Shim Yi Young is the stage name of Kim Jin Ah, a South Korean actress. Born on January 31, 1980, she made her acting debut in the 2000 film “Real Fiction.” She has since starred in many popular films and television dramas, including “A Hundred Years’ Inheritance” (2013), “Goddess of Marriage” (2013), “The Suspicious Housekeeper” (2013), “Birth of a Beauty” (2014) and “Five Children” (2016). Shim Yi Young also hosted the reality shows “We Are Mom and Dad From Today” (2013) and “She and Her Car” (since 2012). Shim Yi Young married actor Choi Won Young in 2014. The couple met on the set of “A Hundred Years’ Inheritance.”

Shim Yi Young

MBC, KOCOWA

After graduating from art school, kind-hearted Seon Ju works as a designer at a local interior design shop. With her income, she supports her husband, Jeon Nam Jin, enabling him to pursue a master's degree abroad and build a career as an architect. However, Nam Jin shows no appreciation for her sacrifices. While studying overseas, he begins an affair with Seon Ju's high school friend, Jin Sang Ah. Nam Jin eventually leaves Seon Ju and joins Sang Ah's father's company, Jin Architects, in hopes of securing a future with her. Bored with her loyal husband, Kim So Woo, Sang Ah becomes captivated by Nam Jin's untamed charisma. Knowing that Nam Jin is Seon Ju's husband only deepens Sang Ah's intrigue, and she declares her intention to leave So Woo. Shocked by the sudden split, So Woo gradually finds himself drawn to Seon Ju, who has also been similarly wronged. In this tangled web of relationships, will Seon Ju and So Woo be able to exact gratifying revenge on the two who betrayed them?

Desperate Mrs. Seon Ju

Seon Ju

KBS02

Hee Tae becomes the pride of Gwangju when he enters Seoul National University College of Medicine with top marks. His best friend Kyung Soo, an avid pro-democracy activist, insists they open an illegal clinic for students on the run from the government. One day, a factory worker is injured during a protest. In exchange for the costs of discreetly transporting himself and the factory worker to his hometown, Hee Tae must go to a meeting with a potential marriage partner arranged by his father. At this meeting, Hee Tae meets Myeong Hee, a nurse persevering through the hardships of life. She only agrees to go to this meeting in lieu of her friend Soo Ryeon, because she needs to come up with the airfare to go study in Germany. However, Myeong Hee and Hee Tae end up falling in love. In May of 1980, amidst the heated passion and cries for democracy that reverberate throughout Gwangju, Hee Tae and Myeong Hee find themselves in a twist of fate.

Youth of May

Little General Team

In this gripping melodrama, Goo Hae Ra (Lee Min Jung) initially approaches Tae In Joon (Joo Sang Wook) with hidden intentions of revenge, but unexpectedly falls deeply in love with him. Her world becomes complicated when she learns that Tae In Joon's family is connected to her sister's suicide attempt, plunging her into a moral quandary of love and vengeance. As the tension builds, Hae Ra struggles with her true motives and the potential consequences of her actions, wondering if her love can survive the revelation of her original plan. This is a 2018 South Korean melodrama directed by Jung Dong Yoon that explores the complex dynamics of love, betrayal, and redemption.

Fates and Furies

Fate's Minions

Every person has a heart. Your life depends on that small organ, which is around the size of your fist. A heart surgeon fellow, Park Tae Soo, has to save his mother, who awaits her heart transplant. But Choi Seok Han is the chief of Chest Surgery Department, and he decides if Tae Soo will maintain his status or not. They work at Taesan Hospital's Chest Surgery Department, and every day is like a battle. Chest Surgery Departments are where the quality of university hospitals are decided. The skills of residents are proved there. Some people die in the operation room, and those who do not have confidence in their skills avoid doing surgery. People's lives depend on it. But among the doctors of Chest Surgery Department, those who have the skills required have no power while those who have power are not skilled enough. This makes them compete against each other in an ugly way even if the lives of patients depend on them.

