TV Novel – The Stars Are Shining

Title: TV소설 – 별이 되어 빛나리 / TV Novel – The Stars Are Shining
Chinese Title: TV小說-星星閃爍
Genre: Period, Family, Romance
Episodes: 128 (To Be Confirmed)
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2015-Aug-31 to 2016-Feb-26
Air time: Monday to Friday 09:00
Related Series: TV Novel


Synopsis
Set in the 1960s. Jo Bong Hee (Go Won Hee) and family falls into difficulties after the death of her father. She then overcomes obstacles to become the best fashion designer in South Korea.

Cast
Main Cast
Go Won Hee as Jo Bong Hee
– Kim Yoo Bin as Jo Bong Hee (child)
Lee Ha Yool as Yoon Jong Hyun
– Jang Seung Ha (장승하) as Yoon Jong Hyun (young)

Best Couple

Title: 최고의 연인 / Best Couple
Also Known as: The Greatest Couple / Best Lovers / The Dearest Lady
Chinese Title: 最佳戀人
Genre: Family, Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 120 (To Be Confirmed)
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2015-Dec-07
Air time: Monday to Friday 19:15


Synopsis
This is a drama about love and relationships, from the point of view of a mother and two daughters. The story is told through their flings, love and relationships, and marriage, and the drama will try to tell its viewers about the trials and strife of the single, divorced, and re-married women in our era.
Han Ah Reum (Kang Min Kyung) is a design assistant at a high-end boutique clothing shop. She is the younger daughter of a divorced woman, Na Bo Bae (Ha Hee Ra). Meanwhile, Han Ah Jung (Jo An) will be her elder sister.

Oh My Venus

Title: 오 마이 비너스 / Oh My Venus
Chinese Title: Oh 我的维纳斯
Previously Known as: 오 마이 갓 / Oh My God
Genre: Romantic, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2015-Nov-16 to 2016-Jan-05
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 22:00


Synopsis
This is a drama about two Childhood friends meet again in their adulthood and find themselves making a bet on a “diet challenge”. The story focuses on their journey of searching for love and health.
Kim Young Ho (So Ji Sub) is a personal trainer for Hollywood stars. Even though he comes from a wealthy family background, he suffered a devastating injury during his childhood days. Now, he overcomes his problems with patience and stubbornness. Meanwhile, Kang Joo Eun (Shin Min Ah) is 33-years-old lawyer. She has struggled to support her family. Now, she is overweight and challenge her-selves for a diet.

Witch’s Castle

Title: 마녀의 성 / Witch’s Castle
Chinese Title: 魔女之城
Previously Known as: 당신은 나의 별 / 你是我的星星
Genre: Melodrama, Romance, Family
Episodes: 120 (To Be Confirmed)
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2015-Dec-14
Air time: Monday to Friday 19:20



Synopsis
The story of a mother-in-law, daughter-in-law and sister-in-law overcoming their differences and becoming the stars of each others’ lives.
Oh Dan Byul (Choi Jung Won) lost her parents due to her own mistake. She marries Joon Young (Kim Jeong Hoon), but her husband passes away. Meanwhile, her mother-in-law, Yang Ho Duk (Yoo Ji In), divorces because of her husband’s infidelity and her sister-in-law, Kong Se Sil (Shin Dong Mi) also returns to South Korea after divorcing her Italian husband. Now, these three women live together while overcoming their own personal problems…

Cast
Main Cast
Choi Jung Won as Oh Dan Byul
Seo Ji Suk as Shin Gang Hyun
Yoo Ji In as Yang Ho Duk (Dan Byul’s mother-in-law)
Shin Dong Mi as Kong Se Sil (Dan Byul’s sister-in-law)

The Merchant: Gaekju 2015

Title: 장사의 신 – 객주 2015 / The Merchant: Gaekju 2015
Chinese Title: 生意之神 – 客主2015
Also Known as: God of Commerce: Gaekju 2015
Previously known as: 객주 (The Innkeeper)
Genre: Period, Romance
Episodes: 36+5 (To Be Confirmed)
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2015-Sep-23 to 2016-Feb-18
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 22:00


Synopsis
Based on the ten-volume original novel “Gaekju” by Kim Joo Young which was published from 1979-June to 1983-Feb through daily newspaper “The Seoul Shinmun”.
A drama that tells the story of tradesmen in the late years of the Joseon era. Cheon Bong Sam (Jang Hyuk), the descendant of a merchant family, starts off in the market as a barker and makes his way up to become a wealthy merchant.

