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  • I love K-dramas because they usually have the most wholesome love stories, maybe it’s because Koreans really do get love. They build up tension that fills us fans with enough longing for two characters to be together even though we may not have enough romance in our lives. Here are my top eight favourite couples of all time from popular K-dramas. 

    Lee Ik Jun and Chae Song Hwa in Hospital Playlist

    I love an excellent friend-to-lovers movie, and Hospital Playlist did not disappoint this couple. They’d been in love with each other since they were in college and it took him almost dying for her to tell him she loved him back. Their relationship was slow-paced, but I can’t even complain because their chemistry was insane. 

    RELATED: These 7 Medical K-Dramas Will Wreck You Emotionally 

    Yoon Sae Bom and Jung Yi Hyun in Happiness

    The last thing I’d do in an apocalypse is fall in love, but these two made it work. Watching Yi Hyun risk his life to protect  Sae Bom  on several occasions shouldn’t be as cute as it was but it was. Of all the couples on this list, they deserve the best. 

    Yoon Hye Jin and Hong Doo Shik in Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha

    Enemies to lovers trope? Inject it, please. Whenever they did anything romantic, my cheeks burned because, God, when? They were so tender with each other and willing to make hard decisions to make each other happy. Knowing that they are not a real couple breaks my heart every day. 

    Vincenzo and Hong Cha Young in Vincenzo

    Forget that they didn’t end up together and focus on their chemistry. I’ve never seen a romantic pair as capable of so much chaos, as the both of them. They found a way to make us laugh with all their antics in a show that could easily have been too sad to watch. 

    Myul Mang and Tak Dong Kyung in Doom at Your Service 

    Imagine being the most negative and pessimistic person on earth, and the guy you like who is a god takes you back to your happiest memory just for fun. What a flex! How can we not stan? Their relationship was intense and heavy, but it was all worth rooting for them. 

    Kim Joo-won and Gil Ra-im in Secret Garden

    This show is old but gold because, in the late 2000’s, female leads were constantly chasing after men that were mean to them. Kim Joo-won was pursuing Gil Ra-im. In the series, this man flew in a director to watch her perform just cause he wanted her to get a role she missed. He even tried to give up his inheritance to be with her. Their relationship is a 20/10 for me. 

    Ri Jeong-Hyeok and Yoon Se-Ri in Crash Landing On You

    Do you know how insane you have to be as a North Korean soldier to hide and protect a South Korean who illegally enters your country? That, there, is romance. You know when your chemistry is so good, you fall in love and get married in real life? Exactly, there’s no need to talk too much. 

    Choi Ung and Kook Yeon-su in Our Beloved Summer 

    They started as lovers, became exes and then lovers again. They were both unwilling to open up to each other. Of course, they broke up. Years later,  they realised they were still in love and decided to do everything right this time. Choi Ung and Kook yeon-su made my heart ache in the sweetest way possible, and everything about their relationship felt so real, if only they weren’t acting. 

    READ ALSO: The Ultimate Nigerian K-drama Fan Starter Pack

  • We get it, sometimes Korean series are just too long for you to watch, but that doesn’t mean you should miss out on the greatness that is Korean entertainment. Here are seven of the best Korean movies you can watch on Netflix. 

    Love and Leashes

    Some of the best romantic K-dramas started with an office romance, and I’m glad this movie did not fail me. What happens when two coworkers find themselves in a contract-based BDSM relationship and try their hardest not to fall in love? Chaos. This movie accurately represented how kinks play out and still managed to be sweet and wholesome. The lead actors had great chemistry; the best part was that the dominant was a woman. Hard not to root for them. 

    RELATED: QUIZ: Can We Guess Your Sexual Kink?

    Alive

    Koreans realized that they could put multiple spins on zombie movies and haven’t stopped making them ever since. If you enjoy films like Train to Busan, this zombie thriller will hit the spot. The movie follows the life of a loner millennial video gamer who has to fight to survive after the world turns into an apocalyptic zombie nightmare. But it’s more than horror; it’s the struggle to keep hope alive even while the world burns before your eyes which is fitting since it was released in 2020. 

