Starway To Heaven

old drama but still interesting to watch. here is the synopsis Han Jung-suh (Park Shin-hye) and Cha Song-joo (Baek Sung-hyun) are childhood friends and have a special bond that blossoms into love. They both share the pain of losing a loved one: Song-joo's father died in a traffic accident and Jung-suh's mother died of eye cancer. Jung-suh's father (Ha Jae-young) marries an actress named Tae Mi-ra (Lee Hui-hyang), who brings her real daughter, Han Yoori (Park Ji-mi), and son, Han Tae-hwa (Lee Wan) into the household. Yoori is jealous of Jung-suh, making her look terrible in front of her mother, who begins to turn on Jung-suh. When Jung-suh's father leaves for work, her stepmother assaults her. She thwarts Jung-suh's attempts to study abroad with Song-joo, who then leaves for America alone. Mi-ra plots for Yoori to win the affections of Song-joo. All the while, Jung-suh tries to be nice to Tae-hwa, but he mistakes her friendship for something more, and falls in love with her.

Three years later, Song-joo (Kwon Sang-woo) comes back from America, and Jung-suh (Choi Ji-woo) rushes to greet him. A jealous Yoori (Kim Tae-hee) tries to stop them from reuniting. As they race to the airport, Yoori intentionally hits Jung-suh with her car. Jung-suh is taken to the hospital where a group of people had just died in fire. Yoori swaps Jung-suh's ID with one of the people to fake her death. She takes the real Jung-suh to her biological father's home. Tae-hwa (Shin Hyun-joon), still in love with Jung-suh, finds out what Yoori has done, but seizes the opportunity to run away with Jung-suh. Jung-suh loses her memory, and Tae-hwa moves them away and changes their names.

Five years later, Yoori is soon to be engaged to Song-joo. Song-joo decides that he needs to let go of Jung-suh and goes to the carousel they used to ride as children. He wishes to see Jung-suh just once more, looks up, and sees her on the carousel. Jung-suh, now named Kim Ji-soo, works at a small clothing shop while living with Tae-hwa (now Chul-soo). Song-joo rushes to Ji-soo and tells her that she is Jung-suh, but she doesn't believe him. Song-joo is determined to make her remember her past, and through a series of events, he and Jung-suh become close.

Jung-suh regains her memory when Yoori nearly hits her with her car again and rushes to tell Song-joo. She forgives Tae-hwa as she knew he did it out of love. Jung-suh and Song-joo are happy together, until she discovers she has eye cancer. She asks Tae-hwa to take her away from Song-joo, since she can't bear to see him in pain. Gradually, Jung-suh's vision deteriorates into blindness. Tae-hwa tells Song-joo and his family the truth starting from the accident. Yoori is arrested, and her mother goes insane and is admitted to a mental hospital.

Song-joo marries Jung-suh, who is now blind, with the blessing of his mother and her father. Jung-suh tells Tae-hwa that her one wish is to see Song-joo's face one last time. Both Song-joo and Tae-hwa ask a doctor to let them give Jung-suh one of their corneas, but the doctor tells them that they can't take corneas from live donors. Tae-hwa wants to grant her wish at all cost and commits suicide via car crash in order to donate his cornea to her. After his death, Jung-suh has the operation and is able to see again. However, Song-joo finds out about Tae-hwa's death and later on tells Jung-suh. She starts to feel sick again, and the doctor states that the tumor has spread to her brain and is inoperable; the same incurable illness that killed her mother. Jung-suh, realizing this, forgives Tae Mi-ra and Yoori because of Tae-hwa. Both Yoori and Tae Mi-ra feel remorse for their sins against Jung-suh, and apologize to her. Jung-suh dies a few days later at the seaside near her childhood home, in the arms of Song-joo. The ending scene reverts back to the beginning scene where Song-joo is playing his piano by the ocean of the memorable beach house. He says, "Perhaps, that person (Tae-hwa) might have loved that girl (Jung-suh) more than me. But even though I say this, that doesn't mean that I loved her any less."

All About My Romance

Here is the synopsis Kim Soo Young (Shin Ha Kyun) is a newly elected member of the Korean National Assembly from the conservative New Korea Party. He entered politics after refusing to bow to pressure from his superiors as a sitting judge. When he arrives in parliament, Soo Young finds that he keeps running into and clashing with Noh Min Young (Lee Min Jung), another freshman assembly member from the liberal Progressive Labor Party who entered politics after the death of her sister (her sister was a presidential candidate). When Soo Young and Min Jung’s fiery exchanges at work turns to romance in their private lives, they must try to hide their relationship from their colleagues, the press and the public.

Meanwhile, Joon Ha (Park Hee Soon) is a prosecutor who becomes Noh Min Young’s aide when she’s newly elected to her parliamentary post. Ahn Hee Sun (Han Chae Ah) will be playing a reporter. 

Flower Boy Next Door

New korean drama in 2013. Flower boy next door tell us a romantic comedy about a girl named Go Dok Mi who locks her self in her ′tower′ from the world, is caught spying on the man living next door by Enrique Geum.

Enrique Geum is a genius creative director, who is good-looking, stylish and bohemian and can′t get enough of soccer. He will form a love line with Go Dok Mi.

Go Dok Mi is a ′city Rapunzel′ who never ventures outdoors, yet has her own set of charms that makes men go weak.

Go Dok-mi (in Korean, literally "lonely beauty") is a shy, frugal freelance copy editor who, for a yet-to-be-revealed reason, refuses to leave her apartment or interact with people as much as possible. Everyday, she anonymously receives a carton of milk with a post-it attached. Everyday, using a pair of yellow binoculars, she steals peeks at her neighbor across the street, Han Tae-joon as he goes through his daily morning routine. The last time she was outside, in a park on an autumn day, she had fallen in love with Tae-joon at first sight, following him and watching as he picked up a puppy in a box and took it home. When she looked out her window and saw him living in the apartment opposite hers, she thought of it as fate. Webtoon artist Oh Jin-rak lives in the same apartment building as Dok-mi. He and his drawing partner Oh Dong-hoon have just finished their latest webtoon "Zombie Soccer," but it wasn't picked up because it supposedly plagiarized a video game by Enrique Geum. Jin-rak pitches a new story to persuade his editor-in-charge Kim Seul-gie: the everyday life of this one girl trapped in her apartment, and how her next-door neighbor draws her out into the world... and it'll be called "Flower Boy Next Door." Enrique Geum arrives in Seoul from Spain, his reason for coming is "cupid's arrow." Though he's in love with his best friend Yoon Seo-young, she has feelings instead for his older cousin, Han Tae-joon, so he intends to play cupid for the two. When Enrique comes to stay at Tae-joon's apartment, he catches Dok-mi in the act. That same day, a new neighbor Watanabe Ryu moves into the apartment next to Dok-mi's (Jin-rak lives on her other side). And with all these new men suddenly entering her life, Dok-mi's solitary and orderly world is turned upside down.

My Girlfriend is Gumiho

This story is about korean mitos about gumiho, a half of human and a half of fox. Cha Dae-woong (Lee Seung Gi) accidentally releases a troublesome gumiho, a legendary fox with nine tails, sealed inside a painting by Grandma Samshin. Fleeing the scene, Dae-woong suffers a life-threatening fall and is only saved by the gumiho giving him her "fox bead". When Dae-woong awakes and meets a mysterious pretty girl, he initially treats her as eccentric or mentally ill, before fully understanding she is a gumiho in disguise—at which point he tries to research gumihos, but fails to find correct information in the library or on the internet. He agrees to stay with her and he tries to keep her happy, while hiding her true identity as a gumiho from all others by introducing her as his friend, Mi Ho. Slowly, however, he becomes less scared of her and more protective of her—finally admitting to himself and to her that he loves her.

