Asian Drama

Pain and secrets brought them together. Lena is a Russian woman of Korean descent. Escaping a life of pain in Russia, she agrees to come to Korea as the bride of Soon Goo, a farmer who lives in the rural countryside. Dealing with his own painful memories, Soon Goo is happy to just spend time with Lena as they go about their simple lives on the farm. But as Lena’s feelings for Soon Goo deepens, she finds it harder for her to stay. Will Lena decide that leaving is the only way to deal with her feelings of guilt?

Depicts the vulgar scandals of Korea’s nobles of the robe (whose rank came from holding judicial or administrative posts) who dream of hereditary succession. Han Hye Ryul is the chief of the special division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office. Han Hye Ryul is from a family of judicial workers who has had wealth and power for three generations. She is an ambitious figure who is not satisfied with her current position and aims to become a prosecutor general or someone higher up the ladder.

A life-changing story of a man who has lived as a loner his entire life, living together with a child with hearing disabilities. As they change each other’s lives and try to find a way to communicate, Jae Shik also tries to overcome his own mysophobia.

A mellow drama looking for truth amidst plots, betrayals an lies as people know each other’s secrets. Eun Soo is a positive character who never loses hope even in the hardest circumstances but loses her memory in a car accident and lives as Yoo Jung who married to Jin Goo.

Ji Hyun is a contractual employee in the film department at a local college. When time allows, he dedicates himself to writing and directing movies. He is grateful that he is able to do what he enjoys, and spends his days chronicling and archiving ordinary surroundings and occurrences. One day, Ji Hyun is interviewing candidates for a male role in his next film, when he is reunited with Geon Woo, who attended the same university a few years behind him. As the two men become reacquainted, Ji Hyun starts to feel a change in the wind; his heart is beating faster, his pinwheel is picking up speed. Ji Hyun and Geon Woo sense newfound emotions beginning to take hold. In a twist, their relationship is exposed to the college community. Rather than jeopardize Geon Woo’s future as an actor, Ji Hyun makes a sacrifice. The two men must ultimately decide how they will react to both despair and hope

In 1999, a teen with a heart of gold begins keeping close tabs on a popular classmate as a favor to her smitten best friend.

Bo Ra is 17-year-old high school student. She is good at taekwondo and has a bright and positive personality. She is also a member of the broadcasting club at her school. Woon Ho is a member of the same broadcasting club.

Bo Ra is best friends with Yeon Du, who attends the same school. Yeon Du has a crush on Hyun Jin. She asks Bo Ra to find out everything about Hyun Jin and goes to the U.S. to have heart surgery. After that, Bo Ra begins to observe Hyun Jin closely and she falls in love with him.

"Revivre" is about a middle aged man who is stuck between his dying wife and a younger woman he loves. It is based on a novel written by Kim Hoon which is also the Grand Prize winner of the 28th Top Literature Awards.

Vice President Oh is highly respected at his cosmetics company and is a faithful family man. One day, he finds out that his wife has been diagnosed with cancer and later spends every night on the hospital’s extra bed to keep her company after her surgery. Although he is weary from taking care of his wife, he does not show it at work. However, a new female employee, Choo Eun-joo, starts Oh’s mind stirring. Oh dreams of escaping his tedious and suffocating reality with Eun-joo. While in real life he has to go to the hospital and change his wife’s diaper after work, Eun-joo’s existence itself feels like a delight compared to his pitiful existence. Director Im Kwon-taek has directed several films that keenly look into human instinct, and Revivre is another one of them. The will to live, sexual instincts, the light and the darkness of life and fear and desperation about death are illustrated on the screen among other contradictory values, delivering the great director’s wisdom and understanding.

A tragedy occurs for three women, caused by greed and desire.

Yoo Soo Yeon grew up with ordinary parents. She falls in love with a man from a chaebol family and marries him. Her life seems to mirror that of Cinderella and she is envied by others, but her life isn't easy due to mistreatment from her in-laws.

Cha Hwa Young is full of greed and desire. She tries to keep her upper class life.

Go Mi Sook is a private moneylender and she owns a franchise restaurant chain. She is a good person.

In 2009, Deng Cao Cao’s three year-old son is kidnapped. Her husband, Guan Hao blames her for being an irresponsible wife and mother and the couple file for divorce. Five year later, she is still struggling to survive on her own while searching for her missing child. She meets Gong Jian, an army veteran-turned-businessman, who helps her find her son and forms a close friendship with the mother-son duo. Cao Cao and Gong Jian start to slowly develop feelings for each other, but things start to get messy when Guan Hao comes back into the picture and Gong Jian’s mother shows up to stir even more trouble. Will a new marriage be able to happen, or will the ties of family and friends be severed forever?

