May and June Drama Reviews 2023 June 17, 2023

May and June Drama Reviews 2023

Oasis

During the 1980’s in the Jeolla Province there is Lee Do-Hak (Jang Dong-Yoon) who comes from a poor family but is really smart and well liked person. He is friends with Choi Cheol-Woong (Choo Yeong-Woo) who comes from a rich family and they meet Oh Jung-Shin (Seol In-A) who has transferred from Seoul and they both have a crush on her. There is a death that changes their lives forever and set them on completely different paths.

I think this drama had potential to be a great drama but somehow it always seemed like something was missing to make me get really sucked into this drama. I found it strange because I tend to cry really easily in dramas and can really empathize with the characters but yet in this drama I found myself watching scenes and thinking I should be tearing up and crying and yet the tears didn’t come. The only time I teared up was at the funeral scene. I found myself not really liking any of the characters they all seemed immature and frustrating. I think Choi Cheol-Woong was one of the worst characters and he was so obsessed with attacking Do-Hak all the time I just couldn’t like him one bit and never felt sorry for him even once. I should have felt sorry for Do-Hak and yet I didn’t, maybe the way he handled things seemed so cowardly. There were so many unlikable characters in this drama and I didn’t really feel good about any of them and I just couldn’t connect to any of them. I have to say though Oh Man-Ok (Jin Yi-Han) was really the scene stealer in this drama, I think all the main characters seemed so immature to me that when Man-Ok would come on the scene he really commanded the scenes and somehow made me like him more than the main characters. I think because I had zero sympathy for Cheol-Woong so when Man-Ok was somewhat hurting him it didn’t really bother me.

I think the ending was also just strange how they just glossed over everything and they could go back to their friendship. I feel like the drama had a focus on all these other characters like Do-Hak’s sister story line was pretty useless they might as well have just not had it in there because I wasn’t sure what the point of it was and it seemed to be that way with other characters. Also they completely glossed over the resolution of what happened with the crimes that happened in the drama. It felt like I got whiplash watching the last episode and I am so confused about how everything was resolved without much explanation. Also if you think this was a romance drama you will be disappointed it does not focus much on the love triangle or at least it doesn’t really focus much on those relationships.

It was still a decent drama if you like action, criminal and gangs type themes and there is are some fun twists and turns throughout the drama. It was still pretty entertaining and interesting and it doesn’t have much of a lull it is pretty fast-paced and exciting throughout all the episodes. There are frustrating elements but overall it was a decent drama that will keep you well entertained.

The Secret Romantic Guesthouse

This drama is about Yoon Dan-Oh (Shin Ye-Eun) who is running Ihwawon Inn that isn’t doing that well and she is trying to convince scholars who are coming to take the exam to become a official. She doesn’t have much money and finds out she has an old family debt and the only way that she can to pay if off is to find Lee Sool who is the oldest son of the deposed prince. Some of her scholar guests join her in searching for this man. Kang San (Ryeo Un, Kim Shi-Yeol (Kang Hoon) and Jung Yoo-Ha (Jung Gun-Joo).

This is a entertaining and well done historical style drama with a good ending. I like there was a mystery that kept you guessing in the drama and you have to keep thinking about who is the missing prince. I am happy that they didn’t just follow the normal plot of palace politics of the old officials plotting against the king and you only really see it from the King’s perspective. This drama was different the King was evil and we were given no sympathy for the man. I like the twists and turns of the drama and thought it was a great ending. Even though it had many serious moments it also had some silly and funny moments too that was pretty fun.

The one thing that bothered me in the drama was the sister and how she acted, like her pain was the only important thing and it seemed really selfish to me. Everyone has problems and she acted like the person in her life was completely innocent and that he did nothing wrong when in reality it is much more complicated then that. I don’t think that she should have had a happy ending if she is just going to treat people badly because of her pain. The romance was cute at times but I didn’t really feel a strong chemistry from the leads though. There was some unrealistic moments in the leads love line that just seemed off to me. I also think they didn’t need that many episodes, it seemed a bit long and yet it still was pretty interesting even to the ending.

I would recommend this drama, and I think this was a well done drama especially for a historical type drama. It wasn’t just the typical drama from the point of view from the King and the nobles scheming against him.

The Law Cafe

This drama is about Kim Yoo-Ri (Lee Se-Young) who is a lawyer that likes to fight for the underdog and take on cases that seem impossible but tries her best to use the law to help those underprivileged. She starts a Law cafe where people can come in for a coffee and a consultation. It is also about Kim Jung-Ho (Lee Seung-Gi) who very intelligent and used to be a prosecutor and is currently unemployed and lives off the rent of his building that he owns. Yoo-Ri and Seung-Gi have known each other since high school and she starts to rent his building for her cafe.

I wasn’t sure I wanted to watch another law drama since this year there has been many but I decided to watch it anyway. I thought that they definitely did a good job in keeping the law and the cases interesting and that it didn’t get boring. There was a good balance between the personal lives of the characters and the cases that they took on so the drama didn’t get boring. There was a lot of interesting cases and heartbreaking ones. All the cases were pretty interesting and they left an impression on me and they were pretty memorable. It had a good balance of humour and seriousness in the drama and fun characters. Even the bad guys were excellent in their roles. I think the acting was very well done.

I can’t say I was super excited about the romance in this drama, I don’t know why I just couldn’t buy the chemistry of the leads. I didn’t really get any heart fluttering moments in this drama and actually found their bickering to get on my nerves sometimes. Also I get that Yoo-Ri was supposed to love fashion and being different but honestly some of her looks were distracting and seemed out of place for the context of what they were doing especially in serious moments, maybe it was just me though. I thought they would do more of a story ending with Seo Eun- Kang and was kinda disappointed that they never followed up with a love line for him.

Overall this was a decent romantic comedy with a great ending and consistent writing and acting. I would highly recommend if you love this genre!

Shooting Stars

So I finally got around to watching this drama as it has been out for a while already!

This drama is about Oh Han-Byeol (Lee Sung Kyung) who works for an entertainment company as the PR team leader and her job requires her to clean up after celebrities and the mess they get into. It also stars Gong Tae-Sung (Kim Young Dae) who is a famous actor at the same company and his favorite past time is giving Han-Byeol a hard time after she made a mistake toward him. It also focuses on the different workers at the entertainment company like the PR Team, managers, lawyers and reporters. It gives a glimpse into the world of managing celebrities.

