I binge-watched in college at some point during my junior or senior year because I liked APink and Eunji. It immediately became my favorite drama. The pacing is perfect as all 16 episodes are under 30 minutes, so you can watch this in a day or two. Just the pure fact they managed to get Eun Ji Won, a First Gen idol, to convincingly play a high school student in is a joke goldmine.
Turn back the clock another nine years to Seoul in ! In a little Seoul neighborhood , lives a handful of families whose kids are all teenagers navigating the late eighties. While the first two relied more heavily on the main romance, they must have realized the real reason Korean audiences loved them was more for the accurate nostalgia and cast camaraderie. So what to do they do with a bigger budget?
Amp up the scenery and the cast! Not only do you care about the main teen crew, you care about each and every one of their families and their individual plot lines.
I watched it semi-live, so I was pretty ticked off at how shoehorned the romance ending was, but looking back, in a 90 minute episode, that was maybe 5 minutes of disappointment versus 85 minutes of happiness.
Kim Hye Jin wants her childhood friend, Ji Sung Joon, to remember her as the pretty preteen she once was, so she gets her friend, Min Ha Ri, to pretend to be her when they reunite as adults.
A reviewer pointed this out, and I agree, one of the best things about the male lead is that he never once comments on her appearance, no matter what changes she goes through. And I love that her makeover is temporary and more of a confidence boost than a complete lifestyle change. What if Korea still had a monarchy? Pretty much the premise of this drama as Emperor Lee Hyuk marries commoner Oh Sunny, and she must go from being a silly girl with a crush to the Empress of the Korean Empire.
I watched this drama in 3 days. Let us all take a moment to appreciate Jung Nara who is a national treasure who manages to go through so many different emotions in one drama. A remake of the Taiwanese drama, Lee Gun and Kim Mi Young find themselves in a shotgun marriage after their accidental one night stand ends up with a pregnancy.
A noona romance! Heh heh. Shin Joo Yeon is 33 and committed to her job at a home shopping network. Of all of them, this one balances the romance with the workplace and friendships the best. While the two initially clash, they develop feelings for each other.
However, it was my favorite drama for a long time even though the second half just barely avoids the curse. The shots of the Korean countryside are something else.
It focuses on the Korean Empire in the late s as Eugene Choi returns to his homeland as an American soldier. It feels more like a complete movie production than it does a drama, especially with names like Lee Byung Hun and Kim Tae Ri attached. This drama starts off SO good. Like the webtoon is incredibly clever and nuanced, and the show seems to do a good job taking that on and then….
I could not get through this drama. It was so drawn out and boring, and the characters made no sense. Even how they wind up sleeping together is weirdly forced and awkward. I started skipping through it to see what would happen, and when I realize the way they reconcile in the end was crappy too, I gave up altogether.
Cho Yeo Jeong who you guys might recognize as the rich mom from Parasite , is one of my favorite actresses. However, this drama was a mess.
Her character was insanely annoying like you know Cho is an amazing actress when you realize she was doing Concubine and Bangja around this time. I remember thinking Ji Hoon and Yeol Mae got way too serious way too fast for the plot, and Yeol Mae was just kinda whiny. Now I have a proper list to send my friends when they ask me for recs! What do you think are the best Korean Dramas to watch? Simply click the links, and I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you!
The acting by the entire cast, especially the younger actors, costumes, sets and OST were amazing. And loved the little girl! She was amazing! NA is still a bop! Omg, I wish I could. Reflecting on my Kdrama watches, it really was in a class of its own!
Most recent , The Rookie Historian too. Among the ones ive watched, i also liked Startup and Vincenzo.. Emotionally they have all stayed with me and not left. The acting was superb. I am a relative newbie to this area of entertainment but, I am so enthralled. Thank you for sharing your art. PS my first drama was Mr Sunshine……. I was a goner from that moment on.
Vincenzo on Netflix. Funny, sad, mad, action and romance. Love love love the male lead and female lead actors. I have never had a celebrity crush, but I am definitely in the throes of a character crush. A bespoke suit has not been so sexy since James Bond. A kooky, crazy, smart female lead has not been adorable and sexy at the same time as the female lead.
So ready for a season 2, 3, 4, and 5! So please please please are there any other good dramas with Daegu or Busan dialects? Please let me know ;-;. Hmm I think my only rec is to watch Reply next as they have accents from all over Korea the theme is kids coming to Seoul for university. Will keep an eye out for satoori dialect dramas though! Marriage not dating secret garden arang and the magistrate scarlet heart ryo search late autumn coffe prince hyde and jekyl introverted boss queen of 7 days empress ki undercover Big cloy and…..
