dramas worth re-watching

KBS, KOCOWA

In Greek mythology, Venus was the goddess of love and symbolized beauty. However, we are now living in a world that is materialistic. The definition of beauty in the 21st century has changed and is now portraying being skinny as beautiful. In this drama, the female lead character named Jueun who used to be popular for her beauty in high school has gained a lot of weight and gets dumped by her boyfriend. Then she decides to lose weight with the help of John Kim who is a famous personal trainer to Hollywood stars. By showing the struggles of Jueun and John Kim, 'Oh My Venus' is trying to tell us that physical beauty isn\u2019t everything.

Oh My Venus

Minion's Rising Team

Tencent

How far back do their destinies cross in history? Xue Ling Qiao (Kim Tae Hwan) is a mutant man with superpowers who has been roaming the Earth for 500 years but has been trapped in a deep sleep for the past 100 years. When B-actress Tian Jing Zhi (Wu Qian) gets into a car accident, Ling Qiao is released from his sleep trap. He uses his powers to heal her wounds and bring her back to life. With nowhere else to go, Ling Qiao forces his way into rooming with Jing Zhi in her apartment, becoming embroiled in her crazy world of trying to make it as an actress under the shadows of a perfect A-list star. As they bicker their way to a better relationship, they are shocked to learn that their fates have been entangled by a conspiracy that spans many centuries! “My Amazing Boyfriend” is a 2016 Chinese drama series directed by Deng Ke.

My Amazing Boyfriend

The Mutant Team

Min Joon fell from outer space to the land of Joseon in 1609. He remains young and beautiful, just as he first came to the earth. Moreover, he can move surprisingly fast with keen eyesight and hearing. He can also foresee the future but never uses his powers, planning to live a quiet life without others bothering him. He takes a cynical stance on love, thinking it's merely lust and greed. However, this completely changes for him when he meets Song Yi. He learns to love through her, which leads him to be in danger of being exposed to the world.

My Love From the Star

Go Go Alien and Hallyu Star

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

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

How can a girl at the bottom of her class ever hope to capture the attention of the smartest and most popular boy in high school? Ha Ni (Jung So Min) is smitten with Seung Jo (Kim Hyun Joong) from the moment she laid eyes on him on the first day of school. He is the total package – tall, athletic, good-looking, and the envy of all the students because he always gets a perfect score on all his examinations. But Ha Ni’s affections are not returned, despite her energetic efforts to get his attention. Fate throws them under one roof when an earthquake destroys Ha Ni’s family home, and they live temporarily in the home of her father’s childhood friend, who turns out to be Seung Jo’s father. Will Ha Ni ever be able to get Seung Jo to think of her as anything more than a nuisance? “Playful Kiss” is a 2010 South Korean drama that is based on the Japanese manga “Itazura Na Kiss” (“Mischievous Kiss” and its sequel “Mischievous Kiss 2”), which has also been adapted in Taiwan as “It Started With a Kiss” and its sequel “They Kiss Again”.

Playful Kiss

the PKer team

When you’re in love, rain can be sweet like flowing emotions, or it can be bittersweet if it reminds you of the love that got away. While in college in the 1970s, Seo In Ha falls in love with the sweet Kim Yoon Hee. But destiny stepped in and separated them, and both moved on with their lives. Forty years later, In Ha’s son meets and falls in love with Yoon Hee’s daughter. Can the young couple finish what their parents started or will fate step in again to separate two generations of lovers?

“Love Rain” is a South Korean drama series directed by Yoon Seok Ho that airs between March 26, 2012, and May 29, 2012. The drama reunites Yoon, a well-known director of Korean dramas, with screenwriter Oh Soo Yun, who worked together on the popular “Autumn Tale” (2000) and “Winter Sonata” (2002) drama series.

Love Rain

The Rainy Love Team

Tae Gong Sil used to be a bright girl called \u201CSun.\u201D But after an accident where she barely managed to escape death, she starts to see strange things that no one can see. Going through lonely times, struggling to hold out in a horrifying world, she encounters Joo Joong Won, a greedy penny pincher and the owner of a huge shopping mall. Ever since Joong Won met Gong Sil, it seems like his life has become dark, but as they get close, they become special to each other. The two listen to sad and pitiful stories of spirits and help them out. Will they be able to find the light at the end of this spooky road?

Master's Sun

I See Dead People Team 

The reigning queen orders the killing of her stepson in order to continue her family's ability to take control over the kingdom. Yeon Woo, who happens to hold the position of the crown princess, suffers an illness that leads to her alleged death. Now, it's up to the King Hwon to decipher the truth, and put an end to the wars that wrath over the kingdom.

The Moon Embracing the Sun

team 'Eclipse'

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.

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