I really liked this drama, it was easy to watch and was interesting with the large cast and had lots of side stories mixed into the drama. I really liked the humor and comedic timing in this drama and was thoroughly entertained in every episode. They had some interesting mysteries and tosses and turns though the drama that keeps you invested in the drama. This drama really has everything you want in a romantic comedy!

What I didn’t really like in the drama was at times how Tae-Sung acted towards Han-Byeol, he really treated her badly and I don’t feel like he properly apologized and made amends for the things that he did to her. I feel like it is the idea that “Oh boys will pick on you when they like you” and they say this to girls to just tolerate the behavior. I wish he would have shown some growth or maturity and properly acknowledged his poor actions towards Han-Byeol and built a relationship on something with more substance and she definitely glossed over his behavior as well. I found this dynamic to be disappointing in the drama. I also had a hard time buying the relationship between the two managers, it just didn’t seem like a romantic relationship to me and for some reason, it bothered me. Unfortunately the problem with fame and dating doesn’t really get resolved in the drama it seems like Han-Byeol has to basically suck it up and deal with the fame of dating Tae-Sung and doesn’t really offer any solutions on how she can overcome this struggle.

Overall it was a great drama that had a great ending and it feels like they tied up the loose ends. I would highly recommend this drama if you love a good romantic comedy!

Upcoming Dramas

Queen of Masks

This drama is about some women that used to be friends until a murder happens and one of them is framed for it. They come together 10 years later to figure out the mystery of what happened that fateful night and how to exact revenge.

All That We Loved

It is about two teenage boys that are the best of friends and have supported each other through the worst times. Go Yoo ends up donating his kidney to Go Joon Hee and they meet a girl that they both seem to develop feelings for.

Oh! Youngsim

This drama is about childhood friends that have misunderstandings between each other and meet up many years later and one is a CEO and the other is a PD on a dating show and end up on the show together.

December and January Korean Drama Reviews 2023 February 12, 2023

December and January Korean Drama Reviews 2023

Curtain Call

The first drama is Curtain Call it is about Yoo Jae-Heon (Kang Ha-Neul) who is a theatre actor who come from a humble background but is passionate about acting taking up odd jobs. He gets an offer to play the long lost grandson of Ja Geum Soon. It also stars Park Se-Yeon (Ha Ji-Won) who is the granddaughter of Ja Geum Soon who is the founder of the successful Nakwon Hotel chain. Se-Yeon wants to save the hotel from being sold as it represents who her grandmother’s dreams of waiting like a lighthouse for her husband that got separated in 1930 when the Korean War broke out and she came to South Korea and her husband and child were stuck in North Korea.

I think the plot of this drama was really interesting and heartfelt at times, it was fun to watch them act and get caught in different kinds of moments that they had to act their way out of to keep it going. I thought it had good pacing and was exciting and when you thought it was getting slow it would pick up again. I would say this was a decently entertaining drama. It has a good ending and most questions are answered. The story is so heartbreaking of the grandmother and her family that it really created a memorable feelings when watching the drama. It is a slower drama but I liked watching Jae-Heon be accepted by a family and seeing him want to tell the truth and just try to become a better person.

The only thing was the romance story line was pretty weak and not really adding much to the story. It was also a strange idea because he is paying to act as her cousin and blood related so in my mind it was an awkward thought to make it a romance. I would have preferred if the romance happened between Jae-Heon and his fake wife rather this his supposed cousin. At the same time it doesn’t really going there into romance since it is an awkward relationship so they just kinda introduce it more at the ending. I also found it strange the relationships between the siblings and grandparents and even the later reunion it felt a bit lacking, I was expecting a bit more warmth and love but it was a more strained feeling to me. Also I found the characters to be a one dimensional, they don’t really get to the heart of the matter. Also with the one brother that wants to see the hotel they don’t really get down to the reason why he wants to see. I mean I understand but I don’t really see the emotions that he is feeling and feel they could have done more deep dive into the characters and motives. I feel they could have given the real grandson more screen time and more into his character since he seemed to be the most interesting one of the whole drama.

It was decent drama that may be a bit anti climatic but has a decent ride!

Summer Strike

The second drama that I finished was Summer Strike. It stars Lee Yeo-Reum (Seol Hyun) who goes through major life changes and decides to quit her job and go live somewhere out of the city for a year with her savings. She ends up in a small village and meets the local librarian An Dae-Beom (Im Si-Wan) who doesn’t like talking to people and is shy around new people but is a very kind person. Yeo-Reum ends up renting a building that used to be a billiard business and it in poor shape she struggles with fitting in this small community and others want her to leave. Dae-Beom helps her and eventually she is able to help him as well.

This drama was my favorite this time around, it is quirky and interesting and just has the right mood and feeling. It has really good pacing the drama gives you something super sweet and then will hit you with some darkness and unhappiness and then hits you with some sweet again. All the characters are flawed and really imperfect there is no sugar coating any of them. The grandmother is not doing a good job of dealing with her alcoholic son and the way the characters treat Yeo-Reum especially at the beginning really shows their flaws, yes it does get better over time and this feels like a realistic way of showing characters.

Dae-Beom and Yeo-Reum tend to be taken advantage of since they are nice and helpful they are used by people with motives and agendas. It doesn’t matter if Yeo-Reum leaves her job and comes to a small community essentially she is met with the same problems. Even if you think you can run away it isn’t really possible since the same issues with plague you anyway. I think when they meet each other they are similar and are able to treat each other the way they would like to be treated. They can find some healing within themselves by being in each other’s company. It really hits me in all the feels and really like the feel of the drama and the way they interact with each other just seem like a warm blanket, I would say for me this was a comfort drama. Yes the world is a dark and scary place but it also can be a warm and beautiful at the same time.

My only complaint is that the drama is too short it only has 12 episodes and it really could have had more to share the story. I feel like I need more at the ending and it feels too rushed to have a strong conclusion, it just leaves you wanting more.

I highly recommend if you like mystery, slice of life and quirky love story dramas!

Reborn Rich

The third drama that I finished was Reborn Rich. It stars Hyeon-Woo (Song Joong-Ki) who has worked for the Soongyang Group for more than 10 years and has been treated like a servant to the family and it has been abusive. He then gets falsely accused of embezzlement and is shot while his is on a business trip overseas for the family. When he wakes up he is Soongyang family’s youngest grandson Jin Do-Jun and he decides that he is going to take revenge on the family and take the Soongyang Group for himself and to ruin the recent of the family.

