Business Proposal is another noteworthy 2022 Korean drama. Adapted from an eponymous webtoon, the show centers around a woman named Shin Ha-ri, who finds herself on a blind date with the CEO of her company . In order to save face, Ha-ri introduces herself with a fake name, setting off a chain of hilarious misunderstandings.
My Liberation Notes follows three siblings — Mi-jeong (Kim Ji-won), Chang-hee (Lee Min-ki) and Gi-jeong (Lee El) — as they navigate life in the outskirts of the Seoul Metropolitan Area in Sanpo Village. The three come across Mr. Gu (Son Seok-goo), an often drunk, mysterious man who suddenly appears in their neighborhood.
In 1997, South Korea plunged into the Asian Financial Crisis, which Koreans to this day call the “IMF Crisis” due to harsh bailout terms imposed by the International Monetary Fund. It’s amidst this historical trauma that Twenty One Twenty Five kicks off with its story of two young lovers.
The starriest drama of the year was also one of its most easy-going and relaxing. Set in the colourful seaside town of Seogwipo on Jeju Island, Our Blues features Lee Byung-hun, Kim Woo-bin, Han Ji-min and many others as hardy island fishmongers, fishers and merchants going about their lives.
Our choice for the #1 top Korean drama of 2022 goes to Extraordinary Attorney Woo. We picked the show not only because it’s entertaining, but also because it’s sparked more societal reckoning than any other K-drama on this list.
This colourful romantic fantasy epic from the minds of the Hong Sisters, known for previous hits such as Hotel del Luna, features a cast of young stars romancing one another and battling each other with magic in the fictional land of Daeho
Song Joong-ki rewrote the record books in the smash hit Reborn Rich, in which he plays a betrayed corporate stooge who is reborn as the youngest heir of the very corporation he had worked for, and proceeds to use his knowledge of the future to exact his revenge.
Based on a popular webtoon, All of Us Are Dead is a zombie apocalypse series set in a high school in South Korea. As the zombie epidemic breaks out in the country and across the world, surviving students are forced to stick together as they escape those infected.
A fantasy mystery drama about a man and woman who share the same emotional state.Yeo Jin-goo and Moon Ga-young shared some of the best on-screen chemistry this year in Link: Eat, Love, Kill, a bright romantic comedy with some surprisingly macabre flourishes.
Based on the international bestseller of the same name by Min Jin Lee, the series traces the trials and tribulations of a Korean woman forced to move to Japan during the colonial era in the early 20th century, and the alienation her family continues to feel through subsequent generations.