Korean TV series about unrequited love

List of the best Korean TV series about unrequited love according to viewers: Train, Semantic Error, No, Thank You, Big Mouth, Our Blues, A Gentleman's Dignity, Cheer Up!, Hello, Me!, Ga Doo Ri’s Sushi Restaurant, Run Boy Run.

In the top there are new series of 2023, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantastic, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea

Several skeletons are discovered on the tracks of a closed train station. However, one of the dead victims walks into the police station. Where did all these dead bodies come from, and who is committing all of these murders? The world split into two on the night of a murder 12 years ago, and Do Won chases after the hidden truth in the parallel universe. This drama shows the contrast between two different worlds, divided by two different choices.

Markimdb: 8.7
Genremelodrama
CountrySouth Korea

Chu Sang Woo is the epitome of an inflexible and strict rule-abiding person. Jang Jae Young is like a semantic error in the perfect world of Chu Sang Woo. Will Sang Woo be able to work with Jae Young as an artist and engineer?

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Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySouth Korea

Is about the various things that occur when an ordinary daughter-in-law enters her in-laws’ household for the first time. The drama centers around Min Sa Rin. She is an expert at her job, having been an employee at a major corporation for 7 years, but still a rookie at marriage, having only been married for one month. She tries hard to be liked by her in-laws, but encounters unexpected incidents and finds it hard to get along with her new family. Moo Goo Young is her ordinary husband who is not particularly good nor bad. Although he loves his wife, he gets caught up in the confusion between her and his family. Park Gi Dong is Moo Goo Young’s mother and Min Sa Rin’s mother-in-law. She is an extremely realistic mother-in-law.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecrime, detective
CountrySouth Korea

Thriller about an unsuccessful lawyer who gets involved in a murder case and is somehow fingered as genius swindler Big Mouse.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea

Romance is sweet and bitter - and life riddled with ups and downs - in multiple stories about people who live and work on bustling Jeju Island.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:05

Four men with complicated love lives refuse to admit they're getting older, and attempt to prove that forty is the new thirty!

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, sport
CountrySouth Korea
Duration06:33

Despite their harsh educational environment, the cheerleading club has to keep it together for the students' sakes, and their own.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

Miserable and unsuccessful, a woman thinks she's lost all her spark — until one day, her spunky younger self appears in front of her demanding change.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

“Ga Doo Ri’s Sushi Restaurant” is about the sweet yet fierce romance between dating expert Ga Doo Ri, who’s well known for her refreshing dating advice, and her mysterious next-door neighbor Cha Woo Bin.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, sport
CountrySouth Korea

A promising runner, Do-won, after getting injured in an accident, runs to meet his best friend from childhood, Jin-su. In that brief joyful moment of being reunited with Jin-su who seemed different from their pure past, Do-won got caught up in an unexpected incident. Can we still be able to get out of this situation of falling into the depths, and face the future where we had the same dream?

Genrefantasy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

Set during the Joseon era, Hong Cheon Ki is a female painter with a genius like painting talent. She is picked as the first female painter of the Dohwaseo (Korean Royal Academy of Painting). Hong Cheon Ki also has a beautiful appearance and a bright personality. For her, painting is everything. One day, she meets Ha Ram.Ha Ram is an officer at the Seowoongwan, an office in charge of astronomy, geography, art of divination, meteorology. When he was young, an accident caused him to become blind. Hong Cheon Ki falls in love with him and she doesn't care that he is blind. Hong Cheon Ki keeps appearing in front of Ha Ram and he finds himself waiting for her.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genremelodrama, drama, history
CountrySouth Korea

A desperate love story between Youngr-o, a youthful female freshman student, and Soo-ho, a prestigious but mysterious university graduate, who one day jumps into her room, at a women's university dormitory, covered in blood from running away of a dangerous situation. Despite the strict surveillance, she helps him on hiding and healing which develops their relationship that goes against the tragic era of 1987 in Seoul.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:15

Na Bong Sun may be a skilled sous chef, but she lacks the self-esteem to shine professionally and socially. Beyond her cooking talents, however, is an uncanny ability to communicate with ghosts. One day, her mystic senses go out of control when the seductive ghost of Shin Soon Ae possesses her. Imbued with a fiery new "personality," Bong Sun starts turning heads, including that of Kang Sun Woo, the hottest chef in town and Bong Sun's secret crush!

