7 Most Popular K-Dramas Free to Watch on Viki

South Korean industry is conquering the world with the huge number of shows that they are producing every month. It seems like they have a plan to turn all the viewers into obsessive fans who just live for another K-drama with exotic premise.

It’s clear that the fandom of the genre is huge, and K-dramas are popular not only in South Korea, but also everywhere in the world. Global streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu are loaded with K-dramas.

But one of the most popular services to stream the shows is actually Viki. So here we have 7 most popular K-dramas to watch for free on Viki.

1. High-End Crush (2015)

At the heart of the series is a love story that changes the lives of those involved. The K-drama follows Choi Se Hoon, the head of an agency that turns ordinary people into brilliant pop stars. He is a very successful man and has already proven to the world that he has talent.

One day, however, he meets a beautiful young girl whom he desperately wants to recruit for his agency. She is naive and shy and the exact opposite of him. But as time goes by, he realizes that he needs her. And not only in his agency...

2. Weak Hero Class 1 (2022)

At the center of this series is a story of an ordinary and rather modest student named Yeon Shi Eun who turns out to be the real hero of his time. He is smart and kind-hearted, but he doesn’t have the physique of an athlete.

However, it seems like doesn’t even need one, because he appears to be the one who fights the bullies and any other injustice that happens inside and outside of his school. The viewers absolutely loved the show and named it the must watch on Viki.

3. The Red Sleeve (2021)

This K-drama focuses on a devastating love story between a King-to-be Prince Yi San and Sung Deok Im, a young woman he met in court. The young man is devastated after the brutal murder of his father, which happened because of his cruel grandfather. So all he wants is to reform the laws and make the kingdom a better place.

So when he meets Sung Deok Im, he offers her to become his concubine. She refuses the proposal at first, but soon sees that he would be the best king she could have imagined having. Still, it would be hard to make her change her mind…

4. Melting Me Softly (2019)

A fantasy K-drama with an unusual premise, Melting Me Softly revolves around Ma Dong Chan and Go Mi Ran who become part of a very questionable experiment. In this experiment, the two of them, along with some other people, were frozen for... 20 years! But they thought the estimated time was only 24 hours.

So they woke up in a completely new world where they didn't know what to do. They look the same as they did decades ago, but their families have changed. And to add to their stress, they now have to keep their body temperature below 90 degrees in order to survive. But maybe love will help them get through it all?

5. Cherry Blossoms After Winter (2022)

A tragedy left a seven-year-old boy named Seo Hae Bom without his parents, so he was adopted by a family who had a son of the same age named Jo Tae Seong. Hae Bom was taken away with his new friend, whom he thought was ideal: tall, handsome, kind-hearted and worthy of adoration.

When they end up in the same high school class, their relationship changes. They begin to spend all their time together, and an unexpected romantic feeling begins to blossom. But will they be able to keep it in their hearts?

6. Mouse (2021)

Another fantasy drama with a mix of sci-fi premise is called Mouse. It revolves around the idea that is actually very important today and always: what if identifying psychopaths will be possible in advance?

The nation is terrified because of a ruthless murderer. Jung Ba Reum, a rookie police officer seeking justice, comes face to face with the killer. He survives the dangerous confrontation with the psychopath, but then realizes that his life is changing before his eyes.

7. Semantic Error (2022)

At the heart of this K-drama is the beloved enemies-to-lovers trope. The series follows the justice-seeking fun-killer student Chu Sang Woo, whose groupmates pranked him and made him do all the work on a liberal arts project to pass the module. To get back at them, Chu Sang Woo erased all their names from the project, leaving only his own.

Little did he know that his action would cause big trouble for Jang Jae Young, the star of the university. Without his name on the project, all of his plans to study abroad are ruined. In the end, he really wants to hurt the one who caused all this. But instead of revenge he finds love...