Ra Mi Ran is a prolific South Korean actress in theater, film and television. Born on March 6, 1975, she made her acting debut in the 2005 film “Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.” She has since starred in many theater productions, films and television dramas, including the recent “The Suspicious Housekeeper” (2013), “A Witch’s Romance” (2014), “Reply 1988” (2015), “Please Come Back, Mister” (2016) and “Laurel Tree Tailors” (2016-2017). Ra Mi Ran also participated in the reality show “Real Men: Female Soldier Special Season 1” (2014).

Ra Mi Ran

Duk Hee (Ra Mi Ran) is a middle-aged single mother who works at a laundromat. Her mundane life is turned upside-down when a voice phishing scammer from China calls – and dupes her into sending his gang 32 million won ($23,700 USD). She tries to take the matter up with the police, who prove to be of little help. So, she takes matters into her own hands: with the help of two colleagues, she sets off in search of the scammers. She is aided in her quest by gang member Son Jae Min (Gong Myung), who helps provide her with insider information. Can Duk Hee recover her money – and break up the nefarious gang? This 2024 South Korean movie was based on a true story and was directed by Park Young Ju.

Citizen of a Kind

Duk Hee

Ki Woo (Jung Il Woo) and Ji Sook (Kim Seul Gi) are a homeless couple who live on the road with their two young children. To make matters worse, Ji Sook is pregnant and the children have never even learned to read or write. They live in a tent that they pitch near highway rest areas. And they make a tiny amount of money by approaching drivers who have stopped in the rest areas and telling them that they have left their wallets at home and have run out of gas. Ki Woo asks drivers to give them their account numbers, and that he will reimburse them when he gets back home.

One day, they manage to convince a woman named Young Sun (Ra Mi Ran) to give them money as she makes her way to her son’s grave. She and her husband Do Hwan (Bek Hyunjin) have been in mourning since their child’s untimely death. One day, Young Sun pulls into another highway rest area and sees Ki Woo pulling the same stunt with another driver. Outraged, she calls the police, who promptly arrest him. But Ji Sook and the children refuse to leave Ki Woo’s side, and follow him to the police station where he is detained. When Young Sun sees this pitiful group sitting outside the police station, she starts to feel pity for the family. Can she right this situation – and help heal her own wounds?

“The Highway Family” is a 2022 movie that was directed by Lee Sang Moon.

The Highway Family

The Highway Nomads

A third-term congresswoman with an incredibly sharp wit and an even sharper tongue, Joo Sang Sook (Ra Mi Ran) has worked hard to be where she is today. Able to talk her way into and out of anything she’d like, Sang Sook has built her entire political career on pretty words, the only problem is, every one of those words has been nothing but a lie. Currently running for her fourth term, Sang Sook is busy promising constituents everything they want to hear, but whether she follows through on any of her promises remains to be seen.&nbsp;

With only a few days left before the election, Sang Sook takes a much-needed break from the busy campaign trail to visit her grandmother. Living far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, Kim Ok Hee (Na Moon Hee) is tired of watching from afar as her granddaughter lies her way into office. Saying as much upon Sang Sook’s arrival, Ok Hee wishes, with all of her heart, that Sang Sook would never be able to lie again. Getting exactly what she wishes for, Ok Hee is delighted and Sang Sook is mortified when she wakes the next morning to find that she is completely incapable of telling a lie.&nbsp;

As election day draws ever-closer, Sang Sook is desperate to win the hearts of the people but it seems impossible when her entire campaign has been built around nothing but lies. Will this curse of honesty prove to be her undoing or will she find a way to make it work in her favor?

Adapted from the Brazilian movie “O Candidato Honesto” directed by Roberto Santucci, “Honest Candidate” is a 2020 comedy film directed by Jang Yoo Jung.

Honest Candidate

📢 The Truthful Liars Team 🤫

Teachers have a unique ability to leave lasting impressions on their students, but for Go Ha Neul (Seo Hyun Jin), that impression would shape the course of her entire life. After one of her school trips ends in a near fatal accident, Go Ha Neul lives the rest of her life in gratitude towards the teacher who risked his life to save hers. Now a teacher herself, Ha Neul hopes to make as much of a difference in the lives of her students as her teacher once did for her. But the dream she has is difficult to achieve, as the life of a teacher is anything but easy. Still, Ha Neul refuses to give up on her dreams.

