Ji Sung is a popular South Korean actor. Born in February 27, 1977, as Kwak Tae Geun, he adopted the stage name Choi Ji Sung early in his acting career but later dropped the Choi and simply went with Ji Sung. He made his acting debut in the 1999 drama series “KAIST” but it was his role opposite Lee Byung Hun in 2003’s “All In” that made Ji Sung a bona fide star. He has since had many leading roles in films and television dramas, including the popular “Protect the Boss” (2011), “Secret” (2013), “Kill Me, Heal Me” (2015), “Entertainer” (2016), “Defendant” (2017) and “Familiar Wife” (2018). In 2013, Ji Sung married popular actress Lee Bo Young, and they are one of the most popular celebrity couples in Korean entertainment.

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One day, Jang Jae Gyeong, a ten-year detective of Anhyeon's narcotics unit, becomes forcibly addicted to drugs by someone. Although he denies being a user and claims he's an officer who arrests those who do, his mind and body unknowingly deteriorate due to the drug, which is new and unknown to the police. Oh Yoon Jin is a reporter for the Anhyun Economic Daily. She met Jae Gyeong at Jeogang High School. Right after returning to work after one month, she witnesses a woman die in front of her from using drugs. Yoon Jin chases the drug case for a scoop and becomes entangled with Jae Gyeong again. Geumhyung Group's vice-chairman, Won Jong Soo, and Anhyun's prosecutor, Park Jun Seo, are two who could be involved in the case. Due to the drugs, an evil connection intertwined with 50 million dollars starts to form and corrodes their high school friendship. Who could the drug lord be to confront Jae Gyeong, who declares retribution at the end of the battle, and who will come out the victor?

Connection

Jang Jae Gyeong

Kang Yo Han (Ji Sung) is the “Devil Judge” – the head judge of the highest court in the land. In a dystopian South Korea of the future, his word is the law, but his courtroom is also a television studio, and the court has become the ultimate TV reality show, with viewers invited to participate in a live, self-styled “people’s court.” Here, greed and corruption are apparently exposed for all the nation to see, and punishments meted out accordingly. A divisive figure, the public is unsure as to whether Kang Yo Han is a true popular hero or a malicious force sowing the seeds of chaos in his court.

Meanwhile, Jung Sun Ah (Kim Min Jung) is a tough, intelligent, and ambitious woman with a hunger for power. She has formed a bitter rivalry with Kang Yo Han and has risen from poverty to become the director of a corporate social responsibility foundation. She wields considerable behind-the-scenes power, maintaining close ties with politicians and business leaders alike – and is hellbent on promoting her own vision of the future. She is also gunning for the “Devil Judge” himself – hopeful of uncovering her rival’s darkest secrets.

Into this turbulent world step two childhood friends on a quest for true justice: a rookie orphan judge called Kim Ga On (Jinyoung) and a police officer named Yoon Soo Hyun (Park Gyu Young). Do they have what it takes to take on the scheming Jung Sun Ah...and the “Devil Judge?”

“The Devil Judge” is a 2021 South Korean drama series that was directed by Choi Jung Gyu.

The Devil Judge

People think it is a doctor's bounden duty to save a patient's life. But things are different now. Things are needed to be considered other than saving one's life. Modern medicine has been developed remarkably, and it is quite possible to save a person's life who is on the verge of death. But we need to think about if prolonging a patient's life makes the patient truly happy. Yo Han is a promising doctor who needs only 10 seconds to figure out a patient's condition. While he is gaining fame with his outstanding skills, he confronts one patient who changes his whole life. Si Young is a doctor with a warm heart. Her family has been doctors for generations, and she takes after her mother's exceptional talent and her father's high empathic ability. But one day, Si Young suddenly leaves the hospital. After a year later, she goes to the penitentiary to serve as a temporary medical doctor, and she meets a prisoner who was a former doctor. He is a genius who can grasp the patient's condition within 10 seconds. After meeting him, Si Young's life totally changes. And the day she comes back to the hospital, she meets the prisoner again, and this time, he is a professor. Doctor John is a human medical drama of anesthetists who seek the cause of mysterious pain their patients suffer, like detectives chasing after a suspect.

Doctor John

Cha Yo Han

One unexpected choice can change everything about your life.

Cha Joo Hyuk (Ji Sung) works at a bank and has been married to Seo Woo Jin (Han Ji Min) for five years. When a strange incident happens one day, Joo Hyuk makes a decision that impacts his life and those around him in unexpected ways. Suddenly, the life he had with Woo Jin and his best friend, Yoon Joong Hoo (Jang Seung Jo), are gone and he is leading a very different life.

How will his first love, Lee Hee Won (Kang Han Na), factor into his new life? And will it be possible to get his old life back?

“Familiar Wife” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Lee Sang Yeob.

Familiar Wife

Familiar Team

He wins every criminal case in the day as a prosecutor, and he's a trophy husband and father to his family at night. Jung Woo's life is perfect, but a murder that takes place in his home on the night of his daughter's 6th birthday changes it all for him. He wakes up in a prison cell, knowing nothing about what happened that night, but he happens to find himself with four fellow prison mates who help him to find justice for his family. Fighting one trial at a time, while suffering the effects of short term amnesia, Jung Woo makes his way to Min Ho, a chaebol who happens to have some issues with him. Though he's a seasoned law enforcer, Jung Woo knows that he's against South Korea's giants, and his case will be a tough cookie to swallow. Will justice prevail, or would corruption persist?

