Sometimes you get tired of the same old reality TV and crime documentaries.
Broaden your horizons a bit with these Korean Dramas - available on Netflix. Watching foreign dramas is a great way to inspire interest in travel and learning new languages!
Park Saeroyi has a rough start to life. First, he's expelled from high school after hitting a wealthy bully. When that same bully ends up killing Saeroyi's father in a car accident, he tries to get revenge - which lands him in prison.
Follow Saeroyi after his release as he goes on to befriend (and employ) a unique cast of characters and fulfill his father's dream of owning a pub, all while taking down the wealthy bully and his conglomerate family.
Former slave Eugene Choi returns to Korea after many years as a U.S. Marine. There, he finds himself entangled with a noble woman fighting for her country and they team up to overthrow a ploy by foreign forces to colonize Korea.
A gritty and gothic take on the classic period drama, Mr. Sunshine is both a beautiful and haunting take on actual Korean history.
Han So Yeon suffers from prosopagnosia - the inability to recognize faces. Because of this, she keeps her personal life private and has few friends. Her life is changed upon discovering a pair of glasses that let her see and interact with Holo, an AI program that only she can see and interact with.
This sweet and sad drama asks the question - what makes us human? Is it being flesh and blood? Or having the ability to make memories and fall in love?
Crown Prince Lee Chang travels with his guard to a small village to find answers about his father's illness and death. There, he discovers a terrifying illness that is reanimating the dead, including his father...
Set in the Joseon era, this horror will satisfy any viewer looking for more zombie content and some great special effects makeup.
It's been five years since Cha Yu-ri died in a tragic accident. Thanks to a Reincarnation Program, she has a chance at a new life - if she can find her way home to her husband and child again in 49 days.
The only problem - her husband remarried!
One year ago, sound director Park Do-kyung's fiance, Oh Hae-young, left him standing at the altar. Now, he discovers that she's about to marry another guy - a young entrepreneur named Han Tae-jin. Overcome by anger and jealousy, Do-kyung sabotages Tae-jin's business, only to realize that the woman the entrepreneur was set to marry was not his former fiance, but a completely different woman who just happened to have the same name.
Oops.
A wealthy South Korean businesswoman, poised to take over her father's corporation, accidentally finds herself in North Korea after a paragliding incident gone horribly awry. There, she encounters a North Korean soldier, who contemplates killing her but ultimately decides to hide her and help secure her passage safely back home.
A wildly, unrealistic love story, but one that highlights how different North and South Korea really are and makes one long for unification between the two. Definitely worth a watch!
Black is a grim reaper who has possessed the recently deceased Detective Han. Ha Ram is a cursed girl who can see the specters of death, predicting when a person will die. Together, these two work against the will of the heavens to save lives and stop those around them from dying untimely deaths in this fantasy thriller series.
Secret missions, inextricably linked protagonists, a twist of an ending - what's not to love?
Have you watched any of these K-dramas? Do you have a different one to recommend? Leave 'em in the comments below!
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