K-drama
K-dramas are also a big part of the Hallyu Wave. They feature your favorite actors/actresses, and sometimes even artists. Below is a variation of K-dramas, but all well acclaimed.City Hunter
- Released
- 2011
- Episodes
- 20
- Genre
- Romance, Action, Thriller
- Top Casts
- Lee Min Ho as Lee Yoon-Sung
- Park Min Young as Kim Nana
- Lee Jun Hyuk as Kim Young-Joo
- Kim Sang Joong as Lee Jin-Pyo
In 1983, the South Korean president and his delegates are visiting Burma when a bomb planted by North Korean agents explodes, killing some high-ranking officials. To strike back, five South Korean officials plan a covert operation, codenamed "Operation Cleansweep," to enter North Korea and kill several top members of the North's high command. Lee Jin-pyo and Park Moo-yul, two Presidential Security Service bodyguards and best friends who were present at the bombing, organize a 21-man team for the mission. However, as the team wreaks havoc in Pyongyang, the five officials abort the plan to avoid an international crisis if the mission is discovered. They plan the death of those 21 men. Park ended up sacrificing his life to save Lee.
Promising to avenge his fallen comrades, Lee Jin-pyo kidnaps Moo-yul's infant son. He fleas and raises Lee Yoon-sung as his son, to be a fighter and weapon. Seven years later, also as a graduate from MIT, Lee Yoon-sung enters the blue house, ready to start his series of revenge.
He was warned by his father not to fall in love or expose his identity. The plot takes off after Lee meets bodyguard Kim Na-na and he realizes that he and his father might not have the same thought in mind....
Stairway to Heaven
- Released
- 2003
- Episodes
- 20
- Genre
- Melodrama
- Top Casts
- Kwon Sang Woo as Cha Song-Joo
- Choi Ji Woo as Han Jung-Seo
- Shin Hyeon Jun as Han Tae-Hwa
Jung-suh and Song-joo grew up together. They were always there for each other. Tragedy begins when Song Joo begins his studies overseas without Jung-suh. Jung-suh's father remarries Tae Mira. Mira takes in her two children from a previous marriage, Tae-hwa and Yuri. Yuri is envious of the life that Jung-suh leads and is determined to take everything away from her, including Song-joo. Tae-hwa begins to develop feelings for his stepsister, however Jung-suh still loves Song-joo. Five years later, tragedy occurs when Jung-suh gets into a car accident causing her to lose her memory. Together with Tae-hwa, they start anew. Song-joo is led to believe that she is dead. However, when they meet again one day, he is determined to remind her of the love they had for one another. However, tragedy continues to follow them...
Boys Over Flowers
- Released
- 2009
- Episodes
- 25
- Genre
- Romance, School, Teen
- Top Casts
- Lee Min Ho as Koo Jun-Pyo
- Ku Hye Seon as Geum Jan-Di
- Kim Hyun Joong as Yun Ji-Hu
Geum Jan-Di is a girl from a poor family but has an unrivaled sense of optimism and drive and is by chance admitted to a prestigious private high school. There she meets the infamous group of four good looking and rich boys who are known as F4. The group's leader is Koo Jun-Pyo, who is a spoiled heir to world-leading conglomerate Shinhwa. He is joined by mysterious and handsome Yun Ji-Hu, So Lee-Jeong, and Song Woo-Bin. In the beginning, Jun Pyo mistreats Jan Di (who gets attracted to Ji Hoo), but soons starts to develop feelings for her. Their love story moves from Seoul to New Caledonia to Macau.
You're Beautiful
- Released
- 2009
- Episodes
- 16
- Genre
- Romance, Music
- Top Casts
- Park Shin Hye as Ko Mi-Nyeo / Ko Mi-Nam
- Jang Geun Suk as Hwang Tae Kyeong
- Lee Hong Ki as Jeremy
- Jung Yong Hwa as Kang Shin-Woo
Go Mi Nyu has lived at an orphanage with her twin brother, Go Mi Nam, since childhood, after their father passed away. Years later, her brother becomes a music idol, and Mi Nyu lives in junior nun dorm to reach her dream of becoming a nun. Her idol twin brother Mi Nam, successfully wins the "A*N Entertaiment" vocal auditions for musical band "A*N.JELL", but Mi Nam must leave in order to correct his botched plastic surgery in the United States. Ma Hoon Yi (Mi Nam's manager, played by Kim In Kwon) approaches Mi Nyu to pose as Mi Nam while he recovers. Mi Nyu is against it at first, but agrees in order to find their mother. Mi Nyu posing as Mi Nam joins the band (A*N.JELL) and meets its members: Hwang Tae Kyung (Jang Geun Suk), Kang Shin Woo (Jung Yong-hwa) and Jeremy (Lee Hongki).
Even with the difficulties, it should be fine as long as Mi Nam comes back. Problem starts when Tae Kyung discovers Mi Nyu's sercret and threatens to reveal it.
Faith (The Great Doctor)
- Released
- 2012
- Episodes
- 24
- Genre
- Romance, Historical, Fantasy
- Top Casts
- Lee Min Ho as Choi Young
- Kim Hee Seon as Yoo Eun-Soo
- Yu Oh Seong as Ki Cheol
This drama shows the romance between a warrior from the ancient times and a female doctor from the modern times, their love transcending time and space. It will also tell the story about the process of making a true king.
Yoo Eun Soo (Kim Hee Sun) is a 33-year old plastic surgeon in the year 2012. She was originally a general surgeon, but quickly found that it was an overworked, under-paid profession and jumped ship to plastic surgery. Her dream is to someday open her own practice. But one day, Choi Young (Lee Min Ho) kidnaps her and takes her back to the Goryeo era, requesting that she use her medical skills to save the life of the Queen. Their ensuing love story is a long journey of faith that spans centuries and transforms them both, as Eun Soo finds true purpose in her medical knowledge for the first time while Young is inspired to live again through Eun Soo's determination, indefatigable cheerfulness and love of life.