5 K-Dramas Perfect For Christmas Binge-Watching This 2022

It’s that time of the year again when everyone gets a well-deserved break! Since Christmas is just around the corner, it’s gonna be the perfect time to binge-watch Korean Dramas with families and friends! Re-watching your favorite K-Dramas will truly make you feel nostalgic. Whereas checking out the ones you may not have watched before will get you more excited. So if you’re looking for titles to watch during the holidays, here are the five K-Dramas perfect for Christmas binge-watching. 

5 K-Dramas To Binge Watch This Year’s Christmas Season

Nothing beats watching K-Dramas that show brilliant acting, amazing cinematography, and outstanding plotlines. Not to mention the thrilling plot twists that only K-Dramas can offer. Aside from that, the slow-burn story makes it worth the wait. Now, here are K-Dramas from various genres that are perfect for your holiday K-drama binge.

Goblin (Guardian: The Lonely and Great God)

Let’s begin with a fantasy romance. This drama was a blockbuster in which Gong Yoo won the Best Actor award. He plays a modern-day goblin whose life is cursed to immortality. And the only way to stop the curse is to search for a bride. Kim Go-eun plays hiw bride-to-be, while Lee Dong-wook plays the grim reaper. As the story unfolds, it emphasizes the importance of relationships between family and friends— exactly what Christmas is all about.

Crash Landing On You

Moving on to a romance that will really warm your hearts this Christmas. This series centers on the story of a South Korean heiress, Yoon Se-ri (Son Ye-jin), who crash lands in North Korea while paragliding. From there, she meets a high-ranking North Korean officer, Captain Ri Jeong-hyeok (Hyun Bin). Despite their differences, these star-crossed lovers eventually share their emotions and fall for each other.

Fun fact: Son Ye-jin and Hyun Bin are married in real life and recently welcomed their first child this December. 

 

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While You Were Sleeping

This legal drama fantasy is a combination of romance and thriller. It focuses on the lives and experiences of three young adults: a prosecutor (Lee Jong-suk), a field reporter (Bae Suzy), and a policeman (Jung Hae-in). All of them can foresee future events through their interrelated dreams. Significant episodes occurred during snowfall which makes it a holiday must-watch. 

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Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo

This K-Drama is a coming-of-age story about college athletes who are pursuing their goals while discovering love and maturity along the way. As a result, it follows the relationship between a weightlifter (Lee Sung-kyung) and a swimmer (Nam Joo-hyuk). Their chemistry will warm and sweeten your hearts. 

 

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Reply 1988

Lastly, Reply 1988 is a K-Drama worth binge-watching this Christmas. This neighborhood story revolves around five childhood friends and their families growing together in Ssangmun-dong. It touches everyone’s hearts since it emphasizes the theme of family. This is the same with how Christmas gathers families and friends together as they celebrate love and sacrifice.

 

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Which one of the mentioned K-Dramas are you going to binge-watch? Please share it with us! And if you’re looking for old but gold K-Dramas, check out these dramas worth re-watching.