Kwak Si Yang is the stage name of Kwak Myeong Jin, a South Korean actor. Born on January 15, 1987, he made his acting debut in the film “Night Flight,” which made its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2014. Kwak Si Yang has since starred in the popular television dramas “Glorious Day” (2014), “Persevere, Goo Hae Ra” (2015), “Oh My Ghostess” (2015), “Mirror of the Witch” (2016) and “Second to Last Love” (2016), as well as the film “Sori: Voice From the Heart” (2016). In 2015, he also was paired with popular actress Kim So Yeon, who is seven years older, as his pretend wife in the popular reality series “We Got Married Season 4.”

Kwak Si Yang

Born blind, Hong Cheon Gi (Kim Yoo Jung) is a gifted painter who miraculously regains her sight and earns an unprecedented position at the prestigious royal art school during the Dan dynasty. In contrast, astrologer Ha Ram (Ahn Hyo Seop), despite his ability to see the future, lost his sight in a childhood accident. Fate brings Cheon Gi and Ha Ram together, and they quickly fall in love. However, their budding romance is threatened by political machinations of the royal court. Is their love fated to last or was it doomed from the start? Adapted from the novel of the same name by Jung Eun Gwol, this 2021 South Korean fantasy romance series was directed by Jang Tae Yoo.

Lovers of the Red Sky

For Your Eyes Only 👁‿👁  

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

The year is 1950, and much of South Korea has fallen to invading armies from the North.

Southern forces, in conjunction with the American military, are planning an audacious bid to recapture the port of Incheon from the sea.

However, the allied generals believe that if they are to be successful in Incheon, they will need a diversion – to draw North Korean forces away from the heavily defended port.

The allied military hatches a plan. They will send a group of 772 raw, young recruits, including lowly private Choi Sung Pil (Choi Minho) and led by inexperienced commander Lee Myung Joon (Kim Myung Min), to Jansari, a beach in North Gyeongsang Province. The operation is top secret, and generals privately do not expect the soldiers to return alive.

As soon as the mission begins, the green forces soon realize they are hopelessly unequipped, with barely enough weapons and ammunition to defend themselves – or enough food and equipment to survive.

American news reporter Maggie Higgins (Megan Fox) learns of the plan, and attempts to gain help from the international community – but is it already too late for the young soldiers?

“The Battle of Jangsari” is a 2019 South Korean war movie, which was based partly on a true story. It was directed by Kwak Kyung Taek and Kim Tae Hoon.

The Battle of Jangsari

Soldiers at Jangsari

What if you're given a chance to restart your life and make new choices again? One day, Lawyer Jae Sang opens his eyes and realizes that he is no longer in the world he used to live in but in a parallel world. He sheds his old life where he had been willing to do anything for his interests and turned into a whole different person, a righteous and sincere lawyer. People all make mistakes and wrong choices and regret what they did in the past all the time. However, the present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. We can always make the right choice to straighten things up whenever we realize that we're on the wrong path. Lawyer Jae Sang sends us a message that it's never too late to correct our wrongdoings and start afresh and encourages us to express our honest feelings to those around us throughout the series.

Welcome2Life

The Second Chance Team 

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This drama is about the youth who is not qualified for what the heartless society demands. Without backgrounds such as high education and certificates, the world tells them to focus on playing supporting roles in life. However, they all have their advantages and deserve to be the main character in their own lives. This is a story about four individuals, Dong Man, Ae Ra, Joo Man, and Sul Hee, and the dreams they are pursuing. Dong Man used to be a top athlete in taekwondo. However, his dreams of becoming a national athlete is shredded into pieces when he helplessly loses against authority and money. Choi Ae Ra has always dreamed of becoming an announcer. Although for now, she works at a department store, she continuously goes to job interviews and fights for her way. When the world turns its back on one of them, the other rushes to comfort them.

Fight For My Way

The Fighting Team

Chicago Typewriter is a blockbuster Korean drama that tells the tale of three mysteriously connected people – an award-winning writer, a ghostwriter, and a devoted fan.
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The celebrated author, Han Se Joo (Yoo Ah In), can’t seem to get his next book finished. After he suffers a traumatic event, he discovers a magical typewriter that transports him to his past life during the 1930s Japanese occupation of Korea.
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Yoo Jin Oh (Go Kyung Pyo) is a talented ghostwriter with a unique style. He makes himself available to solve Han Se Ju’s troubling writer’s block, but there’s a cost to his services that makes this deal complicated in more ways than one.
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The last of the trio is Jeon Seol (Im Soo Jung), a veterinarian and obsessive reader who becomes an anti-fan of Se Joo, whose writing she views as undeserving of such high praise.
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Directed by Kim Cheol Kyu, Chicago Typewriter is a powerful story that recounts love, friendship, and betrayal spanning over 80 years. With each main character haunted by a heartbreaking history, how does this problematic past impact their present lives?

