Higuchi Ichiyo

Higuchi Ichiyo was a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo, Japan, and the second daughter of Higuchi Noriyoshi, a low-ranking official in the Tokyo Prefecture. She is recognized as the first professional female writer in modern Japan. She began her education at Hongo Elementary School in 1877 but withdrew…

Park Tae Hee

Park Tae Hee is a South Korean musician, singer, poet, book author, and member of YB (formerly known as Yoon Do Hyun Band, 윤도현밴드). He graduated from Kyunghee University with a bachelor's degree in Postmodern Music. Yoon Do Hyun debuted as a soloist in 1994 and he decided to form a band and…

Muramatsu Eiko

Muramatsu Eiko, a Japanese actress and poet born in Tokyo, comes from a scholarly background. Raised with a love for literature and theater, she was influenced by her father's readings of "Mother Goose" and "Perrault's Fairy Tales," and by her grandmother's fondness for kabuki performances. Her older…

Kawatake Mokuami

Kawatake Mokuami was a playwright of Kabuki and Kyogen during the late Edo period and Meiji era. Born Yoshimura Yoshisaburo (吉村芳三郎) in Nihonbashi, Edo, Japan, he used the pen name Sosui (其水) and was also known by the alternate name Furukawa Mokuami (古河黙阿弥) He was born the second…

Okamoto Kido

Okamoto Kido was a Japanese novelist and playwright born in Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Okamoto Keiji (岡本啓二). He was a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts. At the age of three, he began studying classical Chinese texts under his father's guidance, and at nine, he began learning Chinese…

Jang Sa Ik

South Korean singer whose music combines elements of popular music, jazz, and Korean traditional music, in particular, the style of pansori. He spent his childhood listening to his father and his uncle playing traditional music on the taepyeongso, a traditional Korean oboe and he grew to love the sounds…

Terayama Shuji

Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. His oeuvre includes a number of essays claiming that more can be…

Kim Chang Wan

Kim Chang Wan is a South Korean rock singer, composer, musician, actor, TV host, radio DJ, writer, and poet. Kim, along with his younger brothers Kim Chang Hoon and Kim Chang Ik, began composing music during their mid-teens and formed the band "Mui" when they were college students. After Kim graduated…

Ikenami Shotaro

Ikenami Shotaro was a prominent Japanese novelist known for his historical fiction and period novels that depicted the post-war era in Japan. Besides his literary contributions, he was also renowned as a film critic, particularly fond of French cinema and film noir. He was born in Seitencho, Asakusa-ku,…

Lee Hyo Won

Lee Hyo Won is a South Korean director.

Humble and Vibrant

The series portrays Yu Xiu Hua's fierce battle against a double confinement: her physical disability (cerebral palsy) and a deeply oppressive marriage. In a world that sought to silence her, she discovered her voice…

The Story of Woon Young

Court lady Woon Young who serves the Royal Prince Ahn Pyung is not only beautiful, but is also a talented poet and artist. One day, she sees young Official Kim who places first in a poetry competition, and falls in…

KBS Drama Special 2014: First Birthday

6.6

It is the first birthday of Hye Jin, the daughter of Jeong Suk and Ji Ho. Jeong Suk’s university friends, Shin Ja and Mi Seon, come to help prepare for the celebration, while Ji Ho’s old friends also gather for…

Legend of Love: The Cowherd and the Weaver

6.9

The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is a Chinese folk tale. The tale of the cowherd and the weaver girl is a love story between Zhi Nv (the weaver girl, symbolizing the star Vega) and Niu Lang (the cowherd, symbolizing…

Zhou Yu's Train

6.7

Zhou Yu, a ceramic decorative artist, travels twice a week from her home town of San Ming to Chongyang to visit her boyfriend, Chen Qing, a government worker and budding poet. The two met at a dance while Chen Qing…

Off-Script Feelings

7.1

Lin Xiao Man, who got a score of 28 in mathematics, gets acquainted with top student Jiang Chen Zhou due to the signature scandal. Chen Zhou takes the initiative to make up lessons for Xiao Man, but misunderstandings…

Loving the Tigress from River East

7.2

Yue Hong, the second daughter of the Du family who combines beauty, literary talents and singing skills, dreams of marrying a top scholar. For this reason, she does not hesitate to show up in Zuixiangfang and shock…

The Flowers of Evil

7.4

The story is set in Hikari City, Gunma Prefecture. Surrounded by mountains, second-year middle school student Kasuga Takao lives each day feeling a deep sense of suffocation and stagnation. What saves his heart is…

Blood League Millennium

During the chaotic early years of the Five Dynasties, the Peng family of Yiguan in Jizhou, Jiangxi, sought to avoid harassment and was forced into a marriage alliance with the Mayan clan of Changsha. Chu Xizhen, the…

Marvelous Women

8.0

As China becomes a major commercial economy, the silk, embroidering, and weaving trade is booming – and a few influential families have risen to the top. The industry’s powerhouse is the Gusu District in Suzhou,…