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My precious cupcake angel babies

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

Dramax

Arrogant Lee Jae In (Ha Seok Jin) is stunned when his grandfather conditions his inheritance on marrying sweet schoolteacher, Kim Da Hyeon (Jun So Min). Reluctantly, Jae In signs an engagement contract with Da Hyeon, despite being strangers. As the couple endure months together, their differences seem insurmountable, but time may soften even the hardest hearts. Directed by Kang Cheol Woo, this 2016 South Korean romantic comedy series was based on a novel of the same name by Hyun Go Woon.

1% of Something

ღ 100% Fabulous ღ

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 Little does he know that the robot, which malfunctioned just before shipping, has been replaced by its human prototype, Jo Ji Ah (Chae Soo Bin).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

KBS02

The mysterious Seo Jeong Hoo (Ji Chang Wook), also known as "Healer,” is a unique courier who tackles any problem for the right price, with the help of a secretive IT specialist. While he avoids murder, he fulfills his clients' every other request. His latest assignment introduces him to sensation-seeking tabloid journalist Chae Yeong Shin (Park Min Young) and the esteemed reporter Kim Moon Ho (Yoo Ji Tae). As the Healer works with Yeong Shin and Moon Ho, they uncover secrets from their shared pasts, putting all three in mortal danger. This 2014 South Korean drama series was directed by Lee Jung Sub and Kim Jin Woo.

Healer

The Time Healers

Youku

Li Yu Bing (Steven Zhang) is a shy, quiet boy at elementary school. He dreams of becoming a professional hockey player and is blessed with enormous talent.

But he cannot stand his tablemate, the loud and abrasive Tang Xue (Wu Qian), who despite her shared love of the ice rink, enjoys bullying and belittling him.

When they grow up, they are unexpectedly reunited at university, where their fates have taken very different paths. Li Yu Bing is now the most celebrated ice hockey player at the university – while Tang Xue’s dreams of becoming a professional speed skater are beginning to crumble.

Li Yu Bing initially sees the reunion as an opportunity to take revenge on the girl who once made his elementary school days such a nightmare. He uses his position of influence within the university to enlist Tang Xue as his assistant – hoping to torment her.

But things do not go quite as planned. Little by little, Li Yu Bing notices that Tang Xue is not all bad, and understands that she can actually help serve as a great source of inspiration for his own sporting dreams.

In turn, he helps her fall in love again with the sport she was on the verge of giving up.

However, their newfound harmony on the ice is not going to be trouble-free – especially when the duo must contend with disapproving parents and love rivals…

This drama was based on a novel written by author Jiu Xiao Qi.

“Skate into Love” is a 2020 Chinese drama series directed by Chu Yui Bun.

Skate into Love

The Skating Love Team

SETTV

Qi Yi (Aaron Yan) is a fastidious young man who is afraid of germs and needs to have everything in his life in his own orderly fashion. After he gives up a successful opportunity in New York, he returns to Taiwan and decides to buy a small marketing design company called GAZE and a historic home that catches his eye. The problem is that the home has a peppy tenant, Cheng Liang Liang (Puff Guo), who refuses to move out. When he arrives at his new company, the new CEO discovers that Liang Liang also works for his company. The happy-go-lucky Liang Liang just wants everything to be stable in her life, but she realizes that may be harder to maintain when her new boss starts making big changes in her workplace, including a notice stating that office romances will be prohibited. “Just You” is a 2013 Taiwanese drama series that airs on SETTV.

Just You

Just Your Team

Ten years after a tragic mall collapse that claimed 48 lives, Ha Moon Soo (Won Jin Ah), Lee Gang Doo (Lee Jun Ho), and Seo Joo Won (Lee Ki Woo) – find their paths crossing once again when a new construction project takes place at the site of the disaster. Moon Soo, now a detail-focused builder, works for Joo Won, the architect behind the new construction, while Kang Doo, struggling to make ends meet, takes a job on the site. As they confront old wounds and lingering trauma, can they find healing amid the pain? This 2017 Korean drama was directed by Kim Jin Won.

Just Between Lovers

The Fated Lovers Team

Tencent

A young, 22-year-old pop star hopeful named Nuan Nuan (Eleanor Lee) is forced to reinvent herself after the girl group she is a member of disbands before its debut.

At first, she struggles in her search for a post-pop career, but fate intervenes, and she has a chance encounter with a man named Han Che (Leon Leong).

