DRAMA l MYSTERY
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : Mia Wu 미아우 
Synopsis

On an autumn day, with Christmas looming, an old man (Kim Minseok) wakes up in hospital without any memories of his past, including his name. The only thing he remembers is his wife, but for some reason she does not come and visit him. He is discharged from the hospital, with the help of neighbors who smile at him ambiguously and complain about his wife for not showing up. When Minseok returns home, he starts to remember, little by little, and figures out that he used to be a fireman. Friendly neighbors begin to reveal their fears and traumas to Minseok, one by one. And on the day of Christmas Eve, Minseok finally faces the horrible truth, which his neighbors have been working so hard to hide.

MYSTERY l CRIME
BOOK TO FILM  
Author : BAN Siyoen 반시연
Synopsis

Nho Namyong is a notorious killer currently in jail for murder and rape but is soon to be released since he received relatively light sentencing thanks to his superior family background and enormous fortune. Nho's biggest fear is losing his freedom.

Meanwhile, one man is carefully planning to send Nho back to prison. He is an expert in protecting people. His nickname is 'Hunter' and is an employee of a company specializing in protection. The hunter prepares traps step by step by visiting Nho in prision...

DRAMA 
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Author : LIN Cheng Sheng 린쩡셩 
Synopsis

Having gone past the prime of his career, film director LIN is facing the many new challenges that one would have while entering the later years of life. His wife HAN, a compassionate and dedicated educator of children with special needs, is trying to get him involved in her continuous effort to set up a self-sustainable shelter workshop where autistic children with painting talent can make a living from their art. By working alongside his wife and the autistic children from whom he learns to embrace differences and diversity in our lives, LIN gradually comes to terms with his own struggle with solitude and tolerance, rekindling not only his passion for life, but also the love in his marriage. 

HORROR l THRILLER
BOOK TO FILM  
Author : SO Hyunsoo 소현수 
Synopsis

Boyoung has the same nightmare every day. In her dream, an eccentric-looking woman tortures and kills her husband Byungcheol in a dark abandoned house. Not so long ago, Byungcheol killed an eight-year-old girl called Minyoung while he was driving drunk and he himself also died in the accident. That is when the nightmare started.

One day, a woman named Hohui seeks her out and explains her dream; Byungcheol is apparently stuck in Avici, suffering endless pain as the dead girl’s grandmother and Mudang Taeryung cursed him to get revenge. Hohui says that Boyoung can save everyone’s souls by entering Avici.

Boyoung ends up entering Avici and completes her missions, only to find out that this was just Hohui’s plan for an even more gruesome revenge. Boyoung as well as Byungcheol are locked up in Avici for eternity.

보영은 매일 똑같은 악몽에 시달린다. 어둠과 폐허 속, 기괴한 모습의 여인이 남편인 병철을 고문하고 살해하는 꿈이다. 병철은 얼마 전 음주운전으로 사고를 냈다. 8살 소녀 민영을 치어 죽게 하고, 자신도 죽었다. 악몽은 그때부터 시작됐다.

그러던 어느 날, 호희란 여자가 찾아온다. 악몽은 아비지옥에 갇혀 끝없이 고통받게 된 병철의 모습이며, 죽은 민영의 할머니이자 그녀의 신어머니인 태령이 복수를 위해 건 저주란다. 호희는 모두의 영혼을 구해낼 수 있으며 그를 위해선 보영이 아비지옥에 들어가야 한단다.

그렇게 보영은 아비지옥에 발을 들이고, 미션을 수행한다. 그러나 결국 그것은 더욱 잔인한 복수를 위한 호희의 계략이었음이 드러난다. 병철은 물론 보영도 아비지옥에 갇혀버린다. 영원히.

MYSTERY l DRAMA
BOOK TO FILM  
Author : HAHN Kyun 한켠 
Synopsis

Jeon Ildo is the heir to her family business which is a detective agency but is basically a bum living off her parents. She is jolly, fearless, crazy about money, blurts out things before thinking and then takes care of it later. She thinks she is a genuine hard-boiled noir spy action detective, but her reality is a ‘discount possible but no payment in installments-hire 10 get 1 free’ private investigator. She doesn't want to become like her parents whose specialty is affairs, so decides to be a detective who finds missing persons. Her first case is a story about a man who married a Pastafarian, who believes in FSM(Flying Spaghetti Monster), under contract because his parent said they would give him money if he got married. Just when he really fell in love with his wife and decided to propose to her again, she disappears. What is her secret?

대대로 탐정 집안의 후계자인 전일도는 부모님 댁에 얹혀 사는 반백수다. 유쾌하고 겁 없고 돈 밝히고, 일단 내뱉고 수습하며, 마음은 ‘본격 하드보일드 느와르 첩보 액션 탐정’이지만 현실은 ‘할인은 되지만 할부는 안 되며 열 번 의뢰하시면 한 번 공짜’인 생계형 탐정. 불륜 전문 탐정인 부모님처럼 되기는 싫어서, 실종 탐정으로 갈아탔다. 그리고 맡게 된 첫 번째 사건. 부모님께 전셋값을 보조 받기 위해 ‘날아다니는 스파게티 교’ 신도와 계약 결혼한 남자의 이야기. 그가 진짜 사랑에 빠져 프러포즈하려고 했던 날, 아내가 사라졌다. 도대체 그녀가 가진 비밀은 무엇일까?

SCI-FI l DRAMA
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : YUN Pil(Story) Jessoo(Art) 글: 윤필 그림: 재수    Synopsis

The suicide rate in Korea has skyrocketed in the near future. Suicide prevention policies are enforced at the national level, and suicide prevention robots are deployed on the bridges of the Han River. The robot, model name Cha-88K aka ‘Chacha’, received great attention when it was first deployed but it is ordered for destruction due to controversy surrounding its budget and effectiveness. Chacha, which exhausted immense costs, becomes deserted on the bridges.

After a long time, Dr. B recovers Chacha with the belief that the robot will correct the errors of mankind. By giving the robot the authority of unlimited synchronization which allows it to access all AIs in the world, the doctor makes her see the stagnant near future of the human society.

