Kim Young Ae was an award-winning veteran South Korean actress. Born on April 21, 1951, she launched her career after participating in an open recruitment for one of the major television networks in 1971. After making her acting debut in the 1971 television drama “Chief Inspector,” she enjoyed a prolific career in films and television dramas. Some of her memorable recent roles included “The Moon Embracing the Sun” (2012), “Medical Top Team” (2013), “Liar Game” (2014), “Birth of a Beauty” (2014), “Kill Me, Heal Me” (2015), “Mirror of the Witch” (2016), “Doctors” (2016) and “Laurel Tree Tailors” (2016-2017), as well as the film “Proof of Innocence” (2016). Kim Young Ae passed away on April 9, 2017, at the age of 66 from recurrent pancreatic cancer.

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From once wayward teen to brilliant neurosurgeon, a young woman's life was changed by a caring mentor who set her on the right track. Fate reunites them years later when they both work as neurosurgeons at the same hospital and fall in love. Enjoy this medical romance K-Drama today.

Doctors

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Where can a wrongly accused person turn to for help? Kwon Soon Tae (Kim Sang Ho) was a law-abiding single father raising his daughter, Kwon Dong Hyun (Kim Hyang Gi), when his whole world turns upside after he is wrongly accused of murder and sent to prison. Soon Tae writes a letter pleading his innocence and asking for help and sends it to Choi Pil Jae (Kim Myung Min), a police detective that Soon Tae believed was righteous. But Pil Jae had already quit his job as a detective after his partner betrayed him and now works as an illegal law broker at a law firm. Pil Jae disregards Soon Tae’s letter at first, but when he realizes that it was a case handled by his former partner, Pil Jae is intrigued. Will he put his detective skills back into use to crack this murder case and help prove Soon Tae’s innocence? “Proof of Innocence” is a 2016 South Korean film written and directed by Kwon Jong Kwan.

Proof of Innocence

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Can a young royal physician change the fate of a cursed princess? 

When Queen Sim (Jang Hee Jin) is unable to conceive, she visits the shaman Hong Joo (Yum Jung Ah). Hong Joo’s powerful black magic helps the Queen give birth to a twin boy and girl, Soon Hwae (Yeo Hoe Hyun) and Seo Ri (Kim Sae Ron). 

But the dark sorcery comes with a price when Seo Ri is cursed, causing her to be abandoned and left for dead by the Queen. Seo Ri is rescued by the father of Poong Yeon (Kwak Si Yang), who becomes her only friend as she grows up in hiding. 

With Poong Yeon and her helper, Choi Hyun Seo (Lee Sung Jae), by her side, Seo Ri grows up as a witch, all the while trying to figure out how to lift the evil curse on her life. When Seo Ri meets the royal physician Heo Jun (Yoon Shi Yoon), will he help her change her fate and reclaim her rightful place? 

“Mirror of the Witch” is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Jo Hyun Tak. The series is inspired by the Mirror of Eastern Medicine (Dongui Bogam), a book compiled by the royal physician Heo Jun and published during the Joseon Dynasty and considered a classic in the study of Korean traditional medicine.

Mirror of the Witch

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This is a romantic comedy that doesn't take itself too seriously and is about a woman whose husband is cheating on her and might have tried to kill her. She reinvents herself as Sara, one of the most beautiful women in Korea, and seeks her revenge!

Birth of the Beauty

The Beauty Team

When they were just young boys, brothers Park Ha Yeon (Kim Sung Kyun) and Park Sang Yeon (Jo Jin Woong) were forced to separate at an orphanage: Their father had died and their distraught mother Seung Ja (Kim Young Ae) decided to put them up for adoption, realizing that she could not hope to raise them alone. Now, 30 years later, Sang Yeon lives in America, where he is a devout and austere Christian priest. Ha Yeon, meanwhile, still lives in South Korea. He is a fiery shaman who prays to spirits and animist deities. When a television show production team hears about what has happened to them, the team asks Sang Yeon to come to South Korea to be reunited with his long-lost brother and biological mother.

Sang Yeon travels to South Korea, but moments after their emotional reunion, Seung Ja, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, wanders out of the television studio and vanishes. The brothers are forced to take to the road to search the entire country for their mother. Can this hot-tempered shaman and the rigidly straight-laced pastor put aside their religious differences for the time it takes them to track down their mother?

“We are Brothers” is a 2014 South Korean movie that was directed by Jang Jin.

We Are Brothers

The Brotherhood Team

In 1978, Song Woo Seok (Song Kang Ho) was tired of dragging himself through his daily routine. Desperate for a change, he left his position as a regional judge and moved to Busan to set up his own private law firm. Ridiculed by other lawyers for having passed his bar exams without any sort of higher education, Woo Seok brushes off the sneers of his peers and dedicates himself solely to his practice. Willing to take on the cases no one else wants to touch, Woo Seok finds a comfortable niche and quickly rises to the top.

Three years later, Woo Seok has made quite a name for himself as a highly successful lawyer. But the smooth sailing of his happy life is soon disrupted by the storms of civil unrest swirling around him. Trying to keep his distance from the turmoil around him, Woo Seok soon finds himself drawn in when an acquaintance of his, Choi Soon Ae (Kim Young Ae), tells him that her son, Park Jin Woo (Im Siwan), has gone missing. Assuring Soon Ae that he’ll look into the matter, Woo Seok is appalled when he finds Jin Woo and his friends have been imprisoned and tortured under charges of sedition.

Determined to stand up for the rights of the oppressed, Woo Seok takes on Jin Woo’s case, but defending him against a repressive government won’t be easy. As Woo Seok takes up the mantle to fight for justice he begins to wonder, can any one man really change the world?

Inspired by real-life events, “The Attorney” is a 2013 courtroom drama film directed by Yang Woo Suk.

The Attorney

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During the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), a scheming Queen Dowager orders an assassination to help her own son on the path to uncontested royal rule. But things take an unexpected turn when a female shaman witnesses the killing. She escapes, with help from the pregnant wife of the Royal Chief Scholar. The shaman tells the woman that her child will have a “noble” destiny and says she will protect it. But she appears unable to keep this promise after she is captured and executed.

Many years later, the Crown Prince Lee Hwon (Kim Soo Hyun) falls in love with Heo Yeon Woo (Han Ga In), the woman the child grew up to become. But fate (and palace scheming) appears to have robbed him of his true love. He is eventually crowned King, but is intrigued when a shaman named Wol comes to court. She bears an incredible resemblance to Heo Yeon Woo...and seems to know secrets about her “death!” Can the duo solve the secret of her identity – and put an end to the palace plots?
This series was based on a novel by Jung Eun Gwol.

“The Moon Embracing the Sun” is a 2012 South Korean drama series that was directed by Kim Do Hoon and Lee Sung Joon.

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