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To My Star 2
‘To My Star’ is a web drama that strongly depicts the sweet and salty love story of actor Kang Seo-Joon, who deviated from the normal track, and chef Han Ji-woo, who does not want to deviate from the orbit. Thanks to the high support, it was reborn as a drama. When the 9-episode ‘To My Star’ aired in January, it was reborn as a drama on Netflix, winning explosive responses at home and abroad, taking first place in Japan’s Rakuten TV Daily category. Not only that, it ranked first overall on Weibo, proving its global popularity, and was praised as a ‘new history of K-web drama’. This GV was prepared for the actors and directors to express their gratitude to the fans to commemorate the confirmation of the season 2 production. As it is a work that achieved exceptional results among BL genre web dramas, this GV is expected to be a meaningful event not only for the audience but also for the actors and directors.
Drama: To My Star 2
Related Content: To My Star (Korean prequel)
Native Title: 나의 별에게 2
Also Known As: To My Star Season 2, Naui Byeolege 2, Naui Byeorege 2
Director: Hwang Da Seul
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Youth
Country: South Korea
Airs: Jun 2022 -?
Original Network: Viki
Content Rating: 15+ – Teens 15 or older
The Witch Is Alive
“The Witch Is Alive” is a story of three women whose lives are half-lives and half-lives, at the age of indomitableness, someone who wants to kill them. A mystery black comedy that deals with a story. Gong-Ma Ri is a housewife with a celebrity husband and a talented daughter. Gong-Ma Ri is a person who, while living as a good wife under the immovable principle that ‘if you don’t touch while eating, no one bites’, gets mad at her unexpected husband’s affair, and sets out to find another way to end the marriage instead of the divorce that her husband wants. Chae Hee-soo is the only daughter-in-law of a chaebol family. Chae Hee-soo suffered from infertility after her marriage but is silently caring for her mother-in-law, who suffered from cerebral infarction and dementia. Her mother-in-law gives her a terrifying yet seductive proposal to her, who has failed her long-awaited pregnancy amid her husband’s indifference. Her sudden proposal from her mother-in-law causes her to undergo a complex change of heart. Yang Jin-ah gets hundreds of millions of won in insurance money after her husband’s death. Yang Jin-ah is living a luxurious life that is second to none with her husband’s death insurance, but she is a unique person who struggles to protect her money, suffering from her anxiety that she might lose it. She creates the character Yang Jin-ah, who goes through extreme temperature differences from a gorgeous stone single woman to an evil woman trying to protect her money.
Drama: The Witch Is Alive
Native Title: 마녀는살아있다
Also Known As: Manyeoneunsalaissda
Director: Kim Yoon Cheol
Screenwriter: Park Pa Ran
Genres: Mystery, Drama
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 16
Airs: Jun 2022 – 2022
Airs On: Saturday, Sunday
Original Network: TV Chosun
Weird Lawyer, Woo Young Woo
‘Weird Lawyer, Woo Young Woo’ is the story of a 27-year-old woman with autism spectrum disorder, Woo Young-woo. Due to her high IQ of 164, and impressive memory, becoming a lawyer at a large law firm. Lee Jun-ho is an employee of a law firm Baekryong. Although Lee Jun-ho possessed ‘a warm charm’, he was not conscious of his popularity or took advantage of it, and he had a personality that puts others first. Jun-ho, who was not shaken by any temptation, helps his strange lawyer, Woo Young-woo, who works a lot in solving her case.
Drama: Weird Lawyer, Woo Young Woo
Native Title: 이상한 변호사 우영우
Also Known As: Strange Lawyer, Woo Young Woo, Unusual Lawyer Woo Young Woo, Isanghan Byeonhosa Uyeongu
Director: Yoo In Shik
Screenwriter: Moon Ji Won
Genres: Law, Drama
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 16
Airs: Jun 2022 -?
Original Network: Netflix
Duration: 60 min.
Content Rating: 15+ – Teens 15 or older
Doctor Lawyer
“Doctor Lawyer” is a medical suspense court drama about a genius surgeon who became a lawyer after losing everything through a rigged operation and a prosecutor in charge of medical crimes who lost all of his family and lover in the operation to gain wealth and power. It is a heartwarming and exhilarating medical suspense court drama that punishes people who believe they can rank life and comforts the victims of unfairness.
