Recommended Korean Dramas

Favourite drama. Action/Romance.                                                                                                          Ji Chang-wook & Park Min-young          Vibe: more melo than light hearted

2nd fav drama. Growing Up. Youth. School. 90's reminisce.                                                               Eunji (Apink) & Seo In-guk              Vibe: youth/reply series 1

Top 5 fav drama. Struggle of loving, learning to love & mental health.                                    Gong Hyo-jin & Jo In-sung       Vibe: an adult romance (deep but still some lightness)

Top 5 fav drama. An adopted-in-uncle Lee Jong-suk & 'niece' Park Shin-hye who hiccups when she lies wants to become a reporter.         Vibe: more melo than light hearted

A female weightlifting student. First Love. Friendships.                                                                Sung-kyung & Nam Joo-hyuk         Vibe: youth drama

Falling top star & 400 year old alien who has to go back to his home planet.                Jun Ji-hyun & Kim Soo-hyun             Vibe: melo & hilarious

With all the corruption in Gangnam Station 4 rookie detectives are hired to make a team. Good Luck.                                  Vibe: a good mix of melo & light

School. Students. Teachers. Studying. Friends.                                                                              Love Lee Jong-suk & Kim Woo-bin         Vibe: youth/school series

A detective finds a walkie-talkie which allows him to talk to a detective from the 1980's     Vibe: this is real detective work here, no time for mucking around

An amazing doctor operates in a country-side run down hospital training rookie doctors, the sequel is just as good                                             Yoo Yeon-seok & Seo Hyun-jin                 Vibe: medical

The 2nd prince of S. Korea joins a military team collab with N. Korea.              Lee Seung-gi (love) & Ha Ji-won               Vibe: melo, I'd encourage you to skip the bad guy parts even

A genius doctor from North Korea. Love Lee Jong-suk          Vibe: melo/medical

A young mother discovers her daughter is being bullied. The school won't help. The mother sneaks in as a student. Has Kim Yoo-jung, Baro (B1A4) & Ji-soo       Vibe: melo

Vigilante in 1920's Japanese occupied Korea       Vibe: Defs melo, I love sword fighting

AKA My Shy Boss. Title speaks for itself. You have to get past ep4 to like it.           Yeon Woo-jin & Park Hye-soo             Vibe: hilarious with some dark aspects

Money-led doctor & medically induced coma chaebol heiress.                                         Joo-won's amazing but Kim Tae-hee is not, good thing she's mostly in a coma            Vibe: melo/medical

After a tragedy a boy is able to hear thoughts & falls in love with the noona who helped him. My love Lee Jong-suk & beautiful Lee Bo-young       Vibe: melo

Friends. Relationships. 80's reminisce.     Ryu Jun-yeol, Park Bo-gum, Hyeri (Girl's Day) etc.                    Vibe: youth/reply series 3

A true chaebol drama, the chaebol has to learn what it means to live, grow up and know what it means to be human. Lee Seung-gi's great at character development        Vibe: truely a chaebol romance

A savant rookie doctor starts at a big hospital.     Joo Won & Moon Chae-won            Vibe: melo/medical

Vibe: youth/school series