Jang Young Nam is an award-winning South Korean actress. Born on November 25, 1973, she began her acting career in the 1995 theater production of “Romeo and Juliet” and went on to star in many theater productions that brought her a lot of critical acclaim. She transitioned to roles in both film and television and has appeared in such popular dramas as “I Am Legend” (2010), “Vampire Prosecutor” (2011), “Glory Jane” (2011), “Dr. Jin” (2012), “7th Grade Civil Servant” (2013), “Goddess of Marriage” (2013), “Pinocchio” (2014), “Persevere, Goo Hae Ra” (2015) and “Glamorous Temptation” (2015). Her many film roles also include “A Werewolf Boy,” which went on to become the biggest box office hit for a melodrama in Korean cinematic history. Jang Young Nam married Lee Ho Ung in 2011.

Jang Young Nam

MBC, KOCOWA

Whether it's nationality, race, or social status, it does not matter before crimes. As the world is coming closer together and borders recede, it has become harder to track down the violent crimes that occurred and spread all around the world with just one country's specific investigative authority. Therefore, a multinational network that handles global crimes has been established, which is the worldwide crime infotainment where veteran police officers from all parts of the world are gathered. From remote past to present and from a murder that shook up a town to an international crime targeting citizens of the world, the actual police officers in charge will guide you through the fiction-like but real crime scenes.

SUPER POLICE

The Frontier Titan is a massive container ship traveling between the Philippines and the South Korean port of Busan. But its cargo on this journey is a disparate collection of dangerous criminals on their way to repatriation in their home countries, including the tattooed Jong Doo (Seo In Guk). A hardened group of police officers headed by Seok Woo (Park Ho San) is charged with keeping the convicts chained up and under guard.

But the villains have other plans – and plan to break free. Once they do so, they attempt to take over the ship...and turn it into a water-bound hell. But the criminals are not aware that they are not the Frontier Titan’s only cargo on this journey. Something even more deadly than Jong Doo and his criminal counterparts has come along for the ride...and threatens to unleash a horror unlike anyone has ever seen before!

“Project Wolf Hunting” is a 2022 South Korean movie that was directed by Kim Hong Sun.

Project Wolf Hunting

Ji Hyuk, an ace in the NIS Foreign Intelligence Bureau, has never failed a mission. However, during a mission by the China-North Korea borders in Liaoning, China, he goes MIA. After one year, Ji Hyuk, classified dead, suddenly appears at the Korean Consulate in Shenyang, China, in the most horrific state and doesn't remember anything that happened within the last year. With his memory lost, Ji Hyuk gets assigned to a team with minor tasks. While on the team, he meets Je Yi, who is delicate and heartwarming but with a painful past. For the first time, Ji Hyuk gets assigned to save people. As he relates to the stories of those people, he faces his memories. Will he be able to unravel all the clues and remember the past year when he went missing?

The Veil

The Black Sun team 

Kang Yo Han (Ji Sung) is the “Devil Judge” – the head judge of the highest court in the land. In a dystopian South Korea of the future, his word is the law, but his courtroom is also a television studio, and the court has become the ultimate TV reality show, with viewers invited to participate in a live, self-styled “people’s court.” Here, greed and corruption are apparently exposed for all the nation to see, and punishments meted out accordingly. A divisive figure, the public is unsure as to whether Kang Yo Han is a true popular hero or a malicious force sowing the seeds of chaos in his court.

Meanwhile, Jung Sun Ah (Kim Min Jung) is a tough, intelligent, and ambitious woman with a hunger for power. She has formed a bitter rivalry with Kang Yo Han and has risen from poverty to become the director of a corporate social responsibility foundation. She wields considerable behind-the-scenes power, maintaining close ties with politicians and business leaders alike – and is hellbent on promoting her own vision of the future. She is also gunning for the “Devil Judge” himself – hopeful of uncovering her rival’s darkest secrets.

