Asian Drama

Cha Jeong U was an emergency medicine doctor who lost his lover in a mysterious incident. After the incident, he decided to be a worldly plastic surgeon instead of an honorable doctor.

Due to his outstanding anatomical knowledge and accurate nimble fingers, Jeong U is on a roll as a god's hand in the plastic surgeon industry. He is perfect in everything, but his one flaw is that he doesn't have emotional communication with the patients. Although he doesn't care about the patients' business, he becomes famous as a righteous doctor by accidentally intervening in the incident of a victim from homicide detective Lee Min Hyeong, who is sincerely worried about the victim.

One day, there was a patient who had been refused in getting surgery by Jeong U, and the patient's guardian left a suicide note blaming him.

By this accident, Jeong U loses his skyrocketing reputation. To overcome this, Jeong U starts 'a reconstruction plastic surgery of crime victims' as a part of a social responsibility activity with the help of the director of a hospital. During this activity, Jeong U had conflicts of opinion with Min Hyeong, who was in charge of victims' cases. Meanwhile, the convoluted relationship between Jeong U and Min Hyeong is revealed by solving the victims' cases.

The shocking truth of Jeong U's past accident, which he thought was over, is slowly revealed because of the mysterious death of the patient. Will Jeong U and Min Hyeong be able to uncover the truth of the case?

(Source: WelCon.kocca.kr)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 60 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Wednesday, Thursday

Ratings: 7.8

Shen Zhi Li embarks on a quest to revive his master using an ancient formula that requires a rare medicinal ingredient. When Su Chen Che arrives, Shen Zhi Li is unexpectedly trapped in a time loop, discovering that each time Su Chen Che dies, time resets. To complete the mission, the two set out together, navigating misunderstandings, a growing bond, and cryptic guidance from a mysterious figure in the shadows. Can they solve the riddle of the time loop and find the elusive ingredient?

(Source: TVDb)

Adapted from the novel "Gong Zi Wu Chi" (公子无耻) by Wei He Zong Zi (维和粽子).

Episodes: 32

Duration: 17 min.

Aired: Nov 12, 2024 - Nov 30, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Ratings: 7.5

Set before the Battle of Changsha, this is a story about unsung heroes during a time of warfare and follows a man who learns to fight for a greater cause in his journey to find his father's killer. In order to occupy Changsha, the Japanese resorts to using the 'black butler', a strategic agent that has been lurking in China for 15 years to carry out a long-planned deception. Yun Mu Zhi, a member of the underground party of the Communist Party of China, is killed while investigating the "black butler." Without knowing his father's true identity, his son Yun Hong Shen returns to their hometown of Changsha to track down his father's murderer. His father's friend and comrade reaches out to help him. Yun Hong Shen joins hands with Wen Ye Ming, a young woman impassioned by her sense of patriotism as they fight against innumerable odds. Setting aside his personal vendetta, Yun Hong Shen engages in a deadly game with Japanese agents to earn his countrymen a chance to win the war.

Episodes: 38

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

Duration: 45 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

It tells the story of a down-and-out part-time talk show actress and an aloof male audience member suffering from alexithymia who get close to each other and heal each other. A love story of a woman who is funny to the end and a man who can't laugh, a love contest begins. However, what connects the romance is not just the emotions between men and women, but also the struggling urban youths living in Shanghai. On and off the stage in the play, the spicy yet observational complaints hit the pain points of life, and the humorous ridicule is light, but it is also full of optimism and open-mindedness.

Episodes: 34

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

Duration: 45 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Bai Xiao Fei, a grassroots hero, forms the "Survival Alliance" with a group of diverse characters: the fierce and charming Yang Jie, the naive and cute Lu Lu, the fugitive teaching assistant Guan Zai Jia, and the handsome crossbow master Qin Yang. Together, they embark on a high-stakes adventure to combat the mutants and survive the perilous environment.

(Source: ChineseDrama.org; edited by LemonThief)

Adapted from the manhua "Zombie Brother" (尸兄) by Qi Du Yu (七度鱼).

Episodes: 24

Duration: 10 min.

