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Radio Romance
2018
About an actor who's showcase family is famous and a radio writer who fell in love with radio after her mother became blind when she was a teen. She gets the actor to become her DJ not knowing their shared history as teens. He had trouble sleeping but she's just the thing he needs. She had trouble writing but learns to find her voice.
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Legend of the Blue Sea
2016
Inspired by a classic Joseon legend from Korea's first collection of unofficial historical tales, about a fisherman who captured and kidnapped a mermaid, this drama tells the love story between the son of a Joseon noble family named Kim Dam Ryung (Lee Min Ho) and a mermaid he named Se Hwa (Jun Ji Hyun). Sometime during August, 1598, newly appointed governor Kim Dam Ryung stays for a night at an inn run by Lord Yang (Sung Dong Il). During that evening, Lord Yang shows Dam Ryung a captured mermaid named Se Hwa. Later that night, Dam Ryung releases her into the ocean and, before she swims away, Se Hwa reaches out her hand to Dam Ryung which he briefly holds. In the present day, Heo Joon Jae is a smooth talking conman with magician like abilities. He works with Jo Nam Doo and Tae Oh. For their next score, Joon Jae impersonates a prosecutor and swindles a large amount of money from a wealthy suspect's mother. Joon Jae then escapes to Spain and stays at an oceanside resort. Meanwhile, Shim Chung is a mermaid who gets caught in a tidal wave and is washed ashore near the oceanside resort. There she meets Joon Jae.
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Chicago Typewriter
2017
Writers that lived under Japanese rule in the 1930s are reincarnated into a bestselling writer who is in a slump, a mysterious ghostwriter, and a devoted fan of the bestselling writer.
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Birth of a Beauty
2014
Overweight, kind-hearted Sa Geum-ran (Ha Jae-sook) married into a well-to-do family, but her husband Lee Kang-joon (Jung Gyu-woon) has spent the past seven years in the United States for his business, and she lives with his mother and sisters who treat her badly. Geum-ran learns that Kang-joon has been having an affair with sophisticated broadcast announcer Gyo Chae-yeon (Wang Ji-hye), and he asks for a divorce. When she sees her in-laws welcoming Chae-yeon with open arms, the distraught Geum-ran threatens her husband, who follows her and causes her to drive her car off a cliff. Everyone assumes that Geum-ran committed suicide and attends her funeral, not knowing that she's still alive. To get revenge against those who've wronged and betrayed her, Geum-ran begs Han Tae-hee (Joo Sang-wook), whom she thought was the plastic surgeon of extreme-makeover television show Change, to transform her, and he reluctantly agrees because of his own ulterior motives. After weight loss and surgery, Geum-ran emerges from the full-body makeover as a stunningly beautiful woman, and she begins calling herself the new name Sara (Han Ye-seul), albeit retaining her coarse ajumma personality. With Tae-hee as her life coach, they scheme to ruin Kang-joon and Chae-yeon's upcoming wedding in three weeks. But as Sara interacts with Kang-joon in their staged run-ins, old feelings resurface, and she decides that instead of destroying him, she wants her husband back. They adjust their plan accordingly, though Tae-hee soon finds himself falling for Sara.
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Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
2021
Yoon Hye-Jin (Shin Min-A) works as a dentist. She is mostly a realist, but due to her rightfulness, which is only a tiny part of her mind, her life changes. She ends up moving to the seaside village of Gongjin. There, Yoon Hye-Jin meets Hong Du-Sik (Kim Sun-Ho). She becomes curious about him. Hong Du-Sik is called Chief Hong by the local residents. He is a handsome and smart man. Officially, he is unemployed, but he always seems busy. If somebody needs help, Hong Du-Sik is the first one to appear and provide help.
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Hi Bye, Mama!
2020
It's the story of a mother who died and begins a 49-day long project of reincarnation and a husband who has barely begun to live a new life after overcoming the pain of losing his wife.
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The Master's Sun
2013
After suffering an accident some years ago, Tae Gong Shil gained the ability to see and talk to ghosts. However, years later they still scare her and their constant demands of help have made it impossible for her to lead a normal life; they're always causing her to get fired from jobs or go running away from dates. After helping a ghost on a rainy night, she hitches a ride from Joo Jong Won, a handsome, pompous CEO of a center mall, who measures everything, even relationships, with money. He quickly concludes that she's crazy and ditches her, but she starts to seek him out and try to get close to him, after realizing the the ghosts disappear when she touches him.
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Doom at Your Service
2021
Tak Dong Kyung lives a fairly ordinary life until she stumbles into an unexpected fate and ends up signing a hundred-day contract with Myul Mang, risking her everything.
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49 Il
2011
A woman named "Ji Hyun Shin" whom has everything, loving parents, best friends, and an adoring fiancé, gets into a car accident before her wedding causing her to be in a coma. A reaper known as "Scheduler" gives Ji Hyun a second chance to live. In order for her to do that, she must have 3 people cry pure tears. She uses the body of Song Yi Kyung, a woman who lost everything. After devastating turnovers with friends, family, and fiancé Ji Hyun finds it difficult. But grows strong.
