PTW: 2017

16 ep. 70 min.

MDL: 8.8 ⭐

Cho Seung Woo ( Divorce Attorney Shin)

Hwang Shi Mok underwent brain surgery as a child to curb his violent temper, which left him devoid of emotions. Hwang becomes a prosecutor known for his piercing intelligence and logic, but he is ostracized because he lacks empathy and social skills. He is also one of only a handful of upright prosecutors who have refused to take bribes. One day, he encounters a stabbing victim while investigating corruption. He meets Lieutenant Han Yeo Jin at the crime scene. They join forces to root out corruption at the prosecutors’ office and solve a serial murder case.

18 ep. 70 min.

Ji Sung (Kill Me Heal Me, The Devil Judge)
Kwon Yu Ri (Girls Generation)

Park Jung Woo is a prosecutor at Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office. One day, he wakes up and finds himself a convict on death row. Suffering from temporary amnesia, Jung Woo has no idea what transpired to land him in prison. He struggles to recover his memory and clear his name before his time is up.

16 ep. 70 min.

Yoo Ah In ( Burning, #Alive, Hellbound, Seoul Vibe)
Im Soo Jung (Melancholia, Search: WWW)
Go Kyung Pyo (Reply 1988, My roommate is a Gumiho, Connect, Seoul Vibe)
Kwak Shi Yang (Night Flight, Fight For My Way, Lovers of the Red Sky, Cafe Minamdang)

This drama follows the lives of two men and a woman through two eras: one during the 1930s Japanese occupation of Korea and the other in the 21st century. The three main characters are: 

(1) Han Se Joo was a writer in his past life and a bestselling author in the present. But Se Joo is depressed with writer’s block so he can't write his next book.
(2) Yu Jin Oh owned a bar in his previous life. In 2017, he is a talented ghostwriter who can bail Se Joo out of his predicament, but the mysterious man has a condition for his services. Se Joo may not be able to meet it.
(3) Jeon Seol was a sniper. Now she has extremely varied expertise. She is a former Olympian hopeful, a veterinarian, and a book lover who runs her own delivery service. She oscillates between extreme fandom and an anti-fandom of Se Joo. 

The intricately woven story of these three characters unfolds to reveal strange mirroring connections between the time periods as well as possibilities for past lives to be redeemed or improved in the modern world. This story depicts Korea and the friendship between the three beautifully through different times.

16 ep. 64 min.

In 1986, Park Gwang Ho works as an excellent and enthusiastic detective. His life changes when he’s pursuing leads in a serial homicide case and then passes through a time portal, which transports him to present day Seoul. He meets a new partner Kim Sun Jae, an elite detective who happens to be a bit eccentric, but is one highly skilled investigator. The detective duo will also find help in psychology professor, Shin Jae Yi.

20 ep. 60 min.

MDL: 8.6⭐
Viki: 9.5 ⭐

Namgoong Min (The Veil)
Lee Jun Ho (The Red Sleeve, Just Between Lovers)

Can corporate politics turn a bad person into a good person? Kim Sung Ryong is a skilled accountant who works for gangsters. He makes his way into a company called TQ Group as a middle manager in the accounting department with the intention of embezzling money from the company. As he contends with hot-shot accountant Yoon Ha Kyung, financial prodigy Seo Yul and peppy intern Hong Ga Eun, Sung Ryong finds himself embroiled in office politics and notices other shenanigans by those in power that threaten to bring down the company. Sung Ryong slowly comes to realize that he’d rather fight against corporate corruption and fight for employees’ rights than complete the mission he originally came to do. Can he succeed at his new objective against all odds?

12 ep. 70 min.

MDL: 8.6⭐
Viki: 9.5 ⭐

Son Ho Jun (Reply 1994, The Uncanny Counter, The First Responders)
Jang Ki Yong

38-years-old married couple, Choi Ban Do and Ma Jin Joo, were in love when they got married but now, hate each other and regret marrying at such a young age. Choi Ban Do has been burdened with being the breadwinner, and Ma Jin Joo is a housewife with low self-esteem. The couple travels through time and finds themselves as 20-year-old university students when they met for the first time.

