2015-02-01

Korean entertainment industry is acclaimed for bringing some of the best dramas for viewers, with brilliant performances and amazing storylines. Many of these dramas have scaled heights of popularity among Korean fans.

Here is a list of top 10 most popular Korean dramas:

10. Personal Taste

Personal Taste is a well appreciated Korean drama, which deals with issues like sexuality and love. When Park Kae In is betrayed by her boyfriend, she stops trusting people. An architect Jeon Jin Ho comes into her life and then her house, pretending to be gay, and slowly starts falling in her. Is he able to break through the wall Park has built around herself, is what this drama is based on.

9. Faith

Faith is a popular Korean fantasy drama, which is an epic narration of an ancient warrior coming into the 21st century in search of a doctor who can cure the Queen. He gets hold of a famous plastic surgeon, who is kidnapped by him and taken to the past, when she refuses to accompany him. Whether he will choose love over war or she will compromise with her modern lifestyle, is to be seen in the drama.

8. My Princess

My Princess is a real life fairy tale story in which an orphaned girl living an ordinary life is pushed into a royal life, when it is discovered that she is a descendent of the emperor of Korea. A spoilt rich boy, who could be the prince had she not surfaced, is hired to teach her the royal etiquette. As he looks to eliminate her from his way to the throne, he actually falls for her.

7. Secret Garden

Next among the best Korean dramas comes, Secret Garden, which is about a rich heir, Kim Joo Wan and a young stunt woman, Gil Ra Im. Kim is an arrogant young man who keeps rejecting girl, but falls for Gil, who in turn admires Oscar, a pop star cousin of Kim. But things turn bizarre when the bodies of Kim and Gil are switched over in a magical accident and they are pushed to live into the lives of each other.

6. Love Rain

An acclaimed presentation by top Korean directors, Love Rain is a love story which spans two generations. While a couple in love is not able to meet and parts their ways, their children meet and fall in love. Whether they will be able to stay together or will they also be separated as their parents, is the storyline of Love Rain.

5. Playful Kiss

A love story, Playful Kiss is about a young girl who proposes the school genius but is rejected by him. Later, she has to move in to his house along with her father, after their house gets grounded in an earthquake. The warm and bubble girl tries to melt the heart of this arrogant boy all the way.

4. Mary Stayed out all Night

An award winning Korean drama, Mary Stayed out all night, is a story of a young couple who find home with each other, when the two of them pretend a fake marriage. The girl Mae Ri enlists the help of a young rocker,  Moo Kyul to play her husband to save herself from a marriage forced on her by her father. But the two of them end up falling in love.

3. Boys Over Flowers

This acclaimed Korean Drama is based on the story of a group of rich and spoilt brats of Shin Hwa School in Seoul. Known as the Flower Four, these boys are cruel and rebellious, yet they change for good after meeting a girl called Jan Di, who is accepted in the school on a scholarship. The girl with a humble background brings about a change of heart in these boys with her simplicity and charm.

2. Full House

Featuring next on the list of best Korean dramas is Full House, the story of an innocent girl, Han Ji Eun, who is tricked by her friends to leave Korea on the pretext of winning a trip to China. She meets a big movie star Lee Young on plane and takes his help to get back to Korea, only to know that he is now the owner of her house. She is forced to consent to marrying Lee for a year to get her home back. Gradually, Lee starts to fall for this girl with undying faith and optimism.

1. Coffee Prince

Coffee Prince is an award winning Korean drama which deals with the delicate issue of homosexuality. It is the story of a rich boy who hires another boy to act as his gay lover, to dissuade his family from getting him married. The twist comes when he starts developing feelings for this guy, only to realize that he is actually a girl disguises as a boy.

Heartstrings, Rooftop Prince, The Moon Embraces the Sun and Flower Boy ramen Shop are some other renowned Korean dramas, which have become very popular in the country.

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