Kdrama recs
Some of the kdramas that I enjoyed and loved watching. I'd like to add Hometown cha cha cha and Dr. Romantic to my list (they are not added to this app).
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Law
Defendant
Defendant
Park Jung-Woo is a prosecutor at Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office. One day, he wakes up and finds himself in locked up at the police station. He has temporary amnesia. Park Jung-Woo is falsely accused and is sentenced to death. He must struggle to prove his innocence.
Reborn Rich
Kim Tae-hee · 2022
After ten years, a loyal employee is framed for embezzlement, then murdered by his employers, only to be reborn as their youngest son, with a yearn for revenge guiding his hostile takeover.
Vincenzo
· 2021
At the age of eight, Park Joo Hyeong left for Italy after being adopted. Now an adult, he is known as Vincenzo Cassano and employed by a Mafia family as a consigliere. Due to warring Mafia factions, he flies to South Korea where he gets involved with lawyer Hong Cha Young. She is the type of attorney who will do anything to win a case. Now back in his motherland, he gives an unrivalled conglomerate a taste of his own medicine—with a side of his own version of justice.
Romance
Strong Woman Do Bong Soon
Baek Mi-kyoung · 2017
Born with supernatural strength, Do Bong-soon fights evil and procures justice while getting tangled in a love triangle with her CEO boss and cop crush.
Lovely Runner
Kim Bbang · 2024
Right after Ryu Sun-jae, a top star, ends his life, Im Sol, his top fan, somehow ends up at a time when they were in high school and tries to protect him. A fantasy romance unfolds where people who missed each other in time finally meet.
Extraordinary You
· 2019
When a high-school girl finds that she is merely a character from a comic book whose destiny is decided by the writer, she decides to change the plot to suit her desires and find the love of her life.
Are You Human?
Jo Jung-joo · 2018
Nam Shin is a son from a family who runs a large company. After an unexpected accident, he falls into a coma. His mother Oh Ro-Ra is an authority on brain science and artificial intelligence. She creates an android named Nam Shin III which looks like just like her son Nam Shin. The android pretends to be Nam Shin and he has a bodyguard So-Bong.
Crash Landing on You
Park Ji-eun, Lee Jeong-hyo · 2019
A paragliding mishap drops a South Korean heiress in North Korea -- and into the life of an army officer, who decides he will help her hide.
See You in My 19th Life
See You in My 19th Life
Ban Ji-eum can endlessly reincarnate. But when her 18th life gets cut short, she dedicates the next one to finding her now grown-up childhood love.
Because This Is My First Life
Because This Is My First Life
Nam Se-Hee is a single man in his early 30s. He has chosen to not marry. He owns his home, but he owes a lot on his mortgage. Yoon Ji-Ho is a single woman in her early 30s. She does not own a home and envies those that do. She has given up on dating due to her financial struggles. Yoon Ji-Ho begins to live at Nam Se-Hee’s house. They become housemates.
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Yu Je-won · 2021
A big-city dentist opens up a practice in a close-knit seaside village, home to a charming jack-of-all-trades who is her polar opposite in every way.
Fantasy
Alchemy of Souls
Hong Jeong-eun · 2022
A powerful sorceress in a blind woman's body encounters a man from a prestigious family, who wants her help to change his destiny.
Death's Game
Death's Game
At the brink of going to hell, Yee-jae must cycle through twelve separate lives and twelve separate deaths in this reincarnation drama.
Zombie
All of Us Are Dead
Chun Sung-il, JQ Lee, Kim Nam-su · 2022
A high school becomes ground zero for a zombie virus outbreak. Trapped students must fight their way out — or turn into one of the rabid infected.
Coming of age
Twinkling Watermelon
Jin Soo-wan, Son Jeong-hyeon · 2023
A CODA (child of deaf adult) student born with a gift for music crash lands at an unfamiliar place after time traveling through a suspicious music shop. There, he forms the band Watermelon Sugar with other mysterious youths.
Twenty Five Twenty One
Jung Jee-hyun · 2022
In a time when dreams seem out of reach, a teen fencer pursues big ambitions and meets a hardworking young man who seeks to rebuild his life.
Drama
My Perfect Stranger
Lee Woong-hee · 2023
Yun Hae Jun is the youngest anchor to ever work at his broadcasting station. He is calm and straightforward as a journalist and kind in his personal life. On the other hand, Baek Yun Yeong dreamed of becoming a writer but wound up working at a publishing company. The two somehow travel back in time to the year 1987. There, Yun Hae Jun tries to find the truth behind a serial murder case, while Baek Yun Yeong attempts to prevent her parents from marrying. They soon realize that their objectives are connected.
Daily Dose of Sunshine
JQ Lee · 2023
A kind-hearted nurse working in psychiatry goes above and beyond to be a ray of light for those under her care, despite the challenges coming her way.
The Good Bad Mother
Sim Na-yeon · 2023
A tragic accident leaves an ambitious prosecutor with the mind of a child – forcing him and his mother to embark on a journey to heal their relationship.
