Your Top 25 Romance Focused K-Dramas (2009-2019)

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  • Stairway to Heaven

    101. Stairway to Heaven

    Korean Drama - 2003, 20 episodes
    7.9
    391 points by 4 voters
    The relationship of childhood sweethearts Cha Song Joo and Hang Jung Suh becomes complicated when Jung Suh's father remarries. Along with a new stepmother, Jung Suh also has a new introverted stepbrother, ...more
  • I Need Romance

    102. I Need Romance

    Korean Drama - 2011, 16 episodes
    7.3
    387 points by 4 voters
    Sunwoo In Young has been dating the same man for the past 10 years and, at 33 years old, is waiting for the big question. When she finds out he's cheated on ...more
  • East of Eden

    103. East of Eden

    Korean Drama - 2008, 56 episodes
    7.7
    382 points by 4 voters
    The drama will be about two men whose fates are crossed from the very first day that they were born. Both men were born in the same hospital. When he was five ...more
  • A Love to Kill

    104. A Love to Kill

    Korean Drama - 2005, 16 episodes
    7.3
    377 points by 4 voters
    Kang Bok Gu is a tough guy and a K-1 Fighter. Bok Gu is a character who is dynamic in nature and grew up in a foster home. He falls in love ...more
  • Age of Youth

    105. Age of Youth

    Korean Drama - 2016, 12 episodes
    8.5
    372 points by 4 voters
    Five girls in their twenties come to live together in a house called "Belle Epoque," which means "a beautiful time" in French. Each girl has a particular personality, background, and issues. In ...more
  • Full House

    106. Full House

    Korean Drama - 2004, 16 episodes
    7.7
    369 points by 4 voters
    Han Ji Eun, an aspiring scriptwriter, lives in a house called "Full House", built by her late father. One day, her two best friends trick her into believing she has won a ...more
  • The Innocent Man

    107. The Innocent Man

    Korean Drama - 2012, 20 episodes
    8.0
    296 points by 3 voters
    The drama is a melodrama which depicts the story of a man, Kang Ma Roo who has been betrayed by the love of his life, Han Jae Hee. Years after the incident, ...more
  • Autumn Tale

    108. Autumn Tale

    Korean Drama - 2000, 16 episodes
    7.7
    294 points by 3 voters
    Yoon Joon Suh and Yoon Eun Suh grew up as siblings but Eun Suh was in fact from a different family as there was a mix up at the hospital where she ...more
  • Lovers in Paris

    109. Lovers in Paris

    Korean Drama - 2004, 20 episodes
    7.4
    293 points by 3 voters
    Tae Young lives in Paris and is working on a screenplay, she meets Gi Ju while working at a friend's stall and Soo Hyuk, when her bicycle breaks down. Soo Hyuk and ...more
  • Winter Sonata

    110. Winter Sonata

    Korean Drama - 2002, 20 episodes
    7.7
    291 points by 3 voters
    Joon Sang moves to a new high school in search of his biological father. Yu Jin and Sang Hyuk are close childhood friends, although Sang Hyuk wants to be more than a ...more
  • Cheese in the Trap

    111. Cheese in the Trap

    Korean Drama - 2016, 16 episodes
    7.4
    291 points by 3 voters
    Having returned to college after a year long break due to her family's poor background, Hong Seol, a hardworking over-achiever, inadvertently gets on the wrong side of her senior, Yoo Jung, who's ...more
  • Autumn's Concerto

    112. Autumn's Concerto

    Taiwanese Drama - 2009, 21 episodes
    8.4
    287 points by 3 voters
    Ren Guang Xi, a cocky law student, seems to lead the perfect life. He's the sole successor to a huge and famous business and is a talented ice hockey player. But in ...more
  • Radiant Office

    113. Radiant Office

    Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
    7.5
    287 points by 3 voters
    After failing several job interviews, Ho Won coincidentally hears that she has six months to live. And when everything seems hopeless, she finally lands on a job. She decides to make the ...more
  • On the Way to the Airport

