Lights, Camera, Action! Check out our hottest dramas where stars find the balance between fame and love!

Star in Love

KBS02

The real story of the people working at the broadcasting station! Overworking is natural, working overnight is common, and every day is super hectic. Jun Mo is a producer of a popular variety show. Ye Jin, an old friend of Jun Mo from childhood, is also a producer of a music show, and she kind of has feelings for Jun Mo and always tries to take care of him. Seung Chan, a rookie producer in the Entertainment Department, used to be praised as a prodigy when he was young. As Seung Chan hasn't watched variety shows much, he studies them just like he studied at school, and while learning and getting scolded by Ye Jin, he falls for her. Cindy is a poker-faced young singer with ten years of experience who has a crush on Seung Chan.

THE Producers

The Producers

Soo Ho is a top class actor with a shining career. He debuted as a child actor, and at a very young age, he realized that in order to succeed, he must hide his true self behind a mask. He smiles in front of the cameras, but when alone at home, he's always depressed and gets nightmares. Geu Rim is a young, passionate assistant writer for a radio show. She is a woman with initiative and drive. Positive mindset and tenacity are her forte. One day, she gets asked to be the main writer for a radio show, but there is one condition. She must cast Soo Ho as the DJ for the show. Although she had a feeling from the start that it wouldn't be an easy task, it turns out to be quite difficult. For Geu Rim whose dream since childhood was writing for her own radio show, she must capture this opportunity. Their story begins by Geu Rim meeting the top celebrity, Soo Ho.

Radio Romance

Love On The Air Team 💗

SBS, KOCOWA

Min Ju, a career-driven producer, excels in staging on-screen love and yet struggles to script her own romance. Determined to champion her single life, she moves to Woori City only to meet unexpected neighbor Sang Sik, a steadfast civil servant who has maintained a quiet life with his daughter and siblings after losing his wife 15 years ago. Change isn\u2019t on his wishlist, but his world is thrown into chaos when a new deputy mayor steps into town. Amidst their tumultuous relationship, will love dare to blossom?

Second to Last Love

Last Love Team

Just 18 months into being a top-selling girl group, the Treasure Girls disband. A quick ten-year hop in the future, their lead vocalist Ae Jung goes through many difficulties releasing one controversy flop after another. On the other hand, Ko Jin is the epitome of a perfect man in the eyes of every Korean lady. He's hot, he's humble, and he's got a great set of movies on his career. The two meet, but what's covered in glitz and glamour is apparently a facade of what's real.

The Greatest Love

Tencent TV

Ten years ago, Hao Ze Yu (Deng Lun) thought he was on his way to stardom. His appearance on popular talent competition led to widespread adulation, but fame proved fleeting for him. A decade later, he has all but left behind his dreams of becoming a top-level celebrity.

But things change quickly when he meets a motley crew of supportive individuals who want to help him turn his career around.

The group comprises a taxi driver (Han Tong Sheng) and his daughter Fu Zi (Sandra Ma). Fu Zi is a bright spark but has long been criticized for being overweight. Their number is made up by Mei Li (Ni Hong Jie), a beautiful woman now entering middle age.

Fu Zi decides to become Hao Ze Yu’s agent, and the trio forms a support network for him – trying to propel him back to stardom.

But the path to fame will not be smooth, and things get complicated when romantic interests threaten to derail their quest – and put an end to their budding four-way friendship.

Will Hao Ze Yu get another shot at stardom? Or will love send him down another, very different path?

This drama is based on a 2017 hit novel by author Zi You Ji Guang and is the third and final part of the “Gentleman” trilogy. The first two dramas in the series were “To Be a Better Man” (2016) and “Mr. Right” (2018).

“Mr. Fighting” is a 2019 Viki Original Chinese drama directed by Liu Xin.

Mr. Fighting

Fighting!

Mi Nyeo has a twin brother, Mi Nam. They grew together at an orphanage. Mi Nam has been chosen to be a member of a boy band, but he can't work as a singer due to an accident. So Mi Nyeo pretends to be her brother and starts to live as Mi Nam, the idol singer. The boy band has three other members: Shin Woo, Tae Kyung, and Jeremy. Shin Woo is a musical genius and the most popular member. Unlike the artistic and sensitive Shin Woo, Tae Kyung is more like a businessman and is hardly moved by anything. And Jeremy is an optimistic person who gets along with everyone. Mi Nyeo, living as Mi Nam, has to work with them. However, she is not sociable as she has lived all her life cut off from the world. So living as an idol singer is hard for her.

