South Korean dramas are always so much fun to watch and with so many incredible dramas released this past year, choosing our favorites was no easy task! Whether heartbreak and revenge are your cup of tea, or you prefer light-hearted comedies and heart-fluttering romance, there’s always something for everyone and this collection of the BEST KOREAN DRAMAS of 2022 has them all!

BEST KOREAN DRAMAS of 2022

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After serving the Jin family and Soonyang Group faithfully for years, Yoon Hyeon Woo (Song Joong Ki) is embroiled in their succession battle and tragically murdered as collateral damage. Miraculously, fate gives him a chance to exact his revenge when he finds he’s brought back in time inside the body of Jin Do Jun, the youngest grandson of Jin Yang Cheol (Lee Sung Min), the CEO of Soonyang Group. Using his new identity and knowledge of the future, Do Jun plots a hostile takeover of the Soonyang Group. Will Do Jun succeed in his revenge and find his murderer? Based on the webtoon of the same name by San Kyung, this 2022 South Korean drama series was directed by Jung Dae Yoon.

Reborn Rich

🥊Reborn to Avenge Team🎯

As a professional contract marriage master, Choi Sang Eun (Park Min Young) knows exactly what it takes to make her clients happy. Transforming herself into the perfect partner, Sang Eun gives her clients what they want: a perfect single life, free of any life-long commitments. Among her long-term clients are Jung Ji Ho (Go Kyung Pyo) and Kang Hae Jin (Kim Jae Young), two very different men who employ her services on alternating days. Though professional with every one of her clients, Sang Eun has noticed that both Ji Ho and Hae Jin have started to make her heart flutter. Torn between her professional obligations and her growing feelings for Ji Ho and Hae Jin, will Sang Eun find a way out of this unexpected predicament? Directed by Nam Sung Woo, this is a 2022 South Korean romantic drama.

Love In Contract

 💥 The Almighty ✨ Team

Fans think top South Korean star Gong Tae Seong (Kim Young Dae) is as sweet and innocent as can be. But behind closed doors, he isn’t quite so angelic. His management company’s PR team ace Oh Han Byeol (Lee Sung Kyung) knows the real Tae Sung, as she's tasked with doing whatever it takes to hide his hot temper and competitive streak from the public. It’s a thankless job, and one that frequently puts her at odds with the temperamental celebrity. But as they spend more time together, might they eventually spend less time butting heads… and more time falling in love? This 2022 South Korean love-hate romantic comedy drama was directed by Lee Soo Hyun.

Sh**ting Stars

💕Love You to the Stars🌠

MBC, KOCOWA

After the death of the crown princess, a young King bans marriage for everyone in the Joseon Dynasty, and all of Korea is upset! But for a swindler named, So Rang, it's an opportunity to make money. However, is it a good business decision to fake being possessed by the late crown princess? Not when the King finds out! Your heart will be touched and tickled by this historical romantic comedy that dares you not to smile while watching it.

The Forbidden Marriage

Oh Su Jae (Seo Hyun Jin) is on a journey to reach the pinnacle of South Korea's legal world. However, a key case takes an unexpected turn, leading to her abrupt demotion. Deflated, Su Jae takes on a job working at a law school, hoping to reclaim her reputation and standing in the law firm where she was once a partner. At the school, she meets Gong Chan (Hwang In Yeop), a student who has faced his own share of hardships. And as they begin to spend time together, a close bond forms. As Su Jae begins her journey back to the top, could love be on the cards? This 2022 South Korean drama series was directed by Park Soo Jin.

Why Her?

Fallen ⭐️ Rising Team

Eun Sun Woo (Jung Il Woo) is the head of the lucrative Eunkang business group empire. To the rest of the world, he is just another businessman who inherited his company from a super-rich family. But, in secret, he is a master of disguise, possesses incredible powers of deduction, and boats unparalleled athletic prowess. He can also change his personality at the flip of a switch, going from being an aloof and cold man to a tender-hearted nice guy. Eun Sun Woo puts this all to good use by running a detective agency, where he uses his various skills to solve crimes and thwart intrigue.

