Leads: Kwon Sang-Woo, Jung Ryeo-Won, Ju Jihoon
Year: 2013
Genre: drama, medical
Episodes: 20
Rating: ❤❤❤
Synopsis: Paran Clinic is one of the best medical facilities in the country. But Sin Hye Su, the director, wants to make it even better. For this purpose, she gathers all of the hospital's resources to create a medical top team, which is to consist of the best specialists in various fields of medicine. Soon, Park Tae Sin, who is a very talented doctor, joins this team. The problem is that in addition to competition in the newly formed group, he must deal with patients' illnesses and the complicated love life in the ward. From mydramalist.info
This was part of the medical drama phase that I went through after watching Emergency Couple but unfortunately I didn't really like this drama as much as some of the others. I think I just didn't like the plot as much. It's still nice to watch for the medical/surgery drama bit but the romances kinda threw me off and I didn't like the ending couples.
You're Beautiful
Other Names: You're Handsome, He's Beautiful
Leads: Park Shin-Hye, Jang Geun-Suk, Jeong Yonghwa, Lee Hongki
Year: 2009
Genre: comedy, drama, romance, friendship, music
Episodes: 16
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤
Synopsis: Ko Mi-Nyeo & Ko Mi-Nam (both played by Park Shin-Hye) are twin brother and sisters. They grew up in an orphanage and never knew their parents.
As a young adult, Ko Mi-Nyeo is set to become a nun. On her way to pick up a ticket for Rome a strange man catches up to her. The man's name is Ma Hoon-Lee (Kim In-Kwon) and he explains that he's the manager for popular boy band "A.N.JELL". He also explains that her twin brother Ko Min-Nam, who just joined the band, was seriously injured and sent to America to recover. Ma Hoon-Lee then pleads to Ko Mi-Nyeo to impersonate her brother until he recovers. For her brother's sake, Ko Mi-Nyeo reluctantly agrees to play her brother. From Asianwiki
I absolutely love this drama. I am what you call a music nerd so watching a drama about music was amazing. I have to admit the beginning really made me want to stop right away but I knew korean dramas had slow beginnings and I knew that it was about music so I stuck with it. And by the end of the first episode, let's just call it love.
My Princess
Leads: Song Sung-Heun, Kim Tae-Hee
Year: 2011
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Episodes: 16
Rating: ❤❤❤
Synopsis: Lee Seol (Tae-Hee), a normal college student, discovers one day that she is a princess and accepts that role. But now she can't go out of her palace and has to study all day. Her only teacher is Hae Yeong (Sung-Heun), the successor of an important company.
I remember really loving this drama and I don't know why I only gave it 3 hearts. Maybe the ending was bad? Or maybe I liked it a lot but realized that this drama was just your typical rom-com with a normal girl turns princess story which is really overdone. Either way, I did really enjoy the drama!
Me Too, Flower!
Other Names: I'm a Flower, Too!
Leads: Lee Ji-Ah, Yoon Shi Yoon
Year: 2011
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Episodes: 15
Rating: ❤❤❤❤
Synopsis: Bong Sun (Lee Ji-Ah) is a cynical police woman who has no sense of justice and is working only to pay her bills. Jae-Hee (Yoon Shi Yoon) the CEO of a clothing shop who goes undercover as the parking attendant to investigate his store. After accidentally hiting Bong Sun with his motor cycle they have another run in when Bong Sun accidentally crashes into a customers car at the clothing shop. Jae-Hee ends up fired and has to ask his business partner Hwa-young to secretly rehire him so he can keep tabs on the shop.
The Rooftop Prince
Other Names: Attic King, Attic Prince
Leads: Park Yoo-Chun, Han Jimin
Year: 2012
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy, Time Travel
Episodes: 20
Rating: ❤❤❤❤
Synopsis: One night, Crown Prince Lee Gak (Yoo-Chun) awakes to find the Crown Princess has drowned in the palace pond. Deeply shaken by his loss, he is of the opinion that his wife was murdered. Desperately searching for the culprit, the Crown Prince and his three comrades get into an ambush and are eventually forced to flee. While trying to save their lives, the four of them suddenly travel through time, 300 years into the future, where they end up in the rooftop room of Park Ha (Jimin), a young woman who recently returned to South Korea. Now she sees herself stuck with the four men and their weird behaviour.
