K-Drama Romance Picks of the Year
Craving emotional rollercoasters, heart-fluttering moments, and dramatic love stories? These K-Drama-inspired books are your next binge-worthy reads.
While You Were Sleeping Photo essay
by Kim Do-hyun
- Three individuals, who have the power of precognition, help each other prevent disastrous incidents and take down a corrupt lawyer.
While You Were Sleeping is a combination of the romance, legal drama and fantasy genres, focusing on the tale of three young adults who have acquired the ability to see the future through their dreams: field reporter Nam Hong-joo (Bae Suzy), rookie prosecutor Jung Jae-chan (Lee Jong-suk), and police officer Han Woo-tak (Jung Hae-in). Some of these dreams show crimes that Jae-chan has to investigate and others show disastrous events that one or more of them will have to endure. Conflicted by these dreams, the trio collaborate with each other to prevent their ominous dreams from turning into reality and to defeat their archenemy, the corrupt lawyer Lee Yoo-beom (Lee Sang-yeob).
My Dearest Romance Photo Essay
by MBC drama
- A man with a deep and dark secret vows not to marry anyone, after a significant tragedy. He meets a woman, who hopes to fall in love again, despite being married before. While baring a hardship during the Qing invasion, they fall for each other.
The series is set during the Qing invasion of Joseon, and portrays the inspiring story of people who find hope and positivity even in the most challenging times.
The Matchmakers Photo Essay
by KBS Productio
- Hanyang, the metropolis of Joseon. Here, Sun-deok, a romantic idealist who believes that love is the basis of a relationship, and Jeong-woo, a Confucian boy who believes that love is nothing and that marriage is a meeting between families, meet and begin to arrange a match. Sun-deok, a useless daughter-in-law of a nobleman who is at the top of her game but is smart but has a romantic level of '0', meet and begin a tumultuous romance under the guise of matchmaking... In the era of chastity and virtue, will a young widow and a young husband-in-law be able to find a second love?
The series tells the story about a young widower, named Shim Jung-woo, and a young widow, named Jung Soon-deok, joining forces to marry off three unmarried women who represent the problem of "old maids" in Joseon.