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- StarsLee Na-youngLee Jong-sukJeong Eu-geneA gifted writer who's the youngest editor-in-chief ever at his publishing company gets enmeshed in the life of a former copywriter desperate for a job.
- StarsShin Se-KyungCha Eun-wooLee Ji-hoonSet in the early 19th century. Goo Hae Ryung works as a historian. Female historians like Goo Hae Ryung are generally looked down upon because of their gender. Yet, Goo Hae Ryung fulfills her duty as a historian. She gets involved with Prince Lee Rim.
- StarsPark Min-YoungSeo Kang-JoonMoon Jeong-HeeA story about forgiveness, healing and love taking place around a small book store in the countryside.
- StarsKim Soo-hyunSeo Ye-jiOh Jung-seAn extraordinary road to emotional healing opens up for an selfish antisocial children's-book writer and a selfless psych-ward caretaker when they cross paths.
- StarsYoo Ah-inLim Soo-jungGo Kyung-pyoWriters that lived under Japanese rule in the 1930s are reincarnated into a bestselling writer who is in a slump, a mysterious ghostwriter, and a devoted fan of the bestselling writer.
- StarsSung Dong-ilLee Kwang-sooJin KyungA love story between a psychiatrist named Ji Hae Soo and an author who had schizophrenia named Jang Jae Yeol.
- StarsKim Ji-seokJung So-minGeon-joo JungA home-searching romance story about a man who buys houses and a woman who lives in one. It follows the diverse stories of the editors of a home magazine.
- CreatorMuryuStarsKim Hye-yoonKim Ro-WoonLee Jae-wookThe story of a girl who finds out that she is in fact a supporting character in a web comic and decides to change her fate.
- StarsSong Hye-kyoRainHan Eun-jeongIn a bid to reacquire her childhood home, a free-spirited woman agrees to a sham-marriage with a selfish actor. Their daily lives are complicated by overlapping love triangles and comic misadventures.
- StarsKim Sa-rangJu Jin-moJang Ki-yongIn his youth, Ji Eun Ho accidentally met Ji Eun Dong. She intercedes to keep him out of detention. The act of kindness, changes his attitude toward everyone. Eun Ho finds himself becoming very attached to Eun Dong. After losing her for many years, they meet by chance and fall deeply in love. This is the story of fate and everlasting love.
- StarsJi SungHwang Jeong-eumPark Seo-joonA love story between the son from a wealthy family who has 7 personalities Cha Do Hyun (Ji Sung) and Oh Ri Jin (Hwang Jung Eum) who becomes his secret psychiatrist.
- StarsKim Myung-minJung Ryeo-wonChoi SiwonUntypical Korean drama plot with 'no melodrama' about putting together an untypical Korean drama with no melodrama. Fast-paced and full of twists, revenge, greed and fun.
- StarsSong Ji-hyoByun Yo-hanLee Yoon-jiSong Ji Hyo (Emergency Couple, My Wife's Having an Affair This Week) and Byun Yo Han (Six Flying Dragons) star in a romantic comedy about the ghost of boyfriend past not-so-magically appearing to haunt an ambitious woman's future. Kim Soo Jin (Song Ji Hyo) is a career-oriented producer at a film company that is quickly sinking into the abyss of bankruptcy. In order to save her company, she must take drastic measures -- and perhaps the most drastic of them all is adapting a film version of a webtoon by a popular but divisive writer. Bang Myung Soo (Byun Yo Han) is a young artist who has based his comic entirely on his ex-girlfriends. The intimate details of his personal life, that he has now made nationally-known household facts, has made Myung Soo something of a cross between beloved heartthrob and public enemy. It is this controversy the film company hopes to cash in on. There's just one problem: Kim Soo Jin happens to be one of those ex-girlfriends. Now, in order to make the movie, our beloved filmmaker must put her feelings aside and interact with not just her increasingly irritating ex, but also those former exes he is writing about that have once again popped up. These ladies, all former girlfriends of Myung Soo's, are older wealthy divorcee Na Ji Ah (Tree With Deep Roots actress Jang Ji Eun), the very chic and successful investment firm member Jang Hwa Young (Dream High alum Lee Yoon Ji), and airhead C-lister actress Ra Ra (Age of Youth and Descendants of the Sun's Ryu Hwa Young). Can Soo Jin make peace and learn what makes those characters tick in time to save her sinking ship of a company, or will this battle of the exes become a real-life fight club? Ex-Girlfriend Club is directed by Kwon Seok Jang, the proven-for-success director behinds favorites such as Miss Korea and Pasta, and has been written by Lee Jin Mae, who last wrote a spy caper with Let's Fight Ghost actress Lee Soo Kyung. First script reading for the series took place in March 2015 at the CJ E
- StarsIUYeo Jin-gooShin Jeong-geunWhen he's invited to manage a hotel for dead souls, an elite hotelier gets to know the establishment's ancient owner and her strange world.