The acting of the lead actors were great. Kill Me, Heal Me 20 episodes 9. Prison Playbook 16 episodes 7. Pinocchio 20 episodes 5. Woman of Dignity 20 episodes 4. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon 16 episodes 3. The Heirs 20 episodes 2. Descendants of the Sun 16 episodes. If you are looking for an immediately gripping, fast-paced medical drama, this one should be your first choice. They fall in love with each other while studying in school but unfortunately end up separating because of familial and financial pressure.
Six years later, however, they discover that there's no escape from love when they cross paths once again while interning in the same hospital.
The show has everything I want in a good drama—a wonderful story, cute and funny scenes, some fighting action, a great cast, and plenty of lessons in morality. This is also one of just a few K-dramas I've seen with a totally satisfying ending cue bloopers and adorable flashbacks! Do you love action, romance, and medicine all wrapped into a supremely intriguing drama?
Then you will probably obsess over Doctor Stranger for all 20 episodes. But beware—this series isn't quite as formulaic or predictable as some other Korean dramas. You will understand what I mean once you get into it. Park Hoon, a young lad from South Korea, gets kidnapped by North Korean operatives along with his father, world-famous surgeon Park Cheol, who is brought to North Korea to operate on the "Dear Leader" dictator.
The patient's health improves, but the father-and-son duo daren't out of the woods yet. Park Hoon grows up in North Korea, training to become a doctor under his father. He soon falls deeply in love with a beautiful girl, but North Korean operatives put a target on his back.
Watch the series to discover how Park Hoon will escape the country and whether he will succeed in the search for his first love! Doctor Stranger has a unique and satisfying storyline. Its plot is understandable, intriguing, and sufficiently unpredictable. I recommend this series to anyone who is interested in medical dramas, but I certainly don't recommend it to anyone who is squeamish about blood. That said, it definitely made me cry on multiple occasions and kept me glued to the screen until I had binge-watched the whole series.
If you like tricky math games and dark manga, this drama is worth checking out. Liar Game does a great job of posing tricky questions and providing non-answers in a way that had me insatiably curious to finally get to the ending. At 12 episodes, it's a pretty easy series to binge-watch. If you are looking for even more short and binge-able series, check out this list of K-dramas you can watch in one weekend.
The show is based on the Japanese manga of the same name. The drama revolves around contestants that take part in a reality game show called Liar Game in which ordinary people are given the opportunity to earn millions of dollars.
The contestant who manages to cheat the others ends up as the winner. One of the contestants is a naive girl who wants to pay off her father's debt. She gets help from a genius swindler and former psychology professor to win the show. The show itself perfectly illustrates how greed can upend morals and shows how far some people will go to get money.
I haven't read the manga or seen the Japanese version, so I can't make any comparisons, but I can say that the story was interesting and the drama thrilled me and kept me guessing throughout all of its tightly plotted 12 episodes. If you are looking for a dramatic series full of action, martial arts fights, a well-thought revenge plot, and romance, then give this one a shot.
City Hunter is the secret identity of Lee Yoon Sung, a man whose only purpose in life is to get revenge on those who killed his father many years before. Yoon-Sung has been training for this vengeance since he was a child, and he distances himself from anyone who distracts him from his task.
Despite his best efforts, he faces a tough challenge as he develops feelings for a woman he works with. I loved how the director balanced romance with the allure of revenge.
There were moments when the tension was just killing me. Just don't watch too many episodes in a row, or you might have a heart attack. This one is another action-drama. Actually, it has a little bit of everything—drama, action, romance, and mystery. Healer is a series you should include on your watchlist simply because of its great performances and storyline. The series follows a star reporter who seeks the help of a spy named Healer to help him to unveil the dark truth behind the people who have been in power for too long.
I loved the acting by the entire cast of Healer. This gripping and intense drama will have you on the edge of your seat and provoke a wide range of emotions as you become attached to its characters. I loved that both the male and female characters were strong. Joon-hyung likes her just the way she is, but who will she choose? A wholesome drama about five doctors who have been friends since attending medical school together 20 years ago, and all share a love of music.
This long-standing friendship is what makes it so joyful to watch. Despite the hardship of their day to day careers as doctors the gang remain compassionate through their passion for music. It's so good that producers have renewed the drama for another season, which is set to be released soon!
This drama has you playing an excruciating guessing game from the first episode. It begins with a snippet of the main character Sung Duk-seon, who is being interviewed alongside her husband, whose identity is hidden. The drama aims to make the viewer guess who her husband is, and the directors do a fantastic job of making us put together the pieces of the puzzle.
Set in , it shows us how life was before the age of mobile phones and social media, back where you actually had to leave the house to see your friends! It also brings back the nostalgia of being young and wanting to rush into adulthood, something everyone can relate to. Reply is one-third of the Reply series, and they're all totally binge-worthy.
