Smart Female Lead Korean Dramas & Movies

Hospital Playlist 2 (2021)

Hospital Playlist Season 2

Rank #13

Everyday is extraordinary for five doctors and their patients inside a hospital, where birth, death and everything in between coexist. (Source: Netflix)...

Flower of Evil (2020)

Flower of Evil

Rank #15

Although Baek Hee Sung is hiding a dark secret surrounding his true identity, he has established a happy family life and a successful career. He is a loving husband and...

My Mister (2018)

My Mister

Rank #23

Park Dong Hoon is a middle-aged engineer who is married to attorney Kang Yoon Hee. However, his life is not that happy as he has two unemployed brothers, Sang Hoon...

Mother (2018)

Mother

Rank #43

Realizing one of her students is being damaging actiond, school teacher and bird researcher Soo Jin impulsively unauthorized takings the girl and acts as a substitute mother in an attempt...

Extraordinary Attorney Woo

Rank #44

Diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, 27-year-old Woo Young Woo graduated at the top of her class from the prestigious Seoul National University for both college and law school due to...

Crash Landing on You (2019)

Crash Landing on You

Rank #48

After getting into a paragliding accident, South Korean heiress Yoon Se Ri crash lands in North Korea. There, she meets North Korean army officer Ri Jung Hyuk, who agrees to...

Vincenzo

Rank #53

At the age of eight, Park Joo Hyeong left for Italy after being adopted. Now an adult, he is known as Vincenzo Cassano and employed by a Mafia family as...

Kingdom: Season 2 (2020)

Kingdom Season 2

Rank #64

Following the events in season one, waves of the undead threaten to reach the capital. In an attempt to save the people during the plague and regain his right to...

The Red Sleeve (2021)

The Red Sleeve

Rank #92

In Korea during the second half of the 1700s, Yi San is an aloof and perfection-loving young prince. His father’s terminate haunts him, although it leaves him in the position...

Stranger (2017)

Stranger

Rank #100

Hwang Shi Mok underwent brain surgery as a child to curb his violent temper, which left him devoid of emotions. Hwang becomes a prosecutor known for his piercing intelligence and...

Youth of May (2021)

Youth of May

Rank #138

Hee Tae becomes the pride of Gwangju when he enters Seoul National University College of Medicine with top marks. His best friend Kyung Soo, an avid pro-democracy activist, insists that...

Taxi Driver (2021)

Taxi Driver

Rank #139

Do Gi has lived more honestly than anyone else as an officer in the Special Forces. Yet, when a serial terminateer criminals his mother, he spends his days in agony....

Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (2021)

Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha

Rank #155

After a conflict with her boss, dentist Yoon Hye Jin escapes the city to a seaside village where she had vacationed as a young girl. When she learns the village...

Dr. Romantic 2 (2020)

Dr. Romantic Season 2

Rank #181

A “real doctor” story set in a small, humble hospital called Doldam Hospital. It is a story about people who meet Kim Sa Bu, a genius doctor, and discover “real...

Misaeng: Incomplete Life

Misaeng: Incomplete Life

Rank #208

Jang Geu Rae has played the game of Go since he was a child. When his plans of becoming a professional Go player fail, the down-and-out Geu Rae is forced...

Dr. Romantic (2016)

Dr. Romantic

Rank #226

Kim Sa Bu was once a famous surgeon at the peak of his career at a major hospital. But he suddenly gives it all up one day to live in...

Live (2018)

Live

Rank #239

The drama revolves around the incidents that occur in the police force and the joy, sorrow, and pain that police officers experience as they try to protect justice. Yeom Sang...

Jewel in the Palace (2003)

Jewel in the Palace

Rank #250

About 500 years ago during the time of Chosun Dynasty, Korea boasted a rigidly hierarchical and male dominated social structure. Based on a true story about a legendary girl, Jang...

Hotel del Luna (2019)

Hotel del Luna

Rank #272

Nestled deep in the heart of Seoul’s thriving downtown sits a curious hotel, the like of which no one has ever seen before. Old beyond measure, the building has stood...

Good Manager (2017)

Good Manager

Rank #308

Can corporate politics turn a bad person into a good person? Kim Sung Ryong is a sterminated accountant who works for gangsters. He makes his way into a company called...

Children of Nobody (2018)

Children of Nobody

Rank #311

Cha Woo Kyung is a child counselor who works at a children’s center. Her life seems perfect since she is married to a great husband and is pregnant. However, her...

Innocent Witness (2019)

Innocent Witness

Rank #327

An old man suffering from depression is found dead, and his housekeeper, Mi Ran, is charged with tragic end. Mi Ran’s defense attorney, Soon Ho, is surprised to learn the...

Empress Ki (2013)

Empress Ki

Rank #331

Genghis Khan built an empire that spanned vast regions in East Asia and East Europe. And there was one woman who held immense power in the Yuan Dynasty, which Genghis...

Nobody Knows (2020)

Nobody Knows

Rank #383

Detective Young Jin, from the regional investigation unit, has only one thing on her mind: to catch the ‘Stigmata’ serial terminateer that tragic ended her friend 19 years ago. She...