Chaebol K-Dramas
What are the best dramas with a main character who is a chaebol? In the drama world, a chaebol is essentially a rich person who comes from generations of wealth. For the purpose of this list, simply add your favorite dramas with MAIN characters who are wealthy.
Skye-N-Rain Dec 11, 2019
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![Strong Woman Do Bong Soon]()
Do Bong Soon is a petite, unemployed woman who is honest and kind. She appears little and sweet on the outside, but she is in fact very, very strong. For generations in ...more -
![What's Wrong with Secretary Kim]()
The series revolves around the narcissistic Lee Young Joon, the vice president of a company run by his family. He is very self-absorbed and thinks highly of himself, so much that he ...more -
![Secret Garden]()
The drama tells the story of Kim Joo Won, an arrogant and eccentric CEO who maintains the image of seeming perfection, and Gil Ra Im, a poor and humble stuntwoman whose beauty ...more -
![W]()
Oh Sung Moo, the father of cardiothoracic surgeon Oh Yeon Joo, mysteriously goes missing while writing the last chapter of his webtoon "W". Yeon Joo goes to his office looking, but a ...more -
![Goblin]()
Kim Shin was once an unbeatable general in Goryeo's military who died a tragic death. He now possesses immortality but is tired of living while everyone else around him dies. For 900 ...more -
![The Master's Sun]()
Joo Joong Won is the stingy and greedy CEO of Kingdom, a conglomerate that includes a major department store and hotel. He meets the gloomy Tae Gong Shil, who started seeing ghosts ...more -
![Boys over Flowers]()
Geum Jan Di comes from a poor family who owns a dry-cleaning shop. One day, she visits Shinhwa High School, a prestigious school for the wealthy, and saves a student trying to ...more -
![Kill Me, Heal Me]()
A traumatic childhood experience leaves Cha Do Hyeon, suffering from memory loss and dissociation. The latter has resulted in the creation of seven distinct personalities. Wanting to regain control over his life, ...more -
![I'm Not a Robot]()
Kim Min Kyu is the largest shareholder of a financial company. He suffers from a "human allergy", preventing him from normal interactions with other people. He becomes interested in a robotic project ...more -
![Are You Human Too?]()
The drama tells of an android called Nam Shin III who must pretend to be the son of a rich family when the real Nam Shin falls into a coma. Nam Shin's ...more -
![The Heirs]()
Kim Tan is the heir to Empire Group who has been sent to study abroad in the U.S. In reality it's a form of exile, as his elder half-brother back home schemes ...more -
![Hotel del Luna]()
Nestled deep in the heart of Seoul’s thriving downtown sits a curious hotel, the like of which no one has ever seen before. Old beyond measure, the building has stood for millennia, ...more -
![Her Private Life]()
A dedicated professional, Seong Deok Mi lives for her work as an art gallery curator. Devoting herself to her work, she is exceptional in every way, save one. Beneath that cool, professional ...more -
![Coffee Prince]()
Choi Han Gyul is the grandson of chairwoman Bang of Dong-in Foods, a company that has a thriving coffee business. He has never had a job and does not care for responsibility. ...more -
![Extraordinary You]()
What would you do if you found out that you were, in fact, a character in a comic? And an extra character on top of that? Change the course of the story, ...more -
![Angel's Last Mission: Love]()
Lee Yeon Seo, is a cynical and arrogant ballerina. She is the prima ballerina, but after an accident she has to give up her dream. After her parents' sudden death, she doesn’t ...more -
![Shopping King Louie]()
The romantic comedy series “Shopping King Louie” revolves around a handsome shopaholic named Louis, who is the successor of a vast business empire but becomes homeless after suffering from amnesia. Meanwhile, Go ...more -
![The K2]()
Kim Je Ha is a former mercenary soldier known as “K2” who suddenly turns into a fugitive when he is wrongfully accused of killing his girlfriend while he is serving in Iraq. ...more -
![Cinderella and the Four Knights]()
Eun Ha Won is in her third year of high school and dreams of becoming a teacher. Unattached from her father, stepmother, and stepsister and poorly treated by them, Ha Won still ...more -
![The Beauty Inside]()
Han Se Gye is a top actress, also known as a troublemaker, with many rumors around her. To others, her life appears as a mystery, when in fact she is faced with ...more -
![Touch Your Heart]()
Oh Yoon Seo is a popular actress. She is famous for her beautiful appearance, but her acting is bad. She gets involved in a scandal with the son from a chaebol family. ...more -
![Crash Landing on You]()
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 ...more -
![Fated to Love You]()
Mi Yeong is a typical office clerk who is rather plain, somewhat awkward and has her good nature taken advantage of by her co-workers on a daily basis. While on vacation, she ...more -
![Tempted]()
Rich and privileged twenty-somethings uncover their true motives and reveal their depravity while playing a dark and dangerous game. Set on revenge, popular player Kwon Shi Hyun makes a bet with friends ...more -
![Boss & Me]()
