Kim Sang Ho is a South Korean character actor who is instantly recognizable from his signature bald head and side curls. Born on July 24, 1970, he began his acting career in theater in 1996 before branching into films and television dramas. Some of his recent roles include “Wonderful Days” (2014), “Doctor Stranger” (2014) and “D-Day” (2015), as well as the film “Proof of Innocence” (2016).

Kim Sang Ho

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Na Moon Young (Lee Bo Young) and Cha Seung Jae (Lee Moo Saeng) seemed to live a pretty normal life. But when Sung Jae disappears without a trace, Moon Young is left with far too many questions and far too few answers.

Determined to uncover the truth behind her husband’s disappearance, Moon Young sets out to do just that. Searching high and low, Moon Young does everything she can to unlock the secrets surrounding her husband’s sudden disappearance, completely unaware that a man by the name of Do Jin Woo (Lee Min Jae) holds an important key.

Will her relentless search for the truth ultimately bring her husband home or will her search end in utter heartbreak?

Thrilling from start to finish, “Hide” is a 2024 South Korean mystery drama directed by Kim Dong Hwi.

Hide

Hide and Seek Team 

High schooler Kim Eun Mi (Jeon Hye Jin)’s life changed forever when she gave birth to her daughter. Decades later, her child Jin Hee (Choi Soo Young) has grown up and Eun Mi has become a physical therapist. The two spend most of their time bickering, as Jin Hee still lives at home while working as a police officer – where she butts heads with station chief Eun Jae Won (Park Sung Hoon). Eun Mi’s life also becomes more complicated when she meets the mysterious and shy doctor Park Jin Hong (Ahn Jae Wook). Will this mother and daughter duo resolve their differences – and renew their bond of affection? This 2023 South Korean romantic comedy drama was based on the webtoon “Strangers” by Jung Young Rong and directed by Lee Min Woo.

Not Others

Like Mother Like Daughter

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Jin Jung is a troublemaking prosecutor of the Central District Office. With a strong sense of justice and craziness, he punishes criminals more than they deserve. A Ra is Jung's partner, a competent prosecutor who always judges issues objectively and handles them with a clean finish. Also at the Central District Office is the elite prosecutor Do Hwan, who believes money and power are everything. He is a man who is willing to do whatever it takes to go higher up. In a world corrupted with wealth and evil, the story of these prosecutors unfolds.

Bad Prosecutor

🐧 My Dear Penguin Team 🐧

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 

Chang Seok (Yeon Woo Jin) is a novelist who lives and works in the United Kingdom. After a seven-year absence, he returns to Seoul in the springtime to relive old memories of his days living in the South Korean capital. His life has become entangled with his work, blurring the lines between real life, fiction, and his writing. As he navigates the city streets, he stops by cafes, bars, museums, and restaurants.

His wanderings lead him into a number of unusual encounters with strangers, including Sung Ha (Kim Sang Ho), a man who approaches him to tell the novelist a story about a mysterious Buddhist monk. He also meets Mi Young (IU), a young woman who says she has no interest in reading novels – and claims she cannot understand why people would ever read a fiction book. And then there’s Joo Eun (Lee Joo Young), a bartender who starts talking to him while he is writing in his notebook – offering to “buy” his memories in exchange for a drink. Meanwhile, an editor named Yoo Jin (Yoon Hye Ri) has a sad story she wants to tell him about a former boyfriend. As he listens to their tales, and tells them some of his own stories, the lines between reality and fiction begin to blur even further…

“Shades of the Heart” is a 2021 South Korean movie that was directed by Kim Jong Kwan.

Shades of the Heart

The Storytellers of the H♡rt

Ji Oh (Kim Rae Won) is a man in possession of unearthly powers and fighting skills – the only problem is, he has no idea who he is, how he got where he did, and why he is being pursued by people keen to capture him and learn his secrets. He isn’t even sure he is fully human.

The intrigue deepens as he learns about a mysterious group of scientists at an institution named Human Tech, and a secretive genetics and biotech project codenamed L.U.C.A.

This shadowy group, assembled by a secretive mastermind, is conducting curious experiments in a bid to create the perfect human, The group wants to learn Ji Oh’s secrets – as does another fearsome individual, a special forces agent named Lee Son (Kim Sung Oh) who also possesses otherworldly powers.

Ji Oh’s only ally is a female detective named Gu Reum (Lee Da Hee) – a woman on a quest to discover the truth behind her parents’ deaths.

Together, they hunt for answers – but who is hunting them?

“L.U.C.A.: The Beginning” is a 2021 South Korean drama series that was directed by Kim Hong Sun.

