Official Favorite/least Favorite Kdramas

[Guest litoxshortaii]

there have been numerous favorite/least favorite kdrama threads on soompi but none of them were very organized. i hope this thread will make it easier for people to see what the more/less popular dramas are, at least within the soompi population, so there doesnt have to be so many random "recommend me a drama" threads.

so here is where you VOTE for your favorite/least favorite dramas! you can list as many as you want, but please list your top THREE choices for each category first! those are the only ones i'll include (for my sake of putting everything up here). you can also list why you like/dislike them if you want but dont bash anyone's choices.

keep in mind that there are different genres for each drama so if you're really into sad love stories, you might not like the #1 drama listed (which happens to be a comedy). if you want a synopsis of the drama, you can go to the pinned "officials" thread in the forum and search for it. pretty much every korean drama has a romance story, but some have other elements so that's why i decided to add a genre key in case you prefer a certain type over another.

if a drama has different names, it would be nice if you could post them up too, or else tell me if i have the same drama listed with 2 different names up here.

also, in case you were wondering, i cast positive votes for Let's Go to School SangDoo, Spring Waltz and Full House. i cast negative votes for Autumn Tale, My Name is Kim Sam Soon and Winter Sonata.

[genre] drama - votes thumbs up - votes thumbs down || overall score

genre key: [A] = action/adventure, [C] = romantic comedy, [F] = fantasy/martial arts/history, [M] = modern/realistic, = sad/tragic love story/melodrama

