Asian Drama

Kim Hae Il is a hot-tempered Catholic priest with a burning sense of justice. He heads to Busan to pursue a drug case which originated in Gudam-district, Seoul. Helping him in his pursuit are Prosecutor Park Kyung Sun, Detective Gu Dae Young from Gudam Police Station, and Detective Gu Ja Young from Busan.

(Source: Asianwiki)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 60 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Friday, Saturday

Kim Hae Il is a hot-tempered Catholic priest with a burning sense of justice. He heads to Busan to pursue a drug case which originated in Gudam-district, Seoul. Helping him in his pursuit are Prosecutor Park Kyung Sun, Detective Gu Dae Young from Gudam Police Station, and Detective Gu Ja Young from Busan.

(Source: Asianwiki)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 60 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Friday, Saturday

A comical crime investigation drama depicting the process in which the worst violent crimes unit in the country and the best elite violent crimes unit leader meet and grow into the strongest team.

The Songwon Police Department's 2nd Violent Crimes Unit, which has the lowest arrest rate, loses its team leader after a failed undercover investigation and moves its office to a closed daycare center. The new team leader, Dongbang Yubin, appears before the 2nd Violent Crimes Unit. At first, Yubin is suspicious, but as they solve cases together, they gradually build trust in each other and become a true team.

Dongbang Yu Bin is the tall, intelligent and athletic head of Songwon Police Station’s homicide squad. He was offered a permanent professorship at a famous overseas university, but he suddenly came to Korea and volunteered to become the head of the Songwon Police Station’s homicide squad Unit 2, which ranked last in the country in terms of arrest rate.

(Source: Korean = Naver)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Wednesday

Set in 1960s South Korea. The series follows two men through their bromance and the obstacles they face during a turbulent time in the country’s history.

It depicts the story of Park Doo Chil, who is known as Uncle Samsik, who always has three meals a day, even during the war, and Kim San, an elite man from the Korean Military Academy, who wants to create a country where everyone lives well.

(Source: Korean = Naver || Translation = Deadline.com)

Episodes: 16

Airs On: Wednesday

Loh Ki Wan is a North Korean defector. He has arrived in the unfamiliar country of Belgium from North Korea because of his mother, Ok Hee. He wants to settle down in the country, but his only hope for him to stay is to receive refugee status from the Belgian government. He fights to get that. Loh Ki Wan then meets Marie. She used to be a Korean, but she has now received Belgian citizenship. In the past, she was a shooter. Unlike Loh Ki Wan, who came to Belgium to live a new life, Marie doesn't have a reason to live. They have an unpleasant first meeting but fall in love with each other.

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Adapted from the novel "Ro Ki Waneul Mannatda" (로기완을 만났다) by Jo Hae Jin (조해진).

Duration: 2 hr. 11 min.

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Shortly after entering college, Jian receives a call from local police informing her of her uncle’s “suicide”. Her carer, since the death of her parents, uncle Jeong Jin Man, had always been quiet and mysterious but never suicidal.

But before Jian has a chance to think, her life is turned upside down by a flurry of gunfire, murder drones and more, as a medley of highly skilled assassins inexplicably turns their focus to killing her.

Pinned down in her uncle’s home, Jian will be forced to revisit some of the bizarre training her uncle gave her throughout her formative years if she hopes to survive long enough to discover what is going on.

(Source: HelloKpop)

Adapted from the novel "Sarinjaui Syopingmol" (살인자의 쇼핑몰) by Kang Ji Young (강지영).

Episodes: 8

Set in the 1990's, Park Ha Kyung teaches Korean literature at a high school. To escape her ordinary days, Park Ha Kyung decides to take one day trips on Saturdays. During her one day trip, she walks around, eats different foods, and meets various people. She realizes she receives comfort and empathy through her travels.

The video evidence of the murder, which is especially brutal and graphic, shouldn't release to the public.

A reporter who has access to the prosecutor's office hears about a cursed tape in the video archive and begins reporting on it. As he digs into the background of the tape, he and his team uncover tidbits of records and find links to various cases. But as they dig deeper and deeper, mysterious events take place all around them.

