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Penny Pinchers (2011)

Dargom Bes — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 04:46:02 +0000

Ji Woong is a loser. He can’t find a job, lies to his mom for money, and fails in the bedroom for want of 50 won. He may not have much to show for himself, but at least he’s a good talker! But one day his mom abruptly cuts off the money tap, which means he can’t pay his rent. This effectively renders him homeless overnight. But that same day, salvation arrives in the form of Hong Shil, his bottle-scavenging savior.

Hong Shil is a serious modern-day Scrooge whose hobby is visiting the bank to make savings deposits, and whose specialty is selling empty glass bottles and old newspapers for cash. Her philosophy in life is to steer clear of religion, boyfriends, and getting sick because those things cost money. She has nothing but a TV for cultural entertainment, she believes anything within a five-bus stop radius is walking distance, and she thinks she’s entitled to taking as much free sugar from cafés as she pleases. She’s great at saving money and she does anything she can think of to make cash. One day, her savings plans are brought to a screeching halt when she learns she needs a separate bank account under someone else’s name to reach her goal of 200 million won. That’s when Ji Woong comes into the picture. “Yes! You’re just what I needed!”

Hong Shil treats Ji Woong almost like her personal slave, while Ji Woong has no choice but to do as he’s told. Their rooftop roommates’ relationship begins!

(Source: CJ Entertainment)

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City Hunter (2024)

Dargom Bes — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:12:27 +0000

Saeba Ryo is a "sweeper" in the city of Tokyo. He works as a trouble shooter, cleaning the streets of vermin, and helping out desperate people. Sometimes he’s a bodyguard, sometimes he’s an assassin, whatever Ryo does he does it well. In fact, his only flaw is his hormones – he loves the ladies and sometimes turns into an idiot when he’s near them. Thankfully he’s got people like his partner Kaori Makimura to keep him in check.

(Source: Mangaupdates)

~~ Adapted from the manga series "City Hunter" (シティーハンター) by Hojo Tsukasa (北条司).

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Step by Step Love

Dargom Bes — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:57:14 +0000

It tells the story of the cold company President Lu Chen Yang, who is a cruel revenge machine full of calculations to make his opponent pay the price. He finally meets his opponent, the daughter of a desperate rich family, Qianjin Bu Ran. When a hunter begins to fall in love with his prey, all the hatred in his heart turns soft.

(Source: chaloreviewkare on Telegram)

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My Boss

Dargom Bes — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 06:18:27 +0000

Are Cheng Yao’s dreams of becoming a top lawyer about to come true? It seems so, when she is unexpectedly recruited by a leading legal firm. Excited, she moves house so she can be near her new office. She moves in, full of hope, and soon encounters her new roommate, Qian Heng. However, a surprise awaits her on her first day at work.

Qian Heng turns out to be her direct superior at the office, and he proves to be incredibly hard to please! Her training period quickly turns into a baptism of fire, and she starts to feel as though he is trying to chase her out of the company. But Cheng Yao won’t be so easily deterred. She redoubles her efforts, determined to prove she’s got what it takes. Could her zeal send this duo on the path to harmony and even love?

(Source: Viki)

~~ Adapted from the web novel "What Comes Around Goes Around" (你也有今天) by Ye Fei Ran (叶斐然).

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Maestra: Strings of Truth

Liu — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 19:39:55 +0000

Cha Se Eum used to be a violinist, but she is now a conductor of an orchestra. She has pursued her career boldly and with passion. She is now in a position where others are envious. What others don’t know is that Cha Se Eum carries a secret. That secret will shake her life.

Meanwhile, mysterious cases take place within her orchestra. Cha Se Eum looks into the cases and approaches the truth surrounding her.

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Sweet and Cold

Dargom Bes — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 06:59:49 +0000

In the eyes of other people, Meng Hao Tian is a woman of strength and beauty. Everyone saw how she started from nothing and jumped through countless hurdles in her entrepreneurial journey. However, only a few know of her painful past.

Because of a farce wedding, she has unexpectedly gotten acquainted with Leng Si Ming, the young and promising CTO of Lingzhi Group. After many unexpected situations, the two grow from their misunderstandings as rivals to become partners, yet the glaring problems that follow cannot be ignored. In the end, can they conquer their age gap and the differences in their backgrounds? Can Meng Hao Tian break through the shackles of her past to regain the ability to love?

(Source: ChineseDrama.info)

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Agency

Liu — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:24:38 +0000

An office drama depicting a woman who became the first female executive in her group to make her career beyond her first to the highest position. In the background of an advertising agency, it contains realistic stories of the daily lives of those who live a life like war and behind the scenes in the industry.

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A Romance of the Little Forest

Dargom Bes — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:47:32 +0000

Fashion blogger Yu Mei Ren relies purely on makeup to maintain her appearance. Wanting to use her beauty to retaliate against the man who once rejected her, marks the start of a sweet love story that takes the two from the campus to the countryside.

Botany professor Zhuang Yu is completely devoted to his life’s work and has been researching the cultivation of sweet wormwood. Indifferent to any otherworldly desires, he unintentionally hurts the feelings of Yu Mei Ren, a girl from the countryside who has had a crush on him for a long time.

Years later, Yu Mei Ren graduates with honors and received her Ph.D. in Ornithology. Not wanting the pressures of being in the field of scientific research, she becomes a fashion blogger instead. Yu Mei Ren and Zhuang Yu get off on the wrong foot when they meet again. Zhuang Yu has traveled to Qingshui Village for work and happens to find lodging at Yu Mei Ren’s bed and breakfast. She eventually becomes a great help to him. At the same time, he also experiences feelings of love and warmth for the first time that he wouldn’t have found from tending to plants.

(Source: chinesedrama.info)

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Today’s Webtoon

Liu — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:24:54 +0000

The story is about a woman who struggles together with her coworkers to mature into a true webtoon editor after joining the webtoon editorial department. On Ma Eum, who enters the webtoon editorial department after beating all odds. She has a large appetite, a great sense of smell, and cauliflower ears typical of a fighter as a former standing member for the judo national team. On Ma Eum had to quit her athletic career when an unfortunate accident during a match tore her ankle ligament, but she begins to dream anew when she coincidentally delivers food to the webtoon editorial department.

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Juvenile Justice

Mak — Mon, 23 May 2022 00:51:26 +0000

Sim Eun Seok is an elite judge with a prickly personality who hates juvenile offenders. After she gets assigned to a local juvenile court, she tries to balance her aversion to minor offenders with firm beliefs on justice and punishment, as she goes out of her way to break custom and administer her own ways of punishing the offenders. (Source: Netflix, AsianWiki)

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