List of 67 Korean Dramas Starring Kpop Idols

Kpop idols are popular around the world because of their excellent singing and dancing skills. However, their talents do not end there. Some of the idols have left their groups to pursue acting.

Several Kpop idols are actors too. They have been acting in many Kdramas. Their acting is so good that you forget that they are idols. It is no doubt that these idols are great in acting & making the audience emotional.

Korean dramas are addicting. If you start to watch them, you can never leave them even if you try hard. Their storyline is good, the acting is excellent & OSTs are just!! You know them..

Korean Dramas Starring Kpop Idols

If you are looking or want to know some good to watch Kdramas in which Kpop idols have acted, here is the massive list of 67 dramas starring K-pop idols.

You will fall in love with their acting. These dramas have some of the best storylines & OSTs. So, get your popcorn & tissues ready because this is going to be an emotional ride.

Let’s get to the list..

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Kim Myung Soo

Kim Myung Soo, known as L, his singing stage name, debuted as a member of the boy band INFINITE in 2010. Although he has left the company he will still be a member of INFINITE. He has acted in many good dramas.

1. Secret Royal Inspector

Set in the era of the Joseon dynasty the drama revolves around Yi Gyum, a state examination top scorer who works in the administrative department. He is caught gambling is re-assigned as a secret royal inspector to investigate the corrupt public officials.

2. Meow, the Secret Boy

Sol Ah’s life changes when she brings home a cat. Named Hong Jo, the cat can take human form. Hong Jo becomes exceptionally fond of her and goes to great pains to hide his human identity from her. Will Hong Jo manage to keep his identity a secret?

3. Angel’s Last Mission: Love

A ballerina suffers an accident that leaves her blind. Dan is an optimistic, carefree angel who is always getting into trouble. To return to heaven he is given the seemingly impossible mission of finding true love for her but ends up falling for her himself.

4. Miss Hammurabi

Park Cha Oh Reum is a newly appointed judge. She is always on the lookout for injustice and can profoundly empathize with others. Compared to her Ba Reun is a cool-headed man of principle and he is displeased with her who is sympathetic when it comes to cases.

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Bae Suzy

Bae Suzy debuted in the Chinese-Korean girl group “Miss A” under JYP Entertainment in 2010. In 2017, Miss A disbanded. Later, she began her career in acting & has been starred in popular dramas.

Also Read – Kdramas Starring Bae Suzy To Watch

5. Anna

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.

6. Start-Up

Nam Do San is the founder of Samsan Tech. He is excellent with mathematics. He started Samsan Tech two years ago, but the company is not doing well. Somehow, Nam Do San becomes Seo Dal Mi’s, first love. They cheer each other’s start and growth.

7. Vagabond

The stuntman Cha Dal Gun’s nephew dies in a plane crash. He learns that the plane crash was caused by a huge government scandal, and he and a NIS agent named Go Hae Ri set out to find out the truth and bring those responsible to justice.

8. While You Were Sleeping

A prosecutor named Jae Chan chooses to change the course of events, which saves the lives of Hong Joo and Woo Tak. When they start dreaming about each other, they understand that their lives are now tied together in some way.

9. Uncontrollably Fond

When Joon Young and No Eul were children, they were separated and became heartbroken. When their paths cross again years later, Joon Young discovers that No Eul is now a very different person than he remembered. Is there any hope to revive their past relationship?

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Im Yoon Ah

Im Yoon Ah, known as Yoona, is a member of the Korean girl group Girls’ Generation and is known as the center-girl, lead dancer, and sub-vocalist of the group. Yoona made her debut as a singer along with Girls’ Generation on August 5, 2007.

10. Big Mouth

Chang Ho is an underperforming lawyer. He winds up in charge of a murder case that turns him overnight into a genius conman known as “Big Mouse.” In order to survive, he must expose a huge conspiracy among the privileged upper classes.

11. Hush

A drama about newspaper reporters and their everyday struggles, and problems. Jun Hyeok is a veteran reporter for a newspaper. Ji Su is a bold intern reporter. When she meets Jun Hyeok as her mentor, she dreams of becoming a true journalist.

12. The King In Love

Wang Won is a crown prince of Goryeo. He is best friends with Wang Rin who comes from a royal family and is his bodyguard. Eun San who is the daughter of the richest man appears. The three become good friends, but things change after they both fall in love with Eun San.

13. The K2

Je Ha is an ex-mercenary soldier who was wrongly blamed for killing his girlfriend. Yoo Jin, who is married to a man running for president, hires him as a bodyguard. An Na is the president’s secret daughter. They begin to develop feelings one another.

14. Love Rain

Seo In Ha and Kim Yoon Hee fall in an ill-fated love with each other during college in the 70s. In the present day, their kids fall in love. The children are completely different from their parents in personality, but fate pulls them together.

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Ok Taec Yeon

Ok Taec Yeon is the main rapper in the Korean boy group, 2PM. In 2010, he made his acting debut in the Korean drama Cinderella’s Sister. Since then, he has starred in many good dramas.

15. Blind

The drama centers around detectives, judges, law school students, and jurors and depicts the story of people who have unfairly become victims because they are ordinary and perpetrators who turn a blind eye to uncomfortable truths of the world.

