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So Jung has had a pretty miserable life so far.

Beset by ill fortune, her mother is ill, and it seems that whatever she turns her hand to ends up in failure.

She works in a coffee shop run by the dashing – but skeptical and secretive – Seung Jae.

But one stormy night, a mysterious woman visits the shop and lends So Jung a strange book named “Are You in Love.” It turns out to be a remarkable – and even magical – tome!

One day, she asks the book a question about her love life – and receives an “answer” that miraculously changes her life.

All of a sudden, So Jung finds herself the talk of the town. Every man she meets ends up having a crush on her – including Seung Jae, who suddenly sheds his cool exterior to lay his heart bare for her.

Can So Jung use the power of the book to find true love? And could the reformed Seung Jae win her heart – despite all the competition?

A historical film about King Sejong who risked everything of his to invent the Hunminjungeum (Korean Script) for his people and the people who weren't recorded in history.

After losing his parents in a fire, Lee Ahn acquires the power of psychometry, the ability to read a person or an object's past through physical contact, and he decides to use it to take bad people down. While he does not know how to control his power yet, he meets Yoon Jae In who tries her best to hide her painful secrets. Together with his foster guardian, prosecutor Kang Seong Mo, and the latter's colleague, investigator Eun Ji Soo, they team up to solve an elusive case that has been haunting the lives of Ahn, Sung Mo, and Jae In. The case revolves around the life of prosecutor Kang his mother and father who were the main cause of the fire. Jae In and Lee Ahn heal each other through their past present and future and find the culprit.

The television series depicts rich young men and women in their twenties who discover their true feelings while playing the dangerous game of love. In an act of revenge, Kwon Shi Hyun makes a bet with his friends to seduce Eun Tae Hee, who believes people swayed by love are pathetic. After Tae Hee meets Shi Hyun, her view on love starts to change. As Shi Hyun’s secret deepens, he starts to fall in love with Tae Hee.

Loosely based on the classic French novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses."

The drama follows the life a woman who ends up losing everything after living a turbulent life. When she starts anew from the bottom, ironically, her life blossoms. The value that holds us together is not blood nor law, but rather love and affection between us.

An adolescent teenager from a family with troubles named Kim Dal Nim dreams of becoming a singer and busks on the streets. The family doesn't spend much time together, but this is the story of when they start to really see each other.

Ma Yi Deum, a materialistic female prosecutor who does not hesitate to use personal attacks, fabricate evidence, and incite perjury in order to win her case is assigned to a special task force for sex crimes. Yeo Jin Wook, a newbie prosecutor also joins the task force, and together they solve crimes with a grudging chemistry.

This is a pre-produced drama. Filming was completed on 2017-March-12.

When a slacker city kid Lee Shi Kyung (Kai) and his sister, Lee Shi Young (Lee Ye Hyun) are suddenly transferred to a high school in the countryside, they have trouble adjusting to their strange new surroundings. But not without the help of a new friends, Park Ga Ram (Baek Chul Min), the town’s golden boy, and a mysterious girl, Kim Bom (Kim Jin Kyung).

The plot centers on a group of people who find their ordinary lives thrown into chaos due to a family tragedy. They monitor criminals 24 hours a day and rescue potential victims before the crime is committed. They also embarrass corrupt state prosecutors and make sure that criminals are punished for their crimes. This TV show illustrates the current society where the simple rule of going to jail if you break the law no longer applies to those in power. Illustrating the tragic lives of the Watchmen group who channel their anger and grief into fighting for justice, “The Guardians” will have stylistic action scenes and a thrilling plot.

This drama follows the lives of two men and a woman through two eras: one during the 1930s Japanese occupation of Korea and the other in the 21st century. The three main characters are:

(1) Han Se Joo who was a writer in his past life and a bestselling author in the present. But Se Joo is depressed with writer’s block so he can't write his next book.

(2) Yu Jin Oh owned a bar in his previous life. In 2017 he is a talented ghostwriter who can bail Se Joo out of his predicament, but the mysterious man has a condition for his services. Se Joo may not be able to meet it.

