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Plot: Shim Chung is a mermaid who follows her one true love, a nobleman’s son named Kim Ryung from the Joseon Dynasty, to modern-day Seoul. Ryung’s modern doppelgänger is Heo Joon Jae, a highly skilled scam artist who first becomes interested in Shim Chung because of a jade bracelet worth $6 million that Shim Chung wears. With nowhere to go, Shim Chung is taken in by Joon Jae, who also finds his con partners, Jo Nam Doo and Tae Oh, hiding out in his home from a vengeful past victim of their scams. Shim Chung discovers a rival for Joon Jae’s heart in Cha Shi Ah, a researcher at KAIST who deals with ancient artifacts. When a dangerous killer named Ma Dae Yeong, sent by Joon Jae’s stepmother, who wants to make her own son the heir to Joon Jae’s fortunes.Main cast: Shim Cheong is a mermaid. She follows Joon-jae to Seoul after developing feelings for him in Spain. He names her Shim Cheong, which means "extremely stupid", as she is highly ignorant about the common things on land. She has super strength and the ability to read and erase one's memories.
Heo Joon-jae is a con-artist who uses his wits and looks to conduct scams on people of the privileged class of the society. He meets Shim Cheong, a mermaid and falls in love with her, he is able to read her thoughts. He wants to change the ill-fate that chases Dam-ryeong and Se-hwa.
Review: It is my first Kdrama and I really enjoyed it. It was a mix of romance, comedy, action and fantasy which I loved. — It was just super fun to watch. Another thing I loved was the chemistry — The two leads were amazing. I never got bored. Every episode was interesting.
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Plot: Han Se Gye is a top actress, also known as a troublemaker, with many rumors around her. To others, her life appears as a mystery, when in fact she is faced with a strange occurrence where at a certain point every month, her appearance changes to a different person. She lives one week out of every month with a different appearance and identity. She encounters Seo Do Jae, a brilliant man who is an executive at an airline company. He seems to have it all: a perfect appearance, knowledge, and a good job; but he has a secret too. He suffers from Prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces. However, he manages to hide this from the world, every day he makes an effort to remember people by their personalities. Seo Do Jae's life begins to change when he meets Han Se Gye. She is the only person whose face he can recognize.Main: Han Se-gye is a top actress who is the subject of numerous rumors, especially because she occasionally suddenly disappears from public view. Only a few people know her secret, and they do their best to cover for her. She is the model for T Road Airline.
Seo Do-jae is the director of an airline company, T Road Air, who has face blindness after his brain was injured in an accident. He hides his disorder from the world, and remembers people's habits and appearance to recognize them.
Review: This is such an underrated and good drama and should have been so much more hyped! Not only are the production, settings and aesthetic on point, but the acting + characters were amazing. The plot was good + simple. I loved the message proving that inner beauty matters. But there are times when it gets a little boring.
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Plot: Yoon Ji Woo, a member of the organized crime ring, goes undercover as a police officer and harbors cold revenge in her heart. Yoon Ji-Woo’s father dies suddenly. She wants to desperately take revenge on whoever is responsible for her father's death. Helping Yoon Ji Woo go undercover is Choi Moo Jin, the boss of, the biggest drug crime group Dongcheonpa in Korea, whose true motives are not easy to read. With the help of Choi Mu-Jin and to uncover the reason for her father's death, Yoon Ji-Woo joins the police department and becomes a mole for the drug group. Jeon Pil Do, a police detective in the Drug Investigation Unit. He becomes Yoon Ji Woo’s partner when she joins the police. Cha Gi Ho, the team leader of the Drug Investigation Unit. He and Choi Moo Jin have long been enemies, with Cha Gi Ho vowing to take down his crime ring before he retires. Do Gang Jae, a former member of the drug ring. After causing problems and getting kicked out of the gang, he vowed revenge against them.Main: Yoon Ji-woo is seeking revenge for her father's murder.