the more popular dramas (with at least 10 votes) are italicized

1-9

1% of Anything - 1 - 8 || -7

3 Dads, 1 Mom - 1 - 0 || +1

9 Ends, 2 Outs - 2 - 0 || +2

18 vs. 29 - 1 - 0 || +1

18 Year Old Bride - 1 - 0 || +1

90 Days, Time for Love - 2 - 2 || 0

1000 Years of Love - 0 - 2 || -2

A

A Love to Kill/IJUKSA - 6 - 10 || -4

Air City - 1 - 2 || -1

All About Eve - 22 - 4 || +18

All In - 5 - 5 || 0

[M] Alone in Love - 8 - 0 || +8

Attic Cat - 7 - 3 || +4

Autumn Shower - 0 - 2 || -2

Autumn Tale/Autumn in My Heart/Autumn Story - 15 - 29 || -14

B

[C] Bad Family - 10 - 0 || +10

Bad Love - 0 - 2 || -2

Be Strong, Geum Soon/Aja Geum Soon - 1 - 1 || 0

Bean Chaff - 0 - 1 || -1

Beautiful Days - 6 - 1 || +5

Boys Before Flowers - 1 - 1 || 0

C

Capital Scandal - 3 - 0 || +3

Coffee Prince - 10 - 0 || +10

D

Dal Ja's Spring - 10 - 1 || +9

[A] [F] Damo - 3 - 2 || +1

[C] Delightful Girl Choon Hyang/Sassy Girl Choon Hyang - 29 - 4 || +25

(The) Devil - 3 - 0 || +3

F

Fantasy Couple - 11 - 1 || +10

Fashion 70's - 3 - 0 || +3

Firebird/Phoenix/Bul Sae - 3 - 1 || +2

Fireworks/Exhibition of Fireworks - 4 - 3 || +1

[C] Full House - 67 - 24 || +43

G

Glass Slipper - 5 - 0 || +5

Golden Bride - 1 - 0 || +1

Goodbye My Love - 0 - 1 || -1

Goodbye Solo - 0 - 1 || -1

Great Inheritance/Expectations - 0 - 3 || -3

Green Rose - 2 - 4 || -2

H

Hardtack Teacher and Star Biscuit - 0 - 1 || -1

Hello Francesca - 1 - 0 || +1

Hello God, How Are You? - 4 - 0 || +4

Hello! Miss - 3 - 3 || 0

Hong Gil Dong - 7 - 0 || +7

[M] Hotelier - 1 - 3 || -2

Hourglass - 1 - 0 || +1

Hwang Jini - 1 - 1 || 0

I

I'm Sorry I Love You/MISA - 36 - 3 || +33

Iljimae - 2 - 0 || +2

Into the Sun - 0 - 1 || -1

J

[F] Jewel in the Palace/Dae Jang Geum - 18 - 2 || +16

[F] Jumong, The Book of Three Han - 5 - 0 || +5

L

(The) Land - 0 - 1 || -1

Lawyers of Korea (Dae Han Min Gook) - 2 - 0 || +2

[C] Let's Go to School Sang Doo - 13 - 2 || +11

Let's Go to the Beach - 0 - 3 || -3

Love Letter - 0 - 3 || -3

Love Marriage - 1 - 0 || +1

[M] Love Story in Harvard - 10 - 21 || -11

Lovers - 2 - 2 || 0

Lovers in Paris - 8 - 17 || -9

Lovers in Prague - 1 - 3 || -2

M

Marry(ing) a Millionaire - 1 - 5 || -4

Me Ri, Dae Gu's Attack and Defense Battle - 1 - 0 || +1

Medical Brothers - 1 - 0 || +1

Miss Kim's Million Dollar Project/Miss Kim's Billion Won Quest - 5 - 3 || +2

Mr. Goodbye - 0 - 2 || -2

[C] My Girl - 94 - 12 || +82

My Love Pazzi - 0 - 1 || -1

[C] My Name is Kim Sam Soon - 57 - 15 || +42

N

Nymph and the Con Artist - 0 - 1 || -1

O

Oh! Feel Young - 0 - 2 || -2

On Air - 1 - 0 || +1

One Fine Day - 0 - 5 || -5

Only You - 1 - 8 || -7

Over the Rainbow || 0 - 1 || -1

P

[C] Palace/Goong/Princess Hours - 40 - 31 || +9

[C] Palace S/Goong S/Prince Hours - 2 - 2 || 0

Please Come Back Soon Ae - 1 - 0 || +1

Prince's First Love - 0 - 2 || -2

Princess Lulu - 0 - 1 || -1

Q

Que Sera Sera - 1 - 1 || 0

Queen of the Game - 3 - 1 || +2

R

Rebirth - 1 - 0 || +1

Resurrection/Buhwal - 1 - 0 || +1

Rival - 0 - 1 || -1

Robbers - 0 - 1 || -1

Rude Women - 2 - 0 || +2

S

Sad Sonata/Sad Love Story - 0 - 11 || -11

Save The Last Dance for Me/Last Dance With Me - 14 - 5 || +9

Secret - 0 - 1 || -1

Seven Princesses - 1 - 0 || +1

Shoot for the Stars/Shooting Stars - 2 - 0 || +2

Smile Again - 0 - 7 || -7

Snow Queen - 9 - 1 || +8

Snow White - 1 - 2 || -1

Soulmate - 2 - 1 || +1

Spring Day - 0 - 4 || -4

Spring Waltz - 4 - 9 || -5

Stained Glass - 0 - 7 || -7

Stairway to Heaven - 9 - 22 || -13

Story of a Successful Bright Girl - 2 - 2 || 0

Summer Scent - 0 - 19 || -19

Summer Typhoon - 0 - 1 || -1

Sunflower - 1 - 0 || +1

Super Rookie - 4 - 0 || +4

Surgeon Bong Dal Hee - 1 - 0 || +1

Sweet 18 - 3 - 0 || +3

Sweet Buns - 1 - 0 || +1

Sweet Spy - 4 - 4 || 0

T

Thank You - 12 - 1 || +11

Tell Me You Love Me - 0 - 1 || -1

Time of Dog and Wolf/Time Between Dog and Wolf - 2 - 0 || +2

Tree of Heaven/Heaven's Tree - 3 - 4 || -1

The Truth/Jin Shil - 2 - 0 || +2

U

Unstoppable Marriage - 1 - 0 || +1

V

Vineyard Man/Man of the Vineyard - 6 - 5 || +1

W

War of Money - 1 - 0 || +1

We Are Dating Now - 1 - 1 || 0

Wedding - 1 - 6 || -5

What Happened in Bali/Memories of Bali - 9 - 5 || +4

What's Up Fox? 2 - 0 || +2

When Tears Show - 1 - 0 || +1

Which Star Are You From - 8 - 11 || -3

Winter Sonata - 6 - 39 || -33

Witch Yoo Hee/Witch Amusement - 2 - 9 || -7

Women of the Sun - 1 - 0 || +1

Wonderful Life - 3 - 6 || -3

Y

Yellow Handkerchief - 1 - 0 || +1

Yurihwa - 0 - 1 || -1

Overall Top

1. My Girl || +82

2. Full House || +43

My Name is Kim Sam Soon || +42

3. I'm Sorry I Love You/MISA || +33

4. Delightful Girl Choon Hyang/Sassy Girl Choon Hyang || +25

5. All About Eve || +18

Overall Top :tongue2:

