Thai Remakes Other Asian Countries Drama

Lately, Thai drama world has been remaking a lot of dramas from other Asian countries and from previous popular drama aired in the past from Thailand but I am not disappointed at all. In this post, I am going to list Thai dramas that are remake from other Asian countries. Majority of these drama are from South Korea but you would seem some from Taiwan and Japan. 

The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince: Coffee Prince Thai (2012)

The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince: Coffee Prince Thai (2012) is a remake of the Korean drama Coffee Prince (2007). Mac Weeradon Wandcharoenporn and Maxine Inthiporn Tamsukhin played the leading role. 

Win is a middle-aged guy from a rich family who has never had to work until his grandmother forces him to run a coffee shop. Nut is a hardworking and tomboyish girl who is often mistaken for a guy. She pretends to be a male to get a job at the coffee shop but Win and Nut gradually begin to develop feelings for each other. 

Favorite Koo Jin Couples

Koo Jin is a Thai term with a meaning of "fantasy couple" or "shipped couple." (Thai Celebrity Fever Facebook) It's an qualitative to OTP (One True Pairing) that fans use for Korean celebrities. Koo Jin is actually use in this generation while Koo Kwan was use back then. According to this Asianfuse Thread, Koo Kwan is a better title and much more classy and difficult to earn while Koo Jin is thrown around for every couple. Koo Kwan is a term used to describe the perfect pairing. These term are given to the main leading roles when a lakorn received good feedback and ratings and it is normal for the entertainment industry to dub the pairings as Koo Jin, since they won the hearts of many. This isn't the only generation where Koo Jin fever has continuously increased.

I grew up watching Thai lakorn therefore I have watch a lot of actors and actresses work together and I have develop my favorite Koo Jin over the years. But here are my Koo Jin couples.

Yaya Urassaya Sperbund and Barry Nadech Kugimiya

Yaya and Nadech meet on 4 Huajai Haeng Koon Kao: Duang Jai Akkanee in 2010. Since then, they have work together in many commercials and modeling projects along with lakorns. They have work together in: Game Rai Phaai Game Ruk (2011), Torranee Nee Krai Krong (2012), The Rising Sun: Roy Ruk Hak Liam Tawan (2014), The Rising Sun: Roy Fun Tawan Duerd (2014), Leh Lub Salub Rarng (2017) and Likit Ruk or The Crown Princess (2018). 

10 Thai Series

One thing I love about Thai lakorns are the series they create that connect each story together through the cast. It is rare to see this concept in Korean drama and definitely not in the Western countries either. The concept of having different and multiple stories connecting one another is lakorns or drama is something that Thai drama writers have been very successful with and trust me they are here to stay because everyone love it. In this post, I wrote down ten series that I have love and I cheated a little. Some of these might be familiar because I wrote them in some of my favorites dramas from the channel they are release in and also recommendations from my favorite actors and actresses list. If you already read through the other post where I wrote down the summary of each of the drama already, I suggest you skip it because its a copy and paste situation with different pictures (hopefully). But, without further ado, let go and get started. 

  1. Paragit Ruk Series

Paragit Ruk also known as Love Mission is an action, romance, drama that was release on Channel 7 in 2017 starring Weir Sukollawat Kanarot, Porche Saran Sirilak, Aom Akkaphan Namart and Mick Tongraya. All four series together contain 40 episodes.

Top 20 Thai Actors

Welcome. If you already see my top twenty Thai actress list, then this is my top twenty Thai actors. If you haven't seen it or read it then after this, go check it out. I think once you seen one list, you would sort of know who are my favorites. This list was created in March 2019. 

Top 20 Thai Actress

In this blog post list, I'm going to list my favorite Thai actresses. Now, this list has only been create recently for this blog post purpose, I don't really like to write down the list because it seem to change as I discover new actresses or watches more and new lakorns. If you are not familiar with me, as most of you, I actually grew up watching Thai lakorns in Hmong dub before I started watching them with subtitles. I went on mydramalist.com to search up all the Thai actresses and made a list. I wrote everyone name down along with a ranking number from one to ten. From that list of names I chose my top twenty actresses. I am going to create another list dedicated to the older actresses who usually play the grandmother, mother, and/or supporting roles in Thai lakorns. This list contain actresses who played the main role in their lakorns. 

Top 20 CH, TW, HK Dramas

I watch so many dramas that I lost count of them nor do I have enough fingers to count them all. The reason why I decided to put Chinese, Taiwanese and Hong Kong dramas together is because I don't have a lot of dramas under the Hong Kong and Chinese list while my Taiwanese list can go on forever. Since they are from the same region, location on a map next to each other with similar language, I decided to put it together to save me from writing another list and you from reading another list. I was originally going to do this list as a top ten only but when I was writing this list down and choosing the dramas to put on this list, ten wasn't enough. Majority of the dramas on this list was Taiwanese therefore I added another ten. Ranking on this list would be base off how much I love, like, hated this drama, how many times I have watch this drama, memories watching this drama, and is worth watching this drama also how much I would like a remake of this drama. 

Top 10 GMM 25 and ONE31 Lakorns

GMM 25 and ONE31 is owned by GMM Grammy. It's shows dramas, music, news, and entertainment targeting teenagers. According to the Wikipedia page, it stated that GMM Grammy claims a 70 percent share of the Thai entertainment industry. 

I decide to put GMM 25 and ONE31 under the same list because they both are from the GMM Grammy.  

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