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Have you checked out Love Next Door on Netflix yet? It's easily the best K-Drama to be released in August, so we strongly recommend adding it to your watchlist. Not only does it have an interesting premise that'll grab your attention right away, it also stars two well-known South Korean actors in the leading roles.

It's a Korean romantic comedy series coming from Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha creators Yoo Je-won and Shin Ha-eun. You might also recognize Je-won from his previous directorial work on the hit Netflix K-Drama Crash Course in Romance, while Ha-eun can be recognized for previously writing for the Korean shows Argon and The Crowned Clown.

It tells the love story of a project manager named Bae Seok-ryu, who decides to return to her hometown, hoping for a fresh start in life, and an old childhood friend and young architect, Choi Seung-hyo, with whom she shares a complicated past.

Netflix recently released a new Korean drama titled Love Next Door, and people can't stop talking about it. In fact, it's currently ranked on Netflix's top 10 TV shows list as of Aug. 19. The first two episodes dropped on Aug. 17 and Aug. 18, and there are still so many more left to be released. If you’ve added this show to your watchlist and are looking forward to checking it out, we must share with you all there is to know about it, including the release schedule.

Love Next Door is of the romance genre, like most Korean series usually are. Actually, it's a romantic comedy series that was helmed by Yoo Je-won from scripts written by Shin Ha-eun. They had previously worked together on the hit K-Drama Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha.

The rom-com tells a frenemies-to-lovers story between Bae Seok-ryu, a product manager who returns to Korea to reboot her life, and Choi Seung-hyo,...

Chicago – Opening Night at Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema (Apuc) Season Six was extra exciting on March 13th, 2018, as popular Japanese film star Yuki Furukawa came to the Windy City to represent his starring role in the magical romance “Colors of Wind.” The film, a co-production of South Korea and Japan, was directed by Kwak Jae-yong and co-starred Takemi Fujii.

Japanese Actor Yuki Furukawa on Apuc’s Opening Night for ‘Colors of Wind’

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“Colors of Wind” is a highly romantic film about the “doppelganger,” the notion of twin souls in the world. In this case, it is Furukawa portraying Ryo, a heartbroken man who has lost his lover Yuri (Fujii). Before she left, she spoke of going to Hokkaido, a wintry town in Northern Japan. There Ryo finds Aya (also played by Fujii), who is an exact twin of his lost love, but she has lost a lover of her own.