Happy International Women's Day!

Check out our women's appreciation binge-list featuring all our favorite female leads -- strong, sweet, lovable, BOSS, funny -- from Viki's top dramas, curated just for you!

Viki Celebrates Women

Cha Eun Gyeong (Jang Na Ra), a star lawyer with 17 years of experience, is renowned for her no-nonsense approach and dedication to her firm’s success. However, her personal life begins to unravel, adding new layers of complexity to her professional challenges. Amidst this turmoil, she encounters Han Yu Ri (Nam Ji Hyun), a rookie lawyer with a strong sense of justice and a fresh perspective. Unlike Eun Gyeong, Yu Ri prioritizes her clients’ needs and is determined to fight against injustice, leading to frequent clashes with the veteran lawyer. Despite their differences, the two women gradually learn to draw strength and inspiration from each other, transforming their initial friction into a powerful partnership. Kim Ga Ra directed this 2024 South Korean law office series.&nbsp;

Good Partner

✨ The Marvellous ✨ team

Eight years ago, Lin Xi (Victoria Song) faced a tough choice: honor her mother's wishes or to follow her heart. Choosing to prioritize her career, she let her boyfriend, Xia Yi Cheng (Chen Xing Xu), go. Now a successful professional, Lin Xi is unexpectedly tasked with securing a contract with the company that Yi Cheng works for. Forced to interact regularly, will long-buried feelings start to resurface? Will fate give their lost love a second chance? Directed by Zhang Tong, this 2024 Chinese romance series explores the complexities of love, career, and second chances.

Our Interpreter

🙅‍♀️No GT-Team🚫

Kang Ji Yun (Han Ji Min) is the confident and accomplished CEO of a leading headhunting firm. Despite working in a fiercely competitive industry, Ji Yun thrives and dedicates herself fully to her work. However, she's completely lost with even the simplest daily task outside of work. This is where her secretary Yu Eun Ho (Lee Jun Hyuk) shines: he's an extremely capable worker, and raising his six-year-old child alone helped him further develop life skills that transfer seamlessly to organizing Ji Yun's life. But as the line between their professional and personal relationship begins to blur, something else seems to spark between them!

Love Scout

🎯Heart Headhunters💘

GMM 25

University student and perfume enthusiast Liu (Baifern Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul) decides to have plastic surgery, believing she will never get her dream job without first changing the way she looks. Soon after her operation, she befriends the naturally stunning Faye (Jane Ramida Jiranorraphat). Her handsome colleague Guy (Win Metawin Opas-iamkajorn) warns her that Faye is trouble, adding romantic intrigue to her increasingly complicated life. But will Liu’s surgery really help her attain her perfume industry dreams? What might happen if her surgery secrets are exposed? And could she find true love along the way? This 2024 Thai drama series was based on the hit webtoon “My ID Is Gangnam Beauty” by Ki Maeng Gi. It was directed by Mui Aticha Tanthanawigrai.

Beauty Newbie

💋 Inner Beauty 🪞 Team

JTBC

Born from a long line of women gifted with monumental strength, Do Bong Soon (Park Bo Young) is far from ordinary. Only able to use her power for good, Bong Soon agrees to work as a bodyguard for Ahn Min Hyeok (Park Hyung Sik), the recently endangered chaebol heir and CEO of gaming company Ainsoft. With dreams of developing a video game of her own, Bong Soon hopes that by working with Min Hyeok, she’ll find a way to turn her dreams into reality. Meanwhile, her childhood friend, Detective Gook Doo (Ji Soo), is on the hunt for a kidnapper whose path soon crosses with Bong Soon. Using her gifts for the greatest good, will Bong Soon find her life full of everything she’s dreamed of and more? This is a 2017 South Korean romantic comedy series directed by Lee Hyung Min.

Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

Small but Mighty Team

MBC, KOCOWA

Yeo Hwa gets married into the Second State Councilor's family as the eldest daughter-in-law, the most prestigious family in Joseon. However, she becomes a widow as her husband dies on the day of her wedding. She ends up locked in the house in sorrow for her husband, dreaming of the world outside the gate. Ever since then, she has had a dangerous secret. She jumps from roof to roof at night wearing a mask and looks for people who need help. Her double life was perfect until she met Park Soo Ho, the intelligent yet stuffy officer of the Forbidden Guard Division. His attractive looks, ability, and outstanding swordcraft are second to none. Without knowing whether it is a coincidence or fate, things get complicated as Soo Ho keeps bumping into Yeo Hwa wherever she goes at night wearing the mask. Does this man know about her secret? Yeo Hwa's double life, which she has kept hidden so far, is about to be revealed!

