Asian Drama

In the glitzy realm of stardom, Ryu Seon Jae shines as a top-tier celebrity, captivating the spotlight since his debut. Despite the facade of a perfect life, the demanding nature of the entertainment industry has left him utterly exhausted. Im Sol, an ardent admirer, holds an affectionate love for Ryu Seon Jae. A childhood accident derailed her dreams, yet the solace found in Ryu Seon Jae's music on the radio transformed her into an unwavering fan.

The narrative takes a poignant turn when Im Sol, reeling from the breaking news of Ryu Seon Jae's tragic demise, experiences a miraculous twist of fate. Transported back 15 years into the past, she confronts Ryu Seon Jae in his 19-year-old high school self. Im Sol grapples with the formidable challenge of altering the trajectory of his future, driven by an unyielding determination to avert the impending tragedy.

Adapted from the web novel “The Best of Tomorrow” (내일의 으뜸) by Kim Bbang (김빵).

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday

Jin Soo Ji is a psychiatrist at Haedeul Hospital and a celebrity who is considered the most sought-after for variety shows. In addition to medical treatment, she is a hot shot who has never slept more than three hours a day due to tight schedules such as broadcasts, book concerts, and fan signing events. However, her perfect life, which seemed to be on a roll forever, starts to fall apart.

It all begins with Chae Woo Ri, the new doctor. He is talented, humorous, and full of justice. Therefore, in the eyes of a doctor who believes understanding and trust of patients are the top priority, Soo Ji seems to be a selfish person who only cares about her own success, and they naturally become enemies in the hospital.

However, when Soo Ji disappears due to various scandals, he starts to understand her pain. What will happen between Soo Ji and Woo Ri, who were at each other's throats from the beginning?

(Source: KOCOWA+)

Episodes: 120

Duration: 30 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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

Sisters Lee Hye Won and Lee Hye Ji were very close when they were children. After their parents divorced, they were separated. Lee Hye Won went to live with her father, and Lee Hye Ji went to live with her mother. Their lives went down different paths, but they both went through difficult times.

As an adult, Hye Won looks perfect, but she carries emotional wounds. Her life is dominated by her stepmother. Her fiancé is Yoon Ji Chang, and they are going to marry soon. Yoon Ji Chang is the son of Yoon Yi Cheol, who owns JY Group.

Meanwhile, Hye Ji has lived through poverty, loneliness, and domestic violence due to her mother and her stepfather. She badly wants to change her life and takes up the new name of Bae Do Eun. She then meets Yi Cheol, who is the owner of JY Group. To reboot her life, she enters into an affair with Yi Cheol. Then, she meets her older sister, Hye Won, for the first time since they were children.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 103

Duration: 40 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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

Yong Soo Jung has a refreshing charm which helps her popularity as a home shopping host. She has many females fans from various age ranges due to her honest and straightforward personality. Things are different in her personal life. When she likes a man, she can't express her feelings or even make eye contact with him. Her romantic life is difficult because of this. She has a crush on Joo Woo Jin, who is the successor of the Masung Group.

Yeo Eui Joo is a hard working man, despite his poor family background. He lives with his intellectually disabled mother. His priority is to make his mother happy. One day, he suddenly learns that he is the second grandson of the Masung Group and is stunned by the news. He gets involved with Yong Soo Jung.

Meanwhile, Choi Hye Ra is selfish and full of greed. If she wants something, she will try to get it no matter what and if anyone comes in her way, she will try to mercilessly punish them.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 120

Duration: 35 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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

A new camping trip set in southern France. Traveling around Europe using camping sites instead of hotels, rental cars instead of trains, and local supermarkets instead of restaurants.

(Source: Korean = newsis.com)

Episodes: 10

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Sunday

A new camping trip set in southern France. Traveling around Europe using camping sites instead of hotels, rental cars instead of trains, and local supermarkets instead of restaurants.

(Source: Korean = newsis.com)

Episodes: 10

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Sunday

After suffering from serial paranormal events, a wealthy family living in LA summons a young rising shaman duo Hwa Rim and Bong Gil to save the newborn of the family. Once they arrive, Hwa Rim senses a dark shadow of their ancestor has latched on the family in a so-called 'Grave Calling'.

In order to exhume the grave and relieve the ancestor, Hwa Rim seeks help from top-notch geomancer Sang Deok and mortician Yeong Geun. To their dismay, the four find the grave at a shady location in a remote village in Korea. Unaware of the consequences, the exhumation is carried out, unleashing a malevolent force buried underneath.

