Beginning Recommendations for K-Drama Newbies

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

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. 

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

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. 

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

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. 

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. 

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.