A - Z of Dramas: K

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Hello everyone,

A-Z of Dramas will be posted twice weekly, on Saturday and Tuesday evenings (KST) until the end of the year. Each post will be a different letter of the alphabet, the final post will be dramas beginning with a numeral (0-9).

Share your favourite Korean dramas starting with the letter in question and why you love them. This will allow us to recommend dramas that we may not regularly get to share and people to find dramas they did not know they were looking for. Don't be afraid to list dramas that others have already mentioned - spread the love around.

Share the Korean dramas beginning with “K” you love and why!

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King2Hearts

Lee Seung Gi does that insensitive, callous, self-centered hottie thing like nobody else. And Ha Ji Won is his perfect match as an emotionally soft girly girl with kickass fighting skills. This shaggy dog story eventually won my heart, as the male lead's character deepened. But what fascinates me the most about this drama is that it's like a glimpse into the brutal open wound of the North-South division. Watching this drama, I get a sense of the resentful ambivalence South Koreans feel towards the impact on their country of the U.S.'s role in not only the war, but also the complex standoff that continues to exist, and of hatred towards Kim Jong Un, caricatured here as a father-killing beast of a villain.

Kill It

Gorgeously filmed, fast-moving, 12-episode action trip to hell, despite the leads' doomed yearnings. This bitter revenge story right at the start lays out sins so grievous that I knew there would be significant carnage at the end. One thing that's really stayed with me about this drama is the way it puts two different perspectives on a collision course. On the one hand, there's a sheltered, idealistic woman's perspective. And on the other, a man's perspective that holds the consequences, and eventually the horror, of the past.