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Korean Stories That Shift Something in You
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items I found Korean stories late. But once I did, I settled in nicely. And this is coming from a bookworm who rarely sits through most film. Asides from the fact that my ears immediately fell in love and intuitively understood Hangul nuances, the cultural...
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Where Reality Starts to Bend
Love, But Make It Complicated by Reality
Tension You Can’t Turn Away From
The Ones That Stay With You After
Soft Love, Safe to Feel
Before You Knew Better
Where Reality Starts to Bend
Settle in with your popcorn and favorite fluids. You're about to have a good time. Mystically Super-Natural
Come watch this cute gumiho lay out some eye sparkling magic as he weaves a tale across time that makes you wonder about how interconnected all beings truly are. The magic right in front of the mundane
Watch Tale of the Nine Tailed | Netflix
Her tails are so gorgeous. If there's one movie you need to watch here. Try this. You'll learn core skills of resilience, fortitude and self-awareness as demonstrated by the most beautiful gumiho ever. Many times i wanted to knock the ML over. Lol
Watch My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho | Netflix
This was so fun and cute to watch. And quite a mature romantic flick. Not all meets the eyes. and sometimes the mysterious answer is the most straightforward and honest answer you could provide.
Watch Beauty Inside | Netflix
You'll not be able to stop laughing at this time manipulation thrilling rom-com. Also an #OfficeRomanceFlick. How will you cope if you alternated identities in one reality? It got me thinking of how much of the self is restricted to the physical iden...
▶️ Miss Night and Day - Trailer Season 1 [OV]
When ML froze the award's red carpet ceremony 😍 A time traveling gem of the highest order. Makes you question and ponder about time dissolution. Fate - what a word
Watch My Love from the Star | Netflix
You will cry - I can guarantee it.
Watch See You in My 19th Life | Netflix Official Site
If you love angels and demon archetypes, you'll enjoy this funny romantic series. 😊
Watch My Demon | Netflix Official Site
Time collapsing across worlds. Ohh the horse standing in the middle of the park- so elegant.
Watch The King: Eternal Monarch | Netflix Official Site
Fun, Hilarious and the part where their houses melded together was just downright ridiculously nice
Watch Doom at Your Service | Netflix
idk why it took me this long to find the guardian - just days before it leaves netflix but am I glad I did..and the title is a bit of a misnomer actually. I love the way they made magic normal, commomplace and everywhere which is actually the true re...
The Lonely and Great God - Watch Guardian - Netflix
If it were you, would you accept a job offer in the in-between phase - the liminal space of unbecoming
Watch Hotel Del Luna | Netflix
A magical fantasy that sometimes seems to runaway as long as the genie's hair
Watch Genie, Make a Wish | Netflix Official Site
This was sniggeringly good
Watch Angel's Last Mission: Love | Netflix
This is a great one to watch when moving through growth and expansion phases that require you to sacrifice all you've built for what might not arrive. Watch for lessons in trust, faith, and responsibility
Watch Cashero | Netflix Official Site
Great for bookworms thinking through what if visualizations….
Watch W – Two Worlds Apart | Netflix
You'll enjoy all the fun drama hidden in this
Watch Destined with You | Netflix Official Site
this was so unexpectedly good! you'd holler all through. brings to mind unwilling romantic partners of magical persons with clair senses and skills, and how their day-to-day life evolves
Watch Possessed | Netflix Official Site
This took me so long to watch but it was quite interesting. It was quite a balanced mix of comedy, action, and suspense. They tried to hide the suspect but eventually revealed it in a funny weird way. I really liked it. But that shaman was so annoyin...
Watch Behind Your Touch
Love, But Make It Complicated by Reality
My second office romance K-pop flicked that had me wrapped around it finger
Watch King the Land | Netflix Official Site
All the caught moments + cute innocence that was unexpectedly good, light, but oh so funny. In the freezer moments that got thoughts flying Loool. Fun office romance set n the outdoors and interesting subplots
Watch The Potato Lab | Netflix Official Site
The office environment sneakily stolen kisses are toe-curling hot. Adult fun
Watch Her Private Life | Netflix
hahahahahahahhah! This is another one that will get you rolling plus learn a bit about the entertainment industry. Great watch for Leo
Watch Sh**ting Stars | Netflix
I love the way FATE was demonstrated as a core theme. It was so cute, funny and beautiful to watch. At night, in front of the shopping store
Watch The Secret Life of My Secretary | Netflix
The humor and facial expressions
Watch Business Proposal | Netflix Official Site
A sweet senior to junior colleague affair with a side of 3rd wheels.
