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Rakuten Viki‘s 2024 International K-Drama Day programming has just been revealed!

The largest streaming platform for Asian content is hosting the second annual International K-Drama Day celebration, kicking off November 18 and continuing into the lead up of International K-Drama Day on November 29.

For two weeks starting on November 29, fans will be able to watch 10 of Viki’s most iconic K-dramas without a paid subscription, marking the largest number of premium titles ever made available for free in the platform’s history.

There will also be premieres, including Love Your Enemy (November 23) starring Ju Ji Hoon and Jung Yu Mi, as well as the premiere of Brewing Love (November 4) featuring Kim Se Jeong and Lee Jong Won. Plus, the Family By Choice series finale airs on November 27.

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The dramas available to stream are…

True Beauty

What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim

Guardian: The Great and...

Exclusive: Korean animated film Yumi’s Cells: The Movie will be released on streaming platform Rakuten Viki on July 19, after a theatrical run at the domestic box office in April.

The Asian-content focused Rakuten Viki has unveiled a collaboration with Chinese video site Bilibili to bring Chinese animated series Mom, I’m Sorry and Rakshasa Street seasons 1-3 to its platform.

Yumi’s Cells: The Movie was adapted from the eponymous webtoon, which originally received an enormous 3.5 billion views. The webtoon also spawned two live action drama series titled Yumi’s Cells in 2021 and 2022, which are available on Rakuten Viki. Broadcast rights to the show were sold to more than 160 territories.

According to the Korean Film Council’s data, Yumi’s Cells: The Movie grossed around $445,000 from 76,500 admissions at the Korean box office in April.

Yumi’s Cells tells the story of an office worker Yumi and the different kinds of cells in her brain,...

Chemistry between leads is vital for a successful K-drama romance, along with a strong plot to keep the audience engaged. Adding elements like mysteries, crime, or the fantastical makes a love story more exciting and creates compelling characters. Well-developed characters outside of the romance enhance the depth of a couple's relationship in a K-drama series.

Romantic couples are a vital part of many television shows, and K-Drama series often have couples with the best onscreen chemistry. No matter what genre a K-drama falls under, there is almost always a central romantic couple who must overcome adversity and differences to be together. However, these couples are only compelling if the actors have enough chemistry to make their attraction believable, leaving the audience breathless. A K-drama will rarely find success if the lead couple isn’t a good match.

Implementing mysteries, fantastical elements, and even crime gives the protagonists something to investigate or accomplish together.

The eleventh episode of Perfect Marriage Revenge saw two of Yi-Joo’s and Do-Kook’s biggest enemies, Jung-Wook and Jung-Hye, go down. Jung-Hye was arrested on charges of fraud, embezzlement, and conspiring to murder. Moreover, we also learned why Manager Kim was helping Yi-Joo all along. In reality, he was the son of the famous Korean painter, Sun-Jin, who was kidnapped by Jung-Hye. She also faked his death so she could sell his artwork at much higher prices than regular. This was how she made her millions by selling fakes to her wealthy and ill-informed clients. As for Jung-Wook, he dug his own grave by falsifying documents to avoid accountability for a worker’s death on his construction site. Jung-Wook also threatened the victim’s wife and tried to buy her silence with a hefty compensation check, but fate had other plans for him. Thanks to Do-Kook, Jung-Wook was exposed,...

In Perfect Marriage Revenge Episode 10, Jung-Hye’s farce was exposed to everyone, laying complete waste to her plan of becoming the chairwoman of Hanwool Group. Moreover, her husband, Jin-Woong, also left her after realizing that Jung-Hye was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Jung-Hye was kicked out of her massive bungalow, and her cards were canceled, leaving her with no choice but to spend the night in her car. She saw a little ray of sunshine when she learned about Yoo-Ra’s pregnancy.

Jung-Hye figured she could use the baby to regain what she had lost. However, this plan of hers was left in tatters when Yi-Joo exposed that Jung-Hye had been selling fake paintings to her high-end clients. This left her with no choice but to gather whatever funds she had and leave the country before she was put in cuffs for swindling rich people of their millions. However,...

In the ninth episode of Perfect Marriage Revenge, Jung-Hye thought she had everything under control since she had convinced most of the shareholders to delegate their votes in her favor. Jung-Hye was already celebrating and was under the impression that she would definitely be the next acting chairman of the Hanwool Group. Little did Jung-Hye know she would be taking a blow she would never recover from.

Spoilers Ahead

How Did Jung-Hye End Up Homeless?