Markimdb: 8.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

A professional woman leaves her dental practice in Seoul and moves to a seaside village. There she meets a local resident who is unemployed but seems to do everything around town, from helping those in need to being a part of everyone's life. The two become interested in each other despite their differences.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama, musical
CountrySouth Korea

When she was little, Yun Ai dreamed of becoming a magician. But in reality, she’s just a high school student who can’t even afford new socks. After meeting a mysterious magician at a carnival, she decides to follow her dream.

Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea

Will tell stories of emotional love and breakups. Ha Young-eun, a manager of the design team at a fashion label who is a trendy and intelligent realist. Yoon Jae-guk, a wealthy and popular freelancer photographer who also has the brains and looks. Hwang Chi-sook is a director of the fashion label’s design team who attended high school with Ha Young-eun and Seok Do-hoon is a skilled PR company CEO.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySouth Korea

Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games—with high stakes. But, a tempting prize awaits the victor.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

New friends, new loves and new experiences mix together inside a colorful college dormitory in Korea that's home to students from around the world.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

Bothered to realize they are next-door neighbors and share a psychiatrist, a man and a woman find it's impossible to stay out of each other's way.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:03

As the heir to a large company, Han Tae Hee has everything he could possibly want - except for his long lost love. But instead of nursing his heartache like a sensible person, Tae Hee enlists Sa Geum Ran, whom he transforms from an overweight ugly duckling to a gorgeous bombshell named Sara. In the process of falling in love with his "creation" he discovers that even though it appears that money can buy just about everything, it can't buy love or heal emotional scars.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, detective
CountrySouth Korea

Noodle shop employees by day and demon hunters by night, the Counters use special abilities to chase down malevolent spirits that prey on humans.

Markimdb: 7.5

A genius hacker and a detective, both from Police University, struggle to overcome a crisis together.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, thriller, detective
CountrySouth Korea

Han Ji-hyuk, an NIS agent gone MIA, returns after one year to join a new team as he searches for his lost past.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration16:00

Jang Jae-yeol is a writer of bestselling mystery novels and a radio DJ. Playful and a bit arrogant, he also suffers from obsessive–compulsive disorder. Ji Hae-soo is a psychiatrist on her first year of fellowship. Driven and ambitious with her career yet compassionate towards her patients, Hae-soo has a negative attitude towards love and relationships in her personal life. Once Jae-yeol and Hae-soo meet, there is much contention between them caused by their strong personalities and refusal to give in to each other. But slowly their bickering turns into love and they begin to learn how compatible they are. Jae-yeol and Hae-soo attempt to heal each other's deep-seated wounds, but their fledgling relationship takes a blow when they learn that Jae-yeol's mental health issues are more serious than they initially suspected.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

A home-searching romance story about a man who buys houses and a woman who lives in one. It follows the diverse stories of the editors of a home magazine.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

“Please Don’t Meet Him” is about a woman named Seo Ji Sung who wants to fall in love but also avoid the wrong men. In order to create the perfect love life, she creates an artificial intelligence (AI) program called Cho Sang Shin.Seo Ji Sung is a programmer of the AI smart home appliance development team. One day, she accidentally develops an AI program called Cho Sang Shin, which will identify trashy humans, and she uses it to save people who are in difficult relationships.Jung Kook Hee is a firefighter who doesn’t use social media. He is the one and only person that Cho Sang Shin is unable to analyze.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, fantasy, melodrama, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryFrance, South Korea, Japan, Spain, Mexico, USA

Normal high school kids by day, protectors of Paris by night! Miraculous follows the heroic adventures of Marinette and Adrien as they transform into Ladybug and Cat Noir and set out to capture akumas, creatures responsible for turning the people of Paris into villains. But neither hero knows the other’s true identity – or that they’re classmates!

