Lee Jae Won is a South Korean actor. He was born June 21, 1986 and made his acting debut in 2008. He can be found on both the silver screen and the small screen, taking roles in both films and television dramas including, “The Master’s Sun” (2013), “Untouchable” (2017), and “Kill It” (2019).

Lee Jae Won

KBS, KOCOWA

The KBS Drama Special, a collection of episodes that are fully packed with well-constructed content, has made its comeback in 2023 as KBS airs the series annually. The stories to be told will include one about a typical working professional who makes a decision to better his life that ends up being the wrong decision, a coming-of-age story of people trying to protect a kid who lies to hide the family history, a story of a female amateur futsal team's passion as they become one through the sport, a story about the victim, perpetrator, and bystander of bullying at a school, a hectic, wisecracking rom-com about a Joseon scholar who witnesses a secret rendezvous of his wife and his servant, and a rom-com set in a university where a student tries to mess with the smartest student in class to be at the top. The 2023 KBS Drama Special offers a plethora of stories accompanied by extreme thrills, fresh takes, and heartwarming sensations. Expect to find an episode that hits the sweet spot!

2023 KBS Drama Special

Oh Ha Ra (Kang Sora) is a hotshot divorce lawyer whose nickname in legal circles is “the “goddess of litigation.” One of the reasons she is such a dab hand at divorce proceedings, perhaps, is the fact that she has divorced her long-time lover and fellow lawyer Goo Eun Beom (Jang Seung Jo). But her relatively uneventful life is turned upside down when she is unexpectedly reunited with her ex-husband – in the law courts!

The duo is forced to work together – leading them to butt heads and reignite past grievances. While their professionalism prevents them from telling each other what they really think in public, tempers begin to fray...and risk boiling over. The tense atmosphere is not relieved in the slightest by fellow divorce lawyers Kang Bi Chwi (Jo Eun Ji) and Kwon Si Wook (Lee Jae Won), another pair of advocates who always seem to get under one another’s skin! Will Cupid rescue this group of lawyers – or will chaos break loose in the courtroom?

“Strangers Again” is a 2023 South Korean drama series that was directed by Kim Yang Hee.

Strangers Again

TVING

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 👑

Jung Sun is the deputy head of the VIP team in Sungun Department Store. She seems to be having a happy life as she's recognized for her competency at work and is always on good terms with her husband Sung Jun, the head of the VIP team. But on the other hand, no one knows how hard she struggles to be loved by others due to the trauma she got from having been abandoned by both her birth mother and her stepmother. She firmly believes that Sung Jun would never let her down at least. One day, she gets an anonymous message. "Your husband is having an affair with someone in your team." After receiving this message, she gets to know the secrets of Sung Jun and the women.

An ardent animal lover and skilled veterinarian, no one would suspect Kim Soo Hyun (Jang Ki Yong) is actually one of the world’s deadliest men. Using his cover as a champion of the small and furry to hide his true identity, Kim Soo Hyun has made a name for himself amongst the lowest of the low as the epitome of precision, skill, and above all else, anonymity. A mystery in and of himself, he is nothing more than a ghost, a shadow, a lethal whisper, hired by individuals and organizations the world over, to take care of problems only he is qualified to handle. 

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Do Hyun Jin (Nana) is the hard-working detective whose icy exterior hides a sympathetic soul. Using an effective combination of skill and instinct, Do Hyun Jin finds herself working a case that leads her straight to Kim Soo Hyun. Believing him to be the serial killer she’s after, Do Hyun Jin digs deeper into Kim Soo Hyun’s identity and his past but what she finds shakes her to her very core. Now tied by fate, Do Hyun Jin and Kim Soo Hyun set out to unravel the mystery that bound them years ago.

"Kill It" is a 2019 drama directed by Ahn Ji Sook and Nam Sung Woo.

