K-dramas are geared towards women, but their stories touch viewers across Asia and around the world. Many revolve around jeong – the idea of human affection that can be found in family ties and friendships.
With a cast that includes Black Knight’s Song Seung-heon and Hotel Del Luna’s Lee Si-un, this heist drama offers action and excitement. It also helps you practice your Korean with some slick dialogue and cool visuals. Find out more at 다다티비.
A Virtuous Business
A Virtuous Business tells the story of four women who delve into door-to-door sales of adult products in 1992, when the topic was still taboo. Their journey offers them independence, growth and friendship.
Kim So-yeon will be starring as Seo Yeong Bok, a mother of four who lives with her family in poverty. To better their living conditions, she jumps into selling adult products.
Kim Sung-ryung plays Oh Geum Hee, a socialite who married through an arranged marriage and moved to her husband’s hometown in rural Geumje. She leads a dull life and, to help her former housekeeper Han Jung Sook, starts selling adult products.
The Demon Judge
A colourful and dystopian drama that focuses on a broken legal system inhabited by power-hungry politicos, icy manipulators and the eponymous devil judge. It delivers an entertaining ride despite being a fantasy of justice.
The story starts when President Heo Jung Se (Baek Hyun Jin) announces the live court show where citizens will be judging and deciding verdicts themselves. The show will be led by Judge Kang Yo Han(Ji Sung) who has a ruthless reputation and is infamous for punishing dishonest people with no mercy.
To keep an eye on him, the Supreme Court appointed Kim Ga On(Jin Young) as an associate judge. She tries to keep up with Yo Han but fails to do so due to her own past story.
While You Were Sleeping
A legal drama-fantasy television series that centers on the lives of a field reporter, a prosecutor and a police officer who acquire the ability to see future events through their dreams. Despite having a fantasy-like plot, the three protagonists work to give justice to others.
Hong Joo, a field reporter, has been able to see bad things happening since she was young. She shares her ability with Jae Chan, a prosecutor, and Jung Seung Won, his younger brother, who moves in a house across hers.
Featuring exploding buses, domestic abuse and a husband-wife love story, this show will keep you wide awake and on your toes.
Extracurricular
A model high school student who’s steeped in a world of serious crime finds his double life upended when a classmate takes an interest in his side hustle.
Kim Dong-hee (Itaewon Class) gives a stunning performance as the vulnerable Ji-soo. He’s a straight-A student by day who works at a physical labor job to help pay the bills.
Meanwhile, Ki-tae is a bratty bully that uses her social status to get revenge on Ji-soo, starting with glue on his chair and eventually ramping up to a violating sex toy in his backpack that tips off the teacher to search all students’ bags.
The Queen of the Jungle
When a mysterious “rot” infects Mother Forest, Sheena is the only one who can stop it. She’s also on the trail of her grandfather’s handlers, who are trying to force the feral scion of Cardwell Inc into boarding school to teach her the niceties of civilization.
Wohl took great care to purloin as much of the animal footage from Jungle Goddess as possible, and Queen features memorable recycled snippets such as the canoe-over-the-falls Chapter Five cliffhanger, a tiger leaping at Sheena on a rope, and a lion chasing Sheena across a bridge until she pushes a boulder onto it.
The King of the Jungle
Junior is very cute and likable even though he might be a little gullible at times. He’s very playful with Mowgli and they make a great pair.
Shere Khan is a powerful predator, a clear violation of the Jungle Laws regarding killing and an innate trouble maker. His hypnotic eyes are enough to distract his enemies while he chokes them out with his neck girth.
Hathi the elephant is a wise and inspiring leader. He enforces the rules and respects jungle traditions. One concept that was scrapped would have shown a male rock python as Scar’s Dragon instead of the originally planned venomous snake.
The Heiress
A graceful drawing-room drama rife with character tension and piercing cruelty, The Heiress features beautiful costumes and a winning mashup of story telling techniques. The film won de Havilland an Oscar for her performance.
Set in New York in the 1850s, The Heiress stars Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper, a plain Jane daughter of a rich physician father who believes she cannot hold a candle to her vivacious mother. When Catherine falls for a charming young man that her father suspects is only after her inheritance, she must choose between wealth and love.