Into this turbulent world step two childhood friends on a quest for true justice: a rookie orphan judge called Kim Ga On (Jinyoung) and a police officer named Yoon Soo Hyun (Park Gyu Young). Do they have what it takes to take on the scheming Jung Sun Ah...and the “Devil Judge?”

“The Devil Judge” is a 2021 South Korean drama series that was directed by Choi Jung Gyu.

The Devil Judge

Min Gi Heon (Gong Yoo) is a former South Korean intelligence agent who suffers from crippling migraines. His life has gone off the rails since he left the service. But when he runs into his former boss at the agency, he is offered a rare chance at professional redemption. The task is not an easy one, however: He must help transport a man named Seo Bok (Park Bo Gum) to a new location.

Seo Bok is the first human clone. But he is also much more than that. He has remarkable telekinetic powers. And his DNA contains a plethora of secrets pertaining to self-healing. His cells could be adapted to create an injection that would allow a human to live forever. All this makes Seo Bok a priceless target – and groups hoping to make a fortune from his DNA start to hatch plans to capture him. Soon, terrorists begin to mobilize and make their move. But, little do they know, Seo Bok has grown aware of his own powers...and has no intention of going down without a fight!

“Seo Bok” is a 2021 South Korean movie that was directed by Lee Yong Ju.

Seo Bok

Jeong Hoon is a news anchor for one of the countries most popular broadcasting stations. He's a handsome man who can always pull off a great suit. However, unlike his gentle appearances, he gradually becomes abrasive with his interviews and causes people to feel uncomfortable due to his interrogatory-like questions. Due to his hyperthymia, he recalls everything that he has experienced since childhood. A memory he wishes he can forget is that of Seo Yeon, a woman he once loved before suddenly disappeared eight years ago. One day, Ha Jin, a rising star who attracts everyone's attention, crosses paths with Jeong Hoon. Despite the recent negative press, her composure and confidence never seem to waiver. The complete opposite of Jeong Hoon, her memory has slowly been fading away.

Find Me in Your Memory

SBS, KOCOWA

Detective Young Jin, from the regional investigation unit, has only one thing on her mind to solve as many criminal cases as possible as a way to atone for her friend's murder 19 years ago. Then one day, one of these criminal cases hits too close to home again. Her neighbor's son, Eun Ho, seems to have mysteriously fallen off the roof of a hotel and left in a coma. Ruled as an apparent suicide attempt by the authorities, Young Jin senses foul play and decides to take it upon herself to get to the bottom of it. With the help of Eun Ho's homeroom teacher, Sun Woo, they both begin to uncover that Eun Ho's injuries were no accident.

Nobody Knows

Do Young lived and worked in a public bathhouse after leaving the orphanage. Yeo Ok, the head of Deo Group, finds favor in her eyes of Do Young, and with Yeo Ok's support, Do Young changes her name to Jenny Jang and gets to run a high-end fashion boutique. Also, she becomes a central and powerful figure in the political and business circles as she secretly solves problems for the upper classes. Jenny's ultimate goal is to become the queen of the Deo family using the international city development project. On the other hand, Yeo Ok plans to take advantage of Jenny and abandon her as soon as she succeeds in making Deo Group one of the top 10 corporates in Korea through the international city development project. To do so, Yeo Ok shouldn't make Jenny notice her scheme.

Secret Boutique

🌹The Secret Team🌹

The kingdom of Joseon is plagued by disorder, with violent political uprisings breaking out, and a power struggle surrounding the ruthless King Lee Hun (Yeo Jin Goo).

To avoid assassination attempts on the king's life, a clown named Ha Sun (Yeo Jin Goo), who happens to look exactly like the king, is brought to the palace to act as his double. As Ha Sun takes the throne and tricks the court into believing he truly is the king, he begins to fall for the beautiful Queen Yoo So Woon (Lee Se Young).