As the story unfolds, Mi Ho (Shin Min Ah) pursues her goal of becoming human, with the half-human, half-supernatural Park Dong Joo, who has a career as a veterinarian and has been living as a half-human for hundreds of years, informing her that to do so, she must drink his blood and allow a human to keep her fox bead inside their body for a full 100 days - faithfully entering into a Love Contract, and keeping the bead from being harmed by remaining chaste. However, Dong Joo does not mention that at the end of the 100 days the human will die. Mi Ho and Dae Woong fall in love without fully knowing the consequences of fulfilling her goal: namely, that Woong will die if she becomes fully human.

Moon Embracing the Sun

Moon Embracing the Sun also known as The Sun and the Moon) is a 2012 South Korean historical television drama series, starring Kim Soo-hyun, Han Ga-in, Jung Il-woo and Kim Min-seo. It aired on Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) from January 4 to March 15, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.

The series is adapted from the novel of the same name written by Jung Eun-gwol and directed by Kim Do-hoon and Lee Seong-jun. It tells of a secret, poignant love story between a fictional king of the Joseon Dynasty and a female shaman against the backdrop of Korean traditional palace; and the conflicts and conspiracy of vying political powers. This production marks Han Ga-in's first historial drama and return to television since Bad Guy in 2010. It also marks the second historial drama for Jung Il-woo following The Return of Iljimae in 2009.

The series won for Best Drama and Best Actor in the television category at the 2012 Baeksang Arts Awards, and multiple awards at 2012 MBC Drama Awards, including Drama of the Year.

Here the synopsis, Thirteen-year-old Heo Yeon-woo, the daughter of a high-ranking official, accompanies her mother to the royal palace to attend her brother, Heo Yeom's civil service examinations congratulory ceremony. By chance, she meets Crown Prince Lee Hwon in the midst of escaping to see his older half brother, Prince Yang-myung. They fall in love and Heo is chosen as the Crown Princess of Joseon. However the Dowager Queen secretly orders her death; in order to install Yoon Bo-gyeong, the daughter of a family clan, as Crown Princess in order to gain more power for herself. She orders head shaman Nok-yeong of Star Mansion to cast a spell on Yeon-woo to stricken her with an unknown sickness. Where upon she is returned home for the last remaining days of her life. Nok-young unbeknown to the Dowager Queen has promised her friend Ari, whom Yeon-woo's mother had saved before she was born, to protect her. So Nok-young secretly visits Yeon-woo's father and tells him how to break the spells. Upon being resurrected from her grave, Yeon-woo lives her life as a shaman but loses her memories. All believe her to be dead, including the Crown Prince Lee Hwon, who loves her and whom she was to marry. Eight years later, Yeon-woo returns as a shaman named Wol. She has not been forgotten by those she left behind, and her fate is still intertwined with Hwon, who is now the king. She must contend with the current Queen of Joseon, the Queen's Father, and the Queen Dowager in order to reclaim her rightful place as Queen of Joseon.

Flower Boy Ramyun Shop

This drama tells about Cha Chi-Soo (Jung Il-Woo) is the only son for a family that owns Korea's largest food conglomerate named Chasung. Chi-Soo comes back from New York without telling his father. He looks for a place that his father would not know about, but it isn't easy to hide from his dad. Chi-Soo hears that one of his friends works a part-time job in the Norangjin area. When he arrives there he is followed by people who works for his father. Chi-Soo rushes into the restroom, but in there is Yang Eun-Bi (Lee Chung-Ah). Eventually, Chi-Soo goes home to talk with his father. He persuades his father not to send him back to America and in return Chi-Soo promises to go back to school.

The lead actress Yang Eun-Bi (Lee Chung-Ah) is 25-years-old and a senior in college studying physical education. She believes that teaching is the best type of job to have. You don't have to worry about getting fired and it's popular with guys. To become a teacher Yang Eun-Bi studies for the teacher certification examination in the Norangjin area. One day, she stops by to see a fortune teller (Kim Hye-Soo). While getting her fortune read she picks out a card with the fate bell ring and kissing. Meanwhile, she goes to the restroom and suddenly Chi-Soo rushes into the restroom. Eun-Bi hears bells ringing, but she already has a boyfriend who is about to be discharged from the army. They met the day before he joined the army and she has waited for him faithfully for 2 years. Yang Eun-Bi tries not to think about the man she met in the restroom.

On the day of her boyfriend's discharge, Eun-Bi goes to see him, but he has already left. The next day, Eun-Bi goes to school. At the university festival that is occurring that day Eun-Bi sees the guy from the bathroom at the festival. Eun-Bi assumes Chi-Soo is a student at her university. Suddenly, Eun-Bi also sees her boyfriend and one of her schoolmates together. Eun-Bi becomes enraged and throws a water ballon at them. Eun-Bi then walks away and gets into a car which Chi-Soo is in. She pleads with him to drive. After driving away, Chi-Soo parks his car and Eun-Bi begins to cry. Chi-Soo tells her that he doesn't like women crying and lets her get out of his car.

Eun-Bi decides to focus on becoming a teacher and meeting a good guy. On the way to a teaching session at a high school run by food company Chasung, she meets Chi-Soo again. Eun-Bi assumes Chi-Soo works for the company. She then almost falls down in front of a passing car when Chi-Soo saves her. Eun-Bi, believing he might be the good guy in her future, asks Chi-Soo to date her. Then Eun-Bi sees a bunch of guys wearing the same uniform as Chi-Soo and realizes he is a high school student at the same school where she will intern as a teacher.

I Miss You

The drama revolves around a guy and a girl, who both experience a painful end to their first loves at the tender age of 15, and then meet again as adults by playing game of love hide and seek.

Han Jung Woo (Park Yoochun) has been a homicide detective for 2 years and he is looking for his childhood love, Lee Se Yeon (Yoon Eun Hye). Lee So Yeon is a fashion designer and often dream of Han Jung Woo searching for her.

Main Cast

Han Jung-woo (Actor: Micky Yoochun)

He had a crush on Soo-yeon who was known around the neighborhood as the daughter of a murderer. Although he promised to be her friend, he was unable to keep that promise due to circumstances beyond his control. He blames himself for hurting Soo-yeon’s feelings in an unimaginable way so he does not believe he has any right to show emotion over it to get over his guilt. He makes an effort to remember Soo-yeon’s voice over the years. After undergoing such an emotional period in his life, the young once-frightened boy becomes a homicide detective who searches for Soo-yeon. His nickname is “Crazy rabbit.”

Lee Soo-yeon (Actress: Yoon Eun-hye)

A fashion designer who goes by the name Zoe. She went out with Jung-woo when she was 15 because he wanted to be her friend. Soo-yeon fell in love with Jung-woo too. But their separation resulted in her selfless act to protect Jung-woo. Her boyfriend Hyung-jooon treats her well and provides her with the solace she needs to forget her past. But for some reason she cannot get Jung-woo out of her mind.

Kang Hyung-joon (Actor: Yoo Seung-ho)

He runs a money management firm. He has an angelic face but without any angel wings. Due to a childhood injury from a dog bite, he uses a cane to walk. He is skilled at reading people. He never loses his temper or gets excited, nor does he ever laugh heartily over anything. He has a way of silently waiting for a person to finally give him the answer that he seeks. But he acts differently around Zoe (Soo-yeon). That is, until Zoe is reunited with Han Jung-woo for the first time in 14 years.

Kim Eun-joo (Actress: Jang Mi-ne)

She has no ambition in life and never accomplished much academically or career-wise. She’s satisfied with her plain and simple life. She works as a webtoon artist but any income she makes goes to buying liquor to fuel her creative juices. She likes to poke her nose in other people’s business and is very generous with her time. But her crush on Jung-woo, who unfortunately, for her is infatuated with Soo-yeon, consumes most of her time.