(3) Jeon Seol was a sniper. Now she has extremely varied expertises. She is a former Olympian hopeful, a veterinarian and a book lover who runs her own delivery service. She oscillates between extreme fandom and an anti-fandom of Se Joo.

The intricately woven story of these three characters unfolds to reveal strange mirroring connections between the time periods as well as possibilities for past lives to be redeemed or improved in the modern world.

Hong Ra On disguises herself as a man and counsels men on dating. Due to a love letter she wrote for a client, she meets Crown Prince Hyo Myeong. Ra On is unaware that he is the Crown Prince and Hyo Myeong is unaware that Ra On is a woman. The Crown Prince becomes interested in Ra On. His eunuchs become aware of this and attempt to get Ra On to become one of them.

The Unusual Family’ is about two country girls with different dreams. There is a girl from the countryside, named Kang Dan Yi (Lee Shi Ah). She wants to support rural communities. And, there’s Kang Sam Wol (Gil Eun Hye) who is happy to leave her hometown and has a dream of becoming one like Cinderella. With two different dreams, they both move over to Seoul. How would their life change in the near future?

A historical fantasy drama about a young man finding his way and love for a forgotten princess. Heo Jun faces discrimination as an illegitimate son and gives up on his natural talents, intelligence, and passion for academia. Succumbing to the limits of his social status, he resorts to just making as much money as he can use his good looks and witty charm. Meanwhile, Queen Sim is unable to conceive and she seeks the help of a shaman whose black magic enables her to have twins - a boy and a girl. However, the daughter, Seo Ri, is put under a curse and abandoned deep in the mountains, where one day, she meets Heo Jun. The curse of the abandoned princess is that whoever falls in love with her will die. Seo Ri tries to find a cure for her curse and along the way, creates magical treatments that help cure sick people. Unfortunately, Heo Jun accidentally sets the book of magic on fire, and he stays in the mountains with Seori to try to help heal the sick in a mountain village. As Heo Jun’s passion for medicine grows, he decides to become a doctor. As he sees Seo Ri fight against her destiny, his affinity for her grows, and he too begins to believe that he can change his destiny.

Go Hwan notices that his parents and his friends are acting strangely around him. His friends Namjoon and Gap Duk have started treating him ever so nicely and his moody father has announced that he will push Go Hwan in a wheelchair in a marathon. Although he is thankful, Go Hwan can’t help but think that he is soon going to die as he has been suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease. He soon learns that this is the truth and when his best friends ask him what his wish is, Go Hwan tells them that he wants to have sex for the first and last time in his life.

The black comedy movie depicts the delightful battle between a corrupted assemblyman and the residents in a planned redevelopment area, while the assemblyman is trying to drive them out of their long time residential area.

Five childhood friends, who all live in the same Ssangmundong neighborhood of Seoul, lean on each other to survive their challenging teen years and set a path for their futures. Sung Deok Sun struggles for attention as the middle child in her poor family while also carrying the burden of her 999th ranking in school. Kim Jung Hwan only has a one-track mind for soccer, even after his family becomes rich overnight. Sung Sun Woo is the perfect student, student council president and a caring and dependable son in his family. Ryu Dong Ryong is a geek who knows more about girls and life than the rest of his friends, but his poor academic score prevents him from being able to go to college. Choi Taek is a genius baduk player who dropped out of school to go professional. As the group of friends gets into and out of mischief around the neighborhood, what experiences from these memorable times together will they carry with them into their future lives?

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Tags: Nostalgia, Multiple Couples, Poor Family, Love Triangle, Friendship, High School, Mother-Son Relationship, Coming Of Age, Bromance, Poor Female Lead (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 20

Duration: 1 hr. 35 min.

Country: South Korea

Airs On: Friday, Saturday

Aired: Nov 6, 2015 - Jan 16, 2016

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Period drama depicts the ambitions and success stories of 6 people with Lee Bang-Won as the central figure. Lee Bang-Won was the third king in the Joseon Dynasty. He helped his father King Taejo establish the Joseon Dynasty.

Geum Bok is ashamed of her mother who works as a street cleaner. Her mother, as a single mother, has worked hard to support Geum Bok. Geum Bok's feelings for for her mother begin to change. On their first trip, Geum Bok's mother disappears and Geum Bok is now all alone.

