Just One Smile Is Very Alluring 微微一笑很倾城 (2016)

Background:

Alternative Title:  Love O2O
Broadcast Period: August to September 2016 (China)
Episodes:  30

Status: Complete

Executive Summary:

The Legend of the Blue Sea (2016)

Background:

Broadcast Period: November to January 2016 (Korea)
Episodes:  20 +Special

Status: Complete

Executive Summary:

Love Story about a mermaid Shim Chung and Heo Joon-jae a con-artist.  

Goblin (2016)

Background:

Broadcast Period: December 2016 to January 2017 (Korea)
Episodes:  16 + 1 Recap Special that aired after episode 13

Status: Complete

Executive Summary:

We Married as a Job (2016)

Background:
Alternative Titles:  Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu
Broadcast Period: October 2016 to December 2016 (Japan)
Episodes:   11
Status:        Completed

Executive Summary:
Mikuri Moriyama is a psychology graduate that gets fired from her temp job.  She ends up working as a housekeeper for Hiramasa Tsuzaki who is inexperience in love.  When her parents decide to move to the countryside she ends up in a contract marriage with Hiramasa which she suggests.  They end up falling in love.

Dead Wrong - 致命復活 (2016)

Background:

Broadcast Period: November - December 2016 (HK)
Episodes: 28
Business consultant Vincent Wai Yat Sing gets abducted in a business trip in Vietnam held at ransom with his team.  He is later locked up in an island prison where he stays for 10 years before escaping since his whereabouts is unknown.  Returning to society who has declared him dead he adjusts back to society where his wife has remarried.

Executive Summary:

Come Home Love: Dinner at Eight – 愛．回家之八時入席 (Episode Summary 176-200)

A spin off of the long series Come Home Love but has totally new characters and story line.  It takes place at a TV station.

Link to High Level Summary

Link to Episode 001-150

Link to Episode 151-175

176-200 Highlights/Recaps continued

1% of Something (2016)

Background:
Alternative Title:  1% of Anything
Broadcast Period: October to November 2016 (Korea)
Episodes:  16
Status: Completed


Executive Summary:  A remake of the 2003 series that was 26 episodes about elementary school teacher, Kim Da-hyun (Da Da) who helps an elderly main.  The elderly man ends up writing the teacher into his will that who ever she marries will inherit his fortune.  Lee Jae-in the grandson who seem cool hearted has to woo the affection of the girl.  Both version they end up falling in love in the process and get together.

Poco's Udon World (2016)

Background:
Alternative Titles:  Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari
Broadcast Period: October 2016 to Present (Anime)
Episodes:   12
Status:        Complete

Executive Summary:
Souta is a web designer that goes back to Kagawa when his father a Udon Restaurant owner dies.  There he meets Poco, a raccoon spirt that takes a form of a child.  Somehow Souta decides to take care of him and starts remembering times he had with his father.  The Anime is a slice of life series that originates from a manga.

My Lover From The Planet Meow – 來自喵喵星的妳 (2016)

Background:

Broadcast Period: October - November 2016 (HK)
Episodes: 32
Spin off of 2015 Ghost of Relativity.  Basically retaining the main cast from the show but with a different story line about a cat from another planet that dies and comes back as a human form to the family that took her in.

Executive Summary:
Garfield, the head of development sees a kitten at a pet store and adopts it calling it Miu Mui.  His is later mistaken as a cat burglar and loses Miu Miu when police woman Cat arrests him.  Later he finds Miu Miu, marries Cat and has a daughter.  10 years pass and Miu Miu dies of old age but returns to earth illegally to help the family but this time as a human.  Miu Miu is really from another planet and was on vacation on planet earth as a pet.

The K2 (2016)

Background:
Broadcast Period: September to November 2016 (Korea)
Episodes:  16
Status:        Completed

Executive Summary:

Come Home Love: Dinner at Eight – 愛．回家之八時入席 (Episode Summary 151-175)

A spin off of the long series Come Home Love but has totally new characters and story line.  It takes place at a TV station.

Link to High Level Summary

Link to Episode 001-150

Link to Episode 151-175

Link to Episode 176-200

151-175 Highlights/Recaps continued

Second to Last Love (2016)

Background:
Broadcast Period: July to October 2016 (Korea)
Episodes:  20

Executive Summary
Story about Ko Sang-Sik who works as the environmental facility section chief at city hall and Kang Min-Joo who is the PD at a broadcasting station.

Shopping King Louie (2016)

Story about a chaebol heir that gets into an accident and loses his memories. He meets a simple rural girl and does things he has never done before.

Background:
Broadcast Period: September 2016 (Korea)
Episodes:  16
Status:  Complete

Highlight recaps

Episode 1

• Louie purchases limited edition jacket #1
• Louie is mesmerize by Bok Shil that he sees in a documentary
• Bok Shil grandmother from remote area dies and she goes to the city to find her brother that left but is swindled and loses her bag
• Bok Shil's bag get stolen and she sells her 50 year wild ginseng to Joong Won the director
• Louie's grandma falls ill and Louie comes back to Korea from France
• Bok Shil sees Louie on the street and mistakes him as her brother

Come Home Love: Dinner at Eight – 愛．回家之八時入席 (Episode Summary 001-150)

A spin off of the long series Come Home Love but has totally new characters and story line.  It takes place at a TV station.

Link to high level summary

Link to Episode 151-175

Link to Episode 176-200

001-150 Highlights/Recaps

Moonlight Drawn by Clouds (2016)

Series based on a web novel that happens in Joseon Dynasty.  A girl who impersonates an Eunuch and the love story between her and the Crown Prince.

Background:
Broadcast Period: August - October 2016 (Korea)
Episodes:  18
Status: Completed

Highlights/ Recaps   

Come Home Love: Dinner at Eight – 愛．回家之八時入席

Background:

Broadcast Period: April 2016 to January 2017 (HK)

Episodes: 200
Status:  Complete

Show is spin off of Come Home Love but has totally new characters and story line.  It takes place at a TV station.

Cut to the chase ending:  

"W" (W - Two Worlds)

Background:

Broadcast Period: July 2016 to September 2016 (Korea)

Episodes:  16

Series goes back and forth between the real world and webtoon.

Highlights/Recaps

Episode 1

Oh Yeon Joo is sucked into the famous webtoon "W" that her father draws when he goes missing suddenly one day.  In the webtoon she saves the main character Kang Chul on a roof  and is then transported back to the real world via a "to be continued" in the corner of the screen.  When she returns everything that happens shows up in the webtoon she reads online.  Meanwhile Kang Chul searches for her in the webtoon claiming she is the key to his existence.