The best Asian series and movies

An epic based on the myth of Jumong, founder of the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo in 37 B.C.

Story of of king Daemusin, third ruler of Goguryeo and grandson of king Jumong.

Jang Bo Go, a Shilla slave sold to China during Tang Dynasty, trains as a gladiator-slave. Overcoming adversity, he returns home and becomes a successful sea merchant battling pirates plaguing maritime trade routes.

Drama series follows the life Jang Yeong Shil: a scientist, technician and inventor during the Joseon period. Jang Yeong Shil was born in the lower class nobi. King Sejong notices his abilities and brings him to the palace. King Sejong grants him a chance to display his abilities.

A supernatural story about a mystic events occurring on the train, which had the route similar to the train which crashed many years ago.

After his parents' murder, Michael King, a drug lord, seeks revenge on those responsible. But his ruthless pursuit is challenged when he falls for Jin Bo Bae, a journalist.

This drama is about a female lobbyist dealing with international arms traders. Han Jae Suk is a successor of a main munitions business company in Korea. He is a young businessman with perfect appearance using a refined phraseology. He has an innate ability as a lobbyist and is a master schemer. He plans to sweep over the whole of Asia.

This drama focuses on a group of detectives in the Seoul Gangnam Police Homicide Division who solve crimes based on real life cases with their variety of skills and investigative methods. At the forefront of the team is the impulsive and hotheaded detective Park Se Hyuk and the cold, commanding police chief, Jung Il Do. Park Se Hyuk's passion for his work and rough personality results in a tendency to take action first before thinking later, in contrast with Jung Il Do's by-the-book style. However, his greatest weapon is an instinctive knowledge of a criminal's tricks and mental workings that he gained from his father, the legendary thief, and his own childhood in the streets. Together with the other members of a special team formed to catch Lupin, a notorious burglar, he juggles work with his own personal quest to find his father and confront his older brother, a crooked detective.

A story that looks into the traumatic events and human ambivalence experienced by a psychiatrist who becomes the daughter-in-law of a chaebol family while suffering from the events of dementia, divorce and disappearance. (Source: HanCinema)

Lee Kang San and Lee Woo Joo find themselves taking over the management of their family's traditional kimchi restaurant, Heaven, Earth and Man, when their father sets off on a journey one day without their knowledge. Ki Ho Tae coincidentally arrives at the restaurant in search of the missing pieces of his past. Together with the other restaurant employees, long-time customers and a growing circle of friends, they work towards their individual goals while finding warmth and family through their sharing of food and support of each other.

A Tattooist suspects one of her customers to be a serial killer, according to the tattoo he is getting made by her.

There is a house where a family of four live: mother, her eldest daughter Younghee who is married, younger daughter Kkotnip who is in high school and Younghee's husband Sangho. The family is filled with happiness when Younghee gives birth to a child, but an unfortunate mishap caused by mother leads to the death of the child.

Since Kyung-tak was forced to resign from his military post due to the fault of his superior, he is jobless and tries to make a living helping out at his parents' restaurant. As luck would have it, while applying for a new job, he saves a client of Yoo-jin's, a bodyguard, which results in Kyung-tak becoming employed by the security firm where she works, which is run by Sung-soo. Kyung-tak's life is headed for further changes as Na-young moves into town with her grandmother and becomes friends with his younger sister Kyung-mi.

Min-jun and Ji-won are first-rate "players" who are used to getting their way in the field of love and sex, until they run into each other. Let the games begin.

Beyond their fiercest struggle, there is happiness

Self-absorbed and rebellious, In Ha (Cha Tae Hyun), is constantly knocking heads with his disapproving father and estranged brother Myung Ha (Jang Hyuk), an angry gangster that has nothing but hate for the family he never knew. Lee Yeon hee (Kim Hyun Ju) lost her parents at early age. She has a competitive nature and a strong sense of pride which prevents her from getting close with everyone. Jung Soo Bin (Kim Ha neul) is the illegitimate daughter of a billionaire which leaves her suffering from depression. When the brothers' relationships with In Ha's troubled fiancee (Kim Ha Neul) and Myung Ha's close friend (Kim Hyun Ju) begins to cross over, they must come to terms with each other, or risk losing both their families and true loves. The story is about their struggle and hope to overcome their problems.

Revolves around an elite group of male warrior youth called Hwarang who grow through passion and love in Seorabeol, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla.

A mermaid from the Joseon period ends up in present-day Seoul, where she crosses paths with a swindler who may have ties to someone from her past.

Dae-gil is the leader of a group of slave hunters that are hired to find a runaway slave named Tae-ha, who was once a great warrior.

A series of murders during the reign of King Sejong leads investigator Kang Chae Yoon to discover a grand conspiracy involving a group of geniuses willing to risk their lives for a cause.

Lee Eun Oh, a noble's son, arrives at a small village in search of his missing mother. There, Arang, the ghost of a young woman that lost her memories of her past life, asks him to help her to figure out her identity and how she died.

Joo Hong Bin, CEO of a game company, has got everything. He is capable, rich and even good-looking.

The drama tells the story of the life of Dae Jo-yeong, also known as the founder of the kingdom of Balhae, from birth to his death.

Born as the third prince, Chung Nyeong, was far from ascending the throne. His early years were turbulent as Korea faced political tensions from both within and abroad and facing abduction as a boy to make matters worse. Eventually, the young prince finds himself living in a private residence outside of the palace and experiences the everyday life of commoners until he is a young man. Later on his ascension to the throne, Chung Nyeong (now called King Se Jong) stabilizes the newly born country and gives rise to the blooming culture of Joseon. In the process, he invents Hangul, the Korean writing system.

Dae-Gil and King Yeongjo enter a match. Dae-Gil bets his life and King Yeongjo bets the entire Kingdom of Joseon on the outcome.