Jung So Min is a South Korean actress. Born on March 16, 1989, as Kim Yoon Ji, she made a splash with her acting debut in the 2010 television drama “Bad Guy.” The recognition led to her next role in the popular drama “Playful Kiss,” an adaptation of the manga “Itasura na Kiss” opposite Kim Hyun Joong. She has since starred in other popular films and television dramas, including “Can We Get Married?” (2012), “Big Man” (2014) and “D-Day” (2015).

Jung So Min

Two years ago, No Jeong Yeol (Kang Ha Neul) and Hong Na Ra (Jung So Min) were so madly in love that they decided to go against both of their family’s wishes and get married. While at the time, it may have seemed that their love would be enough to get them through whatever hardships might come their way, two years of married life have brought them to a very different place.

Agreeing that the time has come for them to go their separate ways, Jeong Yeol and Na Ra head to the courthouse to make their separation official. Leaving the courthouse with a 30-day divorce settlement period, the once-happy couple now has a month to settle things between them but an unexpected car accident on the way home leaves them both with a severe case of amnesia. What should have been a very simple divorce settlement turns complicated when Jeong Yeol and Na Ra find themselves falling in love with each other all over again.

Horrified to see the young couple falling in love once more, Jeong Yeol and Na Ra’s families devise an elaborate 30-day plan to help them regain their memories and end their marriage. Will their complicated schemes work in keeping the two apart or will it only serve to bring them closer together?

A delightful romantic romp, “Love Reset” is a 2023 South Korean romantic comedy film directed by Nam Dae Jung.

Love Reset

The Frontier Titan is a massive container ship traveling between the Philippines and the South Korean port of Busan. But its cargo on this journey is a disparate collection of dangerous criminals on their way to repatriation in their home countries, including the tattooed Jong Doo (Seo In Guk). A hardened group of police officers headed by Seok Woo (Park Ho San) is charged with keeping the convicts chained up and under guard.

But the villains have other plans – and plan to break free. Once they do so, they attempt to take over the ship...and turn it into a water-bound hell. But the criminals are not aware that they are not the Frontier Titan’s only cargo on this journey. Something even more deadly than Jong Doo and his criminal counterparts has come along for the ride...and threatens to unleash a horror unlike anyone has ever seen before!

“Project Wolf Hunting” is a 2022 South Korean movie that was directed by Kim Hong Sun.

Project Wolf Hunting

Na Young Won (Jung So Min) is a successful senior editor at the hit monthly magazine Monthly House. Although her glittering journalistic career spans a decade, her home situation is not quite as idyllic as those she spends her time reporting on. In fact, she lives alone in a rented house and happily makes adjustments as she sees fit. But when the magazine’s CEO Yoo Ja Sung (Kim Ji Suk) buys the house and becomes her fussy new landlord, she is in for a shock.

Yoo Ja Sung proves to be a very difficult landlord to keep happy. He grew up in poverty, initially working in the construction industry, but determined to make his fortune through real estate investment. For him, buying the house Na Young Won lives in is little more than another financial transaction. But as the duo starts to get to know one another, their attitudes toward the real estate market – and one another – start to change. Suddenly, Na Young Won starts to ask herself if she would be better off buying her own house...or beginning on an unlikely romance with her firm’s CEO!

“Monthly Magazine Home” is a 2021 South Korean drama series that was directed by Lee Chang Min.

Monthly Magazine Home

Monthly Magazine Home 🏠

After wandering the earth for the past 999 years, Shin Woo Yeo (Jang Ki Yong) now stands on the brink of seeing his greatest dream come true. Having spent the last thousand years collecting human energy in his precious bead, this thousand year old gumiho is finally ready to shed his fox form and become fully human. Or at least he was until one unsuspecting student by the name of Lee Dam (Hyeri), ruined all his plans.

