Song Jae Rim is a South Korean actor and model. Born on February 18, 1985, he began his career as a runway model and also appeared in many high-style magazines. He debuted as an actor in the 2009 film “Actresses” and went on to star in many popular films and television dramas, including “Flower Boy Ramyun Shop” (2011), “Moon Embracing the Sun” (2012), “Inspiring Generation” (2014), “Surplus Princess” (2014), “Unkind Women” (2015) and “Goodbye Mr. Black” (2016). He also starred in the popular reality series “We Got Married Season 4” with Kim So Eun as his pretend wife and then starred with her in the 2016 drama “Our Gap Soon.”

Song Jae Rim

After decades of tension, peace has come to the Korean Peninsula. To mark the start of the new North-South Korean peacetime, top South Korean star Lloyd (Kim Min Seok) heads to the DMZ to perform a concert, but a misunderstanding forces North Korean special forces soldier Baek Yeong Ok (Nam Gyu Ri) to step in. Fans capture their interaction, and the public mistakes it for a romantic moment. A scandal breaks out, and Lloyd’s fans are outraged. In desperation, he joins the military… only to find himself in a unit led by Yeong Ok! Could romance bloom between this unlikely pair? This 2024 South Korean drama series was directed by Park Kwang Chun.

My Military Valentine

Our Hearts as One ❤️

Sung Jae Hun

High school best friends Go Yoo (Sehun) and Go Joon Hee (Jo Joon Young) could not be more different. While Go Yoo is a super-sporty basketball star, Joon Hee is quiet, bookish, and sickly. So when Joon Hee needs a kidney transplant, Go Yoo is quick to donate one of his own. However, this establishes an unexpected cellular-level connection that begins to make them more similar to one another. When they meet new transfer student Han So Yun (Jang Yeo Bin), the two friends are instantly smitten with her at first sight, even though they usually have different tastes in girls. The two boys end up befriending her, but as they get to know her better, they find that she’s harboring a well-guarded secret. Will either Go Yoo or Joon Hee end up with So Yun? And if so, what will become of their friendship? This 2023 South Korean drama series was directed by Kim Jin Sung.

All That We Loved

You Me Her Team

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Seo Ji Won (Jung In Sun) is a budding web-based cartoon author who decides to devote her undivided attention to her craft – forsaking love in favor of her career.

And her decision pays off. By the time she is 25, she is a published author. Now, aged 30, she has become a well-recognized writer with scores of devoted readers.

But turning her back on romance turns out to be harder than she first thought when Lee Seung Yoo (Kang Min Hyuk), her first love from her middle school days, returns to the scene to turn her world upside down.

And things get more complicated when the film director Cha Do Hoon (Song Jae Rim) – who has been charged with adapting Seo Ji Won’s web-based series for the screen – confides in her and appears keen to strike up a close friendship.

Meanwhile, Seo Ji Won’s best friend, a one-time TV anchor named Lee Ran Joo (Hani) is having a hard time adjusting to “normal” office life in her new career.

“How to Be Thirty” is a 2021 South Korean drama series that was directed by Oh Ki Hwan.

How To Be Thirty

Not the world’s most honest painter, Sun Woo Jung (Yoo Da In) is an artist who finds her greatest source of artistic inspiration comes not from within, but more from the work of her fellow artists. Inspired by other artists’ work, Woo Jung has made it her life’s work to copy the work of others and sell it under her own name. Though she is constantly being sued by the original artists, Woo Jung insists that she is merely borrowing their art, not stealing it.&nbsp;

Despite her unethical work, Seo Jin Ho (Song Jae Rim), the head curator of an art museum approaches her with an offer to display her work at a special exhibition. Thrilled to have her work noticed, she accepts Jin Ho’s offer, but her enthusiasm doesn’t stop there. Determined to seal the deal, Woo Jung quickly moves her meetings with Jin Ho from the conference room to the bedroom. Carrying on an affair with Jin Ho behind her boyfriend, Kim Hyung Joong’s (Sim Hee Sup) back, Woo Jung and Jin Ho agree to keep their relationship secret. Little does Woo Jung know, her boyfriend and her old school friend, Tak So Young (Ok Ja Yeon), have a few secrets of their own.

Caught in a tangled web of lies and deceit, both Woo Jung’s life and work slowly begin to fall apart. Will she be able to put the crumbling pieces of her life back together or will her life of deception cause everything to come crashing down around her?

A dramatic story of lies and deception, “The Snob” is a 2019 drama film directed by Shin A Ga and Lee Sang Cheol.

