If you loved Lee Sung Kyung and Kim Young Dae in Sh**ting Stars, you won’t be able to get enough of the dramas on this list – grab the popcorn, you’re about to be glued!

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Bok Joo is a college student and a weightlifting player. She deeply loves her father, who is sick but sells fried chicken to support her. She can't stand injustice and values loyalty. She has never had a chance to go on a blind date as she is a weightlifting player, but she accepts it as her life. Jun Hyung is a swimmer who goes to the same college as Bok Joo. They used to know each other when they were kids. He constantly teases her, so she resents him. Jun Hyung has a cousin, Jae Yi. He is kind to everyone, so it sometimes causes misunderstanding, making some women feel led on. One day, Bok Joo runs into Jae Yi and falls for him after seeing him smile at her. She finds out he is a doctor at an obesity clinic and signs up for the weight-loss program at the clinic. However, Jun Hyung finds out about this, and he can't pass up the opportunity to tease her.

Weightlifting Fairy, Kim Bok-joo

I'm Busy Getting Stronger Team

Dan Oh, a high school girl who is the only child from a wealthy family, has congenital heart disease. One day, she wonders why her memory keeps disappearing. She finally realizes that she is a character in the cartoon and decides to find her real life and love. Meanwhile, a character that doesn't even have its name, Seuli High School's Student Number 13, lives like a background of the other characters, but his life slowly changes after meeting Dan Oh. They begin their mysterious adventure to find out the secret of the romance cartoon world, and they try to get their independent lives back.

Extra-ordinary You

📖 Extra-ordinary Team 📖

The residents of Hera Palace, a luxury penthouse apartment with 100 floors, have many secrets and hidden ambitions. Sim Su Ryeon, who was born into wealth, is the queen of the penthouse apartment. Cheon Seo Jin, the prima donna of the residence, does all she can to give everything to her daughter. Oh Yoon Hee comes from a poor family background, but she strives to enter high society by becoming the queen of the penthouse, the pinnacle of success in her eyes.

The Penthouse

The Penthouse Tangles Team

Hong Seol (Kim Go Eun) hasn’t had the easiest life – although she’s a hardworking and dedicated student, she was forced to take an extended break from her studies to help alleviate her family’s financial situation. She appears to have a stroke of luck when she receives a scholarship for a year’s worth of college tuition, but it was meant for another student: upperclassman Yoo Jung (Park Hae Jin), the heir to a family-owned multinational corporation. While he's athletic and attractive, he's secretly insecure and often vindictive towards those he dislikes. Yoo Jung often finds himself at odds with Hong Seol, but also seems to find her attractive. Things escalate when Yoo Jung’s estranged childhood friend In Ho (Seo Kang Joon) comes back to town – and also falls for Hong Seol. Will this love triangle make Hong Seol's college life hell, or will she find a genuine relationship? This 2016 Korean drama, based on the webtoon of the same name by Soonkki, was directed by Lee Yoon Jung.

Cheese In The Trap

I'm trapped

Ji Hong is a doctor who decided to become a high school teacher. He meets Hye Jung, a reckless student who happens to be his favorite neighbor’s granddaughter, and later turns out to be his student. Their deep relationship leads them to face accusations of being in a romantic student-teacher relationship. Thirteen years later, they suddenly bump into each other in the neurosurgery department of the same hospital. Hye Jung is determined to avenge her grandmother’s death, believing it was due to medical malpractice, while Ji Hong is out to protect his high school sweetheart. They face numerous challenges in the operating room and within their relationship, while political disputes involving the hospital and its investors also provide obstacles.

Doctors

Nerves Gone Wild Team

Tencent TV

Ten years ago, Hao Ze Yu (Deng Lun) thought he was on his way to stardom. His appearance on popular talent competition led to widespread adulation, but fame proved fleeting for him. A decade later, he has all but left behind his dreams of becoming a top-level celebrity.

But things change quickly when he meets a motley crew of supportive individuals who want to help him turn his career around.

The group comprises a taxi driver (Han Tong Sheng) and his daughter Fu Zi (Sandra Ma). Fu Zi is a bright spark but has long been criticized for being overweight. Their number is made up by Mei Li (Ni Hong Jie), a beautiful woman now entering middle age.

Fu Zi decides to become Hao Ze Yu’s agent, and the trio forms a support network for him – trying to propel him back to stardom.

But the path to fame will not be smooth, and things get complicated when romantic interests threaten to derail their quest – and put an end to their budding four-way friendship.

Will Hao Ze Yu get another shot at stardom? Or will love send him down another, very different path?

This drama is based on a 2017 hit novel by author Zi You Ji Guang and is the third and final part of the “Gentleman” trilogy. The first two dramas in the series were “To Be a Better Man” (2016) and “Mr. Right” (2018).

“Mr. Fighting” is a 2019 Viki Original Chinese drama directed by Liu Xin.

Mr. Fighting

Fighting!