L.U.C.A.: The Beginning

The Children of LUCA 

It's the year 2050, and time travel exists thanks to Alice, the mechanism through which the intriguing practice is made possible. But a rumor based on a prophecy being spread about time travel coming to an end. When You Min Hyuk and Yoon Tae Yi are sent to the year 1992 to find out about the prophecy, Tae Yi realizes she's pregnant and decides to stay in the past by herself. She changes her name to Park Sun Young and eventually gives birth to a beautiful son named Park Jin Gyeom, whose mental health suffers due to radiation exposure. Fast forward to the year 2010, and Sun Young is murdered by someone. Ten years after her death, her son Jin Gyeom is on a mission to find who is responsible for his mother's death. But while searching, he runs into Yoon Tae Yi, a physics professor who looks exactly like this mother.

Alice

Timeless Love

To celebrate his 10th anniversary, countryside detective Hong Byeong Soo (Kwak Do Won) decides to take his family on a very special trip. Booking a holiday in the Philippines, Byeong Soo’s family is excited to be making their first trip abroad. Little do they know that Byeong Soo plans to use his time in Manila to track down his old friend, Kim Yong Bae (Kim Sang Ho).

Having once scammed Byeong Soo out of a sizable sum, Yong Bae fled the country soon after. Unfortunately, his life abroad didn’t exactly provide him with the safety he imagined it would. Imprisoned in Manila, Yong Bae is shocked to find Byeong Soo there for a visit. Falsely accused of murder, Byeong Soo had been attempting to prove his innocence with the help of Hwang Man Cheol (Kim Dae Myung), a local tour guide. Unfortunately, their investigation hasn’t been going as well as they had hoped.

While visiting Yong Bae, his imprisoned friend tells him of a mysterious case known locally as “Yamashita’s Gold”. Unable to resist the temptation, Yong Bae wants to go after the gold, offering Byeong Soo a share, should he agree to help him. Already wanted for murder, will Byeong Soo reject his friend’s offer or will the promise of so much gold prove to be an offer he simply can’t refuse?

“The Golden Holiday” is a 2020 South Korean action comedy film directed by Kim Bong Han.

The Golden Holiday

💰The Golden Team💰

Lee Chan Woo (Park Hae Soo) is a man of many talents. A major player in the world of Korean nightlife, he not only runs a successful nightclub, but has made a name for himself as the “Hua Tuo” of nightlife. Nicknamed after the legendary Chinese physician, Chan Woo has a knack for breathing new life into struggling, nearly bankrupt nightclubs, making them successful once again. A man who lives by his own “quantum physical theory”, he truly believes that your thoughts and actions shape your reality.

But Chan Woo’s theory is put to the ultimate test when he learns that one of the country’s top celebrities is taking part in a drug party being held at one of the local clubs. Knowing the authorities must be informed, he contacts Officer Park Ki Heon (Kim Sang Ho), knowing he’ll do what must be done to bring those involved to justice. With Officer Park and his associate, Sung Eun Young (Seo Ye Ji) by his side, Chan Woo and his team begin to investigate the less-than-reputable goings on in some of the city’s hottest clubs; but digging deeper brings with it all sorts of nasty consequences.

With celebrities, prosecutors, and politicians all involved in the ever-growing scandal, Chan Woo, Eun Young, and Officer Park must confront some of the country’s most powerful people in a fight for justice that may end up costing them everything.

An engaging story from start to finish, “Quantum Physics” is a 2019 crime film directed by Lee Sung Tae.

Quantum Physics

Quantum physicists

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Jun Oh was once a popular leader of the band Dreamers but is now at the lowest point in his career. Since he was a young trainee, he has never done anything without the help of his manager. He has now become a useless person stranded on a deserted island. Ra Bong Hee is Jun Oh's stylist and has lived her life within the tyranny of modern society. However, she is a skillful swimmer and fisher since her family has lived by the sea. Like a weed with a relentless will to survive, she shows her uprising against oppression on the deserted island. Nine characters, including Jun Oh and Bong Hee, face each other in sharp conflict on a deserted island where money, honor, and fame mean nothing. The only thing that matters is their ability to survive. Will love and friendship overcome boundaries when an extreme situation arises, and each individual's nature becomes exposed as the roles of the privileged and oppressed change?

Missing 9

They became an unlikely team. Park Bong Pal (Taecyeon) is a college student who has always had the ability to see and communicate with ghosts. To make extra money, he hires himself out as an exorcist who helps people vanquish the ghosts haunting them, with only about a 50-50 success rate. He crosses paths with Kim Hyun Ji (Kim So Hyun), the ghost of a 19-year-old student who died in a car accident but has been wandering the Earth for five years because she is unable to move on to the afterlife. When Bong Pal and Hyun Ji first meet, they accidentally kiss and sparks fly. But more importantly, Hyun Ji knows that Bong Pal holds the key to her past so she decides to move in with him. With her ability to see how ghosts died, Hyun Ji teams up with Bong Pal to help ghosts cross over into the next world. But what secrets does Joo Hye Sung (Kwon Yool), a professor at Bong Pal’s university, hold to both Bong Pal and Hyun Ji’s predicaments? “Bring It On, Ghost” is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Park Joon Hwa. It is based on the webcomic "Ssawooja Gwishina” written by Im In Seu.