Dream High

This drama is about Six students at Kirin High School have the dream of becoming K-pop idols. During their school years, they learn how to develop their singing, songwriting and dancing skills while undergoing personal growth. They also go through their love life and start to develop feelings for each other. Each one of the students has his or her own strengths and weaknesses, but they strive to debut with the support and guidance of each other.

Dream High is a South Korean television series broadcast by KBS in 2011. It features Suzy, Taecyeon, IU, Wooyoung, Ham Eun-jeong and Kim Soo-hyun.

IU, 

The drama was popular among teenagers, and brought in viewership ratings in the 18 to 20 percent range during its two-month run. A special episode, where the cast of the show performed the Dream High Special Concert on a stage near Seoul, was aired on March 1, 2011, the day after the series ended.

Its sequel Dream High Season 2 aired a year later with a different cast

Pasta

Pasta is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Gong Hyo-jin, Lee Sun-gyun, Lee Ha-nui and Alex Chu. It is a workplace romantic comedy about the dreams and struggles of a young woman who aspires to become an elite chef. It aired on Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) from January 4 to March 9, 2010 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.

The story begin with Seo Yoo-kyung started her career as a kitchen assistant at La Sfera restaurant for 3 years. Her dream is to become an Italian cuisine chef. She eventually works her way up to become a chef. One day, the La Sfera restaurant newly hires Choi Hyun-wook, a chef who went to culinary school in Italy. Upon his arrival, the female chefs are fired one by one and Yoo-kyung finds herself to be the last woman standing. She's fired several times but comes up with ways to be rehired by Choi Hyun-wook. Eventually she's rehired permanently when she wins a blind taste contest. The newly hired president, Kim San hires his friend and celebrity chef Sae-young as a co-head chef to work with Hyun-wook. It turns out that Sae-young and Hyun-wook used to date each other when they were both studying at the Italian culinary school. But they broke up after Sae-young sabotaged his wine by boiling it to win a cooking contest. They turn into rivals and try to outdo each other in making the finest Italian cuisine. Working alongside two celebrity chefs, Yoo-kyung feels small and insignificant. She gradually develops feelings for the charismatic Hyun-wook. However, restaurant owner Kim San begins to become attracted to the spunky Yoo-kyung and the relationships between them become fraught with complexities

Rooftop Prince

Rooftop Prince is a 2012 South Korean fantasy romantic comedy television drama, starring Park Yuchun, Han Ji-min, Jeong Yu-mi, Lee Tae-sung, Lee Min-ho, Jung Suk-won and Choi Woo-shik. It is about a Joseon crown prince who, after his wife dies mysteriously, time travels to the future where he encounters familiar faces, modern-day devices, and corporate intrigue. It aired on Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) from March 14 to May 24, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.

The story tells about Tae-mu (Lee Tae-sung), after killing his lost cousin in the United States, returns to Korea, claiming that his cousin, Tae-yong (Park Yoochun), could not be found in New York City. Meanwhile, Tae-mu has been having a secret affair with Se-na (Jeong Yu-mi), his secretary, who, in turn, runs into her long-lost stepsister Park-ha (Han Ji-min). Park-ha has been missing for a prolonged period of time and it is revealed that she was in the US after Se Na abandoned her on the streets at age 9.

Two years after Tae-yong's disappearance, four men dressed in Joseon era garments, fall onto Park-ha's rooftop house. Hungry, homeless and having nowhere to go, the four men decide to stick with Park-ha. Their leader claims that he is the Crown Prince of Joseon (Park Yoochun), along with his entourage Scholar Song Man-bo (Lee Min-ho), Personal Bodyguard U Yong-sool (Jung Suk-won), and Palace Eunuch Do Chi-san (Choi Woo-shik). One day, Crown Prince Lee Gak sees Se-na who is the spitting image of his beloved wife, who was found drowned in the 18th century. He is convinced the two are reincarnations of each other. Meanwhile, company president Yeo (Ban Hyo-jung) mistakes Lee Gak for her grandson, Yong Tae Yong, because of their exact same appearance, and believes that her long lost grandson had finally returned. Lee Gak realizes that he has time traveled 300 years to 2012, Seoul, to search for the truth behind the mysterious death of the late Crown Princess. In order to approach Se-na, who is also President Yeo's personal assistant, Lee Gak pretends that he is Tae-yong. Tae-mu, believing that he already killed his cousin in New York, lives in constant fear of his devious act being discovered by the family and Tae-yong aka Lee Gak who claims not to have remembered the event. Tae-mu has always been jealous of Tae-yong's favored position in the family.

On the other hand, Park-ha is shocked by the news that her new friend who calls himself the Crown Prince is, in fact, the grandson of CEO. But before long, her feelings for Lee Gak blossom and she is hurt when she finds out that Lee Gak is courting Se-na, who still holds very tender memories of his dead wife. Lee Gak also believes that marrying Se-Na in Seoul year 2012 would bring him closer to solving the mystery of the Crown Princess' murder in the Joseon era.

IRIS

My friend says that this drama is good for watch. But, i'm still don't have time to see it. From the cover, i rewrite the synopsis.

Lifelong friends Kim Hyun-Jun (Lee Byung-hun) and Jin Sa-woo (Jung Joon-ho), two Special Forces soldiers under the South Korean army's 707th Special Mission Battalion, each independently come into contact with an alluring woman by the name of Choi Seung-hee (Kim Tae-hee). The pair do not at first realize they have fallen for the same woman and continue to aim for her affections. Soon afterward, they are ushered from their military base to a secret compound in the middle of the night.

There, they are subjected to extensive torture as a means of gauging their worth under the most extreme of conditions. After successfully completing the test, Hyun-jun and Sa-woo are introduced to the standing head of the National Security Service, Baek San (Kim Yeong-cheol). He informs them that the NSS is a secret organization tasked with preempting foreign threats and protecting the country's interests through wetwork operations including assassination of anyone who could be a threat to South Korean national security. Since its founding in 1976 during the rule of Park Chung-hee, the agency's very existence has remained a state secret from everyone, including the President.

Upon being initiated into the NSS, the pair learn individually that they had been headhunted by Seung-hee. Stirred by her deceit, Hyun-jun compliments her skills as an actress, while Sa-woo takes the news less bitterly. Still unaware that they share affection for the same woman, the two quickly prove themselves as capable agents within the NSS.

After taking on an unofficial assignment and foiling an assassination attempt on the leading presidential candidate, Hyun-jun and Sa-woo are invited to the Blue House. There, Hyun-jun experiences déjà vu, believing that he had stood in that very spot many years earlier.

Meanwhile, an elite assassin (T.O.P) appears at a high-rise hotel in Shanghai to eliminate a figure of political importance. After his bodyguards are disposed of, the man is killed and the assassin mentions his intention to move to the next and final target: Hong Seung-ryong, a defector from North Korea and the scientist heading their nuclear arms program.

As their personal relationships develop in unexpected ways, Hyun-jun, Sa-woo, and Seung-hee are soon sent to Budapest to secure Hong Seung-ryong while the Blue House decides whether to grant him asylum. Despite interference, they manage to deliver the defector to fellow agents tasked with escorting him to the South.

While their handover of Hong goes unheeded, a grand conspiracy begins to unravel at the hands of a far-reaching villain. As political tensions mount, Hyun-jun is given an independent assignment that will alter the course of history and change his life forever.

Boys Before Flower

Boys Over Flowers is a 2009 South Korean television drama series starring Ku Hye-sun, Lee Min-ho, Kim Hyun-joong of SS501, Kim Bum, Kim Joon of T-Max and Kim So-eun. It premiered on Korean Broadcasting System (KBS2) on January 5, 2009 on KBS2 and ended on March 31, 2009 after 25 episodes.

