Asian Drama

The drama follows the lives of seven boys navigating their school years and personal growth, each grappling with family obligations, loss, poverty, abandonment, violence, and rejection.

After an unwanted return to Songju-si, Kim Hwan meets six boys. As an outsider and the son of Kim Chang Jun, the boys sometimes find him suspicious and misunderstand his actions, leading to conflicts. Despite these initial difficulties, they eventually become friends. It seemed awkward at first, but over time, they grow closer and open their hearts. They travel and play together, sharing their problems to help each other heal. Realizing they all have similar family issues, they become even closer. Hwan confronts his own feelings by staying with the other boys. As he spends time with them, he starts to like Songju-si and genuinely wishes for these days to continue forever.

However, Chang Jun notices the other boys and considers them useless, insisting that Hwan stay away from them. Hwan, who has always lived an obedient life, raises his voice for the first time and confronts his emotions.

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Adapted from the webtoon "Save Me". The series is inspired by BU (BTS Universe). It expands on the storyline fans have seen throughout BTS' music videos and Save Me webtoon.

Episodes: 12

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Tuesday

Ratings: 8.4

It tells both the heart-fluttering love story and fierce obsession of a King with two opposite personalities and an assassin girl who wants to kill him but ends up falling in love with him.

Crown Prince Sajo Hyun is an intellectual character who uses his innate artistic sense to work as a fashion designer at a downtown boutique while hiding his identity of crown prince. He has a wound deep down in his heart from his childhood due to his oppressive father Sajo Seung. Sajo Hyun’s other personality Ak Hee is a charming character who can easily seduce others, but he is cursed to feel extreme pain when he makes physical touch with others.

Yeon Wol lives a life full of twists and turns, going from an assassin to concubine. Yeon Wol is the royal descendant of the fallen Yeon Dynasty and the only daughter of Yeon Poong Hak. Yeon Wol hides her identity and becomes assassin Gye Ra to avenge her family. While trying to assassinate the king, she falls into a trap set by an unknown person and wakes up the next day with no memory of her past.

(Source: Soompi)

Adapted from the webtoon "Love Song for Illusion" (환상연가) by Vanziun (반지운).

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday

About the unexpected romance that occurs as Jin Mu Hak tries to steal an art museum from Kim Dal Li.

Park Gyu Young was offered the role of Kim Dal Li, who was a visiting researcher at Kröller-Müller Museum and then becomes the director of Chungsong Art Museum. She is a character whose speech and actions are always classy and considerate. Dal Li enjoys studying diverse fields such as art, philosophy, and religion, and she is proficient in seven languages.

Lee Jae Wook has been offered the role of Jin Mu Hak, whose family grew a tiny gamja-tang (spicy pork back bone stew) restaurant into the global food corporation DonDon F&B. Although he is a director of the company, he is far from intelligent and was always ranked last in his class when he was in school.

Dolsing Fourmen is a new talk show hosted by four divorced men. Every week, they invite guests to a house and have a frank conversation about career, love, marriage, and so on. Let's enjoy a slightly quirky and brutally honest conversation by four men who dream of a happy life.

Episodes: 170

Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Tuesday

Dolsing Fourmen is a new talk show hosted by four divorced men. Every week, they invite guests to a house and have a frank conversation about career, love, marriage, and so on. Let's enjoy a slightly quirky and brutally honest conversation by four men who dream of a happy life.

Episodes: 170

Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Tuesday

Tak Dong Kyung is an editor for a web novel company. She has led a tumultuous life, subject to the whims of fate, and she soon finds herself on the precipice of true destruction. Myeol Mang, the existence of a middle manager between God and humans, suddenly appears in her ordinary life. He was born between the dark and the light: when he breathes, countries disappear; where he walks, the seasons collapse; when he smiles, a life is extinguished. All he has to do is exist for something to fall into ruin. This is not his intention, but simply his fate.

Dong Kyung makes a 100-day contract with him, risking her life and her love. Myeol Mang eventually forms a relationship with her, who curses the whole world, as she drags him into her life with her fierce desire to live.

In one corner we have a drama screenwriter and in the other, a rom-com actress. While the writer chooses not to date, the actress cannot seem to date. The story unfolds as they find themselves sharing the same living quarters.

Oh Joo In, is a top rom-com actress who is a favorite with all audiences, young and old, male and female. In real life, however, it’s not that she chooses not to date but that she can’t date. Although she appears to live a flashy life on the outside, she is a down-to-earth woman with her own secret depths.

Han Bi Soo, a man with a prickly side who shows a different side of himself when he’s in love. He has a scar that no one else knows, so he stimulates maternal instinct that makes it unable for anyone to look away from him.

