Recent Korean dramas
The newest titles in the archive, by air date.
K-pop
Groups and soloists, with the records they appear on.
Korean variety shows
Talk, reality and game shows, and who turns up on them.
Korean food and drink
What it is, how it is eaten, and where it came from.
Korean culture
The customs, the clothes and the words behind them.
Korean myths and legends
The old stories, and where they turn up on screen today.
Travel in Korea
Places worth the trip, with what to expect when you get there.
Test yourself
How much of this do you actually know?
South Korea: where to start
Most people arrive at Korean drama through one show and then want to know where the rest of it is. This page is the index to that: 424 dramas, 163 films, 250 people and 55 guides, each one a record rather than a paragraph, and all of it linked so you can start from a title and end up somewhere you did not plan to go.
The genre is the usual first question. Romantic comedy is the widest door and the one most people come through, and the archive files it plainly so you can read a synopsis before committing sixteen hours. Behind it sit the two traditions that make the industry what it is: the historical drama, which is where the biggest production money has gone for twenty years, and the thriller, which is what Korean cinema exports. The genre box in the archive panel counts what is actually here rather than what a list somewhere says should be.
Where to watch is the other question, and it is the one this site answers the same way every time. Every title page carries a "Where to watch" block naming the platforms licensed in your region, whether that is Netflix, Rakuten Viki, Prime Video, Wavve or Kocowa. We do not stream anything, and we do not link to unlicensed copies. If a title has no licensed platform where you live, the page says so instead of sending you looking.
The canon and the current year are both here on purpose. Reply 1988, Coffee Prince, Full House, Stairway to Heaven and Jewel in the Palace are searched harder than most things airing now, and the decade counts in the archive panel let you move through the collection by period rather than by release date. What is on this week sits at the top of the drama strip.
Cast is where the database earns its name. An actor is entered once, on the cast list of the drama they were in, and their profile builds its own filmography by reading that backwards. So you can open a show, click a face, and see the other thirty things that person has done, with their billing and the year, without typing anything into a search box.
Food, culture and the myths are not decoration on a drama site. Tteokbokki turns up in more scenes than any other dish, hanbok colours mean something specific, and the gumiho that half the fantasy dramas are built on is a folk figure with a documented history. Those sections are written the same way as the records: sourced, and silent where nobody can source it.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I watch Korean dramas legally?
Title pages list the official platforms we know of and, where TMDB has JustWatch data, which services carry the show in your country. This site does not stream anything and does not link to unlicensed copies.
Where do the scores come from?
Readers. A score appears on a title only once people have voted on it, and the number of votes is printed beside it, so a 9 from four people never reads as a 9 from four hundred.
Where do the posters and the data come from?
Posters and portraits are shown through the TMDB API and belong to the studios, broadcasters, distributors and agencies behind each work or person. Facts on the page come from the sources named in each record. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
What if something here is wrong or missing?
Use the "Request a correction" link on the page and an editor reviews it. A field nobody can source is left empty rather than guessed at.