Working as a college professor, Woo Yeo never imagined that a single university student would be capable of waylaying all of his plans for becoming human. But when a late-night encounter with Lee Dam and one of her drunken friends causes him to drop his precious bead, that’s exactly what happens. While trying to help her inebriated friend home, Lee Dam accidentally swallows Woo Yeo’s fox bead. Knowing full well that swallowing a fox bead will ultimately kill a human, Woo Yeo has no choice but to confront Lee Dam with the truth. With no real idea how to solve their current predicament, Woo Yeo suggests they live together, until they can figure out a solution.&nbsp;

Unable to find a way out of this predicament on her own, Lee Dam agrees to Woo Yeo’s unusual request. But will living together really help them find the answer they seek, or will it just bring with it an entirely new set of problems?&nbsp;

Based on the webtoon of the same name by Na, “My Roommate is a Gumiho” is a 2021 romantic comedy drama directed by Park Joon Hwa and Nam Sung Woo.

My Roommate is a Gumiho

How To Tame A Fox Team

KBS02

A quirky psychiatrist is on a mission to help people heal, and a rising star has emotional wounds that run deep. Lee Si Joon is an eccentric but passionate psychiatrist working in a hospital. He cares deeply for his patients, whom he tries to help through valiant yet often unorthodox efforts. Han Woo Joo is an up-and-coming musical actress. Honest and principled, her efforts on the stage seem to be paying off, but she struggles with anger issues and recurring mental breakdowns that threaten to derail her career.

Fix You

🔧💖 Soul Mechanics 💖🔧

From fine dust in the playgrounds to noise complaint issues in the apartments, children these days have fewer and fewer reasons to spend time running and playing outdoors. An eco-friendly childcare center in the woods is now open for children who don\u2019t have places to run and play freely.Four celebrities, \u2018Tsundere\u2019 Lee Seo Jin, \u2018Newbie babysitter\u2019 Lee Seung Gi, \u2018Energizer\u2019 Park Na Rae, and \u2018Sentimental\u2019 Jung So Min, come together to create a Kids Garden and enjoy their time playing with the kids there. The children leave the stuffy confines of the city and come to Neverland in the forest, where there is plenty of green space to run around in and lots of eco-friendly food to eat. They will show the viewers how they learn to cooperate with their friends and grow through healthy competition. A childcare service taking place in nature, full of green grass and fresh air, Little Forest!

Little Forest

The son of a gisaeng, Heo Saek (Lee Junho) grew up surrounded by the lovely ladies who worked alongside his mother at his aunt’s popular gibang, Yeonpoonggak. Well acquainted with the suffering and oppression these beautiful women of Joseon were forced to endure, Heo Saek decided at a young age to ease their suffering by helping them any way that he could. True to his word, when his aunt’s business begins to fail, Heo Saek takes it upon himself to help by becoming the first-ever male gisaeng.&nbsp;

A charming bachelor with unquestionable good-looks, Heo Saek’s unorthodox debut makes him an overnight success. Drawing the attention of women from far and wide, Heo Saek is more than capable of winning the heart of any woman he meets. Or so he thought. A beauty among beauties, Hae Won (Jung So Min) has no trouble capturing the attention of men. But as soon as she opens her mouth, her sharp mind and progressive thinking send them running. Instantly attracted to Hae Won’s beauty, Heo Saek turns on the charm and is shocked to find that Hae Won isn’t the least bit impressed.

Determined to find out what makes this woman tick, Heo Saek won’t let Hae Won go so easily. On a journey of her own, to find her one true love, is it possible the man Hae Won has been searching for her entire life is the beautiful gisaeng standing before her?

A delightful story full of laughs, “Homme Fatale” is a 2019 historical romantic comedy film directed by Nam Dae Joong.

Homme Fatale

♡ Homme Fatale ♡

An older brother will do anything to protect his younger sister.

Yoo Jin Kook (Park Sung Woong) is a veteran homicide detective who is getting weary of his job. The only light in his life is his younger sister, Yoo Jin Kang (Jung So Min). He dotes on her and is protective of her like a father figure ever since they lost their parents. 

When Jin Kook starts investigating a suicide of a university student, he can’t help but feel that the dead student’s boyfriend, Kim Moo Young (Seo In Guk), may have been responsible for her death.

