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Okay, here’s a list of genre-specific recommendations, though dramas like mixing genres…
1. Crime Thrillers
On the outside, Baek Hee Sung (Lee Joon Gi) looks like the ideal husband. A hard-working craftsman, his metal-working studio has met with its fair share of success. Able to provide a good life for his wife and daughter, he’s an exemplary example of...
2. Fantasy
How can a mermaid from the Joseon era survive in modern society?
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...
3. Rom-Coms
Inevitably, everybody gets hurt at some point in their lives. There are different remedies for different types of wounds, and as time elapses, these remedies start to become less effective. This is a story about a man who created a shield for his...
Zheng Xiao En (Vivian Sung) works as an editor of romance novels at a publishing company, and secretly dreams about falling in love with a CEO.
When she isn’t working, she spends her days daydreaming about He Tian Hang (Marcus Chang), the handsome...
Noh Ji Wook is a brainiac prosecutor and Eun Bong Hee is a rookie justice department intern, who always seems to find herself in the most unfortunate and embarrassing situations. Bong Hee is falsely accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend, and Ji Wook...
Medical + Military
A new resident at the bustling metropolitan hospital, Mi Ka’s (Sandra Ma) life is far from boring. With a steady stream of patients to see and a variety of training exercises to complete, Mi Ka has little time for anything other than work, but she...
Some relationships are fated, despite the challenges of time and place.
Yoo Shi Jin (Song Joong Ki), the leader of a Special Forces unit, meets trauma surgeon Kang Mo Yeon (Song Hye Kyo) in a hospital emergency room after Shi Jin and his...
4. Action
Whatever gets the job done. Bong Sang Pil (Lee Joon Gi) grew up living the gangster life, full of tough physical fights and evading the law. When his mother dies a tragic death, he is determined to avenge her death.
Sang Pil becomes a lawyer and...
5. Historical
Prince Lee Yeong falls in love with eunuch Hong Ra-on, who is merely pretending to be a man, in this unforgettable, romantic, palace adventure.
It is the sixth century CE and the Qi Kingdom, in what is now Eastern China, is a land at war.
The young teenage prince Pei Yan Zhi (Zhang Ling He), a prodigal young military talent, is sent to ward off a force of invaders. Although he makes a...
As the reign of the Ming Dynasty’s Jiajing Emperor approaches its end, trouble finds its way into the palace. Funds which had been set aside for the repairs of the river in Yangzhou, have disappeared. Commissioned by the emperor to investigate the...