Featured Recommendations

One Day Off!

Probably not only a 2023 fave, but an all-time fave. I recently had the realization to become a teacher, and when this series came out, I was starting my journey to be one. I am currently taking teaching units while working with a diff job so I could take a licensure exam in the future. I cannot wait a day where I will be able to help someone figure out their lives, which is one thing I was bereft of.

But more than anything, this series is such a breath of fresh air—especially the fact that preferring the solitary does not mean being lonely. I like how this film romanticizes and rationalizes at the same time the experiences and emotions that we feel on the most normal day in our lives.

And I will take one of the many “one day off” any time now.

Really, really recommend this. :) - u/raibwadla

ENDLESS LOVE: AUTUMN IN MY HEART (2000) - This is good, heartbreaking and worth watching. ML and FL live as siblings and was very close and protective to each other until they found out that the babies got switched and they were not blood related at all. FL has to go back to her real FAM and ML and his real sister together with his FAM leave the country and move to the US and ML and FL met after how many years. I highly recommend this one. I cried a lot when I watched this. If you watch this, you will cry too for sure since the starting episodes are very emotional.  - u/recs_bee

Dali & The Cocky Prince is a great rom com with a mild mystery suspense to boot. I recommend this one b/c they are just so good to each other and so encouraging and lift each other up in their own special ways. He's a nouveau riche ceo/director of a fast food chain restaurant and she is an almost bankrupt chaebol daughter trying to save her family's fine arts museum. Each lead is kind of struggling with some 'inadequacies' and they each respectively help lift each other up and to a better place. I think one of the things that really made me feel good was how each time the leads were challenged they took the high road and stood up for themselves and each other; and I loved how the writers never made either of them make idiotic choices, they always made kind and loving choices. I was in a super funk before watching this drama and it total picked me up and made me feel good.  - u/IAmTheGreenCard  

Little Women — 3 sisters from a poor family become embroiled in a major incident when one of their friends left her 70 billion won before disappearing. The money was embezzled from one of the nation's most influential and wealthiest families, and they will do anything to ruin the sisters. Written by Jeong Seo Kyung who wrote the screenplay of many Park Chan Wook films. - u/kryspyruby

The creepiest, most self absorbed, truly evil villain I’ve come across is Cha Min Ho in Defendant. Every single time he was on the screen I was a nervous wreck. No one was safe in that man’s path and he was seemingly completely unbeatable!  He was so brilliantly performed that I can’t picture watching that actor in another role without being anxious ?. 

I absolutely loved every second of it. The story is brilliantly acted, riveting and intelligent : Park Jung Woo (played by the sensational Ji Sung) is an incarcerated prosecutor struggling to prove his innocence in the murder of his wife and daughter, while battling an unexplainable recurring loss of memory surrounding the incident. At times he regains some memories, only to lose them again, leaving his cellmates, and everyone else, stumped. Adding to his nightmare is the incredibly evil, always present, formidable opponent determined to keep Jung Woo from finding the truth.

This series is sometimes dark and gut wrenching, but there are delightful funny moments to balance out the angst.  There are also strong friendships and loveable side characters that add a wonderful extra layer to the story.

Overall, Defendant is an amazingly emotional, unforgettable series that I cannot recommend enough!! - u/MimiLuvsBL

If you don’t mind older dramas … Queen In Hyun’s Man! ML from like 300 years ago travels to to the future - to modern day Korea and meets the FL. Super sweet and super romantic drama with wholesome, healthy relationship + lots of natural skinship! They were nice to each other already from day 1… no jealousy , no noble idiocy , no bad communication, no unnecessary fighting, no wrist grabbing etc … the jerk was actually FL’s ex boyfriend (no wonder she dumped him omg )

the chemistry between the leads is one of the best in kdramaland but not surprising since the actor and actress dated each other for a while after the drama finished! For a man being from Joseon era, the ML was surprisingly not possessive over the FL or a overall jerk, he was really nice, even nicer than some modern day MLs in kdramas! And QIHM is from 2012, back then when toxic relationships in kdramas was still the standard , so QIHM was really refreshing! It’s just a shame it’s not anymore available in good HD quality in YouTube , only first ep is available known as “Queen and I”. - u/Veruska93