Kill It

The Killer Team

Every person has a heart. Your life depends on that small organ, which is around the size of your fist. A heart surgeon fellow, Park Tae Soo, has to save his mother, who awaits her heart transplant. But Choi Seok Han is the chief of Chest Surgery Department, and he decides if Tae Soo will maintain his status or not. They work at Taesan Hospital\u2019s Chest Surgery Department, and every day is like a battle. Chest Surgery Departments are where the quality of university hospitals are decided. The skills of residents are proved there. Some people die in the operation room, and those who do not have confidence in their skills avoid doing surgery. People\u2019s lives depend on it. But among the doctors of Chest Surgery Department, those who have the skills required have no power while those who have power are not skilled enough. This makes them compete against each other in an ugly way even if the lives of patients depend on them.

Heart Surgeons

JTBC

One son chooses power while another son chooses justice. The powerful and corrupt Jang family has controlled the city of Bukcheon for three generations. The current leader of the family operations is Jang Beom Ho (Park Geun Hyung), and his oldest son, Jang Ki Seo (Kim Sung Kyun), follows in his father’s footsteps in all the ruthless dealings to keep a stronghold on the city through whatever violent means necessary.

The second son, Jang Joon Seo (Jin Goo), decides to pursue a more noble life by becoming a police detective. When Joon Seo’s wife ends up being killed, Joon Seo is determined to get to the bottom of the murder, even if it means exposing dirty secrets about his own powerful family. 

Seo Yi Ra (Jung Eun Ji), a prosecutor, is intent on bringing the Jang family to justice. But she has to contend with Joon Seo and Goo Ja Kyung (Go Jun Hee), the daughter of the former president, in her quest to bring down the powerful crime family.

“Untouchable” is a 2017-2018 South Korean drama series directed by Jo Nam Kook.

Untouchable

The Touch Me If You Can Team

How can a mermaid from the Joseon era survive in modern society?
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Shim Cheong (Jun Ji Hyun) is a mermaid who follows her one true love, a nobleman’s son named Kim Moon from the Joseon Dynasty to modern-day Seoul. Moon’s modern doppelgänger is Heo Joon Jae (Lee Min Ho), a highly-skilled scam artist who first becomes interested in Shim Cheong because of a jade bracelet worth $6 million that she wears.
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With nowhere to go, Shim Cheong is taken in by Joon Jae, who also finds his con partners, Jo Nam Doo (Lee Hee Joon) and Tae Oh (Shin Won Ho), hiding out in his home from a vengeful past victim of their scams. Shim Cheong discovers a rival for Joon Jae’s heart in Cha Shi Ah (Shin Hye Sun), a researcher at KAIST who deals with ancient artifacts.
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The plot takes a sinister turn when a dangerous killer named Ma Dae Young (Sung Dong Il) is sent by Joon Jae’s stepmother to murder him in order to make her own son the heir to Joon Jae’s fortunes. Can Shim Cheong survive her strange new environment while also helping Joon Jae avoid the dangers that await him?
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“The Legend of the Blue Sea” is a 2016-2017 South Korean drama series directed by Jin Hyuk. The story is inspired by a historical tale about a mermaid contained in a short story anthology known as Eou Yadam by Joseon-era scholar Yu Mong In.

The Legend of the Blue Sea

The Blue Sea

A former professional athlete loses everything in his lust for money.

Lee Hwan (Lee Min Ki) was a professional baseball player who was kicked out of the league after being implicated in a game-fixing scandal. He goes to work for Jung Sang Ha (Park Sung Woong), a powerful crime boss who operates Emperor Capital, the largest private loan company in Busan. Sang Ha takes the naïve Lee Hwan under his wings and shows him the life that money and power can get him, and Lee Hwan begins to climb the ranks of the dangerous loan shark business.

Lee Hwan meets bar owner Cha Yeon Soo (Lee Tae Im) and falls in love with her. But when Yeon Soo disappears one day, Lee Hwan suspects that his boss had something to do with it.

