Asian Drama

Life was perfect for Choi Jin Hyeok, his wife Ha Eun Ju, and their beloved daughter Seon Hui – until the day the young girl came home covered in blood, saying she thinks she killed her friend… When the latter’s house burns down, suspicions at home and school begin to surface. When another kid goes missing too, family members and friends begin to point fingers at one another. Will the truth about this “perfect family” ever emerge?

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Adapted from the webtoon "Perfect Family" (완벽한 가족) by written by Nyangpa (냥빠) and illustrated by Joo Eun (주은).

Episodes: 12

Duration: 60 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Wednesday, Thursday

Shin Yoon Bok, a disciplined scholar from Seongsan Village, South Korea, is entrusted with the important task of preserving the heritage of the Joseon Dynasty and recovering valuable cultural artifacts for his family. While he holds deep respect for the wisdom of his elders and diligently follows their guidance as a prominent Confucian scholar of his era, he also possesses the progressive mindset of a modern-day youth, occasionally displaying a streak of rebellion. Despite his courteous demeanor, he struggles with forming emotional connections with others and tends to maintain a certain level of distance.

When Yoon Bok decides to leave his home in Seoul to pursue his dream of becoming a webtoon writer, his journey takes a significant turn when he encounters Kim Hong Do, a woman weary of life's struggles. How will Yoon Bok, who's cautious with his emotions, navigate the whirlwind of emotions that lies ahead?

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Adapted from the webtoon "Treat Me Carelessly" (함부로 대해줘) written and illustrated by Sun Woo (선우).

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday

An intelligent young man, Jang Ho Woo is employed by the Taeil Accounting Firm. His excellent memory, sharp observational skills, and his innate sense for numbers lead him to be the firm's first high school graduate hire.

Ho Woo soon uncovers a web of systemic corruption and injustice that can only be stopped by dismantling one of Korea's most prestigious accounting firms.

Set towards the end of the Joseon era, Sung Yi-Gyeom placed first in the state examination and he now works at the Hongmungwan (administrative and research department). He doesn't have a goal or ambition for his life. One day, Sung Yi-Gyeom is caught gambling. As punishment, he is assigned to work as a secret royal inspector. His job is to eradicate illegal acts and corruption by public officers. He carries out his new job with the help of Hong Da-In and Park Chun-Sam. Hong Da-In is a female inspector and solves cases with Sung Yi-Gyeom. Park Chun-Sam is Sung Yi-Gyeom’s servant. Park Chun-Sam is talkative, affectionate, and tearful.

Meanwhile, Sung Yi-Beom is Sung Yi-Gyeom’s younger stepbrother. His father is a nobleman, but his mother is a slave. Due to his mother's low social status, his father does not accept him as his real son and he is barred from having certain opportunities. He opposes his older stepbrother Sung Yi-Gyeom.

Hong Jo is a cat who has mastered the art of transformation into human form. He wants to become human for his owner, and in order to stay by her side, he starts living a double life.

Kim Sol Ah is a woman in her 20s. She loves people and tries to protect the ones she loves. Hence, she attracts many cat-like people. Her father is like a Persian cat, her crush is like a Siamese cat, and others only make her worry and fuss. In the end, she brings Hong Jo home thinking he's a cat but ends up in a completely different situation.

Adapted from the webtoon series "Welcome" written by Go A Ra.

Dan is an angel. He is also a troublemaker and also an optimist. Yeon Seo is a ballerina who does not believe in love.

Dan then receives a mission. If he succeeds, he can return to Heaven. His mission is to find true love for Yeon Seo, but Dan soon falls in love with her.

Park Cha Oh Reum is a newly appointed judge who is assigned to the 44th Civil Affairs Department at the Seoul Central District. She is always on the lookout for injustice and is able to profoundly empathize with others. Compared to her, Im Ba Reun is a cool-headed man of principle with the creed of ‘Court that is equal to all’, and he is displeased with junior judge Park Cha Oh Reum who is overly sympathetic when it comes to cases.

As a fictional period drama, this miniseries tells the story of a crown prince named Lee Sun who fights the Pyeonsuhwe society that holds absolute power over the kingdom and also controls the water supply by privatizing it. The drama involves romance, action and court politics as the Crown prince, Lee Sun fights heroically on behalf of the people and Han Ga Eun finds herself falling in love with him instead of avenging the execution of her father at his hands. In “The Emperor: Owner of the Mask,” there is palace intrigue revolving around the true power behind the throne, and a plot twist when the prince switches identities with a commoner. But the overall theme of the show is love, which underlies the romance between a prince and his girl as well as the compassion for the country and people.

Celebrity Bromance portrays star friendships, and is filmed the "paparazzi - style" from a distance to allow the cast members to feel less overwhelmed by cameras.