Cast
Main Cast
Jang Hyuk as Cheon Bong Sam
– Jo Hyun Do as Cheon Bong Sam (child)
Yoo Oh Sung as Gil So Gae
Kim Min Jung as Mae Wol
Han Chae Ah as Jo So Sa
Cheon Bong Sam’s Family
Jung Tae Woo as Seon Dol
Ryu Dam as Gom Bae
Moon Ga Young as Wol Yi
Park Eun Hye as Cheon So Rye
– Seo Ji Hee as Cheon So Rye(child)
Im Hyung Joon as Oh Deuk Gae

My Daughter, Geum Sa Wol

Title: 내 딸, 금사월 / My Daughter, Geum Sa Wol
Chinese Title: 我的女兒金四月
Previously Known as: 내가! 금사월 / I Am Geum Sa Wol
Genre: Melodrama, Family
Episodes: 50 (To Be Confirmed)
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2015-Sep-05 to 2016-Feb-21
Air time: Saturday & Sunday 22:00


Synopsis
What happens when the “sister” you grow up with at an orphanage ends up taking your life and becoming your biggest professional rival?
Geum Sa Wol (Baek Jin Hee) and Oh Hye Sang (Park Se Young) arrived at an orphanage on the same day and grew up like close sisters. But Hye Sang is adopted by Oh Min Ho (Park Sang Won) and Han Ji Hye (Do Ji Won) and ends up living a very comfortable life. But things get complicated because Min Ho’s first love, Shin Deuk Yee (Jun In Hwa), who happens to be Ji Hye’s best friend, secretly gave birth to his daughter, but the baby girl was accidentally switched at the hospital with another baby. Deuk Yee ends up marrying Kang Man Hoo (Son Chang Min), the family driver who throws away his first wife, Choi Ma Ri (Kim Hee Jung), to have a better life with Deuk Yee. Ma Ri becomes a mistress in Man Hoo’s new life but her son, Kang Chan Bin (Yoon Hyun Min), is raised as the legal son of Deuk Ye. While Chan Bin tries his hardest to be the dutiful son, Joo Se Hoon (Do Sang Woo), the son of a moneylender, is the opposite, trying to escape the life that his father created for him. When the truth comes out about Sa Wol and Hye Sang, can the two former orphanage sisters find their true place in life?

Please Come Back, Mister

Title: 돌아와요 아저씨 / Please Come Back, Mister
Chinese Title: 回來吧大叔
Also known as: Come Back Ahjussi / Come Back Mister
Previously known as: 안녕 내 소중한 사람 / Hello My Precious
Genre: Melodrama, Comedy
Episodes: 16 (To Be Confirmed)
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2016-Feb-24 to 2016-Apr-14
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 22:00

Synopsis
This drama was based on the Japanese Novel “Mr. Tsubakiyama’s Seven Days / 椿山課長の七日間“ by Jiro Asada which was published from 2001-July-02 to 2002-April-16 through “Asahi Shimbun“.
A man is worked to death, but he comes back to the living world in the attractive body of another man for a limited amount of time.
Lee Hae Joon (Rain) is a perfect man with good looking appearance. He works as a section chief in the women’s apparel section at a department store. His body is actually possessed by the spirit of Kim Young Soo (Kim In Kwon) who was worked to death. Meanwhile, Hong Nan (Oh Yeon Seo) is a beautiful woman, but her spirit is possessed by a tough guy, Han Ki Tak (Kim Soo Ro). At the same time, Shin Da Hye (Lee Min Jung) is a beautiful housewife, but her husband suddenly dies. She falls into a love triangle with Lee Hae Joon and a promising store employee Jung Ji Hoon (Yoon Park).