    114. On the Way to the Airport

    Korean Drama - 2016, 16 episodes
    7.7
    286 points by 3 voters
    Choi Soo Ah has spent the last twelve years working as an airline assistant purser and raising a daughter alongside her pilot husband. She is content; but when she meets Seo Do ...more
  • Reply 1994

    115. Reply 1994

    Korean Drama - 2013, 21 episodes
    8.1
    285 points by 3 voters
    Set in 1994, six university students from various provincial areas live together at a boarding house in Sinchon, Seoul, which is run by a couple with a daughter named Na Jung. The ...more
  • Memories of the Alhambra

    116. Memories of the Alhambra

    Korean Drama - 2018, 16 episodes
    8.0
    280 points by 3 voters
    “Memories of the Alhambra” tells the unique and suspenseful love story of Yoo Jin Woo and Jung Hee Joo. Strong-spirited Yoo Jin Woo is the CEO of an investment company with a ...more
  • Hwarang

    117. Hwarang

    Korean Drama - 2016, 20 episodes
    8.0
    280 points by 3 voters
    The names of just a few Hwarangs are recorded in history. Not many people these days truly know about Hwarangs. How did they start? How did beautiful looking young men become at ...more
  • Personal Taste

    118. Personal Taste

    Korean Drama - 2010, 16 episodes
    7.7
    200 points by 2 voters
    Jeon Jin Ho is a straight guy who is mistaken as gay when he applies to become Park Gae In's roommate. His hobbies include organization and ironing, and he's known for his ...more
  • Doctor Stranger

    119. Doctor Stranger

    Korean Drama - 2014, 20 episodes
    7.9
    199 points by 2 voters
    As a child, Park Hoon and his father were kidnapped by North Korea. In North Korea, he was trained to become a doctor by his father who was already a doctor. Park ...more
  • Your Honor

    120. Your Honor

    Korean Drama - 2018, 32 episodes
    8.0
    198 points by 2 voters
    Identical twins Han Soo Ho and Han Kang Ho, although both smart and good-looking, live completely different lives. Han Soo Ho has never fallen below first place. He knows there's a power ...more
  • A Poem a Day

    121. A Poem a Day

    Korean Drama - 2018, 16 episodes
    7.8
    195 points by 2 voters
    The story of lives of people who work at the hospital like physical therapists, rehabilitation therapists, radiologists, nurses, medical trainees and more. Ye Jae Wook works as a physical therapist and also ...more
  • Queen for Seven Days

    122. Queen for Seven Days

    Korean Drama - 2017, 20 episodes
    8.2
    194 points by 2 voters
    This drama is about the love story between King Jung Jong and his Queen Dan Kyung, who was crowned and deposed within the span of a week due to rival political factions ...more
  • Doctors

    123. Doctors

    Korean Drama - 2016, 20 episodes
    7.9
    194 points by 2 voters
    Yoo Hye Jung was a tough bully in school with a prickly personality and always goes wayward. She had many scars from her childhood and through self-preservation, Hye Jung keeps her heart ...more
  • Goong

    124. Goong

    Korean Drama - 2006, 24 episodes
    7.8
    192 points by 2 voters
    Feisty, bubbly, and no-nonsense, Chae Gyeong is an ordinary high school student. Until one day when she receives some unexpected news. Because of her grandfather's will, she must marry the unendurable Crown ...more
  • My Love Eun Dong

    125. My Love Eun Dong

    Korean Drama - 2015, 16 episodes
    7.8
    191 points by 2 voters
    “We were together for too short and separated for too long.” Eun Ho is an A-list South Korean actor, and for 20 years, he is searching for his first love, Eun Dong. ...more
  • To the Beautiful You

    126. To the Beautiful You

    Korean Drama - 2012, 16 episodes
    7.6
    191 points by 2 voters
    Tae Joon became Jae Hee’s strength during her toughest time, and she leaves the US for Korea to enroll in a men’s physical education high school to help Tae Joon restart his ...more
  • Arang and the Magistrate