Episodes: 66

The fourth season of this popular music show featuring the hottest songs and all your favorite artists is finally here! “A Song for You Season 4” is a global music request program hosted by Super Junior’s Kangin, f(x)’s Amber and B1A4’s Gongchan joining as the youngest MC. Music fans from all over the world can post their stories and song requests on the show’s official Facebook page, and a different celebrity will read the stories and sing the requested songs! Don’t miss a single episode of this great music show!

Oh Ha-Na (Ha Ji-Won) and Choi Won (Lee Jin-Wook) are both 34-years-old. They have been friends for 17 years. Oh Ha-Na is currently a career woman with an honest and confident personality. Choi Won works as an assistant purser for an airline. He has always helped Oh Ha-Na whenever she got into trouble. Cha Seo-Hoo (Yoon Gyun-Sang) is a pianist with a free spirit and Lee So-Eun (Choo Soo-Hyun) is a cabin attendant for an airline. Will Oh Ha-Na and Choi Won find love?

Hyun Wook is the CEO of a talent agency that scouts and trains idols. He is a brilliant composer-producer who appears cold and indifferent on the outside but is sensitive and kind-hearted. Hyun Wook lives in great difficulty as he unable to let go of his ex girlfriend who dies in an accident he witnesses first hand. Said ex-girlfriend's sister, Se Na, moves to Seoul in order to pursue her music-composing career and meets Hyun Wook who helps her achieve it. In the midst of healing through music, they fall in love.

Na Ae Ra is the prettiest girl in her town. Many guys around her try to win her heart but she dreams of marrying a civil servant. One day she meets Cha Jung Woo who is dorky and preparing for civil service exams. They fall for each other and eventually marries.

Her dreams of living happily ever after are short-lived when her husband announces that he quit his job and wants to do business. She supports him through years by working to her bone when he was coding software in a basement and failing to find buyers. When she no longer can take it anymore, She divorces him.

After a few years, she is still working hard juggling multiple jobs to repay the debt she got while supporting her husband. When she finds out that her husband's business was a success and he became rich, she feels that life is unfair. Wanting to make things even, she joins his company as an intern and tries to get back at him.

Thus a cat and dog quarrel begins between ex-husband and wife who are hurt by each other and who can't get over each other.

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 2 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Wednesday, Thursday

Several years ago Kong-Sil (Kong Hyo-Jin) was involved in an accident. Since that incident, Kong-Sil is able to see and hear ghosts. She's also terrified of the ghosts that appear constantly around her. Because of this, she's unable to live a normal life. Kong-Sil lives in a rooftop room at an extended stay inn. She makes a living by doing odd jobs at the inn, including cleaning.

Meanwhile Joong-Won (So Ji-Sub) is the president of an extravagant shopping mall named Kingdom. He is also arrogant and calculative. Everything relates to him in terms of money.

One raining evening, Kong-Sil goes to room 404 to clean, but she sees another ghosts. She freaks out and runs up to her rooftop room. The ghost, who looks like an old woman, appears right next to her again. Kong-Sil then does the old woman ghost a favor and goes to her home. She hands the ghost's son a bankbook with more than 10,000 dollars in the account.

Joong-Won sits face to face with a man who owns land that he needs to build a golf course. The man tells Joong-Won that his deceased wife does not want him to sell the land. Joong-Won doesn't believe in ghosts and ignores him. He pulls out a contract which the man's children already signed. Joong-Won is able to get the man's signature.

On his way back from that meeting, Joong-Won is driven by his assistant (Choi Jung-Woo). The driver then sees a woman thumbing for a ride. Joong-Won tells his driver to ignore the woman, but a light suddenly shines on them and the car stops. At this time, Kong-Sil hops into the car and thanks them for picking her up. Kong-Sil unintentionally touches Joong-Won and feels something unusual. Later, the car pulls over at a highway rest stop. While walking back to the car, Joong-Won sees Kong-Sil talking to someone, but there isn't anyone else there. Thinking she might be crazy, Joong-Won turns around, but Kong-Sil grabs his arm. She discovers that whenever she touches him, the ghosts around her disappear.

Back at her rooftop room, Kong-Sil is terrified by the ghosts around her as usual. She thinks back to Joong-Won and how the ghosts disappeared when she touched him. Kong-Sil decides to go Kingdom shopping mall to meet Joong-Won again.

A new life experience meeting new people in a new place, and exploring the cultural heritage and natural environment unseen elsewhere, the members search for real beauty and happiness on foreign soil. The members travel to foreign countries to experience "real happiness" with locals. Unlike typical vacations, they live like locals and experience what a day in their life is like. Members must provide for themselves as no support from staff is given. The members experience the essence of culture, food, music, nature, and lifestyle while surviving on their own in the foreign country. This program is a differentiated real variety program providing affection and enlightenment to viewers.

After School Club features various musical guests of South Korea and the series is directed at an international audience so the principal language is English with Korean subtitles and translations produced on air. It allows international fans of K-pop music to interact directly with the live shows through social media: fans can join in on the live broadcasts through video chats in Google Hangouts, send in tweets to the show's official Twitter account, and are also able to share comments, ask questions, and request music videos on the show's official Facebook account.

