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Title: 꽃보다 남자 / Kgotboda Namja / Boys Before Flowers

Also known as: Boys Over Flowers

Chinese Title : 花样男子

Japanese Title : 花より男子 / Hana Yori Dango

Genre: Romance, comedy

Episodes: 25

Broadcast network: KBS2

Broadcast period: 2009-Jan-05 to 2009-Mar-31

Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55

Title: 드림하이 시즌2 / Dream High (Season 2)

Chinese Title: 星梦高飞2 / 追梦高中2

Genre: School, musical, comedy, romance

Episodes: 16

Broadcast network: KBS2

Broadcast period: 2012-Jan-30 to 2012-Mar-20

Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55

Related Series: Dream High Series

Synopsis

“Dream High Season 2″ will follows idol stars heading out to find their hopes and dreams. This Drama will deal with new students instead of the first batch student.

Kirin High School of Art has been taken over by Oz Entertainment because of financial bankruptcy. Oz Entertainment then transfers over its own idol stars to Kirin High to avoid a law requiring under age entertainers to study for a set time. Competition then brews between troubled students at Kirin High School of Art and then newly transfered idols from Oz Entertainment.

Shin Hye Sung (Kang So Ra) enters Kirin High School of Art with a high written exam score, but poor performance score. She then meets fellow students Jin Yoo Jin (Jin Woon) and JB, who makes her realize how fun music can be. Jin Yoo Jin acted when he was a child. Now, he is a troubled student dreaming of becoming a rock star. He attempts to cure his pain caused by his parent’s divorce through music.

Title: 드림하이 / Dream High (Season 1)

Chinese Title: 星梦高飞 / 追梦高中

Genre: School, musical, comedy, romance

Episodes: 16 + 1 Special

Broadcast network: KBS2

Broadcast period: 2011-Jan-03 to 2011-March-01

Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55

Related Series: Dream High Series

Synopsis

Dream High tells the story of six students at Kirin Art High School who work to achieve their dreams of becoming music stars in the Korean music industry. Go Hye Mi is a student who had majored in classical music but has to give up her dream by entering Kirin Art High School to pay off her father’s debt. However, she needs to get two other students to also come to the school in order for her to enroll in the school conditionally. These two students are Song Sam Dong, who lives in the countryside, and Jin Guk, whom she accidentally meets while trying to escape from a loan shark. Yoon Baek Hee, formerly Hyemi’s sidekick, becomes her rival in school because Hye Mi betrays her during an audition to enter the school.

Title: 동안미녀 / Dongahn Mi Nyeo / Baby-faced Beauty

Chinese Title : 童顔美女

Also Known as: Youthful Beauty / Pretty Young Woman

Genre: Romance, comedy

Episodes: 20

Broadcast network: KBS2

Broadcast period: 2011-May-02 to 2011-July-05

Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55

Synopsis

The story of Lee So Young, a 34-year-old woman who’s saddled with family debt and only has a high school qualifications, but dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Her youthful appearance is her only advantage; she is mistaken for a 25-year-old university graduate and subsequently lands her dream job when she’s hired by a fashion design company, where she meets Choi Jin Wook, a man who looks more mature than his young age.

Title: 총각네 야채가게 / Bachelor’s Vegetable Store

Chinese Title: 蔬菜店的帥小子

Genre: Romance, Comedy

Episodes: 24

Broadcast network: Channel A

Broadcast period: 2011-Dec-21 to 2012-March-08

Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 20:50

Synopsis

“Bachelor’s Vegetable Store” is based on the true story of Lee Young Suk who started selling vegetable at a small store in 1998 and now owns 33 vegetable stores nationwide. A book was published in 2003, and now the story takes to the screen.

Title: 시티헌터 / Sitihunteo / City Hunter

Chinese Title: 城市猎人

Genre: Action, suspense, romance

Episodes: 20

Broadcast network: SBS

Broadcast period: 2011-May-25 to 2011-July-28

Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

Synopsis

‘City Hunter’ is an original script based on the world-famous novel by Japan’s Tsukasa Hojo. Since it became public that Korea would be the first remake of this story into a drama, ‘City Hunter’ has been receiving worldwide attention. ‘City Hunter’ has switched the setting from Tokyo 1980 to Seoul 2011, and according to the original story structure, the protagonist becomes a city hunter and his character develops while resolving gratifying cases.

The story takes place in Seoul, 2011. Lee Yoon Sung is a talented MIT-graduate who works on the international communications team in the Blue House. He plans revenge on five politicians who caused his father’s death with his surrogate father Lee Jin Pyo and eventually becomes a “City Hunter.”

Title: 영광의 재인 / Glory Jane

Chinese Title: 荣光的在仁

Also known as: Man of Honor / Young Kwang’s Jae In

Genre: Romance

Episodes: 24

Broadcast network: KBS2

Broadcast period: 2011-Oct-12 to 2011-Dec-28

Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

Synopsis

Kim Young Kwang (Chun Jung Myung) is a baseball player on a minor league team, former 4th hitter of the major league team, is an innocently confident man who never stops trying his best to re-live past glories. Yoon Jae In (Park Min Young) works as a nurse’s aide is a struggling young, cheery, bright girl who always maintains a positive attitude despite her poor background and dreams of becoming a nurse. She meets Kim Young Kwang at the hospital when he sustains injures, as they struggling to overcome their fates, they find love. Seo In Woo (Lee Jang Woo) is the future heir of a sports clothing company and also the clean-up hitter for the a professional baseball team that his father owns. A love triangle ensues between these three characters.

