Kim Hae Sook is a South Korean actress. Born December 30, 1955, she made her acting debut in 1974. A highly acclaimed veteran in her field, she has won numerous awards for her various roles in countless television dramas and films. You can find her in dramas such as, “I Hear Your Voice” (2013), “Pinocchio” (2015), “Father is Strange” (2017), and “Mother of Mine” (2019).

Kim Hae Sook

KBS02

Mi Ri is an extraordinary woman. She's born into a wealthy family, she becomes a potential heir to a conglomerate, but that all changes when her mother abandons her in front of an Ox Bone Soup restaurant owned by Sun Ja. She grows up to be Hansung Groups' best female employee out of her pure skill and talent and falls in love with her subordinate, who happens to be the boy her biological mother had been taking care of for the past two decades. It becomes a battle of bloodlines and company power.

Mother of Mine

Park Sun Ja

TV Chosun

A prosecutor (Park Shi Hoo) who started out as a newspaper reporter has personality described as fiery and hot-tempered. He grew up in a comfortable life, but one day his family is shattered when his father dies in an accident due to an unclear cause, and his mother takes her own life. When he finds out that his father’s bankruptcy and death are connected to a conglomerate, he begins his mission to uncover the truth and get revenge.

"Tower of Babel" is a 2019 Viki Original drama directed by Yoon Seong Sik.

Tower of Babel

Babel's Minions

Strange things happen inside Room No. 9 of the high-security women’s prison.

Eulji Hae Yi (Kim Hee Sun) is a ruthless lawyer who wins all of her cases. She goes to meet with Jang Hwa Sa (Kim Hae Sook), who is on death row for an infamous case of poisoning serial murders. Inside Room No. 9 of the high-security women’s prison, the souls of Hae Yi and Hwa Sa change bodies. 

Does psychiatrist Gi Yoo Jin (Kim Young Kwang), who is Hae Yi’s boyfriend, somehow hold the key to the women returning to their own bodies?

“Room No. 9” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Ji Young Soo.

Room No. 9

During World War II, Bae Jung Gil (Kim Hae Sook) was one of the many South Korean women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military. After surviving the war, she did her best to move on by taking a position as a housekeeper for Moon Jung Sook (Kim Hee Ae) — until she goes missing. Jung Gil's disappearance sets Jung Sook on a journey where she uncovers the heartbreaking stories of Jung Gil and the other victims. Determined to help them, Jung Sook takes it upon herself to help the surviving comfort women take on the Japanese government in court. Will these women find justice so long overdue?

Based on real-life events surrounding the Shimonoseki trials, this is a 2018 South Korean drama film directed by Min Kyu Dong.

Herstory

Aspiring musical actress, Michaela Choi (Lee Sung Kyung), has the incredible ability to see the life spans of everyone, including herself. But in the aftermath of a minor car crash, when Choi comes across Lee Do Ha (Lee Sang Yoon), the chief director of a cultural foundation, she realizes her own time clock stops whenever she is near him.
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As she knows that her own time on earth is limited, this ability to extend her life span means she can accomplish her dreams of becoming a musical theatre star. However, it doesn’t take long for Do Ha to see how Choi is constantly trying to insert herself into his day-to-day life.
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As Do Ha tries to figure out what he’s going to do with this newfound admirer, there’s no doubt that life can be remarkably fleeting.

About Time

The Tick-Tock Team 🕗

There have been many court-related dramas, but there have never been any dramas based on the court itself. There have been many characters who took the roles of judges, prosecutors, and lawyers. However, rarely were their lives at the court depicted in detail. This drama focuses on the true nature of the court and the cutthroat competition among the judges as well as the conflicts, joy, sorrow, desires, and failures that they experience. Lee Jung Joo, also known as Judge Knucklehead, is a young judge who has lost both of her parents and whose older brother is incarcerated for the rape and murder of an underage girl. Sah Eui Hyun is a judge who strives to be fair, wise, and passionate in his field. Do Han Joon is a prosecutor who is also known as the Knucklehead Prosecutor. He is determined to sit his own father in court no matter what it takes.

Judge vs. Judge

Young Joo is a detective. As she spends the better part of her time dealing with criminals, she tends to speak bluntly, but she also has a girlish side to her. Dong Joon is a judge who refuses to use his family's connections and wants to stand on his own. Young Joo's father has been framed for murder, so she tries to prove his innocence. She hopes Dong Joon will help her father after she finds crucial evidence. However, Dong Joon is in danger of failing to be reappointed. Even though he has always wanted to be a fair and righteous judge, he succumbs to temptation when faced with the danger of not being reappointed and convicts Young Joo's father. Young Joo and Dong Joon seem to be enemies, but the future has much more in store for them, and their relationship changes.