Han Yi Han was an elite surgeon. He graduated at the top of the best medical school in South Korea and he specialized in two departments: general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery. One surgery changed his life. Han Yi Han believe he did well in that surgery, but the patient died. He then got his medical license revoked. Four years later, Han Yi Han works as a lawyer, specializing in medical litigation. He also tries to uncover the truth behind the death of his former patient. In his trials, Han Yi Han defends victims and tries to punish those that commit medical malpractice and negligence. He works with a public prosecutor, who lost a family member and a lover due to the surgery Han Yi Han performed.
Drama: Doctor Lawyer
Native Title: 닥터 로이어
Also Known As: Dr. Lawyer, Dagteo Loieo
Director: Lee Yong Seok
Screenwriter: Jang Hong Chul
Genres: Thriller, Law, Drama, Medical
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 16
Airs: Jun 3, 2022 – Jul 23, 2022
Airs On: Friday, Saturday
Original Network: MBC
Duration: 60 min.
Content Rating: 15+ – Teens 15 or older
Why Her?
“Why Her?” is a painful but thrilling story between Oh Soo-jae, a cold lawyer who has become empty while pursuing only success, and Gong-chan, a law school student who is not afraid of anything to protect her. The story of two people whose lives have been turned in the wrong direction due to the wrong choice, who are trying to escape from the depths of the abyss, raises expectations for the birth of a different ‘mystery melodrama (LAW)’. Oh Soo-jae, a star lawyer with a captivating charisma. She is not afraid of any event or any opponent. However, the life of Oh Soo-jae, who was on the road to success suddenly at the ‘command’ rather than the suggestion of TK Law Firm Chairman Choi Tae-guk that she left TK Law Firm to become an adjunct professor at the Law School. Gongchan’s meaningful gaze looking at Soo-jae is also unusual among the students, who are in an uproar about the appearance of star lawyer Oh Soo-jae.
Drama: Why Her?
Native Title: 왜 오수재인가
Also Known As: Why Oh Soo Jae?, Wae Osujaeinga?
Screenwriter: Kim Ji Eun
Director: Park Soo Jin
Genres: Romance, Drama, Melodrama
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 16
Airs: Jun 3, 2022 – Jul 23, 2022
Airs On: Friday, Saturday
Original Network: SBS, Viki, ViuTV
Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.
Content Rating: 15+ – Teens 15 or older
Cleaning Up
”Cleaning Up” has released a teaser poster for ‘Sisters of Beauty Salon’ Yeom Jeong-ah, Jeon So-min, and Kim Jae-hwa. It sweeps stock information with the technology that is used to sweep the floor, aiming for the ‘rice cakes’ of life. “Cleaning Up” is an unpredictable life-limit challenge for the sisters of a brokerage firm who jumped into a stock war with insider trading information that they accidentally heard. Yong-mi Eo struggles to take responsibility for her two daughters as a father and mother, and Ahn In-kyung, who shows extreme immersion, gets a food truck and buys a cafe, and wants to run a business. Maeng Soo Ja, who fills the play with just her eyes, is foretelling a different acting transformation by taking on the role of a ‘beast’ who boasts indomitable viability with her livelihood affinity.
Drama: Cleaning Up
Native Title: 클리닝 업
Also Known As: Keullining Eob, Keulliningeob, 클리닝업
Director: Yoon Sung Shik
Screenwriter: Choi Kyung Mi
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 16
Airs: Jun 4, 2022 – Jul 24, 2022
Airs On: Saturday, Sunday
Original Network: jTBC
Duration: 60 min.
Content Rating: 15+ – Teens 15 or older
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Link: Eat, Love, Die
“Link: Eat, Love, Die” is a linked phenomenon that has resumed after 18 years. It’s a fantasy romance. Eun Gye-hoon, who feels Noh Da-Hyun’s joys and sorrows, and Eun Gye-hoon, who understands his feelings well, are curious about how Noh Da-Hyun will develop emotions. A fantasy mystery drama about a man and woman who share the same emotional state. Eun Gye-hoon is a sous chef at a high-end restaurant. A person with not only cooking skills, but also handsome visuals and a sexy voice. However, someone’s emotions suddenly start to invade him. Noh Da-Hyun is a job seeker. Da-hyun believes in the saying that ‘good luck will come if you laugh’, despite her juniors’ nagging and bullying, she always treats people with a bright smile, but what comes back is not happiness, but only suffering. As she commits an irreversible incident in such a salty life, she begins to get entangled with Eun Gye-hoon.
