5 Must Watch K-Dramas Released on Netflix in 2022
If you're like me, once you've finished a K-Drama you are ready to jump right back in to the next story. Whether it be romance or action, we are here to recommend 5 K-Dramas released on Netflix in 2022.
1.) Business Proposal
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First up we have Business Proposal. You've probably heard of this one due to the number of various memes circling around the “fighting girl,” scene when the second lead is having a conversation in the car with her cousin.
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This is your stereotypical cute K-Drama. However, the plot is switched up when the leads best friend Jin Young Seo (Seol In-ah) convinces Shin Ha Ri (Se-Jeong Kim) to go on a blind date in her place. Jin Young Seo's father has been trying to set her up with potential marriage partners for years, but Seo is more interested in falling in love than having an arranged marriage. Therefore, she convinces Ha Ri to go on the blind date to “scare” away her date. You see, Ha Ri and Seo have done this quite a few times in the past, and they have never had a problem scaring away men before.
In an unexpected turn of events the plan back fires and the man that Ha Ri went on a date with, Kang Tae Mu (Ahn Hyo-Seop), is intrigued by her and wants to see her again. From there the string of lies that Ha Ri and Seo had planned start to unfold, and love happens in unexpected ways.
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This drama is not out of the ordinary in the way that the plot is written. However, there are a lot of truly romantic and cute moments that are worth watching. My favorite part would definitely have be the second lead Seo's romance, you'll have to watch to know what I'm talking about!
View the trailer here.
2.) Forecasting Love & Weather
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Up next we have Forecasting Love & Weather. This drama really highlights the difficulties of being in an office romance and how it can affect both your personal and professional life.
Lead character Jin Ha Kyung (Park Min-Young) is the chief director for the KMA weather services and is engaged to Han Ki Joon (Bak Yoon) from the public relations department. They have been together for 10 years and decided that it was finally time to tie the knot. After they purchase an apartment together Jin comes home to find Han cheating on her with one of the reporters from his department, she is devastated.
Now having to come to work every day with her ex is proving to be more difficult than she had imagined. When Jin starts falling for someone new she is faced with the decision of whether or not to make the same mistake again.
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This drama is different from others in the since that the characters are very genuine with their feelings right from the start. This is quite refreshing because as we've seen in the past with other dramas, characters are always trying to deny their feelings for another character or pretend that they don't have any feelings. It is this genuineness of the characters that truly makes the drama really enjoyable to watch.
Watch the trailer here.
3.) Thirty-Nine
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Third on the list is Thirty-Nine. The story takes you through the life of three friends, Cha Mi Do (Son Yi-Jin) is a cosmetologist who decides to take a sabbatical to play golf, Jeong Chan-young (Jean Mi-do) who is an acting teacher struggling to teach upcoming actors how to emote their feelings, and Jang Joo-hee (Kim Ji-hyun) who is stuck working in a cosmetic consultant job where she feels under appreciated and over worked. On the brink of turning 40 and at an age where they no longer feel confined to what others think of them, the three friends are set on finding love ‘naturally.'
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When an unexpected obstacle arises in the second episode, the three friends choose to spend the remainder of their time focusing on the friend who needs company the most. This drama is filled with love, laughter, and explores the importance of enjoying life at any age.
Watch the trailer here.
4.) Twenty-Five Twenty-One
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Fourth on our list is Twenty-Five Twenty-One. When Kim Min-chae (Choi Myung-bin) finds her mother's diary from high school a story unfolds through the eyes of Kim Min-Chae's Mother, Na Hee-do (Kim Tae-ri).
In high school Na Hee-do (Kim Tae-ri) was on the fencing team but when a financial crises struck the school they were forced to disband the team. However, Na Hee-do was extremely passionate about pursuing her dreams and decided to take matters into her own hands. She ends up making it to the national fencing team for another school.
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Meanwhile, Baek Yi-jin (Nam Joo-hyuk) is going through a similar situation. He was used to living a wealthy life, but when his family looses everything he is forced to take up part time jobs just to make ends meet. In the process of these two story lines Na Hee Do (Kim Tae-ri) and Baek Yi-jin (Nam Joo-hyuk) cross paths and a love story blossoms in the most unexpected way.
Watch the trailer here.
5.) All of us are Dead
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For our fifth and final pick All of us are Dead we decided to switch it up a bit. This action packed thriller series will really get you wondering about what could happen out here in the real world. When Hyosan High School is hit by a science experiment gone wrong, an outbreak quickly turns many of the students into human eating zombies.
The students who are not yet infected must fight to stay alive while trying to navigate their way out of the school. The story focuses on two best friends Nam On-jo (Park Ji-hu) and Lee Cheong-san (Yoon Chan-young) who are trapped in a classroom and surrounded by the flesh eating zombies.
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With no food or water and communication cut-off to the outside world, the students not yet infected must use the resources and equipment that they have on hand at the school to best protect themselves from the malicious beasts outside. Otherwise they face the danger of becoming infected.
In this thrilling action you never know what is around the corner and with every episode you are left guessing what will happen next or who will survive. If you are looking to switch up your normal K-Drama vibes I would definitely recommend this thriller.
Watch the trailer here.
Source Links
Han Cinema:
https://www.hancinema.net/korean_drama_Twenty_Five_Twenty_One.php
Kpopmap
https://www.kpopmap.com/drama-title/forecasting-love-and-weather/
Korean Binge
https://korean-binge.com/2022/03/09/thirty-nine-enters-netflixs-global-top-10/
My Music Taste
https://www.mymusictaste.com/news/
Rappler
https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/series/netflix-confirms-all-of-us-are-dead-season-two/
Tenor - Twenty-Five Twenty-One
https://tenor.com/view/2521-twenty-five-twenty-one-squad-friends-baek-yi-jin-gif-25016878
Teneor - All of us are Dead
https://tenor.com/view/all-of-us-are-dead-lee-su-hyeok-su-hyeok-park-solomon-zombie-gif-24750983
Tumblr
https://sjoongki.tumblr.com/post/681553669153505280/embed
Unbothered Unnies
https://unbotheredunnies.com/2022/04/23/sugar-babys-review-corner-thirty-nine/
Yonhap News Agency
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20220330003500315