Honorable mentions to the ones not on Viki:

• Crash Landing On You (KDrama)

My All-Time Favorite Dramas

When the captain of a Korean special forces unit, Yoo Shi Jin (Song Joong Ki), catches a thief on his day off alongside his friend and fellow soldier Seo Dae Young (Jin Goo), he has a chance encounter with a hospital trauma surgeon, Kang Mo Yeon (Song Hye Kyo).
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Although he immediately falls for her, Mo Yeon mistakenly believes Shi Jin is a part of the thief’s criminal gang, but after he proves the truth, they begin an unlikely relationship. Yet it doesn’t take long for the couple to realize they have conflicting views on human life – with Shi Jin having to kill to protect lives while Mo Yeon does everything she can to save them.
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After they decide that these philosophical differences are too much to overcome, they decide to end their relationship and Shi Jin is deployed to the fictional war-torn country of Uruk. Some months later, Mo Yeon is put in the awkward position of rebuffing her hospital director’s advances.
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As revenge, she is assigned to a team of medical volunteers who travel to Uruk, setting up a reunion with Shi Jin where they bond over their differences and discover how powerful love can be.

Descendants of the Sun

The Sunshine Team

KBS02

This drama is about the youth who is not qualified for what the heartless society demands. Without backgrounds such as high education and certificates, the world tells them to focus on playing supporting roles in life. However, they all have their advantages and deserve to be the main character in their own lives. This is a story about four individuals, Dong Man, Ae Ra, Joo Man, and Sul Hee, and the dreams they are pursuing. Dong Man used to be a top athlete in taekwondo. However, his dreams of becoming a national athlete is shredded into pieces when he helplessly loses against authority and money. Choi Ae Ra has always dreamed of becoming an announcer. Although for now, she works at a department store, she continuously goes to job interviews and fights for her way. When the world turns its back on one of them, the other rushes to comfort them.

Fight For My Way

The Fighting Team

Lee Young Joon (Park Seo Joon) might be the vice-president of his family’s massively successful company, but that doesn’t mean he has what it takes to do a good job. Accompanied by his incredibly talented secretary, Kim Mi So (Park Min Young) for nine years, she has made him look like the shining star that Young Joon believes he is.
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But after Mi So suddenly decides to quit, her arrogant boss comes to realize that he can’t live without her. Having unknowingly shared a traumatic childhood experience, the pair come to understand that maybe they do belong together after all.
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With jealousy forming over Young Joon’s older brother, Lee Sung Yeon (Lee Tae Hwan), and his growing relationship with Kim Mi So, the boastful executive decides he has to win back his secretary no matter what.

What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim

The Perfect Secretaries Team

Ji Hong is a doctor who decided to become a high school teacher. He meets Hye Jung, a reckless student who happens to be his favorite neighbor's granddaughter and turns out to be his student. Their deep relationship led them to be accused of being in a romantic student-teacher relationship. 13 years later, they suddenly bump into each other under neurosurgery in the same hospital. Hye Jung is determined to avenge her grandmother's death due to medical malpractice, as Ji Hong is out to protect his highschool sweetheart. In between, they face numerous challenges in the operating room, within their relationship, and the political disputes within the hospital and its investors.

Doctors

Nerves Gone Wild Team

A dedicated professional, Sung Deok Mi (Park Min Young) lives for her work as an art gallery curator. Devoting herself to her work, she is exceptional in every way, save one. Beneath that cool, professional facade, Deok Mi carries a dark secret. A secret she desperately wants to keep from the world. A secret that has driven lovers away. A secret that rules every moment of her personal life...

Sung Deok Mi is the ultimate Cha Shi An (Jung Je Won) fangirl.

The devoted manager of a Shi An fansite, Deok Mi eats, breathes, and sleeps for Shi An. He is her sun, her moon. Her entire universe revolves around him. 

This is the secret Deok Mi must hide from the world. 

And hide it she does. At least until Ryan Gold (Kim Jae Wook), the art gallery’s new director, saunters into her life. A once famous painter, the former-artist-turned-director considers himself an indifferent being, unconcerned with the lives of others. But when he uncovers Deok Mi’s secret, everything changes. 

Based on the webtoon, “Noona Fan Dot Com” by Jeon Hye Jin & Kim Jin Hee, “Her Private Life” is a 2019 romantic comedy-drama directed by Hong Jong Chan.