My mister
박해영 · 2018
Afin de rembourser ses dettes, Ji-an dérobe une liasse de billets à son supérieur direct, Park Dong-hoon, de l'argent sale en fait destiné à le piéger. Malgré elle, la jeune femme découvre peu à peu la vie de Dong-hoon : son épouse le trompe avec son chef, et ses deux frères, au chômage, mènent la vie dure à leur mère.
Our Blues
노희경 · 2022
Dans ces histoires centrées sur des résidents de l'île de Jeju en Corée, l'amour n'est pas toujours rose et la vie est pleine de rebondissements.
My Liberation Notes
박해영 · 2022
Tres hermanos, agotados por la monotonía del día a día de la edad adulta, buscan encontrar la realización y la libertad de sus vidas sin complicaciones.
Prison Playbook
Prison Playbook
With his major league baseball debut right around the corner, a star pitcher lands in prison and must learn to navigate his new world.
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
Once guiding the 'dead', now saving those who want to die! The Afterlife Office Human Fantasy.
Summer Strike
Summer Strike
After getting dumped by her boyfriend and losing her mother in an accident, Yeo-reum decides to move to a small village to do nothing.
Still 17
Still 17
Gong Woo-Jin is a 30-year-old single man and he works as a set designer. Due to a trauma he experienced 13 years ago, he does not want to have a relationship with others. When Woo Seo-Ri was 17, she fell into a coma. 13 years later, she wakes up from her coma. Her mental age is still that of a 17-year-old, but she is now 30-years-old. Gong Woo-Jin and Woo Seo-Ri get involved with each other and fall in love.
Dr. Romantic
Kang Eun-kyung · 2016
An eccentric, triple board-certified virtuoso surgeon leaves a top job in Seoul and ends up at a provincial hospital, where he mentors young doctors.
Sport
Love All Play
Heo Sung-hye · 2022
La prometedora jugadora de bádminton Park Tae Yang vuelve a la pista tras desaparecer misteriosamente de ella durante tres años. Mientras que el deporte lo es todo para Tae Yang, Park Taejun odia entrenar y hacer horas extra. Para él, el deporte es un trabajo más. Se reencuentran en el mismo equipo y terminan siendo compañeros después de muchas idas y venidas. ¿Dobles mixtos? Qué raro. Mientras juegan, ¿el roce hará crecer el cariño? A sus 25 años, comienza el momento más brillante de las vidas de ambos atletas.
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo
Yang Hui-seung, Oh Hyun-jong, Kim Soo-jin · 2016
A competitive swimmer crosses paths with his childhood friend, a rising weight lifting star, and realizes that she has a secret crush on his cousin.
Family
When life gives you tangerines
임상춘 · 2025
En la isla de Jeju, una chica llena de vida y un joven decidido viven una historia repleta de desafíos y triunfos que demuestra que el amor puede trascender el tiempo.
Reply 1988
Reply 1988
Take a nostalgic trip back to the late 1980s through the lives of five families and their five teenage kids living in a small neighbourhood in Seoul.
Action
Weak Hero
한준희, You Su-min · 2022
Yeon Shi Eun, un estudiante modelo con calificaciones que pertenecen al 1% superior de la escuela. Se ve débil pero lucha contra numerosas violencias dentro y fuera de la escuela. Representa a un chico naturalmente débil en términos de apariencia, dominando una escuela parecida a una jungla usando su cerebro, poder analítico y herramientas.
Bloodhounds
김주환 · 2023
Dos jóvenes boxeadores se alían con un prestamista benévolo para acabar con un despiadado usurero que se aprovecha de los más endeudados... y desesperados.
The First Responders
Min Ji-eun · 2022
Un journal de terrain d'intervention conjoint entre la police qui attrape les criminels et les pompiers qui attrapent les incendies. Le poste de police et la caserne des pompiers répondent conjointement à des scènes féroces entre crime, catastrophes et urgences.
Bad and Crazy
Kim Sae-bom · 2021
Bad and Crazy est un drama de super-héros sur un protagoniste qui a vécu toute sa vie comme un inspecteur de police matérialiste, mais qui se transforme en champion de la justice et lutte contre la corruption de la police lorsqu'une personnalité cachée appelée K se réveille en lui.
D.P.
Kim Bo-tong · 2021
A young private's assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.
Taxi Driver
Lee Ok-gyu · 2021
A former special forces soldier delivers revenge for victims of injustice while working for a secret organization that fronts as a taxi company.
Flex x Cop
Lee Ok-gyu · 2024
A chaebol cop joins forces with a gritty detective to take down criminals with a touch of wealth and a whole lot of wit.
Moving
Park In-je · 2023
Children who live in hiding with superpowers, along with their parents who live with painful secrets of the past, face enormous dangers together.
Crime
Mouse
· 2021
"Mouse" es un drama sobre psicópatas, una historia de suspenso que se centrará en la pregunta clave: ¿Qué pasaría si pudiéramos resolver los problemas pensando como psicópatas?