Aired: May 30, 2024 - Jun 15, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Ratings: 7.0

Joo In Ah (Lee Si Young) is an endocrinologist whose main interest is the role of hormones in sexual attraction. Meanwhile, Han Seung Joo (Ji Hyun Woo) is a neurosurgeon who feels a strong professional rivalry with the endocrinologist. They develop romantic feelings for each other after they begin working together.

Despite the recent proliferation of webtoon adaptations infesting the airwaves – and I use the pejorative because when 미생 (Misaeng) is the best you can get in 18 months, you know we're not dealing with a quality-friendly trend – few people have thought of the closest expedient the drama canon can use to ensure a somewhat painless transition from the webtoon world – the omnibus drama! Be it sketch comedy, puppy love melodrama or even fusion horror, webtoons are often ill-suited for a drama transposition exactly because they weren't made for this longer running, more story-driven medium in the first place. Taking various stories and serving them in small, 20 minute long doses every week is not such a bad idea, especially when they're not monuments to complexity to begin with, and they would falter quickly.

In 1947, a year heavily tinged by the scars of war, Kitazawa Taro, Mitamura Kiichi, Arikawa Nobuo and other fellow poets who would play a central role in post-war Japan’s modern poetry movement gathered for the launch of the poetry magazine ‘Arechi’. 28 years later in 1975, a 53-year-old Kitazawa works at a newspaper’s proofreading department as he continues scrape by composing poetry. Although he is not prolific as a poet, he cherishes ordinary happiness every day surrounded by his wife Haruko and their daughter Yuko and son Sho. But a big turning point comes for Kitazawa one day. He develops frequent contact with Akiko, the wife of his good friend Mitamura. Falling in love with her, he abandons his job and leaves his wife Haruko and two children behind. As he starts to live with Akiko who has also left home, he recovers an unprecedented passion and “words”. Each of them start to live the life of the “wasteland”.

Set in a fictional country called Daeho that does not exist in history or on maps, it is about the love and growth of young mages as they overcome their twisted fates due to a forbidden magic spell known as the "alchemy of souls", which allows souls to switch bodies.

It follows the story of an elite assassin named Naksu, whose soul is accidentally trapped inside the weak body of Mu Deok—Jang Uk's servant from a powerful and noble mage family in the country. The young master of the Jang Family, Jang Uk, holds a dark secret about his scandalous birth. He wants the formidable assassin to help change his destiny.

(Source: Soompi; The Korea Herald)

Episodes: 20

Kousaku Aizawa, Megumi Shiraishi, Mihoko Hiyama, Kazuo Fuikawa and Haruka Saejima have worked and pursued careers down different paths.

Kousaku Aizawa left the hospital emergency room. He now works as a brain surgeon. Megumi Shiraishi works hard as a staff leader for flight doctors at a hospital emergency room. Mihoko Hiyama wanted to become a flight doctor in th past, but she left the hospital emergency room and now works as an ob-gyn. Kazuo Fuikawa works as a emergency physician specializing in orthopedics and works with Megumi Shiraishi. Haruka Saejima still works as a nurse for flight doctors.

They each live fiercely and face new situations.

An angel is forced down to earth with the condition that if he pairs up 3 hundred thousand couples he can return to heaven. When he’s down to his last 4 couples he gets assigned his last task, to pair up 4 sisters with their fated partners within 3 months or else be banished to earth for eternity, but as he starts to progress through his final task he finds himself falling for one of the sisters.

Duan Yucheng is a high-spirited young man who loves high jump but is limited by his height, met his talent scout, the experienced athletics assistant Luo Na. In order to get more professional guidance and help, Duan Yucheng made every effort to enroll at the university where Luo Na coaches, and became a member of Luo Na's team, started to pursue his dream of high jumping.

Pursuing dream is a very cruel thing, you have to experience injuries, failures, and loneliness that none can understand. But pursuing dream is also very sweet, because every bit of joy of improvement can transcend the pain of the body and the doubts of others. Starting from the school-level competition, then to the municipal, provincial, National University Games, and the National Athletics Championships, Duan Yucheng climbed step by step. No matter how far he goes, there is only one thing that will never change - the blazing track is his only belief.

Adapted from the novel "Blazing Trail" (炽道) by Twentine.