This drama seemed to be getting a lot of hype so I decided to watch it even though for some reason I am not a fan of Joong-Ki, I don’t know why I feel this way but I tend to avoid his dramas. I started watching this one and it was interesting for the first couple of episodes but I felt it had a lot of boring business talk in this drama that I found hard to follow. I got the gist of what was happening but it had a lot of focus on business more than I was expecting. I think it was also hard because we never really knew what Hyeon-Woo’s plan really was or really got into his head to understand him better. I don’t really even get exactly what revenge he wanted other than being the owner of Soongyang Group. The love story was also really weird and neglected in this drama it seemed somewhat unnecessary since it was such a flat and boring relationship. I just found Hyeon-Woo’s character to be somewhat flat and just didn’t leave much of an impression on me. I also thought it was really weird that he didn’t try and do anything for his original family in that timeline. He could have supplied them with all the money that they needed through some anonymous means but he does practically nothing. Then with the current family he seems so disconnected and seems somewhat guilty with them. He acts so blah in his relationship with the love interest as well. It kinda seems like who are you doing this revenge for? Himself? Does he only really love himself? Somehow he becomes more unlikable to me as the drama goes on. The ending feel like there is plot holes and just anticlimactic and somewhat confusing. It kinda feels like what was the point of this drama.

I did like some of the plot of the story that was interesting when he is battling against the family. The family had some really great moments when they are fighting against each other and Hyeon-Woo pulling the strings. When things don’t work out for the family it feels somewhat satisfying and the best relationship to watch was the grandfather and Hyeon-Woo and to see if he was going to be accepted. It was a decent drama to watch but there the ending feels pretty anticlimactic and not really one that I was excited about.

Check it out if you like business dramas where the small guy fights against the big guy in the business world!

New Life Begins

I watched a Chinese drama called New Life Begins which is about a fictional kingdom of Xinchuan and it is about a Li Wei who is forced to come to XinChuan for marriage selection and she tries to get out of it by not being the most elegant or educated but she still get chosen by Yin Zheng who is the 6^th prince. The 6^th Prince keeps a low profile and doesn’t want a wife that will give him power or strength, he wants to do it with his own ability. They end up together and she has hopes that she will be able to leave soon and go back to her hometown.

This is a pretty fun drama that has some interesting themes of getting women more rights and has a somewhat feminist feel to the themes. It has some cute funny moments but there is also some sprinkled dark moments that come with the problems between the princes. It is really interesting because they travel to different parts of the kingdom and there is different rules there regarding women and their rights in different places. It is about Li Wei trying with the help of her friends bring about real change and Yin Zheng being able to help her along the way and work together. Honestly I think their relationship is one of the healthiest ones that I have seen in a long while. I have a lot of good feelings when I think about this drama.

At times it did have some draggy moments but it would usually pick up again so I think that is the only thing that bothered me about this drama.

I really enjoyed this drama, it felt consistent and well paced. I loved the humor and silliness along with the warmth. I recommend this drama if you like romantic comedies!

Upcoming Dramas

Strangers Again

This drama is about two lawyers that are divorced but are starting to work at the same firm together. They are familiar with each other but also don’t get along and yet make a good team when working on cases.

Poong, The Joseon Psychiatrist 2

So this is a second season of Poong and he is still unable to do acupuncture and he gets reunited with the same crew to solve some more psychology based cases where they learn to heal the heart and body. He has to fight against the Royal Medical Academy because he is a threat to them.

Our Blooming Youth

It is about the Crown Prince who thinks he is under some kind of curse and there is plots against to make him seem incapable of being crown prince. He meets Jae Yi who is from a prominent family that gets murdered and pinned onto her. She goes to the Crown Prince to help prove her innocence.

December 12, 2022

October and November 2022 Korean Drama Review

Gaus Electronics

Gaus Electronics is a comedy drama that is based on a webtoon with the same name and the episodes were shorter more like 46 minutes than the regular 60 minute run time. It also only had 12 episodes so it was a shorter drama than most. It is about the team members of Marketing Team 3 of the home appliance department at Gaus Electronics. It stars Lee Sang Sik (Kwak Dong Yeon) who is pretty good at his comedic role and he is a man that a bit dense but very positive and causes problems on the team on a regular basis. It would seem that this team is the underdogs of the company and with their hijinks they deal with love, career and friendship within the office.

I thought this was an interesting drama since not many dramas fully go in the comedy arena the last one was probably the Welcome to Waikiki series. It is a quirky and silly drama that has its own unique charms that make you want to keep watching. The actors were all good at playing their roles and nothing seemed too over the top that it feels cheesy but the story and acting were all good. I didn’t get bored since the drama was shorter.

The one problem is that the drama is too short, I am sure that the webtoon had way more material so I am not sure why they made it so short but I definitely felt like the ending was just too sudden and they were not given enough time.

So if you want a funny drama on the shorter side this is the perfect drama.

Mental Coach Jegal

This drama is about Gil Je Gal (Jung Woo) who is a mental coach after he had his own traumatic experience being a apart of the National Taekwondo team and eventually became permanently banned from returning as an athlete. He returns to the national team as a coach because he wants to help a Cha Ga Eul (Lee Yoo Mi) who is a struggling short-track speed skater and is in a slump.

Okay so I thought this drama would be about counselling others and be somewhat more of an inspirational drama but it really wasn’t what I was expecting. I was really disappointed in how they first of all portrayed the coach for the short-track speed skating, he was really abusive and everybody knew he was and they just kept as the coach. All the things that he did wrong and they would just keep him, it was disturbing that he could keep his job after everything was known by his boss. I also feel like they didn’t really explain enough about the sport in the drama and how much teamwork is needed in the sport. If you want to watch a good drama about speed skating I would recommend To Fly With You which is a Chinese drama. I feel like since I watching that drama I was able to understand the sport in this drama but I think I would have been confused if I hadn’t watched this drama first. The second thing that drove me crazy was the female sports counsellor Park Seung Ha (Park Se Young) everything that she did and thought was just so annoying and wrong. She would always tell Je Gal not to get involved with any of the problems the athletes were having and it was like how could you just sit still when the coaches are abusing the athletes. It was like she should just quit if she is not going to actually help any of the athletes. She also was Je-Gal’s counsellor at one point and she said the most awful and wrong things to him as well. She is really one of the worst characters of this whole drama and am still frustrated by her just thinking of her.

