Jung Dong Hwan is a South Korean actor. He was born on August 5, 1949 in Gimje, North Jeolla Province, South Korea and made his acting debut in 1978, when he took on his first role in a television drama. Since then, he has appeared in several films and numerous television dramas, including “Spring Waltz” (2006), “Scent of a Woman” (2011), “You’re All Surrounded” (2014), “Hotel Del Luna” (2019), and “The Game: Towards Zero” (2020).

Jung Dong Hwan

Corruption is rife at the affluent JU Construction, so the firm brings in a new auditing team to clean the company up. Heading this unit is the ice-cold cynic Shin Cha Il (Shin Ha Kyun), a specialist in hunting down white-collar criminals. However, his audit team members do not all share his deep distrust of humanity. The team includes new hire Goo Han Soo (Lee Jung Ha), a warm-hearted Gen Z employee who applied to join the audit team thinking it might help him to land a job in the United States. The duo immediately begin butting heads, due to their wildly different world views. However, they soon begin to discover that pitting their wits leads them both to success. Can they form a bond of respect – and help purge corruption from the company once and for all? This 2024 South Korean drama series was directed by Kwon Young Il.

The Auditors

~ The Audit Team ~

Bang Yeong Gam

On December 12, 1979, South Korea’s president, Park Chung Hee was assassinated. Acting in direct defiance of Acting President Han Gyu (Jung Dong Hwan), Major General Chun Doo Gwang (Hwang Jung Min) and the officers who followed him, arrest General Jeong Sang Ho (Lee Sung Min), the Republic Of Korea’s Army Chief of Staff, on allegations of involvement in the late president’s murder, clearing the way for a national coup d'état.

Following the capture of General Jeong, an impressive military presence sets itself up in downtown Seoul in support of Major General Chun. Utterly appalled by Major General Chun’s grab for power, Commander Lee Tae Shin (Jung Woo Sung) of the Capital Garrison Command rallies forces to take a stand against Chun Doo Gwang.&nbsp;

Fighting against those trying to seize power, Commander Lee does everything he can to stop the insurrection. As tensions rise between the two groups, military leaders are called to action but nothing seems able to stop Chun Doo Gwang in his quest for power. Backed by powerful allies, will Chun’s grab for power ultimately pay off?

Inspired by true events, “12.12: The Day” is a 2023 South Korean historical action drama film directed by Kim Sung Su.&nbsp;

12.12: The Day

KBS, KOCOWA

A neuroscientist Shin Ha Ru with a special brain, a selfless detective Geum Myung Se with a kind brain, a law hypnosis investigator Seol So Jung with a timid brain, and Kim Mo Ran with a hyper-sexuality brain, will join the force and investigate criminal cases as a team. A neuroscience team has been established in order to deal with the increasing number of crimes related to brain disease, and Ha Ru joins them as a consultant. Coincidently, Myung Se and Ha Ru get involved in an ill-fated relationship, and brutal cooperation begins. What will happen during the all-too-human investigation full of madness and plot twists?

Brain Works

🐭Pinky & Brain Team🧠

As founder and CEO of one of the country’s largest IT companies, Kim Sun Joo (Park Sung Woong) is a name everyone knows. A true genius in his field, Sun Joo has everything in life going for him. But living at the top comes with its own set of challenges, and some would stop at nothing to bring him down. In this case, literally.

Hunted down by an unknown killer, Sun Joo becomes the unfortunate victim of a senseless murder. But instead of leaving this life, Sun Joo’s spirit somehow takes up residence in his smartphone. Now trapped within his phone, Sun Joo might have spent an eternity there, had Park In Sung (Chae Jong Hyeop) not stumbled upon it. A down-and-out university graduate unable to find a job, In Sung is shocked to find a phone inhabited by the spirit of Sun Joo. Taking advantage of the situation Sun Joo does his best to convince In Sung to help him; a task which becomes much easier once he mentions the hefty reward he’s willing to give In Sung in exchange for his services.&nbsp;

Taking on the role of temporary CEO, In Sung steps into Sun Joo’s shoes at the company, much to the chagrin of his secretary, Jung Se Yeon (Seo Eun Soo). Working together in secret, will the two be able to find those responsible for Sun Joo’s death?

Adapted from the webtoon “Unlock the Boss” by Park Seong Hyun, “Unlock My Boss” is a 2022 South Korean comedy mystery drama directed by Lee Chul Ha.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Unlock My Boss

Who Lets The Boss Out? 📲

Tae Pyung was born with the ability to see how one will die and what will happen to them right before death when he looks them in the eye. He sees the vision about his death too. However, the ability of him doesn't work on Joon Young, who is a detective at the Violent Crimes Department of Central Police Station. Since her father died when she was little, Joon Young kept a scar on her heart and never relied on anyone. However, as she gets to know about Tae Pyung, she wants to heal Tae Pyung's wounds, and at the same time, she wants her scar to be cured. Meanwhile, Tae Pyung finds it strange as he cannot see the vision about Joon Young's death only. He soon gets filled with fear, and finally, he's faced with the truth that he couldn't discover.