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.

Story is set around Method Entertainment, which is a major management company, and depicts their work lives, personal lives, and desires.

Ma Tae Oh works as a professional manager and holds the position of general director at Method Entertainment. He is smart and gentle, but he was born to be a strategist and he doesn’t mind using all sorts of tricks to achieve what he wants.

Cheon Je In has worked as a manager for 14 years. She started as an on-site manager and she now works as a leader of a manager team. She is competitive and a workaholic. She is hot-tempered and when she sets a goal, she will try to achieve it without careful thinking. She and Ma Tae Oh have many disagreements along the way.

Kim Joong Don is Cheon Je In’s best friend at work and he holds the same position as a leader of a manager team. He is a gentle person.

So Hyun Joo is a rookie manager and often makes trouble at work. She grows as a professional manager through her experience.

Remake of the French TV series "Call My Agent!" (Dix pour cent) [2015].

As a politician, Joo Sang Sook attempted to run for the fourth time as a member of the nationally assembly. After visiting her grandmother, Joo Sang Sook was unable to tell a lie. Now, Joo Sang Sook attempts to return to the political world.

Depicts the story of twin brothers uncovering the truth from an incident 22 years ago. They will fight against great evil in order to clear the murder charges of their biological father who was accused of killing their stepfather. They face the shocking fact that the culprit who killed their stepfather is their biological father. However, after hearing that their father, who is about to face the death penalty, was falsely accused, they chase after the truth and dig into many secrets that is concealed by huge power.

Woo Shin is a best-selling mystery novel author, and Soo Hyun is a prosecutor. Although they're look alike, their personalities and approaches to problems are completely different, and they will try to solve their father’s case with contrasting perspectives.

Eun Hye Soo, Woo Shin’s helper and the wife of Haesong Group’s oldest son. As the only daughter of a hospital director, she grew up like a flower in a greenhouse. However, one day, she rebels against Haesong Group due to a series of incidents and secretly helps Ha Woo Shin.

Kim Seo Hee is a TNN social media reporter, who is hiding secrets from the twins. She is a righteous and passionate reporter who is all about social justice, and she has a smile that could captivate anyone. She can’t help but write reports about injustice, which makes it common for her to be blackmailed with legal action, but there is a particular reason why she’s so eager when it comes to justice.

A cheerful and provocative romance between an unlikely pair with differing personalities and tastes evolves.

At work, Jung Ji Hoo is blunt, cold, straight-laced but adored by his female co-workers. One of them will mistakenly open a package of his that will leave her bemused. Ji Hoo never made mention to Ji Woo of his owning a pet!

Unbeknownst to her, Ji Woo had just exposed his sexual fetish for all to see!

Lengthy discussions with Ji Hoo ensue, arriving at a suitable arrangement for both. Ji Woo embarks upon one racy romance by indulging in Ji Hoo's master/slave fantasies.

But what become of this kinky duo once their contract ends?

Adapted from the webtoon of the same name by Winter.

A fantasy action film that revolves around a man who loses his memory and subsequently wakes up in a new body every twelve hours.

An omnibus work that captures the strange and eerie real-life horror that happens while webtoon writer Ji Woo reports on the abandoned apartment Gwanglim Mansion.

Jin Ah works at a credit card call center. She does her job well, but she doesn't have relationships with anyone at work or in her personal life. She lives alone and works alone. One day, her neighbor, who sometimes chatted with her, is found dead. His body was found a week after he died. Jin Ah is shocked by his death. She decides to turn on the camera that was installed at her mother's home a long time ago.

Chul, Seop, and Deok-kyu are desperate for just one performance. They desire for a chance to play their songs, but being on the stage is even difficult. It is hard for Chul and Seop to meet Im-jae, the leader of the free-spirited band.

Baek Hee Sung seems like the ideal husband. Working as a craftsman, his hard work allowed his metal-working studio to meet with its fair share of success. Able to provide a good life for his wife and daughter, he’s a good example of what a husband should be. But this perfect façade hides some very dark secrets that even his wife, Cha Ji Won remains unaware of.

