Recently, two Korean dramas "Our Blues" and "My Liberation Journal" have become a must-see drama in life that people cannot forget for a long time, and behind these good dramas, the excellent skills of the screenwriter's pen are a major highlight.
Especially in recent years, Korean dramas have begun to launch many lyrical dramas, less twists and turns and bizarre stories, but adding a lot of protagonist monologues and healing lines, pulling the audience's emotions, and more popular several Korean drama gods and goddesses, setting a high rating.
Here are a few excellent Korean screenwriters and their works, just see their names and have confidence in the works!
1: Kim Eun-sook
Kim Eun-sook, a Korean screenwriter who has created "The Secret Garden" and "Descendants of the Sun", is definitely a rating guarantee for romantic Korean dramas!
Born in 1973, Kim Eun-sook graduated from the Department of Literature and Creation of Seoul National University of the Arts, and by chance, he was invited to write the SBS TV series "The South Direction of the Sun", and unexpectedly started his screenwriting career.
The 2004 work "Paris Lovers" set a high rating of 56.3%, becoming the second highest Korean drama in a single episode that year.
The plot tells a love triangle story in the flower capital of Paris, Jin Yinshu is good at creating Cinderella and Prince Charming, creating fairy tale elements full of pink bubbles, so that the audience can see the girlish heart erupt.
Next, Kim Eun-sook launched "Gentleman's Character", "Heirs", "Lonely and Brilliant God-Ghost", "Descendants of the Sun", "Mr. Sunshine" and other works, each of which is a rating champion and won many script awards.
Successfully won a vote of male gods such as Hong Xuanbin, Lee Min-ho, Song Joong-ki, Lee Dong-wook, etc., also known as the "Male God Manufacturing Machine".
Two years after the production of the hit Korean drama "The King: The Eternal Monarch", Kim Eun-sook cooperated with Netflix this year to launch a new thriller "Glory", starring Song Hye-joo and Lee Ji-hyun, telling the heroine who dreams of becoming an architect, who automatically dropped out of school due to high school violence, and she waited for the perpetrator to marry and have children and become the child's class teacher, launching a step-by-step revenge plan.
Changing the previous romantic plot, it is Jin Yinshu's first attempt at thrilling revenge themes, and it also makes people look forward to whether they can achieve good results and create ratings topics that are highly anticipated!
2: Hong sisters
The Korean screenwriters Hong Jung-eun and Hong Mei-lan, who became popular in fantasy style, participated in the KBS drama public offering in 2004, and were successfully selected for their slang-free, irrational plot and strong personality.
In 2009, his work "Originally a Beautiful Man" was successfully popular and was remade into Japanese and Taiwanese versions.
Since the 2012 TV series "Big" opened up the fantasy writing style, and then launched "The Lord's Sun", "Flower Travel", "My Girlfriend is a Nine-tailed Fox" to capture the hearts of many viewers.
In 2019, "Druna Hotel", starring IU Li Zhien and Lu Zhenjiu, is also a masterpiece of the Hong sisters, and the refreshing story has written a very eye-catching achievement.
The story is about a Druna Hotel that is only open at night in bustling Seoul, which only shows its gorgeous true face to those souls who can't leave, and also records the bits and pieces of these souls.
The fusion of love and supernatural themes, from the scene to the character costumes, has successfully caused the topic, not only refreshing the ratings of Korean tvN TV series that year, but also beating "Ghosts" to become the highest-rated TV series in 2019.
Following "Druna Hotel", the Hong sisters' new masterpiece "Returning the Soul" was starred by Lee Jae-wook and Jung So-min. The plot is set in a non-existent country, the fate of the protagonists is distorted by the soul replacement of the soul, and the story of the growth of the crowd after experiencing some twists and turns, fans who love the style of the Hong sisters must watch it.
3: Park Ji-eun
Popular Korean drama screenwriter Park Ji-eun was born in 1976 and debuted as a screenwriter for a variety show in 2000, but only began to write MBC's "Kenuchi Help Queen" as a TV screenwriter in 2009.
