Drama Reviews - Our Unwritten Seoul (2025)

My pace of watching korean dramas has really dropped off, but I decided to pick up Our Unwritten Seoul due to rave reviews and the interesting premise of Park Boyoung acting as twins who swap places. Mirae is the twin who excelled academically and works in a big corporation in Seoul, while Miji excelled in sports but got a severe ankle injury which ended her running career, and now works odd jobs. One day, Miji finds out Mirae is suffering from workplace bullying, and they decide to swap places, just like old times. 

Drama Reviews - Squid Game (Season 3) (2025)

 

I was very late to this given my exams, and only watched in somewhere in November. Finally, the last season of Squid Game 3 to wrap up the series, though really it's more of a season 2b. We pick up right where we left off in Season 2 following the failed mutiny led by Gihun (Lee Jungjae), following the "betrayal" by Frontman (Lee Byunghun) and incompetence of Daeho (Kang Haneul). 

Drama Reviews - A Time Called You (2023)

A bit late to this but I'm a diehard fan of Jeon Yeobeen ever since Be Melodramatic, so this has been on my to-watch list for a long time. A Time Called You is about Han Junhee (Jeon Yeobeen) who loses her boyfriend Gu Yeonjun (Ahn Hyoseop) in a tragic accident in 2023, who then travels back to 1998 and inhabits the body of high school student Kwon Minju (also Jeon Yeobeen), where she meets Nam Siheon (also Ahn Hyoseop) who has the same face as her deceased boyfriend. Yes it's time travel, and its complicated! 

Drama Reviews - Squid Game (Season 2) (2024)

Putting my Netflix subscription into use after a long time to watch Squid Game season 2. An intro of this seems redundant since who hasn't watched it, but just to keep to the format - Squid Game is a secret game where 456 players are brought to an island to play games and have a chance to win money to pay off their debts if they survive. Season 2 follows Gi-hun (Lee Jungjae) after he won the game, but now is intent on returning to the game to stop it from within. 

Drama Reviews - Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born (2024)

 

Jeongnyeon is a drama set in the 1950s about a country bumpkin who has been gifted with an incredible voice, and her journey into the gukgeuk world by joining Maeran troupe, an all-female theatre troupe. 

Drama Reviews - Revenant (2023)

Revenant is a series about Gu Sanyoung (Kim Taeri) who gets possessed by an evil spirit and a folklore professor, Yeom Haesang (Oh Jungse) who tries to get rid of the evil spirit. 

The horror genre of the show means that it wouldn't usually be on my radar, but this had Kim Taeri, plus glowing reviews, so I decided to pick it up after getting Disney plus. It was a great decision because this show was excellent. 

Drama Reviews - Moving (2023)

 

I had heard many good things about Moving, which was this year's Baeksang Awards Drama Daesang winner, and finally got to watch it on Disney+. Based on a novel by Kang Full (who was also the screenwriter), the show is about humans with special abilities like flying, super strength, regeneration, xray vision, and is a 20-ep epic that follows two generations of superhumans. 

Drama Reviews - Pyramid Game (2024)

In Pyramid Game, Sung Sooji (Kim Ji Yeon/Bona from WJSN), a high school student who transfers to class 2-5 of Baekyeon Girls High School realises that the class engages in a popularity vote under the guise of a game with potentially dangerous consequences. 

Drama Reviews - Gyeongseong Creature (2023)

Gyeongseong Creature is set in 1940s, during the Japanese occupation of Korea. The show draws inspiration from Unit 731, the infamous unit that did experiments on their captive population. In this historical fiction drama, the show depicts the creation of a monster by the Japanese and how Jang Taesang (Park Seojoon), owner of a famous pawnshop in Gyeonseong, and sleuth Yoon Chaeok (Han Sohee) become intertwined with the monster and each other. 

Drama Reviews - Mask Girl (2023)

Another Netflix drama! Mask Girl is about Kim Momi, an ordinary office worker who does broadcast streaming at night beneath a mask, because she is deemed not pretty enough to be a star. A series of events then happens, prompting her to get complete plastic surgery and become unrecognisable. 

Drama Reviews - Queenmaker (2023)

Queenmaker is about Hwang Dohee (Kim Hee Ae), the Corporate Strategy Team Director in Eunsung Group who is the fixer for the chaebol family who owns Eunsung, who ends up becoming the Campaign Manager to make Oh Kyung Sook (Moon Sori) the Mayor of Seoul, against Eunsung's chosen candidate.

I haven't watched a k-drama in a long time (Netflix subscription going to waste), but finally decided I was in the mood for one, and picked Queenmaker cos Kim Hee Ae my queen is in it. Been a fan ever since the sublime Secret Love Affair. I've mostly seen Moon Sori in smaller parts like The Handmaiden and Little Forest, but I know she's got an impressive filmography as well. 

Drama Reviews - The Glory (2022/2023)

I'm back after a long break! I've been watching non-kdramas, watched Extraordinary Attorney Woo and didn't finish it, and was also busy with other hobbies. But I was trying to make my Netflix subscription worth it and The Glory received rave reviews so I decided to watch it and really enjoyed it. 

The Glory is about Moon Dongeun (Song Hyekyo) who was bullied in school by 5 classmates led by ringleader Park Yeonjin (Im Jiyeon), and her elaborate revenge plan to take them down in adulthood. It was released in 2 parts on Netflix but I waited till the second part was released to watch all 16 eps.

Drama Reviews - Glitch (2022)

Glitch is about Hong Jihyo (Jeon Yeobeen) who goes on an alien-hunting adventure with Heo Bora (Nana) after Jihyo's boyfriend Lee Siguk disappears, possibly due to being abducted by aliens.

Glitch has been on my radar ever since the cast was released because I have been a diehard Jeon Yeobeen fan since Be Melodramatic, and my favourite girl group of all time is After School which Nana was from. Honestly I went in with low expectations because the reviews weren't glowing, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

Drama Reviews - My Liberation Notes (2022)

My Liberation Notes is a slice of life drama about 3 siblings, oldest sister Yeom Kijeong (Lee El), middle child Yeom Changhee (Lee Minki) and youngest child Yeom Mijeong (Kim Jiwon), who live in Sanpo, and a stranger, Mr Gu (Son Sukku), who recently enters their small town. 

Drama Reviews - Twenty Five, Twenty One (2022)

This hit drama is a coming-of-age youth drama starring Kim Taeri as national fencer Na Heedo, WJSN's Bona as her enemy-turned-bestie Go Yoorim, and Nam Joohyuk as male lead Baek Yijin, a sports reporter. This show has been on my radar from the start because watching everything Kim Taeri stars in is just something I do, and I LOVE the Jaurim song which inspired this show. I was extremely busy during the time it aired (working full time and doing a Master's part time is no joke), but I picked it back up again when the semester ended and sped through the eps in a week. 

Drama Reviews - Our Beloved Summer (2022)

My first drama of 2022! Our Beloved Summer is a drama about a couple, Kook Yeonsu (Kim Dami) and Choi Ung (Choi Woosik), who filmed a documentary in high school and ended up falling in love and dating for 5 years, but breaking up, then meeting again after another 5 years, not having moved on from each other. The drama's official genre is rom com, but it was a lot more like slice-of-life to me.

Drama Reviews - Work Later, Drink Now (2021)

Work Later, Drink Now focuses on three ladies, Ahn Sohee (Lee Sunbin), Kang Jigoo (Eunji of Apink) and Han Jiyeon (Sunhwa of Secret), their lives and the role drinking plays in their lives.

When I heard that there was a drama focused on a female trio and it was getting rave reviews, I knew I had to watch it. Shows focusing on female friendships like Age Of Youth, Be Melodramatic and Search WWW are some of my all time favourite dramas. I also have a soft spot for Eunji because she has such a wonderful voice, and I actually watched Reply 1997 when it first came out (back when tvN was still trying to establish itself - what a long way it has come) and loved the show.

Drama Reviews - Inspector Koo (2021)

Inspector Koo tells a story of the titular character, Koo Kyung Yi, played by Lee Young Ae who is a recluse after unfortunate past events, who chases after a female serial killer, K, played by Kim Hye Jun. 

Drama Reviews - My Name (2021)

My Name is about Yoon Jiwoo (Han Sohee), who witnesses her father being murdered. She joins a criminal organisation and later infiltrates the police to seek revenge on her father's murderer. 

Drama Reviews - Squid Game (2021)

By now, who has not heard of this show haha. But here goes - Squid Game is a show where 456 debt-ridden people are brought to an island to play games and have the chance to win an extraordinary amount of prize money if they win, and survive.