Although I think that it was a bit long-drawn like a lot of other Korean dramas. I really enjoyed it. I like the interlocking story line and the depths and details but the cute comedy of it and really enjoyed watching this one. I loved how the ending was very complete though and that's nice too.
The Heirs
Other Names: The Inheritors, He Who Wears The Crown, Endure Its Weight, The One Trying To Wear The Crown, Withstand The Weight, Those Who Want The Crown, Withstand The Weight Of It
Leads: Park Shin Hye, Lee Minho, Kim Woo Bin
Year: 2013
Genre: Romance, Drama, School, Youth
Episodes: 20
Rating: ❤❤❤❤
Synopsis: 18 year old Cha Eun Sang (Park Shin Hye) is a poor girl who lives with her mute mother. Her sister in California informs them that she is getting married. Her mother asks Eun Sang to give her older sister some money for the wedding. Eun Sang decides that she doesn't like her life and wants to try living in America with her sister. In America she finds out her sister is lying and Eun-sang leaves but not before dropping a bag of white Korean drink powder out of her luggage. Kim Tan (Minho) is a rich heir to a large conglomerate. His friend sees the bag of powder and thinks its drugs. Kim Tan goes to help clear the situation between Eun Sang and his friend and offers Eun Sang a place to stay before going back to Korea. Kim Tan enjoyed their time together though and misses her eventually deciding to return to Korea.
All the actors were amazing and the drama was nice and addictive without being overly dragged out or emotional. It made for a very nice viewing experience although I thoroughly believe that this drama is over hyped. With such amazing actors you'd imagine the script to be better but it was very typical. For me the supporting couple with Krystal and Minhyuk were much more enjoying to watch than the main.
Faith
Leads: Lee Minho, Kim Hee-Seon
Year: 2012
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Sci Fi, Time Travel
Episodes: 24
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤
Synopsis: King Gongmin was returning from Yuan (China) with his newly wed wife Princess Nogoog of Yuan when assassins attacked and slit the princesses throat. If the Princess dies then Yuan will takeover Goryeo (Korea). King Gongmin goes and prays at a mystical mountain where a portal has opened up. His vassal tells him that a great doctor from the heavens lies beyond and King Gongmin tasks Choi Young (Minho) to enter the portal and retrieve the doctor. After entering the portal, Choi finds himself in present day Seoul. He finds his way to a medical convention where he meets Dr. Yoo Eun Soo (Hee-Seon) and asks her for help to treat someone. Eun-Soo refuses but Choi slashes the neck of a nearby man to test her skills. She manages to save him and Choi back through the portal which soon closes.
I loved this drama because I really like historical dramas in general and also time travelling. This is one of Minho's better dramas in my opinion.
Who Are You: School 2015
Year: 2015
Genre: Drama, Mystery, School, Youth, Romance
Episodes: 16
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤
Synopsis: Two identical girls with similar names lead two different life. Orphan Lee Eun Bi is endlessly bullied and alone in her school. Go Eun Byul is popular and goes to a prestigious school with her friends. When Eun Byul goes missing and Eun Bi loses her memories, Eun Bi ends up taking over Eun Byul's life. Can they solve the mystery of the missing Eun Byul?