It is based on Japanese shōjo manga series, Boys Over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango), written by Yoko Kamio. The series is the fifth television adaptation of the manga following the Taiwanese Meteor Garden and its sequel Meteor Garden II and the Japanese Hana Yori Dango and its sequel Hana Yori Dango Returns.

Plots of this drama about ShinHwa School is a school for rich people, where Goo Jun Pyo (Lee Min Ho), the heir of the global corporation ShinHwa Group, Yoon Ji Hoo, Soh Yi Jung, and Song Woo Bin attend school. They form a gang called F4. Goo Jun Pyo, the leader of F4, is the main ruffian.

Geum Jan Di, who is not from a rich family, ends up attending ShinHwa School when she saves a boy from jumping off the rooftop and is given a scholarship to quiet down the publicity the incident caused. The entire school worships the F4 except for Geum Jan Di. However, she likes Yoon Ji Hoo, who appears to be different from the other three. Geum Jan Di finally speaks up against F4 to defend her friend. From then on, she becomes Goo Jun Pyo's main rival. Almost every time Geum Jan Di is bullied, Yoon Ji Hoo helps her in some way. Geum Jan Di and Goo Jun Pyo's rivalry intensifies, but at the same time it is a source of amusement for him as Geum Jan Di has now caught his attention.

The story develops and Goo Jun Pyo slowly starts falling for Geum Jan Di. On the other hand, Geum Jan Di's attention is on Yoon Ji Hoo, her savior, but ultimately, as the story progresses, her heart is with Goo Jun Pyo. The couple faces many obstacles as they continue to struggle for their love.

Winter Sonata

Winter Sonata (Hangul: 겨울연가; RR: Gyeoul Yeonga; also known as Winter Love Story or Winter Ballad) is a South Korean television drama series broadcast by KBS in 2002. It is the second part of the Endless Love installment directed by Yoon Seok-ho. It stars Bae Yong-joon and Choi Ji-woo.

It was broadcast on Japan's NHK and has been a major part of the Korean wave both there and throughout Asia. Filming also took place on the resort island of Namiseom. It has also been adapted into an anime series which aired in October 2009.

The story begins when Joon-sang, the son of an eminent musician, moves to Chuncheon, a rural city in South Korea. As an extraordinarily talented student, Joon-sang is welcomed by his fellow students as well as his teachers, but remains a quiet, introverted teenager. As he intends to find out about his biological father, whom his mother claims has died, his search to find out more about his father is what made him want to move to the province. Having an identity crisis in adolescence because of the father he has never met, and blaming his mother for this, Joon-sang believes that no one truly loves him.

On his way to school one day, Joon-sang's classmate Yoo-jin, while sitting next to him on the bus, falls asleep on his shoulder. Joon-sang soon falls in love with Yoo-jin, who opens her innocent heart to him. Their love, however, is cut short after Joon-sang is seriously injured in a car accident and, due to brain damage, suffers from amnesia, unable to remember anything prior to his accident.

Joon-sang's mother, yearning for Joon-sang's love and respect, has Joon-sang brainwashed by a psychologist, so that Joon-sang will not remember his painful childhood as an illegitimate child. As a result, Joon-sang's memories prior to the accident are erased. Joon-sang's mother decides to move to the United States with Joon-sang, where he can start a new life under the identity of Lee Min-hyeong. His friends and teachers are told that Joon-sang is dead.

Ten years later, Min-hyeong is an award-winning architect in the United States. He does not remember anything about his life in Korea. He is completely different, an open-minded person who cares about other people, including his mother. He returns to Korea and Yoo-jin sees him on the street, prompting her to put off her engagement to her childhood friend Sang-hyeok. Little does she know that Min-hyeong is dating her friend and sometime past rival Chae-rin. The story's plot intensifies when Yoo-jin begins to work for the firm where Min-hyeong is employed, and tries to find out if he is her supposedly dead first love Joon-sang.

Coffe Prince

The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince aka Coffee Prince is a 2007 South Korean drama starring Yoon Eun-hye from Princess Hours, Gong Yoo from One Fine Day, Lee Sun-gyun from White Tower and Chae Jung-an. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Lee Sun-mi. It was first broadcast in South Korea on Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) from 2 July to 28 August 2007.

The drama is a love story between a tomboyish woman pretending to be a man and a young food empire mogul. It contains "pseudo-homosexual" elements, because the man does not initially know of the tomboyish woman's true gender

Choi Han-kyul (Gong Yoo) is a third generation son of a food chaebol. He has never had a job and does not care for responsibility. Han-kyul is hung up on his first crush, Han Yoo-joo (Chae Jung-an), and certainly doesn't want to get married despite his family's requests. On the other hand, Go Eun-chan (Yoon Eun-hye) is a 24-year-old tomboy who is often mistaken for a guy. She takes up every job possible: Taekwondo teacher, waitress, food delivery, and has the responsibility of taking care of her mother, who has trouble not spending money, and younger sister. When Han-kyul and Eun-chan meet, he, not knowing that she is a girl, decides to hire her to pretend to be his gay lover so that he can escape the blind dates arranged by his grandmother.

Meanwhile, Han-kyul's cousin, Choi Han-seong (Lee Sun-gyun), is an established music producer and his ex-girlfriend, Han Yoo-joo, is a famous artist who studied in New York. The two were lovers for about 8 years, but their relationship ended when Yoo-joo left Han-seong for another man. Two years after they separate, their paths cross again when she returns to Seoul. Han-seong is initially angry at her, but he succumbs to his lingering feelings and they start to date again.

After getting an ultimatum from his grandmother, Han-kyul takes over a rundown old coffee shop, later renamed 'Coffee Prince', to prove his ability, both to his grandmother and to Yoo-joo. In order to attract female customers, he only hires good-looking male employees. Eun-chan, desperate for money, continues to hide her gender to get a job at Coffee Prince.

Eun-chan has also becomes friends with Han-seong, and she is initially attracted to him because of his kindness. Han-seong also enjoys spending time with her, and an impulsive kiss that he gives her causes him and Yoo-joo to break up for a short time.

Soon, feelings start to develop between Eun-chan and Han-kyul. Because he's unaware that she is a woman, he starts to question his sexuality and is thrown in turmoil. When he discovers her secret, he feels hurt and betrayed. However, he eventually forgives her and they begin to date. They face strong opposition from his family due to her family’s lower status, but when Han-kyul’s grandmother meets Eun-chan, she is impressed by her independence and ambition. She helps pay for her to study in Italy to become a barista. After two years of a long-distance relationship, a more stylish Eun-chan returns to Korea and Han-kyul.

Heart String

Heartstrings (Hangul: 넌 내게 반했어; RR: Neon Naege Banhaesseo; lit. You've Fallen for Me) is a South Korean youthful melodrama about the main characters' love, friendship and dreams, set against the backdrop of a university.

This drama shows about Lee Shin, (Jung Yong Hwa) is a university student majoring in Western Music. He is also the vocalist and guitarist of a band "The Stupid." Shin is known for his good looks, cocky personality, and strong passion for music. Everyone sees him as a cold-hearted and distant person, but he has a soft side inside him hidden away. He lacks interest in anything unrelated to music and has neither dreams nor plans for the future. He initially likes Jung Yoon Soo, a dance professor at the university, but this all changes when he meets Lee Gyu Won (Park Shin Hye).

Lee Gyu Won is a jolly, bright, and outgoing student who was born into a prestigious family and is majoring in Traditional Korean Music. She plays the gayageum. Gyu Won's grandfather, Lee Dong Gun, is one of the top 3 traditional musicians of his age and his biggest wish is to see his granddaughter become a traditional music prodigy. Trying to live up to her grandfather's expectations, Gyu Won immerses herself in practice and becomes a university student who knows nothing much outside of her studies. As her friends are fans of "The Stupid", she was forced to go to the band's concert with them. There she saw Lee Shin performing live, and is immediately captivated by him.