(Source: showbox.co.kr)

Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

I'm SOLO is a dating reality show inviting fourteen men and women "desperate" to find true love. In the SOLO world, where they can only focus on finding the one, they start the most complicated but thrilling love adventure of their lives. You can enjoy watching the romantic and nuanced interaction between the contestants and guessing who would be the couple.

Female celebrities start a new challenge: playing soccer! Those who want to do soccer, find new excitement in their middle-aged life, or have a refreshment after a long hour of housework, step up to be a soccer player. Models, singers, comediennes, actors, and so on form four teams. Four former players from the National Soccer Team in the 2002 FIFA World Cup join as the head coaches and trains the women. Let's find out which team will win the first-ever female celebrities mini-soccer league.

Fifth part of "The Seasons" project where Zico invites you to enjoy a night full of music and stories that will help get rid of all your troubles and worries. Life is short, art is long, and in front of music, we are all artists!

Suddenly, I opened my eyes and found myself in a different world, a different life?!

Korean stars who have logged into their second lives. The house they lived in, their families, friends, and jobs... Everything has changed?! A strange and awkward life where the current life doesn't make sense at all.

In a random, unpredictable life where for some it's the biggest opportunity of their life and for others, the biggest crisis of their lives...

(Source: Korean = ENA)

Episodes: 8

Airs On: Thursday

Jae Min, tired of preparing for a job, opens his eyes to new feelings through a one-night stand with Nam Yi, a high school classmate he meets by chance, but conflicts arise due to misunderstandings related to Nam Yi's job.

(Source: Korean = filmmakers.co.kr)

An uncut version is available for SUKFILM YouTube VIP members.

Duration: 10 min.

Episodes: 4

Ratings: 7.6

Celebrity dads are left to care for their kids alone for 48 hours without the help of anyone, while their wives leave the home to enjoy some relaxing time off. The wives are shown leaving the home before the 48 hours begins and coming back to greet their family once the 48 hours have ended. During the 48 hours, the dads and children are either doing a task the wives have written out for the dads to complete or the dads exploring new activities with their kids. Occasionally celebrity friends of the dads will stop by to interact with the kids.

The cast members take various trips throughout South Korea, including many offshore islands, recommending various places that viewers can visit. While doing so, members also perform missions at a certain mealtime or point of the day to earn rewards (eg. foods that are famous in the region they visit) and to avoid punishments

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Episodes: 10

Airs On: Friday

King of Mask Singer is a South Korean singing competition program starting Celebrities. Each competition lasts for two episodes, with the singers competing one-on-one in three elimination rounds. They are given elaborate masks to wear in order to conceal their identity, thus removing factors such as popularity, career and age that could lead to prejudiced voting. In the first round, both contestants sing the same song, while in the second and third round they each sing a solo song. The winners of each pair are selected by the audience and panel of celebrities through instant live votes.

The identities of the singers are not revealed until they have been eliminated. The winner of the third round challenges the previous competition's Mask King, and is either eliminated or becomes the new Mask King.

Running Man is a reality-variety show that stars Yoo Jae Suk and many other celebrities. In each episode, they must complete missions at famous landmarks to win the race. The missions almost always feature running, hence the title, and the name tag ripping game is filled with tension as each member struggles to survive.

It is a sitcom talk show program set in a school. In each episode, new celebrity guests appear as transfer students at the 'Brother School' where seven mischievous brother students wait for them. The show consists of several dynamic sessions. In ‘Guess About Me,’ Celebrity guests create random, secret questions about themselves. Then the hosts called 'Knowledgeable Bros' make humorous guesses to get the answers. Another session is ‘Bros Inside’, an ad-lib skit show, where entertainers are given only the setting for a story and have to perform completely ad-libbed skits.

Omniscient Interfering View is an observational entertainment show that uses a documentary style techniques to observe the life of the cast members and their managers. The cast members, a behavioral analysis expert, and occasionally guests, watch the videos in a studio setting and provide commentary.

Park Do Ra is a bright, brave woman with a challenging personality who became a top actress because her mother, Baek Mi Ja, said it was the only way to escape poverty. After earning fame and fortune as a top star, all Do Ra wants to do is rest and enjoy her riches, but her mother keeps causing trouble. Mi Ja always adorns herself in luxury, even more than any top star, thanks to Do Ra's success. However, Mi Ja wants more. Do Ra can't handle her tight schedule due to Mi Ja's desires and wants to quit her new drama "Straightforward Romance," but she can't because she met her first love, Go Pil Sung, the assistant director.

