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Our Chocolate Moments

Liu — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:47 +0000

A story about the three people Seul Gi, Hyeon Nam, and Sun Tae who work at a chocolate company and the owner of a mysterious watch shop that sells handmade chocolate, Hong Sa Jang, who make Valentine's Day chocolates together. It is a warm human healing drama that looks back on 'the loneliness that everyone has, and overcoming it through relationships' through their conflicts and reconciliation.

Ju Seul Gi overcomes obstacles and completes Valentine's Day chocolates with her enthusiasm for work and endless positivity. Hong Sa Jang is the owner of the watch shop 'Hong Geum-dang' and fights against inner loneliness. Kim Hyeon Nam strives to protect her own beliefs about chocolate, and Jeon Sun Tae is an OOTD influencer who operates the account 'Sweet Jeremy who works at a chocolate company.

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Smile Code

Dargom Bes — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:33:58 +0000

It tells the story of a down-and-out part-time talk show actress and an aloof male audience member suffering from alexithymia who get close to each other and heal each other. A love story of a woman who is funny to the end and a man who can’t laugh, a love contest begins. However, what connects the romance is not just the emotions between men and women, but also the struggling urban youths living in Shanghai. On and off the stage in the play, the spicy yet observational complaints hit the pain points of life, and the humorous ridicule is light, but it is also full of optimism and open-mindedness.

(Source: Chinese = Weibo || Translation = MyDramaList)

~~ Adapted from the novel "Lost Laughter" (失笑) by Zu Le (祖乐).

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Under Parallel Skies (2024)

Dargom Bes — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:04:31 +0000

A romantic film about a man struggling with a painful past as he tries to move forward, only to discover that the woman in his present life has an uncanny connection to his past. Together, they navigate the complexities of love, heartbreak, and healing, all against the backdrop of cultural and identity differences in the foreign city.

(Source: cinemabravo.com)

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The Atypical Family

Mak — Sat, 04 May 2024 17:58:42 +0000

Bok Gwi Joo and his family were born with different supernatural powers. Bok Gwi Joo is able to travel back in time, but only to happy times in his life. He can’t change the past, so he can only dwell on those happy moments. Bok Gwi Joo becomes afflicted with depression, and this leads him to lose his supernatural power.

His family also loses their own powers due to modern-day problems like insomnia, bulimia, and smartphone addiction. One day, Do Da He happens to get involved with Bok Gwi Joo and his family. She begins to live with them, and change occurs.

(Source: AsianWiki)

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Wonderful World

Liu — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:38:21 +0000

Eun Soo Hyun is a psychology professor and a famous writer, but her life has completely changed. Her young son dies unjustly. Making things worse, the person responsible for her son’s death isn’t punished by the law. Eun Soo Hyun loses hope in this world. She decides to punish the person responsible for her son’s death by herself. Her life is still in pain and despair. Somehow, Eun Soo Hyun gets involved with other people who suffer from pain similar to hers and solves their mysterious cases. They slowly get healed in the process.

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The Breaking Ice (2023)

Mak — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:27:31 +0000

In cold wintry Yanji, a city on China’s northern border, young urbanite Haofeng, visiting from Shanghai, feels lost and adrift. By chance, he goes on a tour led by Nana, a charming tour guide who instantly fascinates him. She introduces him to Xiao, a personable but frustrated restaurant worker. The three bond quickly over a drunken weekend. Confronting their individual traumas, their frozen desires slowly thaw as they seek to liberate themselves from an icy world.

(Source: Festival de Cannes)

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Welcome to Samdalri

Liu — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 06:31:06 +0000

After losing his mother—who worked as a haenyeo (female diver who harvests sea life)—at a young age due to a mistaken weather report, Jo Yong Pil makes up his mind to become a weather forecaster and protect the elders of his hometown. However, his passion and refusal to let misinformation slide earns him a reputation at work as a stubborn troublemaker who isn’t afraid to argue with his boss.

Jo Sam Dal grew up with Jo Yong Pil. Unlike Jo Yong Pil, content to remain in his hometown of Samdalri, Jo Sam Dal makes it her mission to get out of their small town and move to Seoul. After years of toiling away as an assistant in the fashion photography industry, Jo Sam Dal—who changes her name to Jo Eun Hye in Seoul—finally succeeds and makes it to the top. However, when everything she’s worked so hard to build comes crashing down in the blink of an eye, she returns to Samdalri, where people still know her as Sam Dal and not Eun Hye.

Although Jo Yong Pil and Jo Sam Dal used to be joined at the hip when they were younger, the once inseparable friends are no longer in contact with one another due to an incident that drove them apart. When Jo Sam Dal returns to Samdalri, however, they find that the longtime affection they once had for one another comes rushing back.

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Finland Papa

Liu — Tue, 02 May 2023 03:51:00 +0000

A healing drama about people in need of emotional support who gather around a cafe named “Finland Papa”. It is managed by a faceless owner who falls in love with a woman in her twenties who works at the cafe, mending her own inner wounds.

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Meet Yourself

Mak — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:42:16 +0000

Xu Hong Dou is a woman who has worked in the hotel industry for most of her adult life. She is every inch the big-city woman, but her life hits a sudden bump in the road. Her best female friend has died, sending her life into a tailspin. Her work starts to suffer. And rather than continue to soldier on in the city, she decides to take a break from the high-paced urban lifestyle in a remote village. She heads out to the village of Yun Miao, near Dali, in Yunnan Province – in search of peace and quiet.

She soon discovers that life in an agricultural village is not quite as idyllic as she had imagined – navigating fields full of animal droppings and mud isn’t something she is used to! But she soon finds a sort of equilibrium. And she meets a group of fellow big-city types who have also decided to flee the big city in search of a more tranquil way of life. One of these individuals is named Xie Zhi Yao. Yun Miao is his hometown. And he has quit a well-paid job to start a tourism business that showcases Yun Miao. Xu Hong Dou soon realizes that she can put her own hotel industry knowledge to good use by helping him. But as they begin to work together, Cupid appears determined to bring them together! Could they find love in this quiet little village?

(Source: Viki)

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If You Wish Upon Me

Liu — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:06:19 +0000

Yoon Kyeo Re is a young man who has known nothing but misery ever since he was a child. He was abused while still a boy and had a torrid time at the orphanage where he was raised. He then spent time in a juvenile detention center. And as an adult, things got no better, leading to him serving time in prison. Beatings and misery are all he knows, and he finds himself at the end of his tether, finally facing the void…

But when he is ordered by a court to serve his community service at an end-of-life care facility for the terminally ill, things begin to change for him. Here he meets the tireless Kang Tae Shik, a middle-aged man who leads the volunteer team at the facility. Kang Tae Shik has created a unit called Team Genie, which is dedicated to granting dying patients their last wishes. No matter what people ask for, Team Genie will work their hardest to make those precious last wishes come true. He also meets Seo Yeon Joo, a young nurse who refuses to give up on her patients and tries to keep them physically active at all times. Will working at this facility help turn Yoon Gyeo Ree’s life around? Or is it too late to change his destiny?

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