Inventory of phenomenal Korean dramas over the past ten years, each one has exploded,
Do you remember the days when I chased dramas with my classmates? Which one have you stayed up late chasing? Will you rebrush this Korean drama in 2022?
▪2013 - The Heirs
Starring: Lee Min Ho / Park Shin Hye / Kim Woo-bin / Choi Jin-hyuk / Jung so-jing / Park Kyung-shik / Kang Ha-na / Kang Min-hyuk / Kim Ji-won
It tells the story of the sweet and heartwarming but conflicting romance of the heir to the 1% of Korean high society and a poor woman with an extremely ordinary reality.
▪2013 - "You from the Star"
Starring: Kim so-hyun / Jun Ji-hyun / Park Hae-jin / Yoo Eun-na / Oh Sang-jin / Ahn Jae-hyun / Shin Sung-rook
It tells the romantic love story of Do Minjun, a mysterious man from the alien to the Joseon Dynasty to 400 years later, who falls in love with Cheon Song-yi, who is a top actress of the country, and two people on different planets eliminate misunderstandings between each other and overcome dangers to pursue true love.
▪2014 - "Pinocchio"
Starring: Lee Jong-suk / Park Shin Hye / Kim Young-kwang / Lee Yoo-fi / Lee Bi-mo / Min Sung-wook / Kang Shin-il
Set against the background of the lives of the journalists, the young journalists of the Ministry of Social Affairs who pursue authenticity are the protagonists, telling the story of the love story of youth and growth between a man living under a pseudonym and a woman who cannot lie.
▪2015--"Please Answer 1988"
Starring: Sung Dong-il / Lee Il-hwa / Rome-lan / Kim Sung-kyun / Choi Moo-sung / Kim Sun-young / Yoo Hye-young / Lee Hye-ri / Yoo Joon-yeol / Ko Kyung-pyo / Park Bo-jian / Ahn Jae-hong / Lee Dong-hui / Choi Seung-won
Set against the backdrop of the 1988 Seoul (present-day Seoul) Olympic Games, the third drama in the "Please Answer" series tells the story of warm family and neighborhood love between five families living in Shuangmun-dong, Dobong-gu, Seoul.
▪2016 - Descendants of the Sun
Starring: Song Hye-jo / Song Joong-ki / Kim Ji-won / Jin-kyu / Lee Sung-joon / Wen Liu / Tae-in-ho
tells the story of Liu Shizhen, leader of the overseas dispatch group of special combat forces, and Jiang Huiyan, a surgeon, who fell in love back and forth between South Korea and Uruk, the sending area.
▪2016--"W Two Worlds"
Starring: Lee Jong-suk / Han Hyo-joo / Jung Youjung / Kang Ki-young / Kim Eui-sung
tells the story of a series of chain events that happened after Wu Yeon-joo, a female doctor in the real world, accidentally entered the world of the popular comic "W" and met the protagonist of the comic, Jiang Zhe.
▪2016--Lonely and Brilliant God: Ghosts
Starring: Kong Liu / Kim Gaoyin / Lee Dong-wook / Liu Yina / Lu Xingcai / Kim So-hyun / Kim Min-jae / Cho Yu-jin / Lee Ai / Cui Xiong
Based on the theme of oriental legends, it tells the wonderful cohabitation of ghosts and amnesiacaries who want to end their immortal lives, and a girl who claims to be a "ghost bride".
▪2016 - The Legend of the Blue Sea
Starring: Jun Ji-hyun / Lee Min Ho / Moon So-ri / Park Jin-young / Sung Dong-il / Ge So-won / Lee Hee-joon / Shin Hye-sun / Choi Jung-woo
It tells a series of stories that happen in the process of adapting to life on land after a mermaid who is in the midst of an extinction crisis on Earth meets a genius crook in the city.
