K-POPBest Korean Dramas of 2020
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[Crash Landing On You]
The story opens with the beautiful heiress to a South Korean business empire being swept up by a tornado while paragliding, and crashing on the wrong side of the heavily fortified Demilitarised Zone.
She meets a handsome North Korean soldier – the son of a top military general who serves Kim Jong un – and the two fall in love as he hides and protects her.
Crash Landing on You is South Korea’s biggest current television hit.
Crash Landing on You is fantastical in its plotlines, but has drawn praise for its portrayal of everyday life in the North, even down to accents and words.
The division of the peninsula is a regular theme in K-drama and K-movies, but it is unusual for so much of a show to be set in the North – in both Pyongyang and the countryside – and defectors have complimented its accuracy.
[Kingdom Season2]
Set in Korea's Joseon period, a few years after the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598), Crown Prince Lee Chang (Ju Ji-hoon), who becomes embroiled in a political conspiracy and is forced to embark upon a mission to investigate the spread of a mysterious zombie plague that has beset the current emperor and the country's southern provinces.
The story starts with a notice on a billboard, claiming the king of Joseon is dead and the crown prince should be crowned immediately as the new king. However, inside the palace, the king is known to be severely sick and has been secretly treated for the past 10 days. No one was allowed to visit the king, not even the crown prince himself. Late at night, the crown prince sneaks out to visit his father, wanting to know the truth. But instead of his father, he encountered the silhouette of a beastly monster.
The second season centers on the advancement of the zombie plague across several provinces.
[Itaewon Class]
“Itaewon Class” is a drama based on the webtoon of the same title by Kwang Jin that started on December 2016. It joins the numerous list of other dramas based on webtoons to air in 2020.
Itaewon Class tells the story of ex-convict Park Sae-roy (Park Seo-joon) whose life has been turned upside down after he gets expelled from school for punching a bully and his father is killed in an accident. Following his father's steps, he opens his bar-restaurant DanBam in Itaewon and, along with his manager and staff, strive towards success and reaching greater heights.
Ever since its premiere, Itaewon Class has been soaring in popularity rank. It has attained 30.19% share in the entire drama category which includes both public and cable TV channels and now one of the most popular drama in Korea.