Moving to a new city is stressful enough without discovering that your neighbors might be dangerous. In Strangers from Hell, a young man’s attempt to start over in Seoul becomes a psychological nightmare, as the people living around him grow increasingly disturbing. Released in 2019, this ten-episode Korean thriller stars Im Si-wan and Lee Dong-wook. […]
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Before The Perfect Lie, Revisit Seo Hyun-jin in Let’s Eat 2
Seo Hyun-jin’s next drama is built around a question with no easy answer: what happens when two people remember the same night differently, and both insist they’re telling the truth? In MBC’s upcoming psychological thriller The Perfect Lie, Seo plays Kang Ji-sun, an elementary school librarian whose seemingly ordinary life takes a disturbing turn after […]
Ha Jung-woo: The Korean Actor Who Keeps Reinventing Himself
Ha Jung-woo has spent much of his career playing characters who look completely different on paper. A serial killer, a news anchor trapped inside a television studio, a North Korean agent, a marathon coach, a desperate diplomat, and now a debt-ridden property owner pulled into a kidnapping plot have all become part of his filmography. […]
Before Mission: Cross 2, Watch Hwang Jung-min in Deliver Us from Evil
Hwang Jung-min is returning to action-comedy this October with Mission: Cross 2, but his next role isn’t the only reason to have the Korean actor on your radar. If you want to see him in a much darker kind of action movie, Deliver Us from Evil is available to watch on Amasian TV. Set across […]
Park Jeong-min: The Korean Actor Making Every Role His Own
Park Jeong-min has a habit of making supporting characters difficult to forget. Whether he is playing a streetwise fixer, a historical independence activist, or a North Korean security officer caught between competing loyalties, he tends to give his characters their own rhythms and personalities rather than simply filling a role in someone else’s story. That […]
4 Korean Travel Shows to Watch Before Your Next Trip
A trip around Korea does not have to look one particular way. You could spend most of your time in one city, drive through different regions, travel on a strict budget, or pack a few people into a small house on wheels and see where you end up. The Korean travel programming available on Amasian […]
Japanese Food Shows That Will Make You Want to Visit Japan
There are plenty of ways to learn about Japanese food, but watching someone actually eat their way through a neighborhood can make the experience feel much more immediate. A bowl of ramen in a Tokyo neighborhood. A plate of seafood in Hokkaido. A traditional Japanese sweet in Shibuya. Suddenly, the question is less “What does […]
From Watchlist to Travel List: Asian Shows That Inspire Real-World Adventures
Sometimes a travel destination starts with a search for flights and hotels. Sometimes it starts much earlier, when you see a place on screen and think, “I want to go there.” A restaurant in Tokyo. A road along the Korean coast. A market in Hokkaido. A landscape in China. A glimpse of everyday life in […]
How Amasian TV and Trip.com Are Connecting Shows With Real Trips
Sometimes a show does more than make you want to keep watching. A meal can make you curious about the region it came from. A travel series can turn a place you’ve never considered into somewhere you’d actually like to visit. Even a familiar city can look different when you see it through the food, […]
Bad Guys: Vile City: A Korean Crime Thriller About Taking Down a Corrupt Power Network
A prosecutor in Seowon is given a difficult assignment: take down Jo Young-gook, the powerful CEO of Hyunseung Company. Woo Je-moon knows that a conventional investigation probably won’t be enough. He puts together a team of people who have their own experience with violence and crime, then goes after Young-gook and the network protecting him. […]