Asian Drama

He's perennially unemployed, his ex-girlfriend has moved on, and he's just lost all his life savings to a bitcoin scam. Burdened by societal pressures, Choi Yi Jae decides to take his own life. Insulted by his flippant attitude towards dying, Death comes to punish him with her game: he must experience death over and over again through 13 other lives. But if he can find a way to survive the imminent death coming for these lives, he gets to live out their lifetime. His life was a bust, but what about the lives of others?

(Source: webtoons.com)

Adapted from the webtoon "Ije God Jukseubnida" (이제 곧 죽습니다) written by Lee Won Sik (이원식) and illustrated by Gul-chan (꿀찬)

Episodes: 4

Duration: 55 min.

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Airs On: Friday

He's perennially unemployed, his ex-girlfriend has moved on, and he's just lost all his life savings to a bitcoin scam. Burdened by societal pressures, Yijae Choi decides to take his own life. Insulted by his flippant attitude towards dying, Death comes to punish him with her game: he must experience death over and over again through 13 other lives. But if he can find a way to survive the imminent death coming for these lives, he gets to live out their lifetime. His life was a bust, but what about the lives of others?

(Source: webtoons.com)

Adapted from the webtoon "Ije God Jukseubnida" (이제 곧 죽습니다) written by Lee Won Sik (이원식) and illustrated by Gul-chan (꿀찬).

Episodes: 4

Duration: 55 min.

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Airs On: Friday

An action-espionage film set in 1933, during the Japanese colonization of Korea. The film will tell the story of five suspects who are under suspicion of being the mysterious “Ghost,” a spy for the anti-Japanese resistance. Trapped inside an isolated hotel to be interrogated, the five characters must use their wits to fight to escape while also suspecting and doubting one another.

"Special Cargo" is a crime action film about the unexpected events that unfold when Eun Ha, a driver with a 100% success rate at delivering anything worth money, puts a child in her car.

The show will feature the all-female cast, each of whom have an interest in travelling, going to unique and sentimental places in Korea and spending a night there. In the new posters, each member dresses for a different travel location, from Hawaii, Mexico, France, Spain, and the American Old West.

Youth Record follows the lives of young people in the world of modeling.

Sa Hye Joon is smart and handsome. He is a nice guy and a popular model, but what he really wants is to become an actor. He has auditioned for many acting roles, but hasn't found success yet. Unfortunately, Sa Hye Joon doesn't have much presence as an actor. Meanwhile, An Jung-Ha works as a make-up artist.

Back in college, Je Moon and Hae Hyo were bosom buddies, but their friendship foundered when they both fell in love with the same woman, Soon Yi. 28 years later, Je Moon, now the owner of a second-hand bookshop in Seoul, travels to Japan to meet his onetime friend, who runs a bar in Fukuoka. He is accompanied by his enchanting young neighbour So Dam, who suggested the meeting in the first place. But in Fukuoka, the traumatic conflict of a long-buried past gradually implodes...

Ki Taek's family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki Woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki Woo heads to the Park family home for an interview. Arriving at the house of Mr. Park, the owner of a global IT firm, Ki Woo meets Yeon Kyo, the beautiful young lady of the house. But following this first meeting between the two families, an unstoppable string of mishaps lies in wait.

Yoon-yeong has been harboring feelings for Song-hyeon, a friend’s wife. When he finds out that she is divorced, Yoon-yeong and Song-hyeon take a trip to Gunsan on a whim. They find lodging at an inn where the middle-aged owner lives with his autistic daughter who does not leave her room. The four become star-crossed lovers in the city of Gunsan.

It's influenced from the original "A Singing Gooses."

In 1999, Korea makes its first women’s ice hockey team for the purpose of hosting the Asian Winter Games in Gangwondo. A former junior ice hockey player is appointed as the coach to lead a team of an ex-ice hockey player, an expelled ice skater, a housewife who’s bored with life, an accounting clerk at the Ice Hockey Association, an ex-figure skater, and an ambitious girl aspiring to be the youngest Olympian. Putting their differences aside, the diverse group embarks on the long journey for a chance to compete in the 5th Asian Winter Games in Aomori, Japan.

Eun Ha Won is in her third year of high school with dreams of becoming a teacher. Unattached from her father, step-mother, and step-sister, and poorly treated by them, Ha Won still manages to maintain her bright personality and strong set of morals, working various part-time jobs to pay for her upcoming university tuition fees and keeping her eyes firmly glued to her goals.

Meanwhile, in another part of the city are three spoiled cousins, Ji Woon, Hyun Min, and Seo Woo, living together in a mansion called Sky House. With their wildly different personalities - Ji Woon a tough guy, Hyun Min a playboy, and Seo Woo a musician - they all deeply dislike each other and prefer to be as far away from each other as possible.

One day, their grandfather orders his 3 grandsons to attend his 5th wedding ceremony. Hyun Min doesn't want to go, but ultimately ends up hiring Ha Won to be his date for 3 hours so he can upstage his grandfather. His plans don't completely pan out, however, when the grandfather witnesses Ha Won's no-nonsense attitude towards Hyun Min and decides to hire her as a live-in butler and drill sergeant of sorts at Sky House. What follows is a lot of shenanigans, love triangles, drama, and plenty of sass.