The Snob

The Snob Team

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"I Wanna Hear Your Song" is a mystery romantic comedy-drama about a timpanist Yi Young and suspicious tone-deaf pianist Jang Yoon. Yi Young suffers from insomnia after getting traumatized by what happened on 'the day' and comes across Yoon, who helps her remember. Yoon works several part-time jobs, such as a mover and waiter. Above all, he works proudly as an evening caller who soothes people to sleep by singing despite being tone-deaf. Yoon joins an orchestra as a pianist and meets Yi Young for the first time. Yi Young has nothing going for her. While being a timpanist for the orchestra, she is in the job market. Due to the trauma of witnessing a murder, she suffers from amnesia and insomnia. Thanks to Yoon's awful songs, Yi Young is finally able to sleep soundly. However, his songs make Yi Young remember the horrific memories she had forgotten. They try to put Yi Young's forgotten memories together and the truth about the murder case that traumatized Yi Young.

I Wanna Hear Your Song

Sing To Me

JTBC

Jang Sun Gyeol (Yoon Kyun Sang) has wealth and good looks but suffers from severe germophobia. He is obsessed with cleaning and even owns his own cleaning company. However, he meets a carefree and untidy girl named Gil Oh Sol (Kim Yoo Jung) after she enters his company as a new employee. Oh Sol (Kim Yoo Jung) has worked all sorts of part-time jobs while striving for a full-time job and does not have the time to date or keep everything clean. She gave up on being neat after facing the tough realites of the world and is known for always wearing her trademark tracksuit. But she has a bright personality and does not mind getting dirty. With the help of Oh Sol (Kim Yoo Jung), Sun Gyeol (Yoon Kyun Sang) faces his fear of germs and discovers that he's falling in love with her.

Clean with Passion for Now

🐙 💦 The Clean Freaks 💦 🐛

Secret Mother is a drama based on women who live in Daechi-dong, the center of child education. Yoon Jin has been living comfortably with her husband\u2019s care but to provide a better education for her son, she decides to focus fully on her son\u2019s education and hires a child sitter. Eun Young is a highly educated child sitter who teaches and guides children to enter a good school but still, her hot temper does not suit her title as a child sitter. Along with Yoon Jin, mothers in Daechi-dong go through hard times as secrets of each mother get revealed with Eun Young\u2019s appearance in the town. Tune in to Secret Mother and see how they handle the crisis in order to educate their children.

Secret Mother

The Secret Moms

Gap Soon is the third daughter of three siblings. She has been in a long-term relationship with a guy preparing for a state exam. As they have known each other since elementary school, their hearts don't exactly flutter at the sight of each other. Neither of them has enough money without having achieved anything substantial, so they cannot even think of getting married. One day, Gap Soon suddenly gets pregnant, so they decide to move in together. However, their life together doesn't go smoothly.

Our Gap Soon

The Solim Team

One man will go to any lengths to find his father’s killer. Cha Ji Won (Lee Jin Wook) is a highly trained Navy SEAL officer who is a member of the special Underwater Demolition Team. Ji Won and his best friend, Min Sun Jae (Kim Kang Woo), have done everything together since childhood, when Sun Jae was taken in by Ji Won’s father because Sun Jae wanted to get away from his deadbeat dad. But Sun Jae has always harbored a resentment against Ji Won for having a silver spoon in his mouth while he has had to struggle to get anything in life. While Ji Won’s younger sister, Cha Ji Soo (Im Se Mi), has always liked Sun Jae, Sun Jae has had a secret crush on Yoon Ma Ri (Yoo In Young), Ji Won’s fiancée. Sun Jae decides to leave the Navy to get out from under Ji Won’s shadow, but the only place he has to go is Ji Won’s father’s corporation. New on the job, Sun Jae becomes an easy target for the company’s enemies and he is framed to do a number of deeds that leads to the death of Ji Won’s father. When the devastated Ji Won learns that his father has been murdered in Thailand, he is determined to find the killer, only to find himself framed as the killer of a local man and becoming an outlaw. With the help of Korean ex-patriots Kaya (Moon Chae Won), a two-bit street hustler; Ko Sung Min (Lee Won Jong), an unlicensed doctor to local gangsters; and Kim Ji Ryoong (Kim Tae Woo), a humanitarian worker in Thailand, can Ji Won find his way back to Korea and find his father’s real killer? “Goodbye Mr. Black” is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Han Hee. It is based on a comic written by Hwang Mi Na that is loosely fashioned after “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas.

Goodbye Mr. Black

BLACK Is Back Team

Seo Woo Jin

A budding young female volleyball player named Kang Se Ra (Hwang Seun Eon) has an unfortunate incident, resulting in a sudden slump in form that she cannot seem to shake off.

As her woes continue, she ends up coaching a struggling men’s high school volleyball team where Hwang Jae Woong (Song Jae Rim) is the star player.

Despite his skills and sporting prowess, the rest of the team is nowhere near his level – and its win record is abysmal.

But when these two volleyball talents meet, sparks fly on and off the court. Despite Hwang Jae Woong’s sarcastic exterior, Kang Se Ra soon discovers an altogether more tender side of this volleyball ace.

With love in the air, could the team’s results improve? And could Kang Se Ra find her groove again – to return to the top of the volleyball game?

“Thumping Spike” is a 2016 South Korean drama series produced by Kim Jin Young.

