a collection of fun dramas of gender bender, cross dressing, swapping bodies, and impersonation

Swapping & cross dressing

Ra Im dreamed of becoming a firefighter like her father, but she gave up on that dream after losing her father in a fire. Instead, she got to see Jong Soo, the action director, at a filming site while working part-time there. Since then, she has worked as a stuntwoman, aspiring to be the first female action director. Ju Won is a cranky and hysterical man who owns a department store. He is not keen on dating and thinks a marriage of convenience is the best romance. One day, their souls are switched, causing many unexpected incidents to happen. It's only when their souls are switched that they begin a journey to look for their true selves. While they struggle to take their bodies back, they mature, and their romance blooms.

Secret Garden

SG Team

KBS2

During the Joseon Dynasty when women were not expected to be smart or allowed to be educated, Kim Yoon Hee (Park Min Young) was both. 

After her father passes away and her brother becomes ill, Yoon Hee disguises herself as a boy and takes on her brother’s identity to get odd jobs and help support her struggling family. When she realizes that there is good money to be made, Yoon Hee begins to take the entrance exams in the place of other students who want to get into the prestigious Sungkyunkwan University. 

During one such test, Yoon Hee is discovered to be perpetrating the illegal activity by the morally upright Lee Sun Joon (Park Yoochun), who threatens to turn her in. 

But believing that Yoon Hee is a boy, Sun Joon encourages her to take the test herself (with her brother’s identity). Both pass the exam and get into the university and become roommates. As Yoon Hee is now enjoying the glories of getting a higher education, she befriends the playboy Goo Yong Ha (Song Joong Ki) and the rebellious Moon Jae Shin (Yoo Ah In) and starts to develop feelings for Sun Joon – all the while trying to keep her true gender a secret from her new friends and the other male students. 

Can she keep up the charade long enough to get the education she desires and keep her emotions at bay? 

“Sungkyunkwan Scandal” is a 2010 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Won Suk and Hwang In Hyuk. It is based on the bestselling novel The Lives of SungKyunKwan Confucian Scholars by Jung Eon Gweol. The series won numerous drama awards, and Park Min Young and Park Yoochun received numerous Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Couple awards.

Sungkyunkwan Scandal

KBS02

This is a romantic fantasy story about Da Ran's fianc\u00E9 Yun Jae, who was working as a part-time high school teacher while preparing for the teacher employment exam, and Gyeong Jun, a student who transferred to the school where Da Ran works. The story begins as their souls are changed due to a car accident. As Yun Jae's condition worsens, Da Ran is in despair, unable to solve the complex problems she has faced. Their love is also on the verge of a breakup. What will happen to this childish adolescent?

Big Team

Mi Nyeo has a twin brother, Mi Nam. They grew together at an orphanage. Mi Nam has been chosen to be a member of a boy band, but he can't work as a singer due to an accident. So Mi Nyeo pretends to be her brother and starts to live as Mi Nam, the idol singer. The boy band has three other members: Shin Woo, Tae Kyung, and Jeremy. Shin Woo is a musical genius and the most popular member. Unlike the artistic and sensitive Shin Woo, Tae Kyung is more like a businessman and is hardly moved by anything. And Jeremy is an optimistic person who gets along with everyone. Mi Nyeo, living as Mi Nam, has to work with them. However, she is not sociable as she has lived all her life cut off from the world. So living as an idol singer is hard for her.

You're Beautiful

The A.N.JELL Team

A cheeky guy who pretends to be gay and a blockheaded girl begin to live together.

Personal Taste

Channel A

Ji Seung Yeon dreams of becoming a Korean pop idol and will do anything to achieve her goal. When a popular K-pop group holds open auditions to recruit new members, Seung Yeon decides it’s her best shot at breaking into the industry. The hitch is that it’s a boy band, and she would need to dress up like a guy to try out. Just how far will Seung Yeon go to get what she wants – and will she make the cut?

“K-POP Extreme Survival,” also known as “The Strongest K-POP Survival,” is a 2012 South Korean drama series.

