Ha Do Kwon, born Kim Yeong Gu, is a South Korean actor. He was born on March 3, 1977 and made his acting debut in 2014. Since then, he has appeared in various films and television dramas, including “Gogh, the Starry Night” (2016), “Thirty But Seventeen” (2018), “The Last Empress” (2018), “Stove League” (2019), and “Stove League: The Real” (2020).

Ha Do Kwon

Once a member of the National Judo Team, On Ma Eum’s (Kim Se Jeong) entire life revolved around the sport. But when a tough match leaves her with a torn ankle ligament, she’s forced to watch as all of her dreams of continuing in the sport crumble around her. With her career as a professional judoka now entirely over, Ma Eum must find a way to pick herself up and move on.

Without any sort of dream to drive her, Ma Eum isn’t really sure what to do next. Taking her first non-sports-related job working in a webtoon editorial department, Ma Eum finds it difficult to adjust. Unable to relate to her co-workers, Ma Eum has trouble fitting in as her life as an athlete has left her a little rough around the edges. Beyond that, the work she’s been assigned just isn’t what she’s used to. Struggling to adapt to her new life, Ma Eum wonders if she’ll ever find a way to be happy again.

Fortunately, with the passing of time and a little help from her co-workers, Goo Jun Yeong (Nam Yoon Su) and Seok Jin Hyung (Daniel Choi), Ma Eum begins to find herself slowly settling into her new life. As the struggles in her life begin to dissipate, Ma Eum finds herself reaching for a new dream. The only question is, will she have the strength she needs to turn that dream into a reality?

Based on the original graphic novel "JUHAN SHUTTAI!" created by Naoko Mazda (ⓒ Naoko Mazda / SHOGAKUKAN), “Today’s Webtoon” is a 2022 Korean comedy drama directed by Jo Soo Won.

Today's Webtoon

✧･ﾟ The Webtoonies *✧ Team

As one of the nation’s most beloved stars, Gong Tae Sung (Kim Young Dae) is used to living his life in the spotlight. With the eyes of the world constantly on him, Tae Sung does his best to keep a smile on his face and his temper in check. Seen by the people as a kind and polite young man, the only people who don’t buy into his whole good guy personna are those working for his management company.

As the head of that company’s PR team, Oh Han Byeol (Lee Sung Kyung) knows exactly what Tae Sung is really like. Well aware of his strong desire to win and his hot temper, Han Byeol has had to employ her excellent speech and crisis management skills on a number of occasions, in order to keep Tae Sung’s reputation as spotless as it seems. Constantly bickering, there isn’t anyone in the world better suited to the role of natural enemies than Han Byeol and Tae Sung.&nbsp;

Forever at odds with each other, Tae Sung and Han Byeol seem destined to hate each other forever. But could the time they’re forced to spend together change those feelings or will their mutual loathing last for all eternity?

A hilarious story of the ultimate love/hate relationship, “Sh**ting Stars” is a 2022 Korean romantic comedy drama directed by Lee Soo Hyun.

Sh**ting Stars

💕Love You to the Stars🌠

Lee Ho Chul (Jin Goo) is an ordinary guy. He works as a firefighter and has a simple but happy life. However, one fateful day, his world is turned upside down after his daughter is unexpectedly kidnapped. The news is dominated by stories about a serial killer who has been terrorizing the nation. While Lee Ho Chul is searching for a way to find his child, a stranger informs him that the killer is actually his next-door neighbor, Kwon Si Woo (Lee Won Geun).

But this stranger is actually Bae Tae Jin (Ha Do Kwon), a hired contract killer who is hunting the murderer. Even though Lee Ho Chul just wants to look for his daughter, he suddenly finds himself sucked into a potentially deadly stand-off between his neighbor and the contract killer. In the space of just 24 hours, he must locate his daughter and untangle a fatal web of violence and terror before time runs out...

This drama was based on a 2008-2009 web-based cartoon series that was written by Team Getname.

“A Superior Day” is a 2022 South Korean drama series that was directed by Jo Nam Hyung.

A Superior Day

The Superior Team♟️

TVING

At the age of 28, Jeong Jin (Nam Ji Hyun) had everything in life that a person could ever want or need. With a great job and a fantastic boyfriend, Jin was convinced her life was as close to perfect as anyone could ever wish. Little did she know, her perfect world was about to come crashing down around her.&nbsp;

Stricken by a string of bad luck, Jin now finds herself without a job, a boyfriend, or a clue as to what to do next. With no better ideas, Jin agrees to open a restaurant with her mother but even that venture ends in bankruptcy. With her mother leaving for the countryside, Jin is left with nothing but a failed business and overwhelming heartache. But after an unexpected encounter with Jo Hee Ra (Song Ji Hyo), a sorceress who specializes in granting wishes, things take an unexpected turn for the better.