Through the Darkness
Lee Seul-gi · 2022
À Séoul, en Corée du Sud, dans les années 1990, la nation est en proie à la terreur après qu'une série de meurtres brutaux a semé la terreur dans le cœur de ses citoyens. Un mystérieux personnage connu sous le nom de Chapeau rouge rôde dans les rues, suit les femmes, les terrorise, puis les tue dans des attaques apparemment sans motif. La police est déconcertée – le tueur semble frapper au hasard. On a du mal à comprendre quand ce meurtrier attaquera la prochaine fois et pourquoi les meurtres ont lieu. Ayant entendu parler de la façon dont le FBI américain utilise des profileurs criminels pour construire les « profils » des tueurs dans de tels cas, le chef de l'équipe d'Analyse du comportement criminel Gook Young Soo (Jin Seon Gyu) demande l'aide de Song Ha Young (Kim Nam Kil), un membre de l'équipe calme, réservé, mais incroyablement perspicace.
Vigilante
Moon Yoo-seok · 2023
Kim Ji-yong leads a double life as a Korean National Police University student by day and the Vigilante by night, personally punishing criminals who evade the law. He is surrounded by people who all possess different ulterior motives.
Life on Mars
Life on Mars
While investigating a serial murder case, Detective Han Tae Joo gets into a catastrophic incident. When he wakes up, he finds himself transported back to 1988, appointed to work at a police station in a small city. Believing he is there for a reason, he tries to solve the case from the past in hopes of finding a way back to his life in 2018.
Comedy
Mr. Queen
Park Kye-ok, Choi A-il · 2020
In the modern age, Jang Bong-hwan is a chef who works for the country's top politicians at the Blue House. He has a free spirit, but he one day finds himself in the body of Queen Cheorin in the Joseon period.
The Fiery Priest
The Fiery Priest
People commit variety of ugly crimes these days. However, they forgive themselves by giving testimony every week. They believe that they can repent just by having faith. But the truth is that they have faith to repeat the sins again and again without remorse. These people atone for their evil deeds just to feel comfortable and carefree. It is not about the victims who are suffering because of them. They say every people are equal before the religions. But it is time to discriminate people who only uses them for their interest. Screening if they are really good people, punishing if they deserve to be punished, and defending justice is needed for modern day religion. A priest with this sense of justice teams up with a detective and a prosecutor. They try to solve the mysterious death of an elderly priest and serve justice.
Fight For My Way
Fight For My Way
A former taekwondo champion and an information desk worker aspire to chase their dreams in a world that isn't kind to those with mediocre credentials.
Chief Kim
Chief Kim
An accountant who's deft at embezzling funds becomes an unintentional hero to his colleagues when he gets a new corporate job.
Mystery
The King of Pigs
Yeon Sang-ho · 2022
Examen de l'intimidation au sein des hiérarchies sociales coréennes. Kyung Min et Jong Suk luttent tous les deux pour se frayer un chemin dans le monde des affaires et de la littérature. Ils se retrouvent pour parler de leur enfance. ~~ Adapté du film d'animation "Le roi des cochons" (돼지의 왕) de Yeon Sang Ho (연상호).
Revenge of Others
· 2022
A boy falls to his death at school, but Ok Chan-mi does not believe that her twin brother, Park Won-seok, committed suicide. Chan-mi transfers to her brother's school, Yongtan High, and meets Ji Soo-heon, who witnessed her brother's death. A "hero," who avenges bullied students, appears at Yongtan High. Chan-mi speculates that it may be connected to her brother and starts looking for this hero.
Link: Eat, Love, Kill
Link: Eat, Love, Kill
Eun Gye-hoon, a famous chef, opens a restaurant in a town he lived when he was a little kid. In the past, he had a twin sister. But after a traumatic incident tat the hometown, the family lost her. He used to have a strong emotional link to his sister, able to synchronize with any kinds of feelings she was having. When Noh Da-hyun, a young woman in need of help, visits him one day, Gye-hoon starts to feel that strong link again.
Thriller
Big Mouth
Jang Young-cheol · 2022
A lawyer with a ten-percent winning rate is caught up in a murder case and becomes the notorious and genius con artist, Big Mouse, overnight. In order to survive and protect his family, he tries to reveal the true colors of the privileged people involved in a huge conspiracy.
Strangers from Hell
Strangers from Hell
Unpleasant events disturb the life of an aspiring crime fiction writer when he becomes a resident of an apartment building teeming with shady neighbors.
School
High School Return of a Gangster
High School Return of a Gangster
A spirit of a middle school dropout gangster who accidentally possesses an 18-year-old boy’s body who killed himself, goes back to high school to take a revenge against the bullies with his gangster skills and encounters unexpected relationship.
History
Mr. Sunshine
Mr. Sunshine
Set in the early 1900s, this drama tells the story of a young man from Korea who grows up in the United States. When he returns to Korea as a US Marine Corps officer, he meets and falls in love with a noblewoman who is fighting for Korean independence. Their romance is complicated by social class and political ideology.
Medical
Dr. Romantic
Kang Eun-kyung · 2016
An eccentric, triple board-certified virtuoso surgeon leaves a top job in Seoul and ends up at a provincial hospital, where he mentors young doctors.
