The Korean entertainment industry is precisely known for K-pop music and K-dramas. How interesting it becomes when the k-dramas portray similar and close-to-reality stories about the rookie and popular idols. The Korean music industry is famous worldwide, and you definitely don't want to miss such K-dramas, which are fascinating and informative about how K-pop idols live. More or less, if you are curious how a celeb struggles to put his work up to the mark, balance his personality, manage the fanbase and relations with co-starts, and maintain privacy, this list is made for you.
1. So I Married An Anti-Fan
This idol x reporter romance drama takes a flight with some conflicts and arguments but flies with pure love as it goes ahead. Geun-Yeong loses her job due to vomiting on Hu Jun, the famous k-pop star's shoe. Geun-Yeong becomes a known anti-fan to the audience as well. Later they meet on a reality show and live together, as per the concept of the show- anti-fan living with the star.
2. Idol: The Coup
A K-pop idol girl group, Cotto Candy, is about to suffer disbandment due to losing support from their managing Entertainment company. The group is waiting for the last big shot to their success before they separate. They will prove their existence for once to the audience who have already tagged them as failed idols and their company who have neglected them enough. Let's hope they have a blast!
3. Imitation
The plot revolves around the romantic journey between the idols of the entertainment industry. It also focuses on the lives of K-pop idols and how they live and develop to become top bands. The love plot is between a member of a not-so-famous rookie girl group, Teaparty, and a member of a famous boy group, Shax. Not like they fall for each other at the very moment they see each other, but they develop feelings later.
4. Let Me Be Your Knight
Often we have seen celebs hiding their personal lives from the audience to maintain privacy. This drama is about an idol who is considered one of the world's greatest idols- Yoon Tae In from the band Luna. He suffers from Somnambulism (sleepwalking). In Yoon-Joo gets appointed as a live-in doctor to treat Tae's problem secretly but develops a romantic relationship with him.
5. Top Management
Eun-sung, who can foresee the future is a former girl idol trainee who decides to become the manager and struggles to uplift the boy idol group S.O.U.L even after the group gets caught up in a scandal. The drama has a love triangle and romance entangling around the unpredictable plot. This drama is an adaptation of the novel by Jang Woo-san about idols.
6. Dream High
It is very close to reality drama showcasing six students of Kirin Art High School working hard and training to become K-pop idols/stars. In this process of learning and conflicts, they achieve friendship and love. All six students have a different tale, to begin with, their talents like singing, dancing, and performing. Some are here to reach limitless heights, and some to pursue a regular school life.
7. The Liar & His Lover
Kang Han-Kyeol, played by Lee Hyun-Woo, is a composer-producer. He hides his personality and identity from the people around him. The high school student Yoon So Rim falls love-at-first-sight with Kang, unknown the fact that he is a music producer. She is fond of music and is a vocalist. This drama is a fusion of music, love, passion, career, and romance when the two become a couple.
8. Part-Time Idol
A music producer Jung Tae-Kyung, of an entertainment company, was on a break when he questioned the process of launching artists into stars. After his comeback, he decides to launch a co-ed pop idol group (a co-ed group means a mixed-gender group or mixed-sex group) and develop the trainees. This co-ed group shown is a fictional group but discovers many realities, crises, and drama.
9. You’re Beautiful
Ko Mi-Nyeo & Ko Mi-Nam are twin orphan brother-sister played by Park Shin-Hye. Ko Mi-Nyeo is about to become a nun until her brother's manager approaches her with a request. Ko Mi-Nam, Nyeo's brother, is an idol member of a famous band who is under recovering process due to his severe injury. Nyeo agrees to keep this injury a secret and replace him temporarily. The latter covers romance and various revealings.
10. Hit The Top
Yoon Si-Yoon, played Yoo Hyun-Jae, a pop idol who time-travels to 2017 and discovers his disappearance from 1994. In 2017, Hyun-Jae started investigating his disappearance and how he was presumed dead in 1994. Hyun, in 2017 later unfolds various incidents and relations like his manager, his son, and his girlfriend from the past 1994. Watch and solve the puzzle with confused Hyun-Jae and his career.