1. Winter Sonata || -33

2. Summer Scent || -19

3. Autumn Tale/Autumn in My Heart/Autumn Story || -14

Stairway to Heaven || -13

4. Love Story in Harvard || -11

Sad Sonata/Sad Love Story || -11

(updated to post #251)

[theedqueen]

FAVORITE

Dae Jang Geum

Full House

and uh....I'll refrain from putting a 3rd choice up b/c I love a ton of dramas the same so I can't really choose. Too bad there isn't a free for all thread where you can just keep adding dramas as the years go by and new dramas come up.

LEAST FAVORITE

1000 Years of Love

Princess Lulu

Damo

[Guest ovette]

FAVORITES

All About Eve - all time classic! no reason needed...

My Girl - made me go extremes. laughed hard. cried hard.

Fantasy Couple *current fav! - purely original with witty dialogues

LEAST FAVORITES

Love Story in Harvard - too cheesy and RaeWon kept running thru the whole drama

Hardtack Teacher and Star Biscuit - the plot was a unrealistic.. and a bit unconventional.

Autumn in my Heart - the whole thing was gloomy

[Guest pinklegirl007]

Favorite Dramas:

My Girl - Great cast, storyline, and acting. Most of all, I loved LDH's portrayal of Yoorin!!

My Name is Kim Sam Soon - Who doesn't love Sam Soonie?!

The Truth - Like "all about eve" this is an all-time classic! I enjoyed the intense drama from beginning to end!

Last Dance with Me - I just really liked the storyline! Its my kind of drama.

Least Favorite Drama:

Love Story in Harvard - Like someone said before... it was cheesy and I didn't like the character's acting...

Lovers in Paris - So overrated.... and horrible ending.

[Guest yansi]

Favorite

My Girl

Spring Waltz

MiSa

Least Favorite

Winter Sonata

Full House

[Guest ripgal]

Favourite:

MISA

My Girl

Delightful Girl Choon Hyang

Least Favourite:

Autumn Tale

Stairway to Heaven (but i loved Sang Woo inside )

[Wendy]

Favourites : My Girl, Kim Sam Soon, Autumn Tale and Goong

Least favourites : Smile Again and a few I won't mention here.

[Guest coi]

FAVORITE:

-my girl

-wonderful life

-memories of bali

[Guest charles0702]

favorite

1. autumn in my heart

2. my girl

3. full house

4. beautiful days

least favorite

1. winter sonata

2. loveletter

3. miss kim's million dollar

[Guest juliee]

Favorites:

My Girl (definately)

Goong

Full House

Seven Princesses

Dae Jang Geum

My Name Is Kim Sam Soon

Bad Family

Nonstop 6

Worst:

Soulmate

Heaven's Tree (save me T_T)

Great Inheritance

Wedding

Let's Marry

*count the ones in bold

[Guest doroAnxx05]

FAVORITES:

which star are you from

all about eve

love story in harvard

my girl

attic cat

mnikss

LEAST FAVE:

stairway to heaven

smile again

sad sonata

great inheritance

full house

[Guest kissedkiwi]

I've watched alot of k-dramas and i'd have to say my favourites are:

* Goong - ChaeGyung&Shin onscreen chemistry <3

* My Girl - LDH&LDW !!

* Full House - Song Hye Kyo & Rain =) a cute series

* Bad family - unique and shows the importance of a family. i like.

* The Man of the Vineyard - YEH&its great scenery

* Autumn in my heart - a tear jerker, but unforgettable

* Stairway to heaven - only for the soundtrack, cast( KIM KIBUM&KSW) and lurvely heart-breaking sequel

* Something happened in Bali - great cast, and HEARTBREAKING story =( an unforgettable ending

least favs:

* Love story in Harvard - bleh. its too..uhm. American style O_o in other words, didnt like it.

