by Hilary Leung
Somewhat late however you continue to have some time! Grab your popcorn, a blanket, and whilst you’re at it, a field of tissues, and park your self on that sofa to watch some Ok-dramas as a result of Nov. 29 is International Ok-Drama day.- no less than it’s on Rakutan Viki!
With their coronary heart-thumping romances, compelling storylines, and coronary heart-pounding motion scenes, Ok-dramas have shortly risen in reputation and have made huge numbers on varied viewing platforms together with Rakuten Viki and Netflix. It’s no marvel, then, that there’s now formally a date to rejoice these tv shows from South Korea.
What higher method to rejoice International Ok-Drama Day than to spend all day watching all your favourite collection? Rakuten Viki, the biggest streaming platform Asian content material, will host the primary-ever worldwide celebration of Ok-Dramas and so they have made 4 standard Ok-dramas out there to stream free of charge till Nov. 30, together with:
Guardian: The Lonely and Great God
Original airing date: December 2016 – January 2017
Episodes: 16 with 3 particular episodes
Starring: Gong Yoo, Kim Go-eun, Lee Dong-wook, Yoo In-na
Betrayed by the king he faithfully served, Kim Shin (Gong Yoo), a adorned navy basic from the Goryeo Dynasty, is pressured to watch his household die earlier than being reworked right into a goblin by the upper powers. Cursed with the lonely burden of immortality, Kim Shin dedicates the remainder of his lengthy life to saving individuals along with his supernatural abilites. Still, he wanders via his days looking for the prophesied Goblin bride, who’s the one one ready to pull out the sword piercing his physique, which can lastly set his soul free to relaxation in peace within the afterlife.
19 years in the past, Kim Shin saved a girl from a life-threatening accident. From then on, the lady’s daughter Ji Eun Tak (Kim Go Eun) gained the flexibility to talk with beings from the opposite facet. Despite this, she grows up properly and remainsn an optimistic excessive schooler who works a part0time job at a hen restaurant. The restaurant’s proprietor, Sunny (Yoo In Na), findsherself falling in love with a grim reaper (Lee Dong Wook), who can be the goblin’s roommate.
Unknowingly, the lives of those 4 people intertwine to reveal a fated story extra advanced than any character might have imagined. Will Kim Shin’s bride lastly launch him from his everlasting distress?
What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim
Original airing date: June – July 2018
Episodes: 16
Starring: Park Seo Joon, Park Min younger, Lee Tae Hwan
Lee Young Joon (Park Seo Joon) is likely to be the vice-president of his household’s massively profitable firm, however that doesn’t imply he has what it takes to do a superb job. Accompanied by his extremely gifted secretary, Kim Mi So (Park Min Young) for 9 years, she has made him seem like the shining star that Young Joon believes he’s.
But after Mi So immediately decides to stop, her conceited boss comes to notice that he can’t dwell with out her. Having unknowingly shared a traumatic childhood expertise, the pair come to perceive that possibly they do belong collectively in any case.
With jealousy forming over Young Joon’s older brother, Lee Sung Yeon (Lee Tae Hwan), and his rising relationship with Kim Mi So, the boastful government decides he has to win again his secretary it doesn’t matter what.
Twinkling Watermelon
Original airing date: September – November 2023
Episodes: 16
Starring: Ryeoun, Choi Hyun Wook, Seol In Ah, Shin Eun Soo
In 2023, Eun Gyeol (Ryeoun) is a excessive schooler with a ardour for music. During the day, he’s a studious mannequin pupil…however at evening, he rocks out as a guitarist in a band. But when he stumbles throughout a wierd but alluring music retailer, he goes hurtling again in time to 1995. Here, he comes face to face along with his father Ha Yi Chan (Choi Hyun Wook) – as a excessive schooler! Yi Chan takes Eun Gyeol for a lunatic when the latter calls him “dad.” Worse nonetheless, it appears like Yi Chan has a crush on an icy cellist named Se Kyeong (Seol In Ah)– not his future mom Cheong Ah (Shin Eun Soo)! In a bid to put issues “right,” Eun Gyeol joins a band fronted by his future father. But will this be sufficient to assist Eun Gyeol convey his future mother and father collectively…and can he ever get again to the 2020s?
