Over the past years, the Korean drama has witnessed an unprecedented boom in spreading, confirming its position as a significant artistic force in the global TV scene.
With our entry into 2025, this momentum was not slowed, but rather completely, South Korea continued to provide rich and varied content that touches different tastes and enriches narrative experiences, which strengthened the position of “Ke-Drama” globally and several works this year managed to grab attention, whether through global broadcasting platforms or through local Korean channels.
The majority of the Korean series, which were shown during the first half of the year, were characterized by high quality of production, and a remarkable interest in the details of writing and directing, in addition to the participation of prominent names from the Korean screen stars. It was also noticed the emergence of new orientations towards the original stories, bold visual experiences, and deep existential and emotional topics, which gave a mature and human character to the dramatic scene.
The highest in the history of Korean drama
The first nomination on the list of today is “When Life gives you the fruits of the mandarin” a series that will soon be one of the icons of Korean drama, especially after obtaining a rating of 9.2 points as the highest evaluation of a Korean drama work on the “IMDB” artistic site, and its 82nd ranking is in the list of the best 250 series in the history of the drama.
The work is a greeting from its creatures for the generations of grandmothers, grandparents and parents who were keen to live with courage and most importantly their decision to spread the courage herself with their children and urge them to possess the ability to go through life despite obstacles and challenges.
It reviews the life of his heroes from childhood in the sixties of the last century until the end of 2025, to give up in successive generations that the days are poured into a captivating drama and will not become exaggerated if we describe it as magic, which is taking place in conjunction with the political events and social changes witnessed by Korea and the world.
Where is the Life Gives You Tangerines is So Spectial, The Kind of Life Changing, ONCE In A LifeTime Drama One Wish Wish To Be Able to Experience for the First Time Again! pic.twitter.com/kdvy1blngs
– Sam (@userssam) April 12, 2025
Besides the exceptional acting performance from the actors, the star of the star won the day, the award for the best actress in the role of an auxiliary for the role of the heroine mother despite her appearance of a few scenes, the work of the scenario and the deep dialogue was distinguished, and the outstanding director’s ability to manage a huge art crew that included multiple stars, each of whom has a different age stage of the life of the heroes.
“When life gives you the fruits of Al-Yousifi,” a social-romantic series of 16 episodes, directed by Kim Won Sick, written by Lim Sang Chun, starring Ayo, Park Bou Gom, Moon Soo Rey, and Park Hai John, suitable for those looking for a drama of life and life in its sweet and bitter days, its many surprises, heavy and unaccounted.
Karma and human gender
About revenge, charm, human greed, and unexpected inevitable consequences, all this is presented by the series “Karma” to the viewer through a bloody story, where we follow the life of a group of people while adopting severe self -reactions that soon cause a fundamental and violent change of the lives of others around them in a complex network of smart and creative dramatic strings.
The work was characterized by intensification, and the strict and non -linear upward narrative, which gave the work a nature of ambiguity and excitement, as well as the director also used the use of colors, shadows and lighting to serve the plot and the opposite of the dark human nature.
“Karma” is a drama series that combines crime and suspense from 6 episodes, adapted from the famous “Web Tone” story “Akyon/Fateh”, written and directed by El Hyung Lee, starring Park Hi Soo, Shin Mini, Lee He-Jun, Kim Song Keon, Lee Kwang Soo, and Gong Song Yun.
Six Souls Are Trapped in A Relatlen KARMIC LOOP, Each Bound by Reckless Choicees that Spiral Out of Control.
Karma, a new Thriller series, premieres April 4. Staring Park Hae-Soo, Shin Min-A, Lee Hee-Jun, Kim Sung-Kyun, Lee Kwang-SOO, and Gong Seung-Yeon. pic.twitter.com/pefxr3yczw
– Netflix (@netflix) March 4, 2025
A special style study set
Teenage drama, youth comedy, action, and excitement, are all classifications to which the Korean series “The group of study” belongs, which increases its masses in the youth specifically, and at the same time allows the diversity of the groups you may enjoy.
