Song Min Hyung is a South Korean actor who was born on March 2, 1954. He graduated from Dongguk University’s Seoul Campus, where he majored in Film and Drama. He rose to prominence in the mid-2000s, appearing in season 1 of “Ugly Young-A” in 2007. He has since gone on to appear in smash-hit drama series titles such as “Flower of the Queen” (2015), as well as the more recent “Fatal Promise” and “Mr. Queen” (2020).

Song Min Hyung

Kim Jung Hyun, Shin Hye Sun, And More Hold First Script Reading For Historical Fusion Drama

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A male chef (Choi Jin Hyuk) has risen up the ranks to find a job cooking for the country’s top politicians in the South Korean presidential residences, the Blue House.

He is something of a dreamer – but one day finds himself in the body of a young queen from Korea’s past, Kim So Yong (Shin Hye Sun).

Kim So Yong’s husband is the reigning monarch, King Cheol Jong (Kim Jung Hyun). However, he is only king in name – the late King Sunjo’s Queen, Sun Won (Bae Jong Ok), has taken advantage of Cheol Jong’s better nature, and is ruling the realm in his name.

Queen Sun Won’s brother Kim Jwa Guen (Kim Tae Woo) also has designs on power.

However, Kim So Yong soon discovers that King Cheol Jong harbors secrets, and is not as gentle and meek as he seems…

“Mr. Queen” is a 2020 South Korean period drama series that was directed by Yoon Sung Sik.

This is a spin-off program of the drama Mr. Queen, which tells the story behind the scenes.

Mr. Queen: The Secret

The "No Touch" Team 👑

A male chef (Choi Jin Hyuk) has risen up the ranks to find a job cooking for the country’s top politicians in the South Korean presidential residences, the Blue House.

He is something of a dreamer – but one day finds himself in the body of a young queen from Korea’s past, Kim So Yong (Shin Hye Sun).

Kim So Yong’s husband is the reigning monarch, King Cheol Jong (Kim Jung Hyun). However, he is only king in name – the late King Sunjo’s Queen, Sun Won (Bae Jong Ok), has taken advantage of Cheol Jong’s better nature, and is ruling the realm in his name.

Queen Sun Won’s brother Kim Jwa Guen (Kim Tae Woo) also has designs on power.

However, Kim So Yong soon discovers that King Cheol Jong harbors secrets, and is not as gentle and meek as he seems…

“Mr. Queen” is a 2020 South Korean period drama series that was directed by Yoon Sung Sik.

Mr. Queen

The Royal Team 👑

Se Young is the youngest head of the management team of Dreams, a cellar-dwelling baseball team. She's highly recognized for her perseverance and intense passion for the team. One day, Seung Su is appointed as a general manager. Although he's been working in the sports field, the teams he led to the championship were unpopular, and some of them were even disbanded after winning the league due to the financial difficulties of their parent companies.

Stove League

Stove League Team

JTBC

SKY Castle, a private luxury condo community, where wealthy doctors and professors live. It was built by the first president of Joo Nam University, the most prestigious university in Korea. Most of the residents are doctors and law school professors of the university.

The drama describes all the ins and outs of how the wealthy make their children enter a top university. It is a comic satirical drama that closely looks behind the scenes at the materialistic desires of the upper-class parents in Korea and how they ruthlessly secure the successes of their families at the cost of destroying others' lives.

SKY Castle

The Sky High Team

Can a secret diary shed light on the authenticity of a centuries-old painting? 

Seo Ji Yoon (Lee Young Ae) is an art history lecturer who has devoted the best years of her life to earning her Ph.D. and working under her mentor, department chairman Min Jung Hak (Choi Jong Hwan), in the hopes of being named a full-time professor at her university. 

When Jung Hak entrusts Ji Yoon to write the thesis for his find-of-the-century historical painting, “An Gyeon’s Mount Geumgang,” Ji Yoon is ecstatic and finally feels like she is about to earn her professorship. But in a matter of days, her whole world comes crashing down around her. 