Han Che is a cold but successful sound and lighting engineer who also has an excellent memory. 

However, one day he experiences a rare lapse in memory – a lapse that could threaten to throw his relationship with Naun Naun into doubt. 

Regardless, Han Che’s success inspires Nuan Nuan, who has always had a keen eye for fashion.

She begins to explore her love of clothes and resolves to become a designer – hoping to one day gain a job at the clothing store’s headquarters.

Although their relationship is often adversarial, Han Che and Nuan Nuan also have a growing fondness for one another, and try to help each other along the way. As their careers start to get off the ground, could love bloom here too?

“My Love, Enlighten Me” is a 2020 Chinese drama series co-produced by Fang Fang and Shao Wen Yi.

My Love, Enlighten Me

A brutal murder committed 15 years ago turned three lives upside down. A decade and a half later, the trio – brought together by fate – goes on the hunt for answers.

Kim Young Goon (Seo Kang Joon), a police officer who may be considered aloof and uncaring, joins an investigation unit headed by hardened long-time cop Do Chi Gwang (Han Suk Kyu). The nightmarish events 15 years ago still haunt Kim Young Koon – but his memories also provide no shortage of motivation.

Do Chi Gwang, meanwhile, has led a quest to uncover widespread corruption as part of his unswerving pursuit of justice – a quest that has won him few friends in the police force.

They are eventually joined by Han Tae Joo (Kim Hyun Joo), a former prosecutor who has become a lawyer.

Will the trio unearth the truth about the fateful event that has shaped their destiny? And what dark secrets will they uncover along their way?

“Watcher” is a 2019 Korean drama directed by Ahn Gil Ho.

Watcher

Tencent, Mango TV

Aspiring screenwriter Chen Xiao Qian (Zhao Lu Si) is struggling to get her TV series off the ground. The male lead is kicking up a fuss about her script, leading her to worry that the series will never reach viewers’ screens. Suddenly, she is dragged into the pages of her own screenplay, where she becomes the Third Princess, a lowly minor character with a terrible reputation... and a drastically short lifespan! Fortunately, she knows that her killer will be Prince Han Shuo (Ding Yu Xi) and Xiao Qian uses her “insider knowledge” to rewrite the character’s fate to ensure she survives. Can she cheat death and reverse her TV show’s fortunes? And could this messy situation inadvertently lead her to love? This 2020 Chinese drama was based on a novel by Popsicles and was directed by Cha Chuen Yee.

The Romance of Tiger and Rose

Sohn & Co

Disaster strikes teenage violin prodigy Woo Seo Ri (Shin Hae Sun) when a traffic accident leaves her hospitalized before she's supposed to study abroad in Germany. Gong Woo Jin (Yang Se Jong), who blames himself for the accident, is traumatized and plagued by guilt. Thirteen years later, he works as a set designer but remains emotionally cut off from everyone around him. After over twelve years in a coma, Seo Ri miraculously recovers. Though now thirty years old, she is still mentally a teenager. She crosses paths with Woo Jin, and the two become close, unaware of their shared past. Can these emotionally scarred individuals rescue each other, or will their history get in the way? This 2018 South Korean drama series was directed by Jo Soo Won.

Thirty But Seventeen

A group of 30-year-old female friends works in the entertainment business – Im Jin Joo (Chun Woo Hee), Lee Eun Jung (Jeon Yeo Been), and Hwang Han Joo (Han Ji Eun) – but each one finds herself operating in a very different set of circumstances.

Im Jin Joo is a scriptwriter for TV drama series. Her literary dreams often encroach on her writing, and her quirky personality often involves her speaking to inanimate objects.

Meanwhile, Hwang Han Joo heads the marketing department of a production company and struggles to keep up with her work – due in no small part to the ceaseless pressures of motherhood.

And Lee Eun Jung runs a one-woman documentary production company.

Life begins to change for the trio, and one of Lee Eun Jung becomes a surprise runaway success, catapulting her into the public spotlight.

Love appears to be on the card for the friends, too. Im Jin Joo finds herself strangely drawn to Son Beom Soo (Ahn Jae Hong),&nbsp;a drama producer who has recently split up with his&nbsp;girlfriend.

And Hwang Han Joo’s head is turned when new employee Chu Jae Hoon (Gong Myung) joins her marketing team.

How will the friends’ lives develop as their careers take different paths and romance blooms – and what does the future have in store for them?

“Melo Is My Nature” is a 2019 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Hye Young and Lee Byeong Heon.

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