Whisper

The Whisperer Team

Kim Suk Hee

Mi Yeong, Hye Yeong, Ra Yeong, and Joon Yeong are the kids of Yeong Sil and Han Soo. They seem like the average Seoul family, with the typical Seoul problems, but that all changes when Jung Hui, an actor, and former K-Pop idol, ends up in their doorstep claiming that Han Soo is his biological father. The family goes through thick and thin, one marriage after the other, trying to figure out why their father happens to be strange.

My Father is Strange

The Strange Squad

Na Yeong Sil

Lee Jung Soo (Ha Jung Woo) is an auto salesman who has bought a cake and is driving home to celebrate the birthday of his young kindergarten-age daughter. His drive home takes him through a long tunnel named Hado. But when he has made it halfway through, he realizes something is terribly wrong. The entire tunnel collapses, but miraculously he has survived, although his car has been crushed by the falling concrete and rubble.

At first, the public is horrified by the news, and Dae Kyung (Oh Dal Soo), the head of an accident response team, arrives at the scene, where he is able to make contact with Lee Jung Soo. The rescuers believe that Lee Jung Soo is the only survivor, and, at first, make desperate but fruitless attempts to save him. His wife Se Hyun (Bae Doo Na) is also able to communicate with him, and Lee Jung Soo discovers he may not be the only person to be trapped in the rubble. But as the rescue mission drags on – and threatens to compromise the construction of another major tunnel, some politicians start to question whether it is worth continuing the search…

“Tunnel” is a 2016 South Korean movie that was written and directed by Kim Seong Hun.

Tunnel

The Hado Team

With dreams of becoming the perfect ruler of Joseon, King Yeongjo (Song Kang Ho) aspires to greatness as he ascends the throne. Hoping his acts as king will wipe his tarnished background from the minds of the people, King Yongjo does all he can to lead his country well. But the rumors of his lower class mother follow him wherever he goes, as does the whispers of his brother’s murder, and his desperate grapple for the throne. It would seem some moments in time can never be erased.

But time passes and with it comes the blessings of marriage and family. Father to a son, King Yeongjo has great plans for his young prince. Hoping his son will follow in his footsteps, the King does everything in his power to give his son a thorough education. Watching his son grow into a man, the King begins to see some less-than-desirable qualities emerge. Shunning his education, Crown Prince Sado (Yoo Ah In) shows more interest in art and swordplay than studying. As the schism between father and son grows, so does the general sense of unrest within the palace.

Thirty-five years into his father’s reign, Crown Prince Sado is accused of plotting treason. Though unable to carry through with the final, killing blow, the Prince must be punished. Realizing the implications of fathering a traitor could threaten his position, King Yeongjo orders his son to take his own life. Unwilling to follow his father’s orders, the King orders his son to be locked in a wooden rice chest and left in the palace courtyard to die a slow and agonizing death.&nbsp;

Inspired by one of the most notorious events in Korean history, “The Throne” is a 2015 historical drama film directed by Lee Joon Ik.

The Throne

The Throne Team

Can a group of Korean resistance fighters carry out an assassination before enemy forces hunt them down?

Yeom Sek Jin (Lee Jung Jae) is a Korean resistance fighter during the 1930s Japanese occupation of Korea. He plans out the assassination of a Japanese commander and hires Ahn Ok Yoon (Jun Ji Hyun), a skilled sniper. Ok Yoon takes on the mission, along with her comrades Soksapo (Jo Jin Woong) and Hwang Duk Sam (Choi Duk Moon), to fight for Korean independence.

The Japanese send government sends contract killers Hawaii Pistol (Ha Jung Woo) and his partner Buddy (Oh Dal Soo) after Ok Yoon and her men. But can Ok Yoon carry out her mission when there is a traitor among them?

“Assassination” is a 2015 South Korean film co-written and directed by Choi Dong Hoon.

Assassination

Dal Po's real name is Ha Myung. When he was about to drown at 14, Gong Pil saved and adopted him, giving him a new name. Gong Pil believes Dal Po is his son who was lost in the sea in the past. And Dal Po tries to erase his past to live as Gong Pil's son. He even pretends to be bad at his studies even though he is brilliant and intentionally wears shabby clothes to hide his good looks. He gives up going to college due to financial difficulty at home. Still, he succeeds in becoming a reporter with unique talents thanks to the intelligence and experience he acquired by driving a taxi. Meanwhile, he has a niece who is the same age as him. She has Pinocchio syndrome, so she can't choose a job that requires some amount of lying. She decides to be a reporter, whose job is to seek the truth at all times.

Pinocchio

The Can't Lie Team

One man is on a mission to avenge the death of his family members.

Dolmuchi (Ha Jung Woo) is a butcher, which is considered the lowest class, in the Joseon Dynasty. In a society where a person’s status is purely determined by his or her birth, Jo Yoon (Kang Dong Won) is born into a wealthy family. But because his mother was a concubine, Jo Yoon’s illegitimacy gives him no standing in society or his family.