Drama: Link: Eat, Love, Die
Native Title: 링크: 먹고 사랑하라, 죽이게
Also Known As: Link: Eat and Love to Kill , You Are My Killer , Lingkeu: Meokgo Saranghara, Jukige , 유 아 킬러
Screenwriter: Kwon Ki Young
Director: No Sang Hoon
Genres: Mystery, Romance, Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 16
Airs: Jun 6, 2022 – Jul 26, 2022
Airs On: Monday, Tuesday
Original Network: tvN
Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.
Content Rating: 15+ – Teens 15 or older
Insider
‘Insider’ is an action-suspense in which a judicial trainee named Kim Yo-han, who fell into the abyss during an undercover investigation, struggles to seize the lost hand. Intense brain battles, high-level psychological warfare, and hot action unfold on a game board where desires are intertwined. A man who fights against the world that has led him to ruin is about to take revenge. Kim Yo-han is a senior judicial trainee whose fate has changed due to an undercover investigation. He infiltrates the gambling board to catch the weaknesses of the corrupt prosecutors, gets caught up in an unexpected incident, enters the prison, and begins a survival quest for revenge. Oh Soo-yeon is a businessman who hides a sharp knife in her gentle smile. Her beauty turns into a gun and her brain turns into a sword, and she knows how to subdue opponents. Recognizing Kim Yo-han’s extraordinary qualities at a glance, she marks Kim Yo-han with her ‘sword’.
Drama: Insider
Native Title: 인사이더
Also Known As: Insaideo
Screenwriter: Moon Man Se
Director: Min Yeon Hong
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 16
Airs: Jun 8, 2022 – Jul 28, 2022
Airs On: Wednesday, Thursday
Original Network: jTBC
Duration: 60 min.
Content Rating: 15+ – Teens 15 or older
To X Who Doesn’t Love Me
“To X Who Doesn’t Love Me” is a new romance drama that will continue the box office success of the original series. In Teabing’s original ‘To X Who Doesn’t Love Me’, a college student lyricist, Seo Hee-soo with zero self-esteem and zero narcissism discovers a mysterious lyricist note that makes anyone fall in love with her for a month and then gets entangled with several men including ‘boyfriend’ Jeong Si-ho. It is a romance drama of the week of expiration that contains a story. ‘To the X who doesn’t love me’, which starts from the imagination that anyone would have tried, foretells the birth of a reality-sympathetic drama with the story of young people in their 20s who struggle with dreams and love. Seo Hee-soo, a single college student who dreams of becoming a lyricist, happens to have a lyric writing note that makes love as she writes. The best friend, Jeong Si-ho, is the only one who knows the secret of Hee-soo’s notes.
Drama: To X Who Doesn’t Love Me
Native Title: 나를 사랑하지 않는 X에게
Also Known As: Love Note , Nareul Saranghaji Anhneun Xege , Robeunoteu , 러브노트
Screenwriter & Director: Ko Jae Hong
Genres: Romance, Drama
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 20
Airs: Jun 10, 2022 – ?
Airs On: Friday
Duration: 20 min.
Yumi’s Cells 2
Season 1 ending ended with Kim Yu Mi and Ku Woong’s farewell. In season 2, in the second half of Season 1, there is a full-fledged love story with Yoo Babi, who invited Kim Yu Mi to his marketing team. The process of Kim Yu Mi’s step as a writer after meeting Yoo Babi will be drawn in more detail. It is a little more dynamic than season 1 and plans to make the drama richer by adding a narrative that has not been seen in the original.
Drama: Yumi’s Cells 2
Related Content: Yumi’s Cells (Korean prequel)
Native Title: 유미의 세포들2
Also Known As: Yoo Mi’s Cells 2 , Yoo Mi’s Cells Season 2 , Yumi’s Cells Season 2 , Yumieui Sepodeul 2
Screenwriter: Song Jae Jung, Kim Yoon Joo, Kim Kyung Ran
Director: Lee Sang Yeob
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Life
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 14
Airs: Jun 10, 2022 – Jul 23, 2022
Airs On: Friday, Saturday
Original Network: iQiyi, tvN
Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.
Content Rating: 15+ – Teens 15 or older
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Jinxed At First
Based on the popular webtoon of the same name, this drama depicts what happens when a poor man meets the goddess of a fortune hidden in a chaebol family. Seul Bi, who one can see the future of the person she touches. Seul Bi, who grew up locked up in a secret room, escaped from the curious room 7 years ago and met Gong Soo-Kwang and had a dreamy day. Gong Soo-Kwang is a fishmonger in the Seodong market and a special jinx. After meeting Seul Bi, he loses everything and leads a completely different life from before.
