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Andante (2017)

Genre: Drama, Romance, Youth

High school student Lee Shi Kyung suddenly moves out to the countryside and transfers to a mysterious high school. Getting through unfamiliar experiences, he realizes the meaning of life and love.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 2.9%
While You Were Sleeping (2017)

Genre: Law, Romance, Supernatural

A supernatural romance about a woman who can see the future in her dreams, and a prosecutor who fights to stop these future events from happening.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 11.8%
Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016)

Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Melodrama, Romance, Youth

Hae Soo, a 25-year-old girl from modern era got transported back to Goryeo dynasty and got trapped in the conflicts and struggles between princes of Wang’s House.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 12.2%
I Am Not a Robot (2017)

Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi

Kim Min Gyu has wealth and success, but lives an isolated life due to his allergy of people. He then meets and falls in love with a girl who is pretending to be a robot for her ex-boyfriend, a genius robots professor.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 5.3%
Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (2017)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Do Bong Soon is said to be so strong that touching something carelessly can result in a breakage. Meanwhile, In Dook Goo has been harboring an unrequited crush on her since elementary school.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 10.61%
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo (2017)

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Youth, Sports

A competitive swimmer crosses paths with his childhood friend, a rising weightlifting star, and realizes that she has a secret crush on his cousin.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 6.3%
Fight for My Way (2017)

Genre: Workplace, Slice of Life, Romance

A former taekwando champion and an information desk worker aspire to chase their dreams in a world that isn& #39;t kind to those with mediocre credentials.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 14.4%
Suspicious Partner (2017)

Genre: Legal, Crime, Rom-Com

Life turns on a dime for a thriving prosecutor after meeting his new perking intern, who becomes a prime murder suspect soon after joining his office.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 11.7%
Introverted Boss (2017)

Genre: Romance, Comedy

Eun Hwan-Ki, who is extremely introverted, is the CEO of a public relations company. Chae Ro-Woon, an energetic woman, begins to work at his company but her only interest is in revealing who Eun Hwan-Ki really is.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 3.4%
My Secret Romance (2017)

Genre: Comedy, Romance

A nutritionist gets entangled in a series of misunderstandings with her new chaebol bossㅡwho turns out to be someone whom she slept with in the past.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 5.8%
Rich Man (2018)

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Lee Yoo Chan, CEO of Next One, who can’t distinguish faces meets a woman who is unforgettable. Kim Bo Ra came to Seoul to attend college. With her imminent graduation, her dream is to work for Next One.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 1.9%
Something in the Rain (2018)

Genre: Romance

Reunited with her best friend& #39;s younger brother, who& #39;s back from a stint abroad, a recently dumped woman begins to see him in a new light.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 8.3%
Are You Human (2018)

Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance, Politics, Mystery

When a prominent brain scientist and artificial intelligence expert is forced to part with his son, she creates an android robot in his exact likeness.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 9.9%
Miss Hammurabi (2018)

Genre: Drama, Law

Park Cha Oh Reum, in her mid-20s, works as a rookie judge and follows & #39;an-eye-for-an-eye& #39; principle. Dealing with cases, she and her colleagues, including Im Ba Reun, grow as people.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 5.9%
Welcome to Waikiki (2018)

Genre: Comedy, Sitcom

Three men run the guest house Waikiki in Itaewon, South Korea. Their guest house is facing bankruptcy and then a mysterious baby and single mother appear at Waikiki.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 2.7%
Witch& #39;s Love (2018)

Genre: Rom-Com, Mystery, Fantasy

Kang Cho-hong is an innocent witch that lives with her two grandmas. Ma Sung-Tae is a business man that had a childood trauma. He and Kang Cho-hong meets and their life will never be the same.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 2.2%
My ID is Gangnam Beauty (2018)

Genre: Rom-Com, Coming of Age

Bullied for her looks, Mi Rae gets plastic surgery hoping for a better kind of life but faces new challenges in college.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 6.186%
Guardian: The Lonely and Great God; Goblin (2017)

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Drama

In his quest for a bride to break his immortal curse, a 939-years-old guardian of souls meets a grim reaper and sprightly student with a tragic past.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 20.986%
Still 17 (2018)

Genre: Romance

After waking from a 13-year coma, a woman adjust to a life as a 30-year-oldㅡand reconnects with a man who blames himself for what happened to her.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 12.5%
Descendants of the Sun (2016)

Genre: Romance, Melodrama, Action

After a chance meeting in a hospital, an ardent soldier falls for a gifted surgeon. Opposing philosophies tear them apart, but fate has other plans.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 38.8%
100 Days My Prince (2018)

