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Title: Undercover Category: Korean drama Genre: thriller, crime Plot: Han Jung Hyun (an NIS agent) married Choi Yeon Soo (a human rights lawyer) and kept his true identity a secret. When his wife assumed the position as the head of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, his secret life slowly gets exposed. This drama is a remake of the UK TV series under the same name Actors: Ji Jin Hee; Kim Hyun Joo I'm just excited to see JJH playing as KHJ's husband again - they did a drama together "I have a lover"/"Identical Affairs" back in 2015.

@Just_Me me too... there are quite a few nominated dramas that look so interesting -.- But hopefully the voting won't cause too much of a headache to anyone!

@Just_Me hello!!! Thanks for nominating :) and guess what, you can nominate another drama because that 'One day destruction..." has been nominated already So please please give us another ~ no one nominates LUCA or FHB so you can nominate one of those and then during voting, you can also vote for the Destruction one :) BTW... I like Kim rae won and lee dad hee ... hehehe

@NiteWalkeryes i set a criteria one nomination per person thinking that lots and lots of members will want to nominate I wonder if I change the rule a bit....will it be ok? Hahahaahha

@NiteWalkerwill be busy organising deals now ~~ Thanks

https://thesmartlocal.com/korea/korean-dramas-2021/ I just found this site that listed the Korean dramas to be aired in 2021 (although I think it also included the unconfirmed ones). Now I don't know whether I should nominate Ji Jin Hee ahjussi (Undercover), or Ji Sung (Devilish Judge). And there's this interesting drama with Jung Hae In (D.P Dog Day) and Lee Jae Hoon (Taxi). @im0202 You want to pick one? HAHAHAHHAHA . And @abs-oluteM I'm surprised you didn't nominate your oppa Lee Joon Hyuk's drama... Dark Hole? HAHA.

@NiteWalker good idea.. tag all the Chinese drama watchers and give them your list of dramas if they have no idea what to vote HAHAHAHHA... otherwise..I'll see..looking at the nomination list..I might allow for more dramas at the last minutes or so~~~ @JenL *shock* at the title... how long can a title get??? Like even if you abbreviate it as we do to others it will still be like ODDETFDOMH I like Seo In Guk though~

@NiteWalker let's strike a deal with @MayanEcho . What about if @MayanEchonominate prince change and give the plot and actors and @NiteWalker can do You're My Glory? That way we're getting more dramas to vote!

So far we have 5 Chinese drama nominations (possibly 6) and 8 Korean dramas. Keep it coming~~ @im0202 I'd love to see Jo In Sung again in a drama. I know he's confirmed to star in a reality show with Cha Tae Hyun (but unfortunately we're not doing nominations for variety show).... @joccu__ I missed tagging you and @bluepebbles you nominated a drama joccu did HAHAHHAHA. Well..this means you can nominate another one!

ahahahah @MayanEcho ..please nominate another Chinese drama...surely you are looking forward to watching not only one right? because that drama has been nominated by @NiteWalker although I haven't put it up because she hasn't given any plot or characters yet. Please nominate for us another great upcoming chinese drama Thank you @SilverMoonTea ~~~ @bluepebbles another drama perhaps? wink wink Hello chingus! @eNDe @multiloverss @purplefin @Just_Me @twinkler0415 @Unnie0110 @LFCouple @Seung-Min Haven't actually talked to any of you but maybe this event will be the start Any upcoming drama in 2021 you'd like to nominate? If you're wondering what this is about..please refer to the first post on this thread~ And of course @jeijei and @OsmanthusTea Nominate away~~ I'll check back after I wake up tomorrow~

Wow..seems 2021 is full of dramas with ... actors that I like I truly hope they won't air them at the same time~ Keep the nominations coming. Hoping for at least 16 nominations per category (or am I deluding myself thinking this is possible? ) Chinese drama lovers, where art thou?

@Tofu unless they have other dramas they are even more looking forward to watching @NiteWalker when you have time, could you please give us a bit about what it is about and the confirmed leads? :) @Jane yayyyy someone is nominating HP!

