The controversy continues. Does the original reign supreme over their remakes?

Face-off: Original Dramas vs Remakes

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When Chen Xin Yi tries to save her relationship with her no-good boyfriend, she mistakenly sleeps with a total stranger, Ji Cun Xi. Although they try to forget about the one-night stand, Xin Yi later discovers that she is pregnant. When the family of Cun Xi, who is the sole male heir to a successful family business, discovers that Xin Yi is having his baby, they force the two to marry. Will the pushover Xin Yi learn to stand up for herself or will fate have other plans for her?

Fated to Love You

Fated to Love You Team

Mi Young is a Post-it Girl secretary who takes orders from everyone in no short of kindness. On Mi Young's big break from her law firm, she bumps into Gun, who hopes to propose to his long-term girlfriend, Se Ra. However, he bumps into Mi Young a tad bit too hard, and they end up with a complete turnaround of plans after Mi Young mothers Gun's child. They go through rough patches in their relationship, and their lives change even after they get married.

The Fated Team

When we were kids, teachers often said, \u201CWe will all have to buy water, and the business related to mental hospitals will extend.\u201D In the end, their prediction was correct. We can easily find people suffering from depression, sleep, and panic disorders. In this dystopic world, there is a man whose childhood was filled with bad memories. Not being able to overcome his trauma, he created other personalities. The problem is he never remembers what he had done when he changed. Dissociative Identity Disorder. What made him like this? But suddenly, a woman approaches him and suggests they can be friends. In incidents around him, his different identities start to be integrated, and they slowly realize sympathy and love are the only means of treating wounded hearts.

Kill Me Heal Me

The 7-Dimensional Team

Once a popular girl, Hye Jin grew into freckles and curly hair, losing the perfect features she had during childhood. Sung Joon, who used to be chubby and fainthearted, grew up into a successful and perfect looking guy. Ha Ri, the girl who seems to have everything, lacks some sex appeal. Shin Hyuk is a guy with regurgitative humor who has something to hide. Hye Jin and Sung Joon had a crush on each other back in childhood, but He and his family moved to the states. After many years have passed, Sung Joon came back to Korea as a fashion magazine chief editor while Hye Jin was still jobless. He wishes to meet Hye Jin after his return.

She Was Pretty

The Ugly Ducklings

Min Joon fell from outer space to the land of Joseon in 1609. He remains young and beautiful, just as he first came to the earth. Moreover, he can move surprisingly fast with keen eyesight and hearing. He can also foresee the future but never uses his powers, planning to live a quiet life without others bothering him. He takes a cynical stance on love, thinking it's merely lust and greed. However, this completely changes for him when he meets Song Yi. He learns to love through her, which leads him to be in danger of being exposed to the world.

My Love From the Star

Go Go Alien and Hallyu Star

Tencent

How far back do their destinies cross in history? Xue Ling Qiao (Kim Tae Hwan) is a mutant man with superpowers who has been roaming the Earth for 500 years but has been trapped in a deep sleep for the past 100 years. When B-actress Tian Jing Zhi (Wu Qian) gets into a car accident, Ling Qiao is released from his sleep trap. He uses his powers to heal her wounds and bring her back to life. With nowhere else to go, Ling Qiao forces his way into rooming with Jing Zhi in her apartment, becoming embroiled in her crazy world of trying to make it as an actress under the shadows of a perfect A-list star. As they bicker their way to a better relationship, they are shocked to learn that their fates have been entangled by a conspiracy that spans many centuries! “My Amazing Boyfriend” is a 2016 Chinese drama series directed by Deng Ke.

My Amazing Boyfriend

The Mutant Team

Marketer Oh Ha Na and flight attendant Choi Won are old friends who have built a strong 17-year-long relationship together. They've always depended on each other and have remained close through the years. Could the fact that they've so comfortable with each other be the reason they are unable to realize when feelings other than friendship begin to develop? Choi Won, a vice manager flight attendant, gains a female friend in a new coworker, and Ha Na doesn't realize how much she is bothered by it. However, Ha Na, reuniting with her former love, pianist Cha Seo Hoo, ignores Won's feelings.

The Time We Were Not in Love

The Timeless Lovers

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

What would you do if you had to choose between becoming a nun or becoming a vocalist in a popular boy band? Gao Mei Nu (Cheng Yu Xi) is suddenly faced with that decision when her brother needs her help. Gao Mei Nan (also played by Cheng Yu Xi) is chosen to join the popular boy band A.N.JELL as its newest member, but he is forced to go to the United States to fix a botched eye plastic surgery after being signed. Mei Nan’s agent comes up with the brilliant idea to have Mei Nu, who is in training to become a nun, to stand in for her brother and pretend to a be a male idol singer. Can she keep her true identity from the other band members, lead vocalist Huang Tai Jing (Jiro Wang), guitarist Jiang Xin Yu (Hwang In Deok) and rapper Jeremy (Evan Yo)? “Fabulous Boys” is a 2013 Taiwanese drama series. It is a remake of the popular 2009 Korean drama “You’re Beautiful.”

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