Jeon Pil-do is a detective.He initially disliked Jiwoo but he ended up falling in love with Ji-woo and ended up getting killed by Mu-jin in front of her.
Choi Mu-jin is the boss of Dongcheon, which is Korea's biggest drug ring. He was best friends with Ji-woo's father.
Review: Liked everything about the drama, i mean everything besides Pildo dying, that was really sad ._. I just want it to be a happy ending for Ji-woo. I think she deserved to be with someone that could love her and be with her in the worst times of her life
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Plot: Lee Ma Ha is a member of the new K-pop girl group Tea Party, formed by Ji Hak, who was once the manager of the famous boy group Shax, but resigned after the sudden disappearance of the member Eun Jo in the middle of a concert. Prior to joining Tea Party, Ma Ha was a member of the group Omega III, which disbanded on its debut day due to a tragic incident involving a former trainee at the group's company. This led Ma Ha to support herself by performing as an impersonator of the popular solo singer La Li Ma. Starting anew with Tea Party, Ma Ha finds herself repeatedly crossing paths with Kwon Ryok, the center and most popular member of Shax who is still haunted by Eun Jo's disappearance three years later. While Ryok initially dislikes Ma Ha due to her imitation of Li Ma, the two eventually begin to grow interest in one another and start a secret relationship that could put both of their careers in danger. Meanwhile, Lee Yu Jin, Ma Ha's loyal friend who is the center of the rising boy group Sparkling, has been in love with Ma Ha since their idol trainee days. When he notices the budding relationship between Ma Ha and Ryok, he determines to protect her from Ryok and leads Sparkling to beat out Shax as the most popular boy group in the industry.Review: This was a wonderful kdrama, showing kpop idols in a slightly realistic way. I loved that they used idols for the characters, and I was super impressed with their acting. It had me fully engaged, it’s a shorter drama and is funny while also having very emotional and serious scenes.
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Plot: This drama tells the story about a group of survivors who have to fight for their lives against zombies that are created when humans breathe mysterious dark smoke from a sinkhole. Lee Hwa Sun is a police detective in the Seoul regional investigation unit. Her life is turned upside down when she receives a phone call from her husband’s murderer, telling her to come to “Mujishi.” However, the people in Mujishi have been transformed into monsters. She must not only fight to survive but also battle her fear in order to capture her husband’s murderer. Yoo Tae Han is a native of Mujishi and a wreck car driver. He has a carefree personality and likes to joke around, but he has a strong sense of justice. He quit being a police officer due to a scandal caused by a misunderstanding, but he is proud of his days in the force. When he meets Lee Hwa Sun in the chaos of Mujishi, he devotes his life to saving others from danger.Review: It was quite good. I always loved survival dramas or even movies. But i don’t like when the lighting dark in the drama, it needs a little bit of light. And this drama was as dark as the title ‘Dark Hole’. It was a little bit difficult to understand, but in the end I understood. The ending was a little sad, but good.
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Plot: Hyun Soo, a loner high school student who lost his entire family in a terrible accident. He moves to an old apartment complex called Green Home. His quiet life is soon disturbed by strange incidents that start occurring in his apartment, and throughout Korea. As people start to turn into monsters trying to wipe out humanity. People inside the apartment are trapped inside the building, realizing that monsters are lurking everywhere outside. Hyun Soo and other residents shield themselves inside the building in the hope of surviving as long as they can.Main: Cha Hyun-soo, is a suicidal high school student who moves into 1410 in Green Home. He finds himself caught in the middle of an apocalypse, he later gains the powers of the infected after merging with the beast inside him and becoming a superpowered being.
Review: This is one of my favorite kdrama. It was sooo good. I loved Hyun-Soo because he was so strong. He was half-human and half-monster, so he became super strong. And protected everyone until the end. My favorite part was when he was going to become a monster but the man saved him and comforted him. It was really sad, I cried, but it is still my favorite part.