A historical drama about the lives, friendships, and love stories formed among the lowest class of servants and the nobles during Joseon era.

Kook In Yeob is the only child in a noble family. She is famous for her beautiful and stylish appearance. Due to an incident, her status falls to the lower class. As she struggles through her misfortune, she becomes stronger.

Servant Moo Myung is the most attractive servant in Hanyang, but he is also a mysterious man who hides his real identity and pretends to be a servant.

A fantasy sitcom about a “gumiho” (nine-tailed fox) who can only become human if she eats 1000 human male livers. After consuming 999 male livers, she tries to find the last liver of the male who truly loves her.

Jung Se Ro is a hardworking young man who works multiple part-time jobs while studying for the foreign civil service exam. His father is a petty criminal and a con man, and their family lives a transient life because of his deals, currently staying in Thailand.

Despite wanting an honest life for himself, Se Ro's dreams are shattered on the night of a glamorous jewel exhibition opening in Bangkok. His father dies in an incident involving stolen diamonds, and because Se Ro was at the scene when another man was shot, he is accused and arrested for murder. After spending five years in a Thai prison, upon his release he takes up a new identity and becomes a con man just like his father. He joins a ring of jewel smugglers led by Park Kang Jae, with whom he shares a brotherly bond. Kang Jae was raised like a son by Se Ro's father, who taught him all the tricks of the trade. But Kang Jae has harbored a lifelong jealousy towards the real son, which is stoked further when the woman he loves, smuggling accomplice Seo Jae In also falls for Se Ro.

Then Se Ro meets Han Young Won, the cold-hearted heiress to a jewelry brand. She was madly in love with her fiancé Gong Woo Jin, and had closed herself off after his death. But Se Ro draws her out into the world, while Young-won gives him a reason to live when he had all but given up. They fall in love, not knowing that the man Se Ro was accused of killing had been Young Won's fiance. His love for her becomes his punishment, but also his salvation.

Kang Moo Yeol is a third-generation chaebol who has the both the looks and wealth, seems to have it all on the outside, but grows up with family issues and pain from the loss of his past love Han Yoo Rim.

Meanwhile, Han Yoo Jung is a diligent and bright, and very independent woman who has a tomboyish and unruly personality which helped her overcome the sudden loss of her family. She is Han Yoo Rim's younger sister and will get involved with Kang Moo Yeol 10 years later. Both Kang Moo Yeol and his half brother Hong Soo Hyuk will fall in love with Han Yoo Jung. But, Moo Yeol and Yoo Jung are star-crossed lovers. Their tragic love story begins because of a tragedy due to their parents. How will they escape their dreary surroundings to succeed?

Sung Soo is a successful businessman who lives with his wife Min Ji and their 2 children in a luxury apartment. Life is mostly good, except for an older brother from whom he's estranged.

One day, Sung Soo receives a phone call that his brother is missing and goes to his brother's apartment building for the first time in decades to look for him. There, he finds strange symbols carved into every door and meets Joo Hee and her young daughter. Joo Hee is convinced that someone is spying on them and lives in constant fear. Sung Soo figures out that the symbols carved onto the doors are "hide and seek codes" that indicate gender and number of people. Then when he returns home, he finds similar symbols carved into his door.

In Ha is the son of a talented pianist, and dreams of taking over his family's business. But when one day his father brings home an illegitimate son, Ji Ho, and declares that he will be the heir to the family business, In Ha’s world is shattered. In Ha's mother hereby want's revenge and uses JiHo, while playing the goodnatured mother in front of him.

Ji Ho grows up to be a pianist prodigy and the heir to his family's business. He loves his stepmother and stepbrother In Ha more than himself and only wants the best for them. But when he finds out the secrets, lies and plots which have used on him, he vows to revenge on the people who he once thought was his closest family.

Thirteen-year-old Heo Yeon Woo, the daughter of a high-ranking official, accompanies her mother to the royal palace to attend her brother, Heo Yeom's civil service examination congratulatory ceremony. By chance, she comes across Crown Prince Lee Hwon. They fall in love and Yeon Woo is chosen as the Crown Princess of Joseon.