Lovers of Haeundae

Details

• Title: 해운대 연인들 / Hae-woon-dae Yeon-in-deul
• Genre: Comedy, romance
• Episodes: 16
• Broadcast network: KBS2
• Broadcast period: 2012-Aug-06 to 2012-Sep-25
• Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea 

Synopsis

A romantic comedy happening in Haeundae, Busan, where an elite prosecutor Lee Tae Sung (Kim Kang Woo) who lost his memory meets a daughter of former gangster Go So Ra (Jo Yeo Jung).

Can't Live Without You

Details

• TV Show: Can't Live Without You
• Revised romanization: Geudaeupin Motsalah
• Hangul: 그대없인 못살아
• Director: Choi Yi-Sub
• Writer: Kim Sun-Young
• Network: MBC
• Episodes: 100+
• Release Date: May 28, 2012 --Nov 9, 2012
• Runtime: Mon-Fri 20:15
• Genre: Family
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea 

Big

Details

Title: 빅 / Big
Genre: Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2012-Jun-04 to 2012-Jul-24
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55

Synopsis
The mind of 18 year old Kang Kyung Joon somehow gets trapped in the body of 30 year old Seo Yoon Jae, who just happens to be Kyung Joon's future brother-in-law.

The Horse Doctor 마의

Details

• TV Show: Horse Doctor
• Romanization: Maui
• Hangul: 마의
• Director: Lee Byung-Hoon
• Writer: Kim Yi-Young
• Network: MBC
• Episodes: 50
• Release Date: October 1, 2012 --TBA
• Runtime: Mondays & Tuesdays 22:00
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea 

Synopsis

A Medical drama about the life of a low-class veterinarian of that era who was a horse doctor then becoming a high official as a court physician in charge of the king's health in the late period of the Joseon Dynasty.

An Angel's Choice / 천사의 선택

Details

• TV Show: An Angel's Choice
• Revised romanization: Chunsaui Suntaek
• Hangul: 천사의 선택
• Director: Son Hyeong-Seok
• Writer: Seo Hyun-Joo
• Network: MBC
• Episodes: 140
• Release Date: April 2, 2012 --TBA
• Runtime: Mon-Fri 07:50
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea 

I Miss You / Missing You 보고싶다

Profile

• TV Show: I Miss You / Missing You
• Revised romanization: Bogosipda
• Hangul: 보고싶다
• Director: Lee Jae-Dong
• Network: MBC
• Episodes: 24
• Release Date: November, 2012 --TBA
• Runtime: Wednesdays & Thursdays 21:55
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea

Synopsis
A drama about a man and a woman who had to part ways due to an unfortunate accident when they were young, facing each other again and playing a game of love hide and seek.

Fashion King

Details

• Title: 패션왕 / Fashion King
• Genre: Romance, Melodrama
• Episodes: 20
• Broadcast network: SBS
• Broadcast period: 2012-Mar-19 to 2012-May-22
• Air time: Monday & Tuesday Night 21:55

Synopsis

"Fashion King" revolves around the world of fashion designers, from start-ups in the Dongdaemun area of Seoul onto world class designers.
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Young-Gul (Yoo Ah-In) makes imitation designer clothes at a small factory and sells them at Dongdaemun Market. He is in bad financial shape.

