Tis' the season to celebrate all your favorite dramas to get you in the mood for holiday romance and cheer!

12 Days of Drama

How can a mermaid from the Joseon era survive in modern society?
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Shim Cheong (Jun Ji Hyun) is a mermaid who follows her one true love, a nobleman’s son named Kim Moon from the Joseon Dynasty to modern-day Seoul. Moon’s modern doppelgänger is Heo Joon Jae (Lee Min Ho), a highly-skilled scam artist who first becomes interested in Shim Cheong because of a jade bracelet worth $6 million that she wears.
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With nowhere to go, Shim Cheong is taken in by Joon Jae, who also finds his con partners, Jo Nam Doo (Lee Hee Joon) and Tae Oh (Shin Won Ho), hiding out in his home from a vengeful past victim of their scams. Shim Cheong discovers a rival for Joon Jae’s heart in Cha Shi Ah (Shin Hye Sun), a researcher at KAIST who deals with ancient artifacts.
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The plot takes a sinister turn when a dangerous killer named Ma Dae Young (Sung Dong Il) is sent by Joon Jae’s stepmother to murder him in order to make her own son the heir to Joon Jae’s fortunes. Can Shim Cheong survive her strange new environment while also helping Joon Jae avoid the dangers that await him?
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“The Legend of the Blue Sea” is a 2016-2017 South Korean drama series directed by Jin Hyuk. The story is inspired by a historical tale about a mermaid contained in a short story anthology known as Eou Yadam by Joseon-era scholar Yu Mong In.

The Legend of the Blue Sea

The Blue Sea

KBS02

We all once have read about Hwarang and heard about a few famous historical Hwarangs. However, not one of us exactly knows what or who they were, as all myths do. How could beautiful-looking young men have been able to be the leaders of Silla, the millenary kingdom that united the ancient Korean Three Kingdoms? What kind of a rite of passage did they go through in order to become the spirit of Silla? Now, we give full scope to our imagination to answer these questions, which were never written in history. This is a story of the friendship and love of Hwarang and a story of the youth struggling to make the world a better place. Above all, this is a whole new myth.

Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth

Bok Joo is a college student and a weightlifting player. She deeply loves her father, who is sick but sells fried chicken to support her. She can't stand injustice and values loyalty. She has never had a chance to go on a blind date as she is a weightlifting player, but she accepts it as her life. Jun Hyung is a swimmer who goes to the same college as Bok Joo. They used to know each other when they were kids. He constantly teases her, so she resents him. Jun Hyung has a cousin, Jae Yi. He is kind to everyone, so it sometimes causes misunderstanding, making some women feel led on. One day, Bok Joo runs into Jae Yi and falls for him after seeing him smile at her. She finds out he is a doctor at an obesity clinic and signs up for the weight-loss program at the clinic. However, Jun Hyung finds out about this, and he can't pass up the opportunity to tease her.

Weightlifting Fairy, Kim Bok-joo

I'm Busy Getting Stronger Team

SETTV, TTV

Can a woman change the way a man leads his life? 

Zhao Yi Ting (Marcus Chang) is a man consumed by greed and bitterness because of the things that life has thrown at him. Yi Ting’s life becomes cold and meaningless. But when he meets Lei Xin Yu (Eugenie Liu), a young woman whose wealthy family has fallen on hard times, everything changes. He detests her at first but then is drawn to Xin Yu in a way that he has not felt in a long time. 

Will Yi Ting discover a new lease on life through Xin Yu? 

“Behind Your Smile” is a 2016-2017 Taiwanese drama series. It is based on the German legend of Faust.