The love line is really just messed up in this drama, the age difference is too much and not to mention it is completely disturbing when a counsellor or coach starts dating their client. It is crossing so many boundaries and this was not what I was expecting when I started watching. You don’t date someone you are counselling, seriously I couldn’t believe that they went there and not to mention she looks like a child even though she may be in her twenties it just was not sending out good ideas with this drama.The reason that he is helping her is because he sees himself in her and even though he realizes this he still decides its okay to be with her. It also started getting pretty boring at the end with the whole politics and trying to catch the bad guys. I also didn’t find it very inspiring or was emotionally attached to any of the characters in this drama.

I don’t really have any positive feedback for this drama, I would avoid this one if you don’t want to be completely frustrated!

Love is For Suckers

This drama is about Goo Yeo Reum (Lee Da Hee) who is a variety tv producer and she is struggling in her love life and her career. She has her best friend who is also her neighbor Park Jae Hoon (Choi Siwon) who is struggling in his career as a doctor and they are comfortable in their friendship. Yeo Reum runs into trouble with her variety show that she is working on and has to recruit Jae Hoon to be on the dating show she is working on.

I thought this was an entertaining rom-com that kept me interested and had lots of characters to keep the story interesting. It was interesting because it was a show within a show type of drama and it felt like it had a different vibe after a couple of episodes. I would never watch those reality type dating shows like the bachelor but it was more interesting to watch it within this drama. We got to see what was happening behind the scenes and I mean its scripted within a drama so we aren’t expecting anything to be real. It was an interesting dynamic and felt fresh and not just a typical Rom-com.

I like Yeo Reum’s character in the show, she is strong and at some point shows that even though everyone thinks she should be married and accept everything to fit the mold of society she doesn’t accept this answer and chooses her personal happiness. She chooses what she thinks is best even if other people around her don’t like her choices. Jae-Hoon I feel like his presence in this drama was overshadowed by Yeo Reum character, he feels more like a sideline character, you get the feeling that she doesn’t really need him and maybe the chemistry is a bit lacking. Normally Si-Won in dramas his character is quite silly and has a strong presence so it felt strange to see him so subdued. He did good but it felt like he wasn’t himself but it was probably more that he had different character than normal for him. I think they also brought up important themes within the show, so it not just fluff but I don’t know if they really gave some of these themes enough time and attention to address them properly. It still surprised me that it went to these serious places at times.

I didn’t really like Chae-Ri who was the other PD for the show, I mean her character is pretty messed up and I guess I feel more sorry for her than anything else. She had family trauma and to deal with it she would just sleep with people as a one-night stand. This is super unhealthy and destructive behavior and they really should have shown her going to get help.

Overall this was an interesting and great rom-com with some serious themes! I would recommend watching this drama!

Seasons of Blossom

This drama is based on a webtoon with the same name and is a short drama as it is a web drama so the episodes are shorter than a normal dram but there is still 16 episodes. This drama is about a group of students that are currently going to Seoyeon High School and it focuses on Yoon Bo Mi (Kang Hye Won) who is a popular student and wants to protect her friends even if it means not allowing herself to be happy. It also stars Lee Jae Min (Kim Min Kyu) who is dealing with a lot of emotional pain from past events. It also goes into the past with Han So Mang (So Ju Yeon) who is a student teacher at Seoyeon High School as she remembers her painful past when she was a student and has to come to terms with the suicide of her boyfriend at the time.

So this is a very sad drama as you know the suicide is looming in the story the whole time and it is devastating to think about it when you watch the past. I knew this because I read the webtoon but it is still so sad when watching this drama. So if these themes are triggering for you I would not watch this drama as it deals with a lot grief and sadness. I would be careful watching this drama in general if you can’t handle these sad themes. The final episode was really the most sad and really it felt painful.

In the present the high school story is much cuter and not so dark and thought everyone did a great job in acting and it was surprising light-hearted even though there is still so much sadness in this drama. Also the story felt a little different than the webtoon because they focused more on So Mang and she was never a student teacher. Even though they changed some details it still felt like they did a good job and was very authentic to the webtoon. The one thing is that the webtoon is much longer and therefore the drama feels unfinished compared to the webtoon.

This drama is going to break your heart but was still enjoyable to watch!

Shadow Beauty

This is another web drama that is based on a webtoon with the same name but I haven’t read the webtoon. It stars Koo Ae Jin (Shim Dal Gi) who is not considered beautiful and feels ugly and is being bullied at school. She has developed a secret world where she utilizes makeup and photo editing to run a popular social media account called Genie. She keeps this secret to herself but one day she gets a message that someone is aware of who she is and that they have a untouched photo of her.

This was a very intriguing and addicting drama as you want to solve the mystery and it really sucked me in and wanted me to keep watching. It has a strange vibe with all the girl wearing the same type of style and looks like bad wigs but I am not totally sure. The story does get somewhat weak after a while but it still was interesting to watch. I think part of the problem since it is a webdrama they had to rush the story and didn’t give the same backstory time with the characters and developing the story in the same way a webtoon is able to because they have time. It was an easy watch and was pretty entertaining.

I mean it was still not very convincing that Ae Jin is ugly but at least they didn’t just give her glasses! Honestly I also didn’t really get her being and becoming friends with her bully, it was too fast of a change but again they didn’t have time. The fake genie story again didn’t have enough time to do that justice and so it felt really rushed and weird. Also if this fake genie is so pretty in real life why wouldn’t she just build a brand on social media as well? She really didn’t need to pretend to be someone else, she could have easily done well on her own. It has some interesting themes and was a fun ride.

I would recommend if you want a short, easy drama to check out!

Upcoming Dramas

Curtain Call

It is about Ja Geum Soon who owns a large hotel Nakwon and who is nearing the end of her life and she wants to be reunited with her family that she lost when she was separated from her husband and child during the Korean War in the 1950s. Her assistant hires an actor to play the grandchild that she wants to reunite with to make her happy before she dies.

Summer Strike

It is about a young woman who runs into problems with her personal and career and then gets hit with a tragedy and decides to quit her job and ends up in a small seaside village and meets a gentle and quiet librarian who keeps helping her in her embarrassing moments.

Reborn Rich

It is about a man who has been a loyal secretary to the Jin family who run the Soonyang Group and ends up dying after being betrayed and he is brought back to life and wakes up inside the youngest member of the Jin family. He decides that he will take revenge and takeover the Soonyang Group.

