If you are a first timer to Korean Drama's you may be wondering which one's should you spend your time on. This is a list of all of the best Korean Drama's I have watched over the past year. If you are already a fan of Korean Drama's check to see if your favorite made the cut.
1. Mask
Starring Park Soo Ae and Joo Ji Hoon
Desperate to distance herself from her father's crippling debt, Byun Ji Sook (Soo Ae) begins to pose as Seo Eun Ha (Soo Ae), a wealthy socialite with an eerie resemblance to Ji Sook. While playing her new role, she has a chance meeting with Min Woo (Joo Ji Hoon), a cynical CEO desperate to escape his privileged world. Invigorated by her atypical "rich girl" personality, Min Woo quickly falls for Eun Ha, but how long can Ji Sook keep up the charades before Min Woo discovers she's an impostor?
2. Oh My Venus
Starring So Ji Sub and Shin Min Ah
Kim Young-Hois a personal trainer for Hollywood stars. Even though he comes from a wealthy family background, he suffered a devastating injury during his childhood days. Now, he overcomes his problems with patience and stubbornness. Kang Joo-Eun is 33-years-old lawyer. She has struggled to support her family. Now, Kang Joo-Eun is overweight and not so attractive.
3. Wanted
Starring Kim Ah Joong and Uhm Tae Woong
Jung Hye In (Kim Ah Joong), one of South Korea’s most popular actresses, encounters her most challenging role when her son is kidnapped and held ransom in a twisted scheme on reality TV. Forced to carry out the kidnapper’s every whim live across the nation, Jung Hye In has to muster the performance of a lifetime in order to save her son’s life.
Starring Jo In Sung and Gong Hyo Jin
Jang Jae Yeol (Jo In Sung) divides his time between being a mystery writer and a radio DJ, but his every waking moment is consumed by his obsessive compulsive disorder. In search of treatment, he's placed in the care of Ji Hye Soo (Gong Hyo Jin), who specializes in psychiatry because of her inability to perform surgeries. Through intimate sessions, they come to realize just how much healing they both need — and that they are more than doctor and patient.
Starring Gu Hye Sun and Lee Min Ho
At the prestigious Shin Hwa High School in Seoul, four boys comprise the group known as the Flower Four. The crème de la crème of the most powerful families from Korea, these spoiled, rebellious, flirtatious and cruel boys rule the school. Enter Jan Di, a girl of humble upbringing who is accepted into Shin Hwa on a swimming scholarship after accidentally saving the life of a Shin Hwa student. Not one for following the rules blindly, Jan Di faces immediate scrutiny from the entire school and in particular the boys of the Flower Four and their leader, Goo Jun Pyo, who dislikes her instantly. Through her charm and undying optimism, she slowly begins to capture the hearts of those around her, even the icy boys of the F4.
Starring Jo Jung Suk and Gong Hyo Jin
Depicts the fierce competition at a broadcasting station and the love between anchor Lee Hwa-Shin and weather caster Pyo Na-Ri.
7. Doctor Crush
Starring Park Shin Hye and Kim Rae Won
When Hye-Jung was young, her life was difficult. She was good at fighting, but also studied well. Overcoming her tough situation, she is now a doctor.
Starring Park Seo Joon and Hwang Jung Eum
Following the collapse of her family’s publishing business, Kim Hye Jin (Jung Da Bin) lost everything, including her beauty, while her old acquaintance Ji Sung Joon (Yang Han Yeol) transformed from an unattractive geek into a handsome fashion editor. When the former rich girl (Hwang Jung Eum) and late bloomer (Park Seo Joon) are reunited at a fashion powerhouse, their reversed fortunes quickly become more drama than the publication can handle.
9. Pinocchio
Starring Park Shin Hye and Lee Jong Suk
Amidst a sea of young news reporters competing for the next scoop, Choi In Ha (Park Shin Hye) finds herself in a tricky position, as she cannot tell a lie without a dead giveaway: breaking into a violent hiccup. Meanwhile, first-year reporter Choi Dal Po (Lee Jong Suk) proves his remarkable memory and communication skills by downplaying his good looks with a dumpy veneer of bad hair and clothing. But in a world where hard facts rule, how far can you get by lying?
10. Coffee Prince
Starring Yoon Eun Hye and Gong Yoo
Han Kyul is a smart young man who hates to be tied down to one career in his life. Abhorring the idea of joining the family business, he is ordered by his grandmother to manage a cafe. Unable to disobey his grandmother, he reluctantly takes over the responsibility of running a cafe and begins to immerse himself in the gourmet coffee business. One day, he meets Eun Chan, a cheerful girl who has an unpredictable personality, and learns the meaning of true love.
11. City Hunter
Starring Lee Min Ho and Park Min Young
Lee Yun-seong was trained by his father's best friend in order to get revenge on the government for killing everyone in his father's unit.
12. You're Beautiful
Starring Jang Geun Suk and Park Shin Hye
Tae Kyung and On Yu are in search of a new member for their idol group, A.N.JELL. However, Mi Nam suffers an injury at the last moment. So Mi Nyu, his twin sister, is asked to step in for her brother. The rest of the drama follows the behind-the-scenes life of an idol group.
13. Oh My Ghostess
Starring Park Bo Young and Jo Jung Suk
Na Bong Sun (Park Bo Young) may be a skilled chef, but she lacks the self-esteem to shine professionally and socially. Beyond her cooking talents, however, is an uncanny ability to communicate with ghosts. One day, her mystic senses go out of control when the seductive ghost of Shin Soon Ae (Kim Seul Gi) possesses her. Imbued with a fiery new "personality," Bong Sun starts turning heads, including that of Kang Sun Woo (Jo Jung Suk), the hottest chef in town and Bong Sun's secret crush!