- StarsLee Min-hoKim Go-eunWoo Do-HwanA modern-day Korean emperor passes through a mysterious portal and into a parallel world, where he encounters a feisty police detective.
- StarsHwang Jeong-eumPark Seo-joonKo Jun-heeWhen Ji Sung-Joon was young, he was ugly. As he grew up, he began to have an attractive appearance. When Kim Hye-Jin was young, she was pretty. As she grew up, she became ugly. Ji Sung-Joon tries to find his first love.
- StarsLee Jong-sukPark Shin-hyeKim Hae-sookA young boy, whose life and family has been destroyed by new media, gets adopted by a family in a rural area after being found lost at sea. He conceals his past for 13 years. But then the girl he loves, a reporter, finds out the truth.
- StarsHan Hyo-jooLee Jong-sukLee Tae-HwanAfter being pulled into the webtoon world created by her father, a surgical resident gets entangled in a murder mystery involving the story's hero.
- DirectorPidi BaiqFajar BustomiStarsIqbaal Dhiafakhri RamadhanVanesha PrescillaIra WibowoMilea made the decision to part with Dilan as a warning for Dilan to stay away from the motorcycle gang. But the parting which had been only a bluff for Milea became a parting that lasted until they graduated from college and grew up.
- StarsKim Sa-rangJu Jin-moJang Ki-yongIn his youth, Ji Eun Ho accidentally met Ji Eun Dong. She intercedes to keep him out of detention. The act of kindness, changes his attitude toward everyone. Eun Ho finds himself becoming very attached to Eun Dong. After losing her for many years, they meet by chance and fall deeply in love. This is the story of fate and everlasting love.
- StarsTerunosuke TakezaiKenta IzukaYoshida MunehiroKuzumi Haruhiko, a university student, crashes his bicycle into Kijima Rio, a novelist, breaking his arm. To avoid paying Kijima for his injury, Kuzumi agrees to transcribe Kijima's latest novel, beginning their precarious relationship.
- StarsKim Pu-reumYoon Doo-joonKim So-hyunAbout an actor who's showcase family is famous and a radio writer who fell in love with radio after her mother became blind when she was a teen. She gets the actor to become her DJ not knowing their shared history as teens. He had trouble sleeping but she's just the thing he needs. She had trouble writing but learns to find her voice.
- StarsKim Hae-sookChun Ho-jinChoi Il-hwaMrs. Go's sheltered, idyllic existence as a housewife in a beautiful home by the sea is destroyed when her husband is disgraced and killed. She must learn to make her own way in the world when she faces losing everything.
- StarsSong Ji-hyoSon Ho-joonJong-ho Song"Was it love?" is a romantic drama about a single mother of 14 years who is stuck between an attractive man who is bad, an attractive man who is young and a sexy man who is scary.
- StarsHahm Eun-jungJo Kyeong-sookKang Kyung-joonGeum Byeol and Eun Byeol's sibling rivalry leads to unequal childhoods, but they eventually resolve their issues through forgiveness and love.
