Korean dramas are now being released on different streaming platforms like Netflix, Viki, Viu, and more. One of the newest players in this industry is Prime Video. It has already added a few good dramas to its library.
Amazon Prime Video has some of the best Korean dramas and can be watched with a Prime subscription. If you have a subscription and are searching for the best Kdramas, here is a handpicked list for you.
These Korean dramas have great ratings and are appreciated by audiences all over the world. All genres are included in this list. Prime Video is also releasing new dramas this year, such as The Day of Kidnapping.
1. Mr. Queen
Hangul: 철인왕후
Year: 2020
Bong Hwan works as a chef at the Blue House in the present day. He has a free spirit, but his spirit ends up in Queen So Yong’s body in the Joseon period. So Yong will find out that her husband has some secrets and is not as kind as he seems.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Shin Hye Sun as Kim So Yong
- Kim Jung Hyun as King Cheoljong
- Bae Jong Ok as Dowager Sunwon
- Kim Tae Woo as Kim Jwa Geun
No. Of Episodes: 20 (75 min. each)
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2. Beyond Evil
Hangul: 괴물
Year: 2021
The story of Lee Dong Shik and Han Joo Won, two brave police officers who break the law to catch a serial killer. As they try to figure out who did it, they start to doubt the innocence of everyone involved, including themselves.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Shin Ha Kyun as Lee Dong Shik
- Yeo Jin Goo as Han Joo Won
- Choi Dae Hoon as Park Jung Je
- Choi Sung Eun as Yoo Jae Yi
No. Of Episodes: 16 (65 min. each)
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3. Taxi Driver
Hangul: 모범택시
Year: 2021
Do Gi is a taxi driver for a company that offers a service called “revenge call” to its customers. It is a secret group that takes care of people whom the law failed to protect. Do Gi and his coworkers will take revenge for customers who ask them to.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Lee Je Hoon as Kim Do Gi
- Esom as Kang Ha Na
- Kim Eui Sung as Jang Sung Chul
- Pyo Ye Jin as Ahn Go Eun
No. Of Episodes: 16 (65 min. each)
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4. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon
Hangul: 힘쎈여자 도봉순
Year: 2017
Do Bong Soon is a girl who doesn’t have a job but has superhuman abilities. Ahn Min Hyuk, the CEO of a gaming company hires her to be his bodyguard. As they get to know each other better, they realize that their relationship goes beyond work.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Park Bo Young as Do Bong Soon
- Park Hyung Sik as Ahn Min Hyuk
- Ji Soo as In Gook Doo
- Jun Suk Ho as Secretary Kong
No. Of Episodes: 16 (65 min. each)
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5. Island
Hangul: 아일랜드
Year: 2022
The story of a chaebol heiress who is banished to Jeju Island after she is possessed by a spirit. She meets an immortal human and a priest who performs exorcisms. Together, they must fight against the evil that is trying to destroy the world.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Kim Nam Gil as Van
- Lee Da Hee as Won Mi Ho
- Cha Eun Woo as Kang Chan Hyuk
- Sung Joon as Goong Tan
No. Of Episodes: 12 (50 min. each)
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6. True Beauty
Hangul: 여신강림
Year: 2020
After learning makeup, high schooler Ju Gyung becomes a pretty girl. Her makeup abilities make her a goddess, yet she would rather die than show her bare face. The drama follows her romance with the only boy who saw her without makeup.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Moon Ga Young as Lim Joo Gyung / Joo Bal
- Cha Eun Woo as Lee Su Ho
- Hwang In Yeop as Han Seo Jun
- Park Yoo Na as Kang Soo Jin
No. Of Episodes: 16 (75 min. each)
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7. My ID is Gangnam Beauty
Hangul: 내 아이디는 강남미인
Year: 2018
Mi Rae, once bullied for her looks, decides to get plastic surgery. When she begins university, people tease her as Gangnam Beauty. She meets Kyung Suk, who sees people for what they are on the inside and not the outside. He becomes attracted to her.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Im Soo Hyang as Kang Mi Rae
- Cha Eun Woo as Do Kyung Suk
- Jo Woo Ri as Hyun Soo Ah
- Kwak Dong Yeon as Yeon Woo Young
No. Of Episodes: 16 (60 min. each)
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8. Doctors
Hangul: 닥터스
Year: 2016
In school, Yoo Hye Jung had a prickly personality and was a tough bully. After meeting her mentor Hong Ji Hong, who plays a key role in transforming her life, she changes from a helpless gangster to a compassionate doctor.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Kim Rae Won as Hong Ji Hong
- Park Shin Hye as Yoo Hye Jung
- Yoon Kyun Sang as Jung Yoon Do
- Lee Sung Kyung as Jin Seo Woo
No. Of Episodes: 20 (60 min. each)
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9. Tale Of The Nine-Tailed
Hangul: 구미호뎐
Year: 2020
A gumiho named Lee Yeon gives up his job as the guardian mountain spirit of Baekdudaegan to look for the soul of his one true love, Ah Eum. Yeon met Nam Ji Ah, a smart and brave producer at TVC Station, while working on a mission.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Lee Dong Wook as Lee Yeon
- Jo Bo Ah as Nam Ji Ah / Ah Eum
- Kim Bum as Lee Rang
- Kim Yong Ji as Ki Yoo Ri
No. Of Episodes: 16 (65 min. each)
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10. Hotel del Luna
Hangul: 호텔 델루나
Year: 2019
Hotel del Luna is the namesake hotel in the heart of Seoul that exclusively serves to ghosts; Jang Man Wol, the gorgeous but ill-tempered CEO, is cursed to manage the hotel owing to a heinous act she committed but cannot remember.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- IU as Jang Man Wol
- Yeo Jin Goo as Goo Chan Sung
- Shin Jung Keun as Kim Sun Bi
- Bae Hae Seon as Choi Seo Hee
No. Of Episodes: 16 (80 min. each)
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11. Welcome To Waikiki
Hangul: 으라차차 와이키키
Year: 2018
Three men Dong Gu, Du Shik & Jun Ki along with Seo Jin runs a guesthouse. Things go differently when a single mother enters the house with her baby. Later, Dong Gu’s ex-girlfriend also lives in the house. The drama revolves around these six characters.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Kim Jung Hyun as Kang Dong Goo
- Lee Yi Kyung as Lee Joon Ki
- Son Seung Won as Bong Doo Shik
- Jung In Sun as Han Yoon Ah
No. Of Episodes: 20 (65 min. each)
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12. Voice
Hangul: 보이스
Year: 2017
After his wife dies, Detective Moo Jin Hyuk works with professional voice profiler Kwon Joo, whose father also died, to solve a different crime while looking for the serial killer who killed their family members.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Jang Hyuk as Moo Jin Hyeok
- Lee Ha Na as Kang Kwon Joo
- Baek Sung Hyun as Shim Dae Shik
- Son Eun Seo as Park Eun Soo
No. Of Episodes: 16 (60 min. each)
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13. The Killing Vote
When criminals don’t get punished by the law, everyone gets a text message asking if that person should get the death sentence. If more than half of the people vote for death, Dog Mask kills that person.