    127. Arang and the Magistrate

    Korean Drama - 2012, 20 episodes
    7.9
    191 points by 2 voters
    It tells the story of a cynical and not-so-friendly government official named Eun Oh, who wanders the whole nation to look for his mother, who disappeared because of his mistake. Eun Oh ...more
  • Lawless Lawyer

    128. Lawless Lawyer

    Korean Drama - 2018, 16 episodes
    8.2
    191 points by 2 voters
    Whatever gets the job done. Bong Sang Pil grew up living the gangster life, full of tough physical fights and evading the law. When his mother dies a tragic death, he is ...more
  • My Princess

    129. My Princess

    Korean Drama - 2011, 16 episodes
    7.5
    186 points by 2 voters
    An ordinary college student, Lee Seol, finds out she's a princess. The grandson of Daehan Group, Park Hae Young, is put in charge of educating Seol on proper etiquette. However, Hae Young ...more
  • High School King of Savvy

    130. High School King of Savvy

    Korean Drama - 2014, 17 episodes
    7.7
    184 points by 2 voters
    Can a high school boy lead a double life? Lee Min Seok is a rising hockey player at his high school leading an average high school life, complete with a groupie classmate, ...more
  • When a Man's in Love

    131. When a Man's in Love

    Korean Drama - 2013, 20 episodes
    6.8
    184 points by 2 voters
    Han Tae Sang is a successful businessman, who has a cold-blooded decisiveness and incredible drive. This helped him to attain his current status, as he started with nothing. He then meets a ...more
  • City Hunter

    132. City Hunter

    Korean Drama - 2011, 20 episodes
    8.3
    183 points by 2 voters
    Lee Yoon Sung is a talented MIT-graduate who works on the international communications team in the Blue House. He plans revenge on five politicians who caused his father's death with his surrogate ...more
  • Sungkyunkwan Scandal

    133. Sungkyunkwan Scandal

    Korean Drama - 2010, 20 episodes
    8.2
    182 points by 2 voters
    Kim Yun Hee is a smart, responsible young woman with an independent drive. Since her father passed away, she has worked to support her family but has also managed to do well ...more
  • Saimdang, Light’s Diary

    134. Saimdang, Light’s Diary

    Korean Drama - 2017, 28 episodes
    7.8
    100 points by 1 voters
    Seo Ji Yoon is an art history lecturer who has devoted the best years of her life to earning her Ph.D. and working under her mentor, department chairman Min Jung Hak, in ...more
  • Mad Dog

    135. Mad Dog

    Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
    8.4
    100 points by 1 voters
    Choi Kang Woo, who is a former police and leader of Taeyang Insurance's investigators team, decides to create his own investigation team, after an airplane crash that took the life of his ...more
  • Love Affairs in the Afternoon

    136. Love Affairs in the Afternoon

    Korean Drama - 2019, 16 episodes
    7.9
    100 points by 1 voters
    Son Ji Eun is a housewife who works part-time at a mart. She is quiet and sincere, even as she feels trapped in her unhappy life and lonely marriage. One day, she ...more
  • Padam Padam

    137. Padam Padam

    Korean Drama - 2011, 20 episodes
    7.7
    100 points by 1 voters
    Born to a poor family, Kang Chil spends 16 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of a crime. Before his release, he kills a prison guard by accident and is sentenced ...more
  • I Need Romance Season 3

    138. I Need Romance Season 3

    Korean Drama - 2014, 16 episodes
    7.8
    100 points by 1 voters
    Shin Joo Yeon is a 33-year-old fashion marketing director at a home shopping channel company. She's developed a tough, prickly outer shell in order to succeed in the workplace and has almost ...more
  • Stars Falling From the Sky

    139. Stars Falling From the Sky

    Korean Drama - 2010, 20 episodes
    7.7
    100 points by 1 voters
    The drama draws a love story between two co-workers at an insurance company, with Kim Ji Hoon playing the company's smart-as-a-whip lawyer. Because he carries the hurt of having been abandoned by ...more
  • Shark