52 ep. 65 min.

Lee Joon (Bulgasal, Bloody Heart)
Jung So Min (Because This Is My First Life, Alchemy Souls)

This drama is about a family that lives on the outskirts of Seoul. Byun Han Soo is the father and His wife, Na Yeong Shil is a dedicated, responsible mother to his three daughters and one son including Hye Yeong, Mi Yeong, Ra Yeong, and Joon Young. Suddenly one day, Ahn Joong Hee shows up at the household and declares that he is the son of the family. Joong Hee is an actor who used to be a member of an idol group. He begins to live with them.

12 ep. 66 min.

Lee Jun Young (Imitation, Let Me Be Your Knight, May I Help You, D.P.,

Features three women from different walks of life coming together for revenge: a middle-aged fish store owner who envisioned a better life for herself, a housewife, and an heiress who was raised like a delicate greenhouse flower. They’re an unlikely trio who would never otherwise meet, but they join forces to carry out their individual revenge. Although they start out as co-conspirators, along the way they’ll build a strong friendship.

30 ep. 60 min.

Chae Soo Bin (A Piece of Your Mind, Rookie Cops)
Kim Ji Suk (When The Camellia Blooms, Doom At Your Service, Kiss Sixth Sense)

“The culprit who is posing as a royal official is not stealing wealth. He is stealing the hearts and minds of your people, Your Majesty.” There was a divisive figure in the Joseon Dynasty who was a hero to the people but an enemy to the establishment. His name was Hong Gil Dong. King Yeonsangun had royal lineage but was reviled by his people while Hong Gil Dong was born as a slave but succeeded in winning over the hearts of the commoners. The struggle between these two men demonstrate the qualities that a true leader needs. This TV series portrays the life of Hong Gil Dong who survived in a hostile and tyrannical kingdom as he waged a fight against the powerful elites.

14 ep. 60 min.

Park Eun Bin (The King's Affection, Do You Like Brahms?, Extraordinary Attorney Woo)
Kim Min Seok (Lovestruck in the City, Delivery Man, Because This Is My First Life)

Five girls in their 20s share a house called Belle Époque. A year has passed since “Hello, My Twenties 1.” Each of them got a job, went back to school, is still trying to get a boyfriend, or is getting over her first breakup. One day, a new student arrives at the house with a letter she stumbled upon. The letter is filled with curses against one of the girls at Belle Époque.

16 ep. 60 min.

MDL: 8.5⭐

Seo Yea Ji (It's Okay Not To Be Okay)
Ok Taec Yeon (Vincenzo, Blind)
Woo Do Hwan (The Divine Fury, The King Eternal Monarch)

Following the failure of her father's business, Sang Mi and her family move to Muji-gun, where they have no friends or relatives. There she meets four young men, Han Sang Hwan, Seok Dong Cheol, Woo Jung Hoon, and Choi Man Hee. When Sang Mi and her family face some trouble, Spiritual Father Baek Jung Ki of Goosunwon offers to help them. However, her family is slowly getting sucked into the pseudo-religious cult, and the four young men try to save her.

16 ep. 60 min.

Jang Hyuk (Innocent, Bloody Heart)
Lee Ha Na (A Piece of Your Mind)
Kim Jae Wook (Coffee Prince, Her Private Life)

Popular detective Moo Jin Hyuk who is filled with guilt for his wife’s death, works with professional voice profiler Kang Kwon Joo, whose father is killed, to solve a different crime, chasing for the serial killer responsible for the deaths of their family members.

12 ep. 65 min.