Pil Sung is passionate about his job but tries to leave "Straightforward Romance" because of Do Ra, who was very particular to him when he was young. Unfortunately, an unusual assignment to exclusively lead her falls in his lap. Will Do Ra find her happiness by escaping her mother's never-ending desires?

(Source: Viki)

Episodes: 50

Duration: 1 hr. 20 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Saturday, Sunday

A fantasy story about a man who accidentally gets drawn into a fictional world inside of a horror novel.

(Source: Korean = Naver)

Episodes: 1

Airs On: Saturday

A delinquent 2nd year student becomes the chairman of the board of a prestigious high school left behind by his father.

Na Yi Soo may have grown up in an environment that others would envy, but he harbors hatred for his father and heads to Balhae High School, which his father cherished, in order to seek revenge. The process of change between Yi Soo, who has lived a rougher life than anyone else, and the nation's most elite students who have lived upright lives, as they get to know each other, and the love that blooms in the process, will be dynamically unfolded.

(Source: Korean = Daum)

Episodes: 12

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Monday

Ratings: 8.3

This program is to recollect the daily lives of celebrities and form its unique sympathies among the singles within South Korea by showing celebrities' lives without significant filtering.

One of the best MCs in the country, Yu Jae Seok, often asks about how others play on their day-offs. It has gotten to the point that he says this out of habit. His saying sparks an idea in Kim Tae Ho's head. He gets the thought of filming celebrities on their day-offs on a relay camera. So Tae Ho hands a small and portable camera to Jae Seok out of the blue. At first, Jae Seok is taken aback but goes along with the idea. Starting with Jae Seok, celebrities get handed a camera to film their everyday lifestyle. Some may work out to get in shape, some may simply rest up from their tiring schedule, and others may meet up with friends they didn't have the time to. From well-known comedians to global superstars, the relay camera captures unexpected and uniques stories. Take a peek at what the celebrities are up to on their day-offs and discover something new about them.

Bok Gwi Joo and his family were born with different supernatural powers. Bok Gwi Joo is able to travel back in time, but only to happy times in his life. He can't change the past, so he can only dwell on those happy moments. Bok Gwi Joo becomes afflicted with depression, and this leads him to lose his supernatural power.

His family also loses their own powers due to modern-day problems like insomnia, bulimia, and smartphone addiction. One day, Do Da He happens to get involved with Bok Gwi Joo and his family. She begins to live with them, and change occurs.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Airs On: Saturday, Sunday

After resigning from a big company, Lee Joon Ho returns to the academy where he'd studied, this times as an instructor. He's motivated by his lingering fixation on his first love, academy teacher Seo Hye Jin.

Seo Hye Jin has been a Korean language instructor for the past fourteen years. She became a star after the legendary incident labelled “Miracle of Daechi.” Just when her life begins to feel settled, former pupil and troublemaker Lee Joon Ho, who she'd helped get into a prestigious university ten years previously, shows up and stirs up chaos.

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Saturday, Sunday

A Joseon-era version of a romantic comedy about a crown prince who is kidnapped by a woman who is set to become his wife. While on the run for their lives, romance blossoms between the two.

Episodes: 20

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Saturday, Sunday

Every week there will be a featured market from South Korea and within it, there are 3 types of food selected as its representatives. The cast and guest(s), as contestants, have to play games and win to be able to enjoy the food. There will be a dressing theme concept for the cast and guest(s) to follow for the filming of each episode. For episodes, 1–4, the program format is only 3 rounds of song dictation. From episode 5, the program format changed to 2 rounds of song dictation, with a Snack Time in between the dictation segments.

Are you a boss? If you are, are you sure you're a good boss? This program turns the table around, giving employees a chance to tell what they really think about their boss. Three bosses take the appraisal with confident, but neither a veteran comedian, a famous chef, nor the Mayor of Seoul can escape the bombarding facts about them. They try to deny or deflect the realities, but in the end, they look back themselves and find out what they do was over-the-top. The vast difference between what the bosses think and what the staffs think causes such a big laugh that you can blow off some work stress.

When something happens between a couple, it’s surprising how each person’s interpretation and memory of it differs from the other’s. By watching the daily life of a celebrity couple that faces challenges and conflict as we all do, the program offers a perspective from both male and female while asking viewers to reflect on the value of finding a soulmate and sharing their lives with another person.

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