The Game: Towards Zero

The Fearless Team

Nestled deep in the heart of Seoul’s thriving downtown sits a curious hotel, the like of which no one has ever seen before. Old beyond measure, the building has stood for millennia, an ever-present testament to the fact that things are not always what they seem. Running this hotel is Jang Man Wol (IU), a greedy, suspicious soul who has spent the past thousand years acting as the establishment’s CEO.

Cursed for a sin she can no longer remember committing, Man Wol is doomed to spend all of the eternity running this odd establishment, catering to the needs of a most peculiar clientele. Her only hope of escape is to find someone who has committed a worse sin than her own but after a thousand years, she’s beginning to lose hope.

However, things take an interesting turn when Goo Chan Sung (Yeo Jin Goo) shows up. Once the youngest assistant manager ever to work at a multinational hotel corporation, Chan Sung finds himself forced to manage the Hotel del Luna because of a deal his father made with Man Wol years ago. A stickler for rules and regulations, he’s a perfectionist to the extreme but that may be exactly what this odd establishment and its cursed CEO needs.

A tale of old curses, lost souls, and unexpected surprises, “Hotel Del Luna” is a 2019 mystery, romance, fantasy drama directed by Oh Choong Hwan.

Hotel Del Luna

🏨  Team Hotel Del Luna  🌕

Former teenage sweethearts separated by uncontrollable circumstances, Sin Joon Young (Kim Woo Bin) and No Eul (Suzy) are reunited as adults – when the latter is commissioned to make a documentary about Joon Young. He is now a superstar actor and singer who's dead-set against filming his documentary and gives No Eul a miserable time. Gradually, he relents to the documentary and uses the time to try and win her heart back. Can they rekindle their once-passionate love? This 2016 South Korean drama series was directed by Park Hyun Suk and Cha Young Hoon.

Uncontrollably Fond

The Uncontrollable Lovebirds

Yoon Sung Ho

One man will go to any lengths to find his father’s killer. Cha Ji Won (Lee Jin Wook) is a highly trained Navy SEAL officer who is a member of the special Underwater Demolition Team. Ji Won and his best friend, Min Sun Jae (Kim Kang Woo), have done everything together since childhood, when Sun Jae was taken in by Ji Won’s father because Sun Jae wanted to get away from his deadbeat dad. But Sun Jae has always harbored a resentment against Ji Won for having a silver spoon in his mouth while he has had to struggle to get anything in life. While Ji Won’s younger sister, Cha Ji Soo (Im Se Mi), has always liked Sun Jae, Sun Jae has had a secret crush on Yoon Ma Ri (Yoo In Young), Ji Won’s fiancée. Sun Jae decides to leave the Navy to get out from under Ji Won’s shadow, but the only place he has to go is Ji Won’s father’s corporation. New on the job, Sun Jae becomes an easy target for the company’s enemies and he is framed to do a number of deeds that leads to the death of Ji Won’s father. When the devastated Ji Won learns that his father has been murdered in Thailand, he is determined to find the killer, only to find himself framed as the killer of a local man and becoming an outlaw. With the help of Korean ex-patriots Kaya (Moon Chae Won), a two-bit street hustler; Ko Sung Min (Lee Won Jong), an unlicensed doctor to local gangsters; and Kim Ji Ryoong (Kim Tae Woo), a humanitarian worker in Thailand, can Ji Won find his way back to Korea and find his father’s real killer? “Goodbye Mr. Black” is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Han Hee. It is based on a comic written by Hwang Mi Na that is loosely fashioned after “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas.

Goodbye Mr. Black

BLACK Is Back Team

Cha Jae Wan

The truth doesn't fade away even if we ignore it. The incidents in history are even more so. From the 1970s to the 1990s, and even today, we humbly invite the characters who have lived through the modern history of Korea. The drama "Endless Love" is like a vast picture of modern history where you can see the inspiration and foresight for the future that descendants must live through. As it again shows many incidents in detail written in our history books, we have a new opportunity to imagine what things could have been done differently.

Endless Love

Love Is Infinite Team

Four rookie detectives come from different backgrounds, dreams, and past lives. They bump into each other on the most cherished Gangnam Police Department, which isn't exactly the dream station they hope to find for their career. Dae Koo, Soo Sun, Tae Il, and Kook are led by their team leader Legendary Detective Pan Seok. What Pan Seok doesn't know is that he's dealing with the son of a victim from his one and only mismanaged case. Team 3's out to serve and protect Gangnam's justice system.

You're All Surrounded

The Freeze! Team

A boy has the psychic power to read other people's minds. Because of that ability, he learned how irrational our world is and how many aggrieved people there are. The boy wants to help them using his power, but the problem is the boy is still a minor. However, there is a woman who overcame the adversity of poverty and became a public defender. Sometimes those who lack their ability become perfect heroes. These days, when rewards and punishments are not fair and desperate people suffer, we want to hear the story where justice is served. This is a 21st-century fairy tale where you can meet a hero who finds happiness by helping others.