With the understanding of human emotions and based on big data, Chacha gives the authority to correct errors concerning the areas of welfare, war, law, etc. to AIs with free will and begins restructuring the world.

DRAMA l FANTASY
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : Kingmook 킹묵   Synopsis

Although Woo-jin enters Parsons School of Design with the dream of becoming a designer, he becomes sensitive to the limits of his skills. One day he is involved in a car accident, after which he begins to see holographic images through his once blind left eye. He becomes able to see perfect outfits on the people he sees with his left eye. With this skill, Woo-jin resolves to run an individually customized internet clothing shop I.J. He meets Jeff, the famous designer who first recognizes Woo-jin's abilities, along with his first customer Mi-ja, the skilled MD Matthew, the obscure master craftsman Sae-woon, and others who assist him while sharing their stories as he develops his shop. As Woo-jin meets these various individuals, he realizes that they can share their lives through design and lead each other forward in a better direction together. 

DRAMA l FAMILY
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : Lucid 루시드    Synopsis

Every Christmas, the worst performing demon is kicked out of the underworld and into the human world, in the form of a dog. James, who is selected to be banished this year, becomes a dog named Jam and the beloved youngest son of a used bookstore when he meets his owner Ju Seung. Jam lives a humiliating life every single day since being loved is the biggest punishment a demon can get. One day, Lucifer, the ruler of all demons, appears and says that Jam can return to being a demon if he can bring him Ju Seung’s life. Jam decides to go for it and works hard to find the weakest point of Ju Seung, which he eventually finds out to be Ju Seung’s dream of becoming a novelist. However, unlike what Jam had expected, he finds it very painful to see Ju Seung agonizing over his dream, and learns that he himself also has love inside as he observes Sun Deok, a demon-turned-dog about ten years back who is now sacrificing its life for its owner.

MYSTERY  
ASIAN IP SHOWCASE   
Author : MARUYAMA Masaki 마루야마 마사키  
Synopsis

As he lost his marriage and his job, ARAI decided to be a sign language interpreter. Now he has to face a murder case that is an echo from his bitter past... A unique crime fiction featuring the society of deaf persons, with convincing details according to the author's close research into the issue.

CRIME l DRAMA
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : Hatchling 해츨링   Synopsis

Dr. Eugene is a 'drug designer' who is active in the U.S. Eugene was a judo player until middle school. After finding out that Woo Myeongjin, who destroyed his life with 'drugs' back then, is alive and well, he heads to South Korea for revenge under a new identity.

Dr. Eugene, who came to Korea, picks unknown baseball player Park Sangbong to enter mainstream baseball. Meanwhile, Woo Myeongjin searches for new players after his players have been repeatedly failed doping tests, and contacts Park Sangbong, who has recently improved his skills.

Dr. Eugene and Woo Myeongjin meet because of Park Sangbong. Woo Myeongjin invites Eugene to work with him and coordinate behind the scenes of the Korean sports community. But he doesn't know yet that that the little girl whose life he destroyed in the past is none other than Dr. Eugene...

MYSTERY 
ASIAN IP SHOWCASE   
Author : SAKAMOTO Ayumu 사카모토 아유무 
Synopsis

ROMANCE l HISTORY
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : Bionwho 비온후     Synopsis

The young princess Hong Ryeon grew up unwelcomed and out of the interest of everyone after her mother who was formerly a court lady died. One day, there was a big fire in the castle. Hong Ryeon was pinned under a pillar that fell due to the fire and cried out for help, but not a single person cared for her. Just as she thought that she would die, BAEK Han, the royal guard of the Crown Prince came to save her life.

Even after this incident, Hong Ryeon was snubbed for being a powerless princess, but by chance, she met Yang Do-un, the son of the Yang Family that was a contributor to the founding of the nation. Do-un asked Hong Ryeon to marry him by proposing that he would help her gain power as a princess if she would help him revive his family’s name. Hong Ryeon accepted his offer. Do-un then taught Hong Ryeon various subjects including academics, politics and arts, and Hong Ryeon slowly began transforming into a true princess.

DRAMA 
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Author : Marula LIU 마룰라 리우 
Synopsis

Professional ghostwriter Chen Liang-liang has just gotten an excellent gig: the well-known author Chung-Ling has hired her to write a novel about a woman Ma Tseui-tsuei who is swindled on an online dating site, someone who finds love, then discovers it’s all a fraud. Yet just as Chen Liang-liang fills a fictional world with con games and scam artists, she discovers that she is a mark herself. Even know it’s lie, but the feeling of love is true, could we say it’s fake?

Chung-ling had been making online connections under Chen’s name and “writing” books through other people until sickness drove her into a coma, at which point her agent took over all her affairs. Liang-Liang collected the clues and continued Ma Tseui-tsuei’s story, she found

Chung-Liang, Ma Tseui-tsuei in fictional and real world, even she had different choice for love.

대필작가 천량량은 베스트셀링 소설가 쳔중링의 신작 의뢰를 받는다. 온라인 데이팅 커뮤니티에 빠진 성숙한 여인 마취취가 여주인공인데, 마취취는 데이팅 상대가 사기를 치려고 접근한다는 걸 알고도 함정에 빠져들고 만다. 사기인 걸 알면서도 사랑받는다는 감정이 진실하다면, 이런 사랑을 가짜라고 할 수 있을까? 쳔량량은 소설을 쓰면서 그녀 자신의 감정을 작품에 투영되고 있는 걸 발견한다.

중링도 취재를 위해 본인 스스로 커뮤니티에 가입하는데, 채팅 도중 뇌출혈로 쓰러진다. 량량은 중링의 오랜 친구인 그녀의 에이전트와 함께 중링이 쓰러진 경위를 파헤치기로 한다. 량량은 단서를 추적해 나가는 한편 소설을 계속해 나가고, 머지 않아 중링, 취취, 그리고 본인 모두 자신들이 꿈꿔오던 것과는 다른 모습의 사랑을 했다는 걸 깨닫게 되는데…

HUMAN DRAMA 
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Author : SUGISAKU 스기사쿠 
Synopsis

A kitten was dumped at the roadside of the Ginza-city. The kitten was named Pon and Soon he gets beloved with the neighbors. Pon somehow do not take to strangers but slowly opens its heart to the café owner after saving its life. Soon the café become popular because of the Pon but one day a city destroyed by the great earthquake and people gets mentally drained. Then Pon give them encouragement and the owner decide to re-open the shop.