Wishing to borrow Jin’s restaurant to run a restaurant of her own, Jin agrees to the mysterious woman’s request. Soon the place is full of people willing to sell their soul for a taste of Hee Ra’s magical wish-granting dishes. Though thrilled by their success, Jin sometimes wonders if the price of Hee Ra’s dishes isn’t just a little high...

Adapted from a novel of the same name written by Goo Sang Hee, “The Witch’s Diner” is a 2021 fantasy drama directed by So Jae Hyun.

The Witch's Diner

🧙🏻‍♀️✨Dinner at the Witch's ✨

Su Ryeon finally takes revenge on the residents of Hera Palace. They lost all of their money by investing in Cheonsoo District, and even worse, they stand before the court for covering up Seol A\u2019s death. Those greedy residents of Hera Palace who caught themselves in their own traps end up losing their fortunes, reputations, and everything they had, and Su Ryeon succeeds in getting her revenge on Dan Tae who tried to kill her. When Su Ryeon thought the nightmare is finally over, she witnesses Logan\u2019s death right before her eyes. Who could have planned to murder Logan, and what will happen to the residents of Hera Palace next? Their desire for revenge is not over yet.

The Penthouse 3

💥The Penthouse Tangles III💥

Seo Jin and Dan Tae eventually get rid of everyone who was in their way. They shamelessly frame Yoon Hee for the murder of Su Ryeon and even cover up the death of Seol A. The residents of Hera Palace believe everything will return to how it used to be. However, the tides change when Yoon Hee escapes prison and Eun Byeol discovers the truth. Their mysterious fates are still yet to be seen. Will they manage to protect their precious palace until the very end?

The Penthouse 2

💥 The Penthouse Tangles II 💥

The residents of Hera Palace, a luxury penthouse apartment with 100 floors, have many secrets and hidden ambitions. Sim Su Ryeon, who was born into wealth, is the queen of the penthouse apartment. Cheon Seo Jin, the prima donna of the residence, does all she can to give everything to her daughter. Oh Yoon Hee comes from a poor family background, but she strives to enter high society by becoming the queen of the penthouse, the pinnacle of success in her eyes.

The Penthouse

The Penthouse Tangles 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

People think it is a doctor's bounden duty to save a patient's life. But things are different now. Things are needed to be considered other than saving one's life. Modern medicine has been developed remarkably, and it is quite possible to save a person's life who is on the verge of death. But we need to think about if prolonging a patient's life makes the patient truly happy. Yo Han is a promising doctor who needs only 10 seconds to figure out a patient's condition. While he is gaining fame with his outstanding skills, he confronts one patient who changes his whole life. Si Young is a doctor with a warm heart. Her family has been doctors for generations, and she takes after her mother's exceptional talent and her father's high empathic ability. But one day, Si Young suddenly leaves the hospital. After a year later, she goes to the penitentiary to serve as a temporary medical doctor, and she meets a prisoner who was a former doctor. He is a genius who can grasp the patient's condition within 10 seconds. After meeting him, Si Young's life totally changes. And the day she comes back to the hospital, she meets the prisoner again, and this time, he is a professor. Doctor John is a human medical drama of anesthetists who seek the cause of mysterious pain their patients suffer, like detectives chasing after a suspect.

Doctor John

Situated in the present in a fantasy depiction of Korea under the rule of a constitutional monarchy at the height of its turmoil, an exuberant and aspiring musical actress marries the emperor. Soon she discovers within the Royal Family of its corruption and secrets and becomes entangled in its struggle to lead. Meanwhile, she falls in love with a man who is a bodyguard for the Royal Family, working only to get revenge against them. Armed with only her pure love for the justice of humanity and a bulldozer like passion, she escapes from their false conviction of murder, resolves public welfare, recaptures the people's respect, and finds her true love. Together they fight the absolute power of the palace until it crumbles.

The Last Empress

The Empress' Minions

Sohn & Co

A life can change in an instant.

Woo Seo Ri (Shin Hye Sun) was a 17-year-old violin prodigy who is getting ready to study abroad in Germany. But a serious car accident leaves her in a coma.

Gong Woo Jin (Yang Se Jong), who caused the accident, is traumatized and plagued by the guilt of what he has done. Thirteen years later, he works as a set designer but is emotionally cut off from everyone around him.

When Seo Ri wakes up unexpectedly from her coma 13 years later, she is in the body of a 30-year-old woman but is mentally still only 17. Can Woo Jin help her adjust to her new world and learn to live and love again?

“Thirty But Seventeen” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Jo Soo Won.

Thirty But Seventeen

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

Go Ho who used to work at a company like any other ordinary people starts to write a rating column for a magazine. This mere evaluation column makes a big hit as she reviews her bad-tempered mentor, Tae Ho, to backbite him. Then one day, her ex-boyfriend Ji Hoon appears as her boss. Ji Hoon's appearance bothers Tae Ho because he secretly had a crush on Go Ho. So Ji Hoon and Tae Ho keep each other in check. Find out who Go Ho chooses between Tae Ho and Ji Hoon or anyone else.

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