Big conglomerate president Feng Teng has a younger sister, with a very rare blood type, who needs a transfusion. He finds an employee at his company named Xue Shan Shan and asks ...more -
![Something about 1 Percent]()
Growing up in a wealthy family, Lee Jae In had the best of everything. As an adult he was smart, good looking, had a well-paying job, in short, it seemed like he ...more -
![My Secret Romance]()
Cha Jin Wook is a son from a wealthy family who runs a large company. He usually only pursues short-term love, but when he meets Lee Yoo Mi, who has never had ...more -
![Shining Inheritance]()
Go Eun Sung's life is similar to Cinderella's. After her father died, her step-mother, Baek Sung Hee, took away all of her assets and her younger brother, Eun Woo, suddenly disappears without ...more -
![Memories of the Alhambra]()
“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 -
![Meteor Garden]()
Shan Cai, an 18-year-old girl from a struggling family, is accepted into the country's most prestigious school, where she meets F4, an exclusive group of the wealthiest and most handsome boys—Dao Ming ...more -
![Marriage, Not Dating]()
Wealthy plastic surgeon Gong Ki Tae is a successful and happy bachelor who does not want to find himself a wife. He believes that his life is perfectly planned, and being single ...more -
![The Secret Life of My Secretary]()
Do Min Ik is an intelligent, perfectionist man with a heart of stone and the Chief of Team 1 at T&T Mobile Media who always relies on his secretary, the hot-tempered Jung ...more -
![Falling for Innocence]()
Min Ho is a cold-blooded investment banker at Gold Investments. As a cynical, defensive, suspicious sociopath, he wears people down with his tenacity, taking advantage of them using his delusions of grandeur. ...more -
![Love with Flaws]()
This romantic comedy revolves around a physical education high school teacher, Joo Seo Yeon, who despises flower boys and prefers someone "not handsome." She has a compassionate heart, forged through the loss ...more -
![The Legend of the Blue Sea]()
How can a mermaid from the Joseon era survive in modern society? Shim Chung is a mermaid who follows her one true love, a nobleman’s son named Kim Ryung from the Joseon ...more -
![Bromance]()
Because of one simple word from a soothsayer, Pi Ya Nuo has been raised as a boy all her life. By chance, she saves underworld mob boss Du Zi Feng and his ...more -
![Mask]()
Byun Ji Sook has always had a hard life with her father constantly going into debt and being chased by loan sharks. She desperately wants to know what life is like if ...more -
![Goong]()
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 -
![Well-Intended Love]()
Needing assistance with her treatment, a third-rate actress with leukemia becomes involved with a CEO. In order to receive a bone marrow transplant quickly in order to continue her career, Xia Lin ...more -
![Search: WWW]()
This drama delves into the challenges and triumphs of modern women who have chosen career over traditional family roles. Bae Ta Mi, a competitive director at a major web portal company in ...more -
![Cheese in the Trap]()
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 -
![Protect the Boss]()
No Eun Seol finally gets a job as a secretary at a law firm after struggling with unemployment, only to have her boss, Cha Ji Heon, the immature youngest son of a ...more -
![Encounter]()
What happens when an encounter between a man and a woman who seem to have nothing in common develops into a complicated love story? Cha Soo Hyun is the daughter of a ...more -
![What Happened in Bali]()
Lee Soo Jung is a travel agent who is seeking her good luck in Bali after a harsh and unforgiving childhood. She meets Jae Min, Kang In Wook, and Young Joo in ...more -
![Noble, My Love]()
Kang Hoon is the handsome, conceited CEO of a large company and heads D.O.L's Korean branch in Seoul. One day, he is kidnapped and dramatically escapes from the bad guys, but he ...more -
![The Greatest Love]()
Gu Ae Jung was once the most popular member of the girl band, ‘The National Treasure Girls’. When the band broke up ten years ago, she received the bulk of the blame. ...more -
![Bride of the Century]()
Taeyang Group is the largest conglomerate in South Korea but the Choi family, who runs Taeyang, has supposedly been under a hundred-year-curse - the first bride of the eldest son will always ...more -
![Perfume]()
Seo Yi Do is a top designer. Although he appears to be the perfect man on the outside, his personality leaves something to be desired. On top of that, he has about ...more -
![Love Alarm]()
The cellphone app Love Alarm is created. If someone likes you and they are within 10 meters of you, the alarm for the app rings. The app also shows how many people ...more -
![Hana Yori Dango]()
Makino Tsukushi is the only poor student at Eitoku Gakuen, a school for the ridiculously rich and privileged. Eitoku Gakuen is ruled by the Flower 4, otherwise known as the F4, a ...more -
![High Society]()
Jang Yoon Ha is the youngest daughter of a chaebol (family-owned conglomeration). Even though her family is extremely wealthy, she holds a part-time job at a food market. She hides her background ...more -
![Devilish Joy]()
