Marriage means that you care and love the person you are committing yourself to. Marriage means bringing your two lives together in harmony…right? Marriage means you actually know your spouses‘ first name…right…RIGHT?! Let’s hope so because these Korean dramas will have you questioning if you truly know your spouses’ favorite color!
Which one is your favorite? Let me know in the comments below!
1.Helpless
What’s It About: While stopping at a rest stop for coffee, engaged couple Jang Mun-Ho and Kang Seon Yeong, Jang Mun-Ho runs inside and when he returns to his car, his fiancee has disappeared. All he can find of her is a hairpin left by the toilet in the restroom. Back at her apartment, Mun-Ho discovers the place is a mess and he finds out from a friend that Kang Seon-Yeong had a long history of bankruptcies. He investigates her further, and sees that she has been using a different alias. With the help of his detective cousin, Mun-Ho is determined to find out who the real Seon-Yeong is and what she is hiding.
Starring: Kim Min-Hee, Lee Sun-Kyun, Jo Sung-Ha
Where To Watch: Tubi
Watch The Trailer Here:
2. Perfect Number
What’s It About: Kim Seok-Go had a promising career as a mathmatician thirty years ago when he was younger. Now an older Kim Seok_Go is a high school math teacher. He lives a quite and introverted life. The only highligh he sees is when he goes and buys lunch from the lovely Baek Hwa-Sun. She lives next door to him. One day, Hwa-Sun’s ex-husband shows up unexpectedly to her apartment and the two get into a large argument and Hwa-Sun ends up killing him after he beats her. Seok-Go checks on Hwa-Sun and decides the only way to get her out of the situation is to use his brilliant math skills and plan a perfect alibi.
Starring: Lee Yo-Won, Cho Jin-Woong, Ryoo Seung-Bum
Where To Watch: Tubi
Watch The Trailer Here:
3. Way Back Home
What’s It About: Jeong-Yeon and Jong-Bae are a married couple with a young daughter. They have poured all of their life savings into an auto repair shop. Soon the business starts to fail when one of their loan signee dies and the couple are left on the hook to pay back a high interest loan to loan sharks. With money as their worry, Jeong-Yeon agrees to do a shady job for an aquaintance. She is to deliver diamonds from Paris to Seoul. Believing the diamonds are real, Jeong-Yeon gets arrested at the Paris airport with sixty-six pounds of cocaine in her possession. The French ship her off to a jail in Martinique where she spends two years fighting to get her way back home.
Starring: Jeon Do-Yeon, Go Soo, Lee Dong-Hwi
Where To Watch: Apple TV, Available on DVD on Amazon Prime
Watch The Trailer Here:
4. The World Of The Married
What’s It About: Ji Sun-Woo is married to an aspiring director Lee Tae-Oh. Together the two have one son. She thinks her family is perfect until one day she finds out that her husband is cheating on her with a woman named Yeo Da-Kyung.
Starring: Han So Hee, Kim Hee-Ae, Lee Moo-Saeng
Where To Watch: Currently Unavailable For Streaming In US
Watch The Trailer Here:
5. The Penthouse: War In Life
What’s It About: Set in a luxurious penthouse with one-hundred floors called Hera Palace. Shim Su-Ryeon was born into wealth. She is now the queen of the penthouse apartments. Her successful husband sells real estate. Oh Yoon-Hee comes from a lower class family. She wants the best for her children and is willing to do whatever it takes to get them there. Shim Su-Ryeon soon finds out that her husband is hiding a secret from her. When a mysterious girl named Min Seol-Ah falls to her death at a party set in Hera Palace, the residents agree to cover it up while suspecting each other.
Starring: Lee Ji-Ah, Kim So-Yeon, Kim Young-Dae
Where To Watch: Kocowa, Rakuten Viki, Amazon Prime Video
Watch The Trailer Here:
