Watching Korean dramas is addictive. You can watch K-Dramas from dawn to dusk without a break. We all prefer Korean dramas over other series because the story line and casts are solid. The story line forces us to break the boundary of language. Reading subtitles is not a big concern for Korean drama fans now. Today, I am here to share with you a list of top 10 Korean dramas where the female leads win the stage.
1. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Investigation, Romance
Network: JTBC
Cast: Park Bo Young, Park Hyung-Sik, Ji Soo, An Woo-Yeon
Synopsis: Do Bong Soon (Park Bo-Young) is a small built girl with super strength. She hides her strength from others as she also wants to live a normal life like others. Do Bong Soon wants to be a video game creator but ends up as a bodyguard of Ahn Min-Hyuk (Park Hyung-Sik) who is the CEO of Ainsoft video game company.
2. Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo (2016)
Genre: Sports, Comedy, Romance, Friendship
Network: MBC
Cast: Lee Sung-Kyung, Nam Joo-Hyuk, Kyung Soo-Jin, Lee Jae-Yoon
Synopsis: Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo is one of the top 10 Korean Dramas of all time. Kim Bok Joo (Lee Sung-Kyung) is a collegiate weightlifter. She lives with her father and uncle. Jung Joon-Hyung (Nam Sung-Kyung) is a swimmer who is dealing with starting anxiety. Kim Bok Joo and Jung Joon-Hyun went to the same elementary school and met again at sports university.
3. Hotel Del Luna (2019)
Genre: Dark Fantasy, Romance, Comedy, Drama
Network: tvN
Cast: IU, Yeo Jin-Goo, P.O, Kang Mi-Na
Synopsis: Jang Man-Wol (IU) is a beautiful woman and the CEO of a hotel named Hotel Del Luna. This hotel takes only ghosts as its clients. Humans can enter this hotel only in a lunar eclipse. Gu Chan-Sung (Yeo Jin-Goo) is the manager and only human working in Hotel Del Luna.
4. When the Camellia Blooms (2019)
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Investigation, Crime, Thriller
Network: KBS2
Cast: Kong Hyo-Jin, Kang Ha-Neul, Kim Ji-Suk, Son Dam-Bi
Synopsis: Unlike other female lead dramas, this drama is not about a woman with superpowers or a businesswoman but a simple woman who is struggling against the society crap. You can watch this drama on Netflix.
Dong-Baek (Kong Hyo-Jin) is the owner of a bar-restaurant named Camellia in a countryside town Ongsan. She is a single mom who is working hard to take care of her son Pil-Gu. Her neighborhood always talks about her. She faces various troubles due to her male customers who often misbehaves with her. But a local police officer Hwang Yong-Sik (Kang Ha-Neul) fell in love with Dong-Baek’s charm. Meanwhile the story also roams around a serial killer.
5. Angry Mom (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family, Teen, Investigation, Crime
Network: MBC
Cast: Kim Hee-Seon, Ji Hyun-Woo, Kim You-Jung, Yoo Ye-Joo, Ji Soo
Synopsis: Jo Kang-Ja (Kim Hee-Seon) is a strong and legendary girl who is known as a troublemaker at Busan high school. But she drops out of school and becomes a responsible mother. Now her daughter Oh Ah-Ram (Kim Yoo-Jung) is a high schooler who is being bullied in the school. Jo Kang-Ja takes admission to her daughter’s school to find out why her daughter is having a tough time. She also learns about the dark politics of the education system.
6. Second 20’s (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Network: tvN
Cast: Choi Ji-Woo, Choi Won-Young, Kim Min-Jae, Lee Sang-Yoon
Synopsis: Ha No-Ra (Choi Ji-Woo) is a mother of 20-year-old son Min-Soo. She had Min-Soo (Kim Min-Jae) when she was a teen. No-Ra dropped out of her school and married Kim Woo-Cheol (Choi Won-Young). She takes admission in a university where her husband is a professor and her son is a student.
7. Crash Landing on You (2019)
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama, Military, Investigation
Network: tvN
Cast: Hyun Bin, Son Ye-Jin, Seo Ji-Hye, Kim Jung-Hyun
Synopsis: Crash landing on You is one of the top 10 Korean Dramas of 2019. Yoon Se-Ri (Son Ye-Jin) is the CEO of a company called Seri’s Choice. She is also an heiress of a big conglomerate. She accidentally reaches North Korea where she meets Ri Jeong-Hyeok (Hyun Bin). You can also read the full review of Crash Landing on You.
8. My Girlfriend is Gumiho (2010)
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Network: SBS
Cast: Shin Min-Ah, Lee Seung-Gi, No Min-Woo, Park Soo-Jin
Synopsis: Cha Tae-Woong (Lee Seung-Gi) is a college student who wants to become an action actor. One day he went to a Buddhist Temple and freed a Gumiho (Shin Min-Ah). Gumiho is a nine-tailed fox who looks like a beautiful girl but has rumored that she seduces men and eats their livers.
9. Search: WWW (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Network: tvN
Cast: Lim Soo-Jung, Lee Da-Hee, Jeon Hye-Jin
Synopsis: Bae Ta-Mi (Lim Soo-Jung) is the director of a web portal company Unicon. She is a very competitive person and sacrifices her personal life to work. But she falls into some bad company politics and leaves that company. Later she joined another web portal company Barro which is a competitor of Unicon.
10. Doctors (2016)
Genre: Medical, Comedy, Romance
Network: SBS
Cast: Park Shin-Hye, Kim Rae-Won, Lee Sung-Kyung, Ji Soo
Synopsis: Yoo Hye-Jung (Park Shin-Hye) is a tough teenager. She has a gangster type of personality. But her behavior changed when she met his mentor Hong Ji-Hong( Kim Rae-Won). Ji-Hong was a surgeon but due to a medical accident, he stopped medical practice and started his career as a biology teacher.
13 years later Hye-Jung becomes a well-known doctor who not only treats patients but also deals with gangsters at the hospital.
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