Before they can marry, however, the Dowager Queen secretly orders her death, in order to install Yoon Bo Gyeong, the daughter of a family clan, as Crown Princess, thus securing more power for herself. She orders head shaman to cast a spell on Yeon Woo to stricken her with an unknown sickness. After dying, Yeon Woo is resurrected from her grave, but loses her memories. All believe her to be dead, including the Crown Prince Lee Hwon, who refuses to love another. Eight years later, Yeon Woo returns as a shaman named Wol (meaning moon). Meanwhile the young king begins to investigate the death of his love after seeing the grown up Wol. But he is fighting against time, because the queen's powerful political clan wants him removed from power.

Kim Sun Woo, who spent his school days as a troublemaker, decides to make a change in his life and joins the sea special attack team, which is called Poseidon. Sun Woo works as a promising commando, but he unexpectedly becomes entangled in an unsavory incident after 2 years. He is demoted and is sent to a maritime police office in Gunsan city. Sun Woo's passion cools down and he slowly loses his vision as a maritime policeman. Then one day, Jung Ryul, who has formed a new crime investigation section in Incheon city, visits Sun Woo and asks him to join the team... 

This is a story of a family on a farm named Ojakgyo. The family consist of a grandmother, parents, and four brothers. Hwang Chang Shik is the father of the family and he runs the Ojakgyo farm. The grandmother and mother are loving people. Eldest son Tae Shik works as a physical therapist. He is almost 40-years-old, but still single. Tae Shik looks for the perfect woman to fall in love with at first sight. The second son is Tae Bum who works as a reporter for a broadcasting company. The third son is Tae Hee who works as a detective. Tae Hee is a tough guy, but soft around his grandmother and mother. The youngest son is Tae Pil who doesn't work.

One day, the family's peaceful and happy lives are shaken by Baek In Ho. Approximately 10 years ago, Hwang Chang Shik rented the Ojakgyo farm from Baek In Ho and in return placed his name on the property deed (so Baek In Ho could avoid paying taxes on the property). The other family members did not know about the deal and thought the farm belonged to them.

Baek In Ho has a wife, Jung Yoon Sook, and a daughter Ja Eun. Ja Eun is beautiful, but self-centered. Ja Eun's mother is actually her step-mother. When J Eun's father is around, Yoon Sook acts like a loving mother to Ja Eun, but when he's not around Yoon Sook doesn't treat Ja Eun well. Jae Eun hides this from her father. Baek In Ho's runs a company, but the company faces bankruptcy. Now, Baek In Ho wants his farm back. He gives the family renting the farm a one month notice to vacate the property ....

Although Kim Tak Gu is the illegitimate son of SAMHWA Enterprise's President, Goo In Jong and his mistress, he was made the successor of his father due to his extreme talent in baking. However, Tak Gu's inheritance rights were taken away due to a conspiracy planned by his father's legitimate wife and half-siblings. With his great determination to succeed and become the number one baker king in the baking industry, Tak Goo drives himself to rebuild his career from scratch. More hardships and pain comes along in his way as he strives harder to reach his goal when he is caught between two women. The first love who will betray him for her own interest and the other woman who will stand by him through everything despite being hurt.

Go Eun (Song Yoon Ah), a wedding dress designer and single mom, has only a limited number of days to live. Before parting from her young daughter So Ra (Kim Hyang Gi), Go Eun wants to do everything she can for her, including making a beautiful wedding dress for So Ra for the future.

As her condition worsens, So Ra finds out about the cancer and tries to fulfill her mother's wishes one by one, in secret...

"No Limit" revolves around Bong-kun Cha (U-Know Yunho) who dreams of playing football for the premier league in England, while he plays in a Korean minor league. While pursuing his deam, Bong-kun Cha narrowly escapes death three times and also falls for soccer agent Hae-bin Kang (Ko Ara).

A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do Joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbours. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do Joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.

