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Back in school, we often witnessed students getting bullied by a set of superiors. Despite constant awareness around the world, bullying is still an issue in several schools. Unfortunately, many of these bullying incidents also go unnoticed as they happen in the quiet corners of the classrooms. Nobody cares or interferes in those moments, and the victims face all the troubles and leave with deep wounds not only on their bodies but also on their minds. Korean dramas have long been trying to showcase the hidden reality that often happens before us, but many remain oblivious to it.

These dramas not only focus on the victims’ pain but also show how they stand up against it, culminating in all their power and strength. These dramas portray the journey of the victims of school bullying and how...

While on the surface a film ostensibly focused on a burgeoning supernatural mystery surrounding an ominous yoga studio and the need to uncover it, there’s far more going on in Yun Jae-yeon‘s follow-up to the solid-if-by-the-book “Wishing Stairs”. Still retaining the same sense of atmosphere and theatrics, she adds a fantastic critique of beauty and physical aesthetics in Korean society for her second, and thus far final, directorial effort “Yoga Hakwon.”

Trying to stay competitive at work, TV presenter Hyo-jeong (Kim Yoo-jin) becomes jealous of the attention new co-host Seon-hwa (Lee Yeong-jin) receives from her studio bosses due to her youth and beauty as a former pageant contestant. After talking with boyfriend Dong-hoon (Choi Daniel), Hyo-jung decides to follow a rigorous yoga training class held at Na-ni’s (Cha Soo Yeon) resort with other participants Sung Yeon-joo (Park Han-byeol), Lee Bo-ra (Hwang Seung-eon), Seo In-soon (Jo Eun-ji), and...

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The following contains spoilers for The Recruit Season 2, now streaming on Netflix. It also contains a mention of extreme violence towards women.

In The Recruit Season 2, Noah Centineo's Owen Hendricks finds his back to the wall yet again. He has to figure out how to crack the new conspiracy at play that once more incriminates America into a nasty political scheme. Owen discovers his country inadvertently helped seed a cryptocurrency out into the world. It has allowed the United States and their former partner, South Korea, to spy on their own citizens in the name of domestic safety. However, it speaks to the nations playing god.

These events result in Owen using select members of his CIA team and the man blackmailing him (Tee Yoo's Jang Kyun) to recover the latter's wife, Nan Hee.

The Recruit season 2 episode 5 sets up the final mission of the season: rescuing Nan Hee (Sanghee Lee) from Vladivostok, Russia, where she’s being held as a hostage of the Yakuza.

The Recruit season 2 episode 6, “I.D.N.W.T.B.D.I.” begins as Jang Kyun (Teo Yoo), Owen (Noah Centineo), Lester (Colton Dunn), and Yoo Jin (Do Hyun Shin) are approaching Vladivostok by boat. Nichka (Maddie Hasson) calls Owen as they approach the docks, and she informs him that she’s near the compound. While Lester and Owen hide, Jang Kyun pays off the Russian officers who board the boat as they head to the docks.

Meanwhile, Dawn and her team meet up with Owen and the gang on the boat as they make their move to find Nan Hee and rescue her.

The CIA is ready to blame Owen for everything

Back at the CIA, Amelia (Kaylah Zander...

The Recruit season 2 episode 5, “W.S.T.W.T.P.,” begins with Grace (Young-Ah Kim), Jang Kyun’s boss briefing her team about the Americans: Lester (Colton Dunn), Owen (Noah Centineo), and Janus (Kristian Bruun), but she can’t find Jang Kyun (Teo Yoo).

At the end of episode 4, Owen, Jang Kyun, and Lester tried to pay for Nan Hee’s release, and now, they need to put together a plan to rescue Nan Hee (Sanghee Lee) from Russia. Meanwhile, Grace reveals that she’s at Jang Kyun’s apartment, and it’s trashed. He says that Janus drugged him and the Americans probably searched his apartment. Grace reveals that the police have a tip on the whereabouts of Owen, Lester, and Janus, and they’re on the way.

Lester and Owen barely escape after paying off a random person for their car. Owen also calls Nichka and asks...

At the end of The Recruit season 2 episode 3, Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) leaves the scene of a murder in Jang Kyun’s (Teo Yoo) car. Well, The Recruit season 2 episode 4, “A.T.N.W.H.Y.P.A.B.H.,” begins immediately after. Owen speeds through the streets of Seoul and calls Janus (Kristian Bruun), who is not into Owen going rogue.

Owen explains the situation and what he’s doing. He’s on his way to Jang Kyun’s apartment to find the Dead Man’s Switch. Janus warns him about how bad this idea is. If he gets caught, Owen is dead dead dead.