Would you choose to love someone you could never remember? Gong Ma Sung grew up having a difficult life and experiencing hardships, yet still making joy from it. He is the successor ...more -
![Rich Man, Poor Woman]()
29-year-old Hyuga Toru is a wealthy man. He first started to run an internet website in his small room, and his hobby began to make a lot of money. Nowadays, he doesn't ...more -
![Fall in Love With Me]()
Lu Tian Xing is a prodigy in Asia's advertising field. Rich, famous, and mightily successful, he suddenly announces during a press conference that he will be taking a three-month break from the ...more -
![Behind Your Smile]()
Consumed by revenge, Zhao Yi Ting’s life becomes cold and meaningless. But when he meets Lei Xin Yu, a young woman whose wealthy family has fallen on hard times, everything changes. He ...more -
![It's Okay to Not Be Okay]()
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, ...more -
![The Hymn of Death]()
Kim Woo Jin is a stage drama writer while Korea is under Japanese occupation. He is married, but he falls in love with Yun Shim Deok. Shim Deok is the first Korean ...more -
![Business Proposal]()
Shin Ha Ri is a single woman who works for a company. She has a male friend, who she has had a crush on for a long time, but she learns he ...more -
![Introverted Boss]()
When a young, energetic employee joins a public relations firm with an introverted and severely misunderstood boss, she makes it her life’s mission to show the world who he really is. Chae ...more -
![Birth of a Beauty]()
Han Tae Hee is the heir of a large company. He is suffering from broken heart syndrome due to psychological shock. To get the woman he loves back, he completely changes an ...more -
![My Little Princess]()
Lin Xing Chen, an heiress under pressure to marry well, targets the suave Zheng Chu Yao at Four Leaf College. After mistakenly pursuing the brooding Jiang Nian Yu, she learns he’s her ...more -
![Black Knight: The Man Who Guards Me]()
“Black Knight” is a love story between a woman who is waiting for the love of her life and a man who is willing to do anything to protect his love. The ...more -
![Rich Man]()
A man suffering from prosopagnosia meets a woman who is unforgettable. Lee Yoo Chan is the founder and CEO of the IT company "Next In", which has become the most desirable places ...more -
![Time]()
This is the story of two polar opposite people that come together in tragedy. One remains stuck in time, whilst the other only has a limited amount of time left to live. ...more -
![Witch's Love]()
In bustling Seoul, three generations of witches have discreetly lived their lives. Kang Cho Hong runs a restaurant with fellow witches Maeng Ye Soon and Jo Aeng Doo. They try to stay ...more -
![That Winter, the Wind Blows]()
Abandoned by his mother as a child and raised by the Park family, Oh Soo is a notorious gambler in the neighborhood of Cheongdam. After the death of his first love, he ...more -
![Revolutionary Love]()
Byun Hyuk is a son from a wealthy family who runs a large company. He lives a happy life without any specific goals. He is confident around women and he is also ...more -
![Negotiator]()
Tong Wei is a genius negotiator who is the star of the US-China Business Council. Male lead Xie Xiao Fei is the sole heir of a wealthy Chinese-American corporation, but wants nothing ...more -
![The Fox's Summer Season 2]()
Gu Cheng Ze is the CEO of the Gu Mall Corporation. His adopted family has tasked him with the job of grooming their biological son, Gu Jin Yu, to take over the ...more -
![The Fox's Summer]()
Gu Cheng Ze, the adopted son of the Gu family, is the CEO of Gu Mall Corporation. Mrs. Gu wishes for her biological grandson, Gu Jin Yu, to take over the company, ...more -
![School 2017]()
The drama tells realistically of the many various troubles that high school students can face. Ra Eun Ho is just one of them, struggling to survive in a school that discriminates against ...more -
![Mother of Mine]()
This drama is about a story of a mother and three daughters living in modern-day Korean society. The drama conveys a message about the low fertility rate, divorce rate, and the problems ...more -
![Avengers Social Club]()
It features three women from different walks of life coming together for revenge: a middle-aged fish store owner who envisioned a better life for herself, a housewife, and an heiress who was ...more -
![About Time]()
A man and a woman have different abilities when it comes to time. Michaela Choi is an aspiring musical actress who has the unusual ability to see other people’s life spans and ...more -
![Hidden Love]()
Sang Zhi falls in love with Duan Jia Xu, the boy who often comes to her house to play games in her older brother's room. He is five years older than her. ...more -
![Strongest Deliveryman]()
Choi Kang Soo is a deliveryman. In spite of his humble beginnings, Choi Kang Soo is fearless and gives it all in everything he does. Lee Dan Ah is another delivery worker. ...more -
![Heart to Heart]()
Cha Hong Do suffers from social phobia and has a problem with severe blushing. She does have a strong sense of curiosity and learns from books and the internet. One day, her ...more -
![The Mystic Nine]()
Nine powerful families referred to as the "Old Nine Gates" or the "Mystic Nine Clan" guard the town of Changsha during the era of the republic. Zhang Qi Shan/Fo Ye who is ...more
