kdrama recs???

[lirazel]

Alright, I've finished The Guest and loved it and now I need something new to watch. I've been out of the kdrama loop for several years now, so I don't know what's been good the past few years.

I'm looking for:

+ something serious. no comedies, please.

+ but not melodrama

+ really good relationships of any kind (romance, family, found family, whatever)

+ good female characters

+ contemporary

+ Sticks the landing at least decently

+ bonus points if it includes a prickly, difficult to love woman who nonetheless gets loved

Also somebody tell me if Save Me is any good; cults are definitely my thing but it looks too dude-heavy.

My favorite kdramas of this kind: White Christmas, Healer, The Guest, Shut Up! Flower Boy Band (look, I know, but it's serious enough to be on this list there is so much crying in that drama), Beyond Evil, Mawang, City Hunter

Other kdramas that aren't really of this kind but that are my faves: Age of Youth, Queen In-Hyun's Man, Coffee Prince, Replies 1997 and 1988, It's Okay Not to Be Okay, Flower Boy Next Door, Crash Landing on You

Comments

[chestnut_pod]

My best friend would never forgive me if I didn't take this opportunity to urge you in the strongest possible terms to watch Stranger (Secret Forest) with Bae Doona and Cho Seungwoo. I also agree: a tale of rampant police corruption and Bae Doona doing the absolute most. There are lots of wonderful relationships, foremost the one between Bae and Cho, which is not romantic, but profoundly touching. It's a dark -- it's a murder mystery -- but it's not over-the-top, and it definitely wraps up the mystery well.