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As the eldest daughter of a wealthy family, Han Yi Joo (Jung Yoo Min) should have grown up wanting for nothing. Unfortunately for Yi Joo, that simply wasn’t the case. Raised with the knowledge that she was never loved by either her parents or her younger sister, Han Yoo Ra (Jin Ji Hee), Yi Joo spent her formative years isolated from her family.

Now an adult, Yi Joo finds joy in her work as a painter, but in all other aspects, her life is much the same as it’s always been. Married to a man who does not love her, Yi Joo has simply moved from one house without love into another. Even so, she is devastated when she learns that her husband is desperately in love with her younger sister. Willing to give just about anything to change her fate, Yi Joo might have taken action but a tragic accident cuts all her hopes for a better future short. Or does it?

Waking from that fatal accident, Yi Joo finds herself transported back in time. Seeing this strange occurrence as a chance to change her fate and take revenge on her family, Yi Joo immediately gets to work. Teaming up with Seo Do Guk (Sung Hoon), the heir to a vast fortune, will Yi Joo find a way to make for herself the life she’s always wanted?

Adapted from the webtoon “The Essence of a Perfect Marriage” written by Young and Lee Beom Bae and illustrated by Je Ri Bol, “Perfect Marriage Revenge” is a 2023 South Korean drama directed by Oh Sang Won.

Perfect Marriage Revenge

💥 The Almighty ✨ Team

High school Korean literature teacher Han Hae Na (Park Gyu Young) suffers from an extremely unusual curse: If she kisses a man, she is doomed to turn into a dog every night, although she returns to human form in the morning. There is only one way to break the curse – and that involves receiving a kiss from the same man who kissed her...while in dog form!

She has a crush on Lee Bo Kyum (Lee Hyun Woo), a colleague who teaches history at the same school. She is smitten with him, even claiming that he is the sole reason she wants to keep coming to work every morning. But she forgets herself one night, and drunkenly kisses him – only to discover that it wasn’t Lee Bo Kyum after all...but actually Jin Seo Won (Cha Eun Woo), another male colleague. Unfortunately, although Jin Seo Won is extremely handsome, he is also terrified of dogs due to a traumatic event in his past. He also has a natural aversion to her. Now Han Hae Na must find a way to win his heart – and get him to kiss her – or spend the rest of her life as a pooch!

“A Good Day to Be a Dog” is a 2023 South Korean drama series that was directed by Kim Dae Woong.

A Good Day to be a Dog

🐩 Woof, Woof, Kiss Me! 💋

Are Cheng Yao (Zhang Ruo Nan)’s dreams of becoming a top lawyer about to come true? It seems so – when she is unexpectedly recruited by a leading legal firm. Excited, she moves house so she can be nearer her new office. She moves in, full of hope, and soon encounters her new roommate Qian Heng (Chen Xing Xu). However, a surprise awaits her on her first day at work…

Qian Heng turns out to be her direct superior at the office...and he proves to be incredibly hard to please! Her training period quickly turns into a baptism of fire, and she starts to feel as though he is trying to chase her out of the company. But Cheng Yao won’t be so easily deterred. She redoubles her efforts, determined to prove she’s got what it takes to succeed. Could her zeal send this duo on the path to harmony...and even love?

This drama was based on a novel named “What Comes Around Goes Around” by Ye Fei Ran.

“My Boss” is a 2024 Chinese drama series that was directed by Chen Ming Zhang and Chen Shi Yi.

My Boss

Persistent in Love Team

JTBC

Yoon Hyun Woo (Song Joong Ki) is a devoted, hard-working, and loyal secretary to the Jin family, which runs the lucrative Soonyang Group business empire. But one day, he is ruthlessly betrayed by the family, who frame him for embezzlement. He dies shortly after – but is miraculously brought “back to life” when he wakes up inside the body of the youngest male member of the family – Jin Do Joon.

After he realizes what has happened, he decides to take revenge. He hatches a plan to overthrow Jin Yang Chul (Lee Sung Min), the cold-blooded and money-hungry CEO of Soonyang Group. Yoon Hyun Wo plots to use his new “identity” to formulate a hostile takeover of the group – and punish the people who killed him. But what role will be played in all this by a dogged public prosecutor named Seo Min Young (Shin Hyun Bin), an anti-corruption investigator who becomes known as the “Soonyang Group Grim Reaper?”

This drama was based on a web-based cartoon of the same name that was written by San Gyung.

“Reborn Rich” is a 2022 South Korean drama series that was directed by Jung Dae Yoon.