    Wish You

    For people that enjoy K-pop, Wish You is an LGBTQ romance set in the K-pop music industry that stars two actual singers in the lead roles. In Wish You, Sang Lee is a Keyboardist who falls in love with the work of a street musician played by Kang Ye Na. They spend some time working on music together, and of course, they fall in love. This cute romance will hit the spot if you enjoy movies where characters fall in love at first sight.

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    The Bros

    The Bros is a hilarious movie about two brothers who haven’t spoken since their mother died, forced to work together to carry out traditions at their father’s funeral. Add a mix of classic sibling rivalry, a mysterious woman, family secrets and meddlesome siblings and be ready for premium entertainment. The movie is funny and heartfelt as we watch the two brothers try to fix their relationship amid the crazy situations they find themselves in.

    Okja

    If you’re a Bong Joon Ho fan or loved Parasite, you’ve either already seen or will enjoy this movie. It follows the life of a young girl called Mija who tries to rescue her genetically modified pig “Okja.” This gut-wrenching movie spoke about the horrors of capitalism and the brutal treatment of animals in the food industry. After seeing Okja, you might become a bit obsessive about how the food industry works, pele. 

    Space Sweepers

    Koreans have range, and they showed it with this sci-fi movie. Space Sweepers is set in 2092 after Earth has become nearly unlivable, and a corporation called UTS starts to build homes on mars for people that can afford it. It’s a hilarious movie about a crew of “space sweepers” who collect debris from space and sell it for money. Their lives are a mess, but it gets worse when Dorothy, a robot which belongs to UTS, stows away on their ship. At first, they try selling Dorothy to the highest bidder, but the crew falls in love with her and make it their mission to protect her. 

    The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure

    For people that love adventure, The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure fit’s the bill when you don’t want to watch something too serious. A group of thieves and their eccentric leader Wu Mu-chi are stuck in the middle of the ocean but are rescued by pirates. Both groups are after a lost royal treasure and form an unlikely alliance to find it. It’s a movie about thieves and pirates, so expect lots of deceit, hilarious scenes and romance. 

    READ ALSO: Feel-Good K-Dramas like “Extraordinary Attorney Woo”

  • If you’re impatient like me, waiting weekly for new episodes of Extraordinary Attorney Woo must be frustrating. Here are seven feel-good K-dramas you can watch while you wait. 

    Racket Boys

    I once thought sports dramas were boring, but K-dramas changed that for me. Racket Boys is the story of a boys’ badminton team going from worst to best. It’s a sweet drama about finding yourself and your community. Watching the kids tackle challenging situations and triumph will surely keep your serotonin levels high. 

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    Welcome to Waikiki

    This drama follows three different men — an actor, a director and a writer — a combination that works if you’re making a movie. But imagine theose three people running a guest house without prior knowledge? A disaster. This drama is funny, and if you love movies about friendship, Welcome to Waikiki does the job. Try it when you need to de-stress, and you won’t regret it.

    Hometown Cha-Cha

    What is more feel-good than a romantic comedy? Hometown Cha-Cha focuses on a dentist from the city, Yoon Hye Jun, who moves to a village by the seaside to start her dental practice. She meets the small town chief and jack–of-all-trades, Hong Du Sik, and we get our never-ending fill of the enemies-to-lovers trope. Their chemistry will make you desperate for love, but be ready to laugh when the nosy village people are on screen. On a scale of one to ten,  this drama is an 11. 

    Our Beloved Summer

    Choi Ung and Kook Yeon-Su filmed a documentary together about the worst and best students while they were in high school. Five years have passed, and they’d put it behind them, including the relationship they ended up having. Except, it’s suddenly famous, and now, they need to shoot a rerun. And these two are still in love; they just don’t know it yet. The gentle friendship each character has with the other makes this show a must-watch. 

    Hi Bye, Mama!

    Imagine dying but having the chance to become human again if you do different tasks for 49 days? Well, that’s Cha Yu-Ri’s story. She died five years ago, has silently watched her daughter grow and has decided her grieving husband and his new wife aren’t up to the task of raising her. This drama will have you calling the important people in your life to say I love you; it’s just that heartwarming.

