The arrival of great streaming platforms and the democratization of all kinds of genres and countries has brought us great works from different corners of the world, being the case of Korea, we always talk about the good one, not the one with nuclear missiles stored, one of the most interesting cases. Any product that comes out of its fictional factory is, at least, different from the usual, so Netflix offers you the possibility to take a look at original stories from Asia, as well as stories from other countries, such as those recommendations that we already made about Alice in Borderland.
Such has been the success of the productions reaching our country, one of the last examples being the magnificent Parasites. We wanted to offer a tribute to the works produced in South Korea, covering different genres, from drama, comedy, or horror. Enjoy our recommendations and leave us a comment, on our social networks, about what you think of the list.
South Korea offers us a wide variety of content on Netflix
Whether you enjoy the drama genre, such as Sisyphus, or want to venture into digital love, in the original My Holo Love, Korean productions know how to make you feel part of their universe. We assure you hours of entertainment from far South Korea.
- Sisyphus
- My holo love
- Sweet home
- Kingdom
- Black
- The lies within
- Stranger
- Romance is a bonus book
- Love alarm
- Startup
- Crashlanding on you
- It is good not to be good
- A Korean Odyssey
- Itaewon Class
- Vincenzo
Sisyphus
We will begin to investigate the world of Korean series with a production that bets on the fantasy or science fiction genre and that tells us about a mystery that sneaks into the center of the life of an engineer, called Han Tae-soul, that will make his future is truncated when he realizes that there are terrible events to discover, and that could involve all of humanity and that a woman, from the future, has come to her time to search for him.
- Year: 2021
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 16
- Approximate duration: 70 minutes
My holo love
Romantic comedies are one of the most popular genres on the red platform; if you do not believe, you only have to look at the series most followed on Netflix and see that we are on the way, and Korea South also wants to jump on this bandwagon. If you want a good dose of love and technology, I think you will love to know the story of Han So-Yeon, a lonely young woman who ends up madly in love with a hologram, representing her own creator, which will lead her to a succession of curious anecdotes and complications.
- Year: 2020
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 12
- Approximate duration: 50 minutes
Sweet home
Perhaps we are generalizing a bit, but there is no doubt that one of the most popular genres in the Asian country, we could say that throughout the continent is the fantastic, together with terror and psychological thriller. If you are looking for a peculiar plot, where we will visit a dilapidated building, where our protagonist will move, this is your opportunity to discover unimaginable monsters, an uncontrolled epidemic, and the declaration of a state of emergency in an almost apocalyptic situation.
- Year: 2020
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 10
- Approximate duration: 50 minutes
Kingdom
If we talk about the undead, most of us imagine what life would be like in the present while we try to survive. On this occasion, this series explores a golden age in the Korean kingdom, even though the king does not go through one of his best moments and is left for dead, with the news of a terrible plague that is ravaging part of the population, although the reality, however difficult it may seem, will be much more overwhelming.
- Year: 2019
- Seasons: 2
- Episodes available: 12
- Approximate duration: 50 minutes
Black
Few South Korean television series can be classified in a specific genre; for example, in this case, we would speak of a detective series, with slight fantastic doses. Han Moo-gang, the main detective, will be possessed by the spirit of death to pursue a fellow fugitive. However, everything will be complicated by being involved in the investigation of unsolved murders 20 years ago. Kang Ha-ram, a woman who can intuit the death of people, will enter the scene to twist everything even more.
- Year: 2017
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 18
- Approximate duration: 80 minutes
The lies within
Another of Netflix’s great bets in terms of series from South Korea puts us in the shoes of Kim Seo-hui, a woman who has just lost her father and whose husband has disappeared without leaving a trace, joins the Assembly Nacional and, with the help of a detective, Jo Tae-Sik, will undertake the search for her husband. The series of lies that we tell ourselves, others, and the rest of the world will be the main protagonists of this story, dramatic and perfectly interpreted.
- Year: 2019
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 16
- Approximate duration: 60 minutes
Stranger
Hwang Si-Mok is a really diligent and brilliant prosecutor. Still, he suffers from hypersensitivity to certain frequencies of sounds and, after undergoing surgery to treat this problem, will lose his empathy and his social skills. Joining forces with a police officer, Han Yeo-jin, will discover that a simple murder case will uncover a corruption case bigger than they could have imagined.
