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ABS-CBN acquires Asia’s biggest hit series

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ABS-CBN announced its latest acquisitio­n of Asia’s biggest hit series namely Love in the Moonlight, Legend of the Blue Sea, Hwarang, Weightlift­ing

Fairy, Goblin, W and Doctors. Evelyn Raymundo, head of ABSCBN integrated acquisitio­ns and internatio­nal sales and distributi­on, shared the news before hundreds of communicat­ions students from different schools at the recently-concluded 11th Pinoy

Media Congress. The auditorium was filled with loud cheers as Raymundo showed trailers of these Asianovela hits.

First in line is Love in the Moonlight, which airs very soon on ABS-CBN. It stars Korea’s breakout loveteam Park Bo Gum and Kim Joo Yung in a funny and romantic story of a crown prince, who falls in love with a young woman disguised as a eunuch.

Love in the Moonlight is one of the most anticipate­d Korean dramas by Filipino

Asianovela fans. The clamor is so high that lead star Bo Gum’s supposedly private and personal visit to Cebu recently was welcomed by screaming fans and even trended on Twitter Philippine­s.

Lee Min Ho, meanwhile, is back on Philippine TV with one of Korea’s top leading ladies, Jun Ji Hyun, in a different love story about a mermaid in love with a human in Legend of the Blue Sea.

Fans of Train to Busan lead star Gong Yoo get to see him again, this time as an immortal protector of souls in hit series Goblin.

The Asianovela craze continues with the coming-of-age sports drama

Weightlift­ing Fairy and a kilig- filled series that features an elite group of young, handsome men devoted to defend the king in Hwarang.

Fantasy drama W, starring Lee Jongsuk and Han Hyo-joo, is also coming your way as well as Doctors starring Park Shin Hye and Kim Rae Won. W tells the story of a woman pulled inside the parallel world of a webtoon his father created, where she meets the lead character Kang Cheol. Meanwhile, medical drama Doctors features the romantic story between a reckless rebel-turned-neurosurge­ry fellow and her mentor.

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