Reborn Rich

🥊Reborn to Avenge Team🎯

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As far as high school students go, Gorya (Tontawan Tantivejakul) is about as average as they come. Growing up in a poor family, she spends her days at school and her free time working at a local flower shop with her best friend Kaning (Chanikarn Tangkabodee). But her average life takes an unbelievable turn when she passes the entrance exam to one of the most prestigious high schools in the country.

Seeing Gorya’s acceptance to this new school as a way to escape their poverty, her family is more than a little excited about this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Gorya, on the other hand, isn’t as thrilled by the change in schools, especially not after she meets the school’s most notorious group of seniors. Sons of the country's richest families, the F4: Thyme (Vachirawit Chivaaree), Ren (Jirawat Sutivanichsak), Kavin (Metawin Opas-iamkajorn), and MJ (Hirunkit Changkham), might be blessed with amazing looks and incredible influence, but they’re also the school’s biggest bullies. Handing out “red cards” to anyone they don’t like, they have no qualms about making life miserable for their classmates and as such, Gorya despises them.

Standing up to F4 and their bullying, Gorya refuses to back down, earning her instant respect from Ren, Kavin, and MJ, but it’s Thyme’s unwanted attention that makes Gorya’s life miserable. Despite developing a crush on Ren, Thyme’s pursuit of Gorya continues, never once believing that he won’t eventually win her heart. With time and a healthy amount of character growth, will Thyme eventually win Gorya’s heart?

Adapted from the Japanese manga series “Hana Yori Dango” by Yoko Kamio, “F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers” is a 2021 Thai romance drama directed by Patha Thongpan.

F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers

As children, Yui Soma (Inoue Mao) and Naoki Torino (Sato Takeru) were the best of friends. Having lived with the same foster family for a time, the two were incredibly close but as often happens in cases such as theirs, the two were separated and eventually lost touch.&nbsp;

Now adults, Yui and Naoki are both equally surprised when fate decides to bring them together once more. Picking up where they left off all those years ago, Yui and Naoki soon find that the fondness they felt for each other as children has grown into something much deeper. Desperately in love, Naoki makes plans to propose to Yui but a tragic twist of fate takes him away before he ever has a chance. Unaware of Naoki’s fate, Yui falls into despair over his disappearance but even as her heart breaks, she sets out to find him. While filing a missing person’s report at a local police station, Yui meets Yuzuru Uozumi (Matsuyama Kenichi), a homicide detective who has recently discovered he can see Naoki’s ghost.&nbsp;

With Naoki’s spirit urging Yuzuru to pass on a message to Yui, the detective has no choice but to seek her out, but in doing so, only manages to entangle himself further in her life. Ultimately accepting their twisted fate, can Yuzuru and Yui work together to solve the mystery surrounding Naoki’s untimely death?

A stirring blend of fantasy, romance, and mystery, “Why didn’t I tell you a million times?” is a 2023 Japanese crime drama directed by Fuminori Kaneko, Daisuke Yamamuro, and Juntaro Furubayashi.

Why didn't I tell you a million times?

With construction of the city’s brand new high-rise apartment building finally complete, Officer Yoon Sae Bom (Han Hyo Joo) is eager to move in. Having long dreamed of the day she could settle into her new apartment, Sae Bom is beyond thrilled to finally be able to have a place where she can comfortably escape the rigors of her job as a member of one of the city’s special police squads. With her long-time friend and fellow officer, Detective Jung Yi Hyun (Park Hyung Sik) moving in as well, Sae Bom is convinced this new home will bring her all the happiness she desires. Unfortunately, that happiness doesn’t last long.

As a new type of infectious disease slowly begins to spread throughout the building, the residents soon find themselves the object of terror and a source of city-wide panic. With no other way of containing the disease, the residents are soon cut off from everyone and everything around them as the building is sealed off from the outside world. As the world around them struggles to make sense of what is quickly morphing into a full-on apocalypse, the uninfected residents' only chance of survival rests solely in their own hands.&nbsp;

Confused, isolated, and terrified, the residents have no choice but to find a way to overcome their distrust of each other, as it’s their only hope of surviving this living nightmare. But how can they do that when it seems at least one of them holds the secrets that could either save or destroy them all?&nbsp;

Set in the not-so-distant future, “Happiness” is a 2021 fantasy action thriller drama directed by Ahn Gil Ho.