Luo Qing Niao, a lively, beautiful and reckless post-80s girl, and Ye Xiao Yu, a post-70s Beijing man who is easy-going, tolerant but eager for freedom, took the initiative to "force" marriage after two years, forcing him to fall into "marriage" since childhood. Ye Xiao Yu, who was full of fear in the cage, overcame his "marriage phobia" and registered his marriage with her. At first, neither of them had a deep understanding of marriage. In addition, one was a post-70s man and the other was a post-80s woman. Both parties had congenitally different life concepts, ways of thinking and marriage values, such as one regards housework as his responsibility, the other advocates zero housework; one yearns for unrestrained freedom, but the other binds him to his body like a small part of his own; If the child will take away his position as the "eternal and only treasured president", he will be interested in DINK... As the saying goes: "There is no trivial matter in marriage. A vortex is a vortex." With the help of external forces such as family, family, brother gang and sister Tao, they quickly developed in a wider, deeper and more unpredictable direction, and gradually evolved into a huge marriage whirlpool, bringing Luo Qing Niao and Ye Xiao Yu to an unpredictable direction. The situation directly threatens the survival of two people's love, marriage and family. What should they do?

For a shoe manufacturer in Taiwan, the love of Mu Dan, a young woman who sells vegetables in the local market, also will launch an epic feud in the shoe industry. The master shoemaker at the company, Huang Zheng Yi, has two apprentices – one is his son, Huang Rong Can, and the other an adopted son, Liu Mu Cheng, whom he loves equally. But when the close brothers both fall in love with Mu Dan, the break in their relationship lasts a lifetime and impacts an entire industry. ~~ Two versions: 80 episodes, 60 min per episode (original broadcast) || 40 episodes, 90 min per episode (rebroadcast)

"Mama" follows various characters as their touching stories all center around mothers. Won Jae contracts an incurable disease and can not walk. His mother Dong Sook supports his son by delivering yogurt. Seung Chul is a ruddy gangster, but in front of his mother, Ok Joo , he becomes a mild-mannered son. Meanwhile Eun Sung is busy taking care of her famous opera singer mother Hee Kyung who has unpredictable and haggard character.

A young woman named Zhu Ying Tai disguised herself as a man to attend a school in Hangzhou. On her way there, she met a fellow traveller and schoolmate named Liang Shan Bo. They became good friends and swore honorary brothers. For three years, they studied and lived together. Yet, Liang never realized that Zhu was a woman.

A drama about an adopted woman who struggles to make a family.

Cha Dae Hyun works as an auto mechanic. He has a strong passion and talent for working on cars. Thanks to his grandfather, who ran a car repair shop in the countryside, he developed his love for cars. With his personal life, Cha Dae Hyun has a crush on Noh Yu Hwa, but he is shy about expressing his feelings to her. She works as a manager at the car repair center where Cha Dae Hyun works. She has a charming personality, but she also carries an emotional scar that she can't forget.

Hae Joon works as a detective. He is polite to others, but passionate when investigating cases. He begins an investigation into an unnatural death case that took place on a mountain. While investigating the case, Hae Joon meets Seo Rae. She is the former wife of the deceased man. Hae Joon is suspicious of her, but he also becomes interested in her.

Frustrated by life with her boyfriend, thirty-something Wako can't stop herself from being interested in high schooler Yumeaki, despite the age gap.

A fresh romantic musical set against the backdrop of the Greek island of Skopelos! Hae-jin, a chef who suddenly broke up through Kakao, left for Skopelos, Greece, the same island he promised to come with for the summer vacation. Hae-jin opened a Korean restaurant called Farewell Restaurant. For couples' last farewell before their breakups, they play music and comfort them. And then one day, Eleni, a Greek girl came… and he falls in love again.

A woman slowly drinks herself to death as she is physically and emotionally used by one man after another.

Hyun Joo had a hard life after losing her mother to a brain tumor at a young age. It was her husband Kim Do Yeong, who saved her. However, she finds out that she will also die soon like her late mother. The fear of leaving her family in the same pain and agony she went through as a child is bigger than the fear of dying. This leads her to tell her husband, “I’ve fallen in love with someone else”, as she hides her pain. During the last moments of her life, she goes off to find true love in.

Lin Yu, who plans everything, and Chen An An, a smart and quick-witted girl were deskmates in high school for a short time. After eight years of separation, they reunited and live under the same roof. Despite different personalities and dispute, they often comfort each other. However, what they don't know is that a wonderful fate called "Vivian" has already sprouted eight years ago and connected the hearts of these two. Because of "Vivian", they fell in love with each other. And eventually they will bid farewell to "Vivian" and be a better version of themselves.

A fantasy mystery drama about a man and woman who share the same emotional state.