Yeo Joon Hee (Kang Min Hyuk) is a bumbling, shy, and ever hungry boy who doesn't act his age. He has a complete childlike personality, shaggy idiot by day, Stupid's lead drummer by night. During one of his shaggy phases during the day, he comes across University Princess and chairman's daughter, Han Hee Joo (Woori), who he immediately falls head over heels for, calling her his "Natasha." However, there are dark sides to Hee Joo's personality than his naïvety knows, and in the series, he fights between his ever-growing feelings for Hee Joo and helping his friends as she threatens their university lives.

The time when Lee Gyu Won decided to join the performance for the festival, every one sees her potential talent and this triggers Han Hee Joo's mother who plans together with Tae Joon, one of the school's administrators, to destroy Lee Gyu Won's and the Director's image for her to quit the upcoming festival in her fear that Lee Gyu Won might outshine her daughter Han Hee Joo.

Faith

Faith also known as The Great Doctor is a 2012 South Korean fusion fantasy-historical-medical television series broadcast by SBS. It is about a modern-day plastic surgeon (Kim Hee-sun) who gets kidnapped and travels back in time to the Goryeo period, 700 years in the past. There, she meets and falls in love with a warrior who is the leader of the royal guard (Lee Min-ho)

This drama shows the romance between a warrior from the ancient times and a female doctor from the modern times, their love transcending time and space. It will also tell the story about the process of making a true king.

Yoo Eun Soo (Kim Hee Sun) is a 33-year old plastic surgeon in the year 2012. She was originally a general surgeon, but quickly found that it was an overworked, under-paid profession and jumped ship to plastic surgery. Her dream is to someday open her own practice. But one day, Choi Young (Lee Min Ho) kidnaps her and takes her back to the Goryeo era, requesting that she use her medical skills to save the life of the Queen. Their ensuing love story is a long journey of faith that spans centuries and transforms them both, as Eun Soo finds true purpose in her medical knowledge for the first time while Young is inspired to live again through Eun Soo's determination, indefatigable cheerfulness and love of life.

Hong Gil Dong

Hong Gil Dong is a South Korean drama airing on KBS2, starting from January 2, 2008, every Wednesday and Thursday. It is set in historical times with much modern influences and comedic tones.

This drama is very loosely based on Hong Gil Dong, a fictional book about a Robin Hood in Korea, and the time period it was set in.

Hong Gil Dong is the illegitimate son of a minister. He is very bright and smart, however was told that he could not accomplish anything in this world, due to his illegitimate status. Thus he grew up spending most of his time being lazy and causing trouble for the people around him. However, a local monk thinks he is destined to be much more, and has taught Gil Dong martial arts. As the series progresses, Gil Dong realizes the severity of the injustices of the ranked world, and starts to fight against these injustices, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.

Heo Yi Nok is an upbeat, naive and carefree girl. At the beginning of the series, she arrives from China with her grandfather, who has raised her. She meets and befriends Gil Dong. Yi Nok has a past she is unaware of: she does not know her grandfather is not her blood-related grandfather, and that her real parents were murdered. She eventually develops feelings for Gil Dong, who reciprocates her feelings.

Lee Chang Hwi also has arrived in Korea from China at the beginning of the series. He seems cold and calculating, as he also has a dark past in which his older brother, the current king of Joseon (Korea), tried to murder him. Chang Hui is planning a revolution, in which he tries to overthrow the king and takes his place as, he believes, the rightful king of Joseon. He coincidentally bumps into both Gil Dong and Yi Nok. Both Gil Dong and Yi Nok help Chang Hui realize what it takes to become a good king. He forges an alliance with Gil Dong and develops feelings for Yi Nok.

As the question of rightful succession comes into play, Hong Gil Dong and Yi Nok are forced to take sides, all the while having to deal with their own personal problems: their love, Gil Dong with his father issues, Yi Nok with her murdered parents and their revenge.

Innocent Man

The Innocent Man "A Nice/Kind/Gentle/Good-hearted/Pure/Innocent Man the Likes of Which You Couldn't Possibly Find Anywhere in this World"; also known as Nice Guy), is a 2012 South Korean television series. Starring Song Joong-ki, Moon Chae-won and Park Si-yeon, it is a dark melodrama involving betrayal, revenge and romance. It was broadcast on Korean Broadcasting System (KBS2) from September 12 to November 15, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.

Smart and promising medical student Kang Ma-ru (Song Joong-ki) has been in love all his life with his slightly older next-door neighbor Han Jae-hee (Park Si-yeon), a television reporter. He is an adoring boyfriend and she always considered Ma-ru her home. But when her situation takes a turn for the worse and Jae-hee becomes desperate to escape poverty, she meets a man who changes everything—a rich CEO who introduces her to a life of comfort. So she turns her back on Ma-ru, choosing money over love.

The brutal betrayal leaves Ma-ru fractured—not just angry, but a completely changed man. A few years later, Ma-ru is now 30 years old and works as a bartender and gigolo, no longer a "nice guy." He then meets Seo Eun-gi (Moon Chae-won), a young chaebol heiress who's being groomed to take over her father's conglomerate. Eun-gi is a cold and calculating, business-savvy, and raised by her father to never show emotion to anyone. But Ma-ru intrigues her, and she becomes curious until she can’t stop thinking about him.

Ma-ru decides to take advantage of her as a pawn in his plans for revenge,and Eun-gi falls in love with him, not knowing that he’s using her to get back at his ex Jae-hee, who happens to be Eun-gi's young, gold-digging stepmother. Just when Ma-ru is beginning to genuinely care for Eun-gi, she finds out the truth and they break up. But a car accident causes Eun-gi to lose her memory, and she enters Ma-ru's life again

Spring Waltz

Spring Waltz is the fourth and final installment of Yoon Seok-ho's Season Drama series, following the preceding Autumn in My Heart, Winter Sonata and Summer Scent.

The story begins, in Austria, at midnight. Park Eun-Young is making a wish among a crowd celebrating the New Year.

The scene changes to a young Song Lee-Na watching her childhood friend Yoon Jae-Ha playing in what seems to be a piano competition. Switching back to present day, Song Lee-Na smiles remembering her wonderful memories and promises made. She begins a conversation with the passenger next to her, Park Eun-Young. She explains that she is on her way to Austria to meet her childhood love, Jae-Ha, after a 15 year separation. Lee-Na continues to explain that her first love has become an accomplished pianist as Eun-Young explains her excitement about her first trip outside of Korea.

Once in Austria Eun-Young bumps into Phillip (Jae-ha’s manager and best friend), who mistakes her as Lee-Na whom he planned to pick up at the airport. After the situation clears itself, Eun-Young, Lee-Na, and Phillip go their separate ways. Phillip takes Lee-Na to see Jae-Ha. Once at their destination, Jae-Ha doesn't recognize Lee-Na and mistakes her for a reporter. Lee-Na, upset over Jae-Ha's cold reception, begins to talk back at him. Jae-Ha later hears her name said by Phillip, which he repeats and seems to spark his memory.

While taking Jae-Ha and Lee-Na out, Phillip sees Eun-Young and decides to break company. Phillip introduces himself to Eun-Young and offers to help her get around Austria. After learning that she will be in Salzburg the next day, he offers her two concert tickets.

Later that night, Jae-Ha is seen looking through photos of himself and Lee-Na as children. Putting the photos away, he later pulls out a handmade rainbow shell.