Bring It On, Ghost

GHOSTBUSTERS

Monk Myung Chul

This is a different kind of identity crisis.

Woo Jin is a young man who works as a furniture designer. He has a great life with the woman he loves, Yi Soo (Han Hyo Joo), if it weren’t for one little problem.

Every morning, Woo Jin wakes up to discover that he is inhabiting a different body. It could be the body of a young, good-looking man (Do Ji Han), a portly everyman (Kim Dae Myung), a middle-aged man (Bae Sung Woo), an old man (Chun Young Woon) or even a beautiful young woman (Park Shin Hye)!

Every time Woo Jin wakes up in a new body, he has to figure out where he is and how he can find his way back to Yi Soo, who is always waiting for him. Will there be a day that Woo Jin can’t find his way back?

“The Beauty Inside” is a 2015 South Korean film directed by Baik. It is based on the 2012 American social film by the same title directed by Drake Doremus.

The Beauty Inside

This drama depicts a stranger man's long and arduous journey to find his woman. The ideological conflict between the North and South Korea and revenge against those in power are just side stories. What penetrates here is a man's sublime and fierce love for a woman. It will give you a different impression and thrill from other medical dramas you have seen. It deals with the stories of doctors in a specific space called Myungwoo University Hospital, but in the end, it contains the joys and sorrows of life. So in that way, Doctor Stranger is a drama about our lives.

Doctor Stranger

The Doctors Without Borders

It is the winter of 1994 in South Korea and the country is shaken by an explosion on a busy river bridge named Balam Bridge, just outside Seoul. The media reports that the explosion was carried out by terrorists. But some investigators are not so sure. One journalist named Lee Bang Woo (Hwang Jung Min) starts to try to get to the bottom of this incident, unsure that is as it seems. Things get more mysterious when a friend from the past named Yoon Hyuk (Jin Goo) surfaces with some information.

Yoon Hyuk gives Lee Bang Woo a cache of what he says are secret documents and states that terrorists were not behind the explosion after all. Instead, he claims, the explosion was masterminded by government agents. With the help of two fellow journalists – Sung Hyo Kwan (Kim Min Hee) and Son Jin Ki (Kim Sang Ho) – he begins to dig deeper. What the group discovers is shocking: A secret group that appears to have power over all governmental affairs. But just how deep does this dastardly conspiracy go?

“Moby Dick” is a 2011 South Korean movie that was co-written and directed by Park In Je.

Moby Dick

SBS, KOCOWA

A sense of justice and duty? Having only lived to do what she wants, Hye Ri is spoiled and has no concept about how the world works. Not caring about the suspect\u2019s circumstances and wanted to do everything by the book, Hye Ri nearly causes a disaster by carelessly taking the case documents of a celebrity and nearly losing it, which makes everyone sick of her. Realizing this truth later on, Hye Ri becomes determined to become what a prosecutor should be and falls for Prosecutor Yoon Se Joon when he rescues her from danger and tries to win him over.

Princess Prosecutor

Prince Charming Team

A rising star in the culinary world, Seong Chan (Kim Kang Woo) has the talent and ambition to become one of the greatest chefs of his time. But when a competition to head a world-class restaurant ends in tragedy, he gives up his life in the limelight to lead a simpler life. Moving to a small rural town, Seong Chan spends his days working as a farmer, selling his vegetables at the local market, and looking after his ailing grandfather.

Content with his new life, Seong Chan rarely thinks of returning to the fast-paced world of a master chef. But when a nationwide cooking competition offers him the chance to take on his long-time rival, Bong Joo (Im Won Hee), and restore his honor, Seong Chan can’t say no. Assembling an unexpected crew of seeming misfits to assist him, Seong Chan prepares for the battle of a lifetime, with the hopes of winning the title of heir to the last Royal Chef of the Joseon Dynasty.

Soon back in the spotlight, Seong Chan and his team are faced with opposition on every side, as top-notch teams from around the country assemble to fight for the coveted title. As the competition heats up, Seong Chan must find a way to stay focused, a task proving even more difficult after a long-buried family secret comes to light. Will this brilliant chef find a way to overcome the obstacles before him or will the heat of the kitchen prove to be too much?

Based on the manhwa, “Sikgaek” by Huh Young Man, “Le Grand Chef” is a dramatic 2007 film directed by Jeon Yun Su.

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