* Oh! feel young - Chae Rim was cute, but the series didnt make sense >.<"

* Lovers in Paris - no comment.

* Winter Sonata - i'll just give it a O_o

But nevertheless, these movie/drama makers have spent a hell load of time and money and effort to put into each minute of these films. So, good on them! but yeah..some can be pretty lame but there's ALWAYS one k-drama that you can never stop loving!

[Guest Issey]

Favourites

1st.Goong

2nd.My Girl

3rd.Dae Jang Geum

My name is Kim Sam Soon

Autumn tale

Lovers in paris

Sweet 18

Least Favourite

Spring Waltz

[azndgn26]

Favorite

Let's Go To School Sang Doo - loved the acting, the cast, and the storyline

Full House - I loved the chemistry and the storyline

My Name is Kim Sam Soon - enjoyed the storyline and the acting

Alone in Love - loved the chemistry, the unique plot, realistic characterization, and the acting

I'm Sorry I Love You - loved the chemistry, the plot, and the acting

A Love to Kill - loved the acting and the chemistry

Mr. Goodbye - loved the plot and chemistry

Hwang Jin Yi - love the scenery, the the acting (especially the little girl and Ha Ji Won), the costumes, the setting, the chemistry, the performance & music, and the plot

Wonderful Life - like the plot, somewhat with the acting, and the chemistry

All About Eve - loved the acting (especially remember the evil girl), and the chemistry

Least Favorite

My Girl - really disliked the plot, the exaggerated acting, and the whole plot. It was like a whole bootleg copy of MNIKSS & FH.

Love Story in Harvard - lack of storyline halfway through the series

Successful Story of a Bright Girl - bad acting, bad storyline, lack of chemistry

What Happened in Bali - stupid plot, hated the ending, it was a waste of time

1% of Anything - lack of acting skills and the plot was very cliche

Happy Together - lack of plot

Dating Now - bad acting, lack of chemistry, bad pairing, dislike setting

Prince's First Love - bad acting, lack of plot

Which Star Are You From - horrible acting, lack of plot, bad pairing, lack of chemistry

Sad Sonata - bad acting, bad pairing, dislike plot, bad makeup

*Sorry I didn't see that u wrote 3 for each. The ones in bold would be the main ones.

[honeywell]

I thought it was only suppose to be 3...

Anyways,

Favorite 3

* Save Your Last Dance For Me

* My Girl

* My Name is Kim sam Soon

Least Favorite:

* Smile Again

* Love Story in Harvard - just horrible. I never want to watch anything that has KRW ever again.

* Full House - again I will never watch any drama that has Bi in it.

[Guest zigzag]

Dot. I thought the official vote have made it clear that you can only have 3 for each category.

Here's mine

Favourite Drama

MISA

Full House

My Name is Kim Sam Soon

Least Favourite Drama

Winter Sonata (i don't have anymore drama to put in)

[~*kYo*~]

FAVORITE

FULL HOUSE - i love everything about it! :blush:

Autumn in My Heart - my favorite melodrama *sigh* Won Bin is soooo good-looking!

Delightful Girl Choon Hyang - funniest i've seen so far Jae Hee rocks!!!

My Name is Kim Sam Soon - KSA was so hilarious! a very funny series!

Least Favorite...as of the moment

My Girl - i had high expectations after reading all the wonderful comments and it just wasn't for me. It seemed to go on forever! at least Lee Dong Wook was there to save this one from being a total disappointment.

[Guest litto_gurl]

too many favorite... but just name a few

goong/princess hours

my girl

save the last dance for me

there's a lot but just name some of my top least favorite

winter love song

autumn tale

stairway to heaven

[Guest cocopop]

FAVOURITE

1. My Girl. Love everything about it

2. Full House. my first ever kdrama and totally adored it

[Guest hekijo_00]

FAVORITE.....

Bad family(Nam sang mi rocksssssss)

Alone in love

Full house

Sweet Spy(Again,Nam sang mi rockssssss)

My girl

LEAST FAV......

Summer scent(SYJ make me watch)

Winter sonata

Autumn tale(dislike it cuz SHK die)