"Every village has it's fool", this is basically what happens in a Miracle of the giving fool (BA:BO), Seung-ryong Cha Tae-Hyun at a young age suffers an accident with his father. His father get killed but he survives with some cerebral injuries. At age 27 he has the intelligence of a six-year-old child. Some years after the accident, his mother dies and he sees himself alone in the world with her younger sister Jee-nin, who simply sees her brother as something disgusting and hateful. The movie begins with Seung-ryong waiting for something, or someone who finally arrives, after some years. She's Ji-ho, a childhoods Seung-ryong love. He makes his living selling the most famous toasts in his village in front of his sister school, that way being able to "keep an eye on her".

Resuming, it's a romance, a story that tells us how strong and deep all kinds of love can be...

Au Jin is a mother of two children and wife to a husband in deep financial difficulties. To augment her income, she works for a telephone sex-chat service. After a chance meeting with Madam Kim, she is offered a job in an all-night bar acting as a companion for lonely men. She is uncomfortable as the level of services she must provide increases, until one day she is introduced to a customer who appears to treat her affectionately and lovingly. Could he be the one for her, the one to take her away from all this?

In 1986, in the province of Gyunggi, in South Korea, a second young and beautiful woman is found dead, raped and tied and gagged with her underwear. Detective Park Doo Man and Detective Cho Yong Koo, two brutal and stupid local detectives without any technique, investigate the murder using brutality and torturing the suspects, without any practical result. Then Detective Seo Tae Yoon from Seoul comes to the country to help the investigations and is convinced that a serial killer is killing the women. When a third woman is found dead in the same "modus-operandi", the detectives find leads of the assassin.

As a fusion drama on the life of politician Kim Doo Han, the drama tells the life of Kim Doo Han with fact and fiction. Kim Doon Han is the son of the great general Kim Jwah Jin, who fought for Korea against the Japanese during World War II. After his dad dies, Kim Doo Han trains in kung pao and learns to be a leader against the evil Japanese. He finds his own position as boss of the Jong Ro area in Seoul, and vows to protect his own Korean people. Goo Ma Juk, the boss of Seoul, fights against Kim Doo Han in an attempt to hand over the whole Seoul area to the Japanese redevelopment project, pursued by Hyashi. Hyashi himself is a Korean but he ironically lives as a Japanese fighting his own people. Through these many barriers, Kim Doo Han struggles to keep the Korean culture alive, later on becoming a politician after the Korean War.

In Woo and Tae Hee are two college freshmen who didn't believe in love at first sight but later find themselves wrapped in a deep relationship that would last forever. One day they vow to make their love eternal by sealing it with a bungee jump. But their promise is never fulfilled when Tae Hee suddenly disappears out of In-woo's life for what seems like an eternity. Seventeen years later, In Woo is still unable to get Tae Hee out of his mind even though he's married and has a loving family. While giving a lecture to his students, In Woo is reminded of the memorable times he spent with Tae Hee when one of the students asks about his first love experience. From this point on, In Woo thinks nothing of it until the student rehashes habits and sayings that are so reminiscent of Tae Hee. Clinging to his hope that he will meet Tae Hee once more, a strange mystery unfolds as In Woo tries to discover who this student really is.

This is a historical drama about King Taejo of Goryeo, the founder of the Koryo Dynasty.

Somewhere in Seoul, Jung Won runs a small shabby photo studio. A humble shack passed down from his widower father, the studio is a space where Jung Won goes about with his daily routine of dealing with fussy customers, enlarging photos of class heartthrobs for the neighbourhood kids and photographing pictures to place on funeral altars. For Jung Won, life seems to be a series of peaceful events, but in reality, his time on earth is too limited for comfort. Barely in his mid-30's but perhaps too aware of the meaning of death, Jung Won accepts his fate despite the subtle gestures of concern coming from his old father and younger sister.

Life goes on as usual until, one day, he meets Da Rim, who works at the Traffic Control Division of the local district office and who is a regular customer at the studio. Her daily visits to develop snapshots of parking violations and her somewhat bold attempts to capture his attention stirs a feeling inside Jung Won with which he deals in anticipation. As his health gradually deteriorates, Jung Won is faced with the painful duty of bidding farewell to family, friends, to the studio and Darim.