Kim Jung Young is a South Korean actress. She was born on July 27, 1972 and made her acting debut in 2000. Since then, she has appeared in numerous films and television dramas, including “Secret Love Affair” (2014), “Signal” (2016), “Dr. Romantic” (2016), “The Smile Has Left Your Eyes” (2018), “Clean with Passion for Now” (2018), “Black Dog” (2019), and “CHIP-IN” (2020).

Kim Jung Young

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Kim Jae Won, Nam Sang Mi, Jo Jae Hyun, And More Test Out Their Chemistry At Script Reading For “Let Me Introduce Her”

Veteran Korean language teacher Seo Hye Jin (Jung Ryeo Won)’s stable and pressure-free life is unsettled by the return of her former pupil, the one-time troublemaker Lee Joon Ho (Wi Ha Joon). A decade ago, she helped him gain admission to a prestigious university. He secretly fell for her then, and has admired her from afar ever since. In the pursuit of love, he gives up his job at a major company to become a Korean language teacher – and be closer to Hye Jin again. Will his plan work? And could this former teacher and student find love, despite their sizable age gap? This 2024 South Korean romance drama series was directed by Ahn Pan Seok.

The Midnight Romance in Hagwon

KBS2

Born a princess and raised a soldier, Pyeong Gang (Kim So Hyun) is a woman with big dreams and limitless ambition. Determined to become the first Empress of Goguryeo, Pyeong Gang will stop at nothing to make her dream come true. Clever and level headed, Pyeong Gang is well aware of the obstacles that stand in her way and she’s more than capable of taking them on. With meticulous planning, she sets out to make her dream come true. But things take an unexpected turn, the day she meets On Dal (Na In Woo).&nbsp;&nbsp;

A peace-loving man, whose only goal in life is to live in harmony with those around him, On Dal is the exact opposite of the ambitious princess. A peaceful calm amidst the turbulent storms of Pyeong Gang’s life, the warrior princess soon finds herself falling for gentle On Dal. Equally in love with the princess whose heart he now possesses, On Dal finds himself forsaking his principles in order to keep her safe. An endeavor that proves increasingly difficult, as players from all sides converge in a lethal battle for the throne.

Forced to match both wits and strength against some of the most powerful men and women in Goguryeo, Pyeong Gang’s vie for power could very well cost her everything. Does she have what it takes to make her dreams come true or will the price she realizes she must pay prove to be too much?

Based on the novel “Princess Pyeonggang” by Choi Sagyu, “River Where the Moon Rises” is a 2021 historical romance drama directed by Yoon Sang Ho.

River Where the Moon Rises

A very well-loved, K-Drama romance that had many swooning. A woman going through a quarter-life crisis gives up her business career to pursue her passion for music and is accepted into one of Korea's most prestigious music schools. Little does she know, her heartstrings will be playing their own tune.

Do You Like Brahms?

The Brahma-Lama-Ding-Dong Team

MBC, KOCOWA

A painter is diagnosed with a terminal disease. On his 58th birthday, he plans to share his last will and testimony. However, his great legacy and immense fortune slowly draw out his family's inner greed, causing a fierce battle amongst them. They are too many people around him who are only after his legacy, including his ex-wife Ji Sul Young, Kim Ji Hye, a former mistress and mother to his daughter, and Dokko Chul, a son from a different father. They face different outcomes by the different choices they make as their greed overwhelms them.

CHIP-IN

Suspicious Reunion🔍

KBS02

Life, death, and second chances take center stage where three people whose intertwined destinies travel through space and time with haunting results. It's the 1980s, and Detective Cha Hyung Bin has devoted his life to criminal justice and his heart to Ha Eun, a bookshop owner suffering from heart disease who keeps her illness a secret. But Hyung Bin isn't the only one pining after Ha Eun: serial killer Ji Chul has also fallen in love with her. Their lives collide with tragic results, but 30 years later, they're reincarnated, and fate brings them together again. The more time passes, the more their new lives become tangled in the devastating web of history.

Born Again

Reborn Love

Teachers have a unique ability to leave lasting impressions on their students, but for Go Ha Neul (Seo Hyun Jin), that impression would shape the course of her entire life. After one of her school trips ends in a near fatal accident, Go Ha Neul lives the rest of her life in gratitude towards the teacher who risked his life to save hers. Now a teacher herself, Ha Neul hopes to make as much of a difference in the lives of her students as her teacher once did for her. But the dream she has is difficult to achieve, as the life of a teacher is anything but easy. Still, Ha Neul refuses to give up on her dreams.

Accepting a short-term teaching position at a private school, Ha Neul is determined to do her best to help her students as they face the various trials that exist in the highly competitive private school setting. As she dedicates herself to helping her students grow, Ha Neul begins to grow herself, thanks, in part, to the guidance of Park Sung Soon (Ra Mi Ran), the head of the school’s career counseling department, and Do Yeon Woo (Ha Jun), a Korean language teacher with an unwavering passion for teaching.