Sigh I Love Kdramas June 21, 2022

April May and June 2022 Korean Drama Reviews

The first drama that I finished was My Liberation Diary/ My Liberation Notes. This is a very interesting and unusual drama. It is about one family with adult siblings who live far from where they work in Seoul and have to spend a lot of time commuting. Gi Jeong (Lee El) is the oldest daughter and she is exhausted with her life and wants some romance. Chang-Hee (Lee Min-Ki) is the middle child and wants to live a better life and has dreams but feels crushed by the people around him. The youngest is Mi-Jeong who is introverted and doesn’t really like dealing with people but has a rich inner world that she doesn’t share with anyone. At work she is forced to join a club but instead with a couple of other people she makes her own club Liberation Club to help liberate each other from the things they want liberation from. It also stars Mr. Gu (Son Suk-Ku) who appears one day in Sanpo Village and starts to work for their dad. He never talks and is a known alcoholic that drinks everyday. Mi-Jeong decides to include him in her life and they find relief from life with each other.

This is a hard drama to explain because a lot of times it gives you a lot of feelings without even using a lot of words. This drama can feel monotonous because that is what is trying to be portrayed. It feels so relatable that it hurts at times and sometimes feels like it punches you in the gut with the truths that are revealed in the story. You feel the frustration, anger and sadness with the characters. At times there are silences when the family eats together and it actually would drive me bonkers, you just want them to communicate better with each other. When it focuses on the character of Mi-Jeong because she doesn’t talk much it would actually get frustrating because you just wanted her to speak her truth and what was on her mind. I just felt it was such a compelling drama even though it wasn’t action-packed or had a huge plot line. I like that it wasn’t a typical drama that was so predictable and always the same tropes. The acting is very good as well, they were able to convey deep emotions without even much dialogue at times.

What I didn’t like was the romance story line, I honestly feel that Mi-Jeong deserved someone better to love than someone that was an alcoholic. I would never encourage a friend or loved one to enter into a relationship with someone that had an addiction. I just can’t imagine it being healthy no matter and also being in love or having a loved one cannot be your savior, even though that was what the drama was hinting at. The drama didn’t really take it that far but the ending gave me hope for their relationship to be better. I also didn’t really love the love relationship for Gi-Jeong I thought she had better chemistry with another person in the drama then the one that she ended up with but it is fine. Chang-Hee’s ending is different but I mostly feel bad for him.

This is a great and well made drama! I would highly recommend if you like dramas that are more thought-provoking on the human condition.

The second drama that I finished was Our Blues. It is about a group of people living in a small village on Jeju Island. It focuses on one character for a couple of episodes and then moves onto another character. It had a large cast and no one was completely the main character as they would move on from a newcomer Lee Yeong-Ok (Han Ji-Min) who starts working as a haenyeo (female diver) and has a lot of secrets and is frustrating to the other people she works with. To Jung Eun-Hui who runs a fishing store and other businesses and focuses on the relationships that she has from the past and trying to figure out how to keep her friendship. To a teenage couple that gets themselves in trouble and their Dad’s have a grudge which makes it hard for them to solve their problem. This drama focuses on the hardest and best times of our lives and shows that they are often intermingled. Sadness and happiness are not really something you feel separately it is intermingled and can change quickly and suddenly but you can’t deny either of them. It is about family, friends and relationships and the struggle to keep them and understand the feelings of other people in your life. It is really a heart breaking and heart warming drama all at the same time.

I really was sucked into this drama and wanted to know what was the story between the different feuds and friendships and all the secrets between them. I also liked that there was a large cast so there was variety in the story telling. I think some of the best acting came from the oldest and youngest actors. The little girl Eun-Gi was so good at acting it was shocking. I thought it was really interesting that they were addressing Depression and how it can affect someone’s life. It was good they were talking about it but I’m not sure that they really gave good examples to deal with this disease. She didn’t really go and get help and was almost just supposed to overcome it with her own strength and friendship. I don’t know but that won’t work well for just anyone. I also thought it was good that they highlighted different disabilities in this drama as I think it is good to bring awareness to different issues that lots of people don’t have experience with and this drama seems to help bring understanding and showing how people are different.

What I didn’t like was I didn’t really care for Han-Su story line with Eun-Hui, it was honestly just weird and awkward and then the fact he leaves and doesn’t live there is just like why did we waste that much time on someone that doesn’t live there. It was also hard to watch Eun-Gi’s grandma treat her the way so roughly when she is just a little kid that needed some reassurance. I would never treat kids like that, I honestly couldn’t figure out why she was so harsh on a young child. I would have liked some more resolution on some of the story lines but overall I think they did a good job of wrapping up the loose ends.

I really think this is a worthwhile drama that has something in there for everyone as it covers a lot of ground and age groups.

The last drama that I finished was Love All Play which is about Park Tae-Yang (Park Ju-Hyun) is a badminton athlete and is returning to a professional team after a 3 year break after an incident. She was a contender to a star but because of her break she has to build back her abilities and strength. It also stars Park Tae-Joon (Chae Jong-Hyeop) who also decides to join the same team as Tae-Yang he feels like he is scared to actually know his true potential that if he actually tries his best he won’t measure up. He tries to act like he doesn’t care and it becomes his character.

I thought that this drama would have more badminton playing in it but found it was more focused on the characters and the drama between them. It also focuses on Park Tae-Yang’s guilt about the incident that she was involved in and that she feels guilty to even play badminton. It gets somewhat tiring and I didn’t feel like this drama was that unique or different then the typical drama. Two characters want to be together but because of other people around them they should be the last people that should be together. I kinda got frustrated in the drama and actually wished they would play more sports and I am not the type to like watching sports! Some characters were just the worst like basically all of Tae-Joon’s family and I really wished he would have told them off at some point but he doesn’t really and treats his mom way too well for the way she acted. He treated them all too well and at some point would have just wanted Tae-Joon and Tae-Yang to just be together and excommunicate his family. I don’t really mean it, but I was so frustrated by the situation at times.

I also found Tae-Yang’s character to get on my nerves at times, I don’t know why but I found her annoying at times. Also they have some weird romance moment that was kinda disturbing to me and just skipped over because it seemed so wrong on so many levels, the whole taking advantage of someone that is emotionally traumatized and weak. It just really gave off the wrong message and feel they should not have put that in.

The drama still kept me interested though in how it was going to turn out and was happy that it wasn’t a sad ending and there was some healing that happened. I wish they would have given a better ending of like who won the game at the end, which I thought was weird they didn’t put in there. I wish they would have given us more time with the ending instead of spending so much time with the characters being depressed and moping. It just felt tiring at some point.

Overall it wasn’t the greatest sports drama that I have watched but it was decent.