Do Bong-soon was born with incredible superstrength — a trait passed down to all the women in her family. Her dream is to create a video with herself as the main character, but she ends up landing a job as a security guard for Ahn Min-hyuk, the CEO of a gaming company, Ainsoft. This drama is honestly so cute and perfect if you're in the mood for something perky, fun, and light-hearted.
If you're looking for motivation to hit the gym, this drama is for you! Kang Joo-eun Shin Min-a was known as one of the prettiest girls in her hometown.
She dated Im Woo-shik, a national swimming champion, and thought her happy ending was set. Fast forward 15 years, and she's struggling with life — her dad passed away and she's left having to take care of her family.
She meets Kim Young-ho So JI-Sub , a well established personal trainer and secret chaebol rich heir who helps her get her life where she wants it.
It's the ultimate clapback drama. The most romantic K-drama of all time, with a bit of horror thrown in! He meets Tae Gong-shil Gong Hyo-jin , who is tormented by her ability to see ghosts who continuously ask her for favours and take over her body when she drinks alcohol. She realises that when she touches Joong-won the ghosts disappear, giving her the peace she so desperately wants. As she finds a way to shelter herself from the spirit attacks she bonds with Joong-won, breaking down his hard exterior.
A romantic comedy set between the present day and years ago, complete with an alien twist. Cheong Song-yi Jun Ji-hyun is a typical celebrity actor at the peak of her career who meets Do Min-Jo Kim Soo-hyun , her new neighbour and lecturer at her university. The two have bad first impressions of each other at first but are later manoeuvred into situations where they spend time getting to know each other. A heartstring-pulling drama with talented actors, hilarious moments, and a murder attempt, My Love From the Star is a definite must-watch.
This one follows four women who devote their lives to ensuring the success of their children — they'll stop at nothing to ensure they're given the best start possible, even if that means going to dangerous lengths to get results. Their families live in an elite neighbourhood called Sky Castle, which seems perfect on the surface.
There's a serial killer on the loose and she'll be his next victim unless her admirer catches him first. To those around him, high school senior Oh Ji-soo Kim Dong-hee is just another typical brainy overachiever—so bland, in fact, that even his guidance counselor suggests he study less and go get a social life.
Outside of school hours, though, he runs a security service for an illegal prostitution business while keeping his identity a secret so he can earn enough money for his future.
When a classmate discovers his secret and wants in on the business, things start to get a lot more complicated—and dangerous. This Grey's Anatomy -like show is about five friends who have been inseparable since medical school and who are now doctors at the same hospital. The show depicts their complicated lives, both in and out of the operating room. And one of the ways they blow off steam? By playing in a band once a week hence the Playlist in the show's title.
In this legal drama about two lawyers who represent society's one percent, Yoon Jae-hee is a partner at a prestigious law firm with a great track record and a huge ego. Jung Geum-ja runs her own scrappy one-person law office.
The two have just their outsize ambition in common, and they battle it out to secure the most high profile—and lucrative—cases, doing whatever it takes to get them. After a plane carrying his young nephew crashes on its way to Morocco, stuntman Cha Dal-gun Lee Seung-gi vows to find out what happened. With the help of National Intelligence Service agent Go Hae-ri Bae Suzy , the two begin to uncover a terrorist conspiracy that leads all the way up to the Blue House aka the presidency.
Think of this popular drama as a Korean version of The O. Cha Eun-sang Park Shin-hye takes on part-time jobs to support herself and lives in the home of the wealthy Kim family, where her mother is a housekeeper.
A scholarship enables her to enroll in a high school attended by the children of Korea's one percent, where she soon finds herself in the middle of a love triangle involving the Kim family scion Kim Tan Lee Min-ho and his nemesis Choi Young-do Kim Woo-bin. Predictably, they fall in love, and he must keep her identity a secret and get her back home before anyone finds out who she is. Crash Landing on You was ratings gold it's currently the third highest-rated show in Korean TV history thanks to its A-list stars, a solid supporting cast, and its multidimensional portrayal of life in North Korea.
Former copywriter Kang Dan-i Lee Na-young is unemployed, divorced, and a single mom. Her best friend Cha Eun-ho Lee Jong-suk is an accomplished author and editor-in-chief of a book publishing company. Eun-ho asks Dan-i to find him a housekeeper but unbeknownst to him, she secretly begins cleaning his house. Eventually she has to come clean to Eun-ho and takes a temp job at his publishing house. The hardship and discrimination Dan-i faces in trying to re-enter a workforce after leaving it to raise a kid adds another layer to this charming romantic comedy.
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