    Business Proposal

    Business Proposal follows the life of Shin Ha-ri, who pretends to be her best friend, Young-seo, to make sure the latter’s rejected on an arranged date. Things go to shit when Ha-ri realises the man is her boss and is determined to marry her at all costs. Ha-ri ends up in several difficult situations in this drama full of cliches that’ll keep you laughing. It’s very rare for you to fall in love with both the first and second lead, but this drama makes it work. 

    Mystic Pop-up Bar

    Any K-drama with a balance of comedy, fantasy, and romance gets an A+ in my books. Mystic Pop-up Bar is about an ill-tempered ghost who runs an outdoor bar where the living and dead can come to find answers to their problems. If you also enjoyed Hotel Del-Luna, you’d enjoy this show.  

    READ ALSO: The K-drama Friend Groups We Wish We Were Part Of

  • K-drama writers are brilliant as fuck. They add these tropes on purpose, so die-hard fans like me can keep coming up with theories based on familiar tropes. They might be annoying at times, but they add spice to the plot, so we stick around. 

    Here are the six most recurring tropes you can’t miss in K-drama. 

    The main characters must have met as kids

    I’m not even going to lie; this trope slaps, and all the best dramas use this. It always works best when they don’t remember each other and hate each other’s guts. Like in Hometown Cha-cha-cha. Every time I see this trope, I want to fight my brain for forgetting all my kindergarten friends.  

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    Sudden illness or amnesia

    You thought Mexican series had this trope on lock, but them no do reach Koreans. When you’re watching a K-drama and things are going too well, just prepare for an accident that’ll give the main character amnesia or a sudden terminal illness. Have your tissues ready. You’re about to cry hot tears. 

    Episode 12 breakup

    I want Koreans to know that art doesn’t always have to imitate life. I didn’t come to watch a K-drama for them to break up. But what do they care about my feelings? It’s on schedule at this point. Isn’t 12 supposed to be a holy number signifying new things? Anyway, if your relationship is 12 seconds, days, weeks, months, or years old, my dear, good luck. Break-up na national cake, after all. 

    The best friend who’s in love with his best friend, who likes someone else

    This trope is annoying because if your best friend ever confesses that they like you because someone else is showing interest in you, you better run. These characters need to stop doing this nonsense sha. I like that K-dramas never lets him get the girl sh because that’s dirty behaviour. A closed mouth is a closed destiny. 

    The suspicious man dressed in all black with a black cap and mask

    There aren’t many things in life that upset me, but in what world  would anyone see a man dressed like this and follow him? What do these characters have against staying alive? I know it’s just to move the plot, but girl? Is everything okay at home? 

    Korean idols as main characters 

    And they always show out. When Bae Suzy, IU, Park Seo-Joon, or Choi Si-won are in a K-drama, I always expect perfection. This is one trope I can never complain about because we know they are great at singing, but watching them act is a whole other experience. I’m a simple person —  I see an idol in a K-drama and watch it. Life’s not complicated. 

    READ ALSO: How to Write the Perfect Romantic K-drama Series

  • Every month, new K-drama series get released, and if you’re like me, you’d watch them weekly because what is patience? These ongoing dramas released in June might have a long way to go, but so far, here are our favourite six. 

    Yumi’s Cells season 2

    Season 2 explores Yumi’s relationship with her new love interest Bobby, GOT7’s Jinyoung. This drama tells the story of the ordinary life of Yumi from the perspective of the animated brain cells in her head that control her every thought, feeling and action. Last season we saw the struggle Goo Woon faced trying to wake up Yumi’s love cell after it fell into a coma after she got heartbroken. So, good luck to Jinyoung’s character. He’s going to need it. We ‌will be on the other end of our phones, laughing our asses off. 