Genre: Historical, Rom-Com

Lee Yool falls off a cliff and nearly dies in an attempted assassination. He loses his memory, and wanders for 100 days under a new name and personality. During this period, he meets Hong Sim in Joseon.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 15.169%
When Time Stopped (2018)

Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Drama

Joon Woo, a person who has the ability to stop time, finds the true meaning of life after his encounter with Kim Sun Ah, who only seems like she’s on a power trip on the outside.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 0.1% (pilot)
Memories of the Alhambra (2018)

Genre: Fantasy, Suspense, Sci-fi, Romance, Melodrama

While looking for the cryptic creator of an innovative augmented-reality game, an investment firm executive meets a woman who runs a hostel in Spain

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 13.592%
Hwayugi: A Korean Oddysey (2017)

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy, Horror

A self-serving mythical creature& #39;s bid for invincibility backfires when he finds himself at the mercy of a woman who can see otherworldly beings.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 7.749%
My First First Love: Season 1 (2019)

Genre: Romance, Coming of Age

Yoon Tae-oh is a college student whose friends decide to unexpectedly move into his house, due their own individual reasonings.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> ㅡ
Romance is a Bonus Book (2019)

Genre: Romance, Comedy

Cha Eun Ho is the youngest chief editor at a publishing company where he meets Kang Dan Yi who was once a popular copywriter. As they meet each other time and time again, a love story begins to unfold.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 8.177%
Clean with Passion for Now (2019)

Genre: Romance, Comedy

An unexpected romance blooms between a germophobic CEO of a cleaning company and a woman not prone to neatness.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 3.7%
Touch Your Heart (2019)

Genre: Romance, Comedy

Hoping to make a comeback after a bad scandal, an actress agrees to research a new role by taking a job as a secretary for a prickly attorney.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 5.6%
He is Psychometric (2019)

Genre: Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, Procedural, Rom-Com

After a traumatic experience that leaves him the ability to see the past through touch, a young man uses his powers to search for answers about the past.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 3.4%
Hotel Del Luna (2019)

Genre: Dark Fantasy, Romance, Comedy

When he& #39;s invited to manage a hotel for dead souls, an elite hotelier gets to know the establishment& #39;s ancient owner and her strange world.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 13.9%
Angel& #39;s Last Mission: Love (2019)

Genre: Romance, Fantasy

Dan is a troublemaker and an optimist angel who receives a mission. If he succeeds, he can return to Heaven. His mission is to find true love for Yeon Seo, but Dan soon falls in love with her.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 9.7%
Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency (2019)

Genre: Historical, Romance, Comedy

When a peasant suddenly becomes a king and unable to wed his first love, he turns to Joseon& #39;s top matchmakers to transform her into a noblewoman.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 4.9%
Moment of Eighteen (2019)

Genre: Coming of Age, Drama, Life, School

18-year-olds, taking a realistic look into the moments of their lives. Choi Jun Woo, a goofy, young man& #39;s story unfolds as he transfers schools and is thrown into a new environment.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 5.1%
About Time (2018)

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Melodrama

Our heroine will have the unfortunate ability to see the "life clocks" of everyone around her, including herself, and the hero will somehow be able to stop her "time" without lifting a finger.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 2.8%
Love Alarm: Season 1 (2019)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Friendship, Romance, School

A love triangle between a hardworking girl and two boys who like her is complicated by the release of a phone app that notifies you every time a person who likes you is within 10 meters.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> ㅡ
Extraordinary You (2019)

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy

A teen seeks to change the fate that& #39;s been set for her after gaining awareness that she& #39;s just a side-character in a made-up world.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 4.1%
Where Stars Land (2018)

Genre: Romance, Melodrama

While dealing with the daily crises of a busy airport, two polar-opposite employees fall in live while helping each other face their own insecurities.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 10.8%
The Tale of Nokdu (2019)

Genre: Historical, Romance, Comedy

Nok Du is a man with extraordinary ambition to experience the big, wide world. After being swept up in an incident, he disguises himself as a woman to join a mysterious all-woman community and meets Dong Joo.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 8.3%
Dr. Romantic (2016)

Genre: Medical, Melodrama, Romance

An eccentric, triple board-ceritfied virtuoso surgeon leaves a top job in Seoul and ends up at a provincial hospital, where he mentors young doctors

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 29%
Dr. Romantic 2 (2020)

Genre: Medical, Melodrama, Romance

New people appear and his students had to leave the hospital. He goes to a huge hospital himself to solve the manpower shortage at Doldam Hospital, where he finds two people who resemble his former students.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 27.2%
Crash Landing on You (2019)

