Hundred Years Inheritance

GENRE: Family, Romance

SYNOPSIS: A Cinderella based story about a woman who, after being horribly mistreated by her rich mother-in-law and no support from her husband, files for divorce. After a long setback from an accident and goading from her mother-in-law’s attempts to push her into leaving the family, Min Chae Won finally divorces her husband to return to her family. During all of the commotion, Chae Won had cooincidentally met Lee Se Yoon, who helped her out on several occasions. Eventually Chae Won joins her family in continuing the family’s three generation noodle production factory that has a one hundred year history. Chae Won and Se Yoon fall in love and, through ongoing problems with Chae Won’s ex-husband on the sidelines, plan to marry. But other issues come up to stand in the couples’ way and challenge their relationship and make them question their fate.

STARRING: Eugene (Min Chae Won), Jang Seo Hee (Young Chae Won), Lee Jung Jin (Lee Se Yoon), Choi Won Young (Kim Chul Kyu), Yoon Ah Jung (Kim Joo Ri), Shin Goo (Uhm Paeng Dal), Jung Hye Sun (Kim Kkeut Soon), Jung Bo Suk (Min Hyo Dong), Jun In Hwa (Yang Choon Hee), Sun Woo Sun (Uhm Gi Ok), Kim Myung Soo (Uhm Ki Moon), Park Joon Geum (Do Do Hee), Seo Young Hoon (Uhm Seul Hong), Kwon Oh Joong (Uhm Ki Choon), Kim Hee Jung (Gong Kang Sook), Lee Tae Woo (Uhm Bo Reum), Park Young Kyu (Kang Jin), Cha Hwa Yun (Baek Sul Joo), Ha Eun Jin (Young Baek Sul Joo),
Nam Myung Ryul (Lee Dong Kyu), Park Won Sook (Bang Young Ja), Shim Yi Young (Ma Hong Joo), Gong Jung Hwan (Se Yoon’s Friend), Seo Kwon Soon (Ma Hong Joo’s Mother), Jun Sung Ae (Mrs. Park), Kim Bo Yun (Kim Myung Soon), Min Joon Hyun (Chairman Bang’s Reporter), Lee Hyun Woo (Kang Bong Soo), Hwang Sun Hee (Park Eun Sul), Baek Bo Ram (Moo Dang), Lee Sook (Matchmaker), Jung Kyung Ho (Clerk), Go Myung Hwan (MC), Min Jung Sup, Lee Jong Rae, Goo Jung Rim

EPISODES: 50

VIEWING SOURCE: Viki

Beating Again (2015)

GENRE: Romance, Comedy, Drama

SYNOPSIS: After the death of his father, Kang Min Ho’s uncle takes over the large company that he would’ve inherited. Years later an adult Min Ho has grown to be a hard-core investor, seeking a vengeful claim on the company that stole from him. During his rampage, he is diagnosed with the same hereditary heart defect that took his father’s life and is given only weeks to live unless a rare match from a heart donor can be found. Kim Soon Jung is secretary to Kang Min Ho’s thieving uncle. Her fiancee, Ma Dong Wook is a detective on the police force and best friends with Soon Jung’s childhood friend, Lee Joon Hee. After revealing that he knows who and how ingredient tampering with the company’s products has occurred Dong Wook is killed by a hit and run driver. As cooincidence would have it, Dong Wook is the matching donor for Min Ho’s heart transplant. As Min Ho’s personality slowly begins to change after the surgery, he begins to experience new emotions and falls in love with Soon Jung. But will he be able to compete with Joon Hee for Soon Jung’s affection?

STARRING: Jung Kyung Ho (Kang Min Ho), Lee Tae Woo (Young Kang Min Ho), Kim So Yun (Kim Soon Jung), Jung Da Bin (Young Kim Soon Jung), Yoon Hyun Min (Lee Joon Hee), Jin Goo (Ma Dong Wook), Gong Hyun Joo (Han Ji Hyun), Lee Shi Un (Oh Woo Shik), Park Young Kyu (Kang Hyun Chul), Kim Jung Suk (Director Yoon), Lee Soo Ji (Oh Mi Roo), Jung Yoo Min (Yoo Yoo Mi), Ahn Suk Hwan (Ma Tae Suk), Nam Myung Ryul (Lee Jung Goo), Jo Eun Ji (Na Ok Hyun), Joey Albright

EPISODES: 16

VIEWING SOURCE: March-May 2016; Netflix