Chicago Typewriter

The Ghostwriters Team

Baek Tae Min

SBS, KOCOWA

Min Ju, a career-driven producer, excels in staging on-screen love and yet struggles to script her own romance. Determined to champion her single life, she moves to Woori City only to meet unexpected neighbor Sang Sik, a steadfast civil servant who has maintained a quiet life with his daughter and siblings after losing his wife 15 years ago. Change isn't on his wishlist, but his world is thrown into chaos when a new deputy mayor steps into town. Amidst their tumultuous relationship, will love dare to blossom?

Second to Last Love

Last Love Team

Having risen to the pinnacle of stardom, Go Ju Yeon (Kim Hye Soo) is a woman who not only knows what she wants but is also a woman who gets what she wants. From money and fame to gorgeous young boyfriends, Ju Yeon has it all. Or at least she always thought she did. But recently, she isn’t quite so sure…

Now a forty-something actress with a career in decline, Ju Yeon is starting to wonder if her glamorous life isn’t missing something important. Feeling like it might be time to settle down, Ju Yeon hopes to do so with her current secret beau. Unfortunately, being twelve years her junior, this boyfriend isn’t interested in anything but using her to advance his career. Realizing the only one who might stay in her life for good is a child of her own, Ju Yeon hopes to have a baby of her own. But a trip to the doctor quickly crushes those dreams as she learns she’s already reached menopause.

Refusing to give up on her dreams of motherhood, Ju Yeon comes across a young woman by the name of Dan Ji (Kim Hyun Soo), who might be able to help solve all of her problems. A pregnant teen in desperate need of help, Dan Ji is eager to go along with Ju Yeon’s unusual proposal but as time passes, things for both the star and the girl begin to get dicey. Will this superstar’s hair-brained scheme bring anyone the happiness they so desperately hope to find?

Full of bizarre plans and crazy antics, “Familyhood” is a 2016 South Korean comedy-drama film directed by Kim Tae Gon.

Familyhood

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Can a young royal physician change the fate of a cursed princess? 

When Queen Sim (Jang Hee Jin) is unable to conceive, she visits the shaman Hong Joo (Yum Jung Ah). Hong Joo’s powerful black magic helps the Queen give birth to a twin boy and girl, Soon Hwae (Yeo Hoe Hyun) and Seo Ri (Kim Sae Ron). 

But the dark sorcery comes with a price when Seo Ri is cursed, causing her to be abandoned and left for dead by the Queen. Seo Ri is rescued by the father of Poong Yeon (Kwak Si Yang), who becomes her only friend as she grows up in hiding. 

With Poong Yeon and her helper, Choi Hyun Seo (Lee Sung Jae), by her side, Seo Ri grows up as a witch, all the while trying to figure out how to lift the evil curse on her life. When Seo Ri meets the royal physician Heo Jun (Yoon Shi Yoon), will he help her change her fate and reclaim her rightful place? 

“Mirror of the Witch” is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Jo Hyun Tak. The series is inspired by the Mirror of Eastern Medicine (Dongui Bogam), a book compiled by the royal physician Heo Jun and published during the Joseon Dynasty and considered a classic in the study of Korean traditional medicine.

Mirror of the Witch

Team Bewitched

Poong Yeon

Mi Mo wished a happily ever after when she vowed to be the lawful wife of her ex-husband. Clearly, that wasn't the case for her. She now falls in love again and hopes that he's finally the one for her. Su Hyeok also has his share of heartbreaks and heartaches after the death of his former wife. With the pains from their previous lovers, they face reality and love with each other.

Happy Once Again

The Angels 

Na Bong Sun (Park Bo Young), a timid assistant chef with a secret crush, gets entangled in a supernatural scheme when Shin Soon Ae (Kim Seul Gi), a ghost with unfinished romantic business, uses Bong Sun’s body as a vessel to complete her final wish. As Soon Ae's bold attempts to experience love affect Bong Sun’s life, the once shy assistant begins to catch the eye of her star chef crush, Kang Sun Woo (Jo Jung Suk), who’s nursing a broken heart of his own. Both women strive to fulfill their desires – one for a love she never had, and the other for a chance at romance. Will their intertwined fates lead to unexpected romance and closure, or will their desires remain unfulfilled? This 2015 Korean drama series was directed by Yoo Je Won.

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