- Year: 2019
- Seasons: 2
- Episodes available: 32
- Approximate duration: 70 minutes
Romance is a bonus book
We finish this list of recommendations; you will end up fed up with the South Korean series, with a light romantic comedy that stars Kang Dani, previously a successful worker in the world of advertising, who left for his marriage. Once divorced, she cannot find a job until she is contacted by a young editor, who will turn her world upside down.
- Year: 2019
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 16
- Approximate duration: 60 minutes
Love alarm
The trouble with love in high school teens is the daily bread, but if you add to the technological advances of our time, things can get really interesting. This Korean series, available on Netflix, starts from the premise of a new application for mobile phones, which allows you to instantly know if someone has felt a crush on seeing you. Obviously, we will have our share of the handsome on duty, who has the phone full of hearts, while the leading girl, in an all too obvious cliché, will use her social skills to get to the heart of that boy who likes you. Will it be the handsome and haunted by his admirers or perhaps someone more unexpected?
- Year: 2019
- Seasons: 2
- Episodes available: 14
- Approximate duration: 50 minutes
Startup
We continue with the connection between the technological avant-garde and the relentless love among the youngest, and we get fully into a Silicon Valley of Korean fiction, called Sandbox, where students from the sector will try to convert their dream of creating an emerging company and succeed, both in the business world and in love. Light comedy and drama, so you don’t have to think too much and entertain yourself for a while without crazy pretense.
- Year: 2020
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 16
- Approximate duration: 75 minutes
Crashlanding on you
North. We continue with matters of the heart, and this time those responsible for this South Korean production will take us to the epicenter of the conflict between the two Koreas, with a story that will unite the heir to a vast South Korean empire with an official from Korea. When Yoon Se-ri, the girl in question, suffers an accident while making a paragliding flight, she ends up entering the neighboring country, being the task of Ri Jung-hyuk, the soldier in question, to keep her hidden while a romance begins. To arise between the two.
- Year: 2019
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 16
- Approximate duration: 90 minutes
It is good not to be good
It is usually a typical element of cinema and romantic series that two people lost in life end up meeting and giving meaning to their existence. On this occasion, we meet Moon Gang-tae, a psychiatric center worker struggling to make ends meet, and Ko Mun-Yeong, a children’s story writer, who has an antisocial disorder. Both people, with difficulties finding love, will end up knowing what it means to have someone special in this Korean series that you can enjoy on Netflix.
- Year: 2020
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 16
- Approximate duration: 80 minutes
A Korean Odyssey
It is refreshing to be able to offer you more than just romantic comedies to use, so this new recommendation is closer to the world of the supernatural and fantastic, with a female protagonist, Jin Sun Mi, who as a child had the power to see the spirits that roam. by our world and ended up being tricked by an ancient god to be released from his prison. Now, 25 years later, they meet again, but that girl has learned to use her gift and will use it to stop the demon once and for all.
- Year: 2017
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 20
- Approximate duration: 75 minutes
Itaewon Class
Itaewon is a well-known neighborhood in Seoul, and it is where the plot of this television series that Netflix makes available to its users takes place, and that tells us about a group of young people who will start by opening a food business. However, the fights between sides of the hospitality business end with the dismissal of the father of one of the boys, who beats another and refuses to apologize. From then on, with a prison term in between, Park Saeroyi, one of the protagonists of the story, will decide to open his own restaurant and start revenge for the death of his father.
- Year: 2020
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 16
- Approximate duration: 70 minutes
Vincenzo
Park Joo-Hyung, the protagonist of this story, was adopted in Italy and now returns to his native South Korea as a lawyer for an Italian mafia family. Once grounded, he meets another lawyer, an outgoing girl who will do whatever it takes to win any case. When members of the Babel group attack the protagonist and the girl’s father, both decide to join forces and bring them to justice, falling in love along the way.
- Year: 2021
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 20
- Approximate duration: 80 minutes
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