I just want to highlight a Chinese drama called Reset. It is about a college student Li Shiquing and a video game designer Xiao Heyun who are stuck in a time loop. They are stuck riding a bus that is about to explode and after they die, they wake up in the bus again. They have to find a way to stop the bus from exploding to escape from this endless time loop. I really thought this was a well done drama that actually made a time traveling drama that makes sense and doesn’t just turn into nonsense. It kept me on the edge of my seat a lot of time. They keep working out different simulations to try to stop the explosion. Each time they do a loop they get more and more information and discover the secrets behind the disaster. It really keeps you engaged the whole time and you want to binge it to find out the secrets. I don’t want to say too much in case I give away any of the clues but I highly recommend this drama if you like time traveling dramas.

November and December Korean Drama Review 2021 January 22, 2022

November and December Korean Drama Review 2021

Jirisan

Jirisan is about the mountain Jiri Mountain National Park and the rangers that work there. It stars Seo Yi-Gang (Gianna Jun) who is a veteran ranger and grew up around the mountain and knows the mountain better than anyone around. She has a big chip on her shoulder because the mountain cost the lives of her parents but at the same time she loves the mountain and wants to protect it and the people visiting the mountain. It also stars Kang Hyun-Ju (Ju Ji-Hoon) who is new ranger and was once an army captain and he feels compelled to come to the mountain because he has been given a gift to see deaths that are happening on the mountain. He wants to help prevent them and calls upon Yi-Gang to trust him and help him stop the bad things happening.

I never really knew about rangers as I don’t live anywhere near a mountain and don’t know much on the subject. It seemed like the drama did a really good job on showing the realities of working as a ranger and the harsh conditions they have to work in. I am sure they did some embellishing because that was a lot of natural disasters within a year or two that they showed but I am sure that they did there best to be authentic. I thought the concept of a murderer using a mountain to kill was a really interesting idea and actually scary how someone could pull this off. The story was very compelling and kept you on the edge of your seat trying to figure out who the killer is and I was thrown off many times. The mountain as a backdrop was also very beautiful and the cinematography was lovely. Of course the acting was also very well done and with many sad parts it really hurt when something happened to one of the characters.

What I did not like was the whole spiritual/ghost story line. I thought it kinda cheapened the experience and was entirely unnecessary. I really hated it when they saw the sticks moving on their own that they caught on camera, it was kinda cheesy and I just cringed. The way they made it seem like the mountain was alive and a spirit and the religious stuff I would just skip over. I just wanted to get to the murderer and wanted to move on from the ghosts.

I did like the ending though I just wish they would have given more time to the ending and showing the story line with what happened and what the characters were doing now, it just seemed like they rushed the ending and it certainly left me wanting more. Also if you are expecting romance in this drama, don’t bother because there is none there to find. It is more about friendship and comradeship which is fine but you can’t help shipping characters together! Gianna Jun is a great actress and was one of the reasons that I decided to watch this drama but I still thinks she shines best in comedy! I really wish she would do another comedy because she is in another class when she does comedy!

I would recommend this drama if you like a good murder mystery with a mountain as the backdrop!

Inspector Koo

The second drama is Inspector Koo which is about Koo Kyung-Yi (Lee Young-Ae) who is working as an insurance investigator and private detective after she retired from being a police officer. She is a smart, suspicious and smelly woman who is obsessed with computer games. She had a nervous breakdown after her husband committed suicide and now struggles to live normally. She gets pulled into a case by her old friend Na Je-Hui (Kwak Sun-Young) who work for an insurance company and wants her to find the serial killer labelled “K”. This is reminiscent of a cat and mouse game that happens between Koo and K and they are both trying to outsmart each other.

I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this drama but the acting was very convincing and the characters were all interesting. This was very interesting to think about especially when it came to the way K made her own moral rules. If you are murdering a bad person and you are stopping them from doing the evil deeds does it make it okay to kill them? This was the dilemma that was the theme throughout the drama. I really made you think and question who really is the evil person in this drama, it almost makes you uncomfortable for a time.

Koo is also an interesting character and how she processes things and what makes her tick and you just feel compelled to keep watching this drama. Koo she honestly smelled bad through the screen, I think it was a turn off for a lot of people but it really gave her character. She was one of the most unique lead characters, she was really out of the box for what is expected from women in society. I thought it was great and it was really great having lots of female characters for the main lead characters and even though we are supposed to hate K, at times I found myself really enjoying her scenes. I thought it was an intelligent, interesting and compelling to watch and well done.

I feel like the ending wasn’t really finished and I am wondering if they left it hanging a bit because they want to do another second season. I have not seen anything about another season happening so if they don’t then I am really frustrated with how they ended Santa’s story line, we never get his backstory even though it has been hinted at something happening and Koo doesn’t get to the bottom of it. This drives me crazy because that is not her character at all, she is the most suspicious and she just lets it go? She never gets to the bottom of Santa’s past? That is why I think they are maybe leaving some room for a second season.

I also am confused why they didn’t also get to the bottom of K’s past and what happened to her when she was lost in the woods? They allude to some supernatural events that someone is telling her to kill and when she has breakdown towards the end of the season she starts killing people for weird reasons and kinda goes back to the time she was lost. They don’t really explain it and honestly that was really weird and seems like a cop out when they use a supernatural approach because then logic gets to fly out of the window which I think is a lazy technique which is similar to how I feel with Jirisan. I would also warn you that this is not a romantic drama so don’t be disappointed if you think it is going to go in this direction.

The Red Sleeve

This drama is about Crown Prince Yi San (Lee Joon-Ho) and his struggle with trying to secure the crown from his grandfather. It also stars Sung Deok-Im (Lee Se-Young) who is his court lady since a child and does her best to serve the Crown Prince. Deok-Im is content with her life of being a court lady and having the freedom to be with her friends who are fellow court lady’s. The Crown Prince falls in love with Deok-Im and she struggles with the implications of his love and resists the change it could cause to her life.

I am still not over this drama, this caused a great emotional distress with watching this drama and I got pulled into the story to strongly. I have to remind you that this drama is based on history and I didn’t want to look up the history because I didn’t want to know what happened, but maybe I should have so I could have prepared myself for it. I know they have embellished the history and isn’t completely truth but I still find it distressing since it isn’t completely fiction. I first of all was excited to watch this drama since Joon-Ho was the the main lead and I have enjoyed him since Chief Kim, Just Between Lovers, and Wok of Love and he definitely didn’t disappoint. He played this character very well and really was the highlight of the drama for me!

