The Best Korean Tv Series Ever

The Hallyu, the new wave of South Korea that generated film cult products - from A Bittersweet Life in Oldboy and Man From Nowhere - also expands to music and television: the boy band idol like BTS now sell more of the Beatles and the "k-drama" - the series - produced in the last two decades are among the most followed in the world.

South Korean television production is very rich and conceiving a ranking of the ten seminals requires a demanding selection; the following is based on the packaging of the show, the quality of the writing, the skill of its performers, the exemplary value and availability: from the k-drama of national channels, to private free and pay, from the most recent to the most dated, from fantasy to historians passing through comedy, romance, teen and political, these are the best series produced in South Korea ever.

(2016, TvN)

Also known under the international title of Guardian: The Lonely and Great Godis the story of a general, Kim Shin, of the Goryeo dynasty condemned a thousand years ago to serve his arrogance without ever being able to die or forget his sins until he finds someone able to remove the sword that pierces his chest. Gong Yoo ( Train to Busan ) is the melancholy divinity protagonist, Lee Dong-Wook the Angel of Death with whom he lives giving life to a competitive bromance, Kim Go-eun the little girl who can free him from the curse. The sad and funny series is permeated by the belief that past lives determine future ones and by an uncompromising but magnanimous determinism. A scenography (Kim Shin's fairytale house, the buckwheat field, the endless snow-capped mountains), a photograph and a soundtrack (with the famous And I'm Here and Stuck in Love by Kim Kyung Hee and Stay With Me of Chanyeol) enchanting complete a poignant and beautiful product. Goblin is available for free, even with Italian subtitles, on the Viki streaming platform .

(2018, TvN)

Sumptuous period with a war background, this Netflix original series created by the pay TV channel sees the signature of the author Kim Eun-sook, Asian queen of the small screen who reconstructs the rebellion of the Joseon Resistance at the end of the 19th century against the USA and Japan. A real blockbuster with an impeccable packaging, the love story between the noblewoman Ae-shin, loved by the very rich Hee-sung and the criminal Dong-mae but in love with the American officer Eugene, is the pretext to compose a sophisticated tale that blends drama, romance, historical reconstruction, thriller and action. Monumental scripted in twenty chapters, as if that were not enough, it includes one of the most complex and fascinating villains in the history of television, the aforementioned samurai Dong-mae, torn between ambitions and fatalism. On the Netflix catalog .

(2017, KBS2)

The Korean serial landscape, a bit like the British one, is contracted by a handful of veteran writers who have complete control of the narrative and produce on average one series per year . With some exceptions: Im Sang-Choon,in his second k-drama, he creates a small masterpiece, the "normal" and very simple parable of a young athlete whose life fell apart after losing an MMA match and of a saleswoman who dreams of being an announcer. Fight for My Way is not a fantasy or a period or a romance like the most popular productions at home, but the chronicle of the redemption - personal, professional and social - of its protagonists. A modern and wonderfully anonymous tale, this story of two poor, ordinary boys - but two indomitable dreamers - and in love is the equivalent of an indie in serial format with two protagonists ( Park Seo-joon and Kim Ji-won ) and a group of supporting actors in a state of grace. Available on Viki .

(2005, SBS)

Kong Hyo-Jin , heroine of pink comedies, fifteen years ago accepted the role of a 25-year-old substitute teacher who is having an affair with a high school student. That said, the subject of this series that many know as Biscuit Teacher and Star Candy seems rather risque, in reality the show is a fun comedy with a romantic background that takes on tragic tones when it explores family drama and social criticism. Hello my Teacher Performs a courageous roundup of the events full of loneliness and pain of the orphan Park Tae-In (a bully with a heart of gold with an anaphylactic and violent father and a stepfamily for which he is just a nuisance) and his classmates, left to fend for themselves by the faculty. With the exception of the bizarre Na Bo-ri, martial arts expert and daughter of Buddhist monks who becomes the point of reference for her students. On Netflix.