긴자 찻집 근처에 터를 잡은 새끼 고양이 폰은 근처 주민들한테 사랑 받는다. 찻집 마스터에게 냉정한 태도를 보이다, 마스터가 생명을 구해 준 후에 천천히 마음을 열어간다. 폰은 간판 고양이가 되고 가게도 번창하는데… 그런 행복한 나날에 큰 지진이 덮친다.

HISTORY l MYSTERY 
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Author : CHOUNG Myung Seob 정명섭 
Synopsis

One spring day of 1906, not too long after the Eulsa Treaty was signed, prosecutor Lee Jun of the Pyeongriwon (Supreme Court of the era) received a short letter, written as ‘Jung-dong Yang-in-chuk-sal,’ a sentence implying killing of Westerners living in Jung-dong. He visits the scene of the crime out of curiosity and witnesses the bodies of a Western couple covered in blood. Strangely enough, the Police as well as Dr. Herbert, a friend of the couple, want the incident to be concluded as a suicide case. There is a strange symbol drawn with blood on the living room wall as well. A few days later, another Westerner is killed brutally. Lee Jun figures out that those involved in these incidents are Freemasons, and he ends up working with Ko Jong-wook, an intelligence agent of the Korean Empire, to uncover the truth. 

HORROR l FANTASY 
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : LICO 리코  
Synopsis

The ghosts gather and sit down, and a scary story starts; scary stories meaning stories about people, who are far scarier than ghosts. 

In Season 1, the grim reaper meets ghosts from Korea; a kid ghost, a goblin, the legendary nine-tailed fox, a demon, and a maiden ghost; and Season 2 features ghosts from the West; a clown, boogie man, mummy, succubus, zombie, werewolf, and vampire. These ghosts gather together and one by one tell scary stories through frame narrative. 

The scary people the ghosts speak of just might be the stories of the ghosts themselves, or could even be things happening around you.

HISTORY l DRAMA
BOOK TO FILM  
Author : CHOUNG Myung Seob 정명섭 
Synopsis

Hwayeon’s father, who was a suspect of conspiracy, is dead. The police rule his death a suicide since there is no witness or evidence indicating otherwise. A rumor circulates that it was a ploy of Her Majesty Hong (Hyekyoung-gung, the king’s mother), intending to kill the participants of the Imo Revolt. Hwayeon requests an reinvestigation to Wanhee, the propagator surveying the accident, and she gets an unexpected offer.

“Will you be a ‘memento keeper’ for the lost women?”

In return for reading the records of her father’s accident, she decides to become a memento keeper. From a madam of an inn to a lady with a chaste reputation, she faces dead women who have been driven to death by the prejudice and greed around them. Can she uncover the secret of their death and the truth of the world? What conspiracy lies behind her father’s sacrifice?

NOIR l DRAMA 
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : myoung rang(Story), aepoong(Art) 글: 명랑 그림: 애풍 
Synopsis

Joh Deukman, is diagnosed with terminal cancer by his twin brother, a doctor. On his way home, he sees a girl, Ro-da, throwing away some gold fish and he negotiates with her to take them. But before long, the fish are stolen by unidentified assailants. Deukman has never felt such fury before. He chases them and kills them, and as a result becomes a target both of the authorities and the underworld. Learning that Roda is heavily involved in all of this, Deukman decides to become her unwanted companion. While they are together, Deukman learns from her how to communicate with other people. He kills every underworld thug who comes to kill them, but Roda is captured by one of them. Deukman is ready to go to war to get her back, and decides to commit suicide after it’s all finished. But…    

DRAMA l THRILLER 
BOOK TO FILM  
Author : LEE Jung-myung 이정명 
Synopsis

In 1980, when our society was a dichotomy between pro-democracy protesters and autocratic followers, the Korean CIA became obsessed with arresting Minseok Choi, a mysterious democracy activist. For six months, Agent Kijoon Kim tried to arrest Choi, but Choi fled. The baseline team was disciplined for failing operations and Kim was demoted to a non-critical position.

After the demotion, Kim keeps an eye on Taejoo Lee, who was a promising theater director. LEE has something in common with Choi. Kim thinks Choi doesn't exist and so far thinks the person they've tracked down is Lee. Kim reports to his supervisor, “The Manager”, who approves Kim’s new plan to use a play. Kim brings in Jinah Kim, a woman who wanted to be an actress, to approach Taeju and watches him. Using the media and Jinah, Kim finally arrests Lee. But Lee, who was under investigation, asks to ca The Manager. Where is Minseok Choi really? And how did we, the "good neighbor," make the world worse?

ROMANCE 
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : SEO Ina 서이나 
Synopsis

Gyehwa is an FTM cross-dressing doctor who can see a how long someone will live. One day, she gets dragged into things when her teacher drinks at a gibing (restaurant with women who provide various services) and takes off. She dumps the bill on an unsuspecting man who just happens to be Lee Eon, the monarch of the country of Joseon. Eon admires the excellent medicine of Gyehwa, and requests her to be his physician. Gyehwa becomes the royal physician and is entangled in a curious connection.

DRAMA 
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : Rei Ko 령 
Synopsis

Ah-ran is the manager of the Korean branch of a global shared office. Her competencies in the office are off the charts, but her love life has been uneventful as that of an amoeba. The sauciest memory involving any kind of love was a mere one-night stand she had under the spell of an overseas trip. When one of the CEOs in the shared office teases her asking if she had ever dated anyone in her life, she loses her cool and creates a believable love story by switching the name of the guy from her one-night stand with the name of her ex-boyfriend. Little did she know that the actual man was about to join the shared office as the CEO of a company! Meanwhile, Chang-hyeok who had already become the topic of hot gossip on his first day at the office makes a suggestion to Ah-ran that they should hush everyone by acting as if the gossip was true and see how the love story unfolds. However, will Ah-ran and Chang-hyeok, who already fell for Ah-ran during their trip, simply be able to pretend to be in a relationship? 