Knight Flower

The Misterious Powerpuff Team

Mango TV

Determined to land a front-page story, reporter Zheng Shu Yi (Bai Lu) does everything she can to score an interview with the country’s most talked about CEO, Shi Yan (Dylan Wang). With plans to invest in several promising startups, Shi Yan agrees to an interview with Shu Yi, but only if she writes about the local startups that have so far gone without notice. Meeting time and time again, the working relationship between Shu Yi and Shi Yan grows into something more. Could this spark between them be the first bloom of love? Directed by Guo Hu, this is a 2023 Chinese romantic drama series.

Only For Love

How to Tame a CEO Team👔 

Shinichi Chiaki (Hiroshi Tamaki), an ambitious classical music conductor, and Megumi "Nodame" Noda (Juri Ueno), a talented but unconventional pianist, navigate their complex relationship while facing professional challenges. After winning a prestigious music competition, Chiaki is appointed to lead a struggling French orchestra. Nodame, concerned about potentially losing Chiaki, decides to support him through the orchestra's difficult first performance. Together, they must overcome the ensemble's initial disastrous showing and transform its potential. Their journey tests both their musical skills and their relationship, as they strive to achieve Chiaki's long-held dream of becoming a world-class conductor. This is a 2009 Japanese movie based on the hit 2001 manga "Nodame Cantabile" and was directed by Hideki Takeuchi.

Nodame Cantabile: The Movie 1

In a grand court contest, the unassuming Li Wei (Tian Xi Wei) is unexpectedly chosen to marry Yin Zheng (Bai Jing Ting), the least favored of six royal heirs. Initially thrust into a marriage of political convenience, their union seems doomed, but they form a genuine connection as they navigate their new roles and learn about each other. With Yin Zheng relegated to menial tasks and Li Wei longing for a quiet life outside the royal family, their growing bond might just be the key to transforming their lives and helping the realm’s ordinary citizens. Will their unexpected romance defy the odds and spark meaningful change? This 2022 Chinese drama series was directed by Zhao Qichen, adapted from the novel “Time Travel to the Daily Life of the Qing Dynasty” by Duo Mu Mu Duo.

New Life Begins

✨ The Marvellous ✨ Team 

Yuan Ge (Chen Du Ling) and Gu Qiao (Xu Lu), lifelong best friends with contrasting personalities, navigate life's challenges after graduating from university in Shanghai. Gu Qiao returns to her hometown, marries, but her marriage fails despite her sacrifices. Meanwhile, Yuan Ge focuses on her business career in Shanghai, becoming a successful businesswoman at the cost of her health. Nearly a decade later, Gu Qiao decides to restart her career in Shanghai with Yuan Ge's support. Together, they are determined to make their thirties a transformative decade of personal growth and professional success. This is a 2022 Chinese drama series directed by Shen Yang.

Women Walk the Line

 Protagonist Of My Path Team  

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

TrueID

While helping her friend out at a technology showcase, aspiring business owner Pafun (Belle Kemisara Paladesh) runs into her estranged sister Alice (Goy Arachaporn Pokinpakorn), now a successful young entrepreneur. Alice invites Pafun to her birthday party, and Pafun says she'll bring her boyfriend Korn. However, Pafun's never met Korn before, and to make matters worse, he isn't even real – he was concocted by Pafun's grandmother and venture capitalist Jiraphat (Great Sapol Assawamunkong) to comfort her during her parents' divorce fifteen years ago, based off of a newspaper article about a young genius. To cover up his ruse, Jiraphat manages to find the real Korn (Up Poompat Iam-samang), the founder and CEO of a struggling AI startup, and persuades him to pose as Pafun's penpal. When Pafun, Alice, Korn, and Jiraphat all end up working at the same tech incubator, will they manage to achieve their career dreams, or will their pasts prove to be too much to overcome? This 2024 Thai drama was directed by Itt Cheewatan Pusitsuksa, adapted from the 2020 Korean drama of the same name.

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