Who doesn't love the age old trope of a rich man falling for a poor woman? This collection includes my personal favorites, in no particular order.

Rich Guy, Poor Girl

KBS02

A jolly Yoo Jung is charged for the murder of the girlfriend of a chaebol. Her own prosecutor's fiancee charges her sentence to prison. As she faces the charge, she also gets into bigger problems as her family grows unexpectedly. Thinking that her freedom from prison would lead her to a smooth sailing life, she finds herself in hurdles created by the insane Min Hyuk, who doesn't seem to get over the death of the love of his life. Her prosecutor fiancee Do Hoon helps her through it all but also has his fair share of hardships because of his connection to the desired wife Se Yeon and the chaebol's family. Find out how Yoo Jung, Do Hoon, Min Hyuk, and Se Yeon find their way to peace after the accident that took place on one rainy night--the death that started it all.

Secret Love

The Shh! Team

Dramax

Arrogant Lee Jae In (Ha Seok Jin) is stunned when his grandfather conditions his inheritance on marrying sweet schoolteacher, Kim Da Hyeon (Jun So Min). Reluctantly, Jae In signs an engagement contract with Da Hyeon, despite being strangers. As the couple endure months together, their differences seem insurmountable, but time may soften even the hardest hearts. Directed by Kang Cheol Woo, this 2016 South Korean romantic comedy series was based on a novel of the same name by Hyun Go Woon.

1% of Something

ღ 100% Fabulous ღ

Everybody says divorce is a failure in life. But this could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a person to grow up again. As all trees have to endure the forces of nature more than a thousand times, true love bears fruit after many failures. Although it starts from the story of a childish man and woman, the wounded souls grow up little by little, and their efforts finally bear their fruits. Here, the unexpected bitter-sweet love story unfolds. Who will be Mr. right for Ae Ra, and will she succeed in feeling true love again?

Cunning Single Lady

The Foxy Team

We all wear masks in our daily lives. A temporary worker wears a mask of an owner at a hostess bar, a girl who used to be a terrible bully back in her school days now wears a mask of a graceful lady to impress her blind date, and a director of child care center who abuses children puts on a mask of an angel before cameras. Hiding our true selves under the masks, we lead a lonely life. Today is the age of materialism, and a married couple that left love and everything behind to get what they want discovers each other\u2019s true colors under their masks and realizes that love and family matter the most.

Mask

The Pretenders

Eun Sung is a charming girl with a pure heart. She is easy-going and down-to-earth, which helps her to view the world in a positive light. One day, Eun Sung's father loses a lot of money to her stepmother. To make matters worse, she even loses her brother, who is a young, autistic boy. When she has to live on the streets amidst hardship, she runs into an old lady with dementia and helps her. And she happens to be the owner of a company. Eun Sung gets to live in the old lady's big house, but her life there doesn't go well because of others' jealousy. We invite you to the story of a girl who overcomes obstacles with hope, courage, and love.

Shining Inheritance

Shining team

Tae Gong Sil used to be a bright girl called \u201CSun.\u201D But after an accident where she barely managed to escape death, she starts to see strange things that no one can see. Going through lonely times, struggling to hold out in a horrifying world, she encounters Joo Joong Won, a greedy penny pincher and the owner of a huge shopping mall. Ever since Joong Won met Gong Sil, it seems like his life has become dark, but as they get close, they become special to each other. The two listen to sad and pitiful stories of spirits and help them out. Will they be able to find the light at the end of this spooky road?

Master's Sun

I See Dead People Team 

It's not been long since people started to discuss about different ranks within the society. Children's ranks are decided since birth according to the power and richness of their parents. Everyone dreams of becoming successful and leading a wonderful life, but the glass ceiling is solidified even more nowadays. Here is a girl who struggles to climb up the ladder of hierarchy. In the process, she realizes how to seek true happiness in her own way. She's been brought up in an ordinary household, by hardworking parents who sacrificed themselves for the children's happiness. However, no matter how hard she tries every day, there is a gap that cannot be closed. One day, she is given a choice to change her life around. This drama will console those who are still hoping and dreaming of escaping the rock bottom life.

