I am Married… But! 童話故事下集 is a 12-episode Taiwanese series which premiered on February 14, 2025. The Chinese title actually translated as Fairy Tales Part Two, and if you are wondering where is Part One, well there isn’t one in terms of the drama series! Part One is basically all the fairy tales with happy endings that we are familiar with, so this drama is just fictionally depicting what happened after the fairy tales…
Hi, Come In 嗨！營業中 is a new Taiwanese reality TV show that premiered on October 1, 2022. It is actually the continuation of Let’s Open 來吧！營業中 from earlier this year with most of the same cast. The change with the name was due to conceptual disagreement between the production house and the TV broadcaster after season 1 of Let’s Open and basically split the show in two – one is Hi, Come In from the original production company for a different network to air with all original cast members except one, and the other is Let’s Open season 2 to be produced in-house from the original broadcaster, TVBS, with one original cast member Johnny Yang 楊銘威 since he is the only one contracted with the broadcaster and can’t join the others.
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Women in Taipei 台北女子圖鑑 is a new 11-episode Taiwanese drama series that premiered on September 21, 2022. It is adapted from the Japanese TV series Tokyo Girl 東京女子図鑑 (Tôkyô Joshi Zukan) that aired in 2016 – 2017, which in terms was based on the yonkoma manga of the same name serialized in the Japanese magazine Tokyo Calendar 東京カレンダー. There are 10 songs from the OST consisting of mostly new songs with a few old classics.
Light the Night 華燈初上 is a new Taiwanese webdrama that premiered on November 26, 2021. It will consist of 3 seasons of 8 episodes each, so a total of 24 episodes. The first season of 8 episodes are now all available to stream online, the premiere date of the subsequent two seasons are yet to be confirmed.
The drama is set in the 1980s in Taiwan, so the OST has some cover songs from that era which was originally made famous by the very popular Taiwanese singer, Teresa Teng 鄧麗君. One of her signature songs very well-known throughout the Chinese community around the world, The Moon Represents My Heart 月亮代表我的心, is now covered by Ashin 阿信 (vocalist of Mayday 五月天) as the opening theme song for the soundtrack!
The Summer Temple Fair 神之鄉 is a new 10-episode Taiwanese TV series that began airing on July 10, 2021. The television series is based on the Taiwanese manhua/manga of the same name by Zuo Hsuan 左萱. It tells the story of a university student, Hsia Chih-Hsun 夏志薰, who has to return to his hometown of Daxi, after 7 years, to do a summer research project on the religious practices among the indigenous community in Daxi District 大溪區, a district in eastern Taoyuan City 桃園市, Taiwan. There are 7 songs written especially for the TV series, and they are all available now online to listen to. Below are a selection of 3 MVs from the OST plus links to the other songs.
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Corner Café 