    RELATED: How to Write the Perfect Romantic K-drama Series

     Jinxed At First 

    Imagine having so much bad luck in your life that people avoid you, so they don’t get it? Well, that’s what the main character, Gong Soo-Gwang, had to deal with daily. Until he meets Lee Seul-bi again, a woman with the unique ability to see people’s future whenever she touches them. Except, the last time he met Lee Seul-bi, his life changed, and every time he dreams of her, he has terrible luck. 

    Alchemy of Souls 

    If you like your K-dramas with a bit of magic, deception and foolish main characters, watch Alchemy of Souls. Set in the fictional country of Daeho, the series follows the lives of young mages and how they overcome their twisted fates because of a magic spell known as the “alchemy of souls”, which allows souls to switch bodies and how they find love. Five episodes in, and the show’s as chaotic as expected. Love it. 

    Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area 

    First, this K-drama started with Tokyo dancing to BTS’s song DNA, and I was sold. It’s a Korean remake of the original Spanish hit drama, following the same characters with a more Korean storyline. The actor’s list is impressive, and they actuated for their daily 2k. It has just six episodes so far, so you can watch them in six days. 

    Café Minamdang

    Nam Han-Jun, a former criminal profiler, now works as a shaman who defrauds people as a fortune teller for money in his shop, Minamdang. It’s easy for people to fall for his lies because he’s good-looking and has smooth-talking skills. Somehow, he gets entangled with Han Jae-Hui, a police inspector who wants nothing more than to arrest him. 

    Extraordinary Attorney Woo

    This series follows Woo Young, a lawyer who graduated top of the class from Seoul National University. Everything should be perfect for her, except she struggles with everyday interactions because she is autistic. While they’ve released only two episodes, the series shows lots of promise for that funny, heartwarming content we love. 

    ALSO READ: Korean Actresses That Made Us Obsessed With K-drama

  • My favourite trope about K-drama is the funny-as-hell actresses that drive the plot forward. While the male lead has to be some emotionless rich guy, these babes put in performances like their rent is due. And it pays off because here’s how these ten Korean actresses made us obsessed with K-drama. 

    Park Shin Hye

    Were you even alive if you didn’t watch The Heirs that year? Almost everyone’s love for K-drama started with this series. Park Shin Hye always chooses the most complicated love stories, and one of her family members must die. OG stans know her from You are Beautiful, but if you also saw Heartstrings, Pinocchio, and Flower Boy Next Door, let’s be friends.

    RELATED: How to Write the Perfect Romantic K-drama Series

    Bae Donna 

    They don’t make K-=drama actresses like Bae Donna anymore. Think of any popular action K-drama; she was probably in it. She’s not limited to the K-world because she starred in Western movies like Jupiter Ascending, Cloud Atlas and Sense 8. She makes you feel like you can fight if you copy her moves but Egungun, be careful. 

    Lee Sung-kyung

    She was always the second love interest that sabotaged the main girl for the longest time, but we still loved her. Forgiving her for her past sins as the wicked babe was always easy. We can thank her roles in Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Jun, Dr Romantic 2, and About Time for that. I’m convinced this woman is a shapeshifter, though, because she never quite looks the same in any two movies. 

    Jung So-min

    I fell in love with her after watching Playful Kiss, and I’ve never looked back. If you’re like me, you probably love her dramas because they’re always funny. She’s the babe that consistently falls in love with a guy that doesn’t like her back. She did prove that she’s more than a funny girl in Because This Is My First Life and The Smile Has Left Your Eyes. If you enjoy silly antics and cheesiness, you should watch Alchemy of Souls for a good time. 

    Park Min-young

    Overraw  best in romanzzz. In all her performances, she’ll say she doesn’t need a man and end up with the same man she claimed not to need — an indecisive queen, I stan. No one does the “getting drunk and making stupid decisions” cliché as well as she does. She even took it up several notches in her most recent movie, Forecasting Love and Weather, so watch it if you haven’t. And prepare to die of laughter because why would you date your coworker? 

    Gong Hyo-jin

    Maybe it’s the way she smiles, but she has a way of making you feel warm, and that’s what got me obsessed. This babe can be in love with a guy for ten years and not tell him. It’s a good thing it always somehow works for her, though. If she made you cry in It’s Alright, This is Love, don’t worry; she has The Producers and Pasta to make you laugh. She usually takes roles where she’s the funny main lead obsessed with her job—seeing her play the part of a mum in  When the Camellia Blooms shocked me. 

