The top 10 K-dramas of 2020, from Start-Up to The Uncanny Counter
- Kingdom’s sets, locations and costumes remain a highlight, while Son Ye-jin and Hyun Bin were the big star pairing of the year in Crash Landing on You
- The World of the Married was Korea’s the most highly rated cable series of all time in 2020 and baseball drama Hot Stove League hit it out of the park
It has not just been lockdowns that have been driving viewers to the small screen, however. The Korean drama machine made its boldest strides in 2020, exploring exciting new territory in terms of theme and genre, in addition to its bread-and-butter tales of romance – forbidden or otherwise.
With so much to choose from, many of our favourites could not quite make the cut for this list, which includes a couple of shows that debuted in December 2019 but had most of their episodes screened this year, while a few more recent series haven’t quite wrapped up their runs.
Here are our picks of the 10 best K-dramas of 2020, ranked from good to great.
10. Start-Up
Veteran actress Kim Hae-sook is the comforting rock that keeps it all on the ground as the halmoni (grandmother) who runs a snack truck and provides an all-too-necessary shoulder to cry on in life’s harsher moments.