Have you ever had one of those phases where nothing seems to interest you, and you feel like a sack lying in the corner? It’s almost as if your life could not get any worse, and you’ve reached the end of your youth. Everything around you is boring, and even getting up feels tiring. It feels like you’ve lost the spark in your life, and it’s so hard to rekindle it back again. Well, you need not worry about that anymore. We are here to bring to you just the perfect solution to get rid of your boredom. Here we have the Top 10 K-dramas You Should Watch to Get Out of Your K-drama Slump!
1. Hometown Cha Cha Cha
Hometown Cha Cha Cha is a light-hearted romance story that is perfect for someone who’s looking to relieve stress! It is about a dentist, Yoon Hye-Jin, who quit her job and opened her clinic in the countryside. She starts an entirely different life after meeting Hong Du-Sik, who is her exact opposite. It takes her a while to shift from her regular routine and fit into the country’s life. Her experience was mixed and she was not off to a good start. However, as the story proceeds, she learns to love everything about her new life, which also included Hong Du-Sik.
2. Celebrity
Seo A-Ri is a door-to-door makeup seller who used to be extremely rich until her family went broke. She was a down-to-earth person until she met her former high school classmate, Oh Min-hye, who was a famous influencer on Instagram. After reconnecting with Min-hye, A-ri slowly started gaining social media attention and soon outshone most of the presently popular online sensations. But her journey to becoming popular came with enormous hardships. She initially had to hide her everyday life in order to fit in with the standards. Even after entering the limelight, she faced a lot of hardships that tested her morale as well.
3. Reborn Rich
Yoon Hyun-Woo was a loyal employee who was falsely framed for embezzlement and shot to death. However, he was reborn several years earlier as Jin do Jun, the youngest grandson of the Soonyang group, the company Hyun Woo worked for. He uses this opportunity to save his actual family from falling into the depths of poverty and save his mother from dying. He did this by buying Soonyang for himself with his own money. However, easier it is said than done, he witnessed the chase of the entire Jin family behind wealth and used it against them in order to achieve his goal.
4. Vincenzo
Vincenzo is the story of a Korean-Italian mafia lawyer named Vincenzo Cassano, who came to his homeland in search of gold which was hidden away somewhere. His motive was relatively simple as he only needed to get the gold and return. However, the process was not so simple. In Korea, he meets another lawyer, Hong Cha-young. Together, they bring people justice while facing enormous hardships.
5. 2521
Na Hee-do was a burnt-out gifted child who decides to restart her fencing career after being inspired by her mentor and her rival, Ko yu Rim. She meets with a hardworking son of a wealthy family, Baekk Yi Jin, who lost their wealth due to the IMF crisis. The two develop feelings for each other that were like something they had never before. Their love life was complicated and confusing. Miscommunication was at its peak, and their emotions were unsorted, which made their relationship extremely difficult.
6. A Business Proposal
Shin Ha-ri was to go on a blind date to fill in for her friend, who was forcefully set up by her father. However, she learns that her date was the boss of the company she worked at. Initially, she hides her true identity from him. However, it did not take him long enough to find out about her lie, and he decided to catch her red-handed. In the process, he realizes he has fallen in love with her. However, due to their social statuses, they hide their relationship to avoid controversies.
7. The Glory
The Glory was one of the most anticipated k-dramas of 2023 and it proved to be worth the hype. The storyline depicts high school bullying, which is quite common in Korean high schools. Dong-eun was bullied during her high school years. Her mother left her, and she had to manage her life and education alone. She works hard all her teen and young adult years and becomes a teacher in a school where her bully’s daughter studied as a part of her revenge plan. She decided to ruin the lives of all the people who made her teenage years hellish.
8. One Ordinary Day
Kim Hyun Soo is the son of a cab driver who snuck out with his dad’s taxi one day to go out with friends. However, on the way, a girl entered his cab, and the two ended up at her house- in her bed, sleeping together. When he woke up, he found her dead alongside him in the bed. He freaked out and decided not to inform the police. However, it did not take long for the police to hunt him down and blame the murder on him. He tries his best to claim innocence. Hyun Soo then meets a third-rate lawyer who decides to help his lost cause of a case.
9. Sky Castle
Sky Castle is a story that looks into the life of filthy rich people who have crazy materialistic demands. It shows the life of four women who pursue life of comfort in the Sky Castle Neighbourhood. The drama is full of satire and reveals how wealthy families secure their successes in order to become more prosperous and raise their children, regardless of the fact that it may destroy someone else’s life.
10. The Killer’s Shopping List
Dae Sung’s life completely changes one day when a dead body is found by an apartment building near his mother’s supermarket. That is when Dae Sung, his mother, and his girlfriend- a police officer, decide to look into the case and search for the killer by looking through the shopping receipts of the supermarket.