Moo Young seems like a nice guy who works at a Korean beer microbrewery, but there seems to be a dark side to him. When Moo Young meets Jin Kang and the two begin to develop a relationship, Jin Kook is determined to stop it. But can Jin Kook protect Jin Kang when she needs it the most?

“Hundred Million Stars From the Sky” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Yoo Je Won. It is a remake of a 2002 Japanese drama series with the same title.

Hundred Million Stars From the Sky

The Twinkle Twinkle Team 

Lee Young Joon (Park Seo Joon) might be the vice-president of his family’s massively successful company, but that doesn’t mean he has what it takes to do a good job. Accompanied by his incredibly talented secretary, Kim Mi So (Park Min Young) for nine years, she has made him look like the shining star that Young Joon believes he is.
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But after Mi So suddenly decides to quit, her arrogant boss comes to realize that he can’t live without her. Having unknowingly shared a traumatic childhood experience, the pair come to understand that maybe they do belong together after all.
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With jealousy forming over Young Joon’s older brother, Lee Sung Yeon (Lee Tae Hwan), and his growing relationship with Kim Mi So, the boastful executive decides he has to win back his secretary no matter what.

What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim

The Perfect Secretaries Team

Who has time for love when finances are on the mind? Nam Sae Hee (Lee Min Ki) is a socially awkward man in his early 30s who has spent his life’s savings purchasing his own house. While he can now be called the master of his own home, his finances are in a sorry state and his job as an IT employee provides him with next to no disposable income after paying off his mortgage. Yoon Ji Ho (Jung So Min), also in her 30s, is a homeless writer who barely makes enough to feed herself. Dating is the last thing on the mind for these financially strapped singles. Through a turn of events, Ji Ho comes to rent a place to stay in Sae Hee’s house and they find themselves as landlord and tenant.
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How will these individuals grow in the unexpected circumstance of being thrust together? Is there room for romance in such impoverished situations? Can they help each other work through their personal, familial, and financial issues?
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“Because This Is My First Life” is a 2017 South Korean drama series. Reinventing a relatively predictable drama plot, this heart-fluttering and highly addictive Kdrama, together with its stellar cast, might have you on a binge spree.

Because This Is My First Life

The Scrimp & Scrape Team

Yoon Ji Ho

Mi Yeong, Hye Yeong, Ra Yeong, and Joon Yeong are the kids of Yeong Sil and Han Soo. They seem like the average Seoul family, with the typical Seoul problems, but that all changes when Jung Hui, an actor, and former K-Pop idol, ends up in their doorstep claiming that Han Soo is his biological father. The family goes through thick and thin, one marriage after the other, trying to figure out why their father happens to be strange.

My Father is Strange

The Strange Squad

Byeon Mi Yeong

JTBC

What happens in the aftermath of a devastating natural disaster? When a 6.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Seoul, a medical disaster team tries to help the survivors and restore order to the paralyzed city. Lee Hae Sung (Kim Young Kwang) is a passionate trauma surgeon who always puts the needs of his patients above all other concerns. But his altruistic approach puts him at odds with the calculating hospital director Park Gun (Lee Kyoung Young) and surgery chief Han Woo Jin (Ha Seok Jin). Jung Ddol Mi (Jong So Min), a third-year resident from Pusan, is thrust into the chaos after delivering a patient to Mirae Hospital in Seoul and stays to help out Hae Sung, along with psychiatrist Park Ji Na (Yoon Joo Hee) and nurse Kim Hyun Sook (Kim Jae Hwa). Kang Joo Ran (Kim Hye Eun), the emergency department chief who is put in charge of the hospital’s Disaster Medical Assistance Team. has the impossible task to keep the hospital running despite depleting resources, even as her own missing 7-year-old son tugs at her heart. Her fiancé, Goo Ja Hyuk (Cha In Pyo), is a natural disaster expert who is promoted to a cabinet minister to help Seoul through the crisis. An Dae Gil (Lee Sung Yeol) is a first-year resident who tries to help a childhood friend who is injured. Hae Sung will do anything for his patients while he also tries to keep his own comatose mother alive. Can he and the other doctors at the forefront of the tragedy help the city to recover from the devastating event? “D-Day” is a 2015 South Korean drama series directed by Jung Yong Woo.

