“Bad Memory Eraser” brought to our screens a story filled with fantasy, mysteries, and intrigue around Lee Kun (Kim Jae Joong) and Kyung Joo Yeon (Jin Se Yeon), who met through a clinical experiment that turned their lives upside down but ultimately helped them find true love. But they are not the only couple that have been tied by destiny in the most unbelievable way. Since the magic of love can be found where we least expect it, here are some romantic K-dramas that will make you believe in fantasy, science, and love.
“Falling for Innocence”
Science states that love comes from the brain, but for the most romantic ones, love always lives in the heart. This theory is shown with the cold and arrogant Kang Min Ho (Jung Kyung Ho), who gets a second chance at life after receiving a heart transplant, and with it, his taste, personality, and even his feelings change dramatically. Suddenly, he finds himself falling in love with his secretary, Kim Soon Jung (Kim So Yeon), without knowing that the heart he got was her late fiancé’s, who died in an unexpected and mysterious accident.
Struggling with the love he is feeling and his desire to get back his father’s company from the hands of his greedy uncle, he needs to choose between his heart and his mind. At the same time, he has to discover the meaning behind the memories that he gets and that point out that Joon Hee (Yoon Hyun Min) might know more about his best friend’s death than he admits. The 2015 K-drama “Falling for Innocence” is a classic and the perfect combination of romance and mystery for those who love these kinds of tropes.
Watch “Falling for Innocence” here:
“The Secret Life of My Secretary”
There’s never been a love square in K-dramaland quite like the one between Jung Gal Hee (Jin Ki Joo), Do Min Ik (Kim Young Kwang), Veronica Park (Kim Jae Kyung), and Ki Dae Joo (Koo Ja Sung). These four people’s fates get intertwined when Do Min Ik suddenly gets prosopagnosia (face blindness) and loses all his ability to recognize the people around him except for his own secretary. As Gal Hee is somehow imprinted in his mind with a certain look, the moment she changes her attire he mistakes her for the charismatic heiress Veronica Park, who has a major crush on Dae Joo.
But as Gal Hee spends more and more time with Min Ik, not only as his secretary but as Veronica, she starts to develop feelings that complicate their whole relationship. Especially when Veronica enters the picture and Min Ik starts to suspect he isn’t really falling in love with the real one. If you are looking for a drama with sparkling chemistry between both the main and secondary leads, a perfect portrayal of comedy, and just a tiny bit of drama, then this is the one for you.
Watch “The Secret Life of My Secretary” here:
“Find Me in Your Memory”
When Lee Jung Hoon (Kim Dong Wook), a news anchor who can’t forget a single moment of his life, meets Yeo Ha Jin (Moon Ga Young), a charming young actress who seems to live only in the present without worrying about her past or her future, there’s bound to be trouble. Although they are polar opposites, they seem to be fated to meet each other, as there’s a mysterious accident in their past that’s connecting their lives once again. But it’s only until Ha Jin’s soaring popularity gets her into a dangerous situation that Jung Hoon starts to open his heart to the cheerful woman who seems to be the key to forgetting his painful past.
“Find Me in Your Memory” is a 2020 K-drama that, just like “Bad Memory Eraser,” brings to the table the importance of memories in people’s lives. But while Lee Kun faced the pain of losing his memories, Jung Hoon suffered the consequences of not being able to forget at all. This also leads him to be the only one capable of finding the truth behind the sudden disappearance of his first love, something that might be related to his present brain condition. In this show you’ll be up to a whole feast of angst, melodrama, and romance, mixed with some thriller moments that you will not want to miss out.
Watch “Find Me in Your Memory” here:
“Melting Me Softly”
Some people might live in the past forever through their memories, but in this K-drama, both main leads get literally frozen in time after what they thought would be a one-day experiment ends up taking away 20 years of their lives. When they finally wake up from the human-freezing experiment, Go Mi Ran (Won Jin Ah), a hardworking woman who tries to support her family by any means, finds herself in a distant and unknown future alongside Ma Dong Chang (Ji Chang Wook), an ambitious and daring TV producer who looks for new and fresh content everywhere.
They not only have to face the new era with all its changes but also the fact that every person in their lives moved on without them. More importantly, they struggle with the side effects of the experiment that threaten their lives if their temperature rises above certain degrees and the mysterious character behind the failed experiment. This show is definitely a must-watch for those who love to see a couple joining in a journey of self-discovery, redemption, and love.
Watch “Melting Me Softly” here:
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Andy zar is an avid drama watcher, from K-dramas to C-dramas, she believes any weekend is a good weekend to enjoy 12 hours of binge-watching dramas. She loves romance, web comics, and K-pop. She is a declared “Subeom” and “Hyeppyending.” Her favorite groups are EXO, TWICE, and BOL4.
Currently watching: “You Are My Lover Friend”
Plans to watch: “Family by Choice“
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