Dramas set in the countryside

Xu Hong Dou is a woman who has worked in the hotel industry for most of her adult life. She is every inch the big-city woman, but her life hits a sudden bump in the road. Her best female friend has died, sending her life into a tailspin. Her work starts to suffer. Rather than continue to soldier on in the city, she decides to take a break from the fast-paced urban lifestyle in a remote village. She heads out to the village of Yun Miao, near Dali, in Yunnan Province – in search of peace and quiet.

Cho Sam Dal grew up with Cho Yong Pil. Unlike Cho Yong Pil, content to remain in his hometown of Samdalri, Cho Sam Dal makes it her mission to get out of their small town and move to Seoul. After years of toiling away as an assistant in the fashion photography industry, Cho Sam Dal—who changes her name to Cho Eun Hye in Seoul—finally succeeds and makes it to the top. However, when everything she’s worked so hard to build comes crashing down in the blink of an eye, she returns to Samdalri, where people still know her as Sam Dal and not Eun Hye.

Although Cho Yong Pil and Cho Sam Dal used to be joined at the hip when they were younger, the once inseparable friends are no longer in contact with one another due to an incident that drove them apart. When Cho Sam Dal returns to Samdalri, however, they find that the longtime affection they once had for one another comes rushing back.

After a conflict with her boss, dentist Yoon Hye Jin escapes the city to a seaside village where she'd vacationed to before as a little girl. When she learns the village is without a dentist, she decides to set up her practice there permanently. As the former city-dweller's stiff and guarded demeanor almost immediately rubs the locals the wrong way, in steps the free-spirited jack of all trades, Hong Do Shik. There to help her learn to navigate life in a small village, albeit they don't hit it off well at first.

After getting into a paragliding accident, South Korean heiress Yoon Se Ri crash lands in North Korea. There, she meets North Korean army officer Ri Jung Hyuk, who agrees to help her return to South Korea. Despite the tension between their countries, the two of them start falling for one another.

Moon Gang Tae is a community health worker at a psychiatric ward who was blessed with everything including a great body, smarts, ability to sympathize with others, patience, ability to react quickly, stamina, and more. Meanwhile, Ko Moon Young is a popular writer of children’s literature who, due to suffering from an antisocial personality disorder, seems extremely selfish, arrogant, and rude. Moon Gang Tae denies love and Ko Moon Young doesn’t know it. The two defy fate and fall in love, finding their souls and identities in the process.

Sakurai Misaki is a pastry chef who dreams of someday working for a renowned Patisserie overseas; she has prioritised work to the extent that she has forgotten how to kiss. When she loses her job at a bakery and has difficulty finding another, Misaki suddenly meets Shibasaki Chiaki, her first and unrequited love from her school days. Learning about her situation, Chiaki offers her summer work at the seaside restaurant his family runs in Shonan and invites her to stay at the family home there, along with his two younger brothers. The second brother, Kanata, is a talented chef, while the third brother Toma is a student at the culinary school. Misaki leaps at the opportunity to spend a summer working with the three handsome siblings.  

Lee Ji Hyun, a clothing designer in Seoul, reluctantly leaves home for one year to work at her grand uncle's vineyard in a small village. However, when arriving in the country, she reunites with Jang Taek Gi, a local resident who had been wrongfully arrested in Seoul by police after Ji Hyun reported having a dress-which she had designed-had been stolen. The two clash frequently as Ji Hyun has a difficult time adjusting to life in the country and working with Taek Gi. However, after many twists and turns, Ji Hyun adapts to rustic life while falling in love with Taek Gi.

Lee Yeo Reum is a young woman whose career and life are going very well: She has just been awarded permanent contract status at work, and she has a boyfriend she likes very much. But work is starting to get stressful, and then she is hit with a double whammy of misfortune. Her mother dies in a tragic accident just moments after she is dumped by her boyfriend. Feeling utterly dejected and burned out, she decides to quit her job, head to the seaside, and do absolutely nothing for a while – at least until she can recharge her batteries and recover mentally. She moves to a small seaside village named Angok. And it is here that she meets An Dae Beom, a librarian who also has his share of skeletons in the closet. Many years ago, he was a math prodigy with a bright academic future ahead of him. But circumstances have forced him away from the big city and the scholastic life. What will happen when these two lost souls meet – and will a spell of “doing nothing” in this small town really cure their ills?

A story that follows urban planner Lin Qiaoqiao who after meeting Wang Jue joins hands with a group of people in reviving Rainbow Town. Lin Qiao Qiao is an urban planner with her whole future ahead of her until she encounters a tragic blow. To recharge and find peace of mind, she decides to go to a place called Rainbow Town where she meets some same-aged friends: the firmly idealistic Wang Jue, the bookish Shen Tian Chen, the proud romantic Ye Yu Mo and the melancholic Feng Zao. As their hometown declines day by day, Wang Jue and the others become strongly opposed to its industrialization. They work together to bring back the Rainbow Town from their memories.

The drama on the "slow-growing" people who are currently confused and tells about the problems of work, life and emotions among young people in the context of a large society. How this group of "slow-growing" people find themselves, return to their hearts, and change their life plans are the highlights of the show, which resonate with young audiences. In the drama, after suffering the double blow of unemployment and lovelorn, He Jia Jia, facing the harshness and control of her mother, awakened from her late adolescence, leaves the high-pressure urban life, and comes to the idyllic countryside full of natural beauty, where she encountered all kinds of people including Fang Wen Yu, a writer who is completely different from her. The two went from misunderstanding each other to solving problems together. In the idyllic scenery and simple interpersonal care, they gradually learned to slow down, examine their past life and self, search for a new direction, start anew, and write a pastoral love story.