Yang Hee Kyung is a veteran South Korean actress who was born on December 3, 1954, in Seoul, South Korea. She studied at the Seoul College of Art, where she majored in Theater. She debuted in 1975 and has since appeared in scores of hit drama titles, such as “Tiger Teacher” in 1985 as well as “Lie” and Run Barefoot” (both 1998). Some of her more recent drama credits include “Our Blues” and “If You Wish upon Me” (both 2022).

Yang Hee Kyung

When high school student Kim Eun Mi (Jeon Hye Jin) discovered that she was pregnant, her entire life changed in an instant. Determined to keep her baby, Eun Mi did just that. Raising her daughter, Jin Hee (Choi Sooyoung) on her own, the two have quite literally grown up together.

Now in her forties, Eun Mi works as a physical therapist while twenty-nine-year-old Jin Hee works as an officer at the Namchon Police Substation. Despite being an adult herself, Jin Hee still lives with her mother; a fact which leads to an endless stream of bickering between the two. Though both mother and daughter will agree that they love each other dearly, the two just can’t seem to find a way to get along these days. 

As if struggling to find a way to deal with her daughter wasn’t enough, Eun Mi’s life takes a complicated turn when Dr. Park Jin Hong (Ahn Jae Wook) suddenly appears before her. While Eun Mi tries to make sense of the mysterious Dr. Park, Jin Hee struggles to find a way to get along with her work’s new director, Eun Jae Won (Park Sung Hoon). With life taking one complicated turn after another, will mother and daughter ever find a way to repair the breach that’s been widening between them? 

Based on the webtoon “Strangers” by Jung Young Rong, “Not Others” is a 2023 South Korean romantic comedy drama directed by Lee Min Woo.

Not Others

Like Mother Like Daughter

Yoon Gyeo Re (Ji Chang Wook) is a young man who has known nothing but misery ever since he was a child. He was abused while still a boy, and had a torrid time at the orphanage where he was raised. He then spent time in a juvenile detention center. And as an adult, things got no better, leading to him serving time in prison. Beatings and misery are all he knows, and he finds himself at the end of his tether, finally facing the void…

But when he is ordered by a court to serve his community service at an end-of-life care facility for the terminally ill, things begin to change for him. Here he meets the tireless as Kang Tae Sik (Sung Dong Il), a middle-aged man who leads the volunteer team at the facility. Kang Tae Sik has created a unit called Team Genie, which is dedicated to granting dying patients their last wishes. No matter what people ask for, Team Genie will work their hardest to make those precious last wishes come true. He also meets Seo Yeon Ju (Choi Sooyoung), a young nurse who refuses to give up on her patients and tries to keep them physically active at all times. Will working at this facility help turn Yoon Gyeo Re’s life around? Or is it too late to change his destiny?

“If You Wish Upon Me” is a 2022 South Korean drama series that was directed by Kim Yong Wan.

If You Wish Upon Me

🦋 Free as a butterfly Team 🦋

KBS, KOCOWA

Soon Bong has been nothing but a loving and doting father to his three children. For 30 years, he ran a tofu store in order to raise them. His oldest, Kang Sim, is an extremely competent chief secretary, while Kang Jae has become an excellent oncologist. Dal Bong, the youngest, is currently looking for a job. However, when Soon Bong realizes how ungrateful his children have become, he decides to file a lawsuit against them for child ingratitude. Following this incident, all of the children find themselves clashing with Soon Bong as well as with each other. Will this family be able to reconcile and get a fresh start in life? And what will come out of their own personal love lives?

What Happens to My Family?

A Troublemaker Family

Everybody says divorce is a failure in life. But this could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a person to grow up again. As all trees have to endure the forces of nature more than a thousand times, true love bears fruit after many failures. Although it starts from the story of a childish man and woman, the wounded souls grow up little by little, and their efforts finally bear their fruits. Here, the unexpected bitter-sweet love story unfolds. Who will be Mr. right for Ae Ra, and will she succeed in feeling true love again?

Cunning Single Lady

The Foxy Team

When Eun Soo was a home shopping host, she met Tae Won at work and married him. Eun Soo and Tae Won have a daughter. Because of the serious conflict between Eun Soo and her mother-in-law, however, Eun Soo and Tae Won get divorced after four years. Eun Soo maintains a friendly relationship with Tae Won. After getting divorced, Eun Soo works as a home shopping host again and remarries Kim Jun Gu, her current husband, but she can't live as an ordinary housewife as she imagined. Hyun Soo is Eun Soo's younger sister and runs a company with Kwang Mo who she met at a dog shelter when she was 25. She has a crush on him, and it's quite heartrending to be in one-sided love. Two women's lives change with marriage, divorce, and remarriage. How will their lives work?

The Woman who Married Three Times

Third Time's The Charm Team

"Birdie Buddy" tells the story of former pro golfer John Lee and how he leads two women to become the next golf queens. John Lee became the first Korean to win a PGA title. His background was a mystery other than the fact that he was an adoptee. Aside from golf, he also excelled in the Afro-Brazilian dance/martial arts style known as "Capoeira." Even though he found success by winning the PGA title, John Lee stopped playing golf to become a golf course tester.
Min Hae Ryung was raised to become an elite golf player and was always placed in the best environment to play golf. Her emotions have always been controlled and she has a deep wound inside of her. In contrast, Sung Mi Soo is a country girl from Kangwon Province. She comes from a poor background, but her mom worked as caddie. With her bright personality and determined efforts, she attempts to become an elite golf player.

Birdie Buddy

SBS, KOCOWA

A sense of justice and duty? Having only lived to do what she wants, Hye Ri is spoiled and has no concept about how the world works. Not caring about the suspect\u2019s circumstances and wanted to do everything by the book, Hye Ri nearly causes a disaster by carelessly taking the case documents of a celebrity and nearly losing it, which makes everyone sick of her. Realizing this truth later on, Hye Ri becomes determined to become what a prosecutor should be and falls for Prosecutor Yoon Se Joon when he rescues her from danger and tries to win him over.

Princess Prosecutor

Prince Charming Team

Seo Hye Young is in her second-year fellowship as an obstetrician-gynecologist who practically lives at the hospital. She's a workaholic and a highly skilled doctor with quick and precise hands. During her relationship with Yoon Seo Jin, she discovers she's pregnant. Despite her desire to stay at her university, she's reassigned to a countryside hospital branch after performing an abortion surgery on a woman carrying her second child with a disorder. There, she encounters Lee Sang Sik, a pediatrician. Their paths cross coincidentally in an elevator, and he becomes the only one aware of her pregnancy. As Hye Young overworks herself, Sang Sik cares for her, and she gradually opens up to him.

Obstetrics and Gynecology Doctors

MBC, KOCOWA

Sang Eun and Hyo Eun are sisters, and they immigrated to Australia with their single father when they were kids. Sang Eun became a lawyer after graduating from college and law school in Australia, and she suddenly brings an American lawyer, Alex, saying she wants to marry him. Her father, Kyung Tae, flatly opposes and says there's a guy already engaged with her in Korea, and she must meet with him first. On the first day of her arrival in Korea, Sang Eun argues at the airport with Yeo Jun, whom her father mentioned. Yeo Jun is only interested in work and indifferent to getting married and women, but all his family pushes him to get married. What will be the end of the various stories between a man and woman when they are worlds apart over marriage?

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