Her Private Life

The Undercover Sasaeng Team

Tencent

A young, 22-year-old pop star hopeful named Nuan Nuan (Eleanor Lee) is forced to reinvent herself after the girl group she is a member of disbands before its debut.

At first, she struggles in her search for a post-pop career, but fate intervenes, and she has a chance encounter with a man named Han Che (Leon Leong).

Han Che is a cold but successful sound and lighting engineer who also has an excellent memory. 

However, one day he experiences a rare lapse in memory – a lapse that could threaten to throw his relationship with Naun Naun into doubt. 

Regardless, Han Che’s success inspires Nuan Nuan, who has always had a keen eye for fashion.

She begins to explore her love of clothes and resolves to become a designer – hoping to one day gain a job at the clothing store’s headquarters.

Although their relationship is often adversarial, Han Che and Nuan Nuan also have a growing fondness for one another, and try to help each other along the way. As their careers start to get off the ground, could love bloom here too?

“My Love, Enlighten Me” is a 2020 Chinese drama series co-produced by Fang Fang and Shao Wen Yi.

My Love, Enlighten Me

Godin Media

Superstar celebrity Hoo Joon (Choi Tae Joon) meets his match in spunky magazine reporter Lee Geun Young (Choi Sooyoung) at the opening ceremony of a new nightclub. After witnessing his rude behavior and accidentally throwing up on him, Geun Young is fired from her job.
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Outraged, she assumes that Hoo Joon must be the mastermind behind her dismissal and stages a one-person protest outside his talent management agency. News travels fast in the world of entertainment and she soon gains a notorious reputation as Hoo Joon’s ultimate “anti-fan”.
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Capitalizing on this debacle, an opportunistic reality TV producer offers jobless Geun Young a chance to appear on a reality TV show with Hoo Joon. The new show will be based on the concept of a star having to live with his greatest “anti-fan”.
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In a tough financial situation and running low on funds, Geun Young reluctantly agrees to participate in this show. Hoo Joon’s cooperation in this endeavor, however, remains to be seen. While initially disgruntled, Hoo Joon’s popularity with the public takes a turn for the worse and he ultimately accepts this offer as well in the hopes of boosting his image and recovering lost popular affection.
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The couple set out to make each other’s lives difficult on the TV program. However, sparks fly and they realize that they may be more compatible than they initially thought themselves to be. Is there hope for romance to blossom on such a public stage? After all, they are filming a reality TV show…
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“So I Married the Anti-Fan” is based on a 2010 novel of the same name by Kim Eun Jung.
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“So I Married the Anti-Fan” is a Viki Original South Korean drama released in 2021 and directed by Kang Cheol Woo. With famous actors and even K-pop star Hwang Chan Sung of 2PM being cast for this well-known Kdrama, the show’s storyline is sure to get you hooked.

So I Married The Anti-Fan

🥀Hatefully Yours 🙃

KBS2

Born a princess and raised a soldier, Pyeong Gang (Kim So Hyun) is a woman with big dreams and limitless ambition. Determined to become the first Empress of Goguryeo, Pyeong Gang will stop at nothing to make her dream come true. Clever and level headed, Pyeong Gang is well aware of the obstacles that stand in her way and she’s more than capable of taking them on. With meticulous planning, she sets out to make her dream come true. But things take an unexpected turn, the day she meets On Dal (Na In Woo).&nbsp;&nbsp;

A peace-loving man, whose only goal in life is to live in harmony with those around him, On Dal is the exact opposite of the ambitious princess. A peaceful calm amidst the turbulent storms of Pyeong Gang’s life, the warrior princess soon finds herself falling for gentle On Dal. Equally in love with the princess whose heart he now possesses, On Dal finds himself forsaking his principles in order to keep her safe. An endeavor that proves increasingly difficult, as players from all sides converge in a lethal battle for the throne.

Forced to match both wits and strength against some of the most powerful men and women in Goguryeo, Pyeong Gang’s vie for power could very well cost her everything. Does she have what it takes to make her dreams come true or will the price she realizes she must pay prove to be too much?

Based on the novel “Princess Pyeonggang” by Choi Sagyu, “River Where the Moon Rises” is a 2021 historical romance drama directed by Yoon Sang Ho.

