12 months-Ender 2024: 7 Okay-dramas You Can not Skip

2024 was a stellar 12 months for Okay-dramas. There was no dearth of fine reveals starting from revenge dramas to time-slip rom-coms. A couple of titles began out with meet-cutes solely to show into a number of the most emotional tales of the 12 months. Queen of Tears stored viewers hooked with its twisty plot whereas Squid Recreation Season 2 got here in sturdy in the direction of the tip of the 12 months.

Listed below are some Okay-dramas from 2024 that you just can not skip.

Queen of Tears

Queen of Tears is a kind of uncommon dramas that manages to merge comedian components into an in any other case tragic plot. The plot revolves round a pair – Kim Soo Hyun’s Hyun Woo and Kim Ji Gained’s Hae In. Hyun Woo needs to divorce his heiress spouse and get away from her wealthy household’s judgement and bullying. However when he discovers that she’s dying, he decides to stay round for the inheritance. The drama strikes from real emotional arcs to screwball comedy, seldom lacking a beat, making it one of many 12 months’s most bingeable reveals.

Pretty Runner

Time slip drama Pretty Runner revolves round Kim Hye Yoon’s Sol, a Okay-pop-obsessed woman who’s confined to a wheelchair and Byeon Woo Seok’s Solar Jae, a Okay-pop idol who lives a lonely life. When Sol finds herself travelling into the previous the place she’s a highschool pupil together with Solar Jae, she makes an attempt to alter the course of historical past to avert tragedy sooner or later. The present doesn’t trouble explaining the mechanics of the time slip however the extra episodes you watch, the much less it issues. The present additionally takes on some heavy matters like suicide and the pitfalls of Okay-pop idol worship.

The Trunk

Earlier than he returned because the Ddakji-playing salesman in Squid Recreation Season 2, Gong Woo starred in The Trunk. Primarily based on a novel of the identical identify by creator Kim Ryeo Ryeong, the Okay-drama revolves round a contract marriage. Gong Yoo’s Jeong Gained enters a one-year contract with Website positioning Hyun Jin’s In Ji, a girl who works for an company that pairs high-profile purchasers with non permanent wives. The present is a thriller that’s by some means excellent for ambient viewing. A bonus, aside from the plot twists, is Gong Yoo’s chemistry with Website positioning Hyun Jin.

Marry My Husband

A revenge drama that includes a woman boss? Signal us up! Marry My Husband revolves round Park Min Younger’s Ji Gained, a girl present process most cancers therapy. Whereas she has a assist system, it falls aside when she realises her husband is having an affair along with his greatest buddy. She dies and mysteriously time travels to the previous. She then goes on to take revenge and make her companion and buddy pay for messing together with her.

No Achieve No Love

Shin Min Ah made single, career-driven ladies seen together with her efficiency in No Achieve No Love. The actress performs Hae Yeong, a girl who rapidly realises that getting married has lots of perks together with a shot at a promotion at work. When she meets Kim Younger Dae’s Ji Wook, a sort comfort retailer employee, she hires him to marry her. By means of the course of 12 episodes, the 2 slowly go from fake spouses to lovers. Nonetheless, the present doesn’t fall into the identical class of fake lovers turning into actual lovers. Between the extreme emotional arcs that may transfer you to tears and a stable sub-plot the place the second leads shine, the present makes for a extremely participating watch.

Pachinko Season 2

Pachinko’s first instalment set the bar excessive for a follow-up sequence and regardless of the strain, Pachinko Season 2 delivered. Whereas the primary season tells the story of Sunja (Kim Min Ha) and the way she survives with out her husband beneath Japanese colonial rule in Korea, the subsequent season follows Sunja’s grown-up sons. One among them is seeking to escape his troubles whereas the opposite takes it in his stride. The historic drama which additionally options Lee Min Ho, Youn Yuh Jung, is a necessary viewing

Squid Recreation Season 2

The look ahead to the second season of Squid Recreation has been lengthy and in 2024, we lastly obtained extra of the Okay-drama that turned a worldwide sensation upon its launch in the course of the pandemic. Starring Lee Jung Jae, Wi Ha Joon, Lee Byung Hun, Yim Si Wan and extra, the sequence follows Seong Gi Hun aka Participant 456 as he will get drawn again into the video games in a bid to carry the makers to justice. Between the bloodier video games and the brand new characters, the sequence makes a compelling and well timed return.