Upcoming August 2019 Dramas

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Hello fellow Omona drama watchers! With a new month comes a new slate of dramas. Currently there are 9 dramas scheduled to begin airing in August:
I Wanna Hear Your Song (KBS) Aug 5
Seventeen-Year-Old's Condition (SBS) Aug 5
Welcome 2 Life (MBC) Aug 5
Be Melodramatic (JTBC) Aug 9
Hip Hop King (SBS) Aug 9
Graceful Family (MBN) Aug 21
Love Alarm (Netflix) Aug 22
The Great Show (tvN) Aug 26
Strangers From Hell (OCN) Aug 31

I Wanna Hear Your Song A murder takes place. Hong Yi-Young (Kim Se-Jeong), who is a timpanist, does not remember what happened on the day of the murder. She is simple-minded and suffers from insomnia. Hong Yi-Young looks for a job. She happens to meet Jang Yoon (Yeon Woo-Jin). He is bad at singing, but is a pianist in an orchestra. To help with Hong Yi-Young's insomnia, Jang Yoon calls her every night. They try to find the truth about the murder.Meanwhile, Nam Joo-Wan (Song Jae-Rim) is an orchestra conductor. He has charisma and showmanship. Ha Eun-Joo (Park Ji-Yeon) is a violinist in the orchestra. She is arrogant.

Seventeen-Year-Old's Condition Story follows the pain and growth of two 17-year-old students, Min-Jae (Yoon Chan-Young) and Seo-Yeon (Park Si-Eun). OP note: This is a short two day drama special

#17세의조건 어른이 되는 순간은 언제일까?
서정미 터지는 17세의 성장통💓 ☞ 8월 5~6일(월, 화) 밤 10시 첫 방송! pic.twitter.com/ARNA9Og5R7

— SBS (@SBSNOW) July 29, 2019

Welcome 2 Life Lee Jae-Sang (Rain) is a lawyer at JK Law Firm, which is one of the biggest law firms in South Korea. He is an excellent lawyer, but he only cares about winning for his benefit. One day, he has a mysterious car accident and he is drawn into a parallel world. There, Lee Jae-Sang finds himself working as an upright prosecutor. He is married to Ra Shi-On (Lim Ji-Yeon). In the world where Lee Jae-Sang came from, he broke up with Ra Shi-On ten years earlier and Ra Shi-On works as a detective. Lee Jae-Sang struggles to cope with his different selves.

Be Melodramatic Im Jin-Joo (Chun Woo-Hee), Lee Eun-Jung (Jeon Yeo-Bin) and Hwang Han-Joo (Han Ji-Eun) are best friends and they are all 30-years-old. Im Jin-Joo is a drama series writer. She has emotional ups and downs. Her personality is a bit unique. Lee Eun-Jung is a documentary director. She runs her own production company and she is the only staff member in the company. One of her documentaries becomes an unexpected hit. Hwang Han-Joo is head of a marketing team for a drama series production company. She is a single mother. Hwang Han-Joo struggles to balance her work and raising a kid. Also starring Ahn Jae-Hong as a drama producer and Gong Myung as a marketing team employee.

Hip Hop King "Hip Hop King" follows the lives of four youths influenced by hip hop music. Young-Baek (Lee Ho-Won/Hoya) is an 18-year-old high school student in Daegu. Young-Baek loves hip hop music and wants to succeed as a rapper. To pursue his dream, Young-Baek goes to Seoul and begins to attend Doobak High School. Young-Baek meets Ha-Jin (Lee Na-Eun) at school. Ha-Jin wants to become a writer. She has a secret that nobody knows about. Tae-Hwang (Shin Won-Ho) and Ki-Ha (Han Hyun-Min) attend the same high school as Young-Baek and Ha-Jin. Tae-Hwang is a rapper and he has rich parents who are supportive of his career. Ki-Ha becomes friends with Young-Baek. He wants to find a girlfriend.

Graceful Family Mo Seok-Hee (Lim Soo-Hyang) is an only child and her father runs the large company MC Group. She struggles over her mother's death 15 years ago. Heo Yoon-Do (Lee Jang-Woo) is a lawyer, but he doesn't even have an office. He solves small problems of neighborhood residents at a restaurant. Heo Yoon-Do is headhunted to join the TOP team at MC Group. The TOP team manages the affairs of the family who runs the MC Group. Their job includes covering up immoral or illegal behaviors done by the family. Han Je-Kook (Bae Jong-Ok) heads the TOP team. Mo Seok-Hee and Heo Yoon-Do work together to reveal the truth of what happened when Mo Seok-Hee’s mother was killed.

Love Alarm A love triangle between a hardworking girl and two boys who like her is complicated by the release of a phone app that notifies you every time a person who likes you is within 10 meters. Starring Kim So Hyun, Jung Ga Ram and Song Kang.