@katakwasabiehemm..that's not a 'legit' nomination ahahhahaha. @Tofu is Immortality a chinese drama and Vincenzo a korean? If yes..you can nominate both..as you can nominate one drama from each category

@SilverMoonTeawhen you said 'my dimple oppa...' I thought it was kim seon ho ahahhahah Times sounds interesting! Will this be something like Signal? The past and present are connected through a phone (instead of walkie talkie)..

Alright, let's get tagging~~ Please tag others that you know are into either Kdramas or Cdramas or both Apologise if I don't tag or tag your name ~ But whether you are tagged or not doesn't matter, just nominate according to the rules anyway~ @Jane @mademoiselle @Chocolate @im0202 @-StrongTower- @JeannieBean @Alice Wonderland @LaLa @MayanEcho @TiNaDo @ktcjdrama @AwkwarDerp @gilaswan @JenL @memorymagnet @cherrhys88@40somethingahjumma @Nohamahmoud2002 @Celebrianna @ssteph @themarchioness @Tothestars @Frau @sugarplum892 @oppasaranghaeyo @TRaNz@abs-oluteM @NiteWalker @Tofu @SilverMoonTea @Darkarcana @bluepebbles @katakwasabi @UnniSara @Mouse @gm4queen @movingwheel @Lynne If you really dislike being tagged, please let me know through DM :)

Yay..caught up with the latest episode (just binge watched 3 episodes last night) I think they picked up the pace a little bit but we're also getting more side/new characters that are getting the spotlight. There's this lady who is BSJ's CEO (can't remember whether she appeared before) but suddenly she appeared and suddenly might become another important player in this 'game' of finding/concealing who truly killed BSJ. The attorney lady who got rejected by HWS also suddenly had more air time and woww...isn't she annoying as she seems to be so obsessed with HWS ... The university student also..now I can see how she would become another adversary for KYJ. She now realised that she likes HWS and it seems like she'd become obsessed with him too. The troublesome thing with her is that she clearly knows that he's married but seems to have no problem with that fact and keeps pursuing after him. Nope...I don't like her. Not to say that I have affection for KYJ either...she's really creepy at times and I understand why one psychologist said that she might be a psychopathic killer. I actually find it really annoying how she could always get what she wants out of the police..I mean..come on..why the police so weak??? And..so I just realised in this drama..we're getting some pretty strong female characters...but none really likeable. In saying that, it's getting interesting (although only slightly).

Chinese Dramas Nomination List "Moonlight" - @SilverMoonTea "Being a Hero" - @Lynne "Medical Examiner Dr Qin" - @40somethingahjumma "Winner is King" - @Tofu "Immortality" - @Tothestars "Jin Xin Si Yu" - @NiteWalker "Princess Changge" - @MayanEcho

Korean Dramas Nomination List "Times" - @SilverMoonTea "Hospital Playlist 2" - @Jane "That Night" - @mademoiselle "Jirisan" - @abs-oluteM "Sisyphus: The Myth" - @UnniSara "The Silent Sea" - @Chocolate "Vincenzo" - @ssteph "Joseon Exorcist" - @Tofu "River where the Moon Rises" - @joccu__ "One day, Destruction Entered The Front Door Of My House" - @JenL "L.U.C.A." - @Just_Me "Undercover" - @SnowBlob

With so many upcoming dramas scheduled to air in both Korean and Chinese drama worlds, aren't we curious to know which ones are the most anticipated ones? What better way to start the year in JangHaven by holding an award event to know what dramas most JangHavenites are looking forward to watching~ So here we go. Our first award event is “JangHaven’s 2021 Most Anticipated Dramas Awards]” There are 2 parts to this event: Nominations (10-13 January) and Voting (14-17 January). This thread will be dedicated to the first part of the event: Nominations. How to nominate: - One member is allowed to nominate ONE drama from each category. When you nominate, please give the drama's FULL TITLE and state clearly from which CATEGORY. Please provide a short SUMMARY of what it is about and the NAMES of the lead actors. - If a drama you like has been nominated, you are not allowed to nominate it again, but you can nominate another drama you are interested in watching in 2021/near future. - There is no individual member as a winner (the ‘winners’ will be the dramas most voted by the members). Therefore, it really does not matter if someone else has nominated your most anticipated drama because as long as it has been nominated, you can always vote for it. - Nomination is open until Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 10am KST. Dramas that can be nominated: - Either Korean or Chinese dramas - The nominated drama will not start airing prior to 18 January 2021. - The dramas are confirmed to be airing sometimes in the future and it needs to have at least one confirmed cast. Additional rule for Korean dramas: the dramas are confirmed to be airing in 2021 (it’s ok without specific dates). So what are you waiting for? Let the nominations begin~~ cc @stroppyse