DRAMA 
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : LICO 리코 
Synopsis

Since quitting her job after getting married and following her husband overseas, Lee Hong Nyeo has always felt lonely. Ultimately, she chose to get a divorce because of their endless disagreements and has lived alone since returning home. Although she manages to restart her career and gets a job, she is distressed by her senior colleagues who treat her rashly, using her stigma as a divorced woman and her passive personality against her.

Hong Nyeo has been taking comfort in frequenting a bar near her house by herself, but ends up opening her heart at the interest of a younger man named Yeon Ha Nam, with whom she begins a relationship. One day, Team Leader Sah Ida, a single and divorced working mother, enters the workplace. With her superior skills and seemingly impenetrable eloquence, she begins to elicit a change in Hong Nyeo's once shy emotional boundaries. As Hong Nyeo's relationship with Ha Nam gradually deepens, she lets him know of her divorce, but he becomes cold in response. Their unstable relationship, having become unbalanced, is ended by Hong Nyeo. She takes time to examine herself, and decides no longer to be the divorced woman who lives according to how others see her. Instead, she will live her life proudly as LEE Hong Nyeo.

THRILLER l DRAMAE-IP PITCHING 
Author : Lucks 럭스 
Synopsis

When Yohan was young, he was imprisoned for 10 years. The only things he could do was read a book, play online Chess with one fixed opponent, and collect pictures of a girl named Dajeong. He was young and alone. His only hobby was collecting pictures of the girl that the kidnapper gave him and talking to the her in the pictures, so he couldn't help falling for her.

But one day, he finds a message from his captor.

“Dajeong will die in 10 years."

During his long captive life, Dajeong was everything to Yohan. Yohan started training himself to protect Dajeong.

Ten years after he was kidnapped, Yohan was suddenly released. Now there is only one thing left. “Protect her.”

HISTORY l DRAMA
BOOK TO FILM  
Author : LIM Nakyoung 임나경 
Synopsis

At the Hangangdo where a shamanic ritual is being performed, people drown in the river while scavenging for rice offered to shamanic deities. Seeing Jinryunggun smile at the scene of misery, Gilsaeng regrets the moment when he accepted the offer from Min Yeongjun. Li Sungnyu, whom Min Yeongjun wants so much to bring down, is a greedy shaman who happened to win the favor of the Queen and even received the epithet of Jinryunggun. Banned from Bukkwanmyo for being intimidated by Min Yeong-jun and searching for the secret book of accounts, Gilsaeng avoids death thanks to Hong Gye-hun. Gilsaeng tries to dig up Jinryunggun’s secrets for Hong who helped him, only to deal a blow to Yeonbi who assisted him. Now rejoining the camp of Jinryunggun, Gilsaeng waits for a chance but everything falls through because of Min Yeongjun and Yeonbi’s crafty ploy. Deprived of everything with the Queen's death, Jinryunggun surrenders the last shabby part of her life to the blazing flames in a thatched-roof house in Samcheong-dong.

THRILLER CRIME 
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Author : Giddens KO 구파도 
Synopsis

Mr. Night, is an assassin who suffers heavily from insomnia. He can only sleep well at Cardboard Land, a special place for trading dreams. While in a dream deal he falls in love with a girl who exists only in dreams. He called her Target A. To meet Target A, Mr. Night brings the most ferocious dreams to trade with the administrator of Cardboard Land - The Smoking Man. But what he doesn't know is that the dreams he has collected will accidentally lead Target A to her death.

매일 밤 같은 꿈을 꾸며 심각한 불면증에 시달리는 킬러 불야등은 꿈을 전문으로 사고 파는 “지상국”에서만 휴식을 취할 수 있다. 어느 날 그는 꿈속의 여자 “목표 A”와 사랑에 빠지고, 그녀를 만나기 위한 대가로 불야등은 지상국의 관리자 흑초남에게 가장 흉악한 꿈을 가져와 교환한다. 자신이 모아온 꿈들이 어떤 결과를 가져다 줄 지 모르는 불야등은 목표 A를 점점 사지로 내모는데...

COMEDY l ROMANCE 
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Author : KIM Seonghui 김성희 
Synopsis

I, a professional killer, was asked by my client to kill an industrial spy who stole classified information, so I moved into Unit #302 of the apartment building built by the client’s company. The apartment is not soundproof at all, so I get complaints from neighbors for being noisy, even though I have always excelled in training to be a silent killer.

I am on standby here, collecting information about the man living in the Unit #303, who is living just behind an extremely thin wall. While the noises created by neighbors drives me crazy, a woman living in Unit #301 is the only one who is quiet.

One day, the woman turns her heater on for me, as she noticed that I caught a cold because I don’t turn on my heater normally. Through the thin wall between the rooms, the warmth of her room creeps into mine, and my heart starts to flutter.

A few days later, the execution order is given and I start my mission to get rid of not only my target but also my noisy neighbors for HER. 

FANTASY l YOUNG ADULT ASIAN IP SHOWCASE   
Author : Sally 샐리 
Synopsis

There is a saying that goes “the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.” But what if that is really the case in the literal sense? Kuo Yue-Lin is a high-schooler with that very problem: his left hand is “exchanged” with another boy he met years ago in his piano lessons. But the five digits flying lightly over the piano keys frequently find their way to other unlikely places such as store shelves and fist fights. Sometimes they are doing good deeds, sometimes they are doing misdeeds, completely acting out of his control.  Until one day when the original owner of his left hand suddenly shows up at school as the new student, everything changes…

Based on a surrealistic premise, illustrator SALLY’s coming-of-age story shows a touch of whimsy while delivering a fresh and energizing portrait of youth, capturing the excitement, anxiety, nerves, and hope of high school life.