Accepting a short-term teaching position at a private school, Ha Neul is determined to do her best to help her students as they face the various trials that exist in the highly competitive private school setting. As she dedicates herself to helping her students grow, Ha Neul begins to grow herself, thanks, in part, to the guidance of Park Sung Soon (Ra Mi Ran), the head of the school’s career counseling department, and Do Yeon Woo (Ha Jun), a Korean language teacher with an unwavering passion for teaching.

With Sung Soon as her mentor and Yeon Woo as her guide, Ha Neul finds the strength to overcome the challenges of teaching in today’s cutthroat education system, growing both as a person and a teacher, as she dedicates herself to helping her students make their own dreams come true.

A story of dedication and dreams, “Black Dog” is a 2019 drama directed by Hwang Joon Hyeok.

Black Dog

Park Sung Soon

Dong Hyun (Jung Jin Young) is a high school student and Pan Soo (Park Sung Woong) is a member of a criminal organization. In an unfortunate accident, Dong Hyun slips from the roof and falls on top of Pan Soo. When the two men wake up in the hospital, they discover that their bodies have been switched! Trapped in each other's bodies, will they be able to carry on with their daily lives?

"The Dude in Me" is a South Korean comedy movie directed by Kang Hyo Jin. It was released in 2019.

The Dude in Me

"Oh, it's not my body!" team

Song Hyun Cheul (Kim Myung Min) is a financial industry hotshot. At 42 years old, he is the youngest bank manager in the business and has been placed in charge of a prestigious branch in the affluent Gangnam district of Seoul.

To outsiders, his kindly wife Seon Hye Jin (Kim Hyun Joo) seems like the luckiest woman alive. But that sadly isn’t the case. Song Hyun Cheul is a cold, authoritative, workaholic and distant husband – and to make matters worse, he also seems to have struck up an overly close relationship with a woman at the office.

But when bank manager Song Hyun Cheul suddenly dies, there is a mighty mix-up in the afterlife, and his body is mistakenly occupied by the soul of another 42-year-old man also named Song Hyun Cheul (Go Chang Suk), the tender-hearted owner of a debt-ridden restaurant, who just happens to die at the very same time.

Suddenly in possession of a rich man’s livelihood, the “new” Song Hyun Cheul is torn between his new-found affections for Seon Hye Jin and his devoted wife Cho Yeon Hwa (Ra Mi Ran) – who has unfortunately inherited her dead husband’s debt.

And the whole scenario is complicated yet further when Seon Hye Jin’s new boss develops a crush on her – and her “new” husband starts behaving like a real gentleman to her all of a sudden!

How will all this romantic chaos end?

“Miracle That We Met” is a 2018 South Korean drama directed by Lee Hyung Min and Jo Woong.

Miracle That We Met

Idiot, middle-aged employee, loser daddy, and workaholic Young Soo suddenly encounters death by overwork. Gi Tak, once a mob boss who washed his hands of gang life and now runs a pub, also ends up leaving this world due to an unjust accident. Both meet in the afterlife as they board a train bound for heaven but quickly decide to jump off together as they aren't ready to say goodbye. They wish to return to mortal life in order to leave their loved ones in good hands, so they make a deal with an angel to reincarnate. The kind Young Soo returns as a total hardbody and Gi Tak as a beautiful young woman, but both soon end up running into difficulties as the bodies they're reborn into have problems of their own!

Come Back Alive

The Possessed Team 

Maya

Times may have been a little simpler, less technological, but still just as challenging to get through a typical day of life in the late 1980s. Five childhood friends, who all live in the same Ssangmundong neighborhood of Seoul, lean on each other to survive their challenging teen years and set a path for their futures. Sung Deok Sun (Hyeri) struggles for attention as the middle child in her poor family while also carrying the burden of her 989th ranking in school. Kim Jung Hwan (Ryu Jun Yeol) only has a one-track mind for soccer, even after his family becomes rich overnight. Sung Sun Woo (Ko Gyung Pyo) is the perfect student, student council president and a caring and dependable son in his family. Ryu Dong Ryong (Lee Dong Hwi) is a geek who knows more about girls and life than the rest of his friends, but his poor academic score prevents him from being able to go to college. Choi Taek (Park Bo Gum) is a genius baduk player who dropped out of school to go professional. As the group of friends get into and out of mischief around the neighborhood, what experiences from these memorable times together will they carry with them into their future lives? “Reply 1988” is a 2015-2016 South Korean drama series directed by Shin Won Ho. The series is inspired by the drama “Three Families Under One Roof,” which originally aired from 1986 to 1994. It is the third series of the nostalgia-themed “Reply” dramas that include “Reply 1997” (2012) and “Reply 1994” (2013), but the characters and stories are not related to the previous series.