After School Club features various musical guests of South Korea and the series is directed at an international audience so the principal language is English with Korean subtitles and translations produced on air. It allows international fans of K-pop music to interact directly with the live shows through social media: fans can join in on the live broadcasts through video chats in Google Hangouts, send in tweets to the show's official Twitter account, and are also able to share comments, ask questions, and request music videos on the show's official Facebook account.

Mamma Mia is a talk show in which Korean celebrities and popular figures bring their mothers.

Infinite is back with a new album and a new show airing May 23rd called "Ranking King." The boys have a mock 'first meeting' in a remote-looking village and then compete with each other to determine the rankings among their group. Unlike their handsome, fierce looks onstage, Infinite is actually a very cute and "milky" group of boys who share much laughter together.

Byung Hee is the crazy, free-spirited leader and vocalist of the popular underground rock group, Eye Candy. Joining him is mood-maker Ji Hyuk, chic Hyun Soo, playboy Ha Jin, silent Do Il and baby-faced Kyung Jong. These boys rule their school until a redevelopment plan forces the delinquent-ridden school to close down. They're all assigned a transfer to Jung Sang High, but debate whether it's even worth returning to high school at all. However, due to an outside confrontation with Jung Sang's current ruling band, Strawberry Fields, Eye Candy decides to attend Jung Sang out of spite and rule the school once again.

Genius hacker with social phobia Min Hyuk, whose father is a computer genius, played with a computer like a toy from when he was little. He grew up learning hacking skills through his dad who was terminally ill and ran an illegal gambling place for his family’s future. After his dad passed away, Min Hyuk was adopted abroad. He immersed himself in playing with computer and got social phobia. When he turns 20, he returns to Korea and starts chasing the guy X who drove his dad to death. Following clues from his memories, he finds Salamander Guru’s fortune telling house and meets Sun Dal and Won Sam. To find Salamander Guru who knows the secrets of X, Min Hyuk has no choice but to help the fake gurus. With his brain and excellent hacking skills, Min Hyuk controls Sun Dal behind a mirror and finds codes his dad left by recalling his childhood memories one by one. Min Hyuk, who has been secretive with social phobia, gradually becomes more open while living with Sun Dal and Won Sam.

The second season follows the same format of the first season, with different girl group members and took place in a fishing village in Daebu Island, Ansan, Gyeonggi Province.

Motoko (Meisa Kuroki) is a detective in tip-top physical condition, excels in physical combat and willing to kill a suspect if necessary. Misaki (Mikako Tabe) is a cerebral detective with a warm. Both of these women are members of the Metropolitan Police Department's S.I.T. (special investigation team) and work to track down criminal Jiu, the ringleader responsible for a series of brutal crimes. Motoko and Misaki both become involved in personal relationships that leaves them hurt...

The main segment of the show, called "Idol of the Week", features idol groups as the invited guests, and usually consists of several featured corners.

Each week, musicians (usually 3–4) appear as guests to perform and talk with the MC You Hee Yeol for 10–15 minutes.

On this hilarious talk show, four DJs ask their celebrity guests those sensitive questions that everyone wants to know the answer to.

Duration: 1 hr. 20 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Wednesday

On this hilarious talk show, four DJs ask their celebrity guests those sensitive questions that everyone wants to know the answer to.

Duration: 1 hr. 20 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Wednesday

Star King is a program which selects the most amazing person, real life story, or video every week. The ones challenging that most amazing person, appear at the studio and compete for prize money. People can upload the videos via the internet and the prize money is given to the video selected as best.

Star King is the first television program in Korea to communicate with viewers both online and offline. The show is an issue-maker as people who appear on the show top the 'most searched' rankings on internet portal sites. Doors are open to anyone with special skills or talents, people with amazing real life stories, and people with special pets or collections.

The show Star King, where people show their special talents, dreams of making all Koreans into stars. The show is both entertaining and touching, featuring a large variety of people who come to show off even some of the easiest skills, professional-like singing, or amateur artists who were able to overcome their disabilities. Like a contestant once said, it is the only show where celebs applaud for the ordinary people. Its purpose is to draw the hidden talents and efforts out into the wide open and to give people hope.

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In The Great Private Life of Animals, celebrities try to produce an animal documentary. They must research, trace and record the wild animals’ life. The show focuses on two things: one is the documentary itself. Their work is probably raw in terms of the technique, but the voice in it is very loud and clear: human and nature should live together. The other is the production story. Joy, frustration, and a sense of accomplishment in making a documentary will be another fun element of the show.

In The Great Private Life of Animals, celebrities try to produce an animal documentary. They must research, trace and record the wild animals’ life. The show focuses on two things: one is the documentary itself. Their work is probably raw in terms of the technique, but the voice in it is very loud and clear: human and nature should live together. The other is the production story. Joy, frustration, and a sense of accomplishment in making a documentary will be another fun element of the show.