부모님의 바람대로 좋은 고등학교에 입학한 17살 고등학생 궈위에린은 조용히 학교 생활을 하고 싶다. 하지만 어렸을 때 피아노 수업에서 만난 친구와 바꾼 왼손은 마음대로 통제가 되지 않고 자꾸 화를 부른다. 그러다가도 때때로 궈위에린의 소원을 이뤄주기도 하는 왼손. 어느 날 새로 전학 온 린쥐앤위는 학생들의 괴롭힘의 대상이 되는데, 바로 그가 왼손의 주인으로 밝혀진다.

작가는 고등학생의 평범한 생활에 기발한 요소를 더해 긴장감을 불러일으키고, 한 소년이 성장하고 변태하는 과정에서 수반되는 불안과 자극, 환상을 더해 작품의 생명력을 더하고 있다.

COMEDY l FAMILY 
BOOK TO FILM  
Author : PARK Makrye, KIM Yura 박막례, 김유라 
Synopsis

The one and only senior Youtuber Makrye Park and her granddaughter Yura Kim, a genius producer, find themselves leading a crazy exciting new life!

Makrye was born as the youngest daughter to a farmer and had to take care of all the house chores without having a chance to learn how to read, solely because she was a girl. Having gotten married at the age of 20, she then had to take care of three kids with her husband never around. She took on any job to make a living like manual labor, selling fruit, candy, flowers, housekeeping, working in kitchens until finally opening her own restaurant and devoting herself for 40 years, only to be diagnosed as being in early stage dementia. That’s when her granddaughter Yura walked out of her job and came running to take her on a trip to Australia.

The story of the 71-year-old Makrye Park, who opened a new chapter of her life as a Youtuber, and the granddaughter/producer who only wishes the best for her grandmother will take readers on their fun ride.

ACTION l COMEDY 
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : PARK Bum Soo(Story) CHEON Jin Hui(Art) 글: 박범수 그림: 천진희
Synopsis

Mistari (Mr. 2) becomes a legendary spy at the age of 26. When he became the hostage of a terrorist group while on a secret mission in a conflict zone in the Middle East, the National Secret Organization (MNM) decides to abandon him.

10 years later, the organization’s Mr. 3 and Mr. 7 suffer an unprecedented failure during an operation. This sets off a secretive conspiracy the MNM is in danger of being abolished. Although nobody knows anything about Mistari’s state, the MNM’s leader calls on him. Mistari returns in good health. Contrary to everyone's expectations, however, no signs of a legendary agent can be found in Mistari who talks shallow and is a womanizer. Also he refuses the leader's request to help the MNM.

When Mistari's former colleagues with whom he has been through life and death situations are accused of being traitors and Sejin, the leader's daughter, turns out to be Mistari’s daughter whom he had left behind 10 years ago, Legendary Mistari finally starts making a move...!

ROMANCE ASIAN IP SHOWCASE   
Author : Mag HSU 맥 쉬 
Synopsis

CHANG  Chia-He’s mother went to a mental hospital because of his father’s affair. Growing up without a mother, the most important female figure in his life, CHANG is always searching for something, or someone, to fill his own emotional void.

This book is a confession, a  collection of letters written by CHANG Chia-He to all the

women he had loved or who loved him in his life. All those wonderful women he had loved and hurt, were just like guardian angels  of CHANG along the way. In the end, they taught him how to be a real man.

어머니가 아버지의 외도에 충격을 받고 정신병원에 입원한 뒤, 장지아허의 유년 시절에는 중요한 여성 역할의 공백이 있었다. 그는 항상 이 정서적 공백을 메워줄 무언가를 찾아왔다. 이 책은 장지아허가 인생에서 운명처럼 만난, 그가 진정한 남자가 될 수 있게 해준 여성들에게 보내는 편지다.

HORROR l MYSTERY ASIAN IP SHOWCASE   
Author : HIGASHIYAMA Akira 히가시야마 아키라 
Synopsis

In 1984, in Taiwan, we were four good friends, having good times, taking care of each other. 30 years later, in United States, a serial killer called ‘Sack Man’ terrifies the whole nation. I know who the Sack Man is. I know he is one of the friends in Taiwan... Breathtaking crime thriller by Naoki Prize winning author.

2015년 겨울. 미국에서 연쇄살인마가 체포된다. 디트로이트의 삭막한 거리를 바라보며, ‘나’는, 대만에서 지낸 소년 시절을 떠올린다. 30년전, 나는 연쇄살인마를 알고 있었다――. 1984년 여름의 대만, 얼마 전에 형을 잃은 윤, 소고기 국숫집의 아강과 동생 다다, 싸움을 좋아하고 정의감이 강한 제이는 우정을 키워나간다. 4명의 소년들은, 어떤 계획을 실행하기로 결정하는데…. 연쇄살인마는 과연 누구인가? 그 수수께끼를 둘러싼 청춘 미스터리

SCI-FI l HORROR 
BOOK TO FILM  
Author : SHIM Neoul 심너울
Synopsis

Song Hyunhee, who just started her career as a game developer believes that 'creating a game is the same as becoming the god of a world'. She was a contractor of the big game company in Pangyo but her contract expired without any notable results. Fortunately, she got another chance when she joined a start-up game company as a server developer but faces the challenge of fixing a serious error in the server of the game called “Stardust World".

"If users make the character jump 65,536 times, the server goes down."

While Hyunhee is trying to solve the problem, she also starts to suspect that someone had intentionally implemented the error code. She tries to meet Mr. Yoon Soohyun who used to work there but was committed to a mental institution when he lost his mind for reasons unknown. Finally, Soohyun invites her to his secret place and tells the story about the strange and mysterious truth of this world.

‘게임을 만드는 일은 작은 세상의 신이 되는 것' 이라는 철학을 품고 게임 개발자의 삶을 살아가는 송현희. 판교에 위치한 대형 게임 회사에 계약직으로 입사하지만, 1년만에 계약 만료 ‘당했다’. 다행히 작은 게임 스타트 업에 서버 개발자로 다시 입사했지만, 게임 ‘스타더스트 월드’ 서버의 치명적인 버그를 맞닥뜨린다.

"플레이어가 캐릭터를 65,536번 점프시키면 서버가 터지는 버그라니까."