Episode 10 of Perfect Marriage Revenge began with Jung-Hye’s plan taking a nose dive when Woon-Jae walked into the shareholder’s meeting. Woon-Jae told everyone that he didn’t have dementia, and his reports were falsified so Jung-Hye could kick him out of the board. Woon-Jae would soon meet an adept psychiatrist to prove that he had been sane all along. He also told the shareholders to entrust their votes to his granddaughter, Yi-Joo. Woon-Jae...

Previously, in Perfect Marriage Revenge, Jung-Hye pulled a fast one on Yi-Joo. She meticulously exploited the circumstances and turned Jin-Woong against Yi-Joo. She made it look like Yi-Joo was to blame for Hanwool Group’s failed acquisition of The Savings Bank. That wasn’t all; Jung-Hye even convinced the poor guy to delegate his management rights to her for the time being. This had been Jung-Hye’s aim from the very beginning, and she immediately started moving things around to suit her agenda.

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Who Is Dong-Soo?

As we all know, Yi-Joo’s mother, Ji-Won, was dating Jin-Woong. By the time Woon-Jae came to know about it, Ji-Won was already pregnant. Woon-Jae offered her money and ordered her to walk away. A couple of years later, he received word that Ji-Won had died in a house fire, along with Yi-Joo. The fire was Jung-Hye’s doing. Jung-Hye paid Dong-Soo,...

Previously in Perfect Marriage Revenge, Yoo-Ra found a secret weapon. It was the signed marriage contract between her sister, Yi-Joo, and Do-Kook. She believed that she finally had a shot at ending Yi-Joo and Do-Kook’s marriage. As a final nail in the coffin, Yoo-Ra also vilified Yi-Joo’s image in the media by paying journalists to write fake articles about her. Sadly, her plan fell through when Do-Kook told his mother everything. He said Jung-Hye and Yoo-Ra were trying to make Yi-Joo’s life a living hell, just like they had done till now. Yeon-Hwa also paid a visit to Jung-Hye and told her something that broke her scheming heart. Jung-Hye was already glum when she found out her father-in-law was planning to transfer his share to Yi-Joo, not Yoo-Ra. Therefore, what Yeon-Hwa told Jung-Hye hit her like a ton of bricks. Yeon-Hwa said she had no issues with the contract marriage.

Everyone streaming Perfect Marriage Revenge was starting to feel that Yoo-Ra and Jung-Hye were running out of options, but they did something none of us were ready for. In the last episode, we all saw how shocked Yi-Joo was when Jung-Wook walked into the dining room, holding hands with his half-sister, Yoo-Ra. This was totally unexpected for everyone: Yi-Joo, Do-Kook, and the entire Taeja family.

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Why Isn’t The Taeja Family Happy About Jung-Wook And Yoo-Ra?

Everything was going well for Yi-Joo. Both Madam Lee Taeja and Yeon-Hwa had accepted Yi-Joo as their daughter-in-law. They threw a lavish party and invited their closest relatives to bless the bride and groom. But then Yoo-Ra pulled a fast one on her. She met Jung-Wook and convinced him to join forces with her. Even though Jung-Wook had conspired against his stepbrother before, he had never let anyone control him. Unfortunately, this time,...

Previously on Perfect Marriage Revenge, we caught a glimpse of Han Woon-Jae’s biggest secret, which he had hidden from everyone. In the past, Woon-Jae used to give out loans on heavy interest to people looking to borrow quick money. Woon-Jae had given some money to a woman, but when she was unable to return it, he’d started breathing down her neck. In the end, the woman hanged herself. Unfortunately, she was expecting at that time. Woon-Jae blamed himself for the woman’s death. His astrologer told him that Woon-Jae could get both his wealth and peace of mind back if he adopted a child. His son, Jin-Woong, did what he was asked to and adopted Yi-Joo. However, as the fifth episode was about to end, we learned that Yi-Joo was actually his own blood. Meanwhile, we also noticed that Yoo-Ra had a new plan in place: to wed Jung-Wook,...

In the last episode of Perfect Marriage Revenge, we got a glimpse of Do-Kook’s biggest secret. He had never told anyone this, but he suffers from past trauma and fears going anywhere near the water. This was why he collapsed near the pier and was rushed to the hospital. In reality, when he was a kid, he’d accidentally pushed Jung-Wook into the water. Jung-Wook sustained serious injuries and, sadly, became handicapped. Very few people knew about this because the Taeja Group used their name and power to cover up the incident. But ever since, Do-Kook has been having panic attacks and seeing a psychiatrist to control his episodes. From what we had seen so far, it was clear that Jung-Wook abhorred his stepbrother more than anything in the world. He couldn’t stand Do-Kook being happy, and maybe that was why he called Yi-Joo so he could turn her against her fiancé.