About Drama Lineup
Drama Lineup (doramabase.com) organizes Korean and Japanese drama and film release schedules by quarter, available in Korean, English, Japanese, and Spanish.
The site currently covers 7,970 dramas, 13,452 films, and 59,920 people.
What you can do here
- Quarterly schedules: see what airs or opens in a given year and quarter, grouped in one place.
- Network and streaming filters: narrow by channel type — broadcast, cable, streaming — or by where a title is actually watchable, such as Netflix, TVING, or wavve.
- People-first browsing: tap an actor, writer, or director to jump to their other work.
- Four languages: titles and personal names follow each language's own conventions. Japanese actors' names, for example, appear in Hangul transliteration on Korean pages.
Data we collect and build ourselves
- Ratings rankings: we aggregate TV ratings weekly from Wikipedia's public records, supplemented by RACOI open data from the Korea Communications Commission and KOBACO, and build quarterly and yearly rankings by average rating.
- Box office: admissions figures from KOFIC's KOBIS and Japanese box-office grosses are collected regularly to rank theatrical releases.
- Awards: winners from major Korean and Japanese award ceremonies are linked to their titles and people, organized by year.
- Name transliteration: the names of roughly 15,000 Japanese actors and directors were transliterated into Hangul and reviewed by hand.
Editorial principles and corrections
- Title notes and quarterly guides and recaps are written by the Drama Lineup editors, who check facts against broadcaster and studio announcements and public sources such as Wikidata and Wikipedia. Only reviewed drafts are published.
- We do not copy or translate synopses or descriptions from other sites. Titles without an editors' note carry no synopsis and show basic facts instead: air or release dates, network, cast, ratings or admissions, and awards.
- Each title note ends with the sources used to check it and the date they were checked; quarterly guides and recaps show the date of their last update. Everything we publish is collected on the Notes page.
- Corrections: if you find a factual error, email us at the address below with the address of the page. The editors recheck the sources and, if the error is confirmed, correct the text and publish it again. Every correction to a title note is recorded with a revision number and date.
Data sources and limitations
Title and people data comes from TMDB (The Movie Database). Ratings are TMDB user scores; because new titles often have too few votes to be meaningful, anything under five votes is shown as “Not yet rated” instead of a number.
Streaming availability differs by region (Korea and Japan) and typically lags theatrical release by months, so many titles have no listing yet.
Where a name existed only in its original script, we filled it in by transliteration. If you spot an error, let us know via the contact page and we will look into it.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Korean box-office admissions: KOFIC Integrated Box Office Network (KOBIS) Open API
Contact
For questions about the service, corrections to information, or partnership inquiries, please reach out by email. We reply as soon as we can.
Email: doramabase1991@gmail.com