Things change when he meets the poor but altruistic Don Se Ra (Kwon Yuri) – a young woman who has incredible vision. She wants to keep her gift a secret, so wears thick glasses. She has taken on a lot of minor jobs to help support the people she cares for. But when she meets Eun Sun Woo, the duo begins solving crimes together. But when Cupid turns up on the scene, what will become of their budding partnership?

“Good Job” is a 2022 South Korean Viki Original drama series that was directed by Ryu Seung Jin.

Good Job

🎭 Masters of Disguise 🕵🏻‍♀️

Cha Young Min (Rain) is an extremely arrogant but gifted thoracic surgeon. Although he is supremely talented in his field of medicine, he is full of himself and aloof. He cares about nothing except furthering his career, alienating everyone around him – including his ex-girlfriend, the neurosurgeon Jang Se Jin (Uee). His polar opposite is a resident surgeon named Go Seung Tak (Kim Bum) – a man who has risen to a lofty place in the medical world due only to the fact that his grandfather happens to be the founder of one of the country’s top hospitals.

But when a strange medical case takes an unexpected turn, Cha Young Min’s spirit somehow possesses Go Seung Tak’s body – suddenly gifting the latter with extraordinary medical skills. All of a sudden, Go Seung Tak finds himself the talk of the medical town. But a young emergency room intern named Oh Soo Jung (Son Naeun) thinks she can sense the fact that something is amiss. Despite her medical training, she believes in supernatural phenomena. How long will this unusual medical situation go on – and will the “real” Go Seung Tak ever return to the operating theater?

“Ghost Doctor” is a 2022 South Korean drama series that was directed by Boo Seong Cheol.

Ghost Doctor

The Ghosties 👻

Yoon Gyeo Re (Ji Chang Wook) is a young man who has known nothing but misery ever since he was a child. He was abused while still a boy, and had a torrid time at the orphanage where he was raised. He then spent time in a juvenile detention center. And as an adult, things got no better, leading to him serving time in prison. Beatings and misery are all he knows, and he finds himself at the end of his tether, finally facing the void…

But when he is ordered by a court to serve his community service at an end-of-life care facility for the terminally ill, things begin to change for him. Here he meets the tireless as Kang Tae Sik (Sung Dong Il), a middle-aged man who leads the volunteer team at the facility. Kang Tae Sik has created a unit called Team Genie, which is dedicated to granting dying patients their last wishes. No matter what people ask for, Team Genie will work their hardest to make those precious last wishes come true. He also meets Seo Yeon Ju (Choi Sooyoung), a young nurse who refuses to give up on her patients and tries to keep them physically active at all times. Will working at this facility help turn Yoon Gyeo Re’s life around? Or is it too late to change his destiny?

“If You Wish Upon Me” is a 2022 South Korean drama series that was directed by Kim Yong Wan.

If You Wish Upon Me

🦋 Free as a butterfly Team 🦋

Seoyeon University is rocked by an anonymous online confession post from “M”, sparking campus-wide curiosity. Determined to uncover “M’s” identity, Ma Joo A (Park Hye Soo) teams up with her friends, Cha Min Ho (NCT's Jaehyun), Seo Ji Min (Roh Jeong Eui), and Park Ha Neul (Bae Hyeon Seong). As their journey toward the truth progresses, the morphing relationships and emotions between the four friends become increasingly complex. Based on the web series “Love Playlist,” this 2021 South Korean mystery romance series was directed by Park Jin Wo and Seo Joo Wan.

Dear.M

The "Mysterious M" team

A fishmonger at a traditional market, Gong Soo Gwang (Na In Woo) does his best to make an honest living. Unfortunately, he has a reputation for being incredibly unlucky and as a result, people try to avoid him at all costs. With no one willing to approach him, his business often suffers. No matter how hard Soo Gwang tries, he just can’t seem to find a way to escape his cursed fate, but his life wasn’t always this bleak.

