8 Feel-good Romantic Korean Dramas to Watch with Bae
There’s nothing like a K drama to put your emotions into overdrive. If you want a good cry or a few butterflies fluttering in your stomach then here’s a list of some of the best feel-good, romantic Korean dramas that you can start binge watching right now.
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And interesting fantasy romance, where Lee Yeon (Lee Dong-wook) is a gumiho (nine-tailed fox) who sacrificed his life as a mountain god and guardian in order to protect the woman he loved. He lives among humans, searching for her reincarnation to reappear so he can protect her and help her lead a longer life.
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A beautiful love story that effectively addresses mental health issues. Moon Gang-tae (Kim Soo-hyun) is a busy health worker at a psychiatric ward who ends up falling in love when he meets children's book author Ko Moon-young (Seo Ye-ji). However, all’s not well in their story. The young author suffers from antisocial personality disorder but they get through their challenges together.
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This easy-peasy, light-hearted series is based on the hit U.S. TV series Younger. The story revolves around a young and gifted editor at a publishing company who’s life takes a dramatic turn when his childhood love joins his company.
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Unless you are living under a rock, you must have watched this. If you haven’t its never too late to hop on to the fan club of Hyun Bin and Son Ye-Jin, the lead pair of this romantic saga. A South Korean heiress, lands in North Korea by fluke and falls in love with a soldier there. Their passionate love and desperate bids to protect each other make for some delightful viewing.
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This fantasy love story between Hong Chun-gi and Ha Ram, a painter and an astrologer, respectively, centers around the fictional Dan dynasty. Ha Ram lost his vision in a childhood accident but can read the future by tracing the movement of the sky at night. Of course, they fall for each other, but their love story is not without difficulty.
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Strong Woman Do Bong Soon is a romantic tale peppered with a dose of humour. The series looks at a love triangle between a petite woman with gifted Herculean strength (Bong Soon), her high school friend (Guk Doo and the CEO of her company (Ahn Min Hyuk).
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College sweethearts Han Jae-hyun (Yoo Ji-tae) and Yoon Ji-soo (Lee Bo-young) lead very different lives now. But fate brings them face-to-face after 20 years. He’s now a successful businessman, while she's living a difficult life as a contract worker and a mother. They fall for each other and their old feelings are reignited.
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This series mixes fantasy with real world to give you a heart warming love story between a goblin and his human bride. The goblin spends years on earth searching for his bride who can release him from the immortal curse. But things get difficult when the two fall in love with each other and the end of curse means the goblin would cease to exist.