▪2016--"Weightlifting Fairy Jin Fuzhu"
Starring: Lee Jingyeong / Nam Joo Hyuk / Kyeong Seo-jin / Lee Jae-yoon / Yoo Do-in / Ahn Gil Jiang / Kim Jae-hyun
Based on the story of South Korean weightlifter Jang Mi-lan, it tells the story of the first love between 21-year-old weightlifter Kim Bok-joo and sports university swimming genius Jung Joon-hyung.
▪2017 - "When You Sleep"
Starring: Lee Jong-suk / Bae so-ji / Lee Sang-yep / Ding Hae-in / Ko Sung-hee / Shin Jae-ha / Jang Hyun-seong / Hwang Young-hee
It tells the story of a woman who predicts future misfortunes based on her dreams and a prosecutor who fights alone to prevent a nightmare from becoming a reality.
▪2018--"Sky City"
Starring: Lim Jing-ah / Lee Tae-lan / Yoon Se-ah / Oh Nara / Kim Seo-hyung / Jung Joon-ho / Choi Won-young / Kim Byung-cheol / Cho Jae-yoon / Song Min Hyung / Kim Jung-lan / Lee Hyun-jin
It tells the story of Sky City, a castle inhabited by the top 0.1% of Korea's upper class, and the famous university wives who gather here worship their husbands as kings, and hope to raise their children to become unparalleled princes and princesses in the world, and fight for various desires.
▪2018--Why Secretary Jin is like that?
Starring: Park Seo-joon / Park Min Young / Lee Tae-hwan / Kang Ki-young / Hwang Chan-seung / Beiye-jin / Kim Byung-ok / Kim Hye-ok
Adapted from Jung Kyung-yoon's 2013 popular web comic of the same name, it tells the story of Lee Young-joon, the vice president of the consortium with perfect appearance and extraordinary strength, and his personal secretary Kim Mi-su is the only one to help him solve his troubles. After working for 9 years, she has been by Li Yingjun's side like a shadow, and she has full ability scores, and one day she suddenly decided to resign, making Li Yingjun determined to use all means to keep her...
▪2019--"Crash Landing of Love"
Starring: Hyun Bin / Son Ye-jin / Seo Ji-ji / Kim Jong-hyun / Kwang-hwan / Jung Aili / Ha Seok-chen / Nam Kyung-euk / Fang Eun-jin / Hwang Yu Se-hye / Yoon Jimin / Jang Hye-jin / Park Myung-hoon / Kim Sun-young
tells the story of Yoon Se-ri, the heir daughter of a South Korean chaebol, who was forced to descend to North Korea due to a paragliding accident and fell in love with a North Korean special officer who silently guarded her.
▪2020--"Penthouse Season 1.2.3"
Starring: Lee Ji-ah / Kim So-yeon / Yoo Jin / Yim Ki-joon / Shin Eun-kyung / Bong Tae-kyu / Yoon Joong-hoon / Park Eun-suk / Yoon Joo-hee / Ha Dao-kwon
tells the desire and motherhood of the heroine who gambled on life and struggled to enter high society, as well as the success story of buying a house and getting rich.
▪2020--Life of a Witty Doctor
Starring: Cho Jung-seok / Yoo Yeon-seok / Jung Kyung-sook / Kim Daming / Tian Mi-do
Set in the hospital emergency room, it tells the heartwarming story of the desperate struggle between doctors, nurses and patients around life.
▪2021--Squid Game Season 1
Starring: Lee Jung-jae / Park Hae-so / Wei Yongjun / Kong Liu / Lee Byung-heon / Oh Young-so / Jung Ho-yeon / Heo Sung-tae
tells the story of a group of desperate and desperate for money who receive a mysterious invitation to join a game together. To win the prize of 45.6 billion won, 456 contestants from different backgrounds were locked up in secret locations to play. Each round is a traditional game that Koreans used to play as children, such as one, two, three wooden people, but the consequence of failing to break the level is death. Who will be the ultimate winner and what is the purpose of this game?
How many have you watched? Everyone is welcome to add to the above list~