Owen searches the apartment and takes lots of pictures, but Jang Kyun obviously follows him. They get into a huge fight, but eventually, they talk it out like adults. In the aftermath, Jang Kyun makes one final plea to Owen for help. He admits...

The Recruit season 2 just premiered on Netflix on Thursday, Jan. 30. I binge-watched all six episodes of the shorter second season (season 1 was eight episodes!), shared the season 2 ending, and speculated about what could be next for Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) in season 3.

First, I have to give some props to Alexi Hawley, the writers, the cast, and the crew for pulling off an incredible second season. There are a lot of spy shows on TV, but most of the shows aren't as well-made as this one. This story moves at a break-neck pace. Logistically, it must be a massive challenge to put this season together when the show is filmed in so many locations with so many big action sequences. It's a really, really good Netflix show!

After the two-year break between season 1 and season 2, I was a little bit worried about how well this story would work. The first...

Owen gets stuck on a plane headed for the Middle East at the end of The Recruit season 2 episode 2, and we see the immediate fallout of that occurence in the next episode.

The Recruit season 2 episode 3, “H.H.I.I.T.K.A.L.” begins in Doha, Qatar with Tom Wallace (Felix Solis) and Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) heading to a meeting with the Taliban. They’re trying to bring home four Americans who have been kidnapped and held hostage.

Tom introduces Owen to a British intelligence officer/businessman Oliver Bonner-Jones (James Purefoy) facilitating the exchange. Owen gets a call from Jang Kyun (Teo Yoo), but he hangs up before speaking to the British officer. After speaking with this British friend, Owen realizes that something is up with this prisoner negotiations. He sees one of the Taliban’s bodyguards putting in earplugs, and he calls Jang Kyun for some advice.

Spoiler Alert: The story includes details about Season 2 of the Netflix series The Recruit.

Like a number of streaming series whose production was delayed by the Hollywood strikes, Netflix’s The Recruit is finally making a return after a two-year break. Season 2 picked up where the Season 1 finale of the series, starring Noah Centineo as rookie CIA lawyer Owen Hendricks, left off.

Abducted by his former asset Max’s (Laura Haddock), daughter Nichka (Maddie Hasson), Owen watched Nichka shoot her mom dead before she almost did the same to him. He was saved by CIA operative Dawn (Angel Parker) and her team only to barely escape being killed by her over his knowledge of her fake assets scheme. The two reached a truce and made a pact of mutual destruction, which Dawn soon broke, spending the season trying to kill Owen as well as Lester who also discovered her secret.

The Recruit season 2’s ending centers around Owen and his friends (new and old), saving the graymailer’s wife, Nan Hee. [Spoiler Alert] As usual, Owen’s own agency decided to write him off the moment they heard about his suicide mission on Russian soil. In Vladivostok, where Nan Hee has been held captive, Owen is willing to risk his own life to save her. Now, Owen did discuss with the agency that he should be cut loose as a rogue agent if the mission goes south, so the agency’s already got the paperwork ready. This means that Owen and his friends have been by themselves all along with no cavalry coming for them. Ever since Owen joined the agency, he’s questioned his own integrity, saving Jang Kyun and his wife will be the only way he can feel at ease, and not like a “bad person.” Throughout the show,...

The Recruit season 2 on Netflix is finally back after a two-year break between seasons. You have to hand it to Alexi Hawley and the writers. They do not mess around at all when jumping into the action in The Recruit season 2 episode 1, “Y.N.A.H.Y.A.L.”

Remember, at the end of season 1, Max (Laura Haddock) was shot by Karolina, also known as Marta, also known as Nichka (Maddie Hasson). We don’t know if Max is alive or dead coming out of season 1, but we find out very quickly.

Max dies in The Recruit season 2

The season begins with Nichka/Karolina beating the hell out of Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) and trying to figure out who he is and what he’s doing. He gives up the information quickly. Owen tries to warn her that she needs to keep him alive because he’s a CIA lawyer...

Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) has no idea how many times he gets disavowed by the American government in The Recruit’s Season 2 finale. “Isn’t that crazy? He doesn’t know — he’s just doing his thing,” Centineo tells Tudum.

And, despite all odds, Owen’s plan ultimately works out in the final minutes of Episode 6. The finale takes The Recruit’s heroes to Vladivostok, Russia, a town so dangerous in the series, the US government wants no part in the trip. But, that’s where Nan Hee (Sanghee Lee) — pregnant wife of Nis agent and Season 2 graymailer Jang Kyun (Teo Yoo) — is being held. So Owen, Jang Kyun, Lester (Colton Dunn), and Owen’s love interest Yoo Jin (Shin Do-hyun) commandeer a boat and head into enemy waters to save her.