문제의 원인에 접근할수록 누군가 의도적으로 이 버그를 심어놓았다는 인상을 받던 송현희는 알 수 없는 이유로 미쳐 정신병원에 들어갔다는 자신의 전임자 윤수현을 찾는다. 우여곡절 끝에 찾은 윤수현은 자신의 비밀스러운 방으로 송현희를 초대하고, 이 세상에 대한 기묘하면서도 신비로운 진실에 대해 이야기하는데...

CRIME l DARAMA  ASIAN IP SHOWCASE   
Author : CHI Wei-Jan  지 웨이란  
Synopsis

Part detective story and part social satire, this is a hilarious and dark novel.

Wu Cheng quitted his teaching job as a professor of drama and theater. He also said good bye to his theater fellow friends and foes, and became a divorcee. He moved into an old district in Taipei. To silent his elderly mother who has been worried about him all his life, WU put up a “Private Eyes” sign on his door, just to show that he is not completely out of work.

Odd enough, business opportunities just come knocking on his door. The first case involves a suspicious family scandal. with the use of his not at all modernized tools and his cool headedness, WU eventually uncovers a much bigger corruption scandal involving the social health insurance system! During his investigation, he strikes up a friendship with a couple of small-timers, along with a romantic relationship.

Just as WU is about to settle into his new life, he is arrested by the police as a suspect of a couple of murder cases took place in the very neighborhood where he lives. 

WU needs to prove his innocence while surching for the real murderer behind all these cases. In order to do so, he has to look deeply into himself, finding out that particular person from his dark past. 

중년위기를 맞은 남자 우청은 대학교수 일을 그만두고 타이페이 류장리의 허름한 뒷골목으로 숨어든다. 사립탐정 사무소 간판을 내걸고 간신히 실업자 신세는 면한 상태. 현대 과학의 도구라고는 찾아볼 수 없고, 그가 가진 것이라곤 눈, 귀, 두 다리와 손전등 뿐이다. 첫 케이스로 한 부인으로부터 남편을 감시해달라는 전형적인 의뢰를 받는데, 예상치 못하게 치정 사건에 휘말린다.

한편 이 전업 탐정은 세차장 검은손, 찻집 사장님, 택시 기사, 파출소의 퉁퉁한 경찰 등 비범함과는 거리가 먼 동네 사람들과 친구가 되고, 큰 사건을 함께 겪으며 전우애가 싹튼다. 어느 날 이 오래되고 조용한 동네에 대만 최초의 계획된 연쇄 살인 사건이 일어나고, 모든 사건의 실마리가 우청을 범인으로 가리키는데…

SCI-FI l DRAMA  
BOOK TO FILM  
Author : CHOI Nan-young 최난영 
Synopsis

I enter the tattoo shop BONE to become an android, an artificial being made to provide organs and share emotions with humans. Mama, the owner of the tattoo shop, tries to stop me from having a blue QR code tattooed on my body, which is the only thing that differentiates men from androids. I try to persuade Mama, thinking of ‘Unnie’, an android who taught me what love was in the past instead of my parents, and ‘Ai’, a current android that is at the risk of being scrapped due to failures. Mama, who has been performing android cleaning and fighting against the destroying of and hatred towards androids, thinks she has found the right person to go to Quo Vadis, a city only for androids, on behalf of her. 

THRILLER l MYSTERY  
BOOK TO FILM  
Author : KIM Jiyeon 김지연 
Synopsis

Hyunmi and Minjoo decide to part ways when the lease for their current home ends. Hyunmi, who is looking for a job, signs a lease for a small semi-basement studio, while Minjoo plans to go and live with her grandmother. One day, Minjoo suddenly disappears after taking out the deposit on their lease, leaving behind all her things in their shared home. Hyunmi cannot get a hold of Minjoo at all and does not know anyone in Minjoo’s family except for her grandmother. In order to get the deposit back, Hyunmi decides to visit Minjoo’s grandmother, whom she met with Minjoo a year before. Hyunmi arrives at the grandmother’s house to find Minjoo is not there while the grandmother seems to be a different person. She senses something is wrong but decides to ignore that feeling when she confirms that Minjoo made a call the day before. Hyunmi now knows that Minjoo is alive, but something is still fishy. Hyunmi racks her brain to get the money back from Minjoo’s grandmother.

MYSTERY ASIAN IP SHOWCASE   
Author : MARI Yukiko 마리 유키코 
Synopsis

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존재하지 않는 ‘6월 31일’. 그 날에 개최되는 동창회 안내장을 받은 후 가시와기 히나코는 불면의 밤을 보내고 있다. 그러던 중, 동창생이 살해당하고, 히나코도 동창회에 가는 도중에 누군가가 육교에서 밀어서 떨어져 병원으로 이송된다. 겨우 목숨은 건졌지만 하루 뒤에 살해되고 만다. 그 후에도 연쇄 살인은 계속되어 5명이 죽는데, 이들은 모두 ‘6월 31일’에 개최되는 동창회 안내장을 받았다는 것이 밝혀진다. 한편, 변호사 린코는 살인을 한 동창생을 변호하여 감형을 받게 했으나, 무죄로 못한 것을 질책 받고 고뇌한다. 그런 린코에게도 안내장이 도착하는데…

ROMANCE  ASIAN IP SHOWCASE   
Author : Jimmy LIAO 지미 랴오 
Synopsis

Everyone has that special someone, someone more than a friend but not quite a lover. The one who knows more about your vulnerabilities than your friends, and who is not afraid to poke at your weaknesses; but he or she has been with you far longer than any lover, who knows what you like, and has shared in all your memories whether big or small, good or bad. That someone is always by your side but without any pressure.

You always suspect that he or she knows your feelings, but often you feel the need to remind yourself it could be all in your head. You don’t know how they feel, and they don’t bring it up with you either. You think that maybe one day he or she will know, or that one day you will meet someone better, or… maybe there are better opportunities out there. And so you only say once, drunkenly: “If we are both still single when we are thirty-five, let’s get together!”