Cast –
- Park Hae Jin as Kim Moo Chan
- Park Sung Woong as Kwon Seok Joo
- Im Ji Yeon as Joo Hyun
- Jung Heon as Oh Jeong Ho
No. Of Episodes – 12
Watch On – Prime Video
14. Payback : Money and Power
The drama is about the people who risk everything to fight a money cartel that works with the government. They won’t stay quiet in the face of incompetent and unfair power, and they fight in their own way with all their hearts.
Cast –
- Lee Sun Kyun as Eun Yong
- Moon Chae Won as Park Jun Kyung
- Kang Yoo Seok as Jang Tae Chun
- Park Hoon as Hwang Gi Seok
No. Of Episodes – 12
Watch On – Prime Video
15. The World Of The Married
Hangul: 부부의 세계
Year: 2020
Sun Woo is a family doctor and the associate head of a hospital. She is married to Tae Oh, who wants to be a director, and they have a son together. Sun Woo thinks her family is perfect until she finds out that her husband is seeing another woman.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Kim Hee Ae as Ji Sun Woo
- Park Hae Joon as Lee Tae Oh
- Han So Hee as Yeo Da Kyung
- Park Sun Young as Go Ye Rim
No. Of Episodes: 16 (80 min. each)
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16. Sky Castle
Hangul: SKY 캐슬
Year: 2018
The drama revolves around the lives of housewives residing in a luxurious residential area called SKY Castle. The wives are determined to make their husbands more successful and to raise their children to be top students.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Yeom Jung Ah as Han Seo Jin
- Lee Tae Ran as Lee Soo Im
- Yoon Se Ah as Noh Seung Hye
- Oh Na Ra as Jin Jin Hee
No. Of Episodes: 20 (70 min. each)
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17. True To Love
Hangul: 보라! 데보라
Year: 2023
The drama follows the love story of Yeon Bo Ra, a famous love coach and successful author of romance books, and Lee Soo Hyuk, a charming guy who has trouble with matters of the heart.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Yoo In Na as Yeon Bo Ra
- Yoon Hyun Min as Lee Soo Hyeok
- Joo Sang Wook as Han Sang Jin
- Hwang Chan Sung as Noh Ju Hwan
No. Of Episodes: 14 (70 min. each)
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18. The King Of Pigs
The story about two men who were victims of school violence 20 years ago. Among them, one becomes a serial killer to punish the evil. Ironically, the other becomes a police officer, who put his life to catch the killer.
Cast –
- Kim Dong Wook as Hwang Kyung Min
- Kim Sung Gyu as Jung Jong Seok
- Chae Jung An as Kang Jin Ah
- Hwang Man Ik as Park Sung Jin
No. Of Episodes – 12
Watch On – Prime Video
19. Doom At Your Service
Hangul: 어느 날 우리집 현관으로
Year: 2021
Dong Kyung lost her parents at an early age. Later, she is diagnosed with brain cancer, forcing her to have less than 100 days to live. As she prays for the destruction of the world, the doom himself comes to her and live with her for the last 100 days.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Park Bo Young as Tak Dong Kyung
- Seo In Guk as Kim Sa Ram
- Lee Soo Hyuk as Cha Joo Ik
- Kang Tae Oh as Lee Hyun Gyu
No. Of Episodes: 16
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20. Anna
Hangul: 안나
Year: 2022
Yoo Mi is the woman who tells a small lie and ends up living someone else’s life. Hyun Joo lives her life holding herself above everyone, treating them with neither kindness nor malice. Ji Hoon is Yoo Mi’s husband who is ambitious and future-oriented.
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Main Cast (Characters):
- Bae Suzy as Yoo Mi
- Jung Eun Chae as Hyun Joo
- Kim Joon Han as Ji Hoon
- Park Ye Young as Ji Won
No. Of Episodes: 6 (50 min. each)
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Wrapping Up
So these are some recommended Korean dramas you should watch on Amazon Prime Video. Although these dramas are available in all countries, some of them may not be available to stream in some regions.
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