My Golden Life

The Golden Team

How far would you go to save your dying sister? Shim Bo Nui (Hwang Jung Eum) is very superstitious and does everything she can to ward off bad luck, from lighting candles to sprinkling salt. She has been visiting a fortuneteller for two years to find ways that she can keep her younger sister, who has been in a coma after a car accident, alive against all odds. After another code-blue incident with her sister, Bo Nui begs her fortuneteller to keep her sister alive. The fortuneteller tells Bo Nui that she has to sleep with a man born in 1986 (the Year of the Tiger), or her sister will die. Bo Nui sets off on an earnest “man hunt” to find a man who was born in the Year of the Tiger. When she realizes that Je Soo Ho (Ryu Jun Yeol), the CEO of a game development company, is just the man, she tries to pursue him. Meanwhile, Gary Choi (Lee Soo Hyuk) is a tennis star who moves in next door to Bo Nui because he used to have a crush on her as a boy and pretends to be 30 to get close to her. Han Seol Hee (Lee Chun Ah), Gary’s manager, can’t understand his sudden interest in living in a small apartment and taking time off from tennis. Can Bo Nui find the right man and romance him for one night in time to save her sister? “Lucky Romance” is a 2016 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Kyung Hee. It is based on a webcomic written by Kim Dal Nim.

Lucky Romance

The Lucky Team

Just 18 months into being a top-selling girl group, the Treasure Girls disband. A quick ten-year hop in the future, their lead vocalist Ae Jung goes through many difficulties releasing one controversy flop after another. On the other hand, Ko Jin is the epitome of a perfect man in the eyes of every Korean lady. He's hot, he's humble, and he's got a great set of movies on his career. The two meet, but what's covered in glitz and glamour is apparently a facade of what's real.

The Greatest Love

This is an alternate history drama that is based on Park So Hui's "Gung" with the reinstatement of the Korean monarchy in August 15, 1945, along with its liberation and establishes Year 1 of Gwanghwa. In 2006, "Year 14 of Inhwa," an overly normal high school girl that attends an arts high school ends up marrying the Crown Prince, who is dating Min Hyo Rin, because of a promise that the elders made decades earlier, and becomes the Crown Princess. But due to the failing health of the King, many problems occur in the aftermath. That's when Hwa Yeong, the former Crown Princess and her son, second in line to the throne, Prince Yul, return from 14 years away in England. Their ultimate aim being to take the throne. But Prince Yul ends up falling in love with the average high school girl turned Crown Princess, Shin Chae Gyeong, and one calamity after another continues to plague the Royal Family.

Princess Hours

 🐻 Royal Teddy Bears 🐻

KBS2

Working-class highschooler Jan Di (Ku Hye Sun) secures a scholarship at the prestigious Shin Hwa High School. Shin Hwa is attended by elites, most infamously the F4 — the four richest boys in school. Not one to stir up trouble, Jan Di keeps to herself... until her best friend accidentally drops ice cream on F4 leader Goo Joon Pyo (Lee Min Ho). After Jan Di stands up for her friend, her anonymity goes out the window and the F4 won't leave her alone. However, as Jan Di learns more about the F4, she realizes that there's more than meets the eye... and it seems Joon Pyo feels the same way. Will this unlikely duo find romance? Released in 2009 and based on the Japanese manga of the same name, this drama is a worldwide phenomenon and a fan-favorite classic. It was directed by the late Jeon Ki Sang and Lee Min Woo.

Boys Over Flowers

🌸The Fabulous Four Team🌸

Kim Tan (Lee Min Ho)’s wealthy parents have been grooming him to take over the lucrative family business, the Empire Group, since he was just a young boy. His jealous older half-brother Kim Won (Choi Jin Hyuk) – already a successful executive at the firm – is a constant thorn in Tan’s side. Tan, meanwhile, is engaged to an heiress, Rachel Ryu (Kim Ji Won), the scion of a powerful, hotel-owning family. But while he is studying in the United States, Tan meets and falls for Cha Eun Sang (Park Shin Hye), unaware that she is the daughter of his family’s housekeeper. As super-rich families hatch plans for their children’s future, could love put an end to their ambitious schemes? This 2013 South Korean drama series was directed by Kang Shin Hyo and Boo Sung Chul.

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