With Sung Soon as her mentor and Yeon Woo as her guide, Ha Neul finds the strength to overcome the challenges of teaching in today’s cutthroat education system, growing both as a person and a teacher, as she dedicates herself to helping her students make their own dreams come true.

A story of dedication and dreams, “Black Dog” is a 2019 drama directed by Hwang Joon Hyeok.

Black Dog

JTBC

Jang Sun Gyeol (Yoon Kyun Sang) has wealth and good looks but suffers from severe germophobia. He is obsessed with cleaning and even owns his own cleaning company. However, he meets a carefree and untidy girl named Gil Oh Sol (Kim Yoo Jung) after she enters his company as a new employee. Oh Sol (Kim Yoo Jung) has worked all sorts of part-time jobs while striving for a full-time job and does not have the time to date or keep everything clean. She gave up on being neat after facing the tough realites of the world and is known for always wearing her trademark tracksuit. But she has a bright personality and does not mind getting dirty. With the help of Oh Sol (Kim Yoo Jung), Sun Gyeol (Yoon Kyun Sang) faces his fear of germs and discovers that he's falling in love with her.

Clean with Passion for Now

🐙 💦 The Clean Freaks 💦 🐛

Strange things happen inside Room No. 9 of the high-security women’s prison.

Eulji Hae Yi (Kim Hee Sun) is a ruthless lawyer who wins all of her cases. She goes to meet with Jang Hwa Sa (Kim Hae Sook), who is on death row for an infamous case of poisoning serial murders. Inside Room No. 9 of the high-security women’s prison, the souls of Hae Yi and Hwa Sa change bodies. 

Does psychiatrist Gi Yoo Jin (Kim Young Kwang), who is Hae Yi’s boyfriend, somehow hold the key to the women returning to their own bodies?

“Room No. 9” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Ji Young Soo.

Room No. 9

An older brother will do anything to protect his younger sister.

Yoo Jin Kook (Park Sung Woong) is a veteran homicide detective who is getting weary of his job. The only light in his life is his younger sister, Yoo Jin Kang (Jung So Min). He dotes on her and is protective of her like a father figure ever since they lost their parents. 

When Jin Kook starts investigating a suicide of a university student, he can’t help but feel that the dead student’s boyfriend, Kim Moo Young (Seo In Guk), may have been responsible for her death.

Moo Young seems like a nice guy who works at a Korean beer microbrewery, but there seems to be a dark side to him. When Moo Young meets Jin Kang and the two begin to develop a relationship, Jin Kook is determined to stop it. But can Jin Kook protect Jin Kang when she needs it the most?

“Hundred Million Stars From the Sky” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Yoo Je Won. It is a remake of a 2002 Japanese drama series with the same title.

Hundred Million Stars From the Sky

The Twinkle Twinkle Team 

In order to live, a woman named Eun Han risks her life by going through a dangerous surgical procedure for a new face. However, due to the after-effects of surgery, she loses her memory. She tries to find the missing pieces of her memory and while suffering from a different face and not knowing about herself, Kang Woo appears in front of her. Kang Woo has been hurt as his lover left him. He suffers as his relationship with his father gets worse. Like they were destined, Eun Han and Kang Woo reunites. He becomes determined to help Eun Han find her memory. As they work together, Kang Woo slowly opens up his closed heart to Eun Han. Meanwhile, Chan Ki, the morning news anchor, lives a perfect life. However, he seems to have a dark side which no one would have ever imagined. This mystery melodrama takes people to unexpected places with unexpected people.

Let Me Introduce Her

Queen for Seven Days is a historical drama that draws attention to the Queen who was dethroned from her position after merely just seven days during the Joseon dynasty. While she was on the throne, Lady Shin, or Queen Dan Gyeong, is said to have been forcibly expelled from the palace by her political rivals. She's been known to be the shortest person to have reigned as a Queen in the history of Korea. It's also been known that the King and the Queen spent the rest of their lives longing for each other after she was dethroned and abandoned. Unlike how everyone else used to look at him with fear in their eyes, Lee Yung met a young woman who reached out to him first. For her, he desired to become a good king, but the world was too cruel to him. This fictional drama focuses on the love and struggle of the woman who was unwillingly drawn into the political world.

Queen for Seven Days

The History Tellers

JTBC 

What can a group of determined high school students accomplish?

On Christmas day, high school student Bae Joon Young (Seo Ji Hoon) discovers the dead body of his friend Lee So Woo (Seo Young Joo) buried under snow at school. Shocked, So Woo’s friends ask school administrators to investigate his death, but the adults seem unwilling to do anything. 

Prior to his death, So Woo gets into a fight with class bully Choi Woo Hyuk (Baek Chul Min) and is sent to talk to Han Kyung Moon (Jo Jae Hyun), the legal counsel for the school’s foundation, who wants So Woo to hide some damaging information.

