Here are our top 5 picks for K-Dramas to watch!
1. Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo (2016-2017)
Inspired by the life of South Korean Olympic weightlifter gold-medalist Jang Mi Ran. Kim Bok Joo (Lee Sung Kyung) is a weightlifter who is pursuing her dream of winning the gold medal, when she finds romance for the first time in her life.
While she is a girl who trains with heavy steel weights, she is also very feminine when it comes to relationships. To focus solely on weightlifting would ruin her relationship but leaving her weightlifting career for love would keep her from attaining her dreams.
Can she find a way to have love as well as glory at the age of 20? The characters within this drama are elite athletes in weightlifting, swimming and rhythmic gymnastics who work hard to reach their goals in life. It covers their coming-of-age stories and relationships through hectic life.
2. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (2017)
Do Bong Soon (Park Bo Young) is a petite, unemployed woman who is honest and kind. She appears little and sweet on the outside, but she is in fact very, very strong. In her family, for generations the women have been gifted Herculean strength to use for the greater good. If abused, however, their power will be taken away. Whilst standing up for herself after gang members bully her, she finds herself approached by Ahn Min Hyuk (Park Hyun Sik), the handsome and somewhat childish CEO of Ainsoft, a gaming company.
Ahn Min Hyuk falls in love with super-strong Bong Soon at first sight, but there's a catch. Bong Soon has eyes for someone else; a police officer and her childhood friend, In Guk Doo (Ji Soo), whom she has known since high school. When chaos ensues after a series of kidnappings in Do Bong Soon's hometown of Dobong-dong, Dobong-gu, Bong Soon must decide whether to use her strength and stand up to evil, or play it safe and keep her powers hidden from the world.
3. Angel's Last Mission: Love (2019)
Lee Yeon Seo (Shin Hye Sun), is a cynical and an arrogant ballerina. She is the highest ranking of ballerinas in her company, but after an accident she has to give up her dream. After her parents' sudden death, she doesn’t trust anyone. Because of her distrust and arrogance, she is unable to love anyone.
Kim Dan (Kim Myungsoo) is an optimistic, carefree angel who is always getting into trouble. In order to return to heaven, he is tasked with a mission to find true love for the talented but emotionally distant ballerina, Lee Yeon Seo.
4. Romance is a bonus book (2019)
Cha Eun Ho (Kim Jong Suk) is a successful and handsome writer and also the youngest chief editor at a publishing company. He has a calm demeanour and often remains reasonable at work.
He then becomes involved in the life of his childhood friend, Kang Dan Yi (Lee Na Young) who was once a popular copywriter. She is now divorced, a single mother, unemployed and struggling in life though still attempts to find a job, but even with her once good career, she cannot.
However, in a desperate attempt to find a job, she lies about her background and begins to work as a temporary worker in the same building under none other than Cha Eun Ho. As they become involved in each other’s life more than often, a love story begins to unfold.
5. He is Psychometric (2019)
A boy named Lee Ahn (Park Jinyoung) who is able to read the secrets of those whose skin comes into contact with him, and a girl, Yoon Jae In (Shin Ye Eun) who does everything she can to hide her pain.
In the drama, Lee Ahn and Jae In will meet and try to fix, heal, grow, and love from the small and big occurrences that will happen in their lives.
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