Unfortunately, secrets have a way of coming out and as a hard-hitting homicide detective, it’s Cha Ji Won’s job to uncover as many of them as she can, in her never-ending quest for the truth. While investigating a particularly cruel case, she finds herself on a dark path that could crumble the very foundations of her happy life. But she is determined to bring this psychopath to justice. Delving deeper into the case, she realizes that he may have been close by all along.

SF8 is a science fiction anthology series of single-episode special dramas created by MBC, the Directors Guild of Korea, and the OTT platform Wavve. Set in a near future, the series tackles the themes of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, robots, games, fantasy, horror, superpowers, and disasters.

SF8 was screened at the 24th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival.

All the episodes were released on Wavve on July 10, 2020 while MBC TV is scheduled to air one episodes a week starting from August 14, 2020.

Following the loss of his wife in a hit-and-run accident, psychologically traumatized architect Seo Chul moves back into his parents' house with his young daughter, Ye Na, and attempts to find clues about the perpetrator through hypnosis. One day, he receives news that his long-lost sister, Yoo Jin, has finally been found 25 years following her disappearance, and she soon moves in with them too. Realizing he knows nothing of her past, Seo Chul starts feeling suspicious of her when things around the house start to change.

A man who continuously attempts and fails the public examinations returns home without hope for his future. There he finds some hope and comfort.

In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA, Kim Gyu Pyung, is the seemingly most prospective second-in-command. In the midst of the reign of fear, a former KCIA director, Park Yong Gak who knows all about the government’s obscure operations, exiles to the U.S. where the investigation of ‘Koreagate’ is underway. As the tension escalates, the stifling political maneuvering by all second-in-command’s unfolds.

Stuck in a dead-end temp position at a renowned law firm, attorney-at-law Tae Soo dreams of one day landing a permanent position there. One day, he is given a special job to revitalize a failing zoo. The problem is, there aren't any animals. Moreover, he has exactly 3 months to do so.

With the zookeepers' help, he comes up with a brilliant idea of having the zookeepers dress up as animals. One by one, the zookeepers put on animal suits and masks and become polar bears, tigers, gorillas, and sloths. The new zoo opens and Tae Soo's polar bear goes viral when a video of him drinking a can of coke hits the internet. Thanks to everyone's help, the zoo with fake animals is a massive hit and Tae Soo can now go back to the law firm with a permanent job. But before he leaves the zoo, he finds out what his law firm was planning with the zoo... Can Tae Soo come up with another brilliant idea to save not only himself but the zookeepers and the zoo?

A volcano on Baekdu Mountain suddenly erupts. Pandemonium ensues on the Korean peninsula, with more eruptions predicted in the area.

To prevent another disaster, Jeon Yoo Kyung plans an operation based on a theory by Professor Kang Bong Rae. He had has studied Baekdu Mountain and its possible eruptions. Jo In Chang is the captain of a special forces team. He is tasked to take part in the operation, which holds the fates of South and North Korea in the balance. Jo In Chang contacts Lee Joon Pyeong who is part of the Ministry of People's Armed Forces of North Korea. Meanwhile, Jo In Chang's wife Choi Ji Young is alone in Seoul. She struggles to survive against the disaster.

Jo Tae Sik was once an enthusiastic detective, but he now wants a different kind of life. He longs for a peaceful and ordinary existence. Because of this, Jo Tae Sik applies for a transfer to a police substation in a small country village without many residents. Meanwhile, Jo Tae Sik takes a case involving the death of Lawmaker Kim Seung Cheol. He died in a car accident, but Jo Tae Sik senses that the car accident is not so clear-cut. The lawmaker's son-in-law then goes missing.

Kim Seo Hee is the youngest daughter of the late lawmaker and her husband is now missing. She married her husband to benefit both of their families, but their relationship hasn't been so good. Kim Seo Hee becomes a lawmaker to find the truth behind her father's death and save her missing husband.