The Deal
Original airing date: October 2023
Episodes: 8
Starring: Yoo Seung Ho, Kim Dong Hwi, Yoo Su Bin, Lee Joo Young
When former highschool buddies Lee Jun Seong (Yoo Seung Ho) and Song Jae Hyo (Kim Dong Hwi) meet their former classmate Park Min Woo (Yoo Su Bin) for drinks one evening, the booze flows and flows till the latter passes out drunk. Jun Seong and Jae Hyo are each mired in monetary difficulties. The former has had to flip his again on a promising sports activities profession, and is now being swallowed up by a mountain of debt. Jae Hyo, in the meantime, is struggling to make ends meet as he tries to make his method via medical college.
Min Woo, alternatively, comes from a rich household and has no monetary worries. As he slumps over the desk in his drunken stupor, his former classmates hatch a plan. They determine to faux a kidnapping in a bid to increase the cash they each want. But issues shortly take an sudden flip – and little do they know, a witness has seen key occasions that would spring their rouse…and land all of them in extremely popular water!
Other Popular Ok-Dramas to Stream
While these 4 Ok-dramas are the one ones that are free to stream, Rakuten Viki has made it a bit reasonably priced to watch the opposite Ok-dramas they’ve to provide. For one day solely, followers can get pleasure from a superb 29% low cost off of all Viki Pass subscriptions. This deal ends on Nov. 29 at 11:59 PM PST. With this low cost, followers may watch their different favourite dramas, together with:
Strong Woman Do Bong Soon
Original airing date: February – April 2017
Episodes: 16 with 1 particular episode
Starring: Park Bo Young, Park Hyung Sik, Ji Soo
Do Bong Soon (Park Bo Young) isn’t any abnormal girl. She is the most recent in an extended line of girls who possess monumental energy. However, Bong Soon’s unbelievable powers can solely be used for good. If she occurs to use her skills for egocentric causes or to hurt others, she’ll find yourself like her mom, Hwang Jin Yi (Shim Hye Jin), who misplaced her powers endlessly.
Although Do Bong Soon makes use of her bloodline’s exceptional power for good, her one true need is to create a online game the place she seems as the principle character. While she struggles to discover employment as a developer, Bong Soon’s skills assist her safe a place because the bodyguard for Ahn Min Hyuk (Park Hyung Sik), the chaebol inheritor and the CEO of the gaming firm, Ainsoft.
As Bong Soon helps her new boss monitor down somebody making harmful threats towards him, she additionally strives to seize consideration from her childhood buddy and rookie police detective Guk Doo (Ji Soo), who’s looking for an insidious kidnapper. Between serving to to clear up each instances, Bong Soon finds nice romance and humor alongside the way in which.
A Good Day to be a Dog
Original airing date: Currently airing
Episodes: 8 as of Nov. 29, 2023
Starring: Cha Eun Woo, Park Gyu Young, Lee Hyun Woo
High college Korean literature instructor Han Hae Na (Park Gyu Young) suffers from a particularly uncommon curse: If she kisses a person, she is doomed to flip right into a canine each evening, though she returns to human kind within the morning. There is just one method to break the curse – and that includes receiving a kiss from the identical man who kissed her…whereas in canine kind!
She has a crush on Lee Bo Kyum (Lee Hyun Woo), a colleague who teaches historical past on the identical college. She is smitten with him, even claiming that he’s the only real motive she desires to preserve coming to work each morning. But she forgets herself one evening, and drunkenly kisses him – solely to uncover that it wasn’t Lee Bo Kyum in any case…however truly Jin Seo Won (Cha Eun Woo), one other male colleague. Unfortunately, though Jin Seo Won is extraordinarily good-looking, he’s additionally frightened of canines due to a traumatic occasion in his previous. He additionally has a pure aversion to her. Now Han Hae Na should discover a method to win his coronary heart – and get him to kiss her – or spend the remainder of her life as a pooch!
The Matchmakers
Original airing date: Currently airing
Episodes: 9 as of Nov. 29, 2023
Starring: Rowoon, Cho Yi Hyun
In the Joseon period (1392-1910), the younger widow Jung Soon Deok (Cho Yi Hyun) has lived an eventful life. She married into a strong household, however has since misplaced her husband. She lives a double life, going beneath an alias when she acts as a matchmaker, pairing up eligible bachelors with appropriate brides. Shim Jung Woo (Rowoon), in the meantime, is the King’s sad son-in-regulation. His chagrin derives from the truth that his bride, the princess, died simply moments after he tied the knot along with her.
But whereas Shim Jung Woo is a really grumpy particular person, he’s additionally one of many smartest males within the land – and have become the youngest particular person ever to go the Civil Service Exam. This unlikely duo should group up to discover husbands for a handful of essential Joseon ladies whose age is beginning to creep up. Their outlooks on life are very totally different, however they haven’t any alternative however to work collectively. Could taking part in Cupid for others put them again on the trail to love?