Seven years ago, Soo Gwang had a perfectly normal, happy life but all that changed when he happened upon Lee Seul Bi (Seohyun), a woman who, despite their brief meeting, changed his life forever. Since that day, every time he dreams of Seul Bi, something terrible happens to him. Though Soo Gwang has no idea why this woman has had such a strange effect on his fortune, Seul Bi does. Having inherited a special ability from her mother, both women can see a person’s future through a single touch. Using this gift to their advantage, a wealthy family has kept Seul Bi and her mother captive for years. When fate allows Seul Bi a rare opportunity to escape, she takes it and runs straight to Soo Gwang.

Standing face-to-face with the woman who started his streak of bad luck all those years ago, Soo Gwang isn’t sure whether he should help Seul Bi or run from her. With one desperate for freedom and the other desperate to change their fate, will Soo Gwang and Seul Bi become each other’s greatest ally or worst enemy?&nbsp;

Adapted from the webtoon “The Jinx’s Lover” by writer Han Ji Hye and illustrator Gu Seul, “Jinxed at First” is a 2022 South Korean fantasy romance drama directed by Yoon Sang Ho.

Jinxed at First

🍀The Lucky Charms 🍀

TVING

Day in and day out, the cells which make up a human’s body work constantly to keep that body functioning in top top shape. Working 24/7, these tireless cells are what allow us to function in our everyday lives, but even when they give it their all, they can sometimes find themselves in a precarious situation. With her love cells in a comatose state, Kim Yu Mi’s (Kim Go Eun) was a prime example of what happens to a human when her cells suffer a grave injury.

After suffering a painful breakup, Yu Mi’s love cells had shut down completely, but a chance meeting with the emotionally stunted game designer, Goo Woong (Ahn Bo Hyun), changed all of that. Waking up a number of each other’s cells, Yu Mi and Goo Woong found themselves drawing closer, but even with the revival of their long-dormant love cells, their relationship wasn’t destined to last. Now a much wiser and more mature individual, Yu Mi finds herself willing to take on a set of challenges after an unexpected source of inspiration ignites her internal fire.

Inspired by her co-worker, Bobby Yoo (Jinyoung), Yu Mi and her hard-working cells set out to make all of her dreams come true. Will taking on the challenges which lie ahead bring Yu Mi fulfillment she craves in both life and love?

The much-anticipated sequel to the wildly popular 2021 drama, “Yumi’s Cells”, which was adapted from the webtoon “Yumi’s Cells” by Lee Dong Geon, “Yumi’s Cells 2” is a 2022 South Korean romantic comedy drama directed by Lee Sang Yeob.

Yumi's Cells 2

The On Fire Penguins Team 🔥🐧

Goo Yeo Reum (Lee Da Hee) is a television producer who is in the 10th year of her professional career. Even though she works harder than most producers, the shows she makes all seem to flop. She has now been selected to produce a new dating-themed reality TV show named “Kingdom of Love.” Her neighbor and best friend of 20 years is Park Jae Hoon (Choi Siwon), a plastic surgeon who has lost all his passion for work. Their relationship is close, but purely platonic. Park Jae Hoon is jaded by his experiences and has also essentially given up on love. As such, he only ever pursues casual relationships. Their relationship is purely platonic.

But Goo Yeo Reum runs into struggles at the planning stage of the show’s production – and is having difficulty finding suitable bachelors to appear on “Kingdom of Love.” She eventually turns to Park Jae Hoon in desperation. He agrees to help, becoming a contestant on the show. But in this unfamiliar new dynamic – as a producer and a cast member, they unexpectedly begin developing never-felt-before romantic feelings. Will “Kingdom of Love” turn friends into lovers?

“Love Is for Suckers” is a 2022 South Korean drama series that was directed by Choi Kyu Shik.

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