The next day, Eun-Young meets Jae-Ha on the train ride to Salzberg. Jae-Ha displays a cold demeanor towards Eun-Young, the two are immediately attracted to each other – especially Jae-Ha, because of the way she reminds him of his long-lost childhood love, Seo Eun-Young. Eun-Young offers one of the concert tickets to Jae-Ha and introduces herself as Alice. He states that his name is Chris (Chris Y. is his stage name). They become separated once in Salzburg. Eun-Young arrives for the concert and meets Phillip, but is eager to see Chris again.

As the concert begins, Eun-Young recognizes Chris Y. as the Chris on the train. As the concert concludes, Eun-Young begins to leave the hall, but a melody Clementine stops her in her tracks as she begins to recall her childhood past.

(15 years ago) Lee Soo-Ho and Lee Jeong-Tae (Soo-Ho's father) arrive at his father's hometown, a beautiful island outside of Seoul. They meet Seo Eun-Young and her mother. Jeong-Tae leaves Soo-Ho with the mother and daughter promising to return. Soo-Ho, full of hurt and anger treats Eun-Young badly. Soo-Ho tries numerous times to escape the island. At one point Eun-Young gets caught in his plan and is taken to the hospital. Soo-Ho learns that Eun-Young is sick and is in need of a special surgery.

Soo-Ho and Eun-Young become closer; Eun-Young presents a rainbow shell she made as a gift. Jeong-Tae returns to the island and promises Soo-Ho that he will finally settle down on the island with him. Soo-Ho continues to fear that his father will leave again but hopeful of his father's promise. Later, Soo-Ho informs his father of Eun-Young's sickness and that her mother must be saving for it. Hearing about money, Jeong-Tae breaks into the family's room.

Eun-Young's mother sees Jeong-Tae running towards the ferry. Upon returning to her home, she learns that the money she was saving for Eun-Young's surgery was stolen. In disbelief and despair, she asks Soo-Ho where his father went. Eun-Young's mother leaves the island for Seoul in hopes of tracking down Jeong-Tae. While searching, she is hit by a car and is instantly killed.

Soo-Ho hurt, angry, and full of guilt tries to leave the island again by stealing a boat. Eun-Young tries to stop him but ends up going with him. The next morning, the children are swept to a neighboring island where an elderly couple take them in. Soo-Ho tries to leave again without Eun-Young but to no avail. The two make it to Seoul and begin their search for both parents.

While searching, Eun-Young becomes ill and Soo-Ho rushes her to the hospital. At the hospital, Soo-Ho mets a woman, Hyeon Ji-Sook, who mistakens him for her son. Desperate for money, he tries to steal a woman's purse. He is stopped from going to jail by Hyeon Ji-Sook's husband, Yoon Myeong-Hoon.

Yoon Myeong-Hoon asks Soo-Ho if he would consider pretending to be his son, Jae-Ha, until his wife recovers. Soo-Ho learns that the couples son, Yoon Jae-Ha, was previously killed in a rafting accident. Soo-Ho refuses but reconsiders when he learns that Yoon Myeong-Hoon has the money to save Eun-Young's life.

Eun-Young awakes to find Soo-Ho at her hospital bedside. Fearing that Soo-Ho will leave, she asks that he promise to stay by her. Soo-Ho promises but is unable to keep it. The day of the surgery he leaves with the couple. Remembering his promise to Eun-Young he runs back to the hospital but finds her room empty. Lee Soo-Ho leaves South Korea as Yoon Jae-Ha.

Jae-Ha is later told that Eun-Young died during her surgery. After the surgery, Seo Eun-Young recovers and is adopted by her aunt, Jo Yang-Soon, changing her name to Park Eun-Young.

(Present day) After the concert, Phillip convinces Eun-Young to company him to the concert's after party. At the party, Jae-Ha meets Alice (Eun-Young) again, but learns that Phillip is romantically interested in her. Aware of Phillip's past with women, Jae-Ha believes that Alice (Eun-Young) was toying with on the train. The next day, Eun-Young leaves for the Crystal Palace. She doesn't see Phillip but leaves a "Thank You" note and gift, an ornamented seashell. While Phillip and Lee-Na observe the detail of the shell; Phillip mentions Eun-Young's name causing Jae-Ha to run after her.

Jae-Ha arrives at the Crystal Palace but misses Eun-Young. Later Jae-Ha agrees to produce an album for Lee-Na's music company in Korea and returns after 15 years.

Both Jae-Ha and Phillip are looking for Eun-Young. Jae-Ha is the first to spot Eun-Young and traces her to a kimbap restaurant. While in Jo Yang-Soon's kimbap restaurant, he comes to the conclusion that this Eun-Young is not Seo Eun-Young because she refers to the owner and a worker as her mother and brother. Jae-Ha leaves the restaurant angry and disappointed. Eun-Young notices that the customer left his scarf and didn't pay for his meal. She goes after him and notices that it is Yoon Jae-Ha.

Soon after, Phillip locates Eun-Young. Eun-Young is surprised and then recalls having seen Jae-Ha. A few days later, Eun-Young is reunited with Phillip, Jae-Ha, and Lee-Na while making a lunch delivery.

Phillip, interested in Eun-Young, begins to follow her in hopes of starting a relationship. Eun-Young struggles with providing for her family and tries to find a steady job. Phillip, seeing Eun-Young hardships arranges a job for her with Lee-Na's music company as a chauffeur for Jae-Ha.

As time passes Eun-Young and Jae-Ha become closer and begin to develop feelings for each other. Lee-Na begins to sense something between the two but tries to ignore her suspicions. Phillip, unaware of Eun-Young and Jae-Ha's feelings, confesses to Jae-Ha that he is falling in love with Eun-Young. Listening to his best friend's excitement Jae-Ha is conflicted and begins to push Eun-Young away. Eun-Young hurt by Jae-Ha's behavior confronts him. Unable to contain his feelings and seeing Eun-Young hurting, Jae-Ha kisses her unaware that Philip sees them from away.

Having confessed their love to each other, Eun-Young and Jae-Ha continue their relationship in secret.

One day, Eun-Young goes to the island where she and Soo-Ho grew up together. Soo-Ho supposed she is Seo Eun-Young. But Mr. and Mrs. Yoon have told him that Seo Eun-Young was dead. Soo-Ho tries to find the fact himself. When he meest Eun-Young again in the island, he finally realizes that this Park Eun-Young is Seo Eun-Young.

Soo-Ho is also confused whether he must become Soo-Ho or Jae-Ha. When he talks this problem to the graveyard of Eun-Young's mother, Lee-Na hears it and she realizes that the man in front of her is not her childhood sweetheart Jae-Ha but Soo-Ho.

As Soo-Ho, Eun-Young, Lee-Na, and Phillip return to Seoul, Soo-Ho meets his real father, who left him when he was young. Soo-Ho's father is a drunkard. Soo-Ho is bitter toward him but he admits that he is Soo-Ho. His words are heard by Eun-Young and Phillip. So stunned, Eun-Young realizes Jae-Ha is Soo-Ho, her childhood love.

Eun-Young is angry because she thinks young Soo-Ho left her in the hospital on purpose. In reality, young Soo-Ho left to be adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Yoon who paid Eun-Young's hospital bill, but Eun-Young does not know this fact.

When she finally knows the truth, she wants to meet Soo-Ho. However, Soo-Ho is missing. But Eun-Young knows where the place he has gone. The island! So she goes to the island and meet Soo-Ho there. There is a happy reunion.

Soo-Ho cannot live easy life anymore as media discovers his real identity. Soo-Ho must choose whether he wants to be Soo-Ho or be Yoon Jae-Ha. In the press conference, Soo-Ho's real father comes to save Soo-Ho's career. He lies that Soo-Ho is not Soo-Ho but Jae-Ha. Finally Soo-Ho declares he is Jae-Ha.