I found really interesting about this drama was the fact this really felt like a feminist drama. The females were really in charge of this drama and were pulling the strings in front and behind the scenes. The women were the intelligent that seemed to hold the power in this drama and the power struggle continued until the end and it seemed unusual that the love between the leads didn’t seem to balance the power struggle. It almost was to the point of feeling uncomfortable and felt really bad for Yi-San and the sorrow was felt completely.

What I found frustrating was the character of Deok-Im and what was she really trying to do with her life. She was living as court lady to Yi-San and that already took away much of her freedom. She could never find someone to marry and start a family as that was not allowed and has to spend her life working at the palace which is not exactly a safe place either if someone sees her as their enemy. She somehow thought that she wanted to cling to her life as a court lady because she could have fun with her friends even though there is no guarantee for that to be the case in the future. It was so frustrating to watch her love the Crown Prince but then just hurt him over and over. To me the most logical thing is to be with him and at least she would get some love in her life and even be able to have a children and create love in her life. It wasn’t like she could leave the palace and then have all of her freedom again as she would always be a court lady her whole life. I found her way of thinking to be strange and at times really annoying. There wasn’t much else that I didn’t like about this drama just the ending it was really hard to watch but I did appreciate that the writer tried to soften the blow but it was still just so much emotional damage at this point.

I really thought it was a really well done palace drama that definitely had twists and turns that kept me on my toes and really a heart breaking love story that will really make you feel attached to these characters. So if you want a drama to move your heart with a compelling story I would highly recommend this drama.

Upcoming Korean Dramas

Moonshine

It is about the time of Joseon history where they had an alcohol prohibition law and a newly appointed inspector gets involved with a woman who makes alcohol unknowingly.

Snowdrop

It is set in 1987 during the Democracy Movement which was when there was a mass protest movement to stop the South Korean authoritarian government and demanding that they hold fair elections. It is about a graduate student that is being chased by the government and hides in a Women’s University dorm. A girl hides him because she thinks he is just a simple protester and wants to protect him and they start to develop feelings for each other.

Through the Darkness

It is about a criminal profiler who tries to read the minds of serial killers by digging up cases and trying to understand how their mind works and another profiler that struggles to understand the minds of criminals.

September and October 2021 November 21, 2021

September, October 2021 Korean Drama Reviews

The first drama that I finished was Hospital Playlist 2. So it continues on with the story from the first season, so to enjoy the second season you need to watch the first season. It picks up where things were left off with the different relationships and of course the classic friendships of the doctors. This drama always makes me so sad that I don’t have a group of friends where you have this unbreakable connection. Although in one episode Kim Jun-Wan and Yang Seok-Hyeong are alone together on a trip and they are so awkward and don’t mesh well together which seemed really realistic when it comes to friend groups, not everyone is comfortable being alone with certain members of groups. I feel like I would be the awkward one! Each episode was filled with different patients and story lines mixed with the friendships of the group.

I have to say I was pretty satisfied with the second season even though I know it wasn’t as good as the first season but it definitely filled my heart with warmth watching the characters come together again and just eat, share troubles, and play music together. It just felt like this was a nice comfortable feeling that soothed me. Not all dramas are able to achieve this warm feeling and I really enjoyed each episode.

The only problems that I saw was that at times it felt like it was going slow in some of the relationships and found the patient story lines more boring this season. I think there was a lack of character development for the doctors and I wished they paid more attention to developing their characters instead of riding on the coattails of the first season. It was like the character worked in the first season so we aren’t going to change much for them in the second season.

Overall I really did enjoy getting to have a second season of Hospital Playlist and I am sad that the story is now concluded. I really am a sucker for the friendship dramas!

The second drama that I completed was You are My Spring. It is about Kang Da-Jeong (Seo Hyun-Jin) who had a tough childhood and she is working at a hotel and moves into a new building that her friends dad own and they work in the building running a cafe. Ju Young-Do (Kim Dong-Wook) is a psychiatrist and also works in the same building and is very good at reading people. It also stars Chae Jun (Yoon Park) who is a CEO of an investment company and has been expressing his feelings towards Da-Jeong for a while and she doesn’t know if she can trust him because she has only dated jerks.

I think this was a really interesting drama that was keeping me on the edge of my seat. It is a bit dark and I wasn’t really expecting that from the look of the drama. I thought I would try watching it but was hoping it wasn’t a fluff piece that was not complex enough. I was really wrong this was a intricate and emotionally charged drama that was very compelling. I really like when they mix psychology into the dramas and make the characters more dimensional because humans are interesting and also very complex and it feels more authentic when the characters have interesting sides to them. The acting was also really good I really liked Yoon Park’s acting, I was really impressed with his acting. I love having a mystery in the drama, it always keeps me more engaged in the drama and it was pretty compelling throughout the whole drama.

What I didn’t like was the back and forth in the romantic relationship it was somewhat unnecessary to be breaking up and getting back together that much. It just felt a bit overdone and I thought it was a bit redundant and was tiring. I also thought Da-Jeong was going to have more of a journey with counselling and that she would need more fixing that what they did, I wished they would have focused more on inner healing. The way they just addressed some of her past and how simple and easy it was to get over her past felt ridiculous and really did not do justice to those who are actually suffering with these problems. I just thought they made counseling seem to simplistic and I think they could have focused more on these issues instead of the whole breaking up aspect. Actually they needed to deal with inner problems with more characters but it felt like they are telling people just sweep those emotions under the rug and ignore it and overcome it on your own and if not sharing your past with someone will be enough to make the problem go away which is clearly not true. I get it was just a drama but I wish they would have tried a little harder in that area.

It was a really interesting drama that I feel was underrated and is really not expected from the summary and it would say it is pretty edgy and yet would hit you in all the feels.

The third drama that I finished was Police University. This drama is about Yoo Dong-Man (Cha Tae-Hyun) who is a former detective and got in trouble after not being able to solve cyber crime involving illegal gambling and now has to work as professor at the police university. It also stars Kang Sun-Ho (Jin Young) who is a rookie at the university and excels at hacking and gets involved with Dong-Man’s continued investigation into the illegal gambling. It also stars Oh Kang-Hee (Krystal) who is doing her best to become a honest and righteous police officer despite her family background.

