Today, Wu Erjun recommends five classic Korean dramas, these Korean dramas have a good reputation, high popularity, and the ratings have exceeded 40%, not only in South Korea, but also in Asia, which have caused a ratings boom; of course, there are several dramas that are relatively old and belong to the classic memories of the post-80s.
Mama's Sea (1993)
Choi Min-so and Ko Hyun-jeong, produced by MBC, a 1993 Korean drama, two years after the first Korean drama "What Is Love" and three years before "First Love", the highest rating of this drama was as high as 51.9%.
The story tells the story of Yang Xi, an upper-middle-class housewife, who lives a comfortable and financially secure life. Her husband died unexpectedly after a failed business, she had to find a way to support herself and her four children, lost her house and had to move into her sister's basement; Xiao Xi's eldest daughter wanted to marry a poor working-class man; Xiao Xi's second daughter gave up her studies and liked to go on many dates; and her oldest son worked hard in high school.
Life is hard, but be brave.
Los Angeles (2003)
Produced by SBS, directed by Liu Chul-yong, written by Choi Wan-gyu, co-starring The Korean male god Lee Byung-hyun and the goddess Song Hye-joo, the highest rating reached 46.6%.
Li Bingxian plays Jin Renhe, who has been wandering and uncertain since childhood, living in an uncertain place, mixed at the bottom, and his friends are also small and selling women, but he has a righteous and kind heart, so he is deeply loved by friends.
Because of an accident, he was imprisoned, but in prison he still insisted on his original intention and met many friends.
After being released from prison, Kim In-ho, who wanted to wash his hands of the golden basin, was forced to sit at the gambling table, he won the gamble but lost his life, and he was hunted down and killed in disgrace. Later, he was favored by the boss of the mafia to join the gang and live a bloody life.
Later, he left the underworld and returned to the gambling world, finally restored his reputation, won the name of a generation of gambling saints, and finally repaired with his lover of green plum bamboo horses, Ma Xiujuan, played by Song Huiqiao.
"Virtue" (2000)
Produced by SBS, starring Kim Hyun-joo, Kang Sung-yeon and Ko Doo-sin, the highest rating reached 43.2%, a 47-episode era drama.
The protagonist of the story is two women, a pair of "twins", but in fact, because the rich daughter-in-law in the south of the war just had a daughter born, she took in the daughter of the guerrillas in the north and raised them as twins, named "Guide" and "Guizhen" respectively.
Around the growth of the two children, society is also changing rapidly, and the contradictions between the north and the south are also frequent, and with the imprint of the times, the lives of the two people are divergent, which inevitably leads to contradictions and conflicts.
A small family under the big era, a period drama that has shaped profoundly! The Wang Family (2013)
Produced by KBS, directed by Chen Hengxu, written by Wen Yingnan, starring Luo Wenji and Li Tailan, a 2013 family drama with a highest rating of 42.1%.
It tells the sorrow and joy of the Wang family, and the plot is based on the parents and three daughters of the Wang family as the main line, one by one, the best family members, one trivial family grudge, full of the breath of city life.
Each episode has a lot of explosive points and laughs, and "Please Answer 1988" and "The Men of the Bathhouse Boss" belong to the same type of work, although the reputation is not as good as the first two, but it is still a rare masterpiece.
The Men of the Bathhouse Owner's House (1995)
Produced by KBS, directed by Jeong Yi-yong, written by Kim so-hyun, and starring Kim Hee-sun, Lee Soon-jae, Kang Fu-ko, Daniel Zhang, Gao Doo-xin, etc., it is a family drama with a highest rating of 53.4%.
Jin Futong, the grandfather who has been running the bathhouse, built a small three-story building, and the family began to live together. Men and women, young and old, four generations of grandchildren, all kinds of jokes and contradictions continue.
The eldest brother Fengxiu's wife, Xian hui, has three daughters and a son; the second brother Hee-soo has a bad relationship, but he has a child after more than half a hundred years old; Fukuji has a husband who is obedient to himself, and the birth of the child makes the family very happy. Each family has its own scriptures, and the intertwining is a lively and warm life of a family.