my top 20 kdramas
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Summer Strike
Lee Yoon-jung · 2022
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.
Twenty Five Twenty One
Jung Jee-hyun, Kwon Do-eun · 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.
Who Are You: School 2015
Kim Seong-yoon · 2015
After losing her memory in an accident, a bullied high school orphan finds herself in the place of an identical-looking girl who's gone missing.
Jeongnyeon: The Star is Born
2024
The 1950s were an era filled with desire and aspiration, despite the aftermath of the Korean War. Jeongnyeon, a girl with a gifted voice, embarks on a journey to become the best actor of gukgeuk, or Korean female classical opera, where she encounters competition, solidarity, and growth.
Prison Playbook
Lee Woo-jung, Lee Do-hyun · 2017
With his major league baseball debut right around the corner, a star pitcher lands in prison and must learn to navigate his new world.
Run On
2020
Veering off course from his preset path, a track star follows his own pace and heart for the first time after a film translator steps into his life.
When Life Gives You Tangerines
Lim Sang-choon, Kim Won-suk · 2025
In Jeju, a spirited girl and a steadfast boy's island story blossoms into a lifelong tale of setbacks and triumphs — proving love endures across time.
Hospital Playlist
Lee Woo-jung, Shin Won-ho · 2020
Every day is extraordinary for five doctors and their patients inside a hospital, where birth, death and everything in between coexist.
Scarlet Heart: Ryeo
Tong Hua · 2016
A story of a 25-year-old Go Hajin who is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty. She then wakes up in the body of Lady Hae Soo and finds herself amongst the ruling princes of the Wang Family.
Reply 1988
Shin Won-ho, Lee Woo-jung · 2015
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.
Tempest
2025
Seo Munju, a highly accomplished diplomat and former ambassador to the United Nations, and Sanho, an international special agent shrouded in a veil of secrets, race to uncover the truth behind an attack that threatens the future stability of the Korean peninsula.
Moving
Park In-je, Kang Full · 2023
Children who live in hiding with superpowers, along with their parents who live with painful secrets of the past, face enormous dangers together.
Death's Game
Ha Byung-hoon · 2023
At the brink of going to hell, Yee-jae must cycle through twelve separate lives and twelve separate deaths in this reincarnation drama.
Welcome to Samdal-ri
Kwon Hye-ju · 2023
After suffering a fall from grace, a photographer returns to her hometown and bumps into her childhood friend — rekindling an unfinished romance.
Under the Queen's Umbrella
Kim Hyung-sik, Park Ba-ra · 2022
A spirited queen tries to rein in her rowdy sons in order to make one of them the next king of Joseon, while her competitors vie to snatch the throne.
Alchemy of Souls
Hong Jeong-eun, Hong Mi-ran, Park Joon-hwa · 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.
Because This Is My First Life
Park Joon-hwa, Yoon Nan-joong · 2017
Two housemates get married for financial convenience, but discover nothing is simple when it comes to demanding in-laws — or facing their growing bond.
Dr. Romantic
Dr. Romantic
Bu Yong-ju was once a famous surgeon at the peak of his career at a major hospital. But he suddenly gives it all up one day to live in seclusion and work as a neighborhood doctor in a small town. He now goes by Teacher Kim and refers to himself as the “Romantic Doctor”. Meanwhile, Gang Dong-ju became a doctor to make something of himself after growing up poor, and he seeks out VIP patients to achieve the success that he desperately wants. Yun Seo-jeong is a passionate young surgeon who is haunted by a mistake from her past and tries to get over it. When Dong-ju and Seo-jeong meet the quirky Teacher Kim, their lives and careers will never be the same again.
One Spring Night
Kim Eun · 2019
When Lee Jeong-in and Yu Ji-ho meet, something unexpected happens. Or it just may be that spring is in the air -- and anything is possible.
The Red Sleeve
Jung Hae-ri · 2021
Based on a novel of the same name, it tells the record of a royal court romance between the King of Joseon who believes his duty is to his country first above love, and a court lady who wants to protect the life she has chosen.
