Article: Ten K-Dramas Where The Leads Do Not Have A Family

Family plays a vital role in one’s life and K-dramas have been successful in showing this. But they have also shown how difficult it is, to survive alone in this harsh world. Here are a few dramas where the lead of the show does not have a family, and how they overcome hardships.

1. My Name

Yoon Ji Woo (Han So Hee) lives with her father, a gangster. But he is shot by a mysterious person. To get revenge, Ji Woo trains under a drug lord and joins the police force. Throughout the story she works hard to find the person who killed her only family.

2. Start-Up

Han Ji Pyeong (Kim Seon Ho), grew up in an orphanage. But due to his skills and intelligence, he is now the CEO of an investment company. He suffered a lot when he is sent away after turning eighteen but is helped by a kind old lady.

3. Train

Seo Do Won (Yoon Shi Yoon) and Han Seo Kyung (Kyung Soo Jin) lost their fathers on the same day and since then they have taken care of each other. They are searching for the killer connected to these deaths but soon discover the presence of a parallel world.

4. Thirty But Seventeen

Woo Seo Ri (Shin Hye Sun) gets into a coma at the age of seventeen and wakes up when she is thirty. She finds it strange that her family, her uncle and aunt who she lived with, never visited her in the hospital. She decides to search for them.

5. Come And Hug Me

Han Jae Yi’s (Jin Ki Joo) parents were brutally murdered when she was young. She even suffers from ‘post-traumatic stress disorder’ because of this and aspires to become an actress like her mother. She has an adoptive brother who wants to protect her out of gratitude towards his adoptive parents.

6. W

Kang Cheol (Lee Jong Suk), is a skilled shooter. But he is falsely accused for murdering his family. Something he does not know is the fact that he is a webtoon character. Kang Cheol can find the killer only when the writer decides and he has to go on with the story.

7. Dr Romantic 2

Seo Woo Jin (Ahn Hyo Seop) is the only survivor when his family committed suicide and indirectly decided to kill him. Desperate to live a good life and pay back the loans that caused his parents’ death, he becomes a doctor. But his life hasn’t changed much.

8. You’re All Surrounded

Eun Dae Gu (Lee Seung Gi) witnessed his mother’s murder when he was young. He spends his teenage years in an orphanage. He joins the police force to find the killer. Here, he has to work with the detective whom he thinks is responsible for his mother’s death.

9. He Is Psychometric

Lee Ahn (Park Jin Young) loses his parents to a fire accident in their apartment. He is adopted by a kind man who treats him like his brother. Lee Ahn gradually discovers that he has the power to read people’s minds if he comes in contact with their skin or anything they have touched.

10. Missing: The Other Side

Kim Wook (Go Soo) believes that his mother abandoned him when he was young. He searches for her but later develops anger. Years later, when he enters the village of the missing, where the dead whose bodies have not been discovered reside, he sees his mother.