Starring Joo Sang Wook and Han Ye Seul
As the heir to a large company, Han Tae Hee (Joo Sang Wook) has everything he could possibly want — except for his long lost love. But instead of nursing his heartache like a sensible person, Tae Hee enlists Sa Geum Ran (Han Ye Seul), whom he transforms from an overweight ugly duckling to a gorgeous bombshell named Sara. In the process of falling in love with his "creation" he discovers that even though it appears that money can buy just about everything, it can't buy love or heal emotional scars.
15. Blood
Starring Ahn Jae Hyun and Gu Hye Sun
Park Ji Sang (Ahn Jae Hyun) is no mere surgeon at the nation's top oncological center: in fact, he's a vampire. Under the watchful eye of hospital director Lee Jae Yook (Ji Jin Hee), Ji Sang manages to stave off his bloodlust, especially when his patients are at their most vulnerable. But when the beautiful surgeon Yoo Ri Ta (Gu Hye Sun) joins the team, Ji Sang discovers a slow-burning desire that could put his whole world at stake. Could there be more than hunger coursing through his veins — perhaps, love?
16. The Master's Sun
Starring So Ji Sub and Gong Hyo Jin
Joo Joong Won (So Ji Sub) is a rapacious CEO who is only concerned about money. His secretary, Tae Gong Sil (Gong Hyo Jin), is a dark and reticent insomniac who is burdened with the ability to see ghosts. Joong Won and Gong Sil are an unlikely duo in every regard, but they share one thing in common: they are both intensely crippled personalities that need a lot of help. Can the money hungry Joong Won recognize priorities beyond the dollar sign, and can the lonely Gong Sil ever live a life without fear? Together, strange as it may be, it’s possible in this unique dance between yin and yang.
17. I Miss You
Starring Yoon Eun Hye and Park Yoo Chun
Young Han Jung Woo and Lee Soo Yeon fall in love at the tender age of 15, only to be painfully torn from one another. They pull at fate's heartstrings when they are finally able to meet again as adults. Han, a homicide detective, and Lee, a glamorous fashion designer, pick up right where they left off. If their destined love for one another can't be extinguished through time and distance, can anything drive them apart once again?
18. Pretty Man
Starring Jang Geun Suk and Lee Jin Eun
Hands down, Dok Go Ma Te (Jang Geun Suk) is the prettiest man in the world. And he knows it! Coupled with his ambitions of power, riches and splendor, Ma Te sets out to use his good looks for equally good money. Along the way, he meets Hong Yu Ra (Han Chae Young), an ex-heiress who senses a kindred gold digger in Ma Te and thus agrees to be his mentor in social climbing. Yu Ra sets Ma Te on a diabolically comical mission to seduce 10 vastly different women: after “conquering" each woman, Ma Te absorbs their individual, specialized abilities. But when the poor, but adorable Kim Bo Tong (IU) surfaces with a huge crush on Ma Te, the rules of the game change.
19. Sensory Couple
Starring Park Yoo Chun and Shin Se Kyung
3 years ago, a man lost his younger sister in the "Bar Code" murder case. Since then he has lost his senses. A girl miraculously survived the "Bar code" murder case. Since then, she has lost her memory, but also has gained the ability to see smells.
20. Goblin: The Lonely And Great God
Starring Gong Yoo and Kim Go Eun
The fantasy tale between a goblin who needs a mortal bride to ends his immortal life, an amnesiac grim reaper who stays together with the goblin to oversees the passing souls, and a human woman who suddenly appears claimed to be the goblin's bride, who actually destined to be killed.
Starring Park Bo Gum and Kim Yoo Jung
Hong Ra-On disguises herself as a man and counsels men on dating. Due to a love letter she wrote for a client, she meets Crown Prince Hyomyeong. Hong Ra On is unaware that he is the Crown Prince and Hyomyeong is unaware that Hong Ra On is a woman. The Crown Prince becomes interested in Hong Ra On. His eunuchs become aware of this and attempt to get Hong Ra On to become one of them.
22. Greatest Love
Starring Cha Seung Won and Gong Hyo Jin
Goo Ae Jung (played by Gong Hyo Jin) is a former girl group member whose popularity has waned despite her sweet personality. Dokko Jin (Cha Seung Won) is the top action star in Korea who privately has an arrogant side. When Goo Ae Jung enters a variety show that fakes marriages between celebrities and "normal people," she gets entangled in a love square with her ex-bandmate Kang Se Ri, Dokko Jin, and adorable Eastern medicine doctor Yoon Pil Joo.
23. The Man Living In Our House
Starring Soo Ae and Kim Young Kwang
Hong Na-Ri works as a flight attendant. Her mother passed away 10 months ago and she doesn't have any other immediate family members. Hong Na-Ri returns to her hometown to visit her mother's grave. There, she sees a young man at her mother's grave. The man, Go Nan-Gil, introduces himself as her father. Before Hong Na-Ri's mother died, she married Go Nan-Gil. He now lives at her mother's house and runs the small dumpling restaurant that her mother ran.
24. Someone Like You
Starring Kingone Wang and Kirsten Ren
After losing his fiancee Liang Luo Han (Kirsten Ren) and eyesight in a tragic accident, Fang Zhan Cheng (Kingone Wang) discovers his nurse Wang Yu Xi (Kirsten Ren) possesses the same voice as Luo Han and quickly falls for her. But Zhan Cheng's new romance is complicated by his stepsister Xie Lei Lei (Katie Chen) and Luo Han's heart donor recipient Xu Ya Ti (Nita Lei), both of whom are also in love with him. Troubling matters further, Zhan Cheng and Yu Xi may share a damning connection.
