If you were to look back on your life, what would you remember most about your high school days and what you and your friends thought was important back then? Sung Shi Won (Jung Eun Ji) and her five friends – Yoon Yoon Jae (Seo In Guk), Mo Yoo Jung (Shin So Yul), Kang Joon Hee (Hoya), Do Hak Chan (Eun Ji Won) and Bang Sung Jae (Lee Shi Un) – were friends in high school in 1997, when the K-pop and celebrity idols were gaining national popularity, and they were swept up in the adoration of their favorite K-pop and other idol stars. To the 18-year-old Shi Won, her entire world revolved around Tony An of H.O.T., and her only aspiration in life was to grow up to become his wife. Her best friend Yoo Jung was her partner in crime, also falling in love with a different idol everyday. Fifteen years later at the age of 33, the six high school friends meet for a mini-reunion, during which two of the friends announce their plans to marry. As they reminisce about the height of their teenage angst, the viewer needs to try to figure out which two friends fell in love during the 15 years since high school, much like the popular American sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.” Which two friends’ passionate idolization K-pop stars turned into a genuine love for each other?

“Answer Me 1997,” also known as “Reply 1997,” is a 2012 South Korean drama series directed by Shin Won Ho.

Reply 1997

 The Super Busan Team

Ra Im dreamed of becoming a firefighter like her father, but she gave up on that dream after losing her father in a fire. Instead, she got to see Jong Soo, the action director, at a filming site while working part-time there. Since then, she has worked as a stuntwoman, aspiring to be the first female action director. Ju Won is a cranky and hysterical man who owns a department store. He is not keen on dating and thinks a marriage of convenience is the best romance. One day, their souls are switched, causing many unexpected incidents to happen. It's only when their souls are switched that they begin a journey to look for their true selves. While they struggle to take their bodies back, they mature, and their romance blooms.

Secret Garden

SG Team

Bai Luo Yin (Timmy Xu) discovers that his estranged mother has remarried a high-ranking official, making him stepbrothers with Gu Hai (Johnny Huang), his new classmate. Navigating the complexities of their new family dynamic, Luo Yin must confront the tensions of adolescence and the challenges of living under the same roof as someone who was once a stranger. As they clash with each other and collaborate with their classmates, the lines between rivalry and camaraderie blur, leading them to explore a deeper connection. Can these stepbrothers redefine their relationship beyond mere family ties, or will the weight of their circumstances drive them apart? This 2016 Chinese BL drama, based on a novel by Zhu Wen Jiao (Chai Ji Dan), was directed by Ding Wei.

Addicted

The Addicted Team

KBS02

School equals unhappiness.The students have long been the icons of loneliness, suicide, and bullying.The teachers are incompetent employees who go to school to give detention. The parents are dictators who will do anything for their child to advance in society. And school is a monster. But is school really a monster? I mean, have we ever really taken a good, proper look at school? Whenever a school is rocked by bullying or death, people blame the academic policies or SATs. They sigh and aimlessly point a finger at our moral-lacking, dog eat dog world. Perhaps we actually know nothing about school. If so, then this is the moment we all must peer into the essence of school. If we hold our breaths and look inside, the school will listen. To the stories the children hide and the teachers are unaware of, and to the deep wounds of school, which has become a monster. We all must face the despair school emanates in order to discover that faint glimmer of hope. That hope is the first step in coming face to face with the non-monstrous future of school.

School 2013

The Classmates Team

Tencent

It didn’t quite go as he had hoped. Azhai (Bai Shu) is a typical otaku who is obsessively in love with the most beautiful girl in school, Penny, but he lacks the courage and social skills to do anything about it.

When he discovers a technology that brings him a robot companion from the future, he accidentally programs the robot to model Penny’s ideal boyfriend, instead of programming it to be Penny herself. Now stuck with a male robot companion (Leon Li), Azhai manages to reorder a female robot and customizes it to be his Penny (Elvira Cai). 

But things get complicated when the robot Penny falls in love with the male robot, instead of Azhai, and the three live together in a hopeless love triangle. What will become of this terrible mess?

“My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend” is a 2017 Chinese drama series.

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