His drunkard father is killed by a traffic accident causing Soo-Ho to become depressed. Soo-Ho makes a concert in Korea but he accidentally hurts his own hand by searching for his shell given by young Eun-Young in the dustbin. There is a broken glass that pierces into his hand. But he insists to play the piano.

Soo-Ho's hand's nerves becomes limped and his piano career is ended. He returns to Austria. He does not let Eun-Young know about his injury.

Nonetheless, Lee-Na comes back to Korea and asks Eun-Young to marry Soo-Ho. Lee-Na also tells Eun-Young that Soo-Ho cannot be a professional pianist anymore due to his paralyzed hand nerve. He has lost his sense of touch.

Thus, Eun-Young flies to Austria and meets Soo-Ho coincidentally on a bridge. Then they are married. Soo-Ho, who does not build a house, buys a house on the island where he and Eun-young grow together. It is the same house they lived for Soo-Ho's recording.

In the end of the movie, it is shown that Soo-Ho plays a small piano in a local school. Finally, he and Eun-Young dance in their house balcony at sunset and kiss.

Brilliant Legacy / Shining Inheritance

Brilliant Legacy , also known as Shining Inheritance, is a Korean drama aired on SBS network from 25 April 2009 to 26 July 2009 on Saturday and Sunday nights, starring Han Hyo Joo and Lee Seung Gi. The drama consisted of 28 episodes and maintained its top spot in viewer ratings for ten consecutive weeks, with its last episode attaining a high viewer rating of 47.1%

Synopsis of this drama is about Go Eun Sung (Han Hyo Joo), was studying overseas in New York and returned to Korea during her vacation to bring her autistic brother, Eun Woo, to the United States to study music. Sun-woo Hwan (Lee Seung Gi), who was also studying in New York, was ordered to return to Korea by his grandmother, Jang Sook Ja, to learn how to manage her food company. Eun Sung and Hwan, who were on the same flight back home, accidentally had their luggage bags exchanged, which led to several misunderstandings between the two of them.

Go Pyung Joong, Eun Sung's father, struggled to save his company from going bankrupt. One day, his wallet and valuables were stolen by a thief who subsequently died in a gas explosion accident. The police, upon finding Pyung Joong’s belongings on the thief, mistakenly identified the thief as him and a death certificate for Pyung Joong was promptly issued. He decided to lie low and not tell his family that he was alive so that his family could claim his life insurance money and use it to clear the debts. However his second wife, Baek Sung Hee, kicked her stepchildren, Eun Sung and Eun Woo, out of the house after collecting the insurance money and moved into a new home with her daughter, Yoo Seung Mi (Moon Chae Won), who was Hwan's long term best friend, hoping to be something more.

Eun Sung asked for help from several of her friends, including her senior, Hyung Jin, who avoided her because she was no longer rich. She managed to find a job at a nightclub with the help of her friend, Hye Ri. At the nightclub, Eun Sung met Hyung Jin's senior, Park Joon Se (Bae Soo Bin), who was shocked to see her working there. She also met Hwan, who caused her to lose contact with Eun Woo. Realising that Eun Woo was missing, Eun Sung was devastated and tried searching for her brother but to no avail. With the help of Hye Ri and Joon Se, Eun Sung rented a small room and started a small dumplings stall while continuing her search for Eun Woo.

Meanwhile, Sook Ja became deeply disappointed in her grandson as Hwan had no direction in life and did not know how to cherish her company and employees. While pondering over what to do about her grandson, Sook Ja visited a neighborhood that she used to live in when she was poor and encountered Eun Sung, who was selling dumplings. Sook Ja encountered an accident and received help from Eun Sung. Seeing that Eun Sung tried her best to take care of her even when she could not afford her own daily expenses, Sook Ja was touched by Eun Sung's compassion. She brought Eun Sung home, then announced to her family that Eun Sung was going to live with them and that she was going to appoint Eun Sung as the heir of her food company, if she could raise the profits of the sinking second branch by 20%. To addition, she decided to stop supporting Hwan, his mother and sister, and ordered them to work as normal employees in her company.

Autumn In My Heart (Endless Love)

Endless Love was the unofficial title for a set of four Korean drama series directed by Yoon Seok-ho, produced by KBS stations.

Yoon Joon-suh and Yoon Eun-suh grew up as siblings but Eun-suh was in fact from a different family as there was a mixed up at the hospital where she was borned.The switch came to light when Eun-suh was involved in a car accident and it was discovered that her blood type was different from her parents. Eun-suh's life took a complete turn when the 2 girls were returned to their respective families. Soon after, the Yoon family left for the States and Eun-suh was left living in sordid condition with her real family in Korea. Years after, Joon-suh returned to Korea and by chance the two former siblings were reunited.

9 Ends 2 Outs

Judging from the title, the thing is about baseball, yeah? Nope. Not about baseball at all. It’s just a series-long metaphor for love, work, and the dating game, coupled with that major turn in your life, when you wake up north of 30 and face the fact that things didn’t exactly turn out the way you had imagined when you were young.

The heroine (played by Su Ae) begins the series on her 30th birthday, living in her mom’s house, and still struggling with her dream of becoming a writer. The only things coming out of Mom’s mouth daily are to give up her pipedream and get married already. Never heard that before. Nope. So faced with the harsh reality of folding her dream and getting married off to someone that her mom picks out, she decides to head out on her own.

Her best friend of thirty years (played by Lee Jung-jin) is a charming, playful playboy, who works at an advertising agency. What’s great about his character is that he isn’t the typical cold proud hero. He might occasionally be that guy to other women, but with the heroine, he’s warm, goofy, and childlike because they’ve been this close since they were kids.

Through a series of k-drama machinations, she ends up moving into his apartment, and they become one of the best roommate pairings in all of kdramaland. What’s great about these two is that they aren’t a pair of strangers who end up having to share an uncomfortably close living space (which has its perks in many dramas, don’t get me wrong).

But they’re best friends, who know WAY too much about each other to begin with…and then when coupled with having to live together, they essentially become a hilarious old married couple, mixed with the strange distance of being fully aware of being a grown man and woman who share a sexual attraction.

In short, it’s drama heaven. Sexual tension, adorable friendship, hilarious things they discover about each other as roommates…coupled with a grounded relationship with the one person in the world who tells it like it is, and holds your hand through all your breakups.

Seriously, if I think about it, I’m never jealous of relationships in k-dramas. I might want that kind of guy in my life, or I might want to be this kind of heroine, but usually k-drama relationships are quite…dysfunctional and, well, unrealistic, to say the least. I mean, how many people do you know who sign into contract marriages or fall in love with their abusive bosses?

But this drama actually made me want that kind of relationship (the friendship, not the abusive boss). I love their comfort level, and their realistic discussions about dating, sex, and love. It’s a refreshing kind of honesty that actually reflects the way real friends talk to each other. They have some hilariously frank conversations about the things men and women do, and why they are such different creatures when it comes to dating.

The main couple is surrounded by a group of college friends who’ve spent their twenties in a variety of ways, and then get back in touch. They form a nice context which informs the main couple’s friendship, but also provide another realistic setting of a group of thirtysomethings who knew each other when they were at their most idealistic and youthful.

But the biggest impetus for reflecting on age is the relationship that the heroine begins the drama with: her romance with a 22-year old baseball pitcher who’s still in college, played by Lee Tae-sung. It’s a wonderfully mismatched romance between a writer who’s entering a critical point in her dating life (as in, thinking about marriage and her future) and a kid who has never read an entire book, and is just starting to dream.

What’s nice is that it plays both sides of the coin. One the one hand, their relationship is doomed because the age difference is played realistically, which means that their expectations, their experiences, their futures—are all out of alignment. But on the other hand, because he’s a bleeding-heart 22-year old, and earnest to within an inch of his life, he chases her with utter abandon (which totally makes me swoon, a la The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry and Biscuit Teacher Star Candy).