    RELATED: Romantic K-dramas That Will Make You Shout, “God When?”

    IU

    IU doesn’t have 24 hours like us mortals do because how does she manage such a big music career with acting? I heard her sing in Dream High and was instantly obsessed. While the rest of the cast was busy fighting and sabotaging each other, she was there giving me good music and an unproblematic love story. How could I not stan? 

    Ha Ji-won

    This list won’t be complete without her. She is the original girl boss, girl slay. If she’s not killing it in her historical dramas like Empress Ki and Hwang Jin Yi, she’s taking on badass roles in crime-fighting movies. Of course, she makes time for romantic dramas too, or we wouldn’t have Secret Garden and Kings Heart. 

    Bae Suzy

    Was she annoying in every movie? Yes, but you still can’t help but love her. If you’re like me, you probably first saw her in Dream High, fell in love, and now you’ve watched every movie she’s ever been in. She did a fantastic job in Vagabond, but take me back to that Gu Family Book era that had all of us by our throats. If you also couldn’t get enough of her and had to listen to her former K-pop girl band Miss A, a show of hands? 

    Jun Ji-Hyun

    Never in my life have I seen a more unserious actress. Every time a director needs someone to act in a movie where the female lead is a mythical creature, Jun Ji-Hyun is the one they call. I’m not even complaining because she kills it every time. She’s only been in six K-dramas, but it seems like more because all six dramas are super popular. She’s funny, a blockbuster queen — and if you think of any iconic K-drama line, she probably said it. We have to stan, please. 

    ALSO READ: 10 Actors Only Real K-Drama Fans Know

  • If you read these iconic K-drama lines and don’t immediately know where they’re from, I’m sorry, but you can’t call yourself a K-drama fan.

    Hint: try singing some of them.

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  • I live for romantic K-dramas even though all they do is make me moan, “God when?” Nothing comes close to their found family/best friend trope, though. 

    Warning: Watching any of the movies with our favourite K-drama friend groups will have you calling all your friends at 3 a.m. to tell them how much you love and miss them. 

    The gang from Reply 1988

    I wasn’t even born in 1988, nor do I live in South Korea. Still, this series made me nostalgic for the age when kids used walkmans, rocked denim on denim and used dial phones. 

    In Reply 1988, the gang of four guys and one girl all lived and grew up in the same neighbourhood watching movies together, listening to songs and looking after each other. Even though they sometimes argue, their quarrels never got in the way of their love for each other. 

    The Reply series is goated and deserves all the love it gets. If you need a good laugh or cry and want to learn what it means to be a good friend, watch this series because these guys understand friendship. 

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    Our favourite five from Twenty Five, Twenty One

    One thing K-drama will do is give you a new interest in sports that you never bothered with before. Twenty Five, Twenty One follows the life of Na Hee Doo, who wants to be the world’s best fencer. She meets Baek Yi Jin, a former rich kid whose family went bankrupt, forcing the family to live apart. Hee Doo and Yi Jun become friends and find joy in making the other happy. 

    How the rest of the squad comes together is messy. But still, things take up shape so beautifully as these kids struggle with their chaotic personalities, financial backgrounds, school and relationship drama, and still find time to show up for each other. The five have such an excellent on-screen connection you’ll find yourself tearing up more often than you’d like. 

    The doctor squad from Hospital Playlist

    If hospital dramas are not your thing, these guys are about to change that. The series follows a group of doctors who have been friends since medical school and somehow end up working in the same hospital. The series follows their friendship, relationship with their patients, romantic lives and, of course, the fact that they’re in a band. Best in time management, innit? 

    These guys will make you laugh with their easy banter. They always make time out of their busy days to check on each other, also making sure to hang out often enough to have us all in our feels. If there’s any friend group I’m most jealous of, It’s this one. 