This series is an adaptation of the movie “Gwanghae: The Man Who Became King” (also known as “Masquerade”), starring Lee Byung Hun and Han Hyo Joo.

“The Crowned Clown” is a 2019 Korean drama series directed by Kim Hee Won.

The Crowned Clown

THE ON FIRE PENGUINS TEAM 🔥🐧

An older brother will do anything to protect his younger sister.

Yoo Jin Kook (Park Sung Woong) is a veteran homicide detective who is getting weary of his job. The only light in his life is his younger sister, Yoo Jin Kang (Jung So Min). He dotes on her and is protective of her like a father figure ever since they lost their parents. 

When Jin Kook starts investigating a suicide of a university student, he can’t help but feel that the dead student’s boyfriend, Kim Moo Young (Seo In Guk), may have been responsible for her death.

Moo Young seems like a nice guy who works at a Korean beer microbrewery, but there seems to be a dark side to him. When Moo Young meets Jin Kang and the two begin to develop a relationship, Jin Kook is determined to stop it. But can Jin Kook protect Jin Kang when she needs it the most?

“Hundred Million Stars From the Sky” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Yoo Je Won. It is a remake of a 2002 Japanese drama series with the same title.

Hundred Million Stars From the Sky

The Twinkle Twinkle Team 

KBS02

Have you ever thought about a shared fate? Lovely Horribly is a romantic comedy thriller drama. You Philip, a top star, and Ji Eul Soon, a drama story writer, meet each other and go through strange things. They have been born on the same day at the same time, and they share their zero-sum fate. If one of them becomes happy, the other person becomes unfortunate. The relationship between these two is all about coincidence, fate, horror, and romance. How will Philip and Eul Soon handle their shared fate? Like everybody else, they both want to be happy, but that seems impossible. Stay tuned to watch the lovely and horrible romance between these two to find out.

Lovely Horribly

A middle-aged man is preoccupied with women. Seok Geun (Lee Sung Min) works as a taxi driver on Jeju Island. He is crazy about women and had a hard time staying faithful to his wife, Dam Deok (Jang Young Nam), when she was alive.

After her death, Seok Geun still chases after women and is a bad influence on his brother-in-law, Bong Soo (Shin Ha Kyun), who is married to his younger sister, Mi Young (Song Ji Hyo). They also live next-door to him.

Bong Soo once aspired to become a top chef and now runs an Italian restaurant with Mi Young that is not doing well. Bong Soo wants to change the restaurant concept to Chinese instead, but he doesn’t have the backbone to stand up to the strong-willed Mi Young. 

When a hot young woman named Jenny (Lee El) comes to town, Seok Geun and Bong Soo both become infatuated with her. Are the two men looking for trouble?

“What a Man Wants” is a 2018 South Korean romantic comedy film directed by Lee Byeong Hun.

What a Man Wants

Power, friendship or love?


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Wang Won (Im Siwan) is the Crown Prince during the Goryeo Dynasty who harbors an extreme lust for power. His childhood friend, Wang Rin (Hong Jong Hyun), is his trusted ally and bodyguard.


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When they meet Eun San (Yoona), the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the country, they become inseparable friends. But when both Won and Rin fall in love with Eun San, what will happen to their ambitions and friendship?


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“The King Loves” is a 2017 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Sang Hyup. It is based on a novel by the same title by Kim Yi Ryung.

The King Loves

Royal Minions

A respected scholar inadvertently becomes the protector of a mischievous princess. Gyeon Woo (Joo Won) enjoys the fame of “Joseon’s National Treasure” as a renowned scholar of his generation. When the king asks him to properly educate his sassy daughter, Princess Hye Myung (Oh Yeon Seo), Gyeon Woo has his work cut out for him.
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But when rebels come after Hye Myung and challenge her future reign, Gyeon Woo inadvertently becomes her protector.&nbsp;Gyeon Woo’s job becomes something that he didn’t anticipate, but can he save Hye Myung from a terrible fate and keep her throne?
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“My Sassy Girl” is a 2017 South Korean television drama series directed by Oh Jin Seok. It is based on the 2001 hit film by the same title directed by Kwak Jae Yong but takes the modern-day story back to the Joseon Dynasty.