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:00

Hyun-Soo is an aspiring drama series writer. She uses "Jane" as her username and begins chatting with username “Chakhan Seupeu” (‘Good Soup’) online. “Chakhan Seupeu” is actually Jung-Sun. He dreams of becoming a French food chef. They meet in real life.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea

At this mysterious late-night food cart run by an equally mysterious woman and her part-timer, customers are provided a space for respite and counseling through their dreams. But most importantly, everyone here is treated equally—living or dead.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genrethriller, melodrama, detective
CountrySouth Korea

Kim Moon Ho is a successful reporter at a mainstream news station, but when he stumbles upon a 10-year-old mystery, he's forced to dive into a subversive underground news agency. On his journey to break open the case, Moon Ho teams up with Chae Young Shin, a second rate tabloid writer, and Healer, a mysterious internet-based journalist. With his career and his safety on the line, who can Moon Ho trust in a world full of unreliable sources?

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, melodrama, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration04:40

Min-woo is a 28-year-old introverted writer of webcomics (or "webtoon") who has partial memory loss.One day, he finds a memo on his desk calendar, and because of it, writes a new webtoon titled December 8, which becomes an instant hit. But as the webtoon gets even more popular, Min-woo feels pressure from work and begins to suffer from severe headaches. He strives to recover his lost memories from the time he was an 18-year-old high school student, especially those of his first love, Mimi, as he unravels their mysterious fate.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountrySouth Korea

Determined to escape a dead-end life, a gifted high school student turns to a world of serious crime to ensure he can pay for college.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:15

It's not easy being Ho Goo, a low-key guy who can neither score a date nor score high enough on his civil service exams, which he's failed 7 years running. But when he has a chance reunion with national swimming champion Do Hee, the most popular girl of his high school, his luck begins to change — perhaps for the worse. After staying out all night with Do Hee, Ho Goo experiences a rude awakening when he realizes that not only has Do Hee left him, she's also pregnant!

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, fantasy, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea

When Dong Baek was a high school student, he suddenly gained a supernatural power. Whenever he touches somebody, he can read that person's memory. Dong Baek reveals his memory reading ability to people and he becomes a detective. He is gung-ho to catch as many criminals as possible. He encounters a mysterious serial murder case.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, musical, cartoon, music
CountrySouth Korea, France

Follow the journey of young Iris, a spirited teenage girl with a beautiful voice and an unending desire to help others. When Iris sings, strange events happen.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea

Lee Seon-yoo is training to become a nun. Right before she finally gets her wish, she learns that her beloved older sister Jin-yoo has died. Jin-yoo was betrayed and killed by her lover, Jang Tae-jung. Tae-jung, a smart, good-looking man from a humble background, had committed himself to luring and marrying a tycoon's daughter "against all odds," as part of an effort to get him into the upper class of society.Seon-yoo then meets Seo Ji-seok, an immature man from a rich family whose sister Ji-hee is married to Tae-jung. Ji-seok is at risk of losing the inherited family business to Tae-jung and Ji-hee, since Ji-seok's mother is the family patriarch's second wife.To take revenge on the man responsible for her sister's death, Seon-yoo gives up her dream of becoming a nun. She marries Ji-seok, and becomes Tae-jung's sister-in-law. Thus, Seon-yoo begins leading a double life: she pretends to be the ideal wife and daughter-in-law in front of the Seo family, and only takes off her mask in front of Tae-jung, proving she can be just as ruthless and vicious as Tae-jung. Seon-yoo wears her angel wings while hiding the dagger of revenge.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
CountrySouth Korea

A story where ten people get the chance to go back in time by one year, but unexpectedly mysterious situations start to arise when their fates are changed and twisted in the process.Ji Hyung Joo is a detective in the violent crimes division. He used to be part of the traffic police but was promoted when he arrested a wanted criminal.It's been seven years since the change, and he's a talented individual who always knows how to relax. Though he is happy at first to have the chance to go back in time by one year and "reset" his life, he begins to search for the truth when a series of mysterious events befall on the group of people he goes back in time with. Based on the Japanese novel, "Repeat"

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:02

Yoo Seol-Ok liked mystery novels and wanted to become a detective, but she gave up her dream after marrying. Now, she is a housewife with a husband who works as a prosecutor. She meets Ha Wan-Seung. He is a passionate detective and they decide to collaborate to solve cases.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:39

