Dramas that will make you cry. Probably. I rated them by how much I cried. One = I shed a few tears... Five = bawling.

Okay, where are the tissues?

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

Is it possible live in the same place at the same time but in a completely different dimension? 

Oh Yeon Joo (Han Hyo Joo) is a second-year cardiothoracic resident doctor. Her father, a famous comic book creator, suddenly disappears one day and then Yeon Joo herself is kidnapped by a strange man covered in blood and taken to a different dimension. 

Kang Chul (Lee Jong Suk) is a former Olympic gold medalist in shooting and self-made millionaire. How will his world intertwine with Yeon Joo’s other-dimension universe? Is Kang Chul the only person who can help Yeon Joo escape from a parallel universe? 

“W” is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Jung Dae Yoon.

Cassiopeia

How can a mermaid from the Joseon era survive in modern society?
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Shim Cheong (Jun Ji Hyun) is a mermaid who follows her one true love, a nobleman’s son named Kim Moon from the Joseon Dynasty to modern-day Seoul. Moon’s modern doppelgänger is Heo Joon Jae (Lee Min Ho), a highly-skilled scam artist who first becomes interested in Shim Cheong because of a jade bracelet worth $6 million that she wears.
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With nowhere to go, Shim Cheong is taken in by Joon Jae, who also finds his con partners, Jo Nam Doo (Lee Hee Joon) and Tae Oh (Shin Won Ho), hiding out in his home from a vengeful past victim of their scams. Shim Cheong discovers a rival for Joon Jae’s heart in Cha Shi Ah (Shin Hye Sun), a researcher at KAIST who deals with ancient artifacts.
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The plot takes a sinister turn when a dangerous killer named Ma Dae Young (Sung Dong Il) is sent by Joon Jae’s stepmother to murder him in order to make her own son the heir to Joon Jae’s fortunes. Can Shim Cheong survive her strange new environment while also helping Joon Jae avoid the dangers that await him?
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“The Legend of the Blue Sea” is a 2016-2017 South Korean drama series directed by Jin Hyuk. The story is inspired by a historical tale about a mermaid contained in a short story anthology known as Eou Yadam by Joseon-era scholar Yu Mong In.

The Legend of the Blue Sea

The Blue Sea

Betrayed by the king he faithfully served, Kim Shin (Gong Yoo), a decorated military general from the Goryeo Dynasty, is forced to watch his family die before being transformed into a goblin by the higher powers. Cursed with the lonely burden of immortality, Kim Shin dedicates the rest of his long life to saving people with his supernatural abilities. Still, he wanders through his days searching for the prophesied Goblin bride. The bride is the only one who can pull out the sword piercing his body which will finally set his soul free to rest in peace in the afterlife.
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19 years ago, Kim Shin saved a woman from a life-threatening accident. From then on, the woman’s daughter Ji Eun Tak (Kim Go Eun) gained the ability to communicate with beings from the other side. Despite this, she grows up well and remains an optimistic high schooler who works a part-time job at a chicken restaurant. The restaurant’s owner, Sunny (Yoo In Na), finds herself falling in love with a grim reaper (Lee Dong Wook), who is also the goblin’s roommate.
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Unknowingly, the lives of these four individuals intertwine to reveal a fated story more complex than any character could have imagined. Will Kim Shin’s bride finally release him from his eternal misery?
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Also known as “the Lonely Shining God” or “Goblin”, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God is written by fan-favorite writer Kim Eun Sook, the pen behind other successful series like “Heirs” (2013) and “Descendants of the Sun” (2016).&nbsp;If you’re a fan of well-written romance stories with a twist, this Kdrama is a must-watch. The numerous awards, high ratings, and rave reviews received by this show speak for itself.&nbsp;

Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

The Immortal Team

KBS02

Mi Yeong, Hye Yeong, Ra Yeong, and Joon Yeong are the kids of Yeong Sil and Han Soo. They seem like the average Seoul family, with the typical Seoul problems, but that all changes when Jung Hui, an actor, and former K-Pop idol, ends up in their doorstep claiming that Han Soo is his biological father. The family goes through thick and thin, one marriage after the other, trying to figure out why their father happens to be strange.

My Father is Strange

The Strange Squad

Is this the best way to get to the afterlife? Na Bong Sun (Park Bo Young) is a painfully shy and timid woman who works as an assistant chef at Sun Restaurant. She has a secret crush on the star chef Kang Sun Woo (Jo Jung Suk) but doesn’t have the courage to act on it. But Bong Sun has the ability to see ghosts, in part due to her shaman grandmother. Shin Soon Ae (Kim Seul Gi) is a young woman who died without ever having experienced romance in her short life. She is determined to seduce as many men as possible and lose her virginity so that she can go happily into the afterlife. When Soon Ae meets Bong Sun, she finds the perfect vessel to carry out her mission. Sun Woo is nursing a broken heart but suddenly begins to notice the bolder, more confident Bong Sun. Can Soon Ae and Bong Sun both get what they want in the end? “Oh My Ghost” is a 2015 South Korean drama series directed by Yoo Je Won.