First, her husband, Jung Min Seok (Lee Hae Young), suddenly becomes a fugitive when his company comes under investigation and the Russian Mafia comes after him for dirty money, forcing Ji Yoon, her son, and her mother-in-law, Kim Jung Hee (Kim Hae Sook), to be kicked out of their home. Then, Ji Yoon’s career comes to a crashing halt when grad student Han Sang Hyun (Yang Se Jong) publicly challenges the authenticity of the Mount Geumgang painting and Ji Yoon does not adequately defend Jung Hak’s reputation. 

An enraged Jung Hak has Ji Yoon fired and ostracized from the art history community. At the bottom of her life, Ji Yoon discovers the secret diary of Shin Saimdang (1504-1551), a Korean artist, writer, calligraphist and poet who was the mother of Yi I, one of the two most prominent Korean Confucian scholars during the Joseon Dynasty. The diary sheds new light on the life of Saimdang (also played by Lee Young Ae, her relationship with painter Lee Gyeom (Song Seung Heon), and the Mount Geumgang painting. 

With the help of Sang Hyun and her best friend, Go Hye Jung (Park Jun Myun), an antiquities researcher, can Ji Yoon get her life and career back? 

“Saimdang, Light’s Diary” is a 2017 South Korean drama series directed by Yoon Sang Ho.

Saimdang, Light's Diary

KBS02

We all once have read about Hwarang and heard about a few famous historical Hwarangs. However, not one of us exactly knows what or who they were, as all myths do. How could beautiful-looking young men have been able to be the leaders of Silla, the millenary kingdom that united the ancient Korean Three Kingdoms? What kind of a rite of passage did they go through in order to become the spirit of Silla? Now, we give full scope to our imagination to answer these questions, which were never written in history. This is a story of the friendship and love of Hwarang and a story of the youth struggling to make the world a better place. Above all, this is a whole new myth.

Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth

The fifteenth rightful King of the Joseon Dynasty is born in the year 1575. This, however, doesn't come in easy for him when they realize that he is an offspring of a concubine. Prince Gwanghae lives a life of death threats, dethronements, and all sorts of other hurdles before he becomes crowned King. It's time to follow the story of Gwanghaegun of Joseon and how he fights for his throne with physiognomy as his secret weapon.

The King's Face

The Face Readers

Kwon Yul, a stickler for rules, is the youngest prime minister in the history of Korea. Da Jeong is a 20-year-old reckless girl who happens to be one of the worst paparazzi. The righteous prime minister meets Da Jeong, who is desperate to get married to him, and their turbulent romance begins. Also, Yul's family, who hasn't had a mother for a long time, may have a mother figure now! A heart-fluttering and tear-jerking love story between the two people unfolds for the sake of the father, who doesn't have many days left, and the kids, who don't have a mother.

Prime Minister and I

The Ministry Team

The drama "You Are The Best" transfers the message of consolation, hope and healing to those of us suffering from this competitive society. This is a humanistic drama that makes us realize that happiness cannot be felt just from materialistic or external values but from simple but truthful love, and a society that is full of people who share.

You Are The Best

The Shin Shin Couple

SBS Plus

"Full House 2,” a remake of a widely popular South Korean drama from 2004, revisits the concept of an adult longing to regain a childhood home that holds special memories. Lee Tae Ik (No Min Woo) lost his parents at an early age and was driven out of the home that he shared with them. He grows up to achieve success as half of a K-pop duo called TAKE ONE with his singing partner Won Kang Hwi (Park Ki Woong). As he grows in popularity as an idol star, Tae Ik’s main goal is to reclaim his childhood home, known as Full House. But things get complicated when he meets Jang Man Ok (Hwang Jung Eum), a former martial arts instructor who is forced to take a job as the duo’s stylist to repay a debt. A love triangle ensues between Man Ok, the perfectionists Tae Ik and the free-spirited Kang Hwi.

“Full House Take 2” is a sequel to the popular 2004 drama series “Full House,” starring Jung Ji Hoon and Song Hye Kyo, which was based on a manhwa by writer Won Soo Yeon.

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