Episode 4 had a few interesting things (which also happened in the past but the first time in this season): The episode started seemingly in the present The 'cold case' happened pretty recently in 2018 The end didn't have the scenes where one of more of our detectives saw the alive or dead characters in their past form The criminal was already revealed since the start of the episode one unclear thing:

Episode 4 Recap Music Box This episode started in possibly the present where we're shown a person was making a music-box bomb. Jumped to the "past", in 2018, a worker in a big store got killed by the explosion from a music-box bomb. Back to the present, the squad was called to attend an explosion in a sports club which seriously injured one fire-fighter (but the fire fighter wasn't dead, he's hospitalised). While the squad was attending this crime scene, they got a call informing them that another explosion happened elsewhere (now pardon me, I watched this yesterday and I already forgot about the sequences). The squad scrambled to find the identity of the bomber. Surprisingly, it was pretty easy as he left his real name when buying the stuff for making the music box as well as (something in relation to where he lived). So now the squad task is to find where he is while protecting possible targets (the targets' photos were on display in his house so they knew who to protect). Among the targets were the bomber's younger brother. After doing some digging and interviewing, the squad managed to piece together the relationships between the bomber and most of the victims. One victim was his ex-HR-manager who notified him that he had been fired. Another victim was his daughter's doctor (who refused to treat her better and in the end the daughter passed away). It turned out that the fire fighter had nothing to do with the bomber because the bomber was originally targeting the younger brother who supposedly attended the sports club (the younger brother didn't attend that very day because of another appointment). The shop attendant was killed because she was suggesting that flip-phone was not gonna last/be popular anymore? because the existence of smartphones (and the bomber was the one who made the flip - phones and because they're not selling well anymore he had to be fired). The squad together with the younger brother managed to find him in an old church where the pews were made by the bomber's late father. He was sitting in the chapel when the squad approached him. The big boss went to talk to him and after he said the things he wanted to say, he acted as he wanted to open the music box he's currently holding. The big boss said that the bomber wouldn't want to destroy the music box (which was also made by his late father). The bomber said that no he wouldn't do that - and he opened the box which contained a photograph (no bomb there). But then he inferred that someone else would open the box with a bomb in it. The squad was caught by surprised and the lady detective informed the two other detectives who happened to be guarding the younger brother's wife and daughter (the daughter was having a piano recital) and they scrammed out of the car. In the meantime, we saw that the daughter was somehow gifted a music box and while waiting for her turn, she was slowly opening up the music box. Back to the chapel, the squad there heard the sound of explosion coming through their phone. Those detectives hurried to the recital place where we're shown the two detectives were unharmed. The younger brother searched anxiously before he found his wife and daughter... The episode ended without any flashback to the dead characters in the past.

Sounds interesting! I'll check back when it starts airing (or nearly).. Hope I don't forget though

For me, episode 3 is a mediocre one. There isn't any twist really and since the beginning I kind of suspected that the actress was the true murderer. Of course I thought the old guy (current personal assistant) was a strong contender too but it wouldn't be fun if it were him since then the perpetrator couldn't be punished. As the matter of fact, I couldn't remember if any perpetrators in S1 and S2 couldn't get punished because of the statute of limitations. Pretty sure there would be, but if there are, then there wouldn't be many? Also, it feels mediocre to me because I honestly couldn't sympathise with anyone in this episode - I didn't sympathise with the victim nor the perpetrator nor the accomplice. Shrugs. At first, the victim seemed to be quite innocent, only later we found out he wasn't that good of a guy either. The perpetrator was just selfish and the accomplice was ... well... he's in love with the perpetrator so what can you say. Still, I'm glad that justice was served in the end. Another thing was because the way it was solved seems to me to be so so too. At first when the actress vehemently denied her involvement, I was wondering how the squad would break her statement. Then, she just later confessed...because suddenly her dementia occurred during the questioning...and then after playing the "don't-you-feel-bad-for-your-accomplice" card, she opened up and told the truth. Hmmmm... Hopefully, ep 4 will be a better one than this one. Looks interesting...as it looks like it's about bombing.