My Sassy Girl

The Soo Sassy Team

Bok Joo is a college student and a weightlifting player. She deeply loves her father, who is sick but sells fried chicken to support her. She can't stand injustice and values loyalty. She has never had a chance to go on a blind date as she is a weightlifting player, but she accepts it as her life. Jun Hyung is a swimmer who goes to the same college as Bok Joo. They used to know each other when they were kids. He constantly teases her, so she resents him. Jun Hyung has a cousin, Jae Yi. He is kind to everyone, so it sometimes causes misunderstanding, making some women feel led on. One day, Bok Joo runs into Jae Yi and falls for him after seeing him smile at her. She finds out he is a doctor at an obesity clinic and signs up for the weight-loss program at the clinic. However, Jun Hyung finds out about this, and he can't pass up the opportunity to tease her.

Weightlifting Fairy, Kim Bok-joo

I'm Busy Getting Stronger Team

The year is 1978. The city of Busan, South Korea, has been sent into shock after a young girl went missing. Police believe she has been kidnapped. Two weeks have passed since she vanished, and the kidnapper has not contacted the police. In the absence of any further evidence, the police force presumes she has been killed. But the girl’s mother refuses to give up hope that her child is still alive. In her desperation, she reaches out to a famous fortune teller named Kim Joong San (Yoo Hae Jin).

The seer tells her that the young girl is alive and well – and makes a number of other predictions. And he says that if the veteran investigator Gong Gil Yong (Kim Yun Seok) can be persuaded to help, the girl’s life could well be saved. Gong Gil Yong is skeptical about all this. But when Kim Joong San’s prophecies begin to come true, this skepticism begins to melt away. Could these two men team up to save the girl from a dreadful fate?

This movie was based on real-life events that took place in 1978.

“The Classified File” is a 2015 South Korean movie that was directed by Kwak Kyung Taek.

The Classified File

The Classified Team

Dal Po's real name is Ha Myung. When he was about to drown at 14, Gong Pil saved and adopted him, giving him a new name. Gong Pil believes Dal Po is his son who was lost in the sea in the past. And Dal Po tries to erase his past to live as Gong Pil's son. He even pretends to be bad at his studies even though he is brilliant and intentionally wears shabby clothes to hide his good looks. He gives up going to college due to financial difficulty at home. Still, he succeeds in becoming a reporter with unique talents thanks to the intelligence and experience he acquired by driving a taxi. Meanwhile, he has a niece who is the same age as him. She has Pinocchio syndrome, so she can't choose a job that requires some amount of lying. She decides to be a reporter, whose job is to seek the truth at all times.

Pinocchio

The Can't Lie Team

Ji Hye is a proud woman who speaks her mind and works as a writer for a radio show. Tae Wook meets Ji Hye at a private gathering, and after two years of keeping an eye on her, he decides to ask her out. After a year of dating, Ji Hye accepts his marriage proposal despite being unsure about her feelings for him. Tae Wook is a prosecutor and successor of a conglomerate group who decides to marry Ji Hye against his father's wishes. However, Ji Hye asks to call off their engagement because she can't withstand the overwhelming pressure of her future in-laws. Ji Hye then leaves for a trip to Jeju Island, where she meets and falls in love with Hyun Woo, paving the way for these three people's stormy and complicated future.