Eun Gye Hoon is a chef who sets up a restaurant in the town where his twin sister went missing 20 years ago. He finds himself randomly experiencing emotions one day, spontaneously crying and laughing, and it turns out that they are the emotions of a woman named Noh Da Hyun.

The youngest partner at one of the nation’s most prestigious law offices, Oh Soo Jae has already proven she has what it takes to be one of the country’s best lawyers. Driven by her self-righteous principles and a never-ending desire to win, Soo Jae is well on her way to becoming one of TK Law Firm’s top attorneys. But when one of her cases takes an unexpected turn, Soo Jae is forced to watch as all of her hard work comes crumbling down around her. Demoted at work, Soo Jae is forced to take on the role of adjunct professor at a local law school. Determined to win back her position within the firm, Soo Jae does her best to settle into her new role but the sting of demotion still lingers. Only after meeting Gong Chan, a university student whose path frequently crosses with Soo Jae, does that sting begin to lessen. Despite carrying the burdens of a painful past, Gong Chan’s warm heart remains strong, especially as his affection for Soo Jae grows.

Obviously smitten with Soo Jae, Gong Chan stays by her side, even as she struggles to find a way back into the firm’s good graces. Will her determination and Gong Chan’s support be enough to restore her position, or will the powers that be continue to push her down?

Lee Ra El was a girl who idolized her loving parents – a highly intelligent father and a strikingly beautiful mother. But when cruel forces beyond their control cause her father’s death, her family crumbles. Embittered by this terrible experience, she vows revenge on the super-rich people who orchestrated this terrible tragedy. Her prime target is Kang Yoon Kyum, the CEO of the lucrative LY Group business empire, and one of the ringleaders of the plot that ultimately destroyed her family.

Lee Ra El’s weapon of choice is divorce. By placing herself at the center of a legal battle worth a staggering USD 1.6 billion, she hopes to bring Kang Yoon Kyum and LY Group down once and for all. But in order to do so, she will need to wage a bitter legal struggle and fight powerful forces both inside and outside the courtroom. However, this plan has been in the pipelines for 13 years for Lee Ra El, who believes she will use all of her guile to catch Kang Yoon Kyum out when he least expects it. Can revenge bring her the satisfaction she craves – or will it end up consuming her?

Bo Young, who suffers from a rare disease that becomes dangerous if she is too emotional, meets Cheol Gi, a rural young man, and falls in love.

Through an exclusive matchmaking agency, women strive to marry a desirable bachelor and into the highest echelon of society.

A young man named Kengo Kosaka suffers from extreme mysophobia. Due to his compulsive disorder, he is unable to maintain a relationship with anyone. Kengo Kosaka is also a lonely young man. Meanwhile, high school student Hijiri Sanagi has scopophobia. Because of her fear of being stared at, she refuses to go to school. Both Kengo Kosaka and Hijiri Sanagi do not expect to find love with another person, but they meet and fall in love. They have happy days, but...

It tells the story of the educated youth Song Da Jiang and Chen Yue Qing who adopted an abandoned baby Qiao Sheng after they became a couple. But Qiao Sheng was naughty ever since she was a child. In order to let Qiao grow up and mature, Song Da Jiang implemented a "fake bankruptcy" plan.

Tells the story of a father who goes undercover into an enemey's base to find his long-lost son during the Anti-japanese war.

Adapted from the novel "Mon Kammatep" by "Orasa Tossanut".

Two teenage boys from starkly different backgrounds find themselves joined in a common search to discover how to do the right thing and find happiness in life. One boy, whose father is an alcoholic, works hard to care for his younger brother and sister, while the other enjoys the privileges of a wealthy family, but is starved for his father's love. Their friendship reflects the sadness, pain, and sometimes cruelty that can enter into the relationships between fathers and sons in today's society.

Oh Woori is the assistant writer of a popular drama series. She has vowed to remain a virgin until she marries, and has shied away from romantic relationships in a bid to remain chaste until she marries. She is dating the devoted police officer Lee Kang Jae, but when she attends a routine medical exam, a terrible mix-up takes place and she is accidentally artificially inseminated. She later discovers her pregnancy, and demands the hospital gets to the bottom of the case.

Eventually she discovers that the donor whose child she is now pregnant with is none other than the CEO of a notable cosmetics firm named Diamond Cosmetics. This CEO, named Raphael, is going through a messy divorce with his wife Lee Ma Ri, a beautiful woman who does not want to split for her husband, chiefly for financial reasons. But when Raphael learns he is to be a father, things get very complicated – particularly after her realizes that there is a secret past connection that links him to Oh Woori!

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Remake of American TV series "Jane the Virgin" [2014], which in turn, is loosely remade from the Venezuelan telenovela "Juana la Virgen" [2002].

Episodes: 14

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday