Oh Tae Kyung

JTBC

Kim Yo Han (Kang Ha Neul) is a trainee with the judiciary. Tragic circumstances have befallen his family, and while he is working undercover to investigate the suspected corruption carried out by a prosecutor, ends up in the fearsome Seongju Prison. Understanding that he has been betrayed by forces unseen, he decides to make avenging those who wronged him and his family his life’s mission.

Kim Yo Han’s fellow inmates have it in for him – and threaten to destroy him utterly at the lawless Seongju Prison, even though he is blessed with incredible wits and formidable fighting skills. However, he may have found an unconventional ally in the form of a shady female entrepreneur named Oh Soo Yeon (Lee Yoo Young). She visits him in prison and promises him the chance to avenge those who caused his downfall...on the condition that he helps her realize her own selfish goals. Will Kim Yo Han’s dreams of revenge ever come true? And what are Oh Soo Yeon’s true intentions?

“Insider” is a 2022 South Korean drama series that was directed by Min Yeon Hong.

Insider

Tʜᴇ Pᴀʏʙᴀᴄᴋ Tᴇᴀᴍ 

Woo Sang Ki

Nestled deep in the heart of Seoul’s thriving downtown sits a curious hotel, the like of which no one has ever seen before. Old beyond measure, the building has stood for millennia, an ever-present testament to the fact that things are not always what they seem. Running this hotel is Jang Man Wol (IU), a greedy, suspicious soul who has spent the past thousand years acting as the establishment’s CEO.

Cursed for a sin she can no longer remember committing, Man Wol is doomed to spend all of the eternity running this odd establishment, catering to the needs of a most peculiar clientele. Her only hope of escape is to find someone who has committed a worse sin than her own but after a thousand years, she’s beginning to lose hope.

However, things take an interesting turn when Goo Chan Sung (Yeo Jin Goo) shows up. Once the youngest assistant manager ever to work at a multinational hotel corporation, Chan Sung finds himself forced to manage the Hotel del Luna because of a deal his father made with Man Wol years ago. A stickler for rules and regulations, he’s a perfectionist to the extreme but that may be exactly what this odd establishment and its cursed CEO needs.

A tale of old curses, lost souls, and unexpected surprises, “Hotel Del Luna” is a 2019 mystery, romance, fantasy drama directed by Oh Choong Hwan.

Hotel Del Luna

🏨  Team Hotel Del Luna  🌕

Jung Eun Suk

Two characters delve us into the world of tabloid journalism and the paparazzi who stop at nothing to get the big scoop. Gentle in nature, Seok Joo, a renowned photographer of the nation\u2019s largest newspaper, has plummeted to the lowest point in his life. With one picture, he loses his job, his self-confidence, and most punishingly, his family. When he declines a deal with the devil to save his daughter, who is suffering from congenital heart disease, he succumbs to the guilt and resorts to alcohol with no intention of returning to his prominent self until he meets Soo Hyun. Soo Hyun is the editor-in-chief for Sunday Dispatch, a notorious celebrity paparazzi tabloid leading the field. Elegant, sophisticated, and connected, once she gets on the scent of any celebrity scandal, nothing can stop her from getting the story. Growing up, being a reporter of truth was her aspiration. But revealing the truth had no power. The powerful just conceived the truth. She decides to take on reality, and with it, the people who once discounted her start to disappear. She is now more famous than a celebrity, and when she offers Seok Joo his second chance to redeem himself, he resurrects as a paparazzo and fights to see his daughter again. Will the two overcome the obstacles in tabloid journalism, triumph over the powerful, and rise from despair?

Big Issue

Nam Jin Seok

What does it take to catch the world’s most legendary conman?

After swindling a huge sum of money from many victims, master conman Jang Doo Chil (Heo Sung Tae) disappears and is presumed dead. But when rumors surface that Doo Chil may be alive, Prosecutor Park Hee Soo (Yoo Ji Tae) wants to make sure that he remains “dead” to avoid a corruption scandal. 

Prosecutor Park recruits master swindler Hwang Ji Sung (Hyun Bin), who has his own personal vendetta against Doo Chil, as well as Go Suk Dong (Bae Sung Woo), Choon Ja (Nana) and Chief Kim (Ahn Se Ha), to track down Doo Chil in exchange for criminal immunity. They devise a plan to bait Doo Chil’s right-hand man, Kwak Sung Gun (Park Sung Woong), but will it work?

“The Swindlers” is a 2017 South Korean film written and directed by Jang Chang Won.

The Swindlers

Can't Catch Me Team

Tae Dong

At seven years old, Hee Joo (Shim Eun Kyung) lost her father. Working as a detective on a string of grisly murders, Hee Joo’s father was murdered by Ki Bum (Kim Sung Oh), the very same serial killer he was trying to catch. Eventually arrested, Ki Bum was tried for the series of brutal murders but with a lack of evidence to link him to every murder, he was only found guilty on a single charge. Sentenced to prison for the murder of his cheating girlfriend, Ki Bum was locked away, but not for life.

Taking Hee Joo in after the death of her father, Detective Dae Young (Yoon Je Moon) has raised her as his own. Now, fifteen years later, Hee Joo has become a sort of mascot of the precinct where she volunteers, a living reminder of what the police work to protect and serve. With Ki Bum’s imminent release looming ever-closer, both Dae Young and Hee Joo find themselves wondering what they’ll do once he’s made a free man. Having worked on the original case with Hee Joo’s father, Detective Dae Young (Yoon Je Moon) is determined to put Ki Bum back in jail. But Hee Joo has plans of her own.

As Dae Young seeks to find the evidence he needs to put Ki Bum back in prison, Hee Joo seeks her own sort of revenge. Soon trapped in a tangled web of murder and lies, each one begins to wonder which of them will come out alive?

An intense story of revenge, “Missing You” is a 2016 thriller film written and directed by Mo Hong Jin.

Missing You

🦸‍♀️The Avengers Team 💪

Cho Rim comes home from school and finds out that her parents were killed by a serial killer. She also gets into a car accident while running away from the killer and stays in a coma state for six months. When she wakes up, she doesn\u2019t remember what happened in the past or her own name. And she gains a supernatural power that enables her to see smells. Moo Gak, a detective, also loses his younger sister named Eun Seol, to a murderer. He gets a big shock and loses consciousness, which takes him six months to regain consciousness. Without knowing each other\u2019s painful family loss history, Cho Rim and Moo Gak meet each other, and Cho Rim\u2019s ability becomes a big help to Moo Gak, and they become very close.

The Girl Who Sees Smells

The Sensory Team

Yang Seok Jin

On the first day of their anatomy class, medical students Seon Hwa (Han Ji Min), Jung Seok (On Ju Wan) and Gi Beom (Oh Tae Kyung) are assigned to work on the cadaver of a young woman with a rose tattoo on her chest. Shortly after their first class, the students begin to experience the same nightmares and hallucinations featuring a one-eyed surgeon. Stranger still, Seon Hwa's classmates begin to show up dead – murdered, with their hearts removed from their bodies. Seon Hwa, convinced that these events have something to do with the cadaver she worked on in class, is determined to find out the woman's identity. Can she, Gi Beom, and Jung Seok find out the truth before it's too late?

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