Throw away any preconceptions you may have about Korean period dramas ’cause imagination runs wild in KBS’s outrageous new drama Hong Gil Dong! Touted as Korea’s first ever small-screen fusion period comedy, this quintessential drama puts a major comical spin on one of the most notorious fictional characters in Korean history - Hong Gil Dong, [...]

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In October 1979, Korean president Park Chung Hee was shot to death by the head of the Korean CIA, Kim Jae Kyu, triggering massive political unrest. Offering a fascinating look into one of the most turbulent times in Korean modern history, 5th Republic is a controversial political drama that covers the key aspects of the [...]

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SBS’s new trendy melodrama My Sweet Seoul (a.k.a. My Sweet City) has been compared to Sex and the City for its realistic depiction of thirty-something urbanites in the 21st century. Filmmaker Park Heung Sik, director of the acclaimed I Wish I Had a Wife and My Mother, Mermaid, crosses over to television to helm this [...]

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Divorce brings people together, at least in the case of the new MBC drama The Lawyers of the Great Republic Korea. Starring film actor Lee Sung Jae (Daisy, Stranger than Paradise), Lee Soo Kyung (Soulmate), Ryu Soo Young (Bad Couple), and Han Eun Jung (Full House), this romantic comedy revolves around a separated couple and [...]

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Barbie Hsu from Meteor Garden and Taiwanese singer Show Luo (The Outsiders II) can be seen in Taiwan’s promising new TV drama Corner With Love, regarded as the Chinese version of the hugely popular Korean title Full House. Affectionately called Big S and Little Pig by their fans, the two stars have no trouble passing [...]

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Can a marriage survive after an affair? My Husband’s Woman explores the intimate, sometimes appalling, sometimes absurd, but always painful ordeal of women on both sides of the story behind an extramarital affair. Bae Jong Ok (Goodbye Solo, Lie) plays a typical homemaker whose perfect life comes crashing down when she learns that her husband [...]

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Returning from his highly acclaimed drama series Time Between Dog And Wolf, Korean heartthrob Lee Jun Ki stars in Iljimae, a fusion historical drama set during the Joseon dynasty that chronicles the life of a chivalrous robber known as “Iljimae”. Unlike other outlaw heroes such as Robin Hood and Hong Gil Dong who were accompanied [...]

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