- StarsLee Min-kiIm Jin-AhKang Min-hyukA romantic comedy about a thriller dramas screenwriter and an actress that specializes in romantic comedy. While the writer chooses not to date, the actress cannot seem to date.
- StarsUhm JunghwaPark Seo-joonHan Jae-seokBased on the popular Taiwanese drama, My Queen. Despite her witchy reputation at work, 39-year-old tabloid reporter Ban Ji Yeon (Uhm Jung Hwa) is ultra focused on her job.
- StarsLusi ZhaoYuxi DingZhou Zi XinChen Xiao Qian, an unknown screenwriter who's been single since birth, worked really hard and finally finished a grand drama of a heroine. It was planned to started filming, but stopped because the actor Han Ming Xing questioned a lot about the script. One day, she accidentally got stuck in her own script and turned into the third princess of Huayan city, a city where females dominate. The third princess past self was determined to marry Han Shuo, a crown prince of the enemy city despite being engaged to Pei Heng, a ministry of education. The little support role of Third Princess revises the whole play to survive and eventually develop her relationship between prince Han Shuo and Pei Heng.
- StarsSteven ZhangJie LiangZhiwei ZhaoA popular star of a boy band (Steven Zhang) and an entertainment reporter Yu Sheng Sheng (Liang Jie), whose birthday happens to be on the same day get their bodies swapped in a freak accident. The incredulous incident changes their lives.
- StarsUrassaya SperbundMario MaurerYuranan PamornMontriLove and hate collide when the daughter of a disapproving hotel tycoon becomes entangled with a mysterious car mechanic.
- StarsPimchanok LuevisadpaibulOabnithi WiwattanawarangTanapak JongjaipharShe dreams of the guy from her favorite story. Then she literally meets him -- and his supporting cast. What drama.
- StarsGô AyanoFumi NikaidôYûya YagiraA man who died 120 years ago was brought back to life as what he thought was a monster who could never be around humans. Rescues a girl who makes him want to become human. He has to understand the horrors and wonderful secrets contained in his body to try and live with the girl he loves. His only knowledge of humans in his long lonely life before was an old radio. With help of friends and his love many wonderful things happen.
- StarsLandi LiSteven ZhangJianlei ZhaoOn her first day of primary school, Yu Zhou Zhou falls down and thus gets to know a guy named Lin Yang. Lin Yang helps her adapt to school and the two become friends.
- StarsDandan SongXiaolu LiLei WangWhen your parents don't approve of your spouse, is a happy life possible? Mi Xiao Mi (Li Xiao Lu) is a reporter for a Beijing news agency who meets and falls in love with Jin Liang (Wang Lei), a gynecologist. When Xiao Mi insists on marrying Liang, a "bei piao" (a non-native Beijing resident), Xiao Mi's single mother, Wang Shu Hua (Song Dan Dan), nearly has a heart attack but is forced to accept the relationship.
- StarsLee Jong-sukShin Hye-sunLee Sang-YeobKim Woo-Jin is a stage drama writer while Korea is under Japanese occupation. He is already married, but he falls in love with Yun Sim-Deok. Yun Sim-Deok is the first Korean soprano. Kim Woo-Jin and Yun Sim-Deok's fate ends tragically.
- StarsPoompat Iam-SamangNoppakao DechaphatthanakunSuppacheep ChanapaiGene is a professional writer whose new Y-novel has become an instant hit - even getting its own BL drama where he is now a consultant. Here he meets actor Nubsib, who will play the main lead and who also shows a special interest in Gene.
- StarsKi Do-HoonJeon So-neeKim Woo-Seok"Scripting Your Destiny" is a fantasy romance drama about a god named Shin Ho Yoon, who writes the fates of humans. In order to create the romance of the century, he secretly gets inspiration from the work of a makjang (extreme) drama screenwriter named Go Che Kyung. (Soompi)
- StarsSatomi IshiharaMasaki SudaTsubasa HondaKouno Etsuko joins a publishing company with her sights set on becoming a fashion editor. But she is assigned to the proofreading department which examines and fixes errors in manuscripts.
