CONGRATULATIONS! “Parasite” makes history with 4 wins at the 92nd Academy Awards, becoming the first non-English speaking film to win Best Picture! Check out our dramas & movies featuring your favorite stars from “Parasite” and our selected picks!

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It’s not easy, admitting to yourself that your life is not a happy one, but that’s exactly what Park Dong Hoon (Lee Sun Gyun) has been forced to do. A middle-aged engineer working at a company where his college junior, Do Joon Yeon (Kim Young Min), is his boss, Dong Hoon is anything but happy. But that’s the least of his problems. With his two unemployed brothers living at him with his mother, he has to do what he can to help his struggling family, while trying to hold his own life together. Meanwhile, his wife and Joon Yeon are secretly having an affair.

As if life couldn’t get any more complicated or miserable, Dong Hoon soon finds himself entangled in a messy situation when one of his co-workers, Lee Ji An (IU) sees him accepting an unexpected bribe at work. Living with an invalid grandmother and drowning in debt, Ji An is drowning in her own miserable life so when the opportunity presents itself, she does what she can to try to make things better. Exploiting Dong Hoon in his moment of weakness, Ji An does what she can to make her life better but things don’t go the way she planned.

Caught up in a tangled web of personal struggles and internal corporate rivalry, Dong Hoon and Ji An find themselves fighting for the chance to make life better as they struggle to free themselves from their current misery and find a way to heal the wounds they each carry.

An emotional tale full of hurt, hope, and healing, “My Mister” is a 2018 drama directed by Kim Won Seok.

My Mister

The Lonely Team

KBS, KOCOWA

Although Jung Seo Yeon suffers from her husband's violence and has no will left of leaving her hopeless life, she fortuitously comes across 9.9 million dollars and does whatever it takes to hold on to it. Kang Tae Woo, a former detective whose only hope was his younger brother, meets Jung Seo Yeon as he tries to uncover the truth behind his brother's death. What story will unfold between a woman who strives to keep 9.9 million dollars and a man who ventures to solve his brother's death by digging up the truth behind the 9.9 million dollars?

Woman of 9.9 Billion

The eccentric but genial Oh Hyun Jae (Jang Hyuk) is a shadow of his former self.

In his heyday, he was a peerless criminal profiler with phenomenal powers of deduction – the prize of the police force.

His world was shattered when a bomb planted by a serial killer took the life of his young fiancée. Oh responded by cutting himself off from the rest of the world, determined to live out the rest of his life in isolation.

But when a serial killer who the police thought had died long ago returns to terrorize the city, the police force is desperate and needs urgent help.

A rising star of the police force, Hwang Hwa Young (Jin Seo Yun), resolves to outwit the killer. To do so, she decides to team up with both Oh and a remarkable rookie cop – Cha Soo Young (Choi Sooyoung), whose photographic memory may prove to be a powerful crime-fighting weapon...

Can the unlikely trio really work together? Does Oh still have his genius-level skills? And will the crime-busters stop the deadly killer from carrying out his gruesome plans?

“Tell Me What You Saw” is a 2020 South Korean drama series directed by Lee Joon Hyeong.

Tell Me What You Saw

The Seeing is Believing Team

KBS02

'Beautiful Mind' is a medical mystery drama about a genius neurosurgeon, Young Oh, who suffers from the inability to feel emotions and a rookie traffic policewoman, Jin Sung, who tries to find the justice. As soon as Young Oh comes back to Korea after finishing his studies abroad, he starts working at Hyunsung Medical Center and on the very first day at the hospital, he gets to meet Jin Sung who came to save a car accident patient. Soon, a series of bizarre deaths occur at the hospital and Young Oh tries to find the secret of it with the help of Jin Sung and along the way, he learns to love and care for people. Will he be able to find the answer of mysterious accidents? Also, will he learn to love and care for people with humanity? Stay tuned to join their journey.

A Beautiful Mind

The Doctor Frankenstein Team

A former Army Intelligence spy is forced to give up his quiet existence to save the life of a little girl.

Cha Tae Sik (Won Bin) owns a run-down pawn shop in a sketchy neighborhood. Known as “ajusshi” to everyone in the neighborhood, Tae Sik mostly keeps to himself and only befriends a young girl named So Mi (Kim Sae Ron), who comes to hang out at his shop when her drug-addicted mom, Hyo Jung (Kim Hyo Seo), is entertaining men.

When Hyo Jung steals heroine from a dangerous crime organization, crime lord Oh Myung Gyu (Song Young Chang) sends his subordinates, brothers Man Seok (Kim Hee Won) and Jong Seok (Kim Sung Oh) and their henchman Lum Ramrowa (Thanayong Wongtrakul), after Hyo Jung. When the gangsters come to Tae Sik’s pawn shop looking for Hyo Jong, Jong Seok and his men end up taking Hyo Jung and So Mi captive.

The gangsters soon learn that they messed with the wrong guy, as it turns out that Tae Sik is a former covert operative for the South Korean Army Intelligence. Tae Sik goes after the dangerous gangsters to try to save So Mi’s life, but can he get to her in time?

“The Man From Nowhere” is a 2010 South Korean film written and directed by Lee Jeong Beom. It was the highest-grossing film of 2010.

The Man From Nowhere

JTBC

Where do you turn when your happy life is ripped apart? Do Hyun Woo (Lee Sun Gyun) is a television producer who considers himself blessed to have a successful career and a happy marriage. 

But his happy existence is shaken to the core when he accidently sees a text message to his wife, Jung Soo Yeon (Song Ji Hyo), from a mysterious man named Michael who says he has reserved a hotel room for later in the week and he can’t wait to see her. Convinced that his wife is having an affair, Hyun Woo doesn’t know where to turn for help to save his marriage and ends up going on an online forum to ask for anonymous advice from strangers. 