River Where the Moon Rises

MBC, KOCOWA

During the Japanese colonial period, two events paved the way for the independence of Korea, the March 1st Movement and the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. And with it, a covert armament for freedom was born, the Heroic Corps. The man leading the corps goes by the name of Won Bong, his real name only a few people know. He rarely stays in one area for more than two hours and sleeps for only short periods at a time. With fiery passion in his heart, he moves about swiftly and dreams for his country's independence. Young Jin, a Korean woman raised by a Japanese military doctor, follows in her surrogate father's footsteps, and through a series of events, attends a prestigious medical university in Shanghai. She returns to Joseon and becomes the first female surgeon. The two of them cross paths, and although they follow different ideologies, Won Bong soon realizes his need for her and begins to regret sending her deep into enemy territory.

Different Dreams

For Mu Wan Qing (Zhang Jing Yi), 1926 would always be remembered as the year that changed her life forever. After the death of her mother, Wang Qing knew the time to return to China had finally come. Bringing her mother’s ashes home to be buried, Wan Qing returned to the land of her birth, with no idea of what awaited her once she arrived.

Growing up without a father, Wan Qing returned to China determined to reconnect with the man she barely remembered, in the hopes that while she did so, she might be able to discover the real reason why her parents separated all those years ago. But even more pressing than the mystery surrounding her parents' separation was the unspoken story of how the siblings she never really knew, had lost their lives. As Wan Qing begins to uncover the secrets of the past, she finds her path often crossing with those of Tan Xuan Lin (Chen Xing Xu) and Xu Guang Yao (Lin Yan Jun). One the newly appointed leader of insurgent troops and the other the son of a powerful military commander, they stand on opposite sides of the unrest in Shanghai, but they each take a liking to Wan Qing and agree to use their power and influence to help her on her quest. As they do so, the three begin to develop a strong and lasting friendship; a friendship that is soon put to the ultimate test.

Digging deeper into the past, the three friends soon discover that the story of Wan Qing’s family is much more complicated than they could have ever imagined. Working to unravel the mysteries of the past, Wan Qing finds her heart leading her down an unexpected road. Will her journey bring her the answers she seeks or will she find that what she’s been searching for the most has been beside her all along?

A story of family, friendship, and fealty, “Fall in Love” is a 2021 historical romance drama directed by Lin Jian Long and Chen Guo Hua.

Fall in Love

♡ Once Upon in Love ♡

TV Chosun

When two princes fall in love with the same woman, they become embroiled in a dangerous battle for the throne and the heart. 

Prince Lee Whi (Yoon Shi Yoon) and Sung Ja Hyun (Jin Se Yeon), the beautiful and righteous daughter of a high government official, fall in love with each other. But Lee Whi’s older brother, Prince Lee Kang (Joo Sang Wook), also falls in love with Ja Hyun despite being married to her best friend, Yoon Na Gyeom (Ryu Hyoyoung). 

With the king in ill health and an invasion threatening the country, government officials pressure the king to choose a successor. The ambitious Lee Kang will do anything to become the Crown Prince, but the artistic Lee Whi has no interest in the power struggle. 

When Lee Whi is sent into battle to prove his worthiness to rule, can he avoid the deadly traps set by Lee Kang and return to the woman he loves? 

“Grand Prince” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Jung Min.

Grand Prince

The On Fire Penguins Team 🔥🐧

The target of a ruthless kidnapping, Shen Man Ning’s (Li Mo Zhi) life is turned upside down when her kidnapper brings her face-to-face with her doppelganger, Zhuang Xin Yan (Li Mo Zhi). In a strange twist of events, the look-alikes never have a chance to discover if they share some long-lost connection, as Xin Yan dies unexpectedly. With the death of her “twin”, Man Ning’s life goes from chaotic to complicated when she’s forced to spend the rest of her days with Yan Xing Cheng (Fan Zhi Xin).

As powerful as he is mysterious, Xing Cheng is not a man to be crossed. So when he insists that Man Ning begins her “second life” as his fiancé, she isn’t allowed the option to say no. Utterly despising each other, Man Ning’s life with Xing Cheng is anything but pleasant but when they realize they’re both searching for answers to a seventeen-year-old mystery, they find their relationship taking an unexpected turn.

Forced to work together to find the answers they both seek, Man Ning and Xing Cheng slowly begin to break down the walls they have each put up between themselves. With time, they begin to rely on each other but can the fragile relationship they’ve started to build hold up against the trials that lie ahead?

As mysterious as it is romantic, “My Lethal Man” is a 2023 Chinese mystery romance drama directed by Chu De Jian.

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