10 Best Korean Dramas on Netflix

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1. Squid Games
IMDb rating: 8.0/10
Squid Game revolves around hundreds of cash-trapped contestants, who have to play a series of deadly children's games to win an astronomical amount of money. It is Netflix's most watched series ever.
2. Hospital Playlist
IMDb rating: 8.8/10
Hospital Playlist, a wholesome medical show, revolves around the lives of a group of doctors, who are close friends at the same hospital and also band members. The series focussed on their friendships, patients as well as tangled love lives.
3. Twenty Five Twenty One
IMDb rating: 8.6/10
Twenty Five Twenty One is a heartwarming show revolving around a young girl reading her mother Na Hee-do's (Kim Tae-ri) diary and learning about her first love. The show takes place in a series of flashbacks, and we are transported to the 1990s, just after the IMF crash in South Korea and how many lives were disrupted in the process.
4. Crash Landing On You
IMDb rating: 8.7/10
Crash Landing On You is the Olive Garden of Korean dramas. Starring Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin who got married years after the show, CLOY tells the story of two star-crossed lovers. He's a North Korean military officer and she, a South Korean heiress accidentally lands in North Korea.
5. Vincenzo
IMDb rating: 8.4/10
Vincenzo is about a gangster ‘who is scum and cleans up other scum'. He arrives in South Korea to retrieve gold buried under a grimy plaza. He befriends the inhabitants and is swept into a world of raging crime and corruption that he has to fight.
6. It's Okay To Not Be Okay
IMDb rating: 8.6/10
It's Okay To Not Be Okay tells the story of a sociopathic children's author and a hard-working, yet reticent caretaker at a psychiatric clinic. Their pasts are intertwined and as the series progresses, the two help in healing each other's deep-seated traumas.
7. Start-Up
IMDb rating: 8.0/10
Start-Up revolves around four individuals Dal-mi, Don-San, Han-Pyeong, and In-Jae, all with different outlooks on how to operate a start-up. The story takes place inside the fictional ‘Sand Box' in the Silicon Valley of South Korea
8. All Of Us Are Dead
IMDb rating: 7.5/10
An experiment goes wrong in a high school leading to a Zombie outbreak. A small gang of students struggles to survive in this new world of flesh-eating zombies, and they await help but the world is far from sorted to help them.
9. Flower of Evil
IMDb rating: 8.7/10
Flower of Evil is about a happily married couple (a craftsman and a cop). After a series of murders, the wife realises that her husband is somehow tied to these horrors and she sets out to find out the truth.
10. Extraordinary Attorney Woo
IMDb rating: 8.8/10
Extraordinary Attorney Woo chronicles the legal adventures of Woo-Young-woo, an attorney on the autistic spectrum. She joins a prominent law firm and faces much discrimination, but slowly her colleagues see her impeccable talent and powerful memory prowess.