And then suddenly, you are thirty-five…

우리 모두의 마음 속엔 친구 이상이지만 연인이 되기엔 부족한 이성 친구가 있다. 친구와 비교해보면, 그는 당신의 약점을 누구보다 잘 알고 괴롭히길 좋아한다. 연인과 비교해보면, 그는 당신과 훨씬 더 긴 시간을 함께해왔고, 당신이 좋아하는 걸 잘 알고, 당신과 크고 작은 나쁜 기억들도 공유하며, 부담을 주지 않으면서도 언제든 당신 곁에 있다.

그도 내 마음을 알 것이라 생각하다가도, 짝사랑은 안 된다고 스스로를 일깨운다. 때로는 그보다 더 좋은 사람을 만날 수 있을지도 모르는데, 아직 기회가 있을지도 모르는데… 갈피가 잡히질 않는다. 술에 취한 척 어느 날 “서른 다섯이 될 때까지 우리 둘 다 싱글이면 사귀자!” 했는데, 벌써 서른 다섯이 다가온다.

HISTORY l ACTION 
BOOK TO FILM  
Author : SON Sun Young 손선영 
Synopsis

After the completion of the unification of the whole county, Toyotomi Hideyosi, the head of government, went to war against the Chosun Dynasty. He secretly ordered the first general, Gonishi Ukinaga, to attack Hae-in Sa temple and take the national treasure ‘Tripitaka Koreana’. Meanwhile, Seo Ungki resigned his government position and went to Hae-in Sa temple after a long time. There, he met Soam, the monk, and was enjoying small talk over tea when they got the news that the Japanese army invaded their territory and war broke out. Seo Ungki was alarmed that the Japanese army would attack Hae-in Sa temple. With a detached force of 10,000 soldiers, general Gonishi advanced into Gaya Mountain. But they were caught off guard by an unexpected attack with 500 trained monk soldiers defending against all attacks by the Japanese army by following resourceful Soam’s tactics. General Gonishi barely escaped with his life and yelled to all the generals, “Escape as soon as you see the shadow of Lee Sun-Shin at sea, and run as soon as you hear the sound of Soam’s footsteps.”

MYSTERY l ROMANCE 
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : KANG Jiyeong(Story) Ninageumho(Art) 글: 강지영 그림: 니나금호 
Synopsis

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SCI-FI l THRILLER 
E-IP PITCHING 
Author : LEE Jae-heon(Story) KIM Tae-sun(Art) 글: 이재헌 그림: 김태순 
Synopsis

There is a terrible disease in the world. Those whose hearts have stopped speak and move, and their rotting bodies stink. People are scared and the world defines them as 'cadavers.' There are no human rights in the body. There is only indiscriminate suppression. While enjoying a date with his girlfriend Gain, Woojin, a police bodyguard, suddenly realizes that Gain has become a corpse. In the end, Woojin tries to commit suicide with Gain. He couldn't love a dead body, and he couldn't bear to watch his girlfriend rotting right before his eyes. Woojin falls from a high cliff. But he doesn't die. At that moment, Woojin realizes something. It doesn't hurt even if his ribs are crushed and his abdomen is torn. He is also a dead body.

HORROR  
ASIAN IP SHOWCASE   
Author : Ling Ging 링 징 
Synopsis

According to Chinese taboos, one shall never tell anyone his or her birth chart; one shall never make a wish for others at the temple; while traveling, one shall always knock on the room door before entering...and so on and so forth. Based on true life events that revolve around traditional taboos in Chinese culture, horror fiction writer Ling Ging explores the subject of taboo from an usually rational perspective, balancing out the supernatural elements that enhances the credibility of the many urban legends without sacrificing the suspenseful, page-turning quality of a good horror story.

중화권 괴기소설의 여왕 링징이 실제 사건을 모티브로 집필한 <금기 시리즈>. 사람들에게 일반적으로 익숙한 금기 - 예를 들어 사주팔자를 남에게 알려주지 말 것, 사찰에서 다른 사람을 대신해서 소원을 빌지 말 것, 여행 중 숙소에 체크인할 때는 문을 두드릴 것 등 –를 있을 법한 공포 이야기로 풀어냈다.

링징은 논리적으로는 이해가 되지 않는 미신을 탐구하는 동시에 문학적인 즐거움을 선사한다. 그녀의 괴기 소설은 중화권 및 동남아시아 독자들의 많은 사랑을 받고 있다.

HISTORY l ADVENTUREASIAN IP SHOWCASE   
Author : Kiya CHANG 지야 창 
Synopsis

After becoming a treaty port following the Tianjin Accords of 1858, Tamsui was flooded with ambitious entrepreneurs. The Scotsman John Dodd, having studied the climate of Taiwan, was optimistic about the future development of the tea industry in Taiwan. He set up a trading company that grew and exported tea. Around the same time, LI Chun-Sheng arrived from Xiamen. His proficiency in English allowed him to become Dodd’s assistant. However, they soon found themselves facing disinterested local tea farmers, obstinate government officials, cheating business partners, among many other challenges and hardships.  Against all odds, they managed to struggle on and eventually made real names for themselves in the history of tea industry in Taiwan.

While A Teatime Adventure tells a simple story, Kiya CHANG’s skillfulness in character development and mastery in writing good dialogue not only makes this story about the distant past informative, but also interesting and engaging for contemporary readers.

1865년. 개항한 지 몇 해 되지 않은 단수이 항구. 양행이 줄지어 문을 열고 상선들이 끊임없이 드나들고 있다. 지금 이곳은 기회로 충만한 이민자들의 새로운 고향이자 모험가의 천국이다. 물건을 가득 실은 선박은 세상을 향해 항해하고, 그중 가장 거래량이 많은 것은 차로, 물에 버금가는 거래량을 기록하는 중이다.

모험을 사랑하는 스코틀랜드의 상인 토드와 샤먼에서 기회를 찾아 바다를 건너 대만으로 온 유능한 매판 리츈셩. 출신도 성격도 다른 둘은 힘을 모아 미국이라는 신흥 시장을 개척하기로 한다. 시장에서 각광받기 시작한 대만 우롱차에 자신들의 미래를 건 두 주인공은 농민들의 불신, 정부의 횡포, 홍콩 양행들의 품질 검사, 푸조우 우이 홍차의 도전 등 수많은 곤경에 처한다.