Oh My Ghost

The Ghostwriters@viki

SET TV

Chen Che doesn't know who his father was and the topic is a taboo in the Chen family. When an accident threw him back to 1989, a year before he was born, he gets a chance to find out himself. Before he could locate his mother, he first meets her best friend, Ye Zhen Zhen, a wholesome girl who helps him navigate the past while he helps her land big clients with his expert knowledge of stock market trend. Through her, he gets to know his younger, happier "mom" and the possible candidates for his father. He soon learns the reason his mother never talks about his father, and he is faced with a dilemma: He must choose between his mother's future and his very existence. “Back to 1989” is a 2016 Taiwanese drama series directed by Guo Chun Hui.

Back to 1989

Lovers From The Past

Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Dae Woong dreams of becoming an action movie star. He goes to a temple to pursue this dream, where he releases a nine-tailed fox trapped in a painting for 500 years. Even though she has collected the life force of 100 men for youth and eternal life, the nine-tailed fox does not intend to steal Dae Woong\u2019s energy, yet ends up losing her orb to him due to an accident. To reclaim it, she sticks close by, learning that if Dae Woong bears the orb inside for 100 days, she can become a human being. With her life in peril and sweet strife while living together, can the nine-tailed fox actually become human?

My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho

Team Gumiho

What happens when true love meets Murphy’s Law? Murphy’s Law states “anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” Guan Xiao Tong (Ivelyn Lee) is known as the “love guru” of the Meet and Match Online Dating Company, able to solve anybody’s relationship issues. When Ji Jia Wei's (Danson Tang) proposal is rejected by his girlfriend (Jenna Wang), he decides to heal his wounds by setting up a divorce agency that provides divorced couples with "happy endings". He sets it up across the street from the matchmaking agency where Guan Xiao Tong works while healing from her own difficult breakup. When the two meet, sparks fly, but is it hate... or love? Can they have a happy ending together or will Xiao Tong find that she is destined to have bad luck in love? Meanwhile, Xiang Zi Yan (Jolin Chien), Xiao Tong's boss' son, gets to know Xiao Tong and begins to develop feelings for her. “Murphy’s Law of Love” is a 2015 Taiwanese drama series.

Murphy's Law of Love

The Murphys

It is a fantasy medical drama that tells the growth story of a vampire surgeon in his mid-20s who struggles for justice and dignity of life by treating terminally ill patients in one of the best cancer hospitals in Korea. As the story progresses, we all can feel that the true value of life does not lie in just a simple extension of life but in how we live. What choices do we have to make when we stand in the position of the strong? This society is like a vampire sucking up people's blood. A reality scarier than we imagine unfolds now.

Blood

Bloody team

Power, friendship or love?


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Wang Won (Im Siwan) is the Crown Prince during the Goryeo Dynasty who harbors an extreme lust for power. His childhood friend, Wang Rin (Hong Jong Hyun), is his trusted ally and bodyguard.


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When they meet Eun San (Yoona), the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the country, they become inseparable friends. But when both Won and Rin fall in love with Eun San, what will happen to their ambitions and friendship?


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“The King Loves” is a 2017 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Sang Hyup. It is based on a novel by the same title by Kim Yi Ryung.

The King Loves

Royal Minions

Ever since she was a child, field reporter Nam Hong Joo (Suzy) had the ability to see bad events before they occurred. However, she is often powerless to stop them from happening. Living across the street from her family’s restaurant is the prosecutor Jung Jae Chan (Lee Jong Suk) who has seemingly also acquired the ability to foresee future events as well. Jae Chan receives a premonition of Hong Joo being framed for the death of a police officer by the corrupt lawyer Lee Yoo Beom, who was once his tutor, and rushes to prevent it from happening. The police officer (Jung Hae In) survives and also gains the ability to see the future. These three individuals realize that their lives are somehow intertwined through the dreams they keep having of one another.
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Together this unlikely trio work to take down Lee Yoo Beom (Lee Sang Yeob), discover the reason why they were given these abilities, and find ways to protect the ones they love most from harm.&nbsp;
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“While You Were Sleeping” is a 2017 South Korean drama series directed by Oh Choong Hwan. It is not related to the 1995 American film by the same title starring Sandra Bullock. The script is written by Park Hye Ryun, who previously worked with Suzy on her acting debut in the television drama “Dream High” (2011) and with Lee Jong Suk in the drama “I Hear Your Voice” (2013) and “Pinocchio” (2014). The cast of While You Were Sleeping fills the Kdrama with laugh-out-loud moments, seamlessly transitioning to nail-biting sequences that are sure to get you hooked.

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