The Great Show Wie Dae-Han (Song Seung-Heon) is an ex-lawmaker and is a materialistic kind of politician. He wants to get elected as lawmaker again. One day, 18-year-old girl Da-Jung (Roh Jeong-Eui) comes to him. She tells him that he is her real father. Her mother raised four children, including Da-Jung, alone, but she died in a hit-and-run accident. Da-Jung is the only one now taking care of her 3 younger siblings. Wie Dae-Han accepts Da-Jung and her 3 younger siblings. He carries out “The Great Show” to become a lawmaker again. Also starring Lee Sun Bin and Im Joo Hwan.

OP Note: this drama was supposed to premiere in October but was (sadly) recently swapped with Moon Geun Young and Kim Sun Ho's drama so no teasers are out yet

Strangers from Hell Yoon Jong-Woo (Im Si-Wan) is a man in his 20's. He has lived in a small town for all of his life, but he gets a job at a small office in Seoul. Yoon Jong-Woo moves out to Seoul and stays at a cheap apartment which shares its kitchen and bathroom with other residents. He doesn't like staying at the apartment and he doesn't like the other residents who seem weird and suspicious. Also stars Lee Dong Wook and Lee Jun Eung.

Sources: AsianWiki/KBS World TV | @SBSNOW/AsianWiki | KOCOWA TV/AsianWiki | JTBC Drama/AsianWiki | SBS NOW/AsianWiki | AsianWiki/Doramax English | MyDramaList/The Swoon | AsianWiki | AsianWiki/OCN/it's sinamoles

What upcoming dramas are you looking forward to? I'm looking forward to Be Melodramatic, I'm hoping for an Age of Youth type of friendship drama. Strangers From Hell will probably scare me to death but it looks good and Love Alarm looks cute. What have you been watching in July?

Comments

[juhli.livejournal.com]

Wow so many upcoming dramas, thank you for the roundup OP!

I also look forward to Be Melodramatic, it's cool that they casted actresses in the drama age-bracket and i love a good friendship drama.

Rn, i don't care about lawyer dramas or classical music dramas, so all those are a pass for me, except when i should hear really good things about them. Apropos Rain, when was his last good drama? I feel like he only had duds the last 5 years.

Summer means music drama! I loved To Jenny last year (was it last year?) and was looking forward to see what this years music drama would be. Very interesting that they'll do a hip hop one!

I love Kim So Hyun, but the teasers for Love Alarm look so slow and boring...I'm gonna wait and see what you have to say about it OP ;P

And I want to watch Strangers from Hell, if only to see how Im Siwan does...the last drama i finished with him was Misaeng, which made me love him. But the sageuk he did with Yoona made me question his acting skills again...and if Geurae maybe was just THAT role for him.... so, we will see!


Right now, I'm only casually watching Hotel Del Luna, it's been good so far (Havent watched this weeks eps yet). I'm waiting till I finished Hotel del Luna, to watch My Ahjussi. I love IU here and heard that her character in MA is similar, so i finally want to watch it. I loved that Lee Junki had a cameo in the drama, IU seems like one of his closest co-stars post-production which was unexpected for me because the two seem so different haha. But i love it :D

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

Several of the these look interesting but I’ll wait for early reviews to watch. Currently watching and loving Watcher and the Longest day in Chang’an .
Watcher is an amazing police drama. So many twists , I don’t know who the real villain is and everyone is out for themselves. All of actors are good, the tension between their characters is strong.

[mallmouse.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping for an angst-filled (but with HEA) drama *not with teens* of the Secret Love Affair/Something in the rain/One spring night type. Interestingly enough, all three of these, which are the only kdramas I've liked, were directed by the same person...

[ty.livejournal.com]

Strangers from Hell looks really good! Lee Dong Wook looks handsome in the preview. He smiled, which seems to be rare, heh. Currently watching Hotel Del Luna on Viki, My First Love on Netflix.

[reader17.livejournal.com]

I'm so far behind with watching current drama's but I am looking forward to I Wanna Hear Your Song, Be Melodramatic, Love Alarm and Strangers From Hell. Even though Strangers from Hell looks scary that may hold off until closer to Halloween.

Currently watching Mother of Mine, The Abyss, WWW, The Secret Life of my Secretary, and Dan's Angels last mission.

[sweetestbliss1.livejournal.com]

Not really interested in any of those dramas, unfortunately! I used to watch so many, but in the last year or so, have been only really watching maybe like 2 or 3 a year?? I feel like the quality of dramas is going down?? Or maybe my lack of watching dramas is because all my fav actors are either in the army or on breaks/filming movies!

Just watched My First First Love on Netflix and The Secret Life of My Secretary. Kim Young Kwang is so good at rom-coms! Before those, can't even remember the last drama I finished!

Also, can we talk about how all three public broadcasting networks in Korea are (temporarily) getting rid of Mon-Tues dramas and replacing them with variety shows?

[au9042.livejournal.com]

Strangers from Hell looks interesting but it's really the only one, I don't know, maybe I'm just going to watch earlier shows of this year that I missed.

I'm currently watching Hotel del Luna and Abyss (this one I'm having problems because the story is all over the place). I just finished My First First Love 2 and the only good thing about it it's Ji Soo.