Title: 내 여자친구는 구미호 / My Girlfriend is a Gumiho

Chinese Title : 我女友是九尾狐

Also known as: My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox

Genre: Romance, comedy, fantasy

Episodes: 16

Broadcast network: SBS

Broadcast period: 2010-Aug-11 to 2010-Sep-30

Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

Synopsis

Cha Dae Woong accidentally releases a gumiho, a legendary fox with nine tails that eats the livers of humans. When he finds out that she is a gumiho, he ends up doing crazy things to prevent the girl from eating his liver.

Title: 분홍 립스틱 / Pink Lipstick

Chinese Title : 粉红色唇膏

Genre: Romance, family

Episodes: 149

Broadcast Network: MBC

Broadcast period: 2010-Jan-11 to 2010-Aug-06

Air time: Monday to Friday 7:50 AM

Synopsis

Yoo Ga Eun is a sweet-natured girl who dated and subsequently married her boyfriend, Park Jung Woo. However, she later discovers that her husband had an affair with her best friend, Mi Ran, and that their adopted daughter is actually Jung Woo and Mi Ran’s lovechild. To get revenge on them, she marries Maeng Ho Geol, a wealthy clothing retailer, and carefully plots their downfall. At the same time, Ga Eun also meets Ha Jae Bum, the man who falls deeply in love with her and promises to support her by her side, no matter what she does.

Cast

Yoo family

Park Eun Hye as Yoo Ga Eun

Nam Il Woo as Yoo Dong Gook (father)

Kim Young Ran as Jung Hae Shil (mother)

Moon Ji Yoon as Yoo Sung Eun (brother)

Kim Min Jwa as Yoo Young Eun (sister)

Park family

Lee Joo Hyun as Park Jung Woo

Oh Mi Yeon as Han Bun Nyeo (mother)

MayBee as Park Jung Hee (sister)

Kim Soo Jung as Park Na Ri (Jung Woo & Mi Ran’s daughter)

Kim family

Seo Yoo Jung as Kim Mi Ran

Yoo Ji In as Jung Mal Ja (mother)

Other people

Park Kwang Hyun as Ha Jae Bum

Dok Go Young Jae as Maeng Ho Geol (owner, Taeyang Apparel)

Sung Woong as Maeng Seo Jin (Ho Geol’s son, Jae Bum’s friend)

Lee Sang Hoon (이상훈) as Yeo Ki Byul

Jung Yoo Chan (정유찬) as Young Gyu

Baek Bo Ram as Yoon Na Na

Lee Jung Yong as Yong Kap

Song Ji Eun as Kim Min Joo (Mi Ran’s friend)

Won Jong Rye as Oh Soo Ji

Sung Hyuk

Kan Jong Wook (간종욱) (cameo)

Production Credits

Producer: Choi Yong Won (최용원)

Director: Choi Chang Wook

Scriptwriter: Seo Hyun Joo (서현주)

Title: 천일의 약속 / A Thousand Days’ Promise

Chinese Title: 千日的约定

Also known as: 1,000 Day Promise

Previously known as: Forget Me Not

Genre: Romance, melodrama

Episodes: 20

Broadcast network: SBS

Broadcast period: 2011-Oct-17 to 2011-Dec-20

Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55

Synopsis

A story about a woman who’s slowly losing her memory but a man still love her unconditionally and stay beside her.

Title: 내게 거짓말을 해봐 / Naege Geojitmaleul Haebwa / Lie to Me

Chinese Title : 骗我试试 / 對我說謊看看

Also known as: Try Lying to Me

Previously known as: 달콤한 스캔들 / Sweet Scandal

Genre: Romance, comedy

Episodes: 16

Broadcast network: SBS

Broadcast period: 2011-May-09 to 2011-June-28

Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55

Synopsis

Gong Ah Jung, a level 5 Ministry of Culture official, gets entangled in a web of lies when she mistakenly lies that she’s married to Hyun Ki  Joon, a hotel manager from an affluent family. Their relationship is further complicated when Ki Joon’s ex-fiancée and a close friend of his brother’s, Oh Yoon Joo, reappears in his life.

Title: 시크릿 가든 / Sikeurit Gadeun / Secret Garden

Chinese Title : 秘密花园

Genre: Romance, comedy, fantasy, melodrama

Episodes: 20 + 1 Special

Broadcast network: SBS

Broadcast period: 2010-Nov-13 to 2011-Jan-22

Air time: Saturday & Sunday 21:45

Synopsis

The drama tells the story of Kim Joo Won (Hyun Bin), an arrogant and eccentric CEO who maintains the image of seeming perfection, and Gil Ra Im (Ha Ji Won), a poor and humble stuntwoman whose beauty and body are the object of envy amongst top actresses. Their accidental meeting, when Joo Won mistakes Ra Im for actress Park Chae Rin, marks the beginning of a tense, bickering relationship, through which Joo Won tries to hide a growing attraction to Ra Im that both confuses and disturbs him. To complicate matters further, a strange sequence of events results in them swapping bodies.

Title: 49일 / 49 Il / 49 Days

Chinese Title : 49天

Genre: Fantasy, romance

Episodes: 20

Broadcast network: SBS

Broadcast period: 2011-Mar-16 to 2011-May-19

Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

Synopsis

Shin Ji Hyun was enjoying absolute bliss as she was about to marry her fiancé, Kang Min Ho, but her perfect life is shattered when she gets into a car accident that leaves her in a coma. She is given a second chance at life by a reaper, but it comes with a condition: she has to find three people outside of her family who would cry genuine tears for her. In order to do this, she borrows the body of Yi Kyung, a part-time employee at a convenience store for 49 days.