescue team after an earthquake. In order to treat a case of conjoined twins with arrhythmia, Zheng Ren and Su Yun join hands to form a team formed by a group of medical professionals that include equipment nurse Xie Yiren, attending physician Lin Yuan (Wei Wei), consulting physician Chang Yue, and German professor Rudolph.

Gu Man Qing has been dependent on her sister, who was a dancer since she was a child, but she never thought that on her big wedding day, she would be witnessing Lu Yi Chuan, her future husband, murdering her only family. After trying to take revenge on the spot and failing, Man Qing decide to run. But even after starting her new, happy life, Man Qing still can't forget the faithful night, and she's plotting a revenge plan. Her first step to do so is taking a new identity and becoming a stepmother to her past lover. But the woman discovers a seemingly simple plan, and her sister's death has more mysteries than she thought.

(Source: Chinese = Tencent)

Episodes: 24

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

Duration: 10 min.

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.

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

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

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

Actors of "Legend of Shen Li" come together to solve mysteries and find treasures.

Ma Zhuo was born in Ya'an, Yucheng. At the age of eight, She was taken to Chengdu by her mother Lin Guoguo to live together. She grew up with Xia Gang's son Xia Ze. The two childhood sweethearts became each other's first love. Lin Guoguo and Xia Gang were accidentally involved in a strange murder. From then on, Ma Zhuo and Xia Ze were emotionally displaced, and their fate was tortuous, pursuing the truth of their fathers in danger and thorns.

(Source: Chinese = Douban || Translation = Sher1264)

Adapted from the novel "Li Ge" (离歌) by Rao Xue Man (饶雪漫).

Episodes: 24

Duration: 35 min.

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

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

Kuga Kazuyuki aspires to become an actor. He auditions for the lead role in a theater company's next work. Among the 300 people who take part in that audition, only seven people are selected for a final audition round. Kazuyuki is among the final seven participants. These seven people then travel to a snowy mountain villa and stay there for four days to take the final audition. By the director's orders, all contact with the outside world is not allowed. Soon, the participants begin to disappear one by one.

Chiu and his best friend, Hung, invoke a saucer spirit (a Chinese equivalent of the Ouija board) in an attempt to find out the questions of an upcoming assessment, but they are interrupted halfway through the process and do not finish it properly. They desperately try to finish the process at Chiu's home but supernatural events take place, resulting in the death of Chiu's parents. Eighteen years later, Chiu, who has been learning the art of exorcism from a master after the tragedy, meets Hung again. Hung has been suffering from severe PTSD in the last eighteen years. As Chiu tries to help his best friend overcome his condition, supernatural happenings take place, and they realize the the problem that started eighteen years ago may not have ended.

The most intimate strangers.

Married for 7 years, they are better off apart than together.

Who’s the killer? Him? Her? Or both?

(Source: Weibo)

Episodes: 25

Duration: 45 min.

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

Ye Ke Le, an unlucky person, operates a tea shop in Wanle City that his father left him. Unexpectedly, he becomes entangled in a mysterious murder case involving a strange perfume. To assist in the investigation, he becomes a patrol guard, unintentionally turning into a spy. Bizarre events continue to occur, and the clues become increasingly convoluted. He meets a Japanese girl named Ruo Ye and, based on Japanese spice clues, deduces to Princess Qi. Ye Ke Le falls in love with Princess Qi at first sight. To clear his name and find Princess Qi, he uses his sensitive nose to search for clues. The clues were missed due to a broken river bank. He then traces it back to Jiu Ruo Shui and Lan Qing Yue using wine and on-site evidence. Lan Qing Yue is silenced, Jiu Ruo Shui awakens, rebels against the true instigator, and with the accidental guidance of Xiao Qi and the help of Ruo Ye, they discover that the mastermind behind it all is an insider from the royal palace.

Season 2 of the popular webdrama Medical Examiner Dr. Qin.

The new season will be lead by Liu Dong Qin as the genius forensic expert, Liu Chang as the rugged policeman and Yu Sha Sha as the trusty assistant.

A shocking incident is the start of a tragic chain of events that befall an ordinary family of four: Maehara Akio, his wife Yaeko, their son and Akio’s elderly mother, Masae. Akio is a commonplace company employee but has to carry his family’s tragedy on his shoulders as a psychological battle unfolds between himself and Kaga Kyoichiro. In order to get the Maeharas back to being a genuine family, Kaga disentangles the complex web of family interactions with his keen perception. Just when it is determined that the case has been solved.

An entertaining revenge drama follows Haibara Shoko, an ordinary high school girl who vows revenge after all of her family and friends are taken from her. Shoko, an ordinary high school girl, became an internet celebrity after she appeared in beauty streamer Tokumichi Hitoshi's video. However, her classmates, who are jealous of her success, lure her into a trap and film her being assaulted. As a result, the video goes viral and is spread across the internet - making her a target of hate.

To make matters worse, after her home address is revealed and her house is set on fire, she loses her parents as a result. And yet still, the digital tattoo remains on the internet. Suffering emotional scars, she ended up being taken in by her grandmother, where she lived a rough life. 10 years on, just as Shoko is deciding to end her life, she happens to see her former happy classmates on TV. At that moment, she vows instead to take revenge on them, and Tokumichi, regretful that he could not help in the past, lends her his support as her partner in revenge.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 29 min.

Airs On: Saturday

Yaemori Arisu runs a small restaurant named Alice’s Kitchen. She has autism spectrum disorder, which leads her to be stubborn at times and generally poor at communicating with other people. Her condition also allows her to have a phenomenal memory. She became interested in chemistry due to her single father, Yaemori Shingo, who teaches chemistry at a university. With her vast knowledge of chemistry, she understands nutrients and the cooking process from a scientific viewpoint. Her cooking skills are extraordinary, and her food always pleases.

At her restaurant, she works with her childhood friend Mitsumata Kazusa. Even though the restaurant is quite popular, they are the only two employees who work there. While Alice cooks dishes in the kitchen, Mitsumata is in charge of greeting and serving food to the customers.

One day, a young man named Sakae Kosei appears at the restaurant and asks to work there as a live-in part-time worker. Since then, Yaemori Arisu has experienced a big change in her life.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Sunday

After the death of many of their friends, as well as their separation from Hibiki, Asuha, Kanae, Kashuu, Kaito and Yura enter Utopia, the city of humanity's last hope. They reach one of the two towers, where politicians gather, striving to restore the former civilization by establishing law and order. There, what the survivors witness is an absolute upper and lower world divided by the value of human life. In a world far removed from the utopia, Asuha, Kanae, and the others, torn apart between the "Tower" and the "Under," find themselves entangled in the final battle over Utopia. Eventually, they reunite, but this time as adverseries.