Big Mouth To Little Women: 10 Best Korean Dramas Of 2022

K-dramas never fail to impress the audience by serving visuals as well as edgy stories that keep them hooked. 2022 was a great year for K-drama fans as there were many great releases this year that captured the hearts of the audience and became a trend online.

From special moments to romantic scenes, the cast visuals to Original Sound Tracks, K-drama fans leave no stone unturned when it comes to engraving their favourite drama in their mind and soul.

Luckily, the fans got enough material this year to repeat and replay, from the iconic 'take off the glasses' kiss to the endearing '1,2,3' way of passing through a rotating door.

As we end this year, it becomes necessary to take a look back at all the K-dramas that made our year beautiful and memorable and filled us with happiness, excitement, suspense, thrill and a little bit of sadness.

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Most Popular Korean Dramas Of 2022

The Sound Of Magic

This K-drama released in May 2022 and starred Ji Chang-wook, Hwang In-yeop and Choi Sung-eun in pivotal roles. The drama revolves around a disenchanted teenager who is finding it hard to survive in a world of cruelties. She finds comfort and hope in the tricks of a mysterious magician who lives in an abandoned theme park and is here to make her troubles disappear for real.

Business Proposal

This romantic comedy starring Kim Se-jeong, Ahn Hyo-seop, Seol In-ah and Kim Min-kyu released in February 2022 and became a popular hit because of its quirky lead and great chemistry between actors. The story was about Shin Ha-ri who goes on a blind date in place of her rich best friend to scare the guy away but ends up realising that she is on a date with the new CEO of her company and thus begins a chase of false identity and comical lies.

Little Women

Starring Kim Go-eun, Wi Ha-joon, Nam Ji-hyun and Park Ji-hoo, this enticing drama that released in September was loosely based on Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. The plot focuses on three sisters trying to survive their financial shortcomings. They somehow get involved in the case of missing 70 billion won and come under the target of Korea's richest and most influential family.

Extraordinary Attorney Woo

One of the most loved K-dramas of the year, the story of this show was about a young lawyer who suffers from Asperger's syndrome who struggles with interacting with people and confronting situations but has an exceptionally high IQ level and great memory and creative capability which she uses to solve complicated cases in the court. The show stars Park Eun-bin, Kang Tae-ho and Kang Ki-young in pivotal roles.

Big Mouth

This K-drama starring Lee Jong-suk, Im Yoon-ah and Kwak Dong-yeun in pivotal roles. The show is the story of an under-performing lawyer is wrongly identified as a notorious swindler Big Mouse and is imprisoned for being the accused in a murder case. The only way of clearing his name and saving his family is to find the truth behind a huge conspiracy involving some elite families of the society.

All Of Us Are Dead

This hit Netflix horror zombie apocalypse drama stars Park Solomon, Cho Yi-hyun, Park Ji-hoo and Yoon Chan-young in important roles. The show is about a high school that becomes the ground zero of a zombie apocalypse after one of its professor sets free a dangerous virus and its students are trapped inside it. They struggle and fight to survive the zombies and escape the premise by fighting their own friends who turned into zombies.

Twenty Five Twenty One

This K-drama kept the viewers on the edge because of its secretive and enticing story and shocking twists and turns. The romance drama starred Kim Tae-ri and Nam Joo-hyuk in lead roles and was about an ambitious teenage fencer and a hardworking journalist who are working hard to achieve their dreams. They cross paths and begin a beautiful love story which teaches them a lot of life lessons.

Our Beloved Summer

This romantic comedy stars Choi Woo-shik, Kim Da-mi, Kim Sung-cheol and Roh Jeong-eui in important roles. The story is about two high schoolers, the girl is the school topper while the boy comes last in class. In high school, they film a documentary together and fall in love and get into an on-and-off relationship. Years after their breakup, they meet again regarding their documentary and explore a different perspective of each other.

Yumi's Cells Season 2

This K-drama starring Kim Go-eun, Ahn Bo-hyun and Park Jin-young explores the daily life of a common office worker Yumi from the point of view of her brain cells. The much awaited season 2 of the show released in June and continues Yumi's journey after breaking up with Goo Woong and focusing to achieve her dreams. She gets attracted to her co-worker Babi but their relationship gets complicated when he lies to her.

Money Heist: Korea- Joint Economic Area

This is the Korean adaptation of the popular Netflix Spanish series Money Heist and stars Jeon Jong-seo, Lee Joo-bin, Park Hae-soo and Lee Hyun-woo in important roles. The show is set in the backdrop of a hostage crisis in unified Korean peninsula where a genius strategist and his team of talented and skilled thieves who trap innocent people to pull off a high level money heist inspired by a heist in Spain.