The work tells about a weak student, but he has exceptional combat skills that does not suggest his weak appearance, and although he wants to improve his degrees in the hope of being able to join the university, but his presence inside one of the worst schools in Korea, which is a hotbed of rioters and creation, hinders him more and doubles his task difficult.
He can only constitute a group of a study of weak students who wish to improve their level, and soon they are subjected to harassment, and here the hero decides to exploit his combat capabilities in defending his colleagues and school, which brings him a lot of hostilities, but he also encourage others to confront bullying and force the school owners to enact laws to stand with the oppression of the powerful.
The work of the work is distinguished by the narrative depth, the good implementation of the scenes of the movement and the design of combat scenes in a way that increases the enthusiasm of the recipient and creates a state of tension, and the most important of its creatures is to provide an innovative work that mixes the sense of humor and the influential dramatic moments and the teaser side without falling into a trap or cloning other successful works of the same category.
The series is suitable for teenage drama lovers, and the works that combine comedy and action, based on the idea of the unexpected hero and full of contradictions, which makes it interesting, forcing his circumstances to fall into positions sometimes funny and sometimes exciting to start his personal development journey and then achieve his goals.
Study Group (2025)
(3.75 / 5 ⭐)A high intense School Drama Packed with Good Action Sequences. Perfect Character Development. For me this is one of the best active korean webseries of 2025 So Far.
Series Having Total 10 Epsioodes.
Looking for S2
(VIKI (Eng Sub) 💻) pic.twitter.com/jkozovxinh
– Karthik (@karthik79956315) February 24, 2025
Eternal bliss but!
As for the fantasy enthusiasts, we nominate the romantic series “Naeem Eteri”, which is a 10-episode work that praised his innovative idea and covered by its smart performance alongside the distinguished acting performance, especially from his heroine Kim Hai-Ja, in which he excelled in the combination of comedy and drama.
The work revolves around a woman who died at eighty years after a journey full of difficulties, but at the same time she was full of love between her and her husband who had seen her beautiful with all ages, for this when she entered Paradise when they ask her about the age she wants to appear in another life decides to keep her current appearance.
Before she was surprised that her husband chose to return to his appearance in the thirties, which creates a huge and unexpected age gap between them that entails many questions and skepticism about what identity is and self -acceptance in other life.
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The remaining works within the nominations of that list were among the most expected Korean series for this year, but they are still shown and their episodes are still not yet over because they are broadcast successively at the rate of two episodes per week, these works are:
The series “The flavor of love”, which is a romantic-kumidian drama that tells about an executive director in a major food company, seeking a 3-star rating for his luxurious restaurant. During his endeavor, he meets a talented chef that runs a small restaurant and refuses to disclose the secret of its unique recipes, which leads to a series of funny challenges and situations between them besides their fall.
Work was characterized by strong chemistry between the two heroes Kang Ha-Nol and Ghu Min-CI, which gave the vitality to the relationship between them, as well as characterized by attractive photography of traditional Korean foods, which created a special and intimate visual character with the episodes, especially since the output made the work more like delicious cooking programs.
A Story of Four People Connected by Friendship, Love, and Empathy😎#Urunwrittenseul Premiers on #NETFLIX May 24✨ pic.twitter.com/pl5eudbiau
– Studiodragon | 스튜디오드래곤 (@studragonkr) April 30, 2025
The last series is “My Unknown Story in Seoul”, which is a dramatic work that tells of two identical twins in the external form and specifications, but they are contradictory to the personality, and while one of them works with temporary functions and lives in the countryside, the other sister works in a major company and tends to perfection and success, and because of the circumstances of what the two sisters decided to exchange their lives, which results in a series of challenges and interesting dramatic events.
The Park Bo-Young, and Park Jin Yong and Rio Kyung-Sso, is suitable for drama lovers that showcase family relationships and explore the depths of self-search.