MDL: 8.5⭐

Yeo Jin Goo (Hotel del Luna, Link: Eat Love Kill)
Kim Kang Woo (Artificial City)
Gong Seung Yeon (Bulgasal, Firt Responders)

Taking place in both the present year 2017 and in the year 2037, when people believe that their future depends on humans controlling and regulating their emotions, this drama is a sci-fi mystery. When alien visitors arrive on Earth, humans learn new skills from them and take advantage of them; what ensues is a story of alliance, resistance, and love. Each episode will contain two shorter stories, the first part set in 2017 and called “Beta Project,” with the second set in 2037 and called “Grand New World.”

16 ep. 63 min.

Yang Se Jong (Dr. Romantic)
Seo Eun Soo (Top Management, Dr. Romantic)

Jang Deuk Cheon, a hardened detective cop whose daughter is kidnapped, begins a chase against great odds to solve the mystery of his situation and find his child before it is too late. He starts to hunt down the suspect using the one clue he has: Two men with the same face were at the crime scene.

32 ep. 35 min.

MDL: 8.4 ⭐
Viki: 9.6 ⭐

Chae Soo Bin (Rookie Cops, A Piece of Your Mind)

Kim Min Kyu is the largest shareholder of a financial company. He suffers from a "human allergy", preventing him from normal interactions with other people. He becomes interested in a robotic project named Aji-3 created by the Santa Maria robotic team. The team is headed by Hong Baek Gyun, inventor of Aji-3 and world-renowned robotics professor. He modeled Aji-3 after his ex-girlfriend, Jo Ji Ah, a struggling inventor that also works as a personal shopper to make ends meet. 

Just when Kim Min Kyu wants to test the robot, an accident causes the malfunction of the robot's battery. Hong Baek Gyun begs Jo Ji Ah to take the place of Aji-3 and pretend to be the robot so they can get funding from Kim Min Kyu. But, Aji-3 becomes the closest thing that the lonely Min Kyu has to real contact with another person.

16 ep. 60 min.

Yoo Ji Tae (Money Heist: Korea)
Woo Do Hwan (The King Eternal Monarch, The Divine Fury)

Choi Kang Woo, who is a former police and leader of Taeyang Insurance's investigators team, decides to create his own investigation team, after an airplane crash that took the life of his wife and son. He then meets Kim Min Joon, a genius former swindler whose brother was also a victim of the crash, thus begin their rivalry and cooperation. 

The drama portrays the reality of Korea through diverse insurance crimes that are prevalent in the country. There are the 'copy cats' that imitate and improve the existing crimes, and the 'mad dogs' who catch these bad cats.

32 ep. 35 min.

Lee Si Young (Sweet Home, Grid)
Kim Young Kwang (Call It Love, On YourWedding Day, Somebody)
Kim Seul Gi (Love With Flaws)
Key
Choi Moo Sung (Uncontrollably Fond, Prison Playbook)

The plot centers on a group of people who find their ordinary lives thrown into chaos due to a family tragedy. They monitor criminals 24 hours a day and rescue potential victims before the crime is committed. They also embarrass corrupt state prosecutors and make sure that criminals are punished for their crimes. This TV show illustrates the current society where the simple rule of going to jail if you break the law no longer applies to those in power. Illustrating the tragic lives of the Watchmen group who channel their anger and grief into fighting for justice, “The Guardians” will have stylistic action scenes and a thrilling plot.

20 ep. 60 min.

Park Min Young (Her Private Life, When The Weather Is FIne)
Yeon Woo Jin (Thirty-Nine)
Go Bo Gyeol (The Heavenly Idol)

This drama is about the love story between King Jung Jong and his Queen Dan Kyung, who was crowned and deposed within the span of a week due to rival political factions that controlled the king’s rule. According to historical legend, after the queen was dethroned and removed from the palace, the king would walk to the outside royal pavilion every day and sigh as he gazed at a mountain in her direction. After hearing this, she placed a red skirt, her favorite to wear in the palace, on a rock on the mountain face so he would know that she was well and that she still yearned for him.

16 ep. 70 min.