Jo Tae Sik and Kim Seo Hee soon uncover a conspiracy and try to reveal the truth.

It's the story of South Korea’s first trial by jury in 2008. It follows the case of a son brutally murdering his mother, with all factors seeming to point to a guilty ruling. However, the trial does not go as smoothly as expected. The eighth juror, young entrepreneur Kwon Nam Woo questions the defendant’s self-declaration of guilt. As a result, the judge calls for a new debate to establish a guilty or not guilty verdict.

Kim Joon Gyum is the presiding judge who leads the first civil participation of a criminal trial in South Korea.

The jury consists of 8 ordinary people with different ages and personality.

Jurors: n.1 Yoon Geu Rim, a late law student, n.2 Yang Choon Ok, a nursing home caretaker, n.3 Jo Jin Shik, an unknown actor more concerned with his daily wage than the trial, n.4 Byun Sang Mi, a full-time housewife, n.5 Choi Yeong Jae, a chief secretary of a large corporation, n.6 Jang Ki Baek, unemployed, n.7 Oh Soo Jung, a job seeker, n.8 Kwon Nam Woo, an entrepreneur.

This group forms a microcosm of society, and the way in which they are swayed by the majority opinion provides further commentary on its current state.

Kwon Nam Woo stands in sharp contrast to this, sifting through investigation records and backing up his doubts on the case with determination. He repeatedly questions the defendant’s self-declaration of guilt and reminds judge Kim Joon Gyum of the importance of justice. Bit by bit, he breaks down the majority opinion by pushing for a not guilty verdict.

The jurors are ordinary people, but, after they become jurors, they seek out the truth of the case.

(Source: Soompi)

Based loosely on South Korea’s first trial by jury in 2008.

Duration: 1 hr. 54 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Ratings: 8.4

A female North Korean defector leaves her ethnic Korean husband and son behind in China and flees to South Korea. 14 years later, she meets her son again. Her son holds a deep hatred for her.

One day, a high school girl Kyung Min goes missing. She seemed to jump off a bridge to her death, but without a body, or a suicide note, no conclusion can be drawn. People question Yeong Hee who was the last person to be seen with Kyung Min on the night of her disappearance and start suspecting her of instigating Kyung Min’s death. While Yeong Hee keeps insisting on her innocence, no one believes her. When Kyung Min’s body finally is found, even her friends turn back from her one by one. To prove herself innocent, Yeong Hee makes the unexpected decision.

This is the story of two polar opposite people that come together in tragedy. One remains stuck in time, whilst the other only has a limited amount of time left to live.

Seol Ji Hyun is a woman who, although living a hard life, remains positive, upbeat and social. Cheon Soo Ho is the CEO of a restaurant and the son of a wealthy family with a terrible temper and no regard for other people. They both meet briefly under negative impressions of each other.

However, their lives become entangled once more when Ji Hyun's sister dies unexpectedly in Soo Ho's residence. From there, Ji Hyun's time stops and she becomes a cold, miserable person who finds nothing to live for. But Soo Hoo, who carries heavy guilt and is drawn to her, promises to himself to use the 6 months he has left to live to help her, whose life was destroyed because of him.

In the process, Soo Ho falls in love with Ji Hyun, but how far can love develop when you only have a limited time left to live?

Detective Won Ho is trying to catch Teacher Lee, boss of the biggest drug ring in South Korea. He starts to works with a member of Teacher Lee's drug ring, Rak, to catch him.

Hyun Su is waiting to take the position of the security manager of a dam located in the remote village of Seryung. On a foggy night, he gets lost on his way to check out the company residence that he and his family will soon move into. As he struggles to find his way through the thick fog, he runs over a girl who jumps out of nowhere. Panicked, Hyun Su makes the wrong decision and dumps the body in the lake.

The village is turned upside down by the child gone missing. When the girl’s body is found in the lake, Yeong Je, the girl’s abusive father and a major landlord in the village, is enraged and begins his own search for the killer and plans an elaborate plot to take his revenge.