Thumping Spike

Running Man is a reality-variety show that stars Yu Jae Seok, Kim Jong Kook, Haha, Jee Seok Jin, Song Ji Hyo, Lee Kwang Soo, Jeon So Min, and Yang Se Chan. In each episode, they must complete missions at various places to win the race. Each mission is action-packed and hilarious as each member tries to beat the others using their wits and skills. Each week, is filled with fun that includes trust and betrayal, knowledge and skills, physical strengths, and outrageous penalties. Sometimes, they work as a team and cooperate for one common goal. Other times, they betray each other throughout the race in order to win all the honor and glory for themselves. You will be brought to tears each week from laughing at their silly antics.

Running Man

Don't Walk , Run Team 

Orphaned at birth, Ji Hyeok has struggled to survive for as long as he can remember. He has done everything from being a boxer to working as a street thug. His whole life turns upside down when he suddenly finds himself the son of one of the largest conglomerate families in Korea. In an attempt to save his biological son, Dong Seok, Chairman Kang Sung Wook tries to take Ji Hyeok's heart and give it to Dong Seok. However, in the middle of the transplant surgery, Ji Hyeok miraculously wakes up from anesthesia. When the media catches wind of his existence, Chairman Kang panics and tries to play off Ji Hyeok as his real son. Meanwhile, Dong Seok is forced to go overseas for a heart transplant. When he returns, he immediately seeks out his girlfriend, Mi Ra. However, when he realizes that Mi Ra has developed feelings for Ji Hyeok, he sees red and vows revenge, paving the way for a complicated future for these two men connected by a strange twist of fate.

Big Man

 The Big Man Team

Park Dong Pal

Blackmailed and in love, Jang Tae San, a member of a criminal organization, is about to be a father. With a new life ahead of him, Tae San decides to give up a life of crime. However, before he gets the chance to retire, he is forced to take the blame for a murder his boss, Moon Il Seok, had committed or would see his girlfriend, Seo In Hye, die. Without question, Tae San tells In Hye to get an abortion and ends the relationship. Eight years later, after serving the prison sentence and still affiliated with the gang, Tae San runs into In Hye and finds out that she never got the abortion and that his daughter, Soo Jin, is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. Apparently, In Hye is not a match. Luckily, Tae San turns out to be a perfect match. He decides to save his daughter\u2019s life and schedules the operation to occur in two weeks when suddenly he is placed under arrest for the death of two detectives.

Two Weeks

The Tweeks Team 

Mr. Kim

The reigning queen orders the killing of her stepson in order to continue her family's ability to take control over the kingdom. Yeon Woo, who happens to hold the position of the crown princess, suffers an illness that leads to her alleged death. Now, it's up to the King Hwon to decipher the truth, and put an end to the wars that wrath over the kingdom.

The Moon Embracing the Sun

team 'Eclipse'

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Teaching is considered to be the noblest profession. The greatest wish of Yang Eun Bi (Lee Chung Ah) is to attain the respect, prestige and job security of becoming a high school teacher. As she studies diligently to prepare for the teacher certification exam, she keeps running into Cha Chi Soo (Jung Il Woo), the only son of the owner of the largest food conglomerate in Korea. But Eun Bi can’t quite make out his identity, as she mistakes Chi Soo at first for an employee of the food company, then a student at her university, and then for a student at the high school where she will be a student teacher. Then they both end up working at a ramen shop owned by the lazy Choi Kang Hyuk (Lee Ki Woo). Can Eun Bi and Chi Soo’s multiple run-ins be just chance encounters or is there a larger force at play to bring the two together? “Flower Boy Ramyun Shop,” also known as “Flower Boy Ramen Shop” or “Cool Guys Hot Ramen,” is a 2011 South Korean drama series directed by Jung Jung Hwa.

Flower Boy Ramyun Shop

The Ramyun Lover's Team

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An ambitious equestrian with dreams of someday winning the Grand Prix Championship, Seo Joo Hee (Kim Tae Hee) has dedicated her life to the sport of horse racing. An accomplished jockey, Joo Hee was well on her way to making her dreams come true until an accident during one of her races put an end to everything. Losing her horse and injuring her arm, Joo Hee is too devastated by the loss to continue racing.

Sinking into an ever-deepening depression, Joo Hee realizes something is going to have to change, and soon. Knowing nothing will change without action, Joo Hee travels to Jeju Island, hoping the time away will help clear her head and heal her heart. She doesn’t hold out much hope for the trip but admits that a vacation might be nice.

While exploring the wonders of Jeju Island, Joo Hee meets Lee Woo Suk (Yang Dong Geun), a champion jockey who understands the pain and heartache that comes with racing. Able to relate to Joo Hee in ways no one else can, Woo Suk helps his new friend find the courage to start over. With Woo Suk by her side, Joo Hee once again dreams of winning the Grand Prix and this time, nothing is going to stand in her way.

An emotional story of broken dreams and starting over, “Grand Prix” is a 2010 sports film directed by Yang Yun Ho.

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