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Because This Is My First Life
2017
Nam Se Hee and Yoon Ji Ho are in their 30's. This Korean drama shows sexism, chauvinism and stereotypes. Also, it shows how society influences one's personal decisions. Se Hee is a single man who doesn't want to get married. He doesn't care about dates and women. He just loves his cat, Kitty. He's very intelligent, logical and rational. However, there will be some times that he loses his temper. Ji Ho is a single woman. She's a writing assistant of dramas. She's a strong and determined woman. Unfortunately, she has to leave her house and seeks other place to live. Her friends help her to find a roommate. That roommate is Se Hee.
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Lie to Me
2011
A woman is jealous when her friend steals her first love and marries him. When she meets the happy couple, she lies that she is married too. The lie ensnares a hotel president who goes along with the lie for his own business reasons. Will the lie become reality?
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Abyss
2019
After meeting an untimely demise in separate incidents, Cha Min and Go Se-yeon discover they've come back to life in new bodies they don't recognize.
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Still 17
2018
Woo Seo Ri, a violin prodigy at 17 who was about to study in Germany, got into a bus accident and fell into a coma waking up 13 years later. Mentally she is still only 17, while physically she is now 30. Due to a trauma he experienced 13 years before, Gong Woo Jin does not want to have a relationship with others. This series is about a man and a woman whose lives in their own ways essentially stopped when they were 17. Together, they use all their might to try and open the door to the happiness that they once thought had been closed to them.
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Big
2012
Gil Da-ran (Lee Min-jung), a high school teacher, is engaged to a handsome doctor, Seo Yoon-jae (Gong Yoo). Kang Kyung-joon (Shin Won-ho) a troubled transferred student from USA, one of Da-ran's students, got into a car accident with Yoon-jae. Kyung-joon woke up in Yoon-jae body while his own body stayed in coma. Da-ran and Kyung-joon (in Yoon-jae's body) had to pretend to be in relationship while working out how to switched back.
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The Greatest Love
2011
When 'The National Treasure Girls' band broke up, Goo Ae Jung, the most popular member, carried all the blame and earned a bad reputation that ten years later still hounds her and has to work really hard to even get a few minutes on random talk shows. That's when, by chance, she meets Dokko Jin, a very successful actor whose chivalrous public image doesn't match up with his real personality. Not really intending to see each other again, a well meant comment from Ae Jung during an interview sets off a series of misunderstandings that, for the sake of their careers, both must try to quiet down. However, this earns Ae Jung enough popularity as to be asked to participate on a match making show, whereas Dokko Jin is perplexed at how the heart monitor he wears since a major heart surgery he had ten years ago, goes ballistic around the unlucky celebrity.
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Beauty Inside
2018
A woman changes her appearance whenever a certain supernatural phenomenon occurs. A man falls in love with this woman. Han Se Gye is a top actress. She is known as a troublemaker and the object of many rumors. Her life is a mystery, but, in reality, she suffers from an unusual phenomenon. At a certain point every month, her appearance changes to a different person. She lives one week out of every month with a different appearance. Han Se Gye meets Seo Do Jae. Seo Do Jae is an executive at an airline company. He seems perfect with an attractive appearance and possessing smarts, but he suffers from an inability to recognize faces. He hides this disability and tries hard to memorize people by their habits and mannerisms. The only person's face that he is able to recognize is Han Se Gye. By meeting her, his life changes.
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Backstreet Rookie
2020
Jung Saet Byul is a 22-year-old four-dimensional girl with amazing fighting skills who loves her friends, family, and retro fashion. She has the boys lined up but only has one person who keeps her distracted, Choi Dae Hyun. He became imprinted on her as an unforgettable person after a cigarette errand three years ago. Three years later, Jung Saet Byul meets Choi Dae Hyun again at his convenience store that he now manages and becomes a part-time worker. Here, Saet Byul and Dae Hyun's love story begins as they heal the wounds of the heart, gain love, and become adults dreaming of the future. Their stories unfold into a pleasant comedy within the familiar sensibility of a convenience store.
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Oh My Venus
2015
When you go from the top of the pecking order in the looks department in high school and then fall to the bottom in adulthood, is it possible to get back on top? Kang Joo Eun (Shin Min Ah) was envied by every girl and desired by every boy in high school as the Daejeon Venus because of her pretty face and killer figure. Despite coming from a poor family, she was determined to go to law school and become an attorney. At age 33, she has achieved her professional goals and has been in a stable relationship with her high-school boyfriend Im Woo Sik (Jung Gyu Woon) for 15 years. But she has let herself go over the years and is now overweight and often disregarded and overlooked by her co-workers and society. On the plane ride back from a quick business trip to the United States, Joo Eun has an embarrassing run-in with Kim Yeong Ho (So Ji Sub) and his two sidekicks, Jang Joon Seong (Sung Hoon) and Kim Ji Woong (Henry). Yeong Ho is a celebrity personal trainer who is involved in a scandal in the United States and forced to flee to Korea until things cool down. But his wealthy family has other plans for him. As soon as they discover that he is back in Korea, his grandmother appoints him as the new president of the family medical-services company and prevents him from returning to the States. A lost purse causes Yeong Ho to reconnect with Joo Eun and witness another personal embarrassment for her in the aftermath of being dumped by Woo Sik and finding out that he has been dating her new boss, Oh Soo Jin (Yoo In Young). As it seems to become a habit for Yeong Ho to bail Joo Eun out of trouble, can he also help her to reclaim her former looks?
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