A compilation of dramas and their remakes. Who did it best?

Who did it best?

Marketer Oh Ha Na and flight attendant Choi Won are old friends who have built a strong 17-year-long relationship together. They've always depended on each other and have remained close through the years. Could the fact that they've so comfortable with each other be the reason they are unable to realize when feelings other than friendship begin to develop? Choi Won, a vice manager flight attendant, gains a female friend in a new coworker, and Ha Na doesn't realize how much she is bothered by it. However, Ha Na, reuniting with her former love, pianist Cha Seo Hoo, ignores Won's feelings.

The Time We Were Not in Love

The Timeless Lovers

MBC, KOCOWA

Bo Ri is next in line for Seoul's most prestigious hanbok houses. An accident that strikes her family one unfortunate rainy evening brings them to a mixup and separates her from her biological parents. On the other hand, her step-sister Min Jung has the ultimate plan to steal all of what Bo Ri rightfully deserves. Regardless, the truth is a tough cookie to bite on for the family, and Bo Ri's kind innocence makes things easier for her step sister's diabolical plan to push through.

Jang Bori is Here

Identity Swap Team

Hunan TV

You can’t deny what flows through your veins.

Zhang Guo Guo (Sun Yi) is a bubbly young woman who was raised by Wang Ai Yu (Guo Hong) and grew up in the small town making deliveries for the family wonton shop. But unbeknownst to Guo Guo, she is actually the daughter of a famous embroidery workshop owner, but Ai Yu took her in after an accident and raised her alongside her own daughter, Zhang Yu Xin (Wu You).

Yu Xin becomes the apprentice of Xu Hui Jie (Pan Yi Jun), Guo Guo’s biological mother, and then goes overseas to study design. Meanwhile, Guo Guo’s unique talents with embroidery begins to surface, and she works hard to earn a chance to study at her father’s embroidery workshop.

As Guo Guo and Yu Xin become professional rivals, they also vie for the love of two brothers, Li Yun Kai (Deng Lun) and Li Yun Zhe (Dai Chao). Can Guo Guo pursue her dreams and find love along the way?

“Because of Meeting You” is a 2017 Chinese drama series directed by Zhou Xiao Peng. This is a special 45-minute episode version of the drama.

Because of Meeting You

Stitched Into Your Heart Team

All the youth in the world is beautiful because they do not fear facing the scorching sun, starting something new, calling others' names, or falling in love with someone. Jae Hee transfers to a boys' high school from the States to help Tae Joon regain his own feet as Tae Joon was there for her when she was at her lowest. Although Tae Joon announces his retirement as a high jumper, he slowly opens his heart thanks to Jae Hee. Eun Gyeol feels confused about his gender identity because of Jae Hee, who is disguised as a boy. But the boys here enjoy training and exercising regardless of their records and beyond competition and form beautiful bonds and show what real youth is like. Check out how the boys grow as humans and as athletes.

To the Beautiful You

The Beautiful Team

Once a popular girl, Hye Jin grew into freckles and curly hair, losing the perfect features she had during childhood. Sung Joon, who used to be chubby and fainthearted, grew up into a successful and perfect looking guy. Ha Ri, the girl who seems to have everything, lacks some sex appeal. Shin Hyuk is a guy with regurgitative humor who has something to hide. Hye Jin and Sung Joon had a crush on each other back in childhood, but He and his family moved to the states. After many years have passed, Sung Joon came back to Korea as a fashion magazine chief editor while Hye Jin was still jobless. He wishes to meet Hye Jin after his return.

She Was Pretty

The Ugly Ducklings

Fuji TV TWO

A girl with average looks and poor grades sees a boy on the first day of high school and falls head-over-heels in love with him. Kotoko (Honoka Miki) admires Naoki (Yuki Furukawa), the most handsome and smartest boy in school, from afar for three years. But fate throws them together under one household when her family home is struck by a falling meteor and destroyed. During her home’s reconstruction, Kotoko’s family stays with her father’s childhood friend, who just happens to be Naoki’s father. Despite living under one roof, can Kotoko possibly get Naoki to think of her as more than just a nuisance? “Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo,” also known as “Playful Kiss: Love in Tokyo,” is a 2013 Japanese drama series. This is the fifth television adaptation of the Japanese manga “Itazura Na Kiss” by Tada Kaoru, following the original Japanese series “Itazura Na Kiss” (1996), the Taiwanese series “It Started With a Kiss” (2005) and its sequel “They Kiss Again” (2007), and the Korean series “Playful Kiss” (2010).