Inevitably, everybody gets hurt at some point in their lives. There are different remedies for different types of wounds, and as time elapses, these remedies start to become less effective. This is a story about a man who created a shield for his broken heart. Since the day his heart broke, he has been living inside a shell. One day, he encounters a being unlike any other, and by interacting with her, he slowly learns how to break out of his shell.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:30

Noh Ji Wook is a prosecutor in the Central District Prosecutors’ Office who ends up switching professions to a private attorney. He harbors a trauma stemming from an event in his childhood involving his parents and his first love. Eun Bong Hee, a Taekwondo athlete in her youth, is a prosecutor trainee who has become a murder suspect. Eun Bong Hee and Noh Ji Wook both find themselves being the focus of a killer.

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Genrefantastic, adventure, cartoon
CountrySouth Korea

The series is set in the near future. The automobile company named JHC Motors has created the Watch Cars, which are miniature sentient robotic cars that have become good companions to children and adults alike. Ever since, Watch Cars have become a global trend. The Watch Car Battle League is a competition where Watch Cars battle alongside their trainers. Jino, one of the young Watch Car Masters, goes to the Watch Car Battle League with his Watch Car Blue-will, but The Rangers of Darkness, an evil force plan to takeover all the Watch Cars in the city. Jino and his friends Roy, Maru and Ari, along with their Watch Cars, must stop them.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama
CountrySouth Korea

High school student Lee Shi Kyung suddenly moves out to the countryside and transfers to a mysterious high school. Getting through unfamiliar experiences, he realizes the meaning of life and love.

Markimdb: 8.7
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea

A psychopath’s ruthless serial murders have left the entire nation gripped with fear and chaos. A honest and justice-seeking rookie police officer and a veteran detective with tragic past, face against the killer. After the encounter with the psychopath, their lives totally change.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantasy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

The thrilling love story of Shin Woo Yeo, a 999-years-old gumiho who wants to become human, and Lee Dam, who accidentally swallowed his fox bead.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:00

A legal drama about team of young and passionate prosecutors who banded together to fight against injustice and oppression that befall weak and poor people. Besides face many hardships from higher authority, they also learn to cooperate and adjust with the clash of different personalities and backgrounds.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:02

In search of inspiration, rock band “Excellent Souls” — Lee Min Ki, Kang Hyeok, Yoo Han Cheol — goes on hiatus deep in the countryside. To their surprise, the village elder is none other than Kang Yoon Hee, a zippy woman who's not only the town’s first female leader, but also the youngest. She also just so happens to be bandleader Min Ki’s first love. Amidst a rural backdrop, these scrappy rockers take stock of what stirs their passions — both musical and romantic.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

Lee Min Suk is just a normal high school hockey player - until he's forced to take his brother's place as the director for a major company. Now he's forced to balance school work, hockey practice, and making multi-million dollar decisions. No big deal?

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, action, drama
CountrySouth Korea

A high school becomes ground zero for a zombie virus outbreak. Trapped students must fight their way out — or turn into one of the rabid infected.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, melodrama, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:42

This drama is a romantic thriller that centers around a criminal profiler, Lee Hyun who previously work as a consultant at the police department in New York. After he returns to south Korea, he’s in charge of a special criminal investigation team. Due to his special insight, he can analyze the crime scene and the suspect at one glance. He works together with an elite detective, Cha Ji An to solve the crimes and they develop a romantic relationship.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

Han Yeo-reum is a furniture designer who owns a workshop space that she shares with other designers. For the past three years, she's been dating Nam Ha-jin, a plastic surgeon with a sweet and gentle personality. But Yeo-reum's peaceful existence is shaken when her ex-boyfriend Kang Tae-ha suddenly reappears in her life. The CEO of an interior design company, Tae-ha is a smart, confident man with a strong competitive edge who always gets what he wants. Meanwhile, Ha-jin's childhood friend Ahn Ah-rim has secretly been carrying a torch for him all these years. As she begins working with Tae-ha, Yeo-reum is forced to reevaluate her romantic history, which sets her off on a search for true love.




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