Will Lee Hwan have the courage to go after his mentor to save the woman he loves?

“For the Emperor” is a 2014 South Korean film directed by Park Sang Joon.

For the Emperor

Ambitious Emperor team

This drama depicts a stranger man's long and arduous journey to find his woman. The ideological conflict between the North and South Korea and revenge against those in power are just side stories. What penetrates here is a man's sublime and fierce love for a woman. It will give you a different impression and thrill from other medical dramas you have seen. It deals with the stories of doctors in a specific space called Myungwoo University Hospital, but in the end, it contains the joys and sorrows of life. So in that way, Doctor Stranger is a drama about our lives.

Doctor Stranger

The Doctors Without Borders

Three best friends grow up to very different situations in their adult lives as they approach the age of 40.

Yoon Jung Wan (Eugene) is a divorced mother who is struggling to make it as a screenwriter and make ends meet. Kim Sun Mi (Kim Yoo Mi) is a successful interior designer but considered to be a “gold miss” (a successful, but single, career woman in her 30s) by Korean standards. Kwon Ji Hyun (Choi Jung Yoon) is a housewife to a successful husband who appears to have the perfect life while hiding her personal pain from her friends.

When Jung Wan is given a golden opportunity to work with the temperamental, successful director Oh Kyung Soo (Uhm Tae Woong), will her struggles in life finally come to an end?

“Can We Love?” is a 2014 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Yun Cheol. It is based on the book Mother Needs a Man by Han Kyung Hye.

Can We Love?

Tae Gong Sil used to be a bright girl called \u201CSun.\u201D But after an accident where she barely managed to escape death, she starts to see strange things that no one can see. Going through lonely times, struggling to hold out in a horrifying world, she encounters Joo Joong Won, a greedy penny pincher and the owner of a huge shopping mall. Ever since Joong Won met Gong Sil, it seems like his life has become dark, but as they get close, they become special to each other. The two listen to sad and pitiful stories of spirits and help them out. Will they be able to find the light at the end of this spooky road?

Master's Sun

I See Dead People Team 

Is the easiest part of a relationship planning for the wedding? Hye Yoon (Jung So Min) and Jung Hoon (Sung Joon) are engaged to be married in 100 days. Hye Yoon’s older sister, Hye Jin (Jung Ae Yeon) is nicely married to a doctor, so Hye Yoon’s mother, Deul Ja (Lee Mi Sook), was determined to find an equally suitable husband for Hye Yoon. Imagine her disappointment when she learned that Hye Yoon had already fallen in love with a simple salaryman. Can Hye Yoon and Jung Hoon maintain their faith in love as they face family pressures in their relationship? “Can We Get Married?” is a 2012 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Yoon Cheol.

Can We Get Married?

Yoo Jin (Jo Yoon Hee) is a young art student and aspiring sculptress. She lives with her mother Jeong Im (Kim Chung). Many years ago, Jeong Im reluctantly divorced her husband due to an incident she would rather forget. Yoo Jin has found love with a fellow art student named Byeong Seok (Kim Dong Wook). Yoo Jin is happy with her boyfriend, although she dislikes the fact that he works part-time at a “host bar” to earn enough money to get by.

Yoo Jin is worried that her mother is getting older and unhappier by the day – so she decides to encourage her to start dating again. To inspire her to do this, she buys her mother a sex toy as a birthday gift. Unexpectedly, Jeong Im is reunited with Seung Rok (Jung Seung Ho), her first love from some two decades ago. Yoo Jin encourages her mother to date Seung Rok. But this newfound happiness is thrown into doubt when Byeong Seok learns that Jeong Im is meeting Seung Rok. He knows something that perturbs him greatly – to the point where he is prepared to take drastic action. What is the secret he has uncovered? And will it put an end to love for all four of them?

“Happy Together” is a 2007 South Korean movie that was directed by Kim Tae Hee.

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