Without having watched the other school series but with full intentions to, I started watching this drama because I am a fan of Sungjae. I read so much criticism against him as an idol actor playing the role. I myself had doubts, I hadn't seen much of nam ju hyeok but since he was the lead I expected a lot from him. I also adore kim so hyun so I would have watched the drama for her anyways. I am so proud that Sungjae kicked everyone's criticisms. Gong tae kwang was definitely my favourite character, not because of sungjae, but just as a character. I felt that sungjae even outshined nam ju hyuk but to be fair the writers made yi an a very under developed and bland character. Maybe the 16 episode limit made it hard to do everything the drama wanted to. A lot of plotlines became anticlimactic at the end. Still I continued to watch because the actors were really great, Kim so hyun, sungjae and the girl who played kim so young.
Dating Agency: Cyrano
Other Names: Love Manipulation: Cyrano, Flower Dating Agency: Cyrano, Flower Boy Dating Agency, Flower Boy, Love Manipulation
Leads: Lee Jong-Hyuk, Sooyoung, Hong Jong-hyun
Year: 2013
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Episodes: 16
Rating: ❤❤❤❤
Synopsis: Min Yeong works for a dating agency, where there are tight rules for whom you can match up with whom. Every person gets sorted into classes and a certain class cannot be matched with another, lower, class. But when Min Yeong realises that two of her clients would be perfect for each other, she matches them and promptly looses her job. Because the A class client should never be matched with somebody from a lower class.
Being fired, she now has to look for a new job, and by accident, she finds Cyrano, the Dating Agency that takes on clients that pay them well and match them with whoever the client wants to. They are practically cupid. But doing it only for the money rather than the romance, they don't care much about bending the rules a little...
This is a cute drama that I thoroughly enjoyed. It is kind of episodic going through different people and their love lives and of course our main couple.
Bel Ami
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Other Names: pretty boy, beautiful man
Leads: Jang Geun-Suk, IU, Lee Jang Woo
Year: 2013/14
Genre: comedy, drama, romance
Episodes: 16
Rating: ❤❤❤❤
Synopsis: Dok Go Ma Te (Geun-suk), a beautiful man whose charms can win over any woman, plays around the uses his face to enjoy life. Kim Bo Tong(IU), the innocent girl next door, who has been in love with him ever since they first met, lives a dream that one day she will get to be together with him. After Ma Te's mother tragically dies, Ma Te discovers a secret about his past that makes him make up his mind to work hard and earn a lot of money. For that, however, he will need Bo Tong's help.
When I saw the first episode, I immediately knew this story was based off of a comic. There were some seriously cringey moments of cheesiness. I knew what type of character I was expecting with JGS though, and I usually am into the bad boy type of character so I like to follow his works cause I know what I'm getting myself into. I think that this series was less of a rom com and became more melodrama-y in the middle of it. There was very little romance. The story was actually more about learning a lesson. I got a kind of dream high vibe from it. There was a lesson to be learn and romance wasn't really the big thing. I think that this drama was advertised and classified in the wrong genre. I really enjoyed watching IU act though and would like to see her in more variety of roles. As far as JGS goes, I always like how he can make the character seem like they've grown up and that's what I appreciate from his acting. I just wished he wasn't typecasted so much. But the drama was cute and had a nice moral and the ending was adorable so I still consider it a pretty good drama.
I Miss You
Other Names: Missing You
Leads: Park Yoo-chun, Yoon Eun-hye, Yoo Seung-ho
Year: 2012/13
Genre: suspense, drama, romance
Episodes: 21
Rating: ❤❤❤❤
Synopsis: Lee Su Yeon (Eun-hye) is a bullied high school student known to everyone in her neighborhood as the daughter of a murderer. Those around Su Yeon avoid her or scorn her, causing her to isolate herself until the day she meets Han Jeong U (Yoo-chun), the son of a rich chairman. Jeong U doesn't seem to care about her background, taking her side and protecting her from others who try to hurt her. The two become friends and slowly start falling in love with each other, but Su Yeon's sudden disappearance due to an accident separates them. Fourteen years later, Han Jeong U has become a homicide detective, and still searches for the first love he can't forget.
This was on my list but I forgot that I had completed it. I really liked this drama. I love the child actors the most! They made the romance so lovely and they were taken over by great actors as well. I really loved every bit of this drama.
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