Dramas with strong, manly, male leads that will sweep us off our feet.

Strong Male Lead Dramas

KBS, KOCOWA

As a teenager, Kang Joo Eun (Shin Min Ah) was an undeniable beauty, but time and stress have taken their toll. After being dumped by her boyfriend of 15 years, Joo Eun's self-esteem hits rock bottom. Enter Kim Yeong Ho (So Ji Sub), a renowned personal trainer for Hollywood stars, who reluctantly returns to Korea to face his family after a scandal with an actress. Despite his wealthy background, Yeong Ho bears emotional scars from a devastating childhood injury, which he has managed through a disciplined, healthy lifestyle. Yeong Ho agrees to help Joo Eun regain her health and confidence. Could their working relationship turn into something more? Kim Hyung Suk and Lee Na Jeong directed this 2015 South Korean series.

Oh My Venus

Minion's Rising Team

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🌸

Mi Nyeo has a twin brother, Mi Nam. They grew together at an orphanage. Mi Nam has been chosen to be a member of a boy band, but he can't work as a singer due to an accident. So Mi Nyeo pretends to be her brother and starts to live as Mi Nam, the idol singer. The boy band has three other members: Shin Woo, Tae Kyung, and Jeremy. Shin Woo is a musical genius and the most popular member. Unlike the artistic and sensitive Shin Woo, Tae Kyung is more like a businessman and is hardly moved by anything. And Jeremy is an optimistic person who gets along with everyone. Mi Nyeo, living as Mi Nam, has to work with them. However, she is not sociable as she has lived all her life cut off from the world. So living as an idol singer is hard for her.

You're Beautiful

The A.N.JELL Team

Oh Hae Young (Seo Hyun Jin) works as an assistant manager at a large corporate catering company. But there’s another Oh Hae Young (Jun Hye Bin) who has caused identity mix-ups and grief for Hae Young her entire life, as the two went to the same schools and now even work for the same company. Even worse, the “other” Oh Hae Young was known to be prettier, smarter and more popular. But when Park Do Kyung (Eric Mun), a sound director with a newfound ability to see into the future, enters the scene, he inadvertently becomes the link between the two women. As he grapples with his powers and the intertwining fates of both Oh Hae Youngs, he must navigate his growing feelings for one while understanding the impact of his visions on their lives. This 2016 South Korean drama series was directed by Song Hyun Wook.

Another Miss Oh

The Double Trouble Team 

South Korean special forces officer Yoo Si Jin (Song Joong Ki) falls for surgeon Kang Mo Yeon (Song Hye Kyo) but their ideological differences force them to split up. Now, war has broken out in a faraway nation, and Si Jin’s unit is deployed on the battleground. Coincidentally, an unpleasant workplace incident has forced Mo Yeon to join a group of medical volunteers in the same country. The former lovers reunite, but can they find love again – against the backdrop of a bloody war? This 2016 South Korean drama series was directed by Lee Eung Bok and Baek Sang Hoon.

Descendants of the Sun

The Sunshine Team

When we were kids, teachers often said, \u201CWe will all have to buy water, and the business related to mental hospitals will extend.\u201D In the end, their prediction was correct. We can easily find people suffering from depression, sleep, and panic disorders. In this dystopic world, there is a man whose childhood was filled with bad memories. Not being able to overcome his trauma, he created other personalities. The problem is he never remembers what he had done when he changed. Dissociative Identity Disorder. What made him like this? But suddenly, a woman approaches him and suggests they can be friends. In incidents around him, his different identities start to be integrated, and they slowly realize sympathy and love are the only means of treating wounded hearts.

Kill Me Heal Me

The 7-Dimensional Team

KBS02

Kang Maru and Han Jaehui have chased their dreams, relying on each other despite their poor existence. Maru is a college student who's always been at the top of his class and Jaehui dreams of being an anchor that can help her escape his garbage life, so she works as an anchor at HBS broadcast station. Seo Eungi has been bred to be the heir of a major conglomerate but is devoid of warmth. The moment they all take steps closer and closer to their dreams. A desperate call from Jaehui to Ma-ru. After that day, their lives change in an unexpected way.