As Han Ji Hoon (Jang Dong Yoon) plays the cello at So Woo’s memorial service, Go Seo Yeon (Kim Hyun Soo) gets an anonymous note slipped to her questioning So Woo’s death. With school officials and authorities trying to rule the death a suicide, Seo Yeon and her friends decide to investigate So Woo’s death on their own. Will they find out who killed So Woo and what the adults are trying to hide?

“Solomon’s Perjury” is a 2016-2017 South Korean drama series directed by Kang Il Soo. It is a remake of a 2015 two-part Japanese film series that was based on the novel Solomon’s Perjury by Miyuki Miyabe.

Solomon’s Perjury

Honest Minions

A 13-year-old girl named Soo Rin (Shin Eun Soo) is forced to relocate to a small island with her stepfather after the death of her mother when he is placed in charge of a major construction project on the island.

There she meets a young orphan boy named Seong Min (Lee Hyo Je). 

They soon discover that they have similar interests and a shared love for mysterious stories and folklore.

One day, Soo Rin joins Seong Min and his three friends on a secret journey to the heart of the construction site.

They come across a cave, and venture inside where they find a strange egg they believe may contain a monster that can turn children into adults. The boys take the egg – despite Soo Rin’s misgivings…

The boys vanish and find themselves trapped in a bizarre time bubble, while Soo Rin is unaffected. A massive manhunt is launched, with many fearing that the boys have been abducted by a dangerous criminal.

But when – a few years later – a 30-year-old man (played by Kang Dong Won) turns up telling Soo Rin that he is Seong Min, she must decide whether this strange man is an impostor, or if he really is her friend, all grown up.

“Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned” is a 2016 South Korean movie that was directed by Um Tae Hwa.

Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned

Dong Joo is the country's highest scorer in the medical licensure exam. Because of why he wants to become a doctor, he ends up getting reassigned to a small but terrific Doldam Hospital alongside his co-worker crush, Seo Jung. The two of them work on the hardest cases together while learning from the country's best surgeon. Though Dr. Kim's the most experienced surgeon in South Korea, his ways while on the table are against everything Dong Joo and Seo Jung spent years on in medical school.

Dr. Romantic

Romantic Doctors ♡

The past and the present collide through a powerful walkie-talkie. Park Hae Young (Lee Je Hoon) is a police lieutenant who is an expert criminal profiler. Hae Young went into police work despite his deep-rooted mistrust of cops stemming from a traumatic event from his childhood. When he was young, his friend Yoon Jung was kidnapped and later found dead. Hae Young saw a woman pick up Yoon Jung from school on the day that she went missing, but the police would not believe Hae Young and stated that a man took her. The case remains unsolved to this day. Now working at the same police station where Hae Young tried to get the cops to believe him as a child, Hae Young walks out of the station one day and hears someone talking to him. He searches around and finds a walkie-talkie with the voice of police detective Lee Jae Han (Cho Jin Woong) talking to him. But Jae Han is from decades into the past, and he is investigating the murder of Hae Young’s friend Yoon Jung. Cha Soo Hyun (Kim Hye Soo) was a rookie during Jae Han’s time and is now an experienced police detective. Can this unexpected trio help each other solve cold cases from the past by communicating through the walkie-talkie? “Signal” is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Won Suk. The series is based on a real-life crime spree that took place between 1986 and 1991 where 10 women were raped and murdered in the same geographic area in South Korea. The 2003 film “Memories of Murder” and the 2014 television drama “Gap Dong” also were based on the same events.

Signal

The Timeless Team

In Sang always feels intimidated in front of his perfect father. He can never be comfortable before his mother, who is also graceful and beautiful. Only after meeting with Bom, In Sang realized that his life was full of oppression. On the other hand, Bom's family barely leads a normal life. However, she has no idea that In Sang is from a very wealthy family. Without a clue about his family, Bom and In Sang overstep the mark. After many twists and turns, as Bom is almost due to give birth, she goes up to In Sang's parents. But what she has to face is inhospitality and disesteem beyond imagination. In time, she unintentionally discovers the secrets of In Sang's family and realizes that knowledge is power.

Heard It Through the Grapevine

The Whispers

Would a 40-year-old woman throw away her hard-earned marriage and career for an illicit love affair with a 20-year-old student? Oh Hye Won (Kim Hee Ae) worked her way up to becoming the planning director for the Seohan Arts Foundation after marrying Kang Joon Hyung (Park Hyuk Kwon), a piano professor at the Seohan College of Music. After helping her husband discover a piano prodigy who could help advance her husband’s standing within the music school, Hye Won starts an illicit affair with the student, Lee Seon Jae (Yoo Ah In). Will Hye Won and Seon Jae risk everything to continue their forbidden romance? “Secret Love Affair” is a 2014 South Korean drama series directed by Ahn Pan Seok.

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