I Hear Your Voice

Kim Woo Hyun is the only son of a high-ranking police officer. He breezes through the police academy and graduates from it with honors. After being assigned to the cyber investigation department, Detective Kim finds himself entrenched in a cat and mouse game with a faceless enemy in the cyber world. Tirelessly hunting down the hacker, alias of Hades, he finds out that Hades is his past roommate in the police academy, Ki Young. Ki young is caught. But he escapes and tries to find an evidence proving his innocence. Meanwhile, Woo Hyun tries to reveal the secrets of those that hide within the cyber world.

Ghost

The Cyberghosts Team

Yeon Jae endures harassment and unfair treatment from her boss because she doesn't want to lose her job. However, she regrets this decision when she hears that she has only six months to live. Ji Wook was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. But he doesn't like the life that his father wants him to live. Then he meets Yeon Jae, who is running out of time to find the love of her life.

The Scent of a Woman

In the middle of the 18th century in Joseon, the social class's severe contradiction and rapid change are vividly described through the main character of this story, who was born into the lowest-class family. This is a story about the hope and self-consciousness of the lowest class of people, who were evaluated only by the value of wealth without being recognized for the minimum value as a human being. In addition, it introduces the reality of the underground organization of the lowest class of people, which emerged as a serious social problem during the Manchu Invasion of Korea in 1636.

Jewel in the Crown

Sign of the Heavens Team

MBC, KOCOWA

Geon's main job is as a fraudster, and he is best at lying. He was nicknamed Yellow Gun because he lived as a bully in the back alley and had a fist as fast as a gun. Geon lost his parents and went to Australia. Geon felt terrible about his sister and had a hard time being separated from her. Ha Neul has been waiting for her brother Geon for 15 years, living as Park Hye Won in her newly adopted house. Her long-awaited brother showed up, but he doesn't seem to remember himself. A tangled love story between a brother and sister who are reversed by a complicated fate and two men and women who love them begins.

One Fine Day

Sang Hyun is a lowly detective with no money. He fell in love with Hye Ju, whom he met by accident, and even took out loans to send her to study in Prague. However, while there, she dumps him and he sets out to Prague to find her. In the process, he meets Jae Hee, who is the President of Korea\u2019s daughter and a diplomat. Jae Hee, who has always dreamt of a life filled with romance and freedom, falls for him fast. But she also carries wounds from her past relationship with Yeong Woo. Yeong Woo, who is a son of a billionaire, had to push her away due to his father\u2019s machinations in politics. He returns to Prague in search of her but she has already found someone new to love, Sang Hyun. How will this love story conclude as the complicated lives of these four people come to a head?

Lovers in Prague

SBS, KOCOWA

So Hyun's father was a famous movie director who passed away in a tragic accident. She is determined to follow in his footsteps and make a name for herself in the film industry. Despite the numerous hardships she is forced to endure, she somehow manages to pursue her dream with her head held up high. So Hyun gets a menial job working at a multiplex theater and meets new people who help her along the way. Jun Pyo is an assistant director and rising star in the film industry. By some coincidence, he ends up living in the same house as So Hyun. He discovers that she's the daughter of the director whom he greatly respected before his passing and finds himself developing feelings for her. So Hyun's childhood friend, Yu Ra, also works in the film industry. However, she begins to feel threatened by So Hyun whenever they cross paths. The relationships among these men and women are fraught with conflict and competition but also romance and a shared passion for films.

Screen

Jun Sang is a man with a mystery of his birth and has sorrow on his pale and cold-looking face. He transfers to a new high school to find his father and meets Yu Jin and Sang Hyuk there. Jun Sang hates Sang Hyuk because of his father's secrets. He falls in love with Yu Jin but gets in a car accident when he leaves with a misunderstanding. Ten years after Jun Sang dies, Yu Jin is engaged to Sang Hyuk, who has always been by her side. Yu Jin, who runs an interior company, works on the renovation of a ski resort and encounters the director, who is the person in charge. The man, Min Hyung, looks just like Jun Sang, who died. Min Hyung's appearance changes the relationship between these three completely.

Winter Sonata

Jun Seo and Eun Seo are a brother and a sister who grew up in a happy and wealthy family. Sin Ae grew up in a tough life with her mother, who runs a restaurant, and she is always jealous of Eun Seo, who has everything she wants. When she bullies Eun Seo out of jealousy, she is scolded by Jun Seo. Eun Seo is hospitalized after a car accident one day, and the truth is disclosed that Eun Seo is not the biological daughter of Professor Yoon's couple. Eun Seo leaves Professor Yoon's couple to find her birth parents, and Professor Yoon's family leaves for the United States. As an adult, Eun Seo works at a hotel. She runs into drunken Tae Seok, the son of the CEO of the hotel, and Tae Seok falls in love with Eun Seo. However, Eun Seo and Jun Seo fall in love with each other after they are reunited as adults. What will bring from the heartbreaking love and separations between these four people?

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