    RELATED: These 7 Medical K-Dramas Will Wreck You Emotionally

    The Swag Squad from Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo

    You know a friend group is real when they bond over food. This trio are weightlifters in their university, and while their love for food is the only thing they have in common, the friendship still works. Every time they do something they find cool, they say, “swegg!” simultaneously. They fight for each other and always take each other’s side, whether wrong or right. 

    The girls from Hello, My Twenties

    At first, these girls don’t seem like they’ll be good friends because of their different personalities. But,  you can’t have six university girls living in a house without butting heads on their road to friendship. 

    This series did a good job showing what female friendships look like: the stupid dating advice they give each other, their struggles being in school while working part-time jobs, living with slobs and dealing with a stalker, etc. These girls went through it, and all you’ll want to do is give them hugs, but at least they had each other, so you know they can face anything together. 

    The plaza crew from Vincenzo

    This bunch of weirdos are still the most heartwarming found family/ friend groups I’ve seen in K-drama. The plaza crew consists of13  clowns who bonded over their disdain for anyone that tried to buy them out of the plaza that housed all their very different businesses. Until they met Vincenzo Cassano, a Korean-born Italian lawyer and Mafia consigliere who, unknown to them, was the actual owner of the plaza. 

    At first, they didn’t trust him when he said he didn’t want to break down the plaza because so many people had tried to deceive them. Unknown to them, baba had gold under the building, and that’s all he came for. 

    This chaotic gang of misfits sha ended up loving Vincenzo and would do anything for him, including acting as zombies to mess with the mind of a witness just to help Vicenzo with his case. The best part is that they get a happy ending and remain friends even after Vincenzo left.

    ALSO READ: How to Write the Perfect Romantic K-drama Series

  • As a Nigerian, I believe we should watch more medical dramas. Maybe then, we’d understand how stressful their job is and why they go on strike when they don’t get paid.  These seven medical K-dramas will entertain you if you appreciate doctors’ romance, watching people being sewn up, and hospital politics. 

    Dr Romantic

    Dr Romantic follows the life of Boo Yong-Joo, a famous surgeon nicknamed “Hand of God”, who disappeared one day and randomly came back to a small hospital called Doldam. Now he’s now known as teacher Kim but calls himself the romantic doctor. As Boo Yong-Joo is the best surgeon in Korea, he teaches Dong Jo and Seo Jung, two new doctors sent to the hospital, everything he knows. 

    Although his unconventional approach to medicine leaves his proteges conflicted about everything they learned in medical school, he’s mostly right in the end. This K-drama has its soft, funny and comforting moments.  But there’s also all that blood, the rushing to the ER, the almost-too=real-looking surgery. Fall in love with Dr Romantic in 36 emotionally wrecking episodes.

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    Doctor John

    Doctor John is a medical drama about doctors that specialise in pain management. As a person with chronic back pain in my twenties, there’s a relief from watching doctors search for the cause of their patient’s seemingly mysterious pain and trying to cure them. 

    Like in every medical drama, there’s a young genius doctor(anesthesiologist) Cha Yo Han whose nickname is “Ten Seconds” because he has this weird ability of diagnosing any patient’s illness in ten seconds. Years later, another genius, Kang Shi Young meets our ten seconds guy who changes her life. This drama has all the feels and is a good watch — with a box of tissue papers beside you. 

    Hospital Playlist

    There’s no medical K-drama as soft as Hospital Playlist. Five doctors entered the same medical university in 1999 and are now friends working in the same hospital. They’re also in a band together. This K-drama is a relaxing slice of life take on the medical drama sub-genre that shows the bond the five doctor friends have with their patients, co-workers, and one another. Get ready to fall in love with every patient, laugh at the banter and be jealous of the friendships. There are many easter eggs of characters from different shows for K-drama lovers.

    Doctor Stranger

    If watching all the conflict that happens in a hospital where the doctors are more focused on hospital politics than the patients is your cup of tea, you’ll enjoy this one. The main lead, Park Hoon and his father were kidnapped by North Korea when he was a child. In North Korea, he becomes a surgeon and somehow manages to escape back to South Korea after his father was killed, where he takes on many odd jobs until he is employed South Korea’s top hospital Myungwoo University Hospital. All the doctors mistreat him, but his primary concern is finding a way to bring the girl he loved from North Korea, only for him to meet a doctor in the hospital who looks exactly like her.  