Lee Yeong Oh is a genius neurosurgeon who just came back to Korea after finishing his studies abroad. He now works with his father, Lee Gun Myung, who is the head of the cardio-cerebrovascular center at Hyunsung hospital. However, Yeong Oh lacks empathy towards his patients due to his antisocial personality disorder.

One day, traffic policewoman Gye Jin Sung sees a murder in front of her, which was disguised as a traffic accident. She rushes the victim to Hyunsung hospital, where her crush Surgeon Hyun Suk Joo, of the cardiothoracic section, and Surgeon Yeong Oh operate on him. Unfortunately, the patient dies and she starts suspecting Surgeon Yeong Oh of foul play. Meanwhile, a series of bizarre patient deaths start occurring at the hospital and Yeong Oh starts investigating it.

What does it take to form a women’s Olympic national ice hockey team? A few middle-aged women, a middle school student, and maybe even a North Korean defector? Kang Dae Woong is tasked with pulling together a women’s national ice hockey team in the hopes representing South Korea in the Winter Olympics. What he is able to assemble is a hodgepodge group of women -- Lee Ji Won, Park Chae Kyung, Go Young Ja, Jo Mi Ran, Kim Ga Yeon, and Shin So Hyun -- who can barely skate, let alone strike a hockey puck. Can this lackluster group form a team to even dream of making it to the Olympics?

A young girl who belongs to Father Kim’s parish becomes comatose after a hit-and-run accident. Father Kim and a rebellious young seminarian named Choi believe that she is possessed by an evil spirit. When they try to free her from the demon’s powerful hold, they realize that this nameless evil is far more dangerous than they ever thought.

In the year of 1762, when King Yeong Jo of the Joseon dynasty's been ruling for 35 years already, Crown prince Sa Do is accused of plotting treason by his biological mother lady Yi. King Yeong Jo falls into a dilemma since he could not penalize his own son as a traitor as it would mean that he would become the father of a traitor threatening his throne, and ends up ordering Sa Do to take his own life. As Sa Do’s lieges oppose King Yeong Jo’s decision by putting their own lives at risk, King Yeong Jo locks Sa Do in a wooden rice chest to kill him.

With a freewheeling personality, Yoon Tae O is a 20-year-old freshman in college. He has been friends with Han Song Yi since they were little. Now, he begins to have feelings for the girl who has a bright and positive personality. Meanwhile, Tae O has a friend, Seo Ji An, who is well-behaved and exemplary. A love triangle brews between these three people.

After an international auto theft sting, a dimwitted detective Do Chul is treated at a nightclub where he meets Tae Oh, the tyrannical heir to an untouchable mega-corporation, whose rude behavior rubs Do Chul the wrong way.

One day, a truck driver that helped Do Chul with a case gets beaten and humiliated by Tae Oh in front of his 9-year-old son in a protest to get his overdue wages. The son finds Do Chul’s business card and calls for help due to the father’s near-death coma in the hospital. Knowing that Tae-oh will do whatever it takes to sabotage the people in his way, Do Chul decides to deliver the spoiled heir with some hard heavy blows of Justice!

Back in 1938, when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule, Joo-Ran is transferred to an all-girl's boarding school in Keijyo (old name of Seoul). The principal there exhibits exemplary behavior to all of the students, but she ends up showing her darker side to Joo-Ran, who gets close to knowing the school's biggest secret. The girl learns of another student with the same name and she tries to figure out the hidden stories that happened at the girl students' dormitory.

An omnibus film that consists of four shorts. Each short film is unrelated to the next.

"The Rumor" is about the manipulation of a high school student by schoolyard rumors.

"Wonderwall" tells the story of two friends who must enlist in the military.

"Enemies All Around" relates to us the suspicious minds of three bank robbers.

"Play Girl" tells us about a group of teenage gangster girls.

The film is about "people who are dissatisfied with the country carrying out a kidnapping plan and take revenge toward the people who reign over them", according to Korea Media Rating Board (KMRB). "Regarding the images, it included heavily violent content throughout the whole film", said an official from KMRB, explaining the R-rating and why they prohibit people under 18 from seeing the movie.

Tae Shik is a member of the Korean online community. He goes by the user name of “Chitkongpot”. Tae Shik is in a flamewar with another user named “Jutjonseun”. One day, Tae Shik is surprised attacked by "Jutjonseun" in person and gets physically beaten by him. The assault is recorded on video and it quickly spreads on the internet. Tae Shik decides to get revenge on “Jutjonseun”. He begins to take ultimate fighting lessons from his friend Hee Joon. There, Tae Shik meets a girl fighter named Young Ja.

Set within a village on the Gangwon-do Mountain, Hae Won has lived alone with her mentally ill father since she was 10 years old. Her mother left them at that time. Hae Won has a secret. Yoon Soo blames himself for his friend's suicide. His parents decide to send him to a small and peaceful school located in Gangwon-do. At his new school, he meets Hae Won, who seems to have a strange mood. Yoon Soo falls in love with her.

Hae Won lives in a mountain town with her mentally ill father. Many strange rumors surround her and her father, both of whom are treated as outcasts in this small cold town.

Yoon Soo has just moved to town from Seoul and still hasn't gotten over the suicide of his friend.

At school, he meets Hae Won and they become drawn to each other, two lonely souls carrying dark secrets over thin ice.

Choi Jin Sung directs Steel Cold Winter, an indie drama about youth romance, trauma and social malaise that boils to shocking violence in a remote town. Premiered at the 2013 Busan Film Festival.