Episode 3 Recap/Overview Characters in the order of the entrance: A - the male victim B - the actress C - the actress' current personal assistant The episode started in 1961 where a body of a man was dumped then buried. The person who dug the whole and buried him also tossed an item and buried it along with the body. In the present time, the squad found the body and realised that the statute of limitations for the case is expired already. They also found the item (I still don't know what it actually is) with a special marking and later on also figured out the identity of the man (A). A was an aspiring actor back then and his younger brother filed a missing person report when A disappeared. Later the squad informed the brother about finding A's dead body. After talking to the younger brother, the squad found out that A might have been in a relationship with a very famous actress back then (B) and prior to his disappearance, A seemed to have troubling issue with B. Det Ishikawa and Takagi went to see B, who just got her a role in a production after a long time. They didn't end up interviewing her but found out that she had dementia. Her personal assistant currently is an old man who was also part of her past (C). They rescheduled the meeting to the next day. The meeting was finally held and when confronted, B denied any involvement with A in the past and said that she's not the murderer and she also knew that because she went abroad for 30 something years, if she were the murderer, then it would mean the statute of limitations is not up yet. Meanwhile, the other two detectives, Det Kaneko and Tachikawa went to visit B's personal assistant in the past, a woman who now is running her own night club? Contrary to B, she insisted that A indeed had a relationship with B and that A was actually her to begin with. However, due to B's new role as a 'dirty woman', B went to toy with A and then observed her suffering as she was dumped. After talking to a director who related to them in the past, the squad found out that the item was gifted to C by a late famous director. This prompted the squad to go and ask C to come to the station for questioning. Prior to leaving with the detectives, C assured B that he would be back because the statute of limitations is already up. In the station, C straightforwardly confessed that he was the murderer and that A was his casual drinking buddy (and then I couldn't remember what his reason was for killing A). Meanwhile, B was not waiting for C to return and when she heard the doorbell rang, she quickly went to open the door while calling for C's name only to find out Det Ishikawa and Takagi at the door. They once again confronted her and said that C was protecting her and that B was the real murderer. B went silent before we see in the flashback that one night after previewing her own movie in a cinema which was the point when B started to get interested in C (after seeing him crying while watching the movie), C drove her home. B invited C to stay for coffee, which C agreed to. While they're talking and drinking coffee, A suddenly knocked on the door and being drunk and angry because B had dumped him, he forced his way in. A saw C in B's house and A further got angry. A said to C to publish the pictures of A sleeping with B (which he showed to them). He also flaunted the negatives and B was struggling to get them from A. A said that B was not breaking up with him or otherwise he would publish the photos which prompted B to strike A's head with an ashtray. A was dead. When B wanted to surrender herself to the police, C interrupted by saying that B should continue to shine as an actress and that he would take care of A's body. Before burying A, C then tossed the item with A's body, this was so that if the body was ever found, the police would suspect C instead of B. So after a few more questioning and confronting, the case is solved. Both B and C would receive their due sentences but B was relieved to know that C wouldn't get any hard ones.

@ktcjdramaAH! Yess..that side story of going into politics too! @@ the aide seems to be quite powerful too. Hahaha if there were truly a person like him then it's scary how he could create an alibi for HWS in a short time like that The aide seems to know sth too right. I just couldnt wrap my head around how these at the end aren't just going to be coincidences (if they re to be connected to each other). So far KYJ is the common factor between BSJ - Mr Ma - Secret Prayer Room and HWS. I wonder if she s related to the aide in some ways too.