Written in 2012, the finale of "You On the Vine" received a 49.2% rating, becoming the highest-rated drama in South Korea in 2012, and was named the "National TV Drama" of 2012, and won nearly 30 awards.
In 2013, Park Ji-eun's "You from the Stars" set off a boom in Asia, and then created popular works such as "The Legend of the Blue Ocean" and "The Forced Landing of Love", opening up the overseas market of Korean dramas.
Park Ji-eun is good at opening with a light-hearted and funny plot, and finally earns tears with various life and death bridges. Although some people will think that the plot is old-fashioned, it is still addictive to watching.
At present, the number of works is only 8, but each one has set a super high rating, it can be said that Park Ji-eun quite understands what the audience loves to watch!
4: Lu Xijing
Born in 1966, Lu Hee-kyung graduated from the Department of Literary and Art Creation of Seoul Arts College, debuted in 1995 with "Seri and Xiuzhi", and immediately won the MBC Best Theater Public Offering Award.
Released in 1996, "The World's Most Beautiful Parting" is based on personal experience, telling the story of an ordinary mother who reconciles with her family and enjoys family affection at the end of her cancer and the last days of her life.
After the broadcast of this drama, it caused a wide response, won the best work in the television department of the Baeksang Arts Awards, and in 2011, it remade a film version, which made Lu Xijing famous in one fell swoop.
Lu Xijing is good at depicting the sincere emotional changes between the characters, always able to perfectly integrate the ordinary and moving in life into the plot, and has won the Baeksang Art Award four times, winning the appreciation of the audience and the industry.
His notable works include "The Wind Blew That Winter", "My Dear Friends", "It's Okay, It's Love", "Live", and the recently completed "Our Blues".
In addition to his identity as a TV screenwriter, Lu Xijing is also a writer, who has published a prose work "Those Who Don't Love at the Moment, They Are Guilty", which collects Lu Xijing's life chronicles in 2015, and records Lu Xijing's reflection and understanding at this stage of life with abundant emotions, looking directly into his own heart, while bringing out his mental journey as a screenwriter.
5: Park Hye-young
Before her debut, Park Hye-young participated in the creation of WORKS SUCH AS THE TV series "Arirang" as an assistant screenwriter, and officially debuted as "The Old Maid's Diary" in 2004, but it took a long time before launching the second comedy work "Living in Cheongdam-dong" in 2011.
Launched in 2016, "Wu Hae-young Again" starred Moon Sung Hyuk, Seo Hyun-jin and Jeon Hye-bin, the healing plot depicting the protagonist's mood and twists in the play was named one of the divine dramas by netizens, and was nominated for the Script Award of the TELEVISION Department of the Baeksang Arts Awards, opening up the popularity of Park Hye-young.
"My Uncle", written in 2018, starred IU Lee Chi-eun and Lee Sun-kyun, attracted attention as soon as it was first broadcast, and was named one of the annual healing Korean dramas of the year.
The plot tells the story of Park Dong-hoon (Lee Sun-kyun), a 40-year-old construction engineer who is carrying a heavy life, and Lee Ji-an (Lee Ji-eun), a 20-year-old contractor of a construction company, who meet each other, and as the plot gradually changes the way they look at life, healing each other and friends.
Although the early stage is full of world-weary characters, there is always a magic that makes people want to watch it continuously, and they can get precipitation from it, which is a must-see drama full of tears.
In 2022, Park Hye-young's screenwriter launched a world-weary Korean drama "My Liberation Journal", co-starring Lee Min-ki, Kim Ji-won, Lee Il, Sun Seok-joo and other powerful actors.
The story focuses on three brothers and sisters who want to escape from day-to-day life, and the three of them are cruelly tested by reality in life, work, love, self-worth and other aspects, feel that their lives have reached their limits, from a closed and negative attitude, and regain their life goals after experiencing liberation.
The delicate acting skills of the actors and the smooth plot rhythm have received a lot of attention since the beginning of the broadcast, and this drama is also the same as Park Hye-young's consistent narrative method.
But for audiences who love a tight, tortuous plot, they may not necessarily like it, or decide to abandon the show after watching the first few episodes, but as the plot unfolds and opens up with the protagonist, they can feel liberated and healed from it.