Goddess of Marriage

The Goddesses Team

KBS, KOCOWA

Young Kwang has been a professional baseball player in the minor league for seven years. But he is never discouraged. Even under bad circumstances, he is always full of confidence. But he eventually gets entangled in several incidents and is kicked out of his baseball team. Young Kwang applies for a job at Geodae International and meets Jae In. Jae In is a bright and warm-hearted woman who helps others under any circumstance. While working as a nursing assistant, Jae In gets into a problem and submits her resignation letter. After she quits, she joins Geodae International as a new employee. The two people begin to fall in love while getting involved with Seo In Woo, the famous fourth batter, and trying to solve the matters involving Geodae International.

Glory Jane

Desperate to leave his miserable life behind, Sang Man (Cha Tae Hyun) has tried, on more than occasion, to take his own life. But no matter how many times he tries to end his existence, he just can’t seem to get it right. Convincing himself that this time it will be different, Sang Man jumps off a bridge, plunging into the watery depths below. But just like all of the other times before, his attempt to end his life fails as he’s pulled from the water before death can claim him.

Waking in the hospital, Sang Man finds he’s not alone. Visited by a man no one else can see, Sang Man wonders if his latest suicide attempt has somehow rattled his mind. Distracted by the pretty nurse, Jung Yun Soo (Kang Ye Won), Sang Man tries to ignore the string of invisible visitors who refuse to leave him alone, but to no avail. After being discharged from the hospital, Sang Man is irritated to learn that his mysterious hospital visitors have followed him home. Realizing he’s not crazy but actually being visited by ghosts, Sang Man accepts that the only way to rid himself of these unwanted guests is to help them fulfill their unrealized dreams.

Begrudgingly accepting his fate, Sang Man sets out to do just that, hoping that at the end of it all, he too will be able to leave this world in peace. Will his determination to help these ghosts ultimately bring him what he wants or will it cause him to realize that some things in this world are worth living for after all?

A scary good story full of laughs, “Hello Ghost” is a 2010 comedy film directed by Kim Young Tak.

Hello Ghost

Late one night, on the Gangbyeon Expressway leading into Seoul, a desperate young woman throws herself into traffic. The resulting accident leads to a four-car pile up and a night of chaos for the officers at the Yongsan police station.&nbsp;

In an effort to understand exactly what happened, the officers are forced to bring everyone involved in the accident in for questioning. From the witnesses in each of the cars, to a group of bystanders on the street, everyone has their own version of the story but no one seems to have any idea why a young woman would seemingly choose to throw her life away. Chaotic as the station may be, things are thrown into further disarray when it’s discovered that the sole casualty of the accident has, in her possession, a memory stick containing the final question for a big-money television quiz show.

Known for its difficult questions and an accumulating prize pot, the witnesses at the station now have the answer to the quiz show’s jackpot winning question, a jackpot that currently stands at over $13 million dollars. Unable to resist the temptation, each set of witnesses shows up to participate in the next show, knowing only twenty-nine questions stand between them and a fortune. Will this strange twist of fate bring fortune to one scandalous winner or will they fall prey to the darker forces working behind-the-scenes of the popular show?

Featuring a star-studded cast, “The Quiz Show Scandal” is a witty 2010 satirical comedy film directed by Jang Jin.

The Quiz Show Scandal

The Scandalous Team

Every couple has secrets, but this couple takes it to a whole new level. Ahn Soo Ji (Kim Ha Neul) is an expert martial artist and fencer. She also is a veteran secret agent with the NIS. But her boyfriend, Lee Jae Joon (Kang Ji Hwan), doesn’t know that and is fed up with her sudden disappearances and preposterous excuses and wants to break up with her.

Unbeknownst to Soo Ji, Jae Joon also works for the NIS as an analyst and rookie field agent. As the couple tries to hide each other’s professions from the other, they are assigned to the same international mission to stop a Russian organized crime group from getting their hands on an advanced bio-chemical weapon in Korea. Can Soo Ji and Jae Joon carry out the important mission without killing each other?

“My Girlfriend Is an Agent” is a 2009 South Korean film directed by Shin Tae Ra. It was remade into the 2013 television drama “7th Grade Civil Servant.”

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