South Korean culture has gained popularity nowadays, especially Korean dramas, idols, and Korean beauty tips. Many people are hooked on binge-watching Kdramas and movies, but if you are new then there is no better option than to start watching the dramas that help teach you to cure and deal with psychological and mental issues. So, here are the top 10 Korean dramas that deal with psychological traumas and how to fix the mental problems.
1. It’s Okay To Not Be Okay
A 2020 television series starring Seo Yea Ji, Kim Soo Hyun, and Oh Jung Se as the main characters in the series. It shows how one should deal with a person who has autistic disorder and who has past trauma. The message is very clear from series title itself that it is ok not to be ok.
2. Extraordinary Attorney Woo
Coming up next is a 2020 series dealing with autistic order. This series’ main cast is Park Yun Bin, Kang Tae OH, and Kang Ki Young. Despite being of high IQ, an attorney with autistism deals with her life interactions, when she gets ignored most of the time, she is depicted beautifully by Yun Bin as Woo Young Woo.
3. The Glory
A 2022 series, ‘The Glory,’ starring Song Hye-Kyo, Lim Ji-Yeon, and Lee Do-Hyun as the main characters of the series. This series deals with what happens to a person who has constantly been bullied and is still living with her past traumas to the end that she has to get revenge by whoever she was bullied. This thrilling nerve-breaking series is about a schoolteacher who wants vengeance on her school bullies and wants to destroy their lives just as they destroyed hers.
4. Strangers From Hell
In 2019, a South Korean television series starring Lee Dong-Wook, Im Si-Wan, and Kim JI-Wan was released. It was adapted from Naver Webtoon series. It unravels the question of whether our surroundings can influence who we become. The story is about how a person deals with his past traumas to make his future better.
5. Stranger
A South Korean crime thriller drama from 2017. It has two seasons starring Cho Seon-Woo, Bae Doona, and Yoon Se-Ah as the main characters. It is a story about a prosecutor who has lost the ability to feel any emotions with the help of a female detective who tackles a strange murder case. Still, he also has to deal with the rampant political corruption that undermines this particular case.
6. Her Private Life
Based on a webtoon series, ‘Noona Fan Dot Com’ is a 2019 romantic-comedy drama starring Kim Jae-Wook and Park Min-Young as the main characters. The main problem this series deals with is PTSD because of a traumatic encounter.
7. Save Me
The 2017 drama ‘Save Me’ starring WO Do-Hwan, Ok Taec-Yeon, Seo Yea-Ji, Jeon-ye Bin, Jo Sung-Ha, and Jo Jae-Yoon as main characters is a psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself trapped in a pseudo-religious cult.
8. Kill Me, Heal Me
This is a 2015 Korean drama series starring Ji Sung, Park Seo-Joon, and Hwang Jung-Eum as the main characters. It is a story about how the protagonist deals with dissociative identity disorder when he secretly hires a psychiatrist to deal with his multiple personality disorder.
9. Alchemy of Souls
A 2022 Korean drama television series has two seasons starring Lee Jae-Wook and Go Yoon Jung as the main characters. It is about the love and growth of two young mages as they overcome their twisted fates due to forbidden magic, which allows them to switch bodies.
10. Heat To Heart
Summing up the list of dramas that deal with mental illness is the 2015 series ‘Heart to Heart’ starring Choi Kang-Hee and Chung Jung-Myung. This drama shows a girl who suffers from a social anxiety disorder, a mother who is bipolar and has depression, and her sister who suffers from parental neglect. This drama shows how the protagonist and a psychiatrist deal with and cure all these illnesses and overcome her anxiety.
