Korean emotional dramas on Netflix that completely crush the heart

The Netflix catalog offers endless Korean dramas, being one of the most popular on its streaming platform. However, only a few of them manage to move audiences with their emotional stories of romance, friendship, family and lots of drama.

It’s good not to be good

One of Korean romantic dramas with emotional stories on Netflix it’s ‘It’s okay not to be ok’, starring Kim Soo Hyun and Seo Ye Ji. The renowned actor duo brings to life a complicated love story between a psychiatric hospital nurse and a children’s songwriter suffering from antisocial disorder, who have a childhood past as well as very complex family relationships.

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Moving to paradise

Between most moving Korean dramas on netflix, highlights ‘Mudanzas al Cielo’, an emotional drama starring Tang Joon Sang and Lee Je Hoon. The two actors bring to the screen the story of a nephew with autism and an uncle with a criminal record, who must learn to live and work together after inheriting the family business after the death of their father and brother.

Song of death

Another South Korean romantic story that has come to Netflix in the form of a drama and which has an emotional plot is “Death Song”. It is a drama starring Lee Jong Suk and Shin Hye Sun as a Japanese writer and a young Korean woman who fall in love in the midst of a political and social conflict in their countries: the Japanese occupation in South Korea.

Hello and goodbye, mom!

Like ‘Mudanzas al Cielo’, ‘Hello and Goodbye Mom!’ is one of the few Korean dramas on netflix with an emotional history that is not necessarily about romantic couples, but about family. In this case, Kim Tae Hee plays a mother who, after her death, has a second chance: as a ghost, she must go to her loved ones and find a way to return to the world of the living.

1988

Stories of friendship and young love always tend to be some of the most emotional that movies and television usually bring to the screen. This is the case of ‘1988’, a popular and moving drama starring Lee Hyeri, where she plays the life of a high school girl who lives her best personal years, among friends and family, in the neighborhood where she grew up.

Thirty-nine

Similarly to ‘1988’, the story of ‘Treinta y Nueve’ is also about the heartwarming relationship of three best friends. Jeon Mi-do, Kim Ji Hyun and Son Ye Jin create the friendship of three women in their thirties, living adulthood to the fullest with the love they feel for each other, as a couple and also with their partners, their families.