ROMANCE 
ASIAN IP SHOWCASE   
Author : ASAKURA Kasumi 아사쿠라 카스미 
Synopsis

Fifty-year-old Kensho Aoto buys a condo in the Tokyo suburb of Saitama to be near his mother, who lives alone. After separating from his wife and children, he quits his job at a bookbinding company in Tokyo to look after his mother after she suffered a fall, and finds a job at a local printing company. His own sudden illness brings him to the hospital for tests, and, while in the hospital shop, he runs into Yoko, a former junior high school classmate who, years before, had

rejected him after he confessed his love for her. She is also now single after many turbulent years, and, like Kensho, is undergoing tests at the hospital after she began feeling unwell. They each find themselves looking to the other for kindness and comfort, while feeling the depths of their own loneliness and the isolation that adulthood has brought them. Through various experiences, the two discover

an unspoken affection and love for one another. While Yoko comes to terms with her feelings while

battling her illness, Kensho support her. A grown-up true love story that depicts the nuances of human affection and compassion, and also the reality of losing a partner.

DRAMA l HISTORY 
BOOK TO FILM  
Author : JUNG Young Sun 정연선 
Synopsis

‘Suji’ who was part of upper class in North Korea defected to South Korea with a desire for free life. One day, she gets caught up in the spy manipulation case of the Korea Intelligence Service, irrespective of her will. The person who drags her into the case is an information agency employee called 'Ko'. He runs a publishing company which is a cover and operates a comment manipulation unit. When his identity is at risk of being exposed to North Korea, he pressures Juyeong to manipulate Suji as a spy. Fresh out of college, 'Juyeong' struggled to find a good job and ends up writing fake comments for a pseudo publishing company which lands her a job at Uniwon. Through his encounters with the students and refugees whom he met at Uniwon, Juyeong questions the way in which our society treats them. She is attracted to Ko for his power but eventually disobeys his order and helps Suji….

북한 상류층 출신으로 자유로운 삶에 대한 열망을 갖고 남한으로 탈북한 ‘수지’, 그녀는 어느 날 본인의 의사와 무관하게 한국 정보원의 간첩 조작 사건에 휘말리게 된다. 수지를 사건에 끌어들인 정보기관 직원 ‘코’는 위장출판사를 운영하며 댓글 조작 부대를 운영한다. 그는 자신의 신분이 북한에 노출될 위험에 처하자 수지를 간첩으로 조작하라고 주영을 압박한다. 출판사 직원 ‘주영’은 서울에 있는 대학을 나왔지만, 취업난에 시달리다 위장출판사에 취직해 댓글 작업을 하고 그 보상으로 유니원 계약직 직원이 된다. 주영은 유니원 안에서 만난 탈북학생과 탈북민을 통해 우리 사회가 그들을 대하는 방식에 의문을 품는다. 한편 그녀는 코와 위력에 의한 사랑을 느끼나 결국 그의 명령을 거절하고 수지를 돕게 되는데……

FANTASYASIAN IP SHOWCASE   
Author : MORIMI Tomihiko 모리미 토미히코  
Synopsis

The title of the book is The Tropical, she says, and no one has ever read the book until its last page. A novelist, Morimi, was told by a woman he met at a strange meeting called "The Book Club of Silence", then he got obsessed by this mysterious book. Now the strange journey starts to find out the truth about The Tropical.

어떻게 해도 ‘끝까지 못 읽는 책’이 있다. 그 이름도 『열대』. 이 책에 매료되어 찾아 다니던 작가 모리미는 어느 날, 기묘한 모임인 침묵 독서회에서 이 책의 비밀을 알고 있는 여성을 만난다. 그녀는 “이 책을 마지막까지 읽은 사람은 없다” 라고 말하고… 과연 이 말의 뜻은 무엇인가? 그 비밀을 풀기 위해 결집한 학회멤버, 그리고 헌책방 아라비야 서점, 희귀한 책을 둘러싼 모험은 도쿄에서 교토로, 그리고 망상의 대해로 옮겨가는데…!

DRAMA ASIAN IP SHOWCASE   
Author : TAO Hsiao-man 타오 샤오만 
Synopsis

Hailed as the “Virgin Mary in the sex industry”, Sung has been a sex worker for 5 years and offers only handjobs. Some regulars begin to stalk her while some try to trick her into having real sex. Every day Sung is being forced to increase her tolerance. Her roommates are no ordinary people either. One is a bar hostess keeping a voodoo doll to ensure popularity and another is an ugly prostitute struggling to make ends meet. Moreover, Sung finds herself in love with a novice cop!

Not only the massage parlor is raided but Sung gets cast aside by her agent. The worst is the novice cop finds out about her work. Desperate, Sung is forced to abandon her longing for an ordinary life. The only way she can think of to change her fate is to auction her virginity! When Sung opens the door to meet the highest bidder, memories of what happened to her girlfriends come rushing back to her, making her question whether the game she plays with fate would come to a different end.

불법안마소에서 일하는데 아직도 처녀라고? 잔 다르크 송량윈은 이 업계에 발을 들인 지 5년이 지났지만 한번도 몸을 판 적이 없다. 단골은 스토커가 되고, 못된 손님은 매번 사기 치려 안달이지만, 량윈은 오늘도 서비스 정신을 갈고 닦는다.

량윈의 룸메이트는 평범하지 않다. 하얀 얼굴로 잘 나가는 호텔 직원 레드 카드와 몸집은 비대하나 삼시세끼 놓치지 않는 샤오지에까지. 가족과 매니저의 착취로 돈도 답도 없는 량윈은 설상가상 새 룸메이트의 남동생 열혈 신입 형사 린다오루에게 반하고 만다.

안마소 휴업으로 무참히 실직한 그녀는 린다오루에게 하는 일도 들키고 실연당한다. 그저 평범한 삶을 갈구하는 그녀에게 떠오른, 이 모든 상황을 뒤집을 수 있는 방법은 자신의 첫경험을 경매에 내놓는 것!