Happiness

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

When the captain of a Korean special forces unit, Yoo Shi Jin (Song Joong Ki), catches a thief on his day off alongside his friend and fellow soldier Seo Dae Young (Jin Goo), he has a chance encounter with a hospital trauma surgeon, Kang Mo Yeon (Song Hye Kyo).
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Although he immediately falls for her, Mo Yeon mistakenly believes Shi Jin is a part of the thief’s criminal gang, but after he proves the truth, they begin an unlikely relationship. Yet it doesn’t take long for the couple to realize they have conflicting views on human life – with Shi Jin having to kill to protect lives while Mo Yeon does everything she can to save them.
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After they decide that these philosophical differences are too much to overcome, they decide to end their relationship and Shi Jin is deployed to the fictional war-torn country of Uruk. Some months later, Mo Yeon is put in the awkward position of rebuffing her hospital director’s advances.
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As revenge, she is assigned to a team of medical volunteers who travel to Uruk, setting up a reunion with Shi Jin where they bond over their differences and discover how powerful love can be.

Descendants of the Sun

The Sunshine Team

ONE31, LINE TV

A victim of childhood molestation, Type Thiwat (Kanawut Traipipattanapong) has some very intense feelings when it comes to other men. Having turned his hatred for his molester into a generalized hatred of all members of the LGBTQIA+ community, Type has few problems making friends with other men; he simply cannot stand anyone who identifies as gay.

Now a college freshman, Type is ready to fully embrace this new chapter of his life. An avid football fan, a lover of spicy foods, and an all-around friendly guy, Type has never had a problem making friends and is certain his college experience is going to be a great one. But when his new roommate, Tharn Kirigun (Suppasit Jongcheveevat), saunters into his life, all of Type’s dreams of a great college experience are dashed to pieces. Openly gay, Tharn is everything Type has come to loathe over the years. Determined to force Tharn out of the dorm, Type does everything in his power to do so, but to no avail.

Refusing to yield to Type’s open hostility, Tharn stands his ground. With no other option than to accept their fate, Type and Tharn settle into their shared space. Will spending more time together ease the tension between them or will it only serve to make matters worse?

A story of love and hate, “TharnType” is a 2019 school romance drama directed by Tee Bundit Sintanaparadee.

TharnType

I'm Not Gay But MyBoyfriend Is

Mango TV

Zheng Shu Yi (Bai Lu) is a hard-working reporter for one of China’s leading financial newspapers. She’s determined to land a front-page story, so is pulling out all the stops to land an interview with one of the most talked-about young CEOs in the land – Shi Yan (Dylan Wang). For his part, the businessman is looking to make a series of investments in promising startup firms as a way of giving back to the community.

A mixup occurs between the two, and their paths cross again. But as they (inadvertently) get to know one another, they start to realize their destinies may be intertwined. Shi Yan discovers that Zheng Shu Yi’s extensive reporting career means very few people know more about local startups. He agrees to let her write a series of stories about her company, causing them to meet again and again. But could this blossoming working relationship also lead them on the path to love?

“Only For Love” is a 2023 Chinese drama series that was directed by Guo Hu.

Only For Love

How to Tame a CEO Team👔 

All who have ever felt self-conscious about their appearance will find a kindred soul in Im Joo Kyung (Moon Ga Young). Although cheery about most things, Joo Kyung is secretly leading a double life when it comes to her appearance.
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Thanks to the help of internet beauty tutorials, Joo Kyung has mastered the art of makeup and transforms into a beautiful goddess with the skillful application of cosmetics every day. She’s known as one of the most attractive girls in class. Despite this, she lives with the fear that her classmates will discover her true appearance behind makeup.
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The only person in school who knows her ugly secret is Lee Su Ho (Cha Eun Woo), an all-star student with natural good looks and a talent for basketball to boot. Dashingly handsome, Su Ho has captured the hearts of all the girls in the high school.
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However, Joo Kyung is not the only one with secrets. Su Ho has a few of his own from his past that are slowly but surely catching up to him.
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Drawn together, these two individuals not only begin to uncover each other’s secrets but also learn more about their true selves in the process.
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The True Beauty drama is based on a long-running Webtoon that goes by the name “The Secret of Angel (True Beauty)”, penned by Yaongyi. Now adapted into a full-fledged Korean Drama that stars a stellar cast that includes K-pop Idol Cha Eun Woo amongst other popular celebrities, fans of the Webtoon The Secret of Angel have something to look forward to.
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“True Beauty” is a 2020 South Korean romantic comedy-drama series that was directed by Kim Sang Hyub.

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