Drama: Jinxed At First
Native Title: 징크스의 연인
Also Known As: Jinx’s Lover, Jinxed Couple, Jingkeuseuui Yeonin, The Jinx’s Lover
Screenwriter: Jang Yoon Mi
Director: Yoon Sang Ho
Genres: Mystery, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 16
Airs: Jun 15, 2022 – Aug 4, 2022
Airs On: Wednesday, Thursday
Original Network: KBS2
Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.
Content Rating: 15+ – Teens 15 or older
Island Season 1
“Island Season 1” is an OCN drama based on the manhwa (manga) and webtoon of the same title. It is a Korean fantasy exorcism story based on Jeju Island folk tales. Won Mi Ho is the only daughter of the chairman of Daehan Group. Her arrogant and selfish mindset causes her to make a massive mistake that finally angers her father into banishing her to Jeju island. There, she is assigned to work as an excessive faculty ethics instructor. Unbeknownst to her, the island is wherein evil roams unfastened. Monsters of Jeju Island have been looking for opportunities to get rid of the human world for a long time and started to target a chaebol heiress who arrived on Jeju Island. Won Mi Ho doesn’t know about her sad and cruel fate. She is targeted by monsters on Jeju Island and Van is the only one who can protect her.
Van is a sexy chaser of monsters. A man who needs a woman to end his cursed immortal life. He is hunting and killing monsters all the time. He feels no emotions at his slaughters. Kung Tan is working with Van to defeat the monsters. However, there will be a key twist in his destiny and he will come to oppose Van. John Skelp (Kang ChanHyuk) is a hip exorcist who is feeling guilty for failing to protect a girl. He is a priest at the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Manhattan (New York, USA). He grew up in the States but did not forget the Korean language. He looks cheerful but he has a dark past behind him.
Drama: Island Season 1
Related Content: Island Season 2 (Korean sequel)
Native Title: 아일랜드1
Also Known As: Aillaendeu 1
Screenwriter: Jang Yoon Mi
Director: Bae Jong
Genres: Action, Thriller, Horror, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 20
Airs: Jun 17, 2022 -?
Original Network: OCN
Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.
Content Rating: 15+ – Teens 15 or older
Alchemy of Souls
The drama is set in a great country that does not exist in history or on maps, and the protagonists whose fate is twisted due to the ‘remembrance of the soul’ that change their souls overcome this and grow up. It is a fantasy romance drama. Jang-Wook is a noble but bad-tempered master of the great country ‘The Jang Family’. Jang-Wook is the mastermind of misery who has the secret of being born in a makjang that people all over the country are talking about. Mu Deok Yi is the world’s best salesman who is trapped in the body of the weakest in the world. She has a charismatic soul and a weak body that does not follow her will. As a person who becomes Jang-Wook’s attendant and secret teacher, she is said to teach master Jang-Wook in a heinous way, attracting attention to the chemistry between the ‘evil teacher’ and the ‘bad disciple’.
Drama: Alchemy of Souls
Native Title: 환혼
Also Known As: Can This Person Be Translated? , Salvation Interpreter, Welcome, Soul Marriage, Resurrection, Guwoneui Tongyeok, Hwan Hon, 구원의 통역, 환혼 , 이사람통역이되나요, Return
Screenwriter: Hong Jung Eun, Hong Mi Ran
Director: Park Joon Hwa
Genres: Action, Historical, Romance, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 20
Airs: Jun 18, 2022 – Aug 21, 2022
Airs On: Saturday, Sunday
Original Network: Netflix, tvN
Duration: 1 hr. 20 min.
Content Rating: 15+ – Teens 15 or older
Mental Coach Je Gal Gil
”Mental Coach Je Gal Gil” is a sports drama in which a former national athlete who quit sports after an accident, rescues players from a slump with retired experts, and challenges a fair match. Je Gal Gil is a mental coach who was a former national athlete who is known for his hard work and dorky charms. After he causes an unprecedented accident in the athlete’s village, Je Gal Gil is permanently expelled and coined the unlucky Taekwondo prodigy. Cha Ga Eul is a former world-class short-track speed skating gold medalist who has fallen into a slump. With her pretty poker face, she’s known as the up-and-coming “Ice Princess,” but she faces the danger of fading out when she falls into a slump. Unable to confide in anyone, Cha Ga Eul begins to beat herself up until she meets mental coach Je Gal Gil. Gu Tae-man is a former Taekwondo Olympic gold medalist and director of the Human Rights Center of the Sports Association. Park Seung-ha, the psychological support team of the athletes’ village and surprisingly reunites with Je Gal Gil, this time as advisor partners.