K-POP Extreme Survival

The Ultimate Audition Team

SETTV

A man at the peak of his career and fame suddenly walks away from it all. Lu Tian Xing/Xiao Lu (Aaron Yan) is a renowned prodigy in the advertising industry who makes a surprise announcement that he is taking three months off and goes off the grid. Going by the name Xiao Lu, he re-surfaces with his new persona at the ad agency of Tao Le Si (Tia Li), a young woman who is struggling to keep her deceased brother’s agency afloat and away from sharks trying to take it over like the former Tian Xing. What could Tian Xing have in mind and will he ever return to his former high-profile life? “Fall in Love With Me” is a 2014 Taiwanese drama series.

Fall in Love With Me

In Love With Me Team

When we were kids, teachers often said, \u201CWe will all have to buy water, and the business related to mental hospitals will extend.\u201D In the end, their prediction was correct. We can easily find people suffering from depression, sleep, and panic disorders. In this dystopic world, there is a man whose childhood was filled with bad memories. Not being able to overcome his trauma, he created other personalities. The problem is he never remembers what he had done when he changed. Dissociative Identity Disorder. What made him like this? But suddenly, a woman approaches him and suggests they can be friends. In incidents around him, his different identities start to be integrated, and they slowly realize sympathy and love are the only means of treating wounded hearts.

Kill Me Heal Me

The 7-Dimensional Team

Eun Chan is a licensed taekwondo instructor who parts time as a delivery woman. One day, she comes across a delivery order that leads her to Han Gyeol, an heir to a conglomerate. Her boyish appearance deceives everyone into thinking that she's a strong man with a petite figure. Han Gyeol, on the other hand, being relatively close to men leads his grandmother to think he's gay. Eun Chan and Han Gyeol's entanglement lead to them working in a cafe, which soon brews a different kind of love story. They face multiple problems along the way that bring themselves closer and their love stronger than ever. Alongside them would be Han Gyeol's cousin Han Sung and his ex Yoo Joo who happen to be dating as well. Their love triangles bring excitement as they test another level of friendship and family.

Coffee Prince

Could anyone be more excited to reach her 26th birthday? Pi Ya Nuo (Megan Lai) had an inauspicious start to her life. When she was born 25 years ago, her parents and extended family – along with their fortuneteller – eagerly awaited her arrival in the delivery room so that they could bless the beginning of the Pi family’s heir. Upon hearing her first cry, the fortuneteller predicted on the spot that the baby boy would be a great success and a natural-born leader. But when the nurses announce that the baby is a girl, the stunned fortuneteller immediately announces that the girl would not survive her childhood unless she lives as a boy for the first 25 years of her life. Only then can Ya Nuo change her bad fate and bring prosperity to her family. On her 26th birthday, Ya Nuo can go back to her true gender without any repercussions. Doomed to live her life as a boy, Ya Nuo is shy and always tries to keep her distance to people to hide her true identity, and the mysterious aloofness makes her irresistible to the girls around her. One day, she accidentally helps out Du Zi Feng (Baron Chen), who happens to be a triad leader, and his sister, Du Zi Han (Mandy Tao). While Zi Han falls in love with Ya Nuo, Zi Feng becomes Ya Nuo’s “sworn brother” and best friend. With her 26th birthday fast approaching, will Ya Nuo find her much-anticipated return to being a female will be as easy as she had hoped? “Bromance” is a 2015 Taiwanese drama series directed by Chen Rong Hui.

Bromance

The B-romantic Triad

Idiot, middle-aged employee, loser daddy, and workaholic Young Soo suddenly encounters death by overwork. Gi Tak, once a mob boss who washed his hands of gang life and now runs a pub, also ends up leaving this world due to an unjust accident. Both meet in the afterlife as they board a train bound for heaven but quickly decide to jump off together as they aren't ready to say goodbye. They wish to return to mortal life in order to leave their loved ones in good hands, so they make a deal with an angel to reincarnate. The kind Young Soo returns as a total hardbody and Gi Tak as a beautiful young woman, but both soon end up running into difficulties as the bodies they're reborn into have problems of their own!

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