Genre: Romantic Drama

A paragliding mishap drops a South Korean heiress in North Koreaㅡand into the life of an army officer, who decides he will help her hide.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 23.2%
Itaewon Class (2020)

Genre: Drama

The story of am ex-convict, Sae Ro Yi, whose life has been turned upside-down after getting expelled from school and his father& #39;s death. Following his father& #39;s steps, he opens his bar-restaurant in Itaewon, along with his colleagues.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 18.4%
Vagabond (2019)

Genre: Spy, Action, Thriller, Romance

When his nephew dies in a plane crash, stunt man Cha Dal Geon resolves to find out what happened, with the help of covert operative Go Hae Ri.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 13.1%
Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung (2019)

Genre: Historical, Rom-Com, Drama

Goo Hae Ryung is an intern to become a palace historian. Along with the fight of the female palace historians, the drama will tell her romance with Prince Lee Rim who has a secret of his own.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 7.6%
Legend of the Blue Sea (2016)

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy

Shim Chung is a mermaid who finds herself transplanted to modern times. She is caught by Heo Joon Jae, a charming con artist who is the doppelgänger for Kim Moon, son of a nobleman from the Joseon Dynasty.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 23%
Kingdom: Season 1 & 2 (2020)

Genre: Historical, Horror, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller, Zombies

A crown prince is sent on a suicide mission to investigate a mysterious plague that’s spreading across his country.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> ㅡ
Sky Castle (2019)

Genre: Satire, Drama, Black Comedy

Housewives living at the exclusive Sky Castle community use every way they can think of to get their children into Seoul National University.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 24.6%
Temperature of Love (2017)

Genre: Romance, Melodrama

After talking online, a writer and a chef& #39;s budding romance begins when they meet in real life. However, they quickly find out how little they know about each other.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 12.9%
Prison Playbook (2017)

Genre: Dark Comedy

With only days before his major league baseball debut, pitcher Kim Je-hyeok unexpectedly lands himself behind bars. He must learn to navigate his new world with its own rules if he wants to survive.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 12.29%
Hi Bye, Mama! (2020)

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

When the ghost of a woman gains a second chance at life for 49 days, she reappears in front of her remarried husband and young daughter.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 6.8%
W: Two Worlds (2016)

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Suspense, Thriller, Supernatural Gothic

A surgical resident is pulled into the webtoon world of W, which was created by her father, and becomes entangled in a murder mystery.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 17.8%
Reply 1988 (2015)

Genre: Family, Romance, Comedy

Follows the lives of 5 families living on the same street in a neighbourhood called Ssangmundong in Seoul. A nostalgic look back at the year 1988.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 19.6%
Mr. Sunshine (2018)

Genre: Historical, Romance, Melodrama

Eugene was born into slavery in Joseon but escaped to the US after the 1871 Shinmiyangyo. Years after, he discovers a plot by foreign forces to colonize Joseon, embroiled in the fight for its sovereignty.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 21.82%
Extracurricular (2020)

Genre: Teen Drama, Crime

Determined to escape a dead-end life, a gifted high school student turns to a life of crime to ensure he can pay for college.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> ㅡ
Hymn of Death (2018)

Genre: Historical, Romance, Melodrama

During the Japanese colonial period, married playwright Kim U-jin falls in love with soprano Yun Sim-deok, one of Korea& #39;s notable New Women

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 8.9%
Chicago Typewriter (2017)

Genre: Fantasy, Romance

Three people living during the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1930s are reincarnated in present day.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 3.8%
Memorist (2020)

Genre: Mystery, Crime, Fantasy

With the power to read people& #39;s memories, Dong Baek solves crimes as a detective in the police force. He teams up with talented criminal profiler Han Sun-mi to stop the killer and prevent further deaths.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 4.05%
Who Are You: School 2015 (2015)

Genre: Teen, School, Mystery

An orphan assumes the identity of her twin sister after she goes missing but a bully who followed her from their old orphanage threatens to expose the truth

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 11.7%
Encounter (2020)

Genre: Melodrama, Romance

Two young people, that comes from different backgrounds, give up everything to be together

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 12.9%
365: Repeat the Year (2020)

Genre: Mystery, Fantasy

A story where ten people get the chance to go back in time by one year, but unexpectedly mysterious situations start to arise when their fates are changed and twisted in the process.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 5.7%
Signal (2016)

Genre: Procedural, Drama, Thriller

A cold-case profiler in 2015 and a detective in 1989 work together to solve a series of related murders spanning three decades using a special walkie-talkie to communicate with each other.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Red circle" aria-label="Emoji: Red circle"> 13.541%
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