Reply 1988

The Lucky Eights Team

Marriage is not always a bed of roses.

Young Min (Jo Jung Suk) and Mi Young (Shin Min Ah) are a young couple who met, fell in love and dated throughout college. They get married after college, and everything seems to great for a while. But after the honeymoon phase ends, they start to bicker over their everyday challenges as a married couple.

As they struggle to make their marriage work, can Young Min and Mi Young learn the secret to a lasting relationship?

“My Love, My Bride” is a 2014 South Korean film directed by Im Chan Sang. It is a remake of the hit 1990 film by the same title.

My Love, My Bride

The frivolous prince of South Korea gets involved with the strongest North Korean special force officer at the World Officer Championship! Lee Jae Ha, the South Korean Prince, loves goofing around and has no interest in state affairs at all. Kim Hang Ah, the first female drill sergeant of the North Korean special force, dreams of finding her Mr. Right and getting married to him. Army officers from 16 countries gather for the World Officer Championship, and South and North Korea enter as one team for the first time. There, Hang Ah and Jae Ha get to share a room, but their start as a team doesn\u2019t seem smooth at all.

The King 2 Hearts

The King's Lovers Team

A third-rate designer who makes and sells counterfeits in Dongdaemun, previously unable to put his formidable talent to proper use, at a certain special opportunity becomes a big shot in the fashion industry. Meanwhile, Lee Ga Young, after losing her parents who had been successful designers in Dongdaemun and even losing their shop, having spent her life in a small room only sewing, tries her utmost to come out of a life of poverty. Two young people struggle to come out of difficult circumstances and on the other hand, the heir of the country's top fashion industry conglomerate Jung Jae Hyuk won't stop at any means to keep his position. In the end, what will become of the future of the three who try to succeed as world-class designers?

Fashion King

Team Fashionista

MBC, KOCOWA

Two children are born in the same village at the same time. One child is born as the son of the wealthy Lord Kim's family, while the other child, not even knowing who his father is, is born in a mud hut as the son of a poor woman named Maksun. However, the mother of Lord Kim's family ends up dying after giving birth to the child. Lord Kim brings Maksun, who also gave birth on the same day to have the child breastfed. For her son's well-being, Maksun secretly switches the child with her own. Thus, Maksun's son gets raised by Lord Kim's family with the name Gwidong, and the real child of Lord Kim's family grows up with the name Chundoong. However, thanks to a twist of fate, Gwidong and Chundoong become friends and love the same girl named Dongnyeo.

The Duo

The switched

Uhm Deuk Ne

Desperate to leave his miserable life behind, Sang Man (Cha Tae Hyun) has tried, on more than occasion, to take his own life. But no matter how many times he tries to end his existence, he just can’t seem to get it right. Convincing himself that this time it will be different, Sang Man jumps off a bridge, plunging into the watery depths below. But just like all of the other times before, his attempt to end his life fails as he’s pulled from the water before death can claim him.

Waking in the hospital, Sang Man finds he’s not alone. Visited by a man no one else can see, Sang Man wonders if his latest suicide attempt has somehow rattled his mind. Distracted by the pretty nurse, Jung Yun Soo (Kang Ye Won), Sang Man tries to ignore the string of invisible visitors who refuse to leave him alone, but to no avail. After being discharged from the hospital, Sang Man is irritated to learn that his mysterious hospital visitors have followed him home. Realizing he’s not crazy but actually being visited by ghosts, Sang Man accepts that the only way to rid himself of these unwanted guests is to help them fulfill their unrealized dreams.

Begrudgingly accepting his fate, Sang Man sets out to do just that, hoping that at the end of it all, he too will be able to leave this world in peace. Will his determination to help these ghosts ultimately bring him what he wants or will it cause him to realize that some things in this world are worth living for after all?

A scary good story full of laughs, “Hello Ghost” is a 2010 comedy film directed by Kim Young Tak.

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