25 of the Best 2019 KDramas

15. The Secret Life of My Secretary

A department manager of a mobile media company getting to know his friends and foes after losing his ability to recognize faces, and teaming up with his secretary to try and solve the mystery while falling in love.

 

14. Graceful Family

Mo Seok-Hee is the only daughter of the MC Group forced to go to the United States by her father after her mother was murdered, while Heo Yoon-do is a lawyer without an office or clients. After returning to South Korea 15 years later to see her grandfather in a coma, Seok-Hee hires Yoon-Do as her lawyer.

 

13. Abyss

After meeting an untimely demise in separate incidents, Cha Min and Go Se-yeon discover they’ve come back to life in new bodies they don’t recognize.

 

12. At Eighteen

At Eighteen follows the story of eighteen-year-old Choi Joon-woo, whose teenage life has been molded by his meager family life and the conflicts he faced in school.

 

11. Melting Me Softly

Ma Dong-chan and Ko Mi-ran are both frozen during an experiment. They wake up 20 years later instead of 24 hours later and must keep their body temperature at 31.5 degrees in order to survive.

 

10. Crash Landing on You

The series tells the secret romance between a South Korean heiress of a conglomerate and a high-ranking North Korean officer.

 

9. Doctor John

Cha Yo-han is a genius yet arrogant doctor of anesthesiology, while Kang Shi-young is a smart and warm anesthesiology resident. People with mysterious acute or chronic pain come to the hospital where the two try to find the causes of their pain.

 

8. Love Alarm

In the world of ‘Love Alarm, there is an app that alerts people if someone in the vicinity likes them.

 

7. Her Private Life

A dedicated art gallery curator is the ultimate Cha Shi An fangirl.

6. Touch Your Heart

A famous actress, gets caught in a scandal with a son of a rich family .With her career declining quickly, she looks for one last hope to get back on the screen and lands a role playing a secretary in a drama written by a famous screenwriter.

 

5. He is Psychometric

A young man has the supernatural ability to see people’s memories by touching their skin.

4. Vagabond

A stuntman involved in a tragic airplane crash ends up discovering a national corruption scandal in the process.

 

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And now here are the top 3 2019 KDramas:

3. Angel’s Last Mission: Love

Lee Yeon-seo was a supremely talented and successful ballerina with her family’s Fantasia Ballet Company until she got into an accident that left her blind, bitter, and abusive. Dan is an optimistic, carefree angel who is always getting into trouble. In order to return to heaven he is given the seemingly impossible mission of finding true love for Yeon-Seo, but ends up falling for her himself.

 

2. Extraordinary You

‘Extraordinary You’ follows the story of high school girl Eun Dan-oh, who by chance discovers that everyone living in her world are actually comic book characters.

1. Hotel del Luna

Located in the middle of Seoul, Hotel del Luna is a hotel that caters only to ghosts. The beautiful but ill-tempered CEO is cursed to manage the hotel due to a terrible crime she committed, but cannot remember.

 

What was your favorite 2019 KDrama?

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