    The Doctors

    Hye Jung is a reckless and troubled student that lives with her grandmother after her parents abandoned her. She meets Ji Hong, a doctor who decided to become a secondary school teacher. He also happens to be the new tenant her grandmother adopts. They form a deep bond. He helps her study for school, and they quickly get too close. After Hye Jung’s grandmother dies, a jealous student accuses Ji Hong of being in a romantic student-teacher relationship with Hye Jung and breaks her spirit. 13 years later, Hye Jung and Ji Hon  bump into each other under neurosurgery in the same hospital. Hye Jung’s main goal for becoming a doctor was to have the power to avenge her grandmother’s death due to medical malpractice. Insert romance, hospital politics, doctors rivalry and annoying patients, and you have the perfect binge-watch for the weekend.

    Blood

    What’s better than a doctor that has to deal with blood? One that’s also a vampire! In this K-drama, Park Ji Sang is a doctor specialising in hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery in Korea’s best cancer research hospital. He’s portrayed as cold and unfeeling, but we later realise that he wants to form bonds with people but hides it. He manages to be a doctor who deals with blood while being a vampire by suppressing his thirst for it. Of course, he meets a female colleague Yoo Ri Ta, a physician who is also the niece of the chaebol group chairman who owns the hospital. This babe is arrogant and annoying, yet he falls for her. Medical dramas can already be a handful. But when you add fantasy, you get a recipe for tears and heartbreak. Inject it, literally. 

    Ghost doctor

    In Ghost Doctor Cha Young Min is an arrogant and selfish, yet gifted surgeon. He lives in isolation and only cares about his career. His polar opposite is a resident surgeon named Go Seun,g who isn’t great at his job, but at least people like him. 

    The day Cha Young Min has an accident and slips into a coma ,his spirit somehow possesses Go Seung’s body — suddenly gifting the latter with all his medical skills. If you like humour, I highly recommend Ghost Doctor. 

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  • K-pop idols have the best style. Watch their interviews and music videos to see for yourself. As a K-pop fan, it makes sense to want to copy them. To pull off the gorgeous aesthetic, you have to note a few things like wearing many silver accessories and owning lots of rings. Here are all the other awesome ways to look like your favourite K-pop idol.

    Lots of soft coloured dye

    Hair dye is obviously not an accessory, but with the way K-pop idols do it, it might as well be. Will you get disowned by your Nigerian parents? Probably. But at least you’ll maintain beauty.

    RELATED: Beginner Tips to Know Before Dyeing Your Hair

    Wear long earrings

    And I mean long ones. If it’s not the type that’ll make amebo people take another look when you pass by them, then you’ve not even started. Bonus points if you have multiple piercings.

    Buy leather accessories

    So what if the searing Nigerian sun peels off the leather and people look at you funny? What do they know? In fact, make it afro-fusion, leather belt and native wear, or leather vest and agbada. Go wild with it.

    Own boots

    You won’t even look too far off from most Nigerians these days because everyone owns boots. Boots will elevate your outfit and give you that K-pop “look”, but don’t go for the basic ones. Think spikes and platforms that’ll increase your height by seven. 

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    Fight the heat with heat

    Always wear leg warmers and hand warmers. You get to look like your favourite K-pop idol while manifesting a life in a country where you can’t wear those without fainting. 

    Chains

    At your discretion, layer the fuck out of your chains until your neck is heavy. It doesn’t even have to match or anything. Your neck is your oyster; go ham. 

    Fake tattoos

    Whether you want to believe it or not, your favourite idol probably uses fake tattoos. You too can do it, and the best part? It’s not permanent enough for you to get disowned!

    Rings

    Come on, if you didn’t know to stock up on rings, do you even like K-pop? With rings, the chunkier, the better. Think giant skulls or recent decorations.

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