    140. Shark

    Korean Drama - 2013, 20 episodes
    7.7
    99 points by 1 voters
    After being left for dead and witnessing the death of his father, Han Yi Soo / Yoshimura Junichiro returns to Korea from Japan after changing his looks and identity to take revenge ...more
  • Where Stars Land

    141. Where Stars Land

    Korean Drama - 2018, 32 episodes
    7.9
    99 points by 1 voters
    Where Stars Land follows the lives of workers at Incheon Airport, and in particular, the interactions between a clumsy, yet bubbly, woman named Han Yeo Reum and a prickly and mysterious man ...more
  • The King's Daughter, Soo Baek Hyang

    142. The King's Daughter, Soo Baek Hyang

    Korean Drama - 2013, 108 episodes
    8.2
    98 points by 1 voters
    King Mu Ryeong was a Baekje king who oversaw a renaissance during his reign while also building his kingdom into a sea power. He had a hidden daughter called Soo Baek Hyang, ...more
  • Live Up to Your Name

    143. Live Up to Your Name

    Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
    8.2
    98 points by 1 voters
    Heo Im, who is born in a concubine family in the Joseon era and has very outstanding medical skills, is frustrated about his career as he fails to climb to higher positions ...more
  • Circle

    144. Circle

    Korean Drama - 2017, 12 episodes
    8.4
    98 points by 1 voters
    Taking place in both the present year 2017 and in the year 2037, when people believe that their future depends on humans controlling and regulating their emotions, this drama is a sci-fi ...more
  • Grand Prince

    145. Grand Prince

    Korean Drama - 2018, 20 episodes
    7.8
    97 points by 1 voters
    Centered around one woman who gets caught up in a bloody romance with two princes. This drama tells the story of a man who would kill even his younger brother to have ...more
  • Welcome 2 Life

    146. Welcome 2 Life

    Korean Drama - 2019, 32 episodes
    8.2
    96 points by 1 voters
    “Welcome 2 Life” is a fantasy drama that will tell the story about a selfish lawyer who helps people who want to take advantage of the law. One day, he gets sucked ...more
  • Doctor John

    147. Doctor John

    Korean Drama - 2019, 32 episodes
    8.5
    96 points by 1 voters
    "Doctor John" is a medical drama centered on pain management specialists. It offers a unique perspective, treating the doctors' quest for the source of their patients' enigmatic pain as an exhilarating pursuit, ...more
  • Robber

    148. Robber

    Korean Drama - 2008, 16 episodes
    7.2
    95 points by 1 voters
    Kwon Oh Joon is a swindler who falls for a widow with a 5 year old daughter, Jin Dal Rae. Dal Rae lives with her daughter and mother in law after her ...more
  • Prison Playbook

    149. Prison Playbook

    Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
    9.0
    91 points by 1 voters
    Kim Je Hyuk, a famous baseball player, is arrested after using excessive force while chasing a man trying to sexually assault his sister. Shockingly to him and the rest of the nation, ...more
  • Defendant

    150. Defendant

    Korean Drama - 2017, 18 episodes
    8.7
    91 points by 1 voters
    Park Jung Woo is a prosecutor at Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office. One day, he wakes up and finds himself a convict on death row. Suffering from temporary amnesia, Jung Woo has ...more
  • City Hall

    151. City Hall

    Korean Drama - 2009, 20 episodes
    7.9
    91 points by 1 voters
    City Hall is a drama that deals with politics in a romantic comedy genre. It's about the happenings between a young woman mayor and an elite bureaucrat. Jo Gook is an exceedingly ...more
  • Summer Scent

    152. Summer Scent

    Korean Drama - 2003, 20 episodes
    7.3
    91 points by 1 voters
    Three year's previously Min Woo lost his first love in a tragic accident. As he struggles on with life he meets Hye Won who reminds him of his lost love but is ...more

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