Also known as 큰언니 / My Pitiful Sister

Genre: Romance

Category: Korean Drama

Film Date: June, 2008

Episodes: 150

The drama about the lives of three sisters after they lose their parents. In Ok is the sister who will do anything for her sisters. In Ok finds out that her younger sister, In Soo, has given birth to a daughter out of wedlock. In Ok, being the unselfish sister that she is, is left to take care of In Soo’s daughter while In Soo is in Germany pursuing her dreams of becoming a doctor.

Also known as 기찰비록 / Gichalbirok / 조선X파일: 기찰비록 / Joseon X-Files: Secret Investigation Record

Genre: Mystery, Period Drama , Science Fiction

Category: Korean Drama

Film Date: August, 2010

Episodes: 12

Secret Investigation Record is based on cases detailed in the Annals of Joseon History with a bizarre twist; these incidents incorporate mysterious, supernatural elements that cannot be explained through science. Kim Hyung Do is an inspector of the state whose single-minded focus on his investigations into administrative misdeeds bring him into direct contact with these strange mysteries. Heo Yoon Yi is a government employee who aids him and attempts to understand these scientific impossibilities with an open mind, in contrast to his cynicism.

Also known as 깍두기 / ggak-du-gi / Just Love / Kkakdoki

Genre: Romance

Category: Korean Drama

Film Date: August, 2007

Episodes: 44

Even though times change and our relationships with our family changes, our affection for them is timeless. The drama is about affection that is the foundation of family. Dong Jin is the eldest son in a family of 3 sons. He is dutiful and responsible but due to character clash, he has gone through divorce with his ex-wife, Ji Hye, whom he shares a child with. Dong Jin then starts a new romance with Eun Ho whom he works with.

Also known as My Gangster Like Lover / My Dear Desperado / Nae Kkangpae Kateun Aein / 내 깡패 같은 애인

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Category: Korean Movie

Film Date: May, 2010

Dong-chul can’t fight at all, but he’s a gangster who can talk. He can’t show off his skills as well as before, but his spirit is still alive. But the girl who seems nice on the outside moves next door, and she doesn’t feel threatened by him. If he calls her “the girl next door,” she gets defensive. But for some reason, he wants to be nice to her! Se-jin has put herself out on the job market. She has big plans and got the semi-basement room. But a gangster who doesn’t even look like one lives next door. This man calls her “the girl next door” as if he knows her. The gangster that talks too much. She doesn’t hate him!

Genre: Suspense

Category: Korean Movie

Film Date: June, 2006

Immediately after coming off a suspension, Detective So-yung (Yoon-ah Song — Face) is thrust into one doozy of a case. Seems the victim died from acid. An acid released from inside his body. And this isn’t the type of acid those crazy kids are fond of — the only trip these cats are taking is to the morgue. To make matters worse, there are a couple more men dying off the same way. There appears to be a serial killer on the loose, and the last thing the victims are seeing is a long-haired woman in black (with some freaky blood-shot eyes). Throw in a new partner and some crazy dreams and So-young has her work cut out for her.

Also known as 라이프 특별조사팀 / Life Teukbyeol Josa Team / 라이프 생명 특별조사팀

Genre: Action, Romance

Category: Korean Drama

Film Date: April, 2008

Episodes: 12

This drama is about an insurance investigation team who investigates foul play and insurance cheats. They are a group of normal employees who decide to take a stand, unearthing the truth hidden beneath the lies and discovering the dark secrets of those in power. Everyone has a secret they want to keep under covers forever, and insurance agents and policy holders are no different.

Genre: Action

Category: Korean Movie

Film Date: February, 2009

“Marine Boy” tells the story of a former swimming athlete (played by Kim Kang Woo) desperately in debt and because of this, becomes employed as a “body packing” drug mule by a heartless drug lord (played by Jae-hyeon Jo). After swallowing a 10-meter-long drug package, “marine boy” must swim across waters between Korea and Japan. Among the many things that beckon death, an alluring beauty (played by Si-yeon Park) tries to seduce him…

Genre: War

Category: Korean Movie

Film Date: December, 2003

On 31 January 1968, 31 commandos from North Korean Special Unit 124 infiltrated South Korea in a failed mission to assassinate President Park Chung-hee. As a means of retaliation, the South Korean military assembled a team of 31 social outcasts and death/life criminals, training them on the island of Silmido, off the coast of Incheon, in order to execute Kim Il-sung. The mission, regarded a suicide mission, was seen as the only way for these new recruits to redeem themselves and show their loyalty to their country. If they succeeded, they would win their freedom and a new life. With this goal in mind, they endured gruelling, almost inhumane training, becoming finely honed killing machines. In October 1968, at the end of their training, they were dispatched on their mission to the North, but were recalled not long after their departure due to mysterious orders from above. The project was called off, and they returned to Silmido discouraged and frustrated. This frustration led two squad members to go AWOL and rape a female doctor who lived relatively nearby; they were discovered, surrounded by military, and realizing their fate, attempted mutual suicide. One man was killed in this, the other injured. The latter was then returned to the camp on Silmido and strung up, alive, as an example while his fellow squad members were beaten by the troops for the two men’s betrayal. One member snapped, charging to the front and killing the strung-up man. Meanwhile efforts continued to negotiate peaceful reunification between the two Koreas, rendering the squad all but useless. To keep the top-secret, dirty project unknown to the outside world, the South Korean intelligence agency decided to “eliminate” the squad. The commander, outraged, is then told that if his troops fail to follow this order, they too will be killed. Torn between his duty to follow orders and his personal honor, the commander intentionally leaked this information. As one high-level officer is sent away from the island for his unwillingness to participate (lied into thinking he’s going to re-negotiate the murder order), the squad realizes that they are to be killed that same night, and lays a plan to fight back. They kill their trainers, and then after being told the truth of the mission - that they legally no longer exist, and thus would neither receive recognition for their mission if it succeeded, nor even be allowed to return to society - decide to escape from the island and make their story known. On 23 August 1971, the 20 remaining members of the squad captured a bus and commandeered it for Seoul. An official pronouncement is made through the media that 20 “armed communist agents” had infiltrated the country, and a state of emergency was declared. Eventually they are stopped by army roadblocks and fired on. Realizing their plight, the men proceed to engage in mutual suicide, all throwing their hand grenades into the middle of the bus. The aforementioned high-level officer learns of what is happening and tries to call back the army, but fails. Later, an investigation is carried out and the resulting report filed away, unread.

Also known as 엄마도 예쁘다 / Eommado Yeppeuda / Even Mom is Pretty / Mom is Also Pretty / Pretty Mom, Pretty Woman

Genre: Family, Romance

Category: Korean Drama

Film Date: April, 2010

Episodes: 100

Even mothers were girls once, and although they’re no longer young, it does not mean they cannot love. This warm family drama tells the story of Lee Soon Jin, a mother who raised her four children without a husband and single-handedly ran a restaurant to support their monetary needs.

Also known as 내 여자친구는 구미호 / Nae Yeojachinguneun Gumiho / My Girlfriend is a Gumiho

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Category: Korean Drama

Film Date: August, 2010

Episodes: 16

Lee Seung Ki is a man who meets a girl and falls in love with her. The girl is actually a gumiho, a legendary fox with nine tails that eats the livers of humans. When he finds out that she is a gumiho, he ends up doing crazy things to prevent the girl from eating his liver.