Behind Your Smile

Mysterious Smile Team

Betrayed by the king he faithfully served, Kim Shin (Gong Yoo), a decorated military general from the Goryeo Dynasty, is forced to watch his family die before being transformed into a goblin by the higher powers. Cursed with the lonely burden of immortality, Kim Shin dedicates the rest of his long life to saving people with his supernatural abilities. Still, he wanders through his days searching for the prophesied Goblin bride. The bride is the only one who can pull out the sword piercing his body which will finally set his soul free to rest in peace in the afterlife.
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19 years ago, Kim Shin saved a woman from a life-threatening accident. From then on, the woman’s daughter Ji Eun Tak (Kim Go Eun) gained the ability to communicate with beings from the other side. Despite this, she grows up well and remains an optimistic high schooler who works a part-time job at a chicken restaurant. The restaurant’s owner, Sunny (Yoo In Na), finds herself falling in love with a grim reaper (Lee Dong Wook), who is also the goblin’s roommate.
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Unknowingly, the lives of these four individuals intertwine to reveal a fated story more complex than any character could have imagined. Will Kim Shin’s bride finally release him from his eternal misery?
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Also known as “the Lonely Shining God” or “Goblin”, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God is written by fan-favorite writer Kim Eun Sook, the pen behind other successful series like “Heirs” (2013) and “Descendants of the Sun” (2016).&nbsp;If you’re a fan of well-written romance stories with a twist, this Kdrama is a must-watch. The numerous awards, high ratings, and rave reviews received by this show speak for itself.&nbsp;

Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

The Immortal Team

SET TV

They are enemies in their professional lives. Chiang Chih Heng (Melvin Sia) is a former mercenary who now is known as “The Bodyguard.” He is the owner of Krisis, a security consultancy company that protects public figures who are chased by the paparazzi. Ting Ruo Chin (Huang Wei Ting) is nicknamed the “Variety Queen” for her dogged ability to chase down celebrity gossip exclusives as a tabloid journalist for “V-Focus.” On their way to a news event, Chih Heng and Ruo Chin become stranded on a desert island together. What will become of these professional enemies? “V-Focus” is a 2016 Taiwanese drama directed by Hao Xin Xiang.

V-Focus

The Bodyguards

Hunan TV 

Can memory loss help you to correct a past mistake? Li Wei Wei (Joe Chen) is a 30-year-old successful fashion designer. But a near-drowning makes her lose the memory of the past seven years of her life. In her current life, Wei Wei is surprised to learn that she had broken up with her boyfriend, Chen Yi Du (Wang Kai), and is now engaged to a man she does not remember, Qi Cheng (Kimi Qiao). Zhang Li Ao (Derek Chang), whom Wei Wei took in and raised to become a supermodel after his parents died when he was 17, tries to protect Wei Wei through this difficult time. Unable to believe her life choices, Wei Wei tries to find out what caused her to break up with Yi Du while Qi Cheng tries to win back his fiancée’s heart. Which man is Wei Wei’s one true love? “Stay With Me” is a 2016-2017 Chinese drama series directed by Ruan Wei Xin.

Stay With Me

Gone with the Shirt Team

How could twin sisters be such polar opposites? 

Kwon Si Ah (Nahyun of SONAMOO) is the beautiful sister, gorgeous in every way and a member of the popular girl group known as Miracle Girls. Since she was in preschool, Sia has worked as a model and then a teen actress before becoming an idol. 

Her fraternal twin sister, Si Yeon (Hong Yoon Hwa), is almost double the body size of Si Ah and has always been ridiculed and bullied in school for her large frame. Because of this, Si Yeon has become a recluse, who prefers staying home and producing an Internet broadcast within the safety of her room. The only time Si Yeon ventures out is to visit a mysterious tarot card reader who gives Si Yeon a magical tarot card every day. 

But the twin sisters’ lives are turned upside down when they wake up one day and realize that their souls have switched bodies! What will an idol musician (Donghyun of Boyfriend) and Si Yeon’s high school crush (Hak Jin) think of the women they thought they knew? 

“The Miracle” is a 2016 Viki Original drama series.

The Miracle

Bodyswitch Team

Gap Soon is the third daughter of three siblings. She has been in a long-term relationship with a guy preparing for a state exam. As they have known each other since elementary school, their hearts don't exactly flutter at the sight of each other. Neither of them has enough money without having achieved anything substantial, so they cannot even think of getting married. One day, Gap Soon suddenly gets pregnant, so they decide to move in together. However, their life together doesn't go smoothly.

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