Top 5 Romantic Korean dramas — Must Watch

Inside =- Top 5 More Romantic Kdramas You Must Watch — Plus 1 Bonus updated 2026 list

Bahut logon ne comment kiya ki “aur bhi chahiye” — (a lot of you asked for more) — so here we are. Same rule as last time: if RT is recommending it, it’s earned its place. No filler, no “everyone’s watching it so I added it too.” These five, plus one bonus that’ll wreck you emotionally in the best way, are the ones I held back last time because I wanted the first list tight. Here’s why they deserve your next binge.

And best part is – These all you can binge on Netflix.

The Must-Watch Five

– Crash Landing on You

My Opinion — If you’ve somehow never watched a Kdrama, start here. Every “best of” list, every fan’s origin story, every “how did you get into Kdramas” answer eventually leads back to this one. It’s not hype. It’s the real gateway.

What’s Inside — A South Korean heiress paraglides off course and crash-lands in North Korea, where a disciplined army captain hides her from his own government while an impossible love grows between two people who technically shouldn’t even be speaking to each other. It held the record for the highest-rated drama in tvN’s history for four straight years — a record only one show on this list managed to break. Watch on Netflix.

– Queen of Tears

My Opinion — This is the one that actually broke Crash Landing on You’s record. Kim Soo-hyun’s big comeback after three years away, and it earned every bit of the wait.

What’s Inside — A married couple — a chaebol heiress and the legal director who married into her family — face a devastating diagnosis just as their marriage was already falling apart, and are forced to rediscover why they fell in love in the first place. The finale scored 24.85% nationwide viewership, the highest in tvN history, and it became the first tvN drama ever to cross 1 billion cumulative views. Watch on Netflix.

– Goblin (Guardian: The Lonely and Great God)

My Opinion — Agar aapko fantasy aur romance dono chahiye ek saath, is se better koi combination nahi hai. (If you want fantasy and romance together, there’s no better combination than this.) This is the drama people quote years later.

What’s Inside — An immortal goblin, cursed to live for centuries until he finds his human bride to end his suffering, meets a girl who can see ghosts and might just be the one meant to free him. It sits alongside Crash Landing on You and Queen of Tears as one of the three highest-rated dramas in tvN’s history — that’s the company it keeps. Watch on Netflix.

– Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha

My Opinion — If your brain is tired and you just want to feel warm for eight hours straight, this is medicine, not a drama.

What’s Inside — A city dentist moves to a sleepy seaside town and keeps running into the town’s infuriatingly capable, do-everything handyman, who seems to know every resident’s story better than they know it themselves. It’s been called comfort television’s final form for a reason — no big twists, just a slow, satisfying build you don’t want to end. Watch on Netflix.

– Twenty-Five Twenty-One

My Opinion — This one hurts in the way only a first-love story can. Not every romance needs a happy ending to be worth every episode.

What’s Inside — Set during the 1998 Asian financial crisis, a fencer whose team gets disbanded and a wealthy boy whose family loses everything overnight find each other at the lowest point of both their lives, and build something neither of them expected to survive on. It’s aged into a modern favorite precisely because it doesn’t play it safe with the ending. Watch on Netflix.

– Our Sticky Love

My Opinion — This one wasn’t even on the list when I wrote the last article, because it hadn’t released yet. But it dropped, and it didn’t just do well — it took over. If you skipped it thinking “just another amnesia trope,” you missed the actual show. Its a perfect blend of comedy with love.

What’s Inside — A prosecutor chasing down a crime syndicate loses her memory in the process, and wakes up believing the man who claims to be her boyfriend — a small-town boxing coach hiding a past just as heavy as the one she’s forgotten. What starts as a rom-com premise pulls in real crime and noir undercurrents most K-dramas don’t bother risking. By its second week, it became Netflix’s most-watched non-English show worldwide, hitting No. 1 in 26 countries — including South Korea, Brazil, and Indonesia — and the Top 10 in 68. Watch on Netflix.

The Bonus:

– When Life Gives You Tangerines

My Opinion — Keep tissues within reach. Seriously. This isn’t a suggestion.

What’s Inside — A sweeping love story that follows two people across decades, from youth to old age, on Jeju Island — the kind of slow-burn, generational romance that trades butterflies for something deeper: what love actually looks like after it survives real life. It’s one of 2025’s most talked-about releases and the one Netflix itself points new viewers toward first. Watch on Netflix.

Epilogue

Rank karna mushkil hai in sabko, but agar sirf ek hi choose karna ho aaj raat ke liye — Queen of Tears se shuru karo.

Ranking these is hard, but if you can only pick one for tonight — start with Queen of Tears.

Come back and tell me which one wrecked you the most.

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