Ultimately, Owen manages to free Nan Hee (and an abducted Jang Kyun) from the clutches of Russian intelligence.

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Vigilante is a South Korean action crime thriller drama series created by Moon Yoo-seok. Based on the Naver webtoon of the same name by Kim Gyu-sam, the Disney+ series follows Kim Ji-yong, a student at the police academy whose mother was killed by a criminal in his childhood. Now he secretly goes out at night as a vigilante to kill criminals. Vigilante stars Nam Joo-hyuk, Yoo Ji-tae, Lee Joon-hyuk, and Kim So-jin. So, if you loved the bloody action, intensely thrilling story, and compelling characters in Vigilante here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The Killing Vote is a South Korean legal crime drama series directed by Park Shin-woo from a screenplay by Jo Yoon-young. Based on Kakao Webtoon National Death Penalty Vote by Uhm Se-yoon and Jung Yi-pum,...

If you were craving more South Korean content after brilliant shows like Squid Games, All Of Us Are Dead, Hellbound, and Sweet Home, then I’m sure that you found Netflix’s latest teen thriller drama series, Hierarchy, to your liking. Directed by Bae Hyeon-jin from a screenplay by Chu Hye-mi, the Netflix series is set at an elite South Korean high school, and it follows the story of a transfer student who seems to have a hidden motive behind enrolling in the school. So, if you loved the teen drama, revenge, love, and friendships in Hierarchy, here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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Revenge of Others is a South Korean teen thriller drama series directed by Kim Yoo-jin from a screenplay by Lee Hee-myung. The Disney+ series follows the story of Ok Chan-mi, a shooting champion, as she transfers to a...

“Obliterated,” the upcoming Netflix action-comedy series from the creators of “Cobra Kai,” is adding to its cast.

Joining previously announced series regulars in recurring roles are Carl Lumbly, David Costabile, Costa Ronin, Lindsey Kraft, Tobias Jelinek and Minnie Mills.

“Obliterated” “tells the story of an elite special forces team who thwarts a deadly threat to Las Vegas. After their celebratory party, filled with booze, drugs and sex, the team discovers that a bomb they deactivated was a fake. The now intoxicated team has to fight through their impairments, overcome their personal issues, find the real bomb, and save the world,” per a logline from Netflix.

Lumbly (“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”) will play CIA director Langdon, Ava’s (Hennig) boss and longtime mentor, as well as her government liaison for this mission.

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Netflix’s Obliterated has added 11 new actors to its cast including Carl Lumbly (The Fall of the House of Usher), David Costabile (Billions), and Virginia Madsen (Joy).

Recurring stars and their respective roles are as follows:

Lumbly will play CIA Director “Langdon”, Ava’s (Shelley Hennig) boss and longtime mentor, as well as her government liaison for this mission; Costabile will play “Maddox,” a black market operative and a worthy adversary for our heroes; Costa Ronin (The Americans) will play “Ivan Koslov,” a cunning arms dealer who uses wits and charm to stay one step ahead of the special forces team; Lindsey Kraft (Grace and Frankie) will play “Yani,” a free-spirited lounge singer with a heart of gold and a yearning for love; Tobias Jelinek (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D) will play “Ehren,” a lethally effective one-man Swiss Army Knife; Minnie Mills (The Summer I Turned Pretty...

When a student at a high school suddenly dies without explanation, the rest of the semester will be filled with vengeance against those responsible in Revenge of Others, a thrilling Star Original series coming to Disney+ Hotstar soon.

Following the suspicious death of her twin brother, Ok Chanmi, a shooting athlete, takes the extraordinary step of transferring to her brother’s school in an attempt to uncover the truth and find out why the police and the school seemed to have covered up his death. Driven by her love for her brother and a need to understand what happened, Chanmi will partner with another student Ji Suheon, to exact revenge by proxy on those who bully others. Filled from the opening bell with mystery, intrigue and a series of strange incidents being thrown at Chanmi, audiences will be left champing at the bit for each new episode of Revenge of Others.

It's kind of ironic that the realization came by watching something as far from the concept of femininity as Kwak Kyung-Taek's 친구 - 우리들의 전설 (Friend - Our Legend) is, but maybe that's another proof of how much depth and meaning his first ever TV drama had. That is, in the midst of what you'd expect to be raging machismo and tidal waves of testosterone, what often stood out instead were the women - Busan's tough as nails women, with the charisma and panache of divas from the Golden Age, their often rugged exterior chiseled by time. Generalizations are always the most friendly of compeers when trying to make a point, but meet any woman (particularly of a few generations older than today's teenagers) from Busan, and you'll feel that unique color, mixing their often disarmingly pragmatic ways with the irresistible warmth and joie de vivre their exterior seldom reveals.