14 K-Dramas With 100% Rotten Tomatoes Score on Netflix in February 2024
This Netflix playlist has something for everyone.
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Crash Course in Romance (2023)
Number of Episodes: 16
Choi Chi-yeol is a celebrity professor at one of Korea’s most competitive private academies. He’s also a workaholic who can barely keep food down.
Nam Haeng-seon is a single mother who runs a banchan shop. As much as she cares about her daughter’s education, she doesn’t have time to woo Chi-yeol like the other parents. That is, until the professor winds up in the hospital for malnutrition and only Haeng-seon’s food can tempt him.
Watch if You Like: Enemies-to-lovers romance
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Divorce Attorney Shin (2023)
Number of Episodes: 12
Shin Sung-han is a pianist and music teacher living in Germany. But when his sister gets a messy divorce and then dies shortly after, he decides on a career change. Sung-han becomes a divorce attorney fighting for justice, especially when his clients have the odds stacked against them.
Watch if You Like: Men on a mission, second chances.
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Mask Girl (2023)
Number of Episodes: 7
Everyday office drone Kim Mo-mi once dreamed of being a famous singer, but cruel taunts about her looks kept her self esteem crushed. Now, she goes home every night and live-streams as Mask Girl, dancing and flirting but hiding her face behind a gilded mask. The online persona earns her thousands of fans, but soon leads her down a dark path.
Watch if You Like: Crime dramas, social commentary.
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Queenmaker (2023)
Number of Episodes: 11
Hwang Do-hee is a corporate “fixer”, covering up scandals at a retail conglomerate. But when one of her PR coverups leads to a woman’s death, Hwang has a crisis of conscience – and loses her job.
When Hwang learns that the Seoul mayoral election is a race between one of the corporation’s “people” and Oh Kyung-sook, a fiery civil rights lawyer, she throws her weight behind Oh.
Watch If You Like: Political thrillers
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Castaway Diva (2023)
Number of Episodes: 12
Teenager Seo Mok-ha dreams of escaping her abusive home life and making it big as a K-Pop idol. Her dreams are only slightly derailed when she leaves home for a competition and winds up stranded on an island for 15 years.
When Mok-ha is rescued, she finally starts to climb the path to singing superstardom.
Watch If You Like: Overcoming adversity, shows with music.
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Song of the Bandits (2023)
Number of Episodes: 9
It’s the 1920s, and Japanese occupation has caused the repression of civil rights across Korea. Many people flee across the river from Joseon to the Gando region, where rebels are gathering. Some are only hoping to survive, while others start to form a militia to fight their oppressors.
Watch If You Like: War dramas, historical epics.
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Daily Dose of Sunshine (2023)
Number of Episodes: 12
Based on the real-life experiences of nurse Lee Ra-ha, this series documents the tumultuous ups and downs of life in the Psychiatric Department. Jung Da-eun is transferred to the department from Internal Medicine, and though she is overwhelmed on a daily basis her compassion for her patients always shines through.
Watch If You Like: Grey’s Anatomy.
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My Name (2021)
Number of Episodes: 8
After the murder of her father, a young woman approaches a crime boss to get revenge. He promises to give her the skills she’ll need to find her father’s killer, but in exchange she’ll need to infiltrate the police force and act as his spy.
Watch If You Like: Revenge dramas, crime thrillers.
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Crash Landing on You (2019)
Number of Episodes: 16
When a South Korean heiress goes paragliding, a tornado sweeps in and blows her into Korea’s demilitarized zone. There she is rescued by a handsome North Korean officer, who keeps her hidden until he can return her to her home country. Of course as time passes, sparks start to fly.
Watch If You Like: Romantic dramedies
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Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022)
Number of Episodes: 16
Woo Young Woo has autism, and has been obsessed with the law since she was a child memorizing her father’s law books. She graduates from law school in record time, but firms are reluctant to hire her due to her poor social skills. Nevertheless, the talent of the Extraordinary Attorney Woo is soon clear to everyone around her.
Watch If You Like: Legal dramas with heart.
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Little Women (2022)
Number of Episodes: 12
The Oh sisters love each other desperately, but their extreme poverty is a drain on their lives. When one of the sisters is left a bag of money, they find themselves drawn into a fight against a wealthy, corrupt family.
Watch If You Like: Family dramas, cat and mouse stories.
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D.P. (2021)
Number of Episodes: 12
When a young man starts his government-mandated military service, he discovers that being a new recruit means putting up with a nightmarish series of physical and psychological abuses. His brains and stature soon get him moved up to D.P. (Deserter Pursuit), where it is his job to find soldiers fleeing similar abuse.
Watch If You Like: Intense drama, military settings
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Juvenile Justice (2022)
Number of Episodes: 10
Shim Eun-seok is an elite judge with a famous dislike of young offenders. When she gets transferred to a juvenile court, she has to balance her firm belief in justice with her intense dislike of the teenagers that stand before her every day.
Watch If You Like: Courtroom dramas.
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The Sound of Magic (2022)
Number of Episodes: 6
Yoon Ah-yi is poor, bullied, and deeply unhappy with her life. That all begins to change when she meets the fantastical, childlike magician Ri Eul, who lives in an enchanted theme park and teaches Ah-yi to see the beauty in life.
Watch If You Like: Musicals, magic.