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Plot: The drama tells the story of an android called Nam Shin III who must pretend to be the son of a rich family when the real Nam Shin falls into a coma. — Nam Shin's mother, Oh Ro Ra, is a genius on brain technology and artificial intelligence so when her son, the real Nam Shin, is taken away from her at a young age, in her grief she creates an android that looks exactly like her son and has it grow up in the place of Nam Shin. But when Nam Shin, who is a third generation heir to PK group, gets in an accident and is comatose, the android Nam Shin III must learn how to take his place. The android pretends to be Nam Shin and he has a bodyguard named So-Bong, who he falls in love with. Kang So-bong was a member of Nam Shin's security detail until she was dismissed in disgrace. She was also a former MMA fighter who had to quit due to an injury from competition. Later, she becomes Nam Shin III's bodyguard, determined to get to the bottom of his strange comments and behavior. However, she gets more than what she'd bargained for when she starts falling for him - and has to keep him safe from the very people who'd tried to murder Nam Shin.Review: I loved this drama, it was amazing. The acting, casting, endroid, and everything else. It was really cool to watch. It was never boring, I really enjoyed watching it. I love the end of the drama. I was really sad when Nam Shin 3 got shot instead of the real Nam Shin and fell in the sea. But then Nam Shin did everything he could do to find Nam Shin 3. And eventually they find him.
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Plot: The residents of Hera Palace, a luxury penthouse apartment with 100 floors, have manysecrets and hidden ambitions. Shim Su-Ryeon, who was born into wealth, is the queen of the penthouse apartment. Cheon Seo-Jin, the prima donna of the residence, does all she can to give everything to her daughter. Oh Yoon-Hee comes from a poor family background, but she strives to enter high society by becoming the queen of the penthouse, the pinnacle of success in her eyes. A battle for wealth, power, and prestige at Seoul’s most coveted penthouse begins.
Main: Shim Su-ryeon is a graceful, elegant woman who is kind and thoughtful, despite her immense wealth. She and her husband, Joo Dan-tae, live in the penthouse of Hera Palace, making her the queen of the penthouse. Learning of her husband's affair with Cheon Seo-jin and his involvement in the death of her daughter Min Seol-ah, she is determined to take revenge against him. Later in the series, she is also revealed to be the biological mother of Joo Seok-kyung.
Cheon Seo-jin is a wealthy woman who would do anything for power, money, and pride. She and Oh Yoon-hee have been bitter rivals since childhood. She pushes her daughter, Ha Eun-byeol, to sing in order to beat Oh Yoon-hee's daughter, Bae Ro-na, who is more talented than her.
Oh Yoon-hee is a woman whose dreams have been stunted by her lack of money and power. She does everything in her power to move up socially and financially so that her daughter, Bae Ro-na, is able to enter the prestigious Cheong-ah Arts School.
Review: This is one of my favorite and lowkey the best kdrama ever! The characters are so relatable. This drama shows us that parents will do ANYTHING for their kids, even if it means becoming evil. We all need to take risks.
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Plot: Go Nan Do is the owner of an IT research company. As a genius inventor, he started the company, and all projects were created through his hands. However, the only people who are aware of his existence are his stepsister and the official CEO. He was a hacker in a major case 10 years ago and supposedly died while being pursued. Han So Yeon is an assistant manager at a glasses company. She shoulders on her work and stays ahead of the industry’s trends. She meticulously takes care of her clients and her work. She has a problem recognizing faces. Due to this, she keeps a distance from other people. She becomes a beta tester for a hologram AI Holo. AI Holo is completely on her side. Being with So-Yeon, AI Holo realizes the limit of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, Nan-Do is the developer of AI Holo. He has the same physical appearance as AI Holo, but his personality is completely different. While watching So-Yeon and AI Holo, he feels something that he has never felt before.Review: This drama is one of my favorite kdrama. It has such an interesting plot. The aesthetic and the production was amazing. Everything was done really well ! The acting was especially amazing. Holo was my favorite character, he was so sweet and protective. At the end it was sad to see him “die” but I was surprised when he came back in the last scene.
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