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 ABS-CBN 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 KBS’ Love in the Moonlight, which airs in March 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.

International superstar Lee Min Ho, meanwhile, is back on PH television 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 CJ E&M’s 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 Turner Broadcasting System’s hit series Goblin. The Asianovela craze continues with MBC’s 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 KBS’ Hwarang.

MBC’s fantasy drama W starring Lee Jong-suk and Han Hyo-joo is also set to conquer PH TV as well as SBS’ 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.