10 Best Teen Love K-Dramas To Watch This Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is as good as any day to stay home and binge-watch countless heart racing and blush-worthy K-dramas. K-dramas have become well known for their romance storylines. Some of their most popular revolving around teen love and drama. While it’s all fun watching adults fall in love but it’s even cuter seeing teen love blossom from a simple crush.
With teen based stories also comes a comical yet serious display of drama. Maybe the best friend also falls for the girl or the lead guy. In some cases, the lead girl might be bullied by others. What if their love was all a game? Seeing other relationships blossom amongst the turmoil and school drama is perfect for the annual day of love.
10 Best Mistake (2019)
The show Best Mistake has a comical premise that would intrigue any viewer. A high school student has a dilemma. Another boy won’t leave her alone and she comes up with the idea to claim a random guy as her fake boyfriend. Seems like a good plan until it isn’t. She unknowingly picks the bad boy of her school.
Feeling guilty over spreading rumors on social media, she spends time with him to apologize. As many of these stories go, she starts to realize he’s much more than his wild façade. There’s another problem in her midst. His best friend seems to have secret feelings for her, as well. Watching this K-drama will be the best mistake viewers will make.
9 Sassy Go Go (2015)
Sassy Go Go is also known as Cheer Up! The 2015 drama still gets viewers hooked for its teen based romance. Amongst the romance is a story of friendship and misadventures. The story takes place at an elite high school in Seoul. Like many teen drams, there are the top academic 5% and the students who barely score by.
The female lead is part of an outcast street dance club made up of students who don’t do so well in school. On the other end is the class president and the school’s top students. In an interesting turn of events, these two groups are forced to join together as a cheerleading squad. Fans enjoyed the use of mixed themes as well as the display of high school reality.
8 Revenge Note (2017)
High school can be incredibly tough between cute boys, friendships, and bullies. Revenge Note was a popular drama centered around a 17-year-old high schooler. She’s quiet, shy, and keeps to herself but is constantly bullied. The school’s recluse popular by comes to her aid too many times for his liking.
Viewers will be surprised to learn that one of the show’s main characters, Cha Eun-woo plays himself as a popular K-Pop idol. His character is a close friend to the female lead. One day, the lead stumbles upon a phone app called ‘Revenge Note.’ When typing in the name of her bullies, bad things start happening to them.
7 A Love So Beautiful (2020)
For anyone googling this K-drama might discover that there’s a Chinese version from 2017. The Korean version of the story was released on Netflix in 2020. Audiences will focus on the palpable love triangle. Cha Heon (Kim Yo-han) is the type of student any girl would fall for in high school. He’s got the looks and brains but can be seen as cold.
Shin Sol-yi (So Ju-Yeon) is bubbly, outgoing, and has a major crush on Cha Heon. Fans admire her guts to confess her feeling many times and even after many rejections still goes after him. On the other end is a talented swimmer and new student. He secretly has feelings for the female lead but keeps it all to himself.
6 My ID Is Gangnam Beauty (2018)
My ID is Gangnam Beauty had a valuable yet tough life lesson about the pressure of being socially accepted for looks. In the webtoon based drama, Kang Mi-rae (Im Soo-hyang) was bullied all her childhood for her looks. Tired of feeling bad about herself and hated by others, she goes under the knife and becomes a rebirthed beauty.
No one recognizes who she is and starts her new life at college. At first, she’s thrilled to be noticed but it all crumbles. The pressure of upholding her new looks and status take a toll. Especially when everyone discovers that she had plastic surgery. She goes through a journey of sadness, rediscovery, self-esteem, and love with a former classmate.
5 True Beauty (2020)
The 2020 K-drama has viewers on the edge of their seats with every episode. True Beauty follows a fun Cinderella-type story amongst the drama of high school teens, friendship, love, and troubled pasts. Im Ju-kyung (Moon Ga-young) has been bullied all her life for not being pretty.
Getting the opportunity to transfer schools, she binge-watches makeup tutorials and transforms into a goddess. Her biggest fear is that everyone will discover her true face. Her classmate Lee Su-ho (Cha Eun-woo) starts to recognize her without makeup outside of school. Romantic feelings develop between both of them. At the same time, Su-ho’s former friend and school bad boy gets close to Ju-kyung and starts to fall for her as well.
4 Reply 1988 (2015)
Reply 1988 was a highly acclaimed drama from 2015 that’s still ranked as being one of the best. It might also be because the stories of the main characters continue in the sequel Reply 1997. But the characters are now full-fledged adults. The first installment focuses on five families living in the same neighborhood.
The coming-of-age story involves the teen friendships of the five families. This is a K-drama that had fans feeling serious ‘second-lead syndrome’ as one character is hopelessly in love with his best friend but can’t seem to confess. But another friend in the group has feelings for her as well. Mixed in are the life and social circumstances of each family.
3 Love Alarm (2019)
Along with Crash Landing on You, Love Alarm has become one of the most-watched K-dramas on Netflix. It was a commercial success that ranked as being the top releases of 2019. The webtoon based teen romance became well known for its love story revolving around an app and love triangle.
The creation of an app called ‘Love Alarm’ allows users to discover if someone within a ten-mile radius loves them. This leads to a romantic relationship between Kim Jo-Jo (Kim So-Hyun) and a wealthy student, Hwang Sun-Oh (Song Kang). But the app creates chaos amongst friends and for Jo-Jo while she deals with her personal life.
2 Extraordinary You (2019)
Analyzing this drama, many can tag it as being a breaking of the fourth wall, but not really. A teen girl starts to realize that there’s something wrong with her high school life. She wakes up having already gone through days or even weeks. She comes to learn that she’s a character in a fantasy comic.
She feels distraught over having no control over her life. Like being hopelessly in love with a bad boy who wants nothing to do with her. She becomes determined to write her own story. Her hope becomes stronger with the introduction of a new character and love interest. But her actions come with consequences as the story starts to merge with another work by the writer.
1 Tempted (2018)
Tempted or The Great Seducer was K-drama that had fans reeling in angst and biting their nails until the end. It starred Woo Do-hwan in one of his popular roles as Kwon Shi-hyun. He and his two best friends are wealthy and play dangerous games for amusement.
One day his female best friend wants revenge on another student. Shi-hyun makes a bet that he can seduce Eun Tae-hee (Park Soo-young). To a point where he can make her fall in love and then break her heart. Neither of them expected their feelings to become genuine and fall in love. But Shi-hyun’s dark secret could ruin them.
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