Jo Yoon hires Dolmuchi to kill the pregnant wife of his dead stepbrother so that he can become a legitimate heir, but when Dolmuchi is not able to go through with the killing, Jo Yoon has Dolmuchi’s family killed instead.

The devastated Dolmuchi takes on the name Dochi and joins Ttaeng Choo (Lee Kyung Young) and Dae Ho (Lee Sung Min) in a band of outlaws known as Kundo. The bandits go after wealthy tyrants who prey on the poor by stealing from the rich and giving back to the poor. But can Dochi avenge his family’s death when he comes face-to-face with Jo Yoon again?

“Kundo: Age of the Rampant” is a 2014 South Korean film directed by Yoon Jong Bin.

Kundo: Age of the Rampant

The Time Outlaws

MBC, KOCOWA

Jae Wan is the general manager at the hotel CIEL and the most renowned star hotelier. He is perfect, from his clean looks to his successful career, but even he can't get everything, which hurts him so much. After the president of the hotel CIEL dies, his only daughter, Mo Ne, becomes the successor. She is such a charismatic person with her glamorous looks and confident attitude that everyone finds it hard to approach her. But even though it doesn't show, she struggles not to be deprived of her father, hotel, and the man she loves. And the vice president, Lee Joong Gu, keeps an eye on them, hiding his secret desire to own the hotel. However, something unexpected happens as someone discovers his plan to take away the hotel CIEL.

Hotel King

At Your Service Team

A boy has the psychic power to read other people's minds. Because of that ability, he learned how irrational our world is and how many aggrieved people there are. The boy wants to help them using his power, but the problem is the boy is still a minor. However, there is a woman who overcame the adversity of poverty and became a public defender. Sometimes those who lack their ability become perfect heroes. These days, when rewards and punishments are not fair and desperate people suffer, we want to hear the story where justice is served. This is a 21st-century fairy tale where you can meet a hero who finds happiness by helping others.

I Hear Your Voice

Is any job too big for them?

Popie (Lee Jung Jae), Yenicall (Jun Ji Hyun), Chewing Gum (Kim Hae Sook) and Zampano (Kim Soo Hyun) are a team of South Korean professional thieves that had just successfully stolen a valuable antique vase from an art gallery.

Macao Park (Kim Yun Seok) reaches out to Popie to ask for her team’s help in a new heist in Macau for a rare diamond known as the Tear of the Sun, which is worth $20 million. Unbeknownst to Macao Park, Pepsee (Kim Hye Soo) has just been released from prison and joins the team on the trip to Hong Kong to meet Macao Park. Pepsee was romantically involved with Macao Park but ended up going to jail after he made off with all the gold bars on a previous job.

In Hong Kong, the group meets a local crew of thieves: Chen (Simon Yam), Andrew (Oh Dal Soo), Julie (Angelica Lee) and Johnny (Derek Tsang).

Can the international band of thieves put their own personal agendas aside to pull off the biggest heist of their lives?

“The Thieves” is a 2012 South Korean film directed by Choi Dong Hoon. It holds the record as the third-highest grossing film in South Korean cinematic history.

The Thieves

The masters

KBS, KOCOWA

Jun Sang is a man with a mystery of his birth and has sorrow on his pale and cold-looking face. He transfers to a new high school to find his father and meets Yu Jin and Sang Hyuk there. Jun Sang hates Sang Hyuk because of his father's secrets. He falls in love with Yu Jin but gets in a car accident when he leaves with a misunderstanding. Ten years after Jun Sang dies, Yu Jin is engaged to Sang Hyuk, who has always been by her side. Yu Jin, who runs an interior company, works on the renovation of a ski resort and encounters the director, who is the person in charge. The man, Min Hyung, looks just like Jun Sang, who died. Min Hyung's appearance changes the relationship between these three completely.

Winter Sonata

Jun Seo and Eun Seo are a brother and a sister who grew up in a happy and wealthy family. Sin Ae grew up in a tough life with her mother, who runs a restaurant, and she is always jealous of Eun Seo, who has everything she wants. When she bullies Eun Seo out of jealousy, she is scolded by Jun Seo. Eun Seo is hospitalized after a car accident one day, and the truth is disclosed that Eun Seo is not the biological daughter of Professor Yoon's couple. Eun Seo leaves Professor Yoon's couple to find her birth parents, and Professor Yoon's family leaves for the United States. As an adult, Eun Seo works at a hotel. She runs into drunken Tae Seok, the son of the CEO of the hotel, and Tae Seok falls in love with Eun Seo. However, Eun Seo and Jun Seo fall in love with each other after they are reunited as adults. What will bring from the heartbreaking love and separations between these four people?

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