You're Beautiful

The A.N.JELL Team

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

This is a different kind of identity crisis.

Woo Jin is a young man who works as a furniture designer. He has a great life with the woman he loves, Yi Soo (Han Hyo Joo), if it weren’t for one little problem.

Every morning, Woo Jin wakes up to discover that he is inhabiting a different body. It could be the body of a young, good-looking man (Do Ji Han), a portly everyman (Kim Dae Myung), a middle-aged man (Bae Sung Woo), an old man (Chun Young Woon) or even a beautiful young woman (Park Shin Hye)!

Every time Woo Jin wakes up in a new body, he has to figure out where he is and how he can find his way back to Yi Soo, who is always waiting for him. Will there be a day that Woo Jin can’t find his way back?

“The Beauty Inside” is a 2015 South Korean film directed by Baik. It is based on the 2012 American social film by the same title directed by Drake Doremus.

The Beauty Inside

Two characters delve us into the world of tabloid journalism and the paparazzi who stop at nothing to get the big scoop. Gentle in nature, Seok Joo, a renowned photographer of the nation\u2019s largest newspaper, has plummeted to the lowest point in his life. With one picture, he loses his job, his self-confidence, and most punishingly, his family. When he declines a deal with the devil to save his daughter, who is suffering from congenital heart disease, he succumbs to the guilt and resorts to alcohol with no intention of returning to his prominent self until he meets Soo Hyun. Soo Hyun is the editor-in-chief for Sunday Dispatch, a notorious celebrity paparazzi tabloid leading the field. Elegant, sophisticated, and connected, once she gets on the scent of any celebrity scandal, nothing can stop her from getting the story. Growing up, being a reporter of truth was her aspiration. But revealing the truth had no power. The powerful just conceived the truth. She decides to take on reality, and with it, the people who once discounted her start to disappear. She is now more famous than a celebrity, and when she offers Seok Joo his second chance to redeem himself, he resurrects as a paparazzo and fights to see his daughter again. Will the two overcome the obstacles in tabloid journalism, triumph over the powerful, and rise from despair?

Big Issue

JTBC

Three very different young men – Dong Goo (Kim Jung Hyun), who dreams of becoming a film director, Joon Ki (Lee Yi Kyung), an eccentric actor who performs to make a living, and Doo Shik (Son Seung Won), a freelancer writer who fiddles around doing nothing most of the time - open a guest house named “Waikiki” in Itaewon, where many foreigners come to stay. Although they have no clue how to run it, they’re eager to earn money to pay for the production of their upcoming film.

They are joined by Dong Goo (Kim Jung Hyun)’s younger sister, Seo Jin (Ko Won Hee), who actually manages the household in Waikiki, single mother Yoon Ah (Jung In Sun), who has made an unexpected entrance at the guest house with her baby; and Dong Goo (Kim Jung Hyun)’s ex-girlfriend Soo Ah (Lee Joo Woo).

Welcome to Waikiki

Down and Out in Waikiki 

Sohu TV

It’s the moment that she has been waiting for all her life. Sun Xiao Tao (Zhang Yu Xi) is the biggest fan of idol singer Zhou Yi Ran (Run Chen). Her biggest wish has been to attend one of Yi Ran’s concerts, and she is finally able to realize her dream by going to a concert in Japan.

But Xiao Tao accidentally runs into Jiang Hao (Melvin Sia), and her concert ticket gets ripped. How will Xiao Tao and Jiang Hao’s fates become entangled now?

“Dear Prince” is a 2017 Chinese web drama directed by Yu Zhong Zhong.

Dear Prince

The Lovely Prince Team

What could possibly go wrong with a fake relationship?

Qiao An Hao (Sierra Li) and Lu Jin Nian (Dylan Xiong) have a history together. They were very much in love in high school but misunderstandings kept the two apart. More than a decade later, Jin Nia has become a successful CEO of an entertainment company and An Hao is trying to make it into the business as an actress.

When An Hao and Jin Nian cross paths again, Jin Nian realizes he has a need that An Hao can fulfill. An Hao and Jin Nian enter into a fake marriage, but there are layers of complication as Jin Nian is pretending to be his younger brother, who is in a coma. But can they pull off the contractual relationship without their past feelings for one another getting in the way?

“Pretty Man” is a 2018 Chinese drama series directed by Zhou Xiao Peng. It is adapted from the novel Bringing the Nation’s Husband Home by Ye Fei Ye.

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