Defendant

The Legal Team

Seok Ho is a manager who finds success in raising a highly popular idol group. He hopes for more success as he plans to take his group and build his own label, but he eventually falls flat on his face. He deceives people to find his way back to the top and meets Ha Neul, who gave up dreams to become a singer after losing his parents. Having been wrongly convicted of a crime, he is in a state of despair when he meets Seok Ho. Meanwhile, Seok Ho seems untrustworthy to Ha Neul's sister, Geu Rin. To protect her younger brother, Geu Rin takes a break from her university to work several part-time jobs. But seeing her younger brother feel lifted from despair when he meets Seok Ho, Geu Rin is determined to become his manager as he embarks on an inspiring life project, the Entertainers.

Entertainer

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Shin Suk Ho

When we were kids, teachers often said, \u201CWe will all have to buy water, and the business related to mental hospitals will extend.\u201D In the end, their prediction was correct. We can easily find people suffering from depression, sleep, and panic disorders. In this dystopic world, there is a man whose childhood was filled with bad memories. Not being able to overcome his trauma, he created other personalities. The problem is he never remembers what he had done when he changed. Dissociative Identity Disorder. What made him like this? But suddenly, a woman approaches him and suggests they can be friends. In incidents around him, his different identities start to be integrated, and they slowly realize sympathy and love are the only means of treating wounded hearts.

Kill Me Heal Me

The 7-Dimensional Team

Cha Do Hyun, Shin Se Gi, Perry Park, Ahn Yo Seob, Ahn Yo Na, Nana, Mr. X

Best friends since childhood, Hyun Tae (Ji Sung), In Chul (Joo Ji Hoon), and Min Soo (Lee Kwang Soo) have been an integral part of each other’s lives for as long as they can remember. Sharing all of life’s moments together, they have always been there for each other, through the good times and the bad, a constant source of strength, encouragement, and unwavering friendship.&nbsp;

Despite having busy lives of their own, the three are just as close as adults as they were as children. Working as a paramedic, Hyun Tae struggles to balance work and his home-life, as he tries to raise his young daughter on his own. Meanwhile, In Chul has made a name for himself as a shady, swindling insurance man while Min Soo owns a small business. Though walking different paths in life, each is happy to be able to call the others friends. So content are they, in their lives and their friendship, they could never imagine things ever being any different. But when tragedy strikes, their friendship is put to the ultimate test.&nbsp;

Now suspecting his friends of unspeakable crimes, Hyun Tae seeks out those responsible for the accident that led to his mother’s untimely death. Pushing past the lies, he is determined to uncover the truth, but what he finds may destroy them all.

A dark thriller, “Confession” is an intense 2014 crime drama film directed by Lee Do Yoon.

Confession

👬🏻 The Good Friends Team 👬

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A jolly Yoo Jung is charged for the murder of the girlfriend of a chaebol. Her own prosecutor's fiancee charges her sentence to prison. As she faces the charge, she also gets into bigger problems as her family grows unexpectedly. Thinking that her freedom from prison would lead her to a smooth sailing life, she finds herself in hurdles created by the insane Min Hyuk, who doesn't seem to get over the death of the love of his life. Her prosecutor fiancee Do Hoon helps her through it all but also has his fair share of hardships because of his connection to the desired wife Se Yeon and the chaebol's family. Find out how Yoo Jung, Do Hoon, Min Hyuk, and Se Yeon find their way to peace after the accident that took place on one rainy night--the death that started it all.

Secret Love

The Shh! Team

Love is an extraordinary thing. However, love becomes sweeter when it involves two extraordinary people. An extremely odd Eun Seol who's fresh out of college struggles to get a job because of her third-rate university degree. Despite this, she lands a job at a company where she meets her extremely weird boss. Though Ji Hun's got the looks, the money, and the connections, he's got a lot to work on, in terms of his character as an heir to his father's chaebol. Through thick and thin, just to keep her job, Eun Seol does her best to protect her boss, but soon enough, she finds herself falling in love with him. Or maybe, it just so happened to be the other way around too.

Protect the Boss

The Bossy Team

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Hyo Dong is the son of Hyo Dong Tower's owner, but he's not exactly a model student who only cares about being cool. Cho Paeng Dal opens his own Chinese restaurant with Hyo Dong Tower's secret recipes, so Hyo Dong makes a scene at his restaurant. While running from Paeng Dal's guys, Hyo Dong ends up hiding in Hee Ae's trunk. Hee Ae saves Hyo Dong, and as they constantly run into each other, they fall in love. But Hee Ae was the daughter of Golden Dragon's owner, a rival to Hyo Dong Tower. Hee Ae's older brother and the son of Golden Dragon, Hee Moon, is ambitious enough to crush Hyo Dong Tower down and expand the restaurant to a national chain. Yet Hyo Dong fights back, and the two go against each other. Hee Ae loves Hyo Dong, who is a genuine person, but as she finds out his family restaurant is her family's rival, she also participates in a cooking battle to protect her family's restaurant. Will Hee Ae and Hyo Dong be able to protect each family's restaurant as well as their love?

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