Park, Nodeok

Jang Baekhee is counting the days until he can escape Gicheon before his deadbeat father is released from prison. But then Yang Ilwoo arrives: a delinquent transfer student with a cheap perm, brassy hair, and a loneliness that mirrors Baekhee's own. Slowly, their uneasy friendship deepens into something tender. But Ilwoo came to Gicheon with a secret that could shatter the fragile comfort they've both found in each other. And when the past comes calling, can two broken souls survive the truth?

(Source: Tapas Media)

Yang Ilwoo and Me

양일우와 나

Song, Chaeyun

Yengo

Kang Hana, a former girl group trainee, gives up everything and decides to have her baby after an unexpected pregnancy. She temporarily leaves the baby in a baby box until she can save up for a housing deposit. But she then finds out that a famous actor-director couple has adopted her child. Determined to get her baby back, she becomes the babysitter in their home. But then she discovers that the wife, Angela, is transfusing the baby's blood—almost like a vampire. Kang Hana decides she must kill her.

(Source: Naver Corporation, translated)

The Maid

하녀

Geoneomulnyeo

Hatpeoji Comics

For two blissful years, Soryung's world revolved around her husband—until he vanished without a trace. In her search for answers, she learns the heartbreaking truth that he was never hers to begin with. But she's not about to let him slip away, even if he is a black ops agent with a hundred faces...

(Source: Manta)

Her Merry Obsession

메리 사이코

Nikumaru

Fumiya, an office worker in his seventh year of marriage, is troubled by his sex life with his wife. Though he loves her dearly, his own body fails to respond during intimacy. With no children and constant pressure from their relatives, the couple suffers daily. Then, one day, they are suddenly torn apart by the government and forced into cohabitation with "new partners." This is state-sanctioned infidelity, carried out under the guise of countermeasures against the declining birthrate!

(Source: Kodansha, translated)

Koushiki Furin

Official Adultery?

公式不倫

Baekban

Death comes to Gwon Young by scent. Every ten years, the person Young loves most dies. Hoping to escape the curse, he moves away. But then he meets An Jiho, a man who seems to be quietly waiting for the end of his own life. Their connection forms fast and deep, filling the emptiness they both carry. But with another ten-year mark approaching, Young can't shake the scent of death on the air.

(Source: Lezhin Entertainment)

10 Years

열 해

Chada

As the son of the fallen House Anatold, Michel's only duty is to help his family's social standing by marrying the prominent Duke Shelleg of the north. However, upon his arrival, he is met with the servant Ain, who is acting as the duke's stand-in to teach Michel what it means to be a northern husband. To his surprise, his most important duties take place in the bedroom! Michel is determined to be a proper partner, but what will he do when his newfound feelings for Ain start to get in the way?

(Source: Tapas Media)

The Taming

테이밍(The Taming)

Iromil

Zeolgu

Yi-hyun's everyday life was no different from usual. At least, not until Koo Seung-hyuk, the man he broke up with nine years ago, appeared.

"Did we ever run a hole-for-sale business here? Didn't know you were selling a man's ass for money now."

Seung-hyuk shows up as the owner of Club Nexus, where Yi-hyun works. The moment they meet again, he spits out venomous words, staring at Yi-hyun with eyes full of disgust, as if he has seen something filthy.

"But why look at someone like that? It hurts. I'm just trying to give an old friend a good opportunity after all this time."

It feels true that misfortune always comes all at once. After meeting Seung-hyuk again, Yi-hyun's life is swept up in a series of disasters. Their bond, seemingly ready to snap, continues on like a thin, fragile thread.

(Source: Ridi, translated)

Wintertime

동절기

chadol

Ten years ago, on an unusually cold winter day, Do-eon's father brought home a young boy. Given the name Mi-yi, the child became Do-eon's younger brother in name, though they shared no blood.

At eighteen, Do-eon begins to care for Mi-yi out of simple compassion, gradually becoming his sole protector and the only safe place in his world. Sheltered behind Do-eon's quiet devotion, Mi-yi grows up clinging to him as his one constant.

Seven years later, everything changes when Mi-yi is involved in a shocking incident that leaves their father at the bottom of a staircase.

Haunted by guilt and secrets he cannot yet reveal, Mi-yi asks only one thing of Do-eon: not to hate him when the truth finally comes out.

(Source: Lezhin Entertainment)

The One and Only

유일한, 나의

Baetodi

Tensions are brewing in late 19th century Ireland, shortly before the Irish War of Independence. Author Raymond Ler Lyndon lives isolated in his romantic clifftop mansion, scorned by his fellow countrymen as a traitor while he waits for his long departed beloved to return. But when Owen, his first love's son, saves him from certain death, he is given a second chance at reclaiming the lover who abandoned him. Meanwhile, the rebellion is gaining traction and Owen's behavior grows increasingly suspicious. At the conflict's climax, which will they choose—love or freedom?

(Source: Tappytoon)

At the Lake Where Waves Crash

파도가 이르는 호수에서

Zzin-bam

Waje

Identical twins Joo Baek-hee and Joo Baek-naa share everything, including their obsession with one person: Jung Hae-yoon, a seemingly ordinary friend caught between them.

To one, Hae-yoon is a precious toy; to the other, an irreplaceable treasure.

As the twins' twisted desires begin to blur the line between love and possession, can Hae-yoon escape from their beautiful but dangerous grasp?

(Source: Lezhin Entertainment)

Duality of Desire

어긋난 시선

diction

On a devastated Earth, the remnants of humanity dwell within the suffocating depths of underground bunkers, desperately preparing for a mass migration to a parallel universe. Subin, a dedicated warp researcher, finds his only solace in his lover, Kihyeok. Upon returning from a perilous surface expedition, Kihyeok presents him with an impossible gift: a living, blooming violet. "It's a miracle, Subin! The Earth might finally be breathing again!" he exclaims, his eyes shining with newfound hope. It is Kihyeok's vibrant stories of the outside world that sustain Subin's spirit in the dim, gray halls of the bunker; for Subin, this man is his solitary light and his only source of true happiness in a dying world.

However, his fragile peace is shattered when Kihyeok's fellow soldiers arrive at the laboratory with grim expressions. They deliver a bolt from the blue—news so devastating it threatens to unravel everything Subin believed about their future and his lover's survival.

(Source: Lezhin Entertainment)

When the Violets Bloom

제비꽃처럼

Kyulmekkosiphda

Five years ago, Winston and Yujin fell deeply and irrevocably in love at first sight. But their passionate relationship shattered when Winston discovered the unthinkable truth: Yujin's was having an affair with none other than his own father. Consumed by betrayal, Winston channeled the love he once cherished into resentment. Yet no matter how hard he tries, Winston cannot extinguish the pull he still feels. Now, reunited by fate and unresolved wounds, passion and scorn intertwine... But can either of them truly escape what they once meant to each other?

(Source: Lezhin Entertainment)

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