Kim Nam Gil (Through the Darkness, Island 1 + 2)
Moon Ga Young (True Beauty, Link: Love Eat Kill, Interest of Love)

Heo Im, who is born in a concubine family in the Joseon era and has very outstanding medical skills, is frustrated about his career as he fails to climb to higher positions in the government because of his background. By accident, he travels through time to modern Seoul 400 years later and meets modern doctor Yeon Gyung. Thinking that Heo Im is weird, she hopes to get rid of Heo Im but instead, they travel back to Joseon together again.

16 ep. 60 min.

Yoo Seol Ok has always wanted to become a police officer for her entire life. One day, she gets to know a passionate detective. And, he gives her an opportunity to make her dream come true. They work on mysterious cases together.

10 ep. 15 min.

Choi Min Ho (Yumi's Cells 1 + 2)
Lee Yoo Bi (Yumi's Cells 1 + 2)

28-year-old Kyung Hwi is a resident at a university hospital. He was bullied in high school. He made a suicide attempt, but Han Na Bi, a mysterious girl that transferred to his school early that semester, prevented him from dying. However, after telling him to live, she had suddenly committed suicide. Kyung Hwi couldn’t forget about her for the past decade and one day wakes up to find himself in his old self 10 years ago. It’s a week before Na Bi committed suicide. 

He is the 18-year-old loser he used to be, but he can’t miss this opportunity. He has to find out what happened to Na Bi, why she killed herself, and stop her from doing so. Kyung Hwi goes through his life as an 18-year-old with the experience of a 28-year-old, changing his gloomy past as he goes. Will Kyung Hwi, who went back to the time he was an outcast, be able to save his first love and have a happy ending?

24 ep. 65 min.

Jang Hyuk (Bloody Heart, Innocent)
Jang Seung Jo (Strangers Again)
Han So Hee (My Name, Nevertheless, Soundtrack #1)

Managing director Kang Pil Joo is envied by many inside the Chungah Group where he is known for his intelligence and high-performance. He keeps his real identity a secret from the Chungah Group founding family and serves them as an obedient servant but he is actually grooming them for his scheme. His plan was to make Mo Hyun fall in love with Jang Bu Cheon for his revenge, but he finds himself falling desperately in love with her free-spirited personality. 

The “Money Flower” portrays a story of interlinked relationships between Pil Joo who is capable of bringing down Chungah, Mo Hyun who seeks love and a young Chungah Group scion named Bu Cheon. And these characters all come to the fore as money dictates their lives in a web of desire, greed, and love.

16 ep. 60 min.

Kim Se Jeong (Uncanny Counter, A Business Proposal, Today's Webtoon)
Kim Jung Hyun (Crash Landing On You)
Jang Dong Yoon (Oasis)
Han Sun Hwa (Work Later, Drink Now)
Seol In Ah (A Business Proposal, Oasis)

The drama tells realistically of the many various troubles that high school students can face. Ra Eun Ho is just one of them, struggling to survive in a school that discriminates against rich and poor, and believes that the best students are the ones with the best grades. Eun Ho is a cheerful, upbeat 18-year-old girl whose dream is to be a webtoon artist. When she mistakenly gets caught up in another student's effort to send the school into turmoil, Ra Eun Ho is framed as the legendary Student X, a mysterious troublemaker whose identity is unknown, and suddenly, all of her aspirations are put at risk. 

Joining her is Hyun Tae Woon, the son of the school's director with a difficult personality and troubled past. In a motorbike accident, he lost his best friend and from there, his life changed. He is uptight, aloof and rude, but as he gets to know the polar opposite Ra Eun Ho, his view on the world changes. He falls in love with her, and together with their fellow students, they decide to stand up against their corrupt school system and make a change.

20 ep. 60 min.

Kim Hee Sun (Remarriages and Desires, Tomorrow)

Ah Jin has it all; beauty, wealth, influence and the respect of her father-in-law, the CEO of a paper goods company. To be the caregiver for her wheelchair-bound father-in-law, she hires Bok Ja, who seems perfect for the job if a little dowdy. However, Bok Ja quickly shows her true colors, taking over the family fortune after winning over the CEO's heart and now, his family seeks revenge.