Forget Seinfeld and The Office, These 10 Comedy K-Dramas Will Make You Laugh Until You Cry

It's no wonder that when we're feeling down and need something easy to cheer us up, we turn to the sitcoms we've seen a million times and know all the lines by heart. The cringe-worthy humor of The Office makes you forget about all the problems in your real life, and all the silly shenanigans of the main quartet in Seinfeld make the absurdity of life so obvious that it's actually relieving.

But we suggest you give some other new shows a chance to brighten your day. Diehard K-drama fans know that when you need a good laugh, nothing beats a good old comedy K-drama with the silliest scenes ever. So here are ten perfect series to binge on in search of a big laugh.

1. Welcome to Waikiki (2018)

All the experts in the South Korean TV industry mention this K-drama as the funniest thing they have ever seen on TV. Well, it's pretty easy to believe that when you know the premise of the show.

The series revolves around three friends whose lives are tied up around a guesthouse called Waikiki. They all have their own dreams, but can't figure out how to make them come true. Their lives get a lot more complicated when a woman with a baby arrives at Waikiki and adds more pressure.

“I had a fever when I started watching this and by the end, I had already laughed away my sickness. Proved to me that laughter is the best medicine,” Redditor snowboo27 said.

2. Mr Queen (2020)

What fans like about the show is of course the fantasy storyline and the overall narrative, but Shin Hye Sun's performance, they believe, is what sets this show apart from other Korean comedies.

This K-drama focuses on the life of Jang Bong Hwan, a modern day chef who accidentally travels back in time and ends up in the body of a woman. And not just any woman, but a queen! Now he must do whatever it takes to survive in his new political reality.

3. Gaus Electronics (2022)

It seems that the marketing department of Gaus Electronics is always stressed and ready to leave. The series focuses on several members of the team, such as Lee Sang Sik, a typical good guy of the company, who often ends up in awkward situations because he can't read the room. Or Cha Na Rae, who can never hide her true feelings. Long story short, there are so many people who wouldn't survive a day together in any other situation, but in this company they only have each other.

4. Behind Your Touch (2023)

This recently released drama tells the story of Bong Ye Bun, who works as a dedicated veterinarian in a small town. But she has a secret: when she touches a certain part of a person or an animal, she can see their past.

One day she meets Moon Jang Yeol, a very successful detective from Seoul, who was sent to the same town where our female lead lives. He wants to move back, so together they try to make it happen.

5. Prison Playbook (2017)

Fans say this is the most underrated series of all, wondering why it isn’t hailed as one of the best series ever released in South Korea. The series follows Kim Je Hyuk as he faces the extraordinary changes in his life. Once a popular baseball player, he is arrested for being violent with a criminal who wanted to sexually assault his sister.

Unfortunately, he ends up in prison and now has to deal with his new reality, make new friends, and write a new playbook that will help him survive behind bars.

6. Good Manager (2017)

It's a familiar story when corporate culture changes a person, but usually they go from good to bad. Well, this series will show you that a reverse story is also possible as it focuses on the life of Kim Sung Ryong, a once corrupt man who works for gangsters and is willing to embezzle money from the company he works for. After spending too much time with people who actually care about him, he starts to change and becomes the best version of himself.

7. The Fiery Priest (2019)

The fans of this K-drama point out that the story is not uncomplicated and comedic per se, but it definitely has many hilarious scenes that will make you laugh hard. There is no romance and the main character of the series is actually a tortured man. The series focuses on the life of Kim Hae Il, and many would assume that just being a priest makes him a good person, but they will be surprised to find out who he really is.

8. Move to Heaven (2021)

Another series that is far from being described as a comedy, but its clever humor and many hilarious scenes make it worth mentioning in this list. It focuses on a family that has a very unlikely business: they clean up death scenes, and when they find the belongings of the deceased left there, they bring them all to the relatives of the dead.

At the center of the story is an autistic boy and his father, but when the father dies, the boy and his uncle take over the business and find out many of the family's secrets.

9. Birthcare Center (2020)

It's impossible to be prepared for everything that life can throw at you, and Oh Hyun Jin was unhappy to realize this in her own experience. The thing is, she always thought she knew it all, and she actually had a point: she had a successful career and was a very powerful woman overall.

But when it came time to give birth and be a mother, she suddenly realized that she knew less than nothing about this aspect of life. Birthcare Center shows us her attempts to become the best in this area as well.

10. Bad and Crazy (2021)

There's always a "bad boy" in any company, but then there's always a way to change him. In Bad and Crazy, the responsibility of doing so falls on a "crazy" guy. K enters the life of Soo Yeol, the police department's own bad boy, who always makes everything his bosses want possible, and finally changes his heart after meeting K. But is bad and crazy a great tandem?