Heart Surgeons

Sohn & Co

Disaster strikes teenage violin prodigy Woo Seo Ri (Shin Hae Sun) when a traffic accident leaves her hospitalized before she's supposed to study abroad in Germany. Gong Woo Jin (Yang Se Jong), who blames himself for the accident, is traumatized and plagued by guilt. Thirteen years later, he works as a set designer but remains emotionally cut off from everyone around him. After over twelve years in a coma, Seo Ri miraculously recovers. Though now thirty years old, she is still mentally a teenager. She crosses paths with Woo Jin, and the two become close, unaware of their shared past. Can these emotionally scarred individuals rescue each other, or will their history get in the way? This 2018 South Korean drama series was directed by Jo Soo Won.

Thirty But Seventeen

'Beautiful Mind' is a medical mystery drama about a genius neurosurgeon, Young Oh, who suffers from the inability to feel emotions and a rookie traffic policewoman, Jin Sung, who tries to find the justice. As soon as Young Oh comes back to Korea after finishing his studies abroad, he starts working at Hyunsung Medical Center and on the very first day at the hospital, he gets to meet Jin Sung who came to save a car accident patient. Soon, a series of bizarre deaths occur at the hospital and Young Oh tries to find the secret of it with the help of Jin Sung and along the way, he learns to love and care for people. Will he be able to find the answer of mysterious accidents? Also, will he learn to love and care for people with humanity? Stay tuned to join their journey.

A Beautiful Mind

The Doctor Frankenstein Team

Five years ago, his wife passed away. Her husband left for another woman three years ago. The two of them are left behind like this. Will they find true love again? Lee Sang Tae is left alone with his two children after his wife\u2019s death. An Mi Jeong has been living with her three children since her husband left for an affair! Feeling responsibility and duty to her family, she lived a tenacious life. "Love, romance, and dating" became words that could never be dreamed of again. This is the story of a man and woman who fall in love again. Through understanding and reconciling with each other, we naturally think about the importance of home and family.

Five Enough

Party of Five Team

Mo Soon Yeong

Sara has the most beautiful face in the whole of South Korea. She attracts anyone and just everyone with her gorgeous smile. However, that face of hers wasn't always that amazing. She gets tangled up with Tae Hee, Min Hyuk, and Kang Joon in their battle for power in the Winner Group of Companies. She fights for justice, for love, and for the wedding dress she deserves.

Birth of the Beauty

The Beauty Team

SBS, KOCOWA

Bok Nyu is a housekeeper who does everything she is told to do. But for being a housekeeper, she seems a bit suspicious since she always wears her cap deep and never smiles. Sang Chul has four children and lived separately to provide for their education. But even though he has a wife, Sun Young, who is devoted to her family, Sang Chul has an affair. When Sun Young eventually finds out, she commits suicide. Sang Chul reunites and lives with his four children again, who have returned to Korea. He hires Bok Nyu to become the housekeeper for his family. While the mysterious Bok Nyu and the four siblings stay together, Bok Nyu's secrets start to unfold one by one.

Suspicious Housekeeper

The Outlandish Team

Ji Hye is a proud woman who speaks her mind and works as a writer for a radio show. Tae Wook meets Ji Hye at a private gathering, and after two years of keeping an eye on her, he decides to ask her out. After a year of dating, Ji Hye accepts his marriage proposal despite being unsure about her feelings for him. Tae Wook is a prosecutor and successor of a conglomerate group who decides to marry Ji Hye against his father's wishes. However, Ji Hye asks to call off their engagement because she can't withstand the overwhelming pressure of her future in-laws. Ji Hye then leaves for a trip to Jeju Island, where she meets and falls in love with Hyun Woo, paving the way for these three people's stormy and complicated future.

Goddess of Marriage

The Goddesses Team

Mary has never dated her whole life, but due to her father's insistence, she suddenly finds herself taking fake wedding photos with Mu Gyul and begins a double-married life. Mu Gyul is a chic band frontman, and Jung In is a proud but impeccably mannered gentleman. Amid a 100-day double marriage with both men, each with their respective charms, Mary falls into a conflict of love and conditions. In the past, marriage was considered sacred. But in a generation in which marriage has become superficial, how will the three choose? A lighthearted story of a double, imaginary marriage between young 20-somethings with strong personalities.

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