Watch Forecasting Love and Weather | Netflix Official Site
Man to man was so hilariously funny and all the weird love triangles
Watch Man to Man | Netflix
hilariously fun. you'll enjoy watching this even though the storyline might seem a bit forced at some points, it shows how opposites attract in the best ways
Watch Love to Hate You | Netflix Official Site
ridiculous but so sweet and cute. you wouldn't help but grin at ML's cuteness, and the whole shenanigan about the kisss! Nice sweet watch for die hard romantics.
Watch Dynamite Kiss | Netflix Official Site
This was sweetly poignant to watch, and the ML made the character come through so strongly. It got me thinking about physical disabilities and how it creates radical change for everyone around.
Where Stars Land
Tension You Can’t Turn Away From
Healer will keep you glued all the wya to the end its is intensely funny moments of raw chaos. The bakery boys 😂
Watch Healer | Netflix
A.must-watch. you'll laugh so hard. And you wouldn't see the revealed twist at the ending coming at all
Watch Café Minamdang | Netflix Official Site
Ready for suspense-thriller…hold on to nail-biting edge of seat suspense
Watch The Glory | Netflix Official Site
This is an hilarious thriller with a sprinkle of the supernatural. Imagine meeting your younger self. What would you do?
Watch Hello, Me! | Netflix Official Site
You will love this especially if you love car chase funs and playing with cars in high speed spy dragnet. Will keep you watching for long. aLSO falls into legal thrillers category
Watch Taxi Driver | Netflix
This is deep but still fast paced in an interesting, keep watching way
Watch Stranger | Netflix Official Site
An unexpected yet expected turn of events
Watch My Name | Netflix Official Site
You'd not see The TRUNK coming. It is a masterclass in self composure. Total romance, suspense and drama thta makes you pause to consider deeply befor ejumping into romantic entanglements
Watch The Trunk | Netflix Official Site
this took me 2 years to finally watch. not rating it as highly as many others on this list. but the storyline was quite realistic. the whole saga was a bit too dramatic for me, but if you are looking for a nice revenge flick, cue this up
Watch Remarriage & Desires
If you're an entrepreneur and someone who is feircely indepenedent, watch Itaewon class when you're ready to come out of yourself and have a detached eprspective of your context. Itaewon class is one of those few unexpected storylines you'd never for...
Itaewon Class (TV Series 2020) - IMDb
The Ones That Stay With You After
Psychological thrillers. Pisces will love this section
I loved this so much. It was easy to step into the MC's acting. And an interesting watch for authors and illustrators
It's Okay to Not Be Okay
Eve was borderline psychotic and wild. Well executed and wantonly hot. Get ready to. be taken on a ride. Ermm suspense level in the high notes just not the highest on this Korean dramas list
Watch Eve | Netflix
A sweet romance that lays bear deep emotional wounds
Watch Love in Contract | Netflix
This is definitely different for me
Watch The Girl Who Sees Scents | Netflix
Get ready to cry, curse and worry a bit
Watch Little Women | Netflix Official Site
This series relateable-ness is why you wouldn't be able to stop watching. The addressed health issues are well developed and worth a 2nd look. Deeper than a typical neighborhood romance flick
Watch Love Next Door | Netflix Official Site
this will make you laugh but also ponder seriously the topic of reincarnation, alternate timelines, and the gifts we all have deposited within us but sometimes remain oblivious to. As well as knowing just exactly what you need. If you have 8th house ...
Watch My Royal Nemesis | Netflix Official Site
Soft Love, Safe to Feel
You must watch thissssss! For art. For fashion. For a cocky PRINCE. Lool. You'll love it
Watch Dali & Cocky Prince | Netflix
This is the first Korean movie I watched that introduced me to the world of romantic K-pop..and never looked back
Watch Romance Is a Bonus Book | Netflix Official Site
You'll love this romantic-action-funny series. Your Capricorn and Sagittarius too will like it
Watch Crash Landing on You | Netflix Official Site
hahahha, another funny one that activates different elements within. sometimes the storytelling felt overdone. But overall it is such a good flick once you look past the way FL downplays her ability some times.