Mischievous Kiss: Love in TOKYO

Mischievous Kisser Team

Fuji TV

Will life be one of married bliss for Naoki and Kotoko? In one of the most-anticipated sequels, the unlikely couple of the average Kotoko (Honoka Miki) and the brilliant Naoki (Yuki Furukawa) from “Mischievous Kiss: Love in TOKYO” returns for a second season! After the original series ended with the wedding of Naoki and Kotoko, the special episode “Mischievous Kiss 2: Love in Okinawa” follows Naoki and Kotoko on their honeymoon, where a strange couple turns up and meddles in their romantic getaway. As they settle back in their new lives after the honeymoon, can Naoki and Kotoko handle the pressures of marriage and their careers? “Mischievous Kiss 2: Love in TOKYO” is the sequel to the popular “Mischievous Kiss: Love in TOKYO” (2013). It is the fifth live adaptation of the popular Japanese manga “Itazura na Kiss,” following the original in 1996, Taiwan’s “It Started With a Kiss” (2005) and “They Kiss Again (2007), and Korea’s “Playful Kiss” (2010).

Mischievous Kiss 2: Love in TOKYO

How can a girl at the bottom of her class ever hope to capture the attention of the smartest and most popular boy in high school? Ha Ni (Jung So Min) is smitten with Seung Jo (Kim Hyun Joong) from the moment she laid eyes on him on the first day of school. He is the total package – tall, athletic, good-looking, and the envy of all the students because he always gets a perfect score on all his examinations. But Ha Ni’s affections are not returned, despite her energetic efforts to get his attention. Fate throws them under one roof when an earthquake destroys Ha Ni’s family home, and they live temporarily in the home of her father’s childhood friend, who turns out to be Seung Jo’s father. Will Ha Ni ever be able to get Seung Jo to think of her as anything more than a nuisance? “Playful Kiss” is a 2010 South Korean drama that is based on the Japanese manga “Itazura Na Kiss” (“Mischievous Kiss” and its sequel “Mischievous Kiss 2”), which has also been adapted in Taiwan as “It Started With a Kiss” and its sequel “They Kiss Again”.

Playful Kiss

the PKer team

Min Ik is a competent and clearheaded man who works as an executive of a leading telecommunications company. This smart guy recognizes people he has met just once and has the insight to read others\u2019 thoughts until he is diagnosed with face blindness. Gal Hee, a loyal secretary of Min Ik, is a dowdy and a disheveled little woman who has worked for Min Ik with all her might. On the day she gets fired out of the blue, she happens to witness Min Ik almost getting murdered by someone and becomes his right-hand man. Min Ik, who suffers from face blindness, mistakes Gal Hee for Veronica, a charming and influential figure in the filming industry, and falls in love with her. Gal Hee starts to pretend to be Veronica, and as time passes, even she gets confused about who she really is. But Veronica finds out about Gal Hee\u2019s double life and puts an end to it. Would the intertwined relationships and feelings be untangled in the end?

The Secret Life of My Secretary

Secret Secretaries Team

Four Blue Film Media

Is love truly blind? Ren Hao Ming (Liu Min Ting) is a blind rich businessman who hires Ruan Qing Tian (Feng Zhi Mo) as his assistant/caretaker. Although Qing Tian was forced to take the job by her stepmother, she ends up falling in love with Hao Ming through their close daily interactions.

Hao Ming undergoes corneal surgery and regains his vision. He goes in search of Qing Tian to propose to her, but Ruan Xin Xin, Qing Tian’s stepsister, intercepts and pretends to be her in order to marry him. 

Will Hao Ming realize that he married the wrong woman?

“The Maid of the Blind Master” is a 2016 Chinese web movie directed by Chu Hui Lin. It is part of the “Sad Love Stories” series produced by Four Blue Film Media. The other web movies in this series include “The Bride,” “Love Test”, “The Love,” “The Imprisoned Love” and “The Lover of a Capricious Painter.”

The Maid of the Blind Master

8/13/2013

Two palace maids play a dangerous game of love, but only one will capture the heart of a prince.

During the reign of Emperor Kang Xi of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Xiang (Zhou Dong Yu) is a maid who enters the palace to work. There, she meets another palace maid, Liu Li (Zhao Li Ying), and the two quickly become the best of friends.

Liu Li harbors ambitions of becoming the wife or concubine of a prince. Given an errand, Liu Li sends Cheng Xiang in her place. Cheng Xiang ends up meeting the 13th Prince Yin Xiang (Chen Xiao) during the errand, and the two become smitten with each other. When the 13th Prince goes to search for Cheng Xiang, who had her face covered by a handkerchief, Liu Li comes forward as the owner of the handkerchief, and the 13th Prince mistakenly believes that the woman he loves is Liu Li.

Will the 13th Prince find out the identity of his true love? Who will be the woman to stand by him until the end?

“The Palace” is a 2013 Chinese film directed by Pan An Zi.

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