5 Chaebol K-drama & C-drama series you cannot miss
1. Love 020 (2016)
This is a series starring Zheng Shuang (Bei Wei Wei) and Yang Yang (Xiao Nai).It's other name is "A Smile is Beautiful One Smile is Very Alluring.
If you want a light rom - com with a happy ending, this is the place to be. In this series Bei Wei Wei is a student at a university who happens to meet Xiao Nai when her room mate drops her laptop and it goes burst. She is a student who is a pro in gaming and on that day she had a gaming appointment she could not afford to miss.
Xiao Nai is in his final year in college and is looking for a space where he can start a company. His uncle takes him to his cyber and assures him the space will be availed to him for free, at that time Bei Wei Wei happens to be there having a duo and Xiao Nai notices her because of her prowess in the game.
Watch this series to find out what happens to Bei Wei Wei and Xiao Nai and how their romance progresses.
You may have to read subtitles while watching but it will be worth your while.
2. GO GO SQUID (2019)
This is a comedy, romance and e- sports series starring Yang Zi ( Tong Nian ) and Li Xian ( Han Shangyan)
Tong nian is a computer science genius and student who entered the university at the age of 15 and has never had a boyfriend. She has developed many successful projects and is also a star with over 1.2 Million followers on net ease as a singer.
Han Shangyan is a 30 year old man who owns his own club in a bid to promote cyber security. The concept is so new that the adults around him have no clue as to what he really does so they chalk it down to an adult who has no direction but plays games throughout and wastes his life away.
These two meet at an overnight café and Tong Nian falls in love at first sight.
Their story starts from there and with it there dynamics of age. Watch this to see how they pass these huddles that are placed on them by society and for a hearty laugh.
It's reception was so good that another season was produced " Go Go Squid ( Apple dog's time) featuring the second leads in the first one.
3. Vincenzo (2021)
Starring Song Joong-ki as the title character alongside Jeon Yeo-been, Ok Taec-yeon, Kim Yeo-jin and Kwak Dong-yeon. This drama has action , romance and comedy in it.
Vincenzo Cassano is an italian mafia who runs away from Italy when his step father dies and his brother wants to kill him for their estate. He goes back to Korea where he is robbed of everything he has on him immediately after arrival.
In Korea he meets a lawyer whose daughter he falls in love with and discovers that a client he had worked for when he was an italian mafia lawyer (Consigliere) had died. This Client had buried a few billion worth gold in an underground building under his guidance and non of his family knew.
Watch to find out what happened to the gold and how the romance progressed.
4. Boys over flowers (2009)
Starring Ku Hye-sun, Lee Min-ho, Kim Hyun-joong, Kim Bum, Kim Joon and Kim So-eun, this drama features a high school setting which has more than normal boolying.
This series is mostly on Shinwa high school the countries best school where only super duper rich students attend with the exception of a few scholarship students. Their uniform alone is worth a few million won.
Gu jun-pyo is the leader of the F4 (the most popular and powerful group of boys) in the school being a son of the owner of the school among other companies around the world. He is arrogant and selfish until he meets ku hye sun a scholarship student who teaches him a lesson he will never forget.
Watch this to follow the romance and struggles that follow rich kid and how they overcome them in adulthood.
NB: This one is a tear jacker.
5. Crash Landing on You (2019-2020)
Also Known as " Emergency love landing", "Love's crash landing" and "Crash landing of love", is a series starring starring Hyun Bin, Son Ye-jin, Kim Jung-hyunTh
This series is a romantic drama and comedy with snippets of action. The scene is of both North Korea and South Korea.
A rich South Korean heiress paraglides and accidentally lands in North Korea. She is found by a North Korean army captain and their circumstances of their first meeting are note worthy.
In this series we see the struggles that ensue between the two to the point where they end up falling in love with one another. The largest problem is what would become of their inter-boarder relationship.
Find this and follow not one but two romances that bloom in this movie and see what would become of them.
Hyun Bin is a super star and a darling in South Korea.
Oh, and this series sparked not one but two real life relationships after everything was said and done.
Until next time.