D-Day

The Doomsday Team

Having just graduated high school, best friends Cha Chi Ho (Kim Woo Bin), Kang Dong Woo (Lee Junho) and Kim Gyung Jae (Kang Ha Neul) now find themselves a trio of twenty-year-olds standing on the brink of greatness. With an entirely new world opening up to them and so many new roads before them, they each have to stop and ponder what it is, exactly, that they most want to do with their lives.&nbsp;

With no real desire to do much of anything, Chi Ho is perfectly content to spend his days as an unemployed player whose entire purpose in life is to do absolutely nothing other than date gorgeous women. Kyung Jae, on the other hand, is an uptight university-bound goody-two-shoes whose one goal in life is to someday land a position at a large corporation. Meanwhile, the happy-go-lucky Dong Woo dreams of becoming a successful cartoonist. Though each young man seems well on his way to making his dreams come true, they’re each met with an unexpected set of obstacles that causes them to stop and consider the fact that being an adult is actually harder than it looks.

Despite their various personal set-backs, Chi Ho, Dong Woo, and Gyung Jae agree that at twenty-years-old, the world is their oyster and each of them is more than willing to reach out and take it. Will their various misadventures ultimately bring them the life-long happiness they seek?

Following the hilarious antics of three very unique friends, “Twenty” is a 2015 comedy film directed by Lee Byeong Heon.

Twenty

🌟Forever Young🌟

Orphaned at birth, Ji Hyeok has struggled to survive for as long as he can remember. He has done everything from being a boxer to working as a street thug. His whole life turns upside down when he suddenly finds himself the son of one of the largest conglomerate families in Korea. In an attempt to save his biological son, Dong Seok, Chairman Kang Sung Wook tries to take Ji Hyeok's heart and give it to Dong Seok. However, in the middle of the transplant surgery, Ji Hyeok miraculously wakes up from anesthesia. When the media catches wind of his existence, Chairman Kang panics and tries to play off Ji Hyeok as his real son. Meanwhile, Dong Seok is forced to go overseas for a heart transplant. When he returns, he immediately seeks out his girlfriend, Mi Ra. However, when he realizes that Mi Ra has developed feelings for Ji Hyeok, he sees red and vows revenge, paving the way for a complicated future for these two men connected by a strange twist of fate.

Big Man

 The Big Man Team

Is the easiest part of a relationship planning for the wedding? Hye Yoon (Jung So Min) and Jung Hoon (Sung Joon) are engaged to be married in 100 days. Hye Yoon’s older sister, Hye Jin (Jung Ae Yeon) is nicely married to a doctor, so Hye Yoon’s mother, Deul Ja (Lee Mi Sook), was determined to find an equally suitable husband for Hye Yoon. Imagine her disappointment when she learned that Hye Yoon had already fallen in love with a simple salaryman. Can Hye Yoon and Jung Hoon maintain their faith in love as they face family pressures in their relationship? “Can We Get Married?” is a 2012 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Yoon Cheol.

Can We Get Married?

Hye Yoon

How can a girl at the bottom of her class ever hope to capture the attention of the smartest and most popular boy in high school? Ha Ni (Jung So Min) is smitten with Seung Jo (Kim Hyun Joong) from the moment she laid eyes on him on the first day of school. He is the total package – tall, athletic, good-looking, and the envy of all the students because he always gets a perfect score on all his examinations. But Ha Ni’s affections are not returned, despite her energetic efforts to get his attention. Fate throws them under one roof when an earthquake destroys Ha Ni’s family home, and they live temporarily in the home of her father’s childhood friend, who turns out to be Seung Jo’s father. Will Ha Ni ever be able to get Seung Jo to think of her as anything more than a nuisance? “Playful Kiss” is a 2010 South Korean drama that is based on the Japanese manga “Itazura Na Kiss” (“Mischievous Kiss” and its sequel “Mischievous Kiss 2”), which has also been adapted in Taiwan as “It Started With a Kiss” and its sequel “They Kiss Again”.

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