Sorry I Love You

Details

• Title: 미안하다, 사랑한다 / Mianhada, Saranghanda
• Also known as: MiSa / I'm Sorry, I Love You / Sorry I Love You / Sorry But I Love You (YesAsia)
• Genre: Human drama, romance
• Episodes: 16
• Viewership ratings: 20.3 (Seoul) / 20.1 (Korea)
• Broadcast network: KBS2
• Broadcast period: 2004-Nov-09 to 2004-Dec-28
• Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55

Synopsis

Cha Moo Hyuk is a small time scam-artist working the streets of Australia. He was abandoned by his parents as a kid and he was adopted by a couple in Australia. Unfortunately, he was mistreated by his adoptive parents and thus roams the streets, cheating tourists out of their money when they are lost. It

Beloved

Title: Beloved / Dear You
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 16
Director: Jo Hyun Tak
ScreenWriter: Kim Ji Eun
Broadcast network: jTBC, Wednesday & Thursday 20:45
Broadcast period: 2012-June-27 to 2012-Aug-16


Synopsis
A married couple of three years look back on their marriage when past lovers approach them.

Cast
Kim Min Joon as Choi Eun Hyuk
Park Sol Mi as Seo Chan Joo
Hong Jong Hyun as Go Jin Se
Choi Yeo Jin
Park Shi Eun

Bridal Mask

Details

• Title: 각시탈 / Gaksital
• Also known as: Bridal Mask
• Genre: Period, action, drama, romance
• Episodes: 28
• Broadcast network: KBS2
• Broadcast period: 2012-May-30 to 2012-Sept-06
• Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55 
• Director: Yoon Sung Shik
• Screenwriter: Yoo Hyun Mi

Synopsis

Gaksital is a famous manhwa set in the 1930s, during the Japanese occupation. The hero, Lee Kang-to, is known as 'Gaksital' because he wears a mask to hide his face — one of those traditional play masks, specifically the rosy-cheeked one reserved for the female role, aka the bride. He's an unassuming young man in real life, but when he dons his superhero mask, he fights injustice and rights wrongs during one of the darkest periods of Korea's history

Love Rain

Details

• Title: 사랑비 / Sarangbi
• Also known as: Love Rain
• Genre: Romance, melodrama
• Episodes: 20 
• Director: Yoon Seok-Ho
• Writer: Oh Soo-Yun
• Broadcast network: KBS2
• Broadcast period: 2012-Mar-26 to 2012-May-29
• Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55 
• Official Site : http://www.kbs.co.kr/drama/loverain/

Synopsis

"Love Rain" depicts a 1970's pure love and a love from the present day at the same time. It shows how the children of a previous ill-fated couple, who met in the 1970s, managed to meet and fall in love. Seo In Ha and Kim Yoon Hee, an art student and a shy beauty, met and fell in love with each other during college in the 1970s but unfortunately their love was fated to never be. Now in the present 21st century Korea, Seo In Ha's son, Seo Joon (a liberal photographer) meets and falls in with the daughter of Kim Yoon Hee, Jung Ha Na, a cheerful and energetic girl who's personality is different from her mother's. Will their love for each other keep them together or will they have to face the same fate as their parents?

Golden Time

Details

• Title: Golden Time/Goldeuntaim
• Hangul: 골든타임
• Director: Kwon Seok-Jang
• Writer: Choi Hee-Ra
• Broadcast: MBC
• Episodes: 23
• Release Date: July 9, 2012 - September 25, 2012
• Runtime: Mondays & Tuesdays 21:55 
• Official Site: http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/drama/goldentime/

Sypnosis

A medical drama based on a surgical department in a general hospital. Set within the backdrop of an emergency room at a hospital. Kang Jae-In (Hwang Jung-Eum) is the heiress of Ikhyo Foundation, which owns a medical university and five hospitals, but Jae-In is unaware that she is the heiress. Jae-In only cares about her ex-boyfriend.

Five Fingers

Details

• Title: Five Fingers / Dasutsongarak
• Hangul: 다섯손가락
• Director: Choi Hyeong-Hun
• Writer: Kim Sun-Ok
• Network: SBS
• Episodes: 30
• Release Date: August 18, 2012 --TBA
• Broadcast: Saturdays & Sundays 22:00

Sypnosis

"Five Fingers" is about young people who each have their own tragedies to overcome and achieve their dreams. A pianist (Joo Ji-Hoon) has extraordinary talent, but must overcome his family's tragic history.