Lee Hae Young is a South Korean actor. Born on September 7, 1970, he made his acting debut in the 2002 film “Over the Rainbow.” He has since had a prolific career in both films and television dramas, including the recent “Liar Game” (2014), “Pied Piper” (2016), “Voice” (2017) and “Saimdang, Light’s Diary” (2017).

Lee Hae Young

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Since losing her husband, Jeong Soon Deok (Cho Yi Hyun) has lived an eventful life, moonlighting as a matchmaker for eligible bachelors and would-be brides. Soon Deok’s path crosses with that of Shim Jeong Woo (Rowoon), a talented scholar whose princess bride died moments after their marriage. Together, this duo must pool their wits to find husbands for a group of important noblewomen. But will playing Cupid for others also put them back on the path to love? This 2023 South Korean drama series was directed by Hwang Seung Gi and Kim Soo Jin.

The Matchmakers

The Fabulous Matchmakers

In South Korea in the early 1960s, Seo Chang Dae (Lee Sun Gyun) is a pharmacist who dreams of escaping his job and becoming a political strategist. Kim Woon Beom (Sol Kyung Gu), meanwhile, is a struggling politician for the opposition left-wing political party. Both he and his party are experiencing hard times – in the wake of the Korean War (1950-1953), the country is bitterly opposed to left-wingers, branding them all “communists” who want to “betray” the country to the North Korean government. But Seo Chang Dae approaches Kim Woon Beom and explains to him that if he is prepared to fight dirty, he could win political power. The latter is skeptical, but when he finally agrees to try the pharmacist’s methods, he attains phenomenal success at the polls.

Kim Woon Beom uses Seo Chang Dae’s insights and strategies to mount a political platform that takes him from his soapbox on the fringes of regional politics to the national stage. But as they both rise to the top of the political pyramid, a clash of ideals ensues. Kim Woon Beom is not sure that his strategist’s methods are ethical, while Seo Chang Dae’s loyalty to his political ally is about to be put to the ultimate test…

“Kingmaker: The Fox of the Election” is a 2022 South Korean movie that was directed by Byun Sung Hyun.

Kingmaker: The Fox of the Election

KBS2

Raised as a soldier since birth, ambitious Princess Pyeong Gang (Kim So Hyun) intends to become the first Empress of Goguryeo after she learns about her real identity. She will stop at nothing to realize her dream, but her plans hit a hitch when she meets the peace-loving On Dal (Na In Woo). The duo fall for each other, despite their very different outlooks. On Dal decides to do whatever it takes to help Pyeong Gang achieve her goal, even if it means turning his back on his values. But the Princess’ quest to take the throne could end up forcing her to pay a price she is hesitant to pay, as a deadly fight for power is about to break out. Will Pyeong Gang and On Dal – and their love – survive this bloody struggle? This 2021 South Korean drama series was based on the novel “Princess Pyeong Gang” by Choi Sa Gyu and was directed by Yoon Sang Ho.

River Where the Moon Rises

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 

To Il (Krystal Jung) didn’t have the happiest of childhoods. At the age of five, her mother remarried, forcing To Il to leave the only home she had ever known. Uprooted from Daegu, To Il had no choice but to start a new life, with a new father, in a new city. While adjusting to life in Seoul took time, To Il eventually came to accept the new and things slowly settled into place.&nbsp;

Now a university student, To Il is starting to create a life of her own. Working as a private tutor, to help pay her way through school, To Il is happy with the way her life has turned out. But things take an unexpected turn when she finds herself falling for Ho Hoon (Shin Jae Hwi), a nineteen year old boy who just happens to be one of her tutoring students. As if falling for one of her students didn’t make life complicated enough, it doesn’t take To Il long to discover that she is pregnant with Ho Hoon’s child.

Keeping her pregnancy a secret for a long as possible, To Il eventually has to tell her mother and stepfather the truth. Their less-than-happy reaction to the news convinces To Il her only option is to set out in search of her birth father. While she searches for a man she barely remembers, Ho Hoon disappears, leaving To Il’s stepfather no choice but to set out in search of him. With so many searches happening at once, will To Il be able to find that for which she’s been most desperately searching?

“More Than Family” is a 2020 family comedy film directed by Choi Ha Na.

More Than Family

A hard-working employee at a brokerage company, Yook Dong Shik (Yoon Shi Yoon) isn’t the type of guy who stands out in a crowd. Unassuming and quiet, with a timid personality and an inherent inability to stand up for himself, he’s the last person in the world you’d ever expect to experience anything exciting or unusual. But all of that is about to change.

Finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, Dong Shik plays witness to a gruesom murder. As if that weren’t awful enough, he happens to stumble upon the killer’s diary, a horrifying record of the heinous crimes committed by a clearly psychopathic serial killer. Terrified by what he has just witnessed and what he has just found, Dong Shik flees in a panic; but he doesn’t get far before he’s hit by the car of Sim Bo Kyung (Jung In Sun).

A member of the local police force, Bo Kyung is horrified by her involvement in Dong Shik’s accident; an accident that left him with two things: a horrible case of amnesia and a serial killer’s diary. Plagued by guilt, Bo Kyung finds herself being slowly drawn into Dong Shik’s life. As their stories entwine, Bo Kyung comes to make a life-altering decision: she must find the serial killer and bring him to justice.

There’s just one problem. With no memories of his past, Dong Shik comes to believe he’s the serial killer who penned that gruesome diary. As the days slip by, Dong Shik begins to make some serious personality changes, but can a man with such a timid past actually become a monster? And what of the actual serial killer? With no diary to ground him, it’s only a matter of time before this murderous madman strikes again.

An exciting mystery thriller, “Psychopath Diary” is a 2019 drama directed by Lee Jong Jae.

Psychopath Diary

Psychopath's Minions

Ryu Jae Joon

JTBC

At eighteen, Choi Jun Woo (Ong Seong Wu) has solidified his position as a perpetual loner. Unable to adequately express his emotions, he often comes across as unsympathetic or aloof, when in reality, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Underneath his lonely exterior lies a cute, goofy young man who just needs the right people around to bring this side out more often.

When Jun Woo transfers schools, he meets Yoo Soo Bin (Kim Hyang Gi), a top student who has spent her entire life being controlled by her overbearing mother. Suffocated under her mother’s care, Soo Bin spends most of her life dreaming of the day she becomes an independent woman. 

Meanwhile, Ma Hwi Young (Shin Seung Ho), seems like the perfect gentleman. Strong and confident on the outside, Hwi Young seems like he has it all, but on the inside, he’s just a timid eighteen-year-old boy trying to find his place in the world.

Each student has their own set of struggles but when they come together, they find their lives slowly begin to change.

“Moment of Eighteen” is a 2019 Viki drama directed by Sim Na Yeon.

Moment of Eighteen

Eighteen Staff

MBC, KOCOWA

During the Japanese colonial period, two events paved the way for the independence of Korea, the March 1st Movement and the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. And with it, a covert armament for freedom was born, the Heroic Corps. The man leading the corps goes by the name of Won Bong, his real name only a few people know. He rarely stays in one area for more than two hours and sleeps for only short periods at a time. With fiery passion in his heart, he moves about swiftly and dreams for his country's independence. Young Jin, a Korean woman raised by a Japanese military doctor, follows in her surrogate father's footsteps, and through a series of events, attends a prestigious medical university in Shanghai. She returns to Joseon and becomes the first female surgeon. The two of them cross paths, and although they follow different ideologies, Won Bong soon realizes his need for her and begins to regret sending her deep into enemy territory.

Different Dreams

Strange things start to unfold around four friends who have been embroiled in complicated relationships.

Jang Se Yeon (Han Ga In) is a widow who owns a café. Her life takes a scary turn when she receives a mysterious phone call that takes her back to a place where something bad may have happened.

Kim Eun Soo (Shin Hyun Bin) is a psychiatrist who also lost her ex-boyfriend to an untimely death. When the son of her ex-boyfriend comes to her as a new patient, Eun Soo begins to feel uneasy about her buried secrets. 

Han Jung Won (Choi Hee Seo) is a high school teacher who has been trying to have a child with her husband, a famous chef. But her perfect life becomes unhinged after a one-night stand. 

Do Hwa Young (Goo Jae Yee) works as a secretary in a high-powered law firm. The firm takes on the wife of Hwa Young’s ex-boyfriend as a new client, and the woman wants to find evidence of her husband’s infidelity. 

Can the four women survive these dangerous events in their lives?

“Mistress” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Han Ji Seung. It is a remake of the British series “Mistresses,” which originally aired from 2008 to 2010, and an American series by the same title, which ran from 2013 to 2016.

Mistress

The Mysterious Lover Team

Living with a severe contact allergy, Kim Min Kyu (Yoo Seung Ho) cannot be touched by another human being. As the chairman of a successful financial company, Min Kyu’s life is materially complete but emotionally barren. When one of his company’s subsidiaries sends him a humanoid robot for testing, he eagerly tries it out. Little does he know that the robot, which malfunctioned just before shipping, has been replaced by its human prototype, Jo Ji Ah (Chae Soo Bin). Believing Ji Ah to be a robot, Min Kyu starts developing unxpected feelings for her. How will those feelings change once he discovers Ji Ah's true identity? Jung Dae Yoon directed this 2017 South Korean series.