The Innocent Man

The Naughty Team

Hong Seol (Kim Go Eun) hasn’t had the easiest life – although she’s a hardworking and dedicated student, she was forced to take an extended break from her studies to help alleviate her family’s financial situation. She appears to have a stroke of luck when she receives a scholarship for a year’s worth of college tuition, but it was meant for another student: upperclassman Yoo Jung (Park Hae Jin), the heir to a family-owned multinational corporation. While he's athletic and attractive, he's secretly insecure and often vindictive towards those he dislikes. Yoo Jung often finds himself at odds with Hong Seol, but also seems to find her attractive. Things escalate when Yoo Jung’s estranged childhood friend In Ho (Seo Kang Joon) comes back to town – and also falls for Hong Seol. Will this love triangle make Hong Seol's college life hell, or will she find a genuine relationship? This 2016 Korean drama, based on the webtoon of the same name by Soonkki, was directed by Lee Yoon Jung.

Cheese In The Trap

I'm trapped

MBC, KOCOWA

Jae Wan is the general manager at the hotel CIEL and the most renowned star hotelier. He is perfect, from his clean looks to his successful career, but even he can't get everything, which hurts him so much. After the president of the hotel CIEL dies, his only daughter, Mo Ne, becomes the successor. She is such a charismatic person with her glamorous looks and confident attitude that everyone finds it hard to approach her. But even though it doesn't show, she struggles not to be deprived of her father, hotel, and the man she loves. And the vice president, Lee Joong Gu, keeps an eye on them, hiding his secret desire to own the hotel. However, something unexpected happens as someone discovers his plan to take away the hotel CIEL.

Hotel King

At Your Service Team

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 🐻

SETTV

Could anyone be more excited to reach her 26th birthday? Pi Ya Nuo (Megan Lai) had an inauspicious start to her life. When she was born 25 years ago, her parents and extended family – along with their fortuneteller – eagerly awaited her arrival in the delivery room so that they could bless the beginning of the Pi family’s heir. Upon hearing her first cry, the fortuneteller predicted on the spot that the baby boy would be a great success and a natural-born leader. But when the nurses announce that the baby is a girl, the stunned fortuneteller immediately announces that the girl would not survive her childhood unless she lives as a boy for the first 25 years of her life. Only then can Ya Nuo change her bad fate and bring prosperity to her family. On her 26th birthday, Ya Nuo can go back to her true gender without any repercussions. Doomed to live her life as a boy, Ya Nuo is shy and always tries to keep her distance to people to hide her true identity, and the mysterious aloofness makes her irresistible to the girls around her. One day, she accidentally helps out Du Zi Feng (Baron Chen), who happens to be a triad leader, and his sister, Du Zi Han (Mandy Tao). While Zi Han falls in love with Ya Nuo, Zi Feng becomes Ya Nuo’s “sworn brother” and best friend. With her 26th birthday fast approaching, will Ya Nuo find her much-anticipated return to being a female will be as easy as she had hoped? “Bromance” is a 2015 Taiwanese drama series directed by Chen Rong Hui.

Bromance

The B-romantic Triad

'Beautiful Mind' is a medical mystery drama about a genius neurosurgeon, Young Oh, who suffers from the inability to feel emotions and a rookie traffic policewoman, Jin Sung, who tries to find the justice. As soon as Young Oh comes back to Korea after finishing his studies abroad, he starts working at Hyunsung Medical Center and on the very first day at the hospital, he gets to meet Jin Sung who came to save a car accident patient. Soon, a series of bizarre deaths occur at the hospital and Young Oh tries to find the secret of it with the help of Jin Sung and along the way, he learns to love and care for people. Will he be able to find the answer of mysterious accidents? Also, will he learn to love and care for people with humanity? Stay tuned to join their journey.

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