I was concerned watching a drama with Krystal as one of the leads because I don’t think she is very good at acting but I thought I can’t go wrong with Tae-Hyun as one of the leads since he is pretty humorous but I was let down. I did not like this drama and it wasn’t necessarily that Krystal had terrible acting it was the script. It was just boring and I did not feel much of anything for any of the characters. I was expecting a funny and exciting drama filled with great friendship moments but it was just so disappointing. I though Jin Young did a really good job with his acting and he probably was the only reason that I completed the drama but it was not compelling and even though there was interesting mystery to solve it just did not play on my emotions or feelings at all. I watched the drama sped up so I could get through each episode faster. I know it is bad if I speed it up and the sound gets all weird but I am so bored! The ending was not that great either just kinda weird.

I would stay away from this drama, it is really lacking but if you like an okay police drama then go for it!

The fourth drama I finished was Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha. It stars Yoon Hye-Jin (Shin Min-A) who is a black listed dentist and finds herself in the small seaside village of Gongjin and an offer to set up a clinic comes her way and she reluctantly agrees to set up her own practice. It also stars Hong Du-Sik (Kim Sun-Ho) who is considered the handyman of the village and does all kinds of jobs around the village without being officially employed and lives a more carefree life and is content helping those that need help.

This is a very lovable drama with all the village characters along with the main characters it seems so filled with love and friendship. I think it is so heart warming because now a days it feels like we are really disconnected from the people around us and we struggle to have relationships with family never mind a community. I think this drama just feels really nice to imagine a place where you can find help and have a sense of pride and connection and purpose in a community and this is really reflected through Chief Hong’s character. I really like all the villagers and characters and how they had true character development and even if you mess up, it really is the best to learn from and how to become better. Everyone was giving second, third or fourth chances and sometimes people need time to become a better person. I thought it was really a lovely drama and deserved the hype that it got. It was a really good story.

The only thing that bothered me was of course Yoon Hye-Jin’s personality at the beginning, but that was okay in the end because she needed to grow and stop putting up walls to protect herself. Also not sure if this is a spoiler but dramas need to stop adding childhood connections into the love story. It has been so overdone for years that I am annoyed already. The more I think about it who remembers random moments from childhood with a person it does not make the connection deeper or better. As a child you are not thinking romantic stuff like that it is honestly just weird when I think about it. The only other thing that I thought didn’t really work was Chief Hong’s secret and that the whole scenario that happened was portrayed as his fault when clearly that was not the case. I think it wasn’t very believable that everyone would have believed that to be the case.

Also it was all in the news that Kim Sun-Ho had apparently forced his ex girlfriend to have an abortion and then dumped her and this came out from the girlfriend and so it seemed like everyone was trying to cancel him and he had to leave his variety show. Honestly all I could think about was the case of Kim Hyun-Joong and his girlfriend tried to smear him and said that he assaulted her and caused her to miscarry. In the end she was the one that was found to have lied and sued for defamation and it caused so much damage to his career. So I find it super suspicious that when Kim Sun-Ho got really famous that she would start releasing all these allegations against him the timing is super suspicious! I think when one gets famous the crazies come out of the woodwork and would never trust these allegations that come out. My first reaction is to be reminded of Kim Hyun-Joong’s case and understand that people can try to damage others especially if they are jealous which celebrity has the tendency to do. You should never treat someone like a criminal until they are proven guilty!

I think this was a really sweet, funny and lovable drama and definitely recommend Hometown Cha Cha Cha.

The last drama was Yumi’s Cells which is based on the Webtoon with the same name. It is about Yu-Mi (Kim Go-Eun) who is single and is interested in getting in a new relationship since she has been single for a long time after a bad relationship in her last one. The story exists on the outside of Yumi and on the inside of Yumi’s head with her cells. There is a town of cells in Yumi that help deal with her emotions and problems. They all have a purpose and personality and we see exactly what is going on inside Yumi’s head. Part of the drama with the cells is animation in her head and outside of her head is live action. It has an Inside Out feel to it but is still very different and this is for a more mature audience. Just to say it, I don’t think this webtoon came out after Inside Out so no one is copying each other. There is a season 2 already confirmed because the story is far from over after the first season.

I read the webtoon before watching the drama and I thought that might be problematic but also they usually change so much from the webtoon I didn’t think it really mattered. In this case they are sticking very close to the webtoon which I really am happy about since I think it doesn’t need to be changed. I really wish other dramas would take the time to tell the story the way the webtoon or book told it, sometimes it is the small things that really make a drama/story great. I know for some people that the animation might be a turn off in a drama but if you have read the webtoon it actually really fits perfectly fine into the story.

I really like how all the cells have different purposes and just having different jobs and to help explain the human condition was interesting. It really gives depths to how our brain works and gives an interesting way of explaining the differences in people’s minds and why sometimes you can’t get on the same page. It just gives you a different perspective to how people’s brains work even if it fictitious, I think we can all see ourselves or parts of ourselves in the different cells and how we deal with life. I didn’t mind the changes that they did make from the webtoon and honestly I can’t always remember if what happened was in the webtoon or not because I think the overall message portrayed is accurate. I also like how when Yumi is dealing with tough social situations and you want to be mad at someone and just the little things that go through your head when dealing with it, so many situations feel relatable. I think that this drama really gets you feeling that you can relate to these different circumstances and shows the little details that you maybe even never noticed. It shows you the little things that can happen in relationships that you can’t always put into words and how your feelings can change. It really feels like a unique drama even though it is a typical story line of getting into a relationship but it just seems deeper and more intricate.

Although I don’t really like how they did the ending of the first season, I felt the webtoon made it more dramatic and it didn’t seem so weak of a reason for what happened. They didn’t really sell me on the reason that it had to happen but I mean I am excited to see a second season and I hope they can finish the webtoon in that amount of time since there is a part three in the webtoon. I can’t really complain about this drama I really liked it and it seemed really short but that is okay because we know we are getting another season.

I would really recommend this drama if you like a quirky, romantic story.

Upcoming Dramas

Jirisan

It is drama about park rangers that are working on Jiri Mountain and they focus on trying to save people. It turns into a serial killer on the lose on the mountain and one park ranger that has been given a gift of sight of seeing the murders happen beforehand.

Inspector Koo

It is about a retired police officer who works as a personal detective and is contracting work with an insurance company on a team that her friend is in charge of, she starts off with insurance fraud mystery cases and then starts to realize there is a serial killer mystery she needs to solve.

Red Sleeve

It is about a girl who has been a court lady since a child and has no where else to go and enjoys being a storyteller and a King of Joseon who is serious about his duties and doesn’t want to think about love.