Strong Girl Bong-soon (TV Series 2017)
This fun romance will encourage healthy life choices with from physical to emotional states
Watch Oh My Venus | Netflix
This is an heartwarming love in the neighborhood set to get your heart bubbling in heart chakra love
Watch Beautiful Gong Shim | Netflix
I love love love this on so many levels from the romance bits to the business bits. Then the parenting bits. The kisses with pausable moments. SO goood!!! You'll love it!
Watch A Virtuous Business
This was another unexpected find. Sapiosexual come in, Ununusal love come in, give yourself permission to be soft love come in. This is healing at a deeper level, I especialy like the actors used for the chrcaters - very homely which makes the movie ...
Crash Course in Romance (TV Series 2023) - IMDb
This one will stay for long in your memories. The gentle love, the mother-wound, the pitfalls of going into partnership, the threads that connect us all across time and space. This was a sappy good watch, and a sure pleaser for Gemini season
Sold Out on You (2026) - MyDramaList
Before You Knew Better
College love that makes you remember nostalgic innocent moments. But many humorous insulting anecdotes that are a riotous pleasure to hear. FL's face is so emotionally demonstrative
Watch Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo | Netflix
Yet to finish this on account of the maturity level of their emotions…but sweet watch for young romance
Watch Cinderella and the Four Knights | Netflix
Another classic workplace romance but for when you were just developing teenage hormones
Watch Coffee Prince | Netflix
Another older to younger love interest with a mix of suspense liberally sprinkled in
Watch I Hear Your Voice | Netflix
Power, Truth & Consequences
What do you think this crime-legal-thriller with a speciality in ??? will be about? Guess/ And Vincenzo, the perfect little Virgo went on to deliver it fully. Laugh. Love. Live and Let Live. The last scene is so good.
Vincenzo (Korean Drama)
yOU'LL LOVE This! Attorney is just so adorable and annoying at the same time. The movie's communication about development variations is quite educational and worth learning and receiving insight into.
Watch Extraordinary Attorney Woo | Netflix Official Site
This sould be played for bullies, those bullied, and those affected by bullying. There is something about this flick that strips the truth to the raw fact of it. Justice is the theme but the means ohhh mercy
Watch The Glory | Netflix Official Site
You wouldn't be able to stop laughing
Watch Legal High | Netflix
There is a corridor that has seen all the cringiest and sweetest of experiences in this workplace romance. Lawyers in love?
Watch Diary of a Prosecutor | Netflix
Betrayal to the lowest depth haahahhahahh
Watch Hyena | Netflix Official Site
I first met FL through a health-based thriller and now meeting her through this legal trailer is yummy. There is another legal thriller where she set up an unsuspecting opponent while running her private practice. WILL TRY TO recall and include in th...
Watch Juvenile Justice | Netflix Official Site
I don't prepare to love this as much as I did. Think juvenile justice but more direct, moe immediate consequences. so many thought proviking dialogues that make you pause and ask some pretty serious questions. Got me excited to be an educator? But al... to contend with these days. Opens your perspective to disciplined guidance and corrective measures for child rearing
Watch Teach You a Lesson | Netflix Official Site
Imagine being stalked by a murderer who thinks you are a witness to their crime, when in fact you didn't see nada! and a partner dragged in by the inexplorable pull of responsiblity. Didn't expect it to be this interesting
Watch Suspicious Partner | Netflix
I like the fact that the romance note in this was subdued so you could focus on the legal thrillers, and cases themselves. Also sheds some light on the fate of women in the corporate workplace
Watch Beyond the Bar | Netflix Official Site
You'll laugh at the lengths FL is willing to go to prove that her hunches were right all along. I also like the fact that it was set in earlier times but this brought up the question of what has changed now? How is the work culture? Especially how ar...
Watch Undercover Miss Hong | Netflix Official Site
Where Life and Death Intersect
Medical-themed storylines
Dr Romantic 1 and 2 - I enjoyed 1 more but the stories are vastly different. Medical personnel of any sort would love watching this. My MD brain loves being in the hospital via the screen through the characters and storylines. But it also builds what...