So we’re with her every step of the way, when she’s completely taken with him, and when she comes up against a wall, and then when she’s reeled back in, and then forced to face another harsh reality. And through it all, her best friend talks her through it with lots and lots of beer, and then holds her hair back when she has to puke.

I love his initial teasing and relentless kid-jokes, all the while being the supportive best friend, and yet…still with that male posturing of I-could-take-that-kid-but-I’m-gonna-be-the-adult…which is equally childish, and hilarious to watch.

As we watch them date other people and struggle to figure out how to do right by their hearts, they grow closer by the day, until eventually their lives become incomplete without each other. It’s a progression that feels organic to the story, but also manages to do that crack-laced number on the audience, as we pick up on the signs faster than they do, and end up wringing our hands in anticipation.

We see through a series of short flashbacks sprinkled throughout the show that they had always loved each other, since they were young, but their timing had always been off. Towards the end of the series, when the six friends reflect on what love is, our heroine answers: “Love is: Timing.”

And that’s just something I believe—that love isn’t just the having of feelings, but two people who make choices to act on them, and in the end it all comes down to timing. Anyone who’s experienced losing that window knows what I mean. And I love a story that shows a realistic friendship between a man and woman that treads those murky waters.

It’s not just about denying feelings either, since they acknowledge the fact that feelings are there, but get scared of what they’ll lose—a potentially lifelong friendship that isn’t so easily disposed of, like other romantic relationships. And it’s a realistic fear, since, let’s be honest…how many of us actually stay friends with our exes?

What I like about this drama is more than just the tone or the story, but its point of view, about life and love. I love that the heroine struggles with the fear that this might be the last chance she’ll get at love, or that she has to face the fact that while her dream is to write, she may not be very good at it. Growing up means facing those fears, and coming to terms with who you are in spite of them.

I love that she doesn’t succeed as a writer in one fell swoop, but that she adjusts her expectations, and learns to become a better editor in the meantime. In facing her biggest fear—the possibility of losing her best friend and the love of her life—she gains the courage to keep working at her dream.

This drama isn’t particularly snazzy, and it doesn’t have a hook that sounds zippy as a one-liner. But it captures something fantastically rare. It shows that becoming an adult is actually a painful process, and one that we only begin to unfold at the quarter-life crisis. But the struggle that we go through is worth the reward on the other side: self-awareness, a broader sense of the world around you, and an appreciation for the people in your life who make you who you are. And if that just so happens to be your uber-hot BFF, then well, YOU WIN.

You're Beautiful

Korean drama You're Beautiful (He's a handsome man), early broadcast generally known as (He's Beautiful) is a South Korean drama about a fictional boy band A.N.Jell and the relationship between its members when a female, posing as her twin brother, joins the group. The series aired from October 7 to November 26, 2009 on the Korean network SBS. It starred Park Shin-hye, Jang Keun-suk, Lee Hong Ki of F.T. Island and Jung Yong-hwa of CN Blue. 

The series has been posted on SBS's YouTube channel. A Japanese remake of this drama was released in Japan in July 2011 as Ikemen desu ne and included a cameo appearance by Jang in Episode 8 as his Japanese counterpart, Gunsoku.

This drama tells about Go Mi Nyu (Park Shin-hye) is a sister-in-training. Her twin brother, Go Mi Nam (Park Shin-hye) successfully auditions for the musical band A.N.JELL but is forced to leave for the United States to correct a botched plastic surgery. Mi Nyu is approached by Mi Nam's manager to pose as Mi Nam while he recovers. She is against it at first but agrees in order to fulfill her dream of finding their mother. Now, posing as Mi Nam, Mi Nyu enters the group A.N.JELL and meets its members: Hwang Tae Kyung (Jang Keun-suk), Kang Shin Woo (Jung Yong-hwa) and Jeremy (Lee Hongki). At first, Tae Kyung does not like Mi Nam and makes her life hard, Shin Woo and Jeremy are friendly to her. Tae Kyung discovers that Mi Nam is a girl and threatens to reveal it, Shin Woo discovers it but does not reveal it and develops feelings for her. The story follows their lives away from the cameras and Mi Nam's efforts to keep her secret. Her life is made harder by Tae Kyung's initial hatred for her and the evil actress Yoo He Yi, who likes Tae Kyung. As the story progresses, Jeremy finds himself struggling with developing feelings for Mi Nam as he doesn't know about Mi Nam being a girl until later during a press conference. Shin Woo falls deeper and deeper for Mi Nam as well. Tae Kyung also starts to like Mi Nam but doesn't realise it until later. Yoo He Yi, made Mi Nyu confess that she is a girl at her music video opening, but later seek that Tae Kyung Shin Woo and Jeremy there keeping her secret. Near the end Mi Nam comes back falling for Yoo He Yi. Shin Woo and Jeremy keep asking to see Mi Nyu, but for Tae Kyung never ask for Mi Nyu end up with her heart

My Girl

My Girl was a popular South Korea television series produced by the Seoul Broadcasting System, that ran from late 2005 to early 2006. With the popularity of Lee Joon-gi and the appearances of Jae Hee and Han Chae Young (both from another successful drama, Delightful Girl Choon Hyang), it remained on the Top Ten, even til this day

The story starts with Yoo Rin rushing to the airport. She is helping her friend delay a flight so that the tourists of her friend will not miss their flight. Out of ideas, she plays a damsel in distress, who is apparently mourning her impending death and her dying wish to see her boyfriend who is apparently on the flight. And so after much crying and the entire airport empathizing with her, she gets to get on board the plane to look for her boyfriend who never really existed. As she walks, she realizes she cannot find anyone and pretends to faint. Alas, she faints beside the seat of our male lead, Seol Gongchan, who knows a liar when he sees one. Although their first encounter is weird, it doesn't leave much of an impression in each other's mind.

Later, however, when Gongchan has to entertain a bunch of Chinese visitors and realizes he has no translator, he engages the services of Yoo Rin coincidentally and through Yoorin, his potential Chinese investors have a great time at the L'Avenuel Hotel branch in Jeju, and Yoorin has much credit to claim for it.

After a series of comical events including Yoorin staying at his hotel lodge without paying, and Yoorin selling his hotel fruit-yard's oranges to make a small profit (to clear her father's debts again), Gongchan's impression of Yoo Rin is one of a cheat and he would want to do anything to distance himself from her.

But then word from mainland Korea is that his grandfather is dying and at his bedside, Seol Woong, through his respirator, can only meekly repeat that he must not and cannot die until he sees his granddaughter again.

Driven by desperation and his love for his grandfather, Gongchan will do anything to ease his burden. When pointed out by his secretary that Yoo Rin bears a resemblance to his aunt, Gongchan hatches a plan to pass off Yoo Rin as his grandfather's long-lost granddaughter whilst he carries on searching for the real one.

Yoo Rin, who is desperate for money to repay her father's debt, is unwilling to do the job as it involves lying to a dying man, something that she staunchly refuses to do. But when Seol Gongchan desperately begs her and she realizes she is somewhat indebted to him for not bringing her to the police after her little business in his hotel, she caves in and pretends to the long-lost granddaughter.

And so things seem to be going well, with the search for Gongchan's long-lost cousin making progress and perhaps more importantly, the improvement of Gongchan's grandfather's conditions thanks to Yoo Rin. As Yoo Rin spends more time with Gongchan's family, she gets showered with the love she never received as a child and finds herself drawn to Gongchan. She finds herself changing from the liar that she once was to a person who tries to tell the truth when she can. She knows all too well that her one-sided love will never materialize as the difference in social status between Gongchan and herself is too big.

But unknown to her, Gongchan is also slowly being drawn to her...