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.

A program that seeks out the meaning and value of true taste in a simple neighborhood dining table, only by foodie Heo Young-man.

A story of a surrogate mother who overcoming hardships and finding true love.

In this story, there are thieves who come from different backgrounds and situations. They were not born as thieves though. For the most part, they lived by the rules even while growing up poor and worked hard to better their lives. They are actually generous people. But the cruel realities of society have pushed them to the edge. And to ensure that their past problems do not hamper their own children, they fight to exact revenge from those in power, search for their long-lost family members and commit one last heist to mete out justice. This TV show will entertain viewers with a story revolving around thieves from the low rungs of society who burglarize the home of powerful men in order to unmask them. They do this to put an end to those who stand above the law and get away with thievery scot-free.

This drama is based on Chinese novel “Bu Bu Jing Xin” by Tong Hua which was originally published online in 2005 on Jinjiang Original Network. The novel also adapted into the chinese television series “Scarlet Heart” which was aired in Hunan Broadcasting System (HBS) from 2011-Sep-10 to 2011-Sep-29 and also “Scarlet Heart 2” which was aired in Zhejiang STV (ZJTV) from 2014-Apr-22 to 2014-May-07.

This drama was fully pre-produced before airing which is a departure from the live-shoot production format that characterizes most Korean dramas. The Filming Began on 2016-Jan and Completed on 2016-June-30. The series will be simulcast in China.

When a total eclipse of the sun takes place, a 21st-century woman, Go Ha Jin, is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea. She wakes up in the body of 16-year-old Hae Soo, an aristocrat living with Lady Hae, her cousin who happens to be married to one of the sons of King Taejo. She soon befriends several of the princes, who find her carefree and exuberant attitude refreshing. Although she knows she should not get involved in palace intrigues over the succession to the throne, she inadvertently becomes a pawn in the struggle, as several of the Princes fall in love with her.

Adapted from the Chinese novel “Bu Bu Jing Xin” (步步惊心) by Tong Hua (桐华).

When Yoon Jung Won is betrayed by family and friends who she completely trusted, the realization that humans are cruel dawns upon her. This show revolves around an insurance planner who is framed for a crime that she did not commit and tries to find justice after serving out her sentence in prison. There is a message of hope in the story in that while pain is inflicted on her by people around her, she eventually finds comfort and assistance from new people she encounters later.

(Source: MBC)

Episodes: 122

Duration: 35 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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

Ratings: 7.1

This little goldmine from writer/director Kim Ji-Woon starts with a young woman who asks her brother to videotape her confession. The brother thinks this is all a joke and unnecessarily ridiculous. The woman nevertheless insists on proceeding on telling on...

This family-oriented show revolves around three different families clashing through a lot of misunderstandings as they become in-laws with each other: a popular female host on a shopping channel and her three daughters who are a college professor, high-powered consultant, and doctor, a divorced spouse who loves to regale stories about his time in the Marines, he has dried skin from doing the dishes every day; and a daughter from a rich family that that runs a successful fashion designer company. Their problems clear up slowly through love and understanding that result in a healing process.

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?

Eun Ah Ri Young (Jang Seo Hee) is a successful drama writer with a scarred past. When her father had an affair with another lady and left the family, her brother died and her mother became blind. Hating her father her whole childhood, she grows up to plan revenge on her father's new family. Her father's new wife, Shim Soo Jung (Han Hye Sook) is a popular actress. Ah Ri Young writes a drama about the affair and her blind mother, and casts Shim Soo Jung in the role of her blind mother in order so that Soo Jung will feel guilt. Ah Ri Young also plans to steal her stepsister (Woo Hee Jin)'s fiancee (Kim Sung Min). A guy she only chose for revenge becomes a guy she truely loves, and that love confuses her feelings for revenge. Jo Soo Ah (Go Doo Shim), her mother's friend, helps in the revenge because she wants Ah Ri Young to become her son (Jung Bo Suk)'s wife. As one person's plan for revenge starts, many people will become hurt, and the true meaning of forgiveness and understanding is learned.

Three young men face the university entrance exams upon which their economic and social fates depend. Kim Tae Moo is a comic book artist whose art is plagiarized even as he's humiliated at school, at work, and then in the army. Cho Se In, plagued by a drunken father, wants to be a hairdresser and is the victim of gay bashing and chicken hawks. The overweight, phlegmatic, and cowardly Kong Seung Ho lives to eat and watch videos. The film dramatizes their friendship, their family lives, and the crushing reality of the limited opportunities Korean society offers them.

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Episodes: 58

Duration: 53 min.

Aired On: Monday

Ratings: 7.7