- StarsSeo Hyeon-jinYang Se-jongKim Jae-WookAbout the love between a writer who is elder than the person she loves, the chef.
- StarsLee Jung-JinSoo AeLee Tae-sungAfter having been friends for all 30 years of their lives, Hong Nan Hee and Byun Hyung Tae find themselves unwillingly living together, which unexpectedly starts changing the dynamics of their relationship.
- StarsZhaolin XingYanmanzi ZhuYuexi AnA story that follows Lin Xiao's journey to establishing a career in the world of publishing and how she finds love at the same time.
- StarsKadir DoguluNeslihan AtagülYunus Emre YildirimerThe main character is a girl who lives in the suburbs of Istanbul. All her thoughts together about how to get out of poverty and miserable life and enter the socialite. Girl walking confidently towards the realization of its objectives, although a man of her class who loves her madly.
- StarsYôjirô NodaRila FukushimaRena MatsuiA frustrated writer has 5 mysterious women turn up at his house, all seemingly invited and all must adhere to strict rules, they all pay him a million yen as rent. Who is responsible for the invites?
- StarsHahm Eun-jungKang Ji-hwanPark Si-yeonA acclaimed writer and a successful businesswoman get caught up in complex relationships with old friends.
- StarsXiaoWen ZhaiXuanyi WuTe LiuDentist Ai Jing Chu, who also teaches at Donghu University, is known to be the most handsome man at school. University librarian Zeng Li, however, is prejudiced against him because of a little misunderstanding. When Zeng Li's mother forces her to get braces, she tries to avoid Ai Jing Chu at all costs, but eventually still ends up becoming his patient. As the two interact more and more with each other, Zeng Li realizes that Ai Jing Chu is actually a very professional and caring person, and starts to develop feelings for him.
- StarsLee Young-ahMin Nam-koongBae Seul-kiIm Seung Hee (Lee Young Ah) scribbles her days away in hopes of becoming a drama writer, but there are a few things holding her back from her big break: specifically, she's broke and lives off of unemployment benefits. Things get tricky when Seung Hee's first love, Kim Jong Dae (Nam Goong Min), ends up working at the benefit office, but this embarrassing encounter just may turn out to be the story of a lifetime. While it may seem that the trouble with being a writer is being a paid one, Seung Hee needs to learn a thing or two about the biggest hurdle of all: living a love story worth telling.
- StarsChoi Ji-wooYoo Ji-taeLee Ki-wooStar's Lover is a warm-hearted tale of a woman being pursued by four men. When bookish university professor Kim Chul Soo runs out of money and is forced to accept help from his ex-girlfriend, he will do anything to pay her back. Opportunity knocks in the form of a ghostwriting offer from the management agency of Lee Ma Ri, the most popular actress in Korea. Caught between his convictions and his need for money, Chul Soo reluctantly agrees. The travel diary he writes under Ma Ri's name becomes an instant bestseller, but it ends up bringing her some unwanted attention from a famous photographer. Afraid she'll be discovered for not writing the book, Ma Ri commissions Chul Soo to coach her in Japanese culture and travel as more suitors fall into place. Ma Ri and Chul Soo grow closer, and soon Ma Ri finds herself caught between four men.
- StarsGo Hyun-jungCheon Jeong-myeongJo Yeon-wooThey've known each other all their lives, but the 9 year age gap has made her like a big sister to the him. They land in bed one drunken night, beginning their amusing relationship.
- StarsJung So-minLee Min-kiEsomJi Ho is a single woman. She's a writing assistant of dramas. She's a strong and determined woman. Unfortunately, she has to leave her house and seeks other place to live. Her friends help her to find a roommate. That roommate is Se Hee.