Perfect Marriage Revenge
Original airing date: Currently airing
Episodes: 10 as of Nov. 29, 2023
Starring: Sung Hoon, Jung Yoo Min
As the eldest daughter of a rich household, Han Yi Joo (Jung Yoo Min) ought to have grown up wanting for nothing. Unfortunately for Yi Joo, that merely wasn’t the case. Raised with the information that she was by no means cherished by both her mother and father or her youthful sister, Han Yoo Ra (Jin Ji Hee), Yi Joo spent her early life remoted from her household.
Now an grownup, Yi Joo finds pleasure in her work as a painter, however in all different points, her life is far the identical because it’s all the time been. Married to a person who doesn’t love her, Yi Joo has merely moved from one home with out love into one other. Even so, she is devastated when she learns that her husband is desperately in love along with her youthful sister. Willing to give absolutely anything to change her destiny, Yi Joo may need taken motion however a tragic accident cuts all her hopes for a greater future quick. Or does it?
Waking from that deadly accident, Yi Joo finds herself transported again in time. Seeing this unusual incidence as an opportunity to change her destiny and take revenge on her household, Yi Joo instantly will get to work. Teaming up with Seo Do Guk (Sung Hoon), the inheritor to an unlimited fortune, will Yi Joo discover a method to make for herself the life she’s all the time wished?
My Dearest
Original airing date: August – November 2023
Episodes: 21
Starring: Namgoong Min, Ahn Eun Jin, LeeChung Ah, Lee Hak Joo, Lee Da In, Kim Yoon Woo
Jang Hyun resides with out function or need. He’s a chilly-hearted man who loves nobody till he will get launched to love after assembly Gil Chae. She is charming and admired by all, however her past love, Yeon Jun, is already engaged to her finest buddy, Eun Ae. Yeon Jun, a Sungkyunkwan pupil, struggles along with his emotions for Gil Chae however can’t break off his engagement due to custom. Eun Ae doesn’t doubt nor hate the 2. As Jang Hyun turns into entangled on this uncommon love triangle, Gil Chae, who has solely cherished Yeon Jun, is confused about her personal emotions. The relationship between these 4 will get put into an excellent larger twist on the breakout of battle. Will they survive the challenges of battle and discover their love amidst the chaos?
Rakuten Viki’s Special Giveaways and Events
Since an increasing number of Ok-dramas are tailored from current webtoons, followers may learn the unique works via an in-app studying occasion hosted on WEBTOON. US-primarily based followers can unlock one month of Viki Pass Plus in the event that they learn six episodes of both A Good Day to be a Dog (Lee Hey), Perfect Marriage Revenge (Yibambe, Jerryball), True Beauty (Yaongyi), Sweet Home (Carnby Kim, Youngchan Hwang), The Girl Downstairs (Doona!) (MIN SONGA), or Vigilante (CRG, kim kyusam). This deal is accessible solely till provides final and ends on Dec. 3.
For followers who are virtually Ok-drama veterans and possibly have picked up a good quantity of Korean via their binge-watching, they’ll take a look at out their information by collaborating in a quiz on Duolingo. Fans could have an opportunity to win one-month subscriptions for Super Duolingo or Viki.
And, in fact, the drink of alternative to have whenever you watch Ok-dramas is boba. Fans within the Los Angeles space can head to their nearest Bopomofo Cafe to attempt the restricted-version Viki Blue Boba lychee-flavored tea. To make issues further candy, followers may even obtain a 1 month Viki Pass Plus code whereas provides final.
In addition, Rakuten Viki can be internet hosting a particular giveaway the place one grand prize fan could have the possibility to journey to South Korea for an unforgettable “all-inclusive K-drama-themed tour.” The fortunate fan will go to iconic locations as proven in standard Ok-dramas comparable to Guardian: The Lonely and Great Goblin, Boys Over Flowers, Hotel del Luna, Twinkling Luna, and extra. Not solely that, the fan may even win one annual Viki Pass Standard subscription, one annual Super Duolingo subscription, and some Viki merchandise. 125 different followers could have the possibility to enter to win considered one of 50 Viki Pass subscriptions, 10 large boba plushes, 5 Roku streaming gadgets, 10 deal with bins from Weee!, and 50 glass pores and skin refining serums from Peach & Lily. The giveaway ends on Dec. 3.
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