Park Dong Hoon is a middle-aged engineer who is married to attorney Kang Yoon Hee. However, his life is not that happy as he has two unemployed brothers, Sang Hoon and Gi Hoon, who rely on him. Moreover, his wife is secretly having an affair with CEO Do Joon Yeong, Dong Hoon's college junior but current boss.

One day, Dong Hoon receives an unexpected bribe and notices that his co-worker, Lee Ji An, saw him. Ji An is a young part-time worker at Dong Hoon's company who is drowning in debt and left alone to take care of her ill grandmother. Dong Hoon then gets entangled in his brothers' struggle to get back on their feet and the company's internal rivalry between the company's CEO and the people opposing him, all the while not knowing that CEO Joon Yeong wants to get rid of him and Ji An is working for the CEO.

Yoon Seol Hee, aged 45, the president of a conglomerate company, is found dead. Her body is kept in a morgue, scheduled for an autopsy by the National Forensic Service until it mysteriously disappears without a trace. Detective Joong Shik sets out to find who, and for what reason stole the corpse, while her husband Park Jin Han claims she is alive.

A widowed taxi driver raises his young daughter alone and works hard to pay back the hospital bills left behind by his late wife. One day, he hears that a foreigner is willing to pay a large sum for a drive from Seoul to Gwangju city and back. Not knowing that the foreigner was a German journalist, he takes the job and sets off on a journey together.

At DMZ (De-militarized Zone) of the Korean peninsula, a group of military officers found missing or dead, brutally attacked. A special force unit of an elite squad is assigned to uncover the mysterious case in 24 hours. During the mission, officers get disappeared one by one, and they get a chilly feeling that they are being hunted by an unidentified enemy.

Byeon, a hotshot lawyer, successfully defends a large company in a new drug side affect lawsuit. The company’s chairman asks Byeon to represent his chauffeur who is charged with a murder of a female student. It’s a case without a body. Only a large pool of blood was discovered at the crime scene. The chauffeur is the only suspect who was apprehended at the crime scene, and there is also an eyewitness. The public prosecutor for the case is Jin who was involved in a relationship with Byeon. In order to ensure his win, Byeon goes out to prepare a false witness. However, on the last day of the trial, an unexpected turn of events results in Byeon losing the case.

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!

A serial killer has been terrorizing a neighborhood in Seoul, and in the span of 6 months, 10 people have disappeared without a trace. He uses a manhole to trap his victims. His latest abductee is Soo Jung, a 14-year-old girl, and her older sister Yeon Seo is desperate to find her before time runs out.

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.

Set during the seizure of the throne by Sejo of Joseon in the year 1455, the movie follows the life of Nae-Kyung.

Nae-Kyung (Song Kang-Ho) hails from a ruined noble family. He travels around Joseon and studies physiognomy. He is able to asses a person's personality, mental state, habits and, consequently, their future, by just studying their face. He lives in seclusion with his son Jin-Hyeong (Lee Jong-Suk) and brother-in-law Paeng-Hun (Cho Jung-Seok). Nae-Kyung hopes to one day become a public officer, even though it is virtually impossible due to his family's failed background.

Undercover agent Chul Soo finds himself trapped in the biggest dilemma of his career when he spots his oblivious wife, Yeong Hui, while on a mission in Thailand. What surprises and concerns him, even more, is that she is accompanied by an attractive mystery man. Chul Soo confronts the biggest dilemma of his life in how to resolve the terrorist threat, protect his wife and keep his secret. Will Chul Soo be able to save both his country and his marriage?

(Source: CJ Entertainment)

Undercover agent Chul Soo finds himself trapped in the biggest dilemma of his career when he spots his oblivious wife, Yeong Hui, while on a mission in Thailand. What surprises and concerns him, even more, is that she is accompanied by an attractive mystery man. Chul Soo confronts the biggest dilemma of his life in how to resolve the terrorist threat, protect his wife and keep his secret. Will Chul Soo be able to save both his country and his marriage?

(Source: CJ Entertainment)