CITY HALL

Title:  City Hall
Director: Shin Woo Chul
Screenwriter: Kim Eun Sook
Episodes: 20
Broadcast network: SBS , Wednesday & Thursday 21:55
Broadcast period: 2009-Apr-29

Synopsis

This is a politic romantic comedy drama.
Shin Mi Rae is a level 10 civil servant (the lowest level in the hierarchy). She started as a low-ranking secretary in a local government and works her way up in becoming the youngest City Mayor in Inju City.

Jo Gook is a young elite government official who was raised by a single mother. He dreams of becomeing the President of South Korea after he successfully passed all civil service and law exams.

Jo Gook will easily go straight to the top government official, but because an unexpected incident, he get dispatched as a deputy mayor for a provincial small town, Inju City , when Shin Min Rae was working.

Jo Gook and Min Rae met, then they have to deal with each other personal and social differences , but, will they end up as lovers ?

Credit : Soompi

Main Cast
Cha Seung Won as Jo Gook
Kim Sun Ah as Shin Mi Rae
Choo Sang Mi as Min Joo Hwa
Lee Hyung Chul as Na Jung Do

Supporting Cast
Kim Ah Rang
Cha Hwa Yun

one of the most romantic korean drama i’ve seen. its not the typical love story-drama, it also shows the conflicts on politics and personal life of the characters, and how they fight for their ideals.

the drama is so funny yet leaves you a lasting impression. i feel like falling inlove with love itself all over again. lines are not too wordy romantic scenes are not too fancy, but will make you want to experience the same.

this one of the few drama that makes me watch 20 episodes straight, but of course its not possible since i have to sleep. well, it took me almost two days to finish it.

BLOODY MONDAY

Genre: Action, Suspense
Film Date: October, 2008
Total Episodes: 11

Casts:
Ashina Sei, Fujii Mina , Katase Nana , Kawashima Umika, Kichise Michiko, Matsushige Yutaka, Miura Haruma, Narimiya Hiroki, Sato Takeru, Shimada Kyusaku, Tanaka Tetsushi, Tokunaga Eri, Yoshizawa Hisashi

Synopsis

After a biological terrorist attack kills off the population of a Russian town; Japan’s Public Safety Special Third unit, code name THIRD-i, believes that the terrorist organization responsible plans to unleash the same virus known as Bloody X into Tokyo. Subsequently, THIRD-i recruits the help of genius hacker Takagi Fujimaru to find out what happened in the Russia. However, as Fujimaru becomes involved, he soon finds out that he is in over his head and that the terrorist groups influence reaches not only his school but even the police. Fujimaru must now rely on his skill as a hacker to unravel the organizations sinister plot and find out the truth behind “Bloody Monday.”

LIAR GAME

Genre: Psychological thriller
Film Date: April, 2007
Total Episodes: 11

Casts:
Kitamura Soichiro, Matsuda Shota, Toda Erika, Watanabe Ikkei

Synopsis

Based on the manga series of the same name, Toda Erika plays an honest college student, Kanzaki Nao, who receives a hundred million yen one day, along with a card saying she has been chosen to take part in the “Liar Game”. The aim of the game is to trick the other players out of their hundred million dollars. At the end, the winner gets the hundred million and the loser is a hundred million yen in debt. The next day, she receives notification that her opponent is her former teacher, Fujisawa Kazuo. She goes to him, seeking help, but ends up getting tricked into handing her money over. Desperate, she approaches the police for help, but they are unable to do anything. However, she is told of a mastermind swindler, Akiyama Shinichi, who is to be released from jail the next day. Desperate, she goes to him for help.

CAIN and ABEL

* Genre: Romance, action
* Episodes: 20
* Broadcast network: SBS

Synopsis

Based on the biblical story of Adam and Eve’s first two sons, Cain and Abel is about Cain’s jealousy towards his brother Abel. Lee Cho In is a very gifted doctor who has everything that he wants whereas his older brother, Seon Woo, is jealous of all the attention that Cho In receives. Seon Woo blames his brother for taking everything good in his life away from him. Seon Woo blames Cho In for getting their father’s love, getting more recognition as a doctor, and for stealing the woman he loves.

Main Cast:

So Ji Sub as Lee Cho In / Oh Gang Ho
Shin Hyun Joon as Lee Seon Woo
Han Ji Min as Oh Young Ji
Chae Jung Ahn as Kim Seo Yeon

IRYU TEAM MEDICAL DRAGON

Alternative Title: 医龍 / iryu / team medical dragon
Genre: Drama, Medical
Film Date: April, 2006
Total Episodes: 11

Japan Casts:
Kitamura Kazuki, Koike Teppei, Mizukawa Asami, Natsuki Mari, Sakaguchi Kenji

Synopsis

Ryutaro Asada is enjoying his peaceful life in the countryside, when he is visited by Akira Kato, assistant professor of the Faculty of Cardiac Surgery at Meishin University Medical Hospital.

Ryutaro is a genius surgeon who used to lead “Team Medical Dragon,” a world-class NGO medical team. In harsh environments that lacked medicine and electricity, Ryutaro witnessed many lives pass away. At the same time, he saved many other lives, helping his matchless skill overwhelm other doctors.

As a female doctor, Akira managed to become an assistant professor. She has ambitions to be promoted to professor by succeeding in a surgery using the Batista technique — an extremely difficult type of heart surgery — and also by writing a paper on it. A year ago, Akira witnessed Ryutaro’s skills when he was an NGO doctor. That’s why she recruits him and asks him to use the Batista technique. Since Ryutaro’s arrival, urgent patients who would have been abandoned in the past, are miraculously saved by the “hands of God.”

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I say…..

this is one of the best if not the best medical drama i’ve seen. Once you start watching it, you dont want to stop till the end.