The people closest to Hyun Woo are of no help. His coworker Ahn Joon Young (Lee Sang Yeob) is married but is obsessed with fellow colleague Kwon Bo Young (BoA), who is divorced. His lawyer friend Choi Yoon Gi (Kim Hee Won) is a master philanderer who goes to great lengths to hide his cheating from his suspicious wife, Eun Ah Ra (Ye Ji Won). 

Can Hyun Woo survive the worst crisis of his life? “My Wife Is Having an Affair This Week” is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Suk Yoon. 

It is a remake of the 2007 Japanese television drama “My Wife’s Having an Affair This Week?!” (“Konshu Tsuma ga Uwaki Shimasu”), written by Tomoko Yoshida.

My Wife Is Having an Affair This Week

The Cheaters

A young girl’s destiny is with a sword.

Three mighty warriors, Deok Gi (Lee Byung Hun), Seol Rang (Jeon Do Yeon) and Poong Chun (Bae Soo Bin), lead an uprising to fight for freedom from an incompetent king. But at the last minute, Deok Gi betrays them, leading to Poong Chun’s death. Deok Gi tries to persuade Seol Rang to join his side, but she flees with Poong Chun’s baby daughter, Hong Ee.

Eighteen years later, Seol Rang goes by the name Wall So and is now blind and runs a tea house at the Byukran Port. She has been training Hong Ee, who now goes by the name Seol Hee (Kim Go Eun), to become a master of the sword so that she can avenge her father’s death.

Deok Gi now goes by the name Yoo Baek and has become a powerful military ruler. When he hosts a sword competition in the market, Seol Hee participates in the match. Her fight with master swordsman Yull (Lee Junho) catches Yoo Baek’s attention because of her similar sword style to Woll So. Yoo Baek sends his men after Seol Hee but she manages to escape.

Can Seol Hee take down one of the most powerful warriors of Goryo to fulfill her destiny of revenge?

“Memories of the Sword” is a 2015 South Korean film co-written and directed by Park Heung Sik.

Memories of the Sword

⚔️ 🤺 The Swordsmen Team 🤺 ⚔️

It is the 15th century. In the kingdom of Joseon, the vast majority of the population is illiterate, and the few people who do know how to read and write must make use of Chinese characters – a writing technique that is notoriously difficult to master.
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The aging King Sejong the Great (Song Kang Ho), dreams of sparking an intellectual revolution in his country. His plan is to develop a script so straightforward and easy to read that even peasants could learn to read it.

Spurred on by the quick-witted Queen Sohun (Jeon Mi Sun), Sejong embarks on an ambitious quest to realize his dream – and help his country move out of China’s shadow, with a move he says “would take China 1,000 years to achieve.”
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But Sejong is dismayed to find that his royal court and noble advisors are short of ideas on how best to create the script.
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In his desperation, he turns to a group of low-born Buddhist monks led by Shin Mi (Park Hae Il) for help. Shin Mi and his monastic brothers guard the secrets of the Tripitaka Koreana, a massive library of 81,258 wooden printing blocks produced in the 13th century.
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Shin Mi’s calligraphy and language skills are second to none, while the king’s drive to complete the project is unswerving. But many obstacles stand between them and what seems at times like an impossible dream.
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Can King Sejong and his unlikely cohort of pious linguists help create a script that will ultimately become Hangeul, the modern Korean alphabet?
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The movie was based on real-life events, and all three of its main characters were historical figures from Korea’s past.
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“The King’s Letters” is a 2019 South Korean movie directed by Cho Chul Hyun.

The King's Letters

Creator Team

A brutal murder committed 15 years ago turned three lives upside down. A decade and a half later, the trio – brought together by fate – goes on the hunt for answers.

Kim Young Goon (Seo Kang Joon), a police officer who may be considered aloof and uncaring, joins an investigation unit headed by hardened long-time cop Do Chi Gwang (Han Suk Kyu). The nightmarish events 15 years ago still haunt Kim Young Koon – but his memories also provide no shortage of motivation.

Do Chi Gwang, meanwhile, has led a quest to uncover widespread corruption as part of his unswerving pursuit of justice – a quest that has won him few friends in the police force.

They are eventually joined by Han Tae Joo (Kim Hyun Joo), a former prosecutor who has become a lawyer.

Will the trio unearth the truth about the fateful event that has shaped their destiny? And what dark secrets will they uncover along their way?

“Watcher” is a 2019 Korean drama directed by Ahn Gil Ho.

Watcher

Being a prosecutor is not all glamorous work – busting international crime rings and bringing crooked politicians to justice, as Cha Myung Joo (Jung Ryeo Won) soon discovers!

She was once the rising star of her department, working at a central prosecutors’ office, dealing with newsworthy cases. But now she has been transferred to a small branch office in a provincial town, where her daily work is far more mundane!

At the branch office, she meets Lee Sun Woong (Lee Sun Gyun), a fellow prosecutor with a very different outlook on life and what the role of a prosecutor should entail.

The two are poles apart when it comes to their methodology. Cha Myung Joo is cold and meticulous, insistent on abiding by the letter of the law. But Lee Sun Woong takes a more pragmatic approach, chatting to the people he investigates – always keen to discover the human stories behind the crimes he investigates.

It looks like the two prosecutors are on a collision course, with both disapproving of each other’s methods. Can they find a way to work together – or will the battle of the district prosecutors get ugly?

This drama was based on a hit 2018 book by South Korean prosecutor Kim Woong, detailing his real-life experiences as part of the country’s judicial system.

“War of Prosecutors” is a 2019 South Korean Viki Original drama series directed by Lee Tae Gon.

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