I Am Not a Robot

The Robotic Team

Can a secret diary shed light on the authenticity of a centuries-old painting? 

Seo Ji Yoon (Lee Young Ae) is an art history lecturer who has devoted the best years of her life to earning her Ph.D. and working under her mentor, department chairman Min Jung Hak (Choi Jong Hwan), in the hopes of being named a full-time professor at her university. 

When Jung Hak entrusts Ji Yoon to write the thesis for his find-of-the-century historical painting, “An Gyeon’s Mount Geumgang,” Ji Yoon is ecstatic and finally feels like she is about to earn her professorship. But in a matter of days, her whole world comes crashing down around her. 

First, her husband, Jung Min Seok (Lee Hae Young), suddenly becomes a fugitive when his company comes under investigation and the Russian Mafia comes after him for dirty money, forcing Ji Yoon, her son, and her mother-in-law, Kim Jung Hee (Kim Hae Sook), to be kicked out of their home. Then, Ji Yoon’s career comes to a crashing halt when grad student Han Sang Hyun (Yang Se Jong) publicly challenges the authenticity of the Mount Geumgang painting and Ji Yoon does not adequately defend Jung Hak’s reputation. 

An enraged Jung Hak has Ji Yoon fired and ostracized from the art history community. At the bottom of her life, Ji Yoon discovers the secret diary of Shin Saimdang (1504-1551), a Korean artist, writer, calligraphist and poet who was the mother of Yi I, one of the two most prominent Korean Confucian scholars during the Joseon Dynasty. The diary sheds new light on the life of Saimdang (also played by Lee Young Ae, her relationship with painter Lee Gyeom (Song Seung Heon), and the Mount Geumgang painting. 

With the help of Sang Hyun and her best friend, Go Hye Jung (Park Jun Myun), an antiquities researcher, can Ji Yoon get her life and career back? 

“Saimdang, Light’s Diary” is a 2017 South Korean drama series directed by Yoon Sang Ho.

Saimdang, Light's Diary

Jung Min Seok

When they were just young boys, brothers Park Ha Yeon (Kim Sung Kyun) and Park Sang Yeon (Jo Jin Woong) were forced to separate at an orphanage: Their father had died and their distraught mother Seung Ja (Kim Young Ae) decided to put them up for adoption, realizing that she could not hope to raise them alone. Now, 30 years later, Sang Yeon lives in America, where he is a devout and austere Christian priest. Ha Yeon, meanwhile, still lives in South Korea. He is a fiery shaman who prays to spirits and animist deities. When a television show production team hears about what has happened to them, the team asks Sang Yeon to come to South Korea to be reunited with his long-lost brother and biological mother.

Sang Yeon travels to South Korea, but moments after their emotional reunion, Seung Ja, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, wanders out of the television studio and vanishes. The brothers are forced to take to the road to search the entire country for their mother. Can this hot-tempered shaman and the rigidly straight-laced pastor put aside their religious differences for the time it takes them to track down their mother?

“We are Brothers” is a 2014 South Korean movie that was directed by Jang Jin.

We Are Brothers

The Brotherhood Team

Late one night, on the Gangbyeon Expressway leading into Seoul, a desperate young woman throws herself into traffic. The resulting accident leads to a four-car pile up and a night of chaos for the officers at the Yongsan police station.&nbsp;

In an effort to understand exactly what happened, the officers are forced to bring everyone involved in the accident in for questioning. From the witnesses in each of the cars, to a group of bystanders on the street, everyone has their own version of the story but no one seems to have any idea why a young woman would seemingly choose to throw her life away. Chaotic as the station may be, things are thrown into further disarray when it’s discovered that the sole casualty of the accident has, in her possession, a memory stick containing the final question for a big-money television quiz show.

Known for its difficult questions and an accumulating prize pot, the witnesses at the station now have the answer to the quiz show’s jackpot winning question, a jackpot that currently stands at over $13 million dollars. Unable to resist the temptation, each set of witnesses shows up to participate in the next show, knowing only twenty-nine questions stand between them and a fortune. Will this strange twist of fate bring fortune to one scandalous winner or will they fall prey to the darker forces working behind-the-scenes of the popular show?

Featuring a star-studded cast, “The Quiz Show Scandal” is a witty 2010 satirical comedy film directed by Jang Jin.

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