Jo Soo Won

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Successful CEO, social media star, and mother Seo Jae Won's (Jang Na Ra) seemingly perfect life with husband Heo Sun Yeong (Son Ho Jun) is derailed when she is reunited with former classmate and friend Kwon Yun Jin (So Yi Hyun). Yun Jin is divorced, and her career is hanging by a thread. She is seemingly full of jealousy, and envies Jae Won’s joy-filled life. However, much darker secrets surround this trio, and threaten to throw all of their lives into a state of chaos. How will the truth unfold? Will it set Jae Won free – or spell her demise?

My Happy Ending

Pandora's Box Team

After a career-ending injury, former top judo athlete On Ma Eum (Kim Se Jeong) is struggling to adapt to her new job at a webtoon’s editorial department. After spending so long in the world of competitive sports, Ma Eum has no idea how to interact with people in the corporate sphere. Luckily, her co-workers Goo Jun Yeong (Nam Yoon Su) and Seok Jin Hyung (Choi Daniel) offer support, helping her slowly find her footing and begin to dream again. With the weight of her past slowly lifting, Ma Eum faces a new challenge: turning her newfound dreams into reality. The path to rediscovering her happiness might be tougher than she imagined, but it’s a journey she’s determined to take. Based on the original graphic novel JUHAN SHUTTAI! by Naoko Matsuda, this 2022 Korean drama was directed by Jo Soo Won and Kim Young Hwan.

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Sohn & Co

Disaster strikes teenage violin prodigy Woo Seo Ri (Shin Hae Sun) when a traffic accident leaves her hospitalized before she's supposed to study abroad in Germany. Gong Woo Jin (Yang Se Jong), who blames himself for the accident, is traumatized and plagued by guilt. Thirteen years later, he works as a set designer but remains emotionally cut off from everyone around him. After over twelve years in a coma, Seo Ri miraculously recovers. Though now thirty years old, she is still mentally a teenager. She crosses paths with Woo Jin, and the two become close, unaware of their shared past. Can these emotionally scarred individuals rescue each other, or will their history get in the way? This 2018 South Korean drama series was directed by Jo Soo Won.

Thirty But Seventeen

Go Ho (Kwon Yu Ri), a typical office worker, begins writing a provocative rating column for a magazine that unexpectedly becomes popular after she critically reviews her bad-tempered mentor, Tae Ho (Kim Young Kwang). Complicating matters, her ex-boyfriend Ji Hoon (Lee Ji Hoon) suddenly becomes her boss, creating tension between him and Tae Ho, who harbors secret feelings for Go Ho. As Tae Ho and Ji Hoon compete for her attention, Go Ho must navigate their rivalry and decide her romantic future. This 2016 Chinese-South Korean drama was directed by Jo Soo Won and Kim Young Hwan.

Gogh, The Starry Night

Oh Ha Na (Ha Ji Won) and Choi Won (Lee Jin Uk) have been best friends for twenty years, navigating life's ups and downs together since high school. Now in their mid-30s, both are successful professionals but somehow remain single. As they witness friends getting married and starting families, they begin to question their own close, yet undefined, relationship. Things only grow more complicated when Choi Won strikes up a friendship with a female coworker and Ha Na reunites with an ex, but neither of them fully recognizes why they feel unsettled by the other’s new companion. Will they find love with someone else, or will they realize that their perfect match has been in front of them the whole time? This drama was adapted from the 2011 Taiwanese drama “In Time with You.”

The Time We Were Not in Love

The Timeless Lovers

As a child, Ki Ha Myung’s (Lee Jong Suk) life was torn apart by the media: his firefighter father was accused of killing his team members, and his devastated mother jumped off a cliff, trying to take Ha Myung with her. However, Ha Myung survived, rescued by an old man with memory loss who renamed him after his own deceased son. Now named Choi Dal Po, he grew up with his “niece” Choi In Ha (Park Shin Hye), a girl the same age as him who suffers from "Pinocchio Syndrome," which causes her to hiccup uncontrollably whenever she tells a lie. As adults, they end up hired as reporters for rival news stations, navigating the cutthroat world of broadcast news, and encountering ethical dilemmas and the tragic consequences of biased reporting while also working through their burgeoning feelings for each other and the dark secrets of their pasts.

Pinocchio

The Can't Lie Team

After overcoming a difficult childhood, Jang Hye Sung (Lee Bo Young) finally succeeds in becoming a public defender. However, she sees her job purely as a way to make money, and tends to push people away with her blunt, jaded personality. Her outlook changes, though, when she unexpectedly runs into high school student Park Soo Ha (Lee Jong Suk) who claims he can help her. Soo Ha developed a strange ability to read people’s minds through eye contact after his father’s murder ten years prior – and teenage Hye Sung, who also witnessed the incident, eventually put the murderer behind bars. Though initially reluctant, Hye Sung allows Soo Ha to stick around, and his ability gives Hye Sung additional assistance in the courtroom. However, when Soo Ha’s father’s murderer is released, Hye Sung and Soo Ha are faced with their most dangerous situation yet.

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