Beginning Recommendations for K-Drama Newbies

These series showcase what is so good about K-Drama, with stories and characters that are easy to like and cheer for, good production, skilled acting, relatable humour, high stakes, great soundtracks, profound insights, and wonderful, sincerely-portrayed relationships.  You could watch them in any order, but this order gives a good balance between lighter, heavier, modern, historical, and fantasy.

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  • Touch Your Heart

    1. Touch Your Heart

    Korean Drama - 2019, 16 episodes

    8.5

    Funny, heartwarming, sweet, and satsifying. Great office 'family'. 

  • Ghost Doctor

    2. Ghost Doctor

    Korean Drama - 2022, 16 episodes

    8.5

    Characters you don't know you're going to like, but end up liking a lot. Frustrating baddies, a mystery that grows before being solved, lots of laughs, and heartwarming kindness between people who used to be strangers. 

  • Sh**ting Star

    3. Sh**ting Star

    Korean Drama - 2022, 16 episodes

    8.5

    Funny and sweet - not everything's perfect, like most series, but the good stuff is highly enjoyable. 

  • Queen In Hyun's Man

    4. Queen In Hyun's Man

    Korean Drama - 2012, 16 episodes

    9.0

    A captivating love story with time travel/time slip elements, a wonderful hero, and lots of challenges for the characters to go through. Production, supporting characters and acting, and some story elements, have flaws; but the love story at the centre is beautiful and makes this absolutely worth watching. 

  • Delivery Man

    5. Delivery Man

    Korean Drama - 2023, 12 episodes

    8.5

    A cute, funny, sincere story with some of the best K-Drama hallmark elements. 

  • Bossam-Stealing Destiny

    6. Bossam-Stealing Destiny

    Korean Drama - 2021, 20 episodes

    9.0

    Profound, moving story with very likeable main characters, and some very unlikeable villains and others. Excellent acting from the main actor and actress. This is more of a heavy-ish story, a bit longer than most, with lots of political machination and injustice being faced and fought against. It's so rewarding, though, and I would recommend it because it's a really good example of a historical Korean series, better than others I've watched. 

  • Tale of the Nine-Tailed

    7. Tale of the Nine-Tailed

    Korean Drama - 2020, 16 episodes

    8.5
  • Sleep Memo

    8. Sleep Memo

    Korean Drama - 2023, 20 episodes

    9.0

    Even if you only watch this to gze at Park Hyung Shik as the awesome Prince Yi Hwan, it's worth it. Some furstrations, but overall a good story, very well produced. 

  • Just Between Lovers

    9. Just Between Lovers

    Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes

    9.5
  • Is It Fate?

    10. Is It Fate?

    Korean Drama - 2024, 8 episodes

    9.0
  • The Woman Who Plays

    11. The Woman Who Plays

    Korean Drama - 2024, 16 episodes

    9.5
  • Splash Splash LOVE

    12. Splash Splash LOVE

    Korean Special - 2015, 2 episodes

  • Lovely Runner

    13. Lovely Runner

    Korean Drama - 2024, 16 episodes

    10

    Watch as long as you're aware that nothing else will come close to this - don't be expecting that other shows will meet this standard. 

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