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Drama and movie list of melodrama genre

Love Rain
  • Title: Love Rain
  • Also Known As: 사랑비 / Sa-rang-bi
  • Genre: Melodrama
  • Broadcast Date: March, 2012
  • English Subs:  Yes
  • Total Episodes: 20
  • Casts: Hwang Bo Ra, Im Yoon Ah, Jang Geun Suk, Kim Si Hoo, Son Eun Seo
  • Status: Complete
  • Summary/Synopsis: 

    "Love Rain" depicts a 1970's pure love and a love from the present day at the same time. It shows how the offsprings of a previous ill-fated couple, who met in the 1970s, managed to meet and fall in love. Seo In Ha and Kim Yoon Hee, a art student and a shy beauty, met and fell in love with each other during college in the 1970s but unfortunately their love was fated to never be. Now in the present 21st century Korea, Seo In Ha's son, Seo Joon (a liberal photographer) meets and falls in with the daughter of Kim Yoon Hee, Kim Ha Na, a cheerful and energetic girl who's personality is different from her mother's. Will their love for each other keep them together or will they have to face the same fate as their parents?

A Thousand Days' Promise
  • Title: A Thousand Days' Promise
  • Also Known As: 천일의 약속 / Forget Me Not / Cheonileui Yaksook
  • Genre: Melodrama, Romance
  • Broadcast Date: October, 2011
  • English Subs:  Yes
  • Total Episodes: 20
  • Casts: Jung Yoo Mi (1984), Kim Rae Won, Lee Sang Woo, Moon Jung Hee, Soo Ae
  • Status: Complete
  • Summary/Synopsis: 

    A story about a woman who's slowly losing her memory and a man who takes responsibility for loving her.

Thorn Birds
  • Title: Thorn Birds
  • Also Known As: 가시나무새 / Kashinamoosae
  • Genre: Melodrama, Romance
  • Broadcast Date: March, 2011
  • English Subs:  Yes
  • Total Episodes: 20
  • Casts: Han Hye Jin, Joo Sang Wook, Kim Min Jung, Kim Soo Hyun, Lee Min Ho
  • Status: Complete
  • Summary/Synopsis: 

    This is the story of two women, Seo Jung Eun and Han Yoo Kyung, who walk very different paths to achieve their desires. Seo Jung Eun is a strong and courageous woman who has suffered a difficult life, having grown up in an orphanage, but continues to embrace people around her despite longing for affection herself. Jung Eun harbours the hope that she will meet her mother if she becomes a star, striving to reach her goal and overcome her suffering with her pure and innocent nature. In contrast, Han Yoo Kyung has a birth secret for which she is willing to throw away everything in order to get revenge. The "thorn birds" of the title refers to Jung Eun's character, who only brings out her best at the cost of great pain. A thorn bird is a mythical bird who searches for a thorn tree from the day it is born. When it finds it, the bird impales itself upon the sharpest thorn, and rises above the agony to sing the most beautiful song ever heard.

I Believed in Men
  • Title: I Believed in Men
  • Also Known As: 남자를 믿었네 / Namjareul Mideonne
  • Genre: Melodrama, Romance
  • Broadcast Date: February, 2011
  • English Subs:  Yes
  • Casts: Kim Dong Wook, Lee Hwi Hyang, Wang Bit Na, Lee Da In, Shim Hyung Tak
  • Status: Ongoing
  • Summary/Synopsis: 

    A classic family drama about a food company manager who goes through a series of tumultuous events after breaking up with a loved one for unknown reasons.

Paradise Ranch
  • Title: Paradise Ranch
  • Also Known As: 파라다이스 목장 / Paradise Ranch
  • Genre: Melodrama, Romance
  • Broadcast Date: January, 2011
  • English Subs:  Yes
  • Total Episodes: 16
  • Casts: Joo Sang Wook, Lee Yeon Hee, Yoon Ji Min, Yoon Ye-Ri, Yoo Ha Na
  • Status: Complete
  • Summary/Synopsis: 

    Dong Joo and Da Ji were once a couple who were married at 19 but they quickly divorced. Years passed, they both return to their old house and discover that their feelings for each other have been endured.

Pianist
  • Title: Pianist
  • Also Known As: 피아니스트 / Pianist
  • Genre: Melodrama, Romance
  • Broadcast Date: November, 2010
  • English Subs:  Yes
  • Total Episodes: 1
  • Casts: Choi Phillip, Han Ji Hye, Jo Hee Bong
  • Status: Complete
  • Summary/Synopsis: 

    Oh Je Ro is a musical genius who had always dreamt of learning the piano, but had to work in a piano factory as tuner instead of going to school in order to support his sick father. He had despaired of ever being given a chance to learn and thought the name his father gave him sounded like "Oh, Zero", signifying his lack of hope in the future. This changes when he meets an elementary school teacher, Yoon In Sa, and begins a delicate love story with her.

Home Sweet Home
  • Title: Home Sweet Home
  • Also Known As: 즐거운 나의 집 / Jeulgeowoon Naui Jib / My Happy Home / My Sweet Home
  • Genre: Melodrama, Mystery
  • Broadcast Date: October, 2010
  • English Subs:  Yes
  • Total Episodes: 16
  • Casts: Hwang Shin Hye, Lee Sang Yoon, Shin Sung Woo, Yoon Yeo Jung, Kim Hye Soo
  • Status: Complete
  • Summary/Synopsis: 

    Kim Jin Seo and Mo Yoon Hee are high school classmates and rivals whose different family backgrounds shaped their characters and their paths towards love and success in adulthood. Jin Seo develops a warm and cheerful personality as well as superior intellectual ability, while Yoon Hee becomes a beautiful woman with fatal charm. Both women love Lee Sang Hyun, an extremely kind but indecisive man who used to date Yoon Hee but later married Jin Seo. When Yoon Hee's husband, Sung Eun Pil, dies under suspicious circumstances, Jin Seo finds herself becoming involved in the investigation. The process is complicated when the young homicide detective Kang Shin Woo becomes romantically interested in Jin Seo.