MyDramaList talks to Netflix Kdrama Actor Andrew Bishop, who worked alongside late Lee Sun Kyun
Not sure what to watch these days? No problem, here are Twelve Currently Airing Dramas to check out:
It's Okay, That's Love (Korea)
Genre: - Romance, Drama
Plot : Jung Jae-Yeol is a mystery writer and radio DJ. He suffers from a obsession. Ji Hye-Soo is going through her first year fellowship in psychiatry at a University Hospital. She chose psychiatry because she doesn't want to perform surgeries. After she meets Jung Jae-Yeol, her life goes through big changes.
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Hotel King (Korea)
Genre: Romance, Melodrama, Business
Plot: Cha Jae Wan, holds resentment towards his father who left him and his mother. He grows up to be very levelheaded character and a perfectionist at his job. Ah Mo Ne, an heiress who tries to save her father's legacy, the one and only seven-star hotel in the nation, Hotel Ciel. Cha Jae Wan, the hotel manager becomes an enemy to his own father in order to help the heiress.
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Trot Lovers (Korea)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Plot: Jang Joon Hyun is a talented and popular musician. He looks down upon the traditional trot music genre. Meanwhile, Choi Chun Hee works multiple jobs as the breadwinner to support her father and younger sister. Her mother was a trot singer and she inherited the voice, along with hopes of being a trot singer herself someday. A romantic relationship begins between these two individuals.
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Temptation (Korea)
Genre: Melodrama
Plot: A melodrama about a married man who receives a huge sum of money from a woman to repay the huge debt he owes. Complications arise when the woman demands total submission from him, which jeopardizes his relationship with his wife.
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Flower Grandpa Investigation Unit (Korea)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Investigation
Plot: A group of three detectives in their twenties turn into 70-year-olds overnight and with the help of a senior detective try to find their youth again.
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High School - Love On (Korea)
Genre: Fantasy, School, Youth, Romance
Plot: Can a real guardian angel survive the perils of teen angst and living life as a high school student? Lee Seul Bi (Kim Sae Ron) is an angel who is sent to Earth to look after Shin Woo Hyun (Nam Woo Hyun), who lives with his grandmother and carries emotional scars from being abandoned by his parents. Despite his cold demeanor, Woo Hyun is popular in school because of his good looks and singing ability. When his best friend, Hwang Sung Yeol (Lee Seong Yeol), finds out a secret that ties them together and also develops feelings for Seul Bi, who is posing as a fellow student at their school, the best friends turn into rivals. Can Seul Bi survive first love and other the perils of life as a teenager and properly do her job to protect Woo Hyun?
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Fall in Love With Me (Taiwan)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Plot: Lu Tian Xing is a prodigy in Asia's advertising field. Rich, famous, and mightily successful, he suddenly announces during a press conference that he will be taking a three-month break from the advertising life. With a simple disguise, he transforms himself into "Xiao Lu." Enter Tao Le Si, a young woman who promised her late brother to protect his advertisement agency and his legacy. Unfortunately business never picks up and Le Si had to battle with Tian Xing to stop her company from being sold. When Xiao Lu enters her office doors, Le Si initially thinks that he's Tian Xing but the two men's personalities are complete opposites. Le Si finds herself drawn to Xiao Lu's warm temperament, but will their love last once she discovers the truth of his identity?
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Pleasantly Surprised (Taiwan)
Genre: Romance, Drama, Food
Plot: Du Kai Qi is an independent, single woman who loves comic books and her job as a chef in the fine-dining French restaurant, Figaro Cuisine. When an unassuming man, Fu Zi Jie, moves in next door, they immediately begin to bicker over trivial matters. But when Zi Jie shows up as a new employee at her restaurant, Kai Qi, as well as other staff members, mistake him for a lowly intern, not knowing that Zi Jie is a classically trained chef who just returned from France and that Figaro Cuisine is actually his father’s restaurant.
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Tie The Knot (Taiwan)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Plot: Life doesn’t always allow you to do things in the proper order. Li Xiao Mei is a career woman who works as a manager for a wedding consulting firm. When she finds out that she suffers from a condition that has to be treated by removing her uterus, Xiao Mei finds a sperm donor so that she can have a child before removing her womb. A wedding gown designer, Liu Zi Jun, falls in love with Xiao Mei and tries earnestly to win her over. But Xiao Mei’s unexpected new boss, Huang Shi Jia, develops feelings for her as well. Which suitor will she choose to tie to knot?
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Wakamono Tachi - aka All About My Siblings (Japan)
Genre: Family
Plot: Five siblings live together. They have arguments everyday and sometimes even fight with each other. Each of the siblings have their own problems like studying, finding a job, marriage, etc. There are also people connected with the siblings who either yearn for them or are their romantic interests.
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Great Teacher Onizuka 2014 (2014)
Genre: Drama, School
Plot: Onizuka is sent as a temporary teacher to the high school he graduated from in Shonan, Japan. At the high school, he faces difficult problems including a high school student’s pregnancy and a student refusing to attend school. Onizuka's past is also revealed through people who knew him from his past.
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Zainin no Uso (Japan)
Genre: Crime, Law
Plot: Lawyer Kasahara Takuya comes from behind to win an acquittal for Arimura Hirohito whom the death penalty was sought on charges of serial rape and murder. The families of the victims and the mass media take out their fury on Kasahara who lodged Arimura’s innocence even though he clearly had the murderous intent and committed the crimes. Kasahara coolly declares that they should blame the law since the court ruling was based on law. On the other hand, lawyer Kusunose Masashi, who was unable to forgive and abandoned the defence of an unremorseful Arimura, has complicated feelings. At that moment, a fatal allergic accident occurs to Aoba Confectionery which is affiliated with Nikkyo Holdings, a massive enterprise led by Haneda Kenzo. Kasahara is asked to defend it and he corners the plaintiff with every possible means. Matsumoto Shogo who has some dirt on Kasahara, shows up and asks for money.
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Which ones are on your list? Which ones are you currently watching?