Drama: Mental Coach Je Gal Gil
Native Title: 멘탈코치 제갈길
Also Known As: Mentalkochi Jegalgil
Director: Son Jung Hyun
Screenwriter: Kim Ban Di
Genres: Drama, Sports
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 16
Airs: Jun 20, 2022 – Aug 9, 2022
Airs On: Monday, Tuesday
Original Network: tvN
Duration: 1 hr. 10 min
The Youngest Son of a Conglomerate
“The Youngest Son of a Conglomerate” is a work based on a popular web novel of the same name with a cumulative number of views of 24.4 million. It tells the story of a protagonist who is accused of embezzling funds from the family of a conglomerate who has been loyal for more than 10 years and returns to the youngest son of the conglomerate who killed him, growing up step by step to take over the conglomerate family. Shin Hyun-bin was offered the role of Seo Min-Young, a prosecutor in the anti-corruption investigation department of the Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office. Seo Min-young is a financial resource who came from a family of prestigious law schools from generation to generation and is a tenacious gamer who crosses the border between evasion and illegality in order to realize justice. She has a fierce race with the male lead, Jin Do Jun, who does not know whether it is love or hate.
Drama: The Youngest Son of a Conglomerate
Native Title: 재벌집 막내아들
Also Known As: The Youngest Son of Sunyang, The Youngest Son of the Chaebol House, Chaebol Family’s Youngest Son, The Chaebol’s Youngest Son, The Youngest Son of the Chaebol Family, The Youngest Son of a Chaebol Family, Jaebeoljib Magnaeadeul, Jaebeoljib Maknaeadeul
Director: Jeong Dae Yun
Screenwriter: Kim Tae Hee
Genres: Romance, Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 16
Airs: Jun 22, 2022 – Aug 11, 2022
Airs On: Wednesday, Thursday
Original Network: jTBC
Duration: 60 min.
Content Rating: 15+ – Teens 15 or older
Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area
‘House of Paper: Common Economic Zone’ depicts the process of a genius strategist and robbers with different personalities and abilities in the background of the Korean Peninsula, fighting an extraordinary variable and engaging in an unprecedented hostage robbery. The video begins with the figure of a professor who is alone in a dark room. Before long, various kinds of masks are hanging all over his eyes. Various traditional masks in Korea, such as Dali masks, which are the symbols of the original Spanish series, as well as Bunnetals and Yangban masks, catch the eye. Expectations are rising as to where the professor’s hand reaching for the mask will go. Next, Seon Woo-jin, the leader of the crisis negotiation team belonging to the National Police Agency, appears to confront the professor who planned the hostage robbery, and heralds that the government will not be pacified.
Drama: Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area
Native Title: 종이의 집: 공동경제구역
Also Known As: The House of Paper: Korea – Joint Economic Area , Jongieui Jib: Gongdongkyungjeguyeok
Director: Kim Hong Seon
Screenwriter: Ryu Yong Jae, Kim Hwan Chae, Choi Sung Joon
Genres: Action, Thriller, Mystery, Crime
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 12
Airs: Jun 24, 2022
Airs On: Friday
Original Network: Netflix
Duration: 60 min.
Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)
Minamdang: Case Note
“Minamdang: Case Note” is a mystery-comedy investigation drama by the former profiler Han Joon and his colleagues. It will tell the story of a suspicious café named Minamdang and the clients that visit the coffee. Nam Han-jun, a former profiler, controlled the eyes, tone, and breathing while performing a captivating performance, but with his witty speech, he made the scene feel comfortable. Han Jae-hee is a third-year detective in the violent class who doesn’t hesitate to pursue justice, and drew everyone’s attention by doubling the ‘cider’ charm of the easy-going and cool character through her excellent control.
Drama: Minamdang: Case Note
Native Title: 미남당-사건수첩
Also Known As: Minamdang: Sageonsucheob
Director: Go Jae Hyun
Screenwriter: Park Hye Jin
Genres: Mystery, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 16
Airs: Jun 27, 2022 – Aug 16, 2022
Airs On: Monday, Tuesday
Original Network: KBS2
Duration: 60 min.
Content Rating: 15+ – Teens 15 or older
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