Wang You Xi (Kele Sun) is a beloved superstar with a secret: he has a cleanliness obsession and a bad temper, making him difficult to work with. In order to secure an important movie role, he hires the highly intelligent literature expert Yuchi Yaoyao (Lu Yang Yang) as his tutor. Yaoyao dreams of teaching but struggles with a severe phobia of crowds. As she navigates the challenges of educating a high-profile student, the two unlikely partners begin to understand each other despite their differences. Will their growing connection help them overcome their personal struggles and achieve their dreams? This 2022 romantic comedy series was adapted from the novel King Assistant by Zhun Si Jia Qi and directed by Li Wen Hao.

Assistant of Superstar

Dr. Kim once gained fame as a top surgeon at a huge hospital. One day, he left the industry, and now he is a chief surgeon at Doldam Hospital in the countryside. After he conducted a successful operation on Chairman Shin, he gets to improve the hospital under reliable support. But then Chairman Shin passes away. New people appear, and his students had to leave the hospital. Furthermore, his wrist, which was injured three years ago, starts to act weird. After all, he goes to a huge hospital himself to solve the manpower shortage at Doldam Hospital, where he finds two people who resemble his former students but who seem much more lacking. Woo Jin would do anything for money, and Eun Jae runs out every time she goes into a surgery room.

Dr. Romantic 2

The Second Opinion Team

Aspiring musical actress, Michaela Choi (Lee Sung Kyung), has the incredible ability to see the life spans of everyone, including herself. But in the aftermath of a minor car crash, when Choi comes across Lee Do Ha (Lee Sang Yoon), the chief director of a cultural foundation, she realizes her own time clock stops whenever she is near him.
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As she knows that her own time on earth is limited, this ability to extend her life span means she can accomplish her dreams of becoming a musical theatre star. However, it doesn’t take long for Do Ha to see how Choi is constantly trying to insert herself into his day-to-day life.
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As Do Ha tries to figure out what he’s going to do with this newfound admirer, there’s no doubt that life can be remarkably fleeting.

About Time

The Tick-Tock Team 🕗

Lee Ma Ha (Jeong Ji So), a struggling K-pop star with dreams of success, accidentally injures a member of the popular group Shax, sparking a feud with Kwon Ryeok(Lee Jun Young). Their paths cross again after they’re cast together in a drama series, where tensions rise and sparks fly. As Ma Ha fights to prove her worth and reclaim her dreams, Kwon Ryeok’s resentment and her childhood friend’s protective stance create a whirlwind of drama and rivalry. Will Ma Ha find her place in the spotlight, or will the challenges of the entertainment world prove too great? This 2021 South Korean drama, adapted from Park Kyung Ran's popular webcomic, was directed by Han Hyun Hee.

Imitation

Idols Team

Leader and producer of the globally popular idol band, Luna, Yoon Tae In (Lee Jun Young) is considered by many to be the world’s greatest idol. A true musical genius, Tae In’s music has gained him an unprecedented global following, but his worldwide fame comes at a price. With the failure of the band’s most recent album, Tae In has begun to show signs of somnambulism, or sleepwalking. With stress mounting, Tae In’s sleepwalking problem is only getting worse, leaving him to wonder how he’s ever going to get this new problem under control.&nbsp;

Working as a tour guide, In Yoon Joo (Jung In Sun) really only has one goal in life: to someday own the house of her dreams. Though her current job isn’t doing much to help her achieve that dream, she finds herself in an unexpectedly promising position, after a chance encounter with the world’s most popular idol, entangles both of their fates. Taking advantage of the situation, Yoon Joo somehow manages to scam her way into Luna’s residence; where she is quickly asked to cure Tae In’s condition. Though not at all qualified as a doctor, Yoon Joo agrees to pose as Tae In’s “doctor”; but living with a man who believes he’s the center of the universe isn’t easy.

Despite their rocky start, Yoon Joo does her best to help Tae In; but no matter how hard she tries, nothing she does seems to be good enough. Will she be able to help this self-centered idol overcome his own obstacles or will she end up becoming the biggest obstacle of all?

A light-hearted romance, “Let Me Be Your Knight” is a 2021 romantic comedy directed by Ahn Ji Sook.

Let Me Be Your Knight

Jiang Ke Le (Dai Lu Wa) is having a terrible day: It’s New Year’s Eve, but her father, who is away on business calls her to say he won’t be back for another two to three months. Then her impatient boss fires her for being five minutes late for work. And finally, her boyfriend – who she has just bought an expensive computer for – cruelly dumps her. Despondent, she can’t help thinking about a chance encounter she had before all the troubles started – when a salesman showed her a pair of VR glasses that allow their wearers to enter an incredible IT-powered world. That world is populated by the Love Boys, a group of four seemingly perfect men, only visible to people wearing the glasses.

When she receives a pair of Love Boys glasses as an unexpected gift, and tries them on. In the world she is transported to, she meets the dreamy Lu Xiao (He Luo Luo), who takes her on a tour of a dream world where everything is perfect. She is enamored by this VR world, and starts to spend more and more time in it. But while she is doing so, she begins to understand that the company that operates the Love Boys “game” is keeping a dark secret related to Lu Xiao and his groupmates. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery, and bring her affections for Lu Xiao into the real world?

“Love Crossed” is a 2021 Chinese drama series that was directed by Yu Zhong Zhong and Wu Jian Xin.

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