Dr. Romantic (TV Series 2016–2023) - IMDb
Dr Cha hit a little close to home with the storyline of returning to medical practice after hiatus and having to cope with all the changes. In my case, I am yet to return to full clinical practice but i can imagine how it would feel to go back to pra...
Doctor Cha - AsianWiki
The movie was more interesting the cover art depicts but FL character was offish….You start to ponder the histology, cell chemistry, and cellular genetics from the microscope to the macro societal stage.
Watch Blood | Netflix
Okay, I don't watch horrow movies..and this has some scenes that re pretty gruesome but it is actually more skewed towards weird than scary. But take note, if you have a senstive stomach some scenes might be a bit too much. But you will enjoy the lau...
Watch The School Nurse Files | Netflix Official Site
face paced, adrenaline buzzer centered around life in the ER & Trauma dept. Will have you at the edge of your seat. The end is anticlimactic climactic
Watch The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call | Netflix Official Site
When the Future Feels Too Close
Futuristic and Space-expanding tales
This was very graphically pleasing but also quite easy to picture with incredible cliff-hangars. A moral dilemma to be solved. How would your axe swing? Pulls you into contemplation of life, and what we term as life, where the line starts to blur and...
When the Stars Gossip
Unbelievably funny. Like the bathroom scene with the perfume bottle just needs to be watched
Watch I'm not a robot | Netflix
Beauty, Image & Hidden Power
Prepare to swoon over all the fashion drama
Watch Celebrity | Netflix Official Site
Another one for fashion lovers and lovers in fashion
Watch VIP | Netflix
This is hilariously wonky but provides a frank look into the behind-the-scenes life of those who live in the public eye. Although the fan-girling of FL was a bit too much for me, the stoic face of ML provided the perfect counterbalance
Watch Man to Man | Netflix
Comfort, Culture & Connection
Anyone craving some spicy kimchi?
If you are a foodie, you'll not be able to stop watching this. I generally steer away from classical movies, but the chemical components, culinary theme, vividly funny and supernatural storyline just came together beautifully. All the subplots will h...
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty (TV Series 2025)
This taught me how to properly handle a wok. And you'll laugh so hard.
Watch Wok of Love | Netflix
I like a lot about this already but the pacing is abit slower than my preference, I love it for the cuisine, the organic eating and restaurant business philosophy, the devious cuteness of the ML. It feels good quite alright.
Tastefully Yours
Fast Moves, High Stakes
This is so good!!!!! I first thought it was built out like John Wick, but the storyline differs in the level of intensity, and the characters created. the fight scenes are so good!. It will either make you want to learn some moves, or head to the gym...
Watch Agent Kim Reactivated
How well do you know your partner when you are in a crisis and riddled with multitude of emotions? How do you know enough to trust each other?
Watch Mission: Cross | Netflix Official Site
This brings back feelings of John Wick. The tension is the same, and the fight scenes especially in the armored bunker are crazyyyy. Starts off slow but pulls you in fast
Watch Mercy For None | Netflix Official Site
I wish my mother was Boksoon 😄
Watch Kill Boksoon
Vagabond was a nice watch. Action packed with a different storyline. Shows how most humans behave when placed in similar situations, and sort of juxtaposes the consequences of actions we choose to, or not take
Watch Vagabond | Netflix Official Site
this was sweet to watch as a practical lesson in the hurdles face when starting a business and seeking funds/investments. a lot of lessons to pay attention to as an entrepreneur. the romance part was a side-quest. but the entrepreuneurial experience ...
Watch Start-Up | Netflix Official Site
This was nicely action packed without being too extra. Gives food for thoughts on what's the right balance and modalities for creating a safe and functional society for everyone.
Watch Trigger
Still watching...
Jury is still out on these. But nothing is random. Sometimes timing ain't right. Sometimes the message would pass over one's head. And still there are moments when everything aligns.
Started this but yet to complete it. I love the focus on boxing and ML is usually throwing jabs with deliciously spring-filled steps so you can be sure each one is a stinger
Watch Bloodhounds | Netflix Official Site