Choi Ri

KBS02,  KOCOWA

In a new phase of KBS's one-act drama project, fresh actors, directors, and writers come together to provide entertainment and inspiration. Every story has something unique to offer! A young historian is determined to preserve the past, while the prince seeks to erase it and take the throne, leading to a collision of values. Cutie, the obscure member of an idol group that disbanded 13 years ago, begins his journey of hunting for Handsome, another member who's been elusive. In the tumultuous year before the Korean War, two women, Young Bok from Korea and Sachiko from Japan, fight for the love of the same husband. This is the dramatic story of two ladies who can never be friends. A seasoned member of a street-view shooting team encounters a directionally challenged woman who claims that a figure caught in the street-view is her father. Ha Neul, a high school girl, devises a clever plan to coax her reclusive sister out of her room! Immerse yourself in a collection of touching stories.

2024 KBS Drama Special

Sachiko Minami

Noh Eun Hee (Kim Seo Hyung) is a teacher who cannot recall anything about her high school days. She has just accepted a new job that will see her go back to her alma mater, Gwangju High School, to become the new Vice Principal. But as soon as she begins, eerie things start happening: She feels she is being followed by a high school student who wears only one shoe.

At work, she meets a girl named Ha Young (Kim Hyun Soo), whom most staff members and students have earmarked as a troublemaker. Nothing could be further from the truth, Noh Eun Hee learns: The girl is actually the victim of merciless bullying. Unsettling events begin to occur when Ha Young flees from her tormentors to take refuge in an out-of-use toilet. Something is in this bathroom – and both Noh Eun Hee and Ha Young begin to understand that the room is somehow linked to gruesome events from the older woman’s past…

“Whispering Corridors 6: The Humming” is a 2021 South Korean movie that was directed by Lee Mi Young.

Whispering Corridors 6: The Humming

Spooky Scholars

Struggling jobseeker Go Mi Ran (Won Jin Ah) and TV producer Ma Dong Chan (Ji Chang Wook) agreed to an experiment that promised a cash payout in return for spending 24 hours in cryogenically-frozen sleep. However, upon waking up, they’re shocked to find they’ve been frozen for 20 years! With their bodies unaged but the world around them drastically different, they must navigate their new lives in the future while keeping their body temperature low, as any rise could be fatal. As they grapple with their new reality and unravel the mystery behind their extended slumber, unexpected romance blooms between them, threatening their very survival. Will they overcome the heat of their budding relationship and uncover the truth behind their 20-year freeze? This 2019 South Korean drama series was produced by Shin Woo Cheol.

Melting Me Softly

Such is life. Sometimes, you are grateful and happy that you are alive, but then you lose the reason to live when you gradually lose things or people that are dear to you. When you face hardship, you start to wonder if living just means you are walking down a path of misery. However, while you are walking down that path alone, there comes a time when you become desperate for someone's hand. That hand may save you from lingering in your own misery and may also spark the desire to live although life is full of hardship. This drama shows that exact moment when two hands reach out to each other and bloom, keeping one another warm and safe. Come and Hug Me wishes to tell the viewers that although life may not be full of miracles, there is still that small hope of its getting better.

Come and Hug Me

JTBC

Three very different young men – Dong Goo (Kim Jung Hyun), who dreams of becoming a film director, Joon Ki (Lee Yi Kyung), an eccentric actor who performs to make a living, and Doo Shik (Son Seung Won), a freelancer writer who fiddles around doing nothing most of the time - open a guest house named “Waikiki” in Itaewon, where many foreigners come to stay. Although they have no clue how to run it, they’re eager to earn money to pay for the production of their upcoming film.

They are joined by Dong Goo (Kim Jung Hyun)’s younger sister, Seo Jin (Ko Won Hee), who actually manages the household in Waikiki, single mother Yoon Ah (Jung In Sun), who has made an unexpected entrance at the guest house with her baby; and Dong Goo (Kim Jung Hyun)’s ex-girlfriend Soo Ah (Lee Joo Woo).

Welcome to Waikiki

Down and Out in Waikiki 

Betrayed by his king, Kim Shin (Gong Yoo), a decorated military general from the Goryeo Dynasty, was forced to watch his family die before him. Saved by the Almighty, yet condemned to an eternal life as a goblin, Kim Shin uses his supernatural abilities to save humans, including the mother of Ji Eun Tak (Kim Go Eun), an optimistic high school student with a strange connection to the supernatural. When Eun Tak is repeatedly drawn to him, Kim Shin wonders if she might be the one he has spent an eternity searching for, the only one who can set his soul free, the Goblin Bride. Written by Kim Eun Sook, this award-winning 2016 South Korean fantasy romance series was directed by Lee Eung Bok and Kwon Hyuk Chan.

Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

The Immortal Team

Park Kyung Mi

MBC, KOCOWA

Jang Go is a young man who brings joy and pride to his family and serves as a human rights lawyer for the socially disadvantaged. Mi Poong, a beautiful young lady who has excellent dance skills recognized in Pyongyang, fled the country with her father and came to South Korea. Sin Ae is also a North Korean defector who would do anything to survive. Therefore, when she finds out that Hee Dong is a rich heir, she marries him. When she thinks everything is going well with her plan, she runs into Mi Poong in South Korea, who knows every dark secret about her. How will they survive the conflict and love over their huge heritage?

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