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Ever since she was a child, field reporter Nam Hong Joo (Suzy) had the ability to see bad events before they occurred. However, she is often powerless to stop them from happening. Living across the street from her family’s restaurant is the prosecutor Jung Jae Chan (Lee Jong Suk) who has seemingly also acquired the ability to foresee future events as well. Jae Chan receives a premonition of Hong Joo being framed for the death of a police officer by the corrupt lawyer Lee Yoo Beom, who was once his tutor, and rushes to prevent it from happening. The police officer (Jung Hae In) survives and also gains the ability to see the future. These three individuals realize that their lives are somehow intertwined through the dreams they keep having of one another.
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Together this unlikely trio work to take down Lee Yoo Beom (Lee Sang Yeob), discover the reason why they were given these abilities, and find ways to protect the ones they love most from harm.&nbsp;
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“While You Were Sleeping” is a 2017 South Korean drama series directed by Oh Choong Hwan. It is not related to the 1995 American film by the same title starring Sandra Bullock. The script is written by Park Hye Ryun, who previously worked with Suzy on her acting debut in the television drama “Dream High” (2011) and with Lee Jong Suk in the drama “I Hear Your Voice” (2013) and “Pinocchio” (2014). The cast of While You Were Sleeping fills the Kdrama with laugh-out-loud moments, seamlessly transitioning to nail-biting sequences that are sure to get you hooked.

While You Were Sleeping

The Dream Team ✨

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

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

Oksusu

What recourse do you have against school bullies?

Ho Goo Hee (Kim Hyang Gi) is a 17-year-old school student at Hanjong High School. She is a quiet, sweet girl who is constantly bullied by the other students, partly because her name sounds like the word “fool.” Ji Hoon (Park Solomon) is a brooding, popular boy who reluctantly comes to her rescue more times than he would like. 

The only positive thing in Goo Hee’s life is her close family friendship to Cha Eun Woo, a popular K-pop idol, who treats her like a younger sister. Jung Deok Hee (Kim Hwan Hee) becomes Goo Hee’s only friend because she calls herself “Eun Woo’s wife” and is his biggest fan.

Things start to take a strange turn in Goo Hee’s life when an app on Goo Hee’s phone called Revenge Note pops up one day and asks her to write in the name of someone who is bullying her. When she does, bad things start to happen to that person.

Will Goo Hee’s life start to get better or just a whole lot more complicated?

“Revenge Note 1” is a 2017 South Korean web drama directed by Seo Won Tae. It is followed by the second season “Revenge Note 2” (2018).

Revenge Note 1

The Avengers Team 

Tencent TV

Can the pure love of 17-year-olds endure through all the challenges of adulthood?

Chen Xiao Xi (Shen Yue) and Jiang Chen (Hu Yi Tian) are high school friends and neighbors who grew up together. Xiao Xi is happy-go-lucky and doesn’t like to study much but she has a talent for drawing. Jiang Chen is popular for his good looks and high grades. Their friends include swimmer Wu Bo Song (Gao Zhi Ting), who will do anything for Xiao Xi, and Xiao Xi’s best friend, Lin Jing Xiao (Wang Zi Wei), the most beautiful girl in school.

How will the realities of life shape the friendships and love of these young adults?

“A Love So Beautiful” is a 2017 Chinese web drama series directed by Yang Long. It is based on the novel To Our Pure Little Beauty by Zhao Gang An.

A Love So Beautiful

Pure Love Team

Dan Oh, a high school girl who is the only child from a wealthy family, has congenital heart disease. One day, she wonders why her memory keeps disappearing. She finally realizes that she is a character in the cartoon and decides to find her real life and love. Meanwhile, a character that doesn't even have its name, Seuli High School's Student Number 13, lives like a background of the other characters, but his life slowly changes after meeting Dan Oh. They begin their mysterious adventure to find out the secret of the romance cartoon world, and they try to get their independent lives back.

Extra-ordinary You

📖 Extra-ordinary Team 📖

JTBC

At eighteen, Choi Jun Woo (Ong Seong Wu) has solidified his position as a perpetual loner. Unable to adequately express his emotions, he often comes across as unsympathetic or aloof, when in reality, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Underneath his lonely exterior lies a cute, goofy young man who just needs the right people around to bring this side out more often.

When Jun Woo transfers schools, he meets Yoo Soo Bin (Kim Hyang Gi), a top student who has spent her entire life being controlled by her overbearing mother. Suffocated under her mother’s care, Soo Bin spends most of her life dreaming of the day she becomes an independent woman. 

Meanwhile, Ma Hwi Young (Shin Seung Ho), seems like the perfect gentleman. Strong and confident on the outside, Hwi Young seems like he has it all, but on the inside, he’s just a timid eighteen-year-old boy trying to find his place in the world.

Each student has their own set of struggles but when they come together, they find their lives slowly begin to change.

“Moment of Eighteen” is a 2019 Viki Original drama directed by Sim Na Yeon.

Moment of Eighteen

Eighteen Staff

KBS02

Eun Bi is a high school girl who lives without her parents in Tongyeong. She keeps being bullied by other students and is forced to drop out of school. She tries to kill herself out of frustration and pain by jumping into a river. However, she is saved by Eun Byeol, her twin sister. Eun Byeol was adopted by a wealthy family when she was young. After being rescued, Eun Bi is admitted to a hospital, but she has lost her memory. To make matters worse, Eun Byeol goes missing. Mi Kyung, Eun Byeol's adoptive mother, searches everywhere, looking for her. And when she runs into Eun Bi, she mistakes her for Eun Byeol. Not remembering anything, Eun Bi thinks she really is Eun Byeol and starts living as her. Revolving around the high school girl whose life has been changed by a twist of fate, the various aspects of students' lives unfold.

Who Are You

The Back to School Team

Is it possible live in the same place at the same time but in a completely different dimension? 

Oh Yeon Joo (Han Hyo Joo) is a second-year cardiothoracic resident doctor. Her father, a famous comic book creator, suddenly disappears one day and then Yeon Joo herself is kidnapped by a strange man covered in blood and taken to a different dimension. 

Kang Chul (Lee Jong Suk) is a former Olympic gold medalist in shooting and self-made millionaire. How will his world intertwine with Yeon Joo’s other-dimension universe? Is Kang Chul the only person who can help Yeon Joo escape from a parallel universe? 

“W” is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Jung Dae Yoon.

Cassiopeia

Dal Po's real name is Ha Myung. When he was about to drown at 14, Gong Pil saved and adopted him, giving him a new name. Gong Pil believes Dal Po is his son who was lost in the sea in the past. And Dal Po tries to erase his past to live as Gong Pil's son. He even pretends to be bad at his studies even though he is brilliant and intentionally wears shabby clothes to hide his good looks. He gives up going to college due to financial difficulty at home. Still, he succeeds in becoming a reporter with unique talents thanks to the intelligence and experience he acquired by driving a taxi. Meanwhile, he has a niece who is the same age as him. She has Pinocchio syndrome, so she can't choose a job that requires some amount of lying. She decides to be a reporter, whose job is to seek the truth at all times.

Pinocchio

The Can't Lie Team

Lee Ahn (Jinyoung) is a boy with an incredible power to sense other people's secrets just by a simple touch. Yoon Jae In (Shin Ye Eun) is a girl who'll stop at nothing to hide a traumatic secret. What will happen when their worlds collide? A romantic thriller about how these two teenagers love, heal, and support each other through big and small events.

"He is Psychometric" is a 2019 drama directed by Kim Byeong Soo.

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