16. Secret Royal Inspector & Joy

Ra Yo Eon, a young gourmand is appointed as a royal secret inspector against his will. Kim Jo Yi, a divorced woman searching for happiness winds up joining forces with him to discover the truth, investigate and battle corruption.

17. The Game: Towards Zero

Tae Pyung can see the moments right before the death by looking into someone’s eyes. One day, a girl is kidnapped. While helping the police with the investigation, he meets Joon Young, a crime division detective, whose death he can’t foresee.

18. Save Me

Sang Mi’s family move to Mujigun. There she meets four young men. Later, she and her family are approached by a Spiritual Father who offers to help them. However, they get caught into the pseudo-religious cult and the four young men try to save her.

19. Bring It On, Ghost

Hyun Ji studied for most of her life before she died at the age of 19. She is now a ghost and has wandered around the world for several years. She then meets Bong Pal, an exorcist college boy. They both listen to various stories from ghosts and sends them to the otherworld.

20. Who Are You

Shi On, a woman who can see spirits after waking up from a 6-year long coma meets Gun Woo, a man who only believes in solid evidence. They come to understand each other as they try to help the spirits attached to objects at a lost-and-found center rest in peace.

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Cha Eun Woo

Cha Eun Woo (born Lee Dong Min) is a member of the boy group ‘ASTRO’. In 2016, he debuted as a member of ASTRO. He has been starred in various Kdramas that made him popular.

21. Island

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.

22. True Beauty

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.

23. Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung

Set in the early 19th century, Goo Hae Ryung works as a historian. Female historians are generally looked down upon because of their gender. Along with the fight of the female palace historians, the drama will tell her romance with Prince Yi Rim who has a secret of his own.

24. My ID is Gangnam Beauty

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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Choi Soo Young

Choi Soo Young is a member of the girl group Girls’ Generation. Soo Young eventually became a member of the girl group Girls’ Generation in 2007. She has also acted in a lot of Korean dramas.

25. If You Wish Upon Me

The story revolves around a young man who is endangered at the end of his life, enters a hospice hospital on the order of community service, and together with the hospital staff, listens to the last wishes of people at the end of their lives.

26. So I Married The Anti-Fan

Hoo Joon is a top star and Geun Young is a magazine reporter. She is approached for a TV show. Joon is also offered the same show. When filming begins, they try to give each other a hard time on set, only to fall head over heels for one another.

27. Run On

The drama follows the love story of former sprinter Seon Gyeom, a sports agent, and subtitle translator Mi Joo. Dan Ah is the CEO of a sports agency. Soon, she meets university art major Young Hwa, who likes movies and drawing.

28. Tell Me What You Saw

Hyun Jae used to be one of the best at profiling criminals. After the death of his fiancee, he disappears. Soo Young works as a police officer out in the country. She will work with Hyun Jae as a newbie detective. They work together to solve crimes.

29. My Spring Days

Bom Yi was once a terminally ill patient, but she’s been given a second chance at life after getting a heart transplant. She meets Dong Ha, a widower with two children who lost his wife to an accident. She falls for him, not knowing that her donor was his wife.

30. Dating Agency: Cyrano

Min Yeong works as a dating agent. She gets into trouble as she plans a date between a higher rank woman & a low-level class client. All seems to go according to plan until Byun Hoon, the leader of another agency, is trying to do the same with his client.

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Lee Ji Eun (IU)

Lee Ji Eun, known by her stage name IU debuted on Mnet M! Countdown on September 18, 2008, with her debut single “Lost Child”. She debuted as an actress by playing a supporting role in the teen series Dream High.

Also Read – Korean Dramas Starring IU

31. Hotel Del Luna

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.

32. My Mister

The drama tells us the story of three middle-aged brothers, who are enduring the weight of their lives, and a strong, cold woman, who has been living a hard life of her own, as they come together in healing each other’s past scars.

33. Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo

When a total eclipse of the sun takes place, Ha Jin is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty. She soon befriends several of the princes and meets the 4th Prince, Wang So. She finds herself caught up in palace politics and the rivalry among the princes as they fight for the throne.

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Lee Hye Ri

Lee Hye Ri is a member of the girl group “Girl’s Day”. Her solo career started in 2012, Hyeri was in the cast for an SBS weekend drama Father and Daughter. She has acted in various dramas that gained her popularity.

34. May I Help You

The story of Butler Kim, who runs errands that begin at a cost of 100 won per job, and funeral director Baek Dong Joo, who grants the wishes of the dead, as they operate an errand-running business called Ildangbaek.

35. Moonshine

Set in the Joseon era during a period marked by the strictest alcohol prohibition laws. The story of three people who can ruin each other’s lives because they keep on bumping into each other in front of the secret liquor warehouse.

36. My Roommate is a Gumiho

To become a human, a 999-year-old Gumiho, Woo Yeo needs to fill his fox bead with human energy before he turns 1,000 years old. One day, a college girl, Lee Dam accidentally swallows his fox bead. He suggests that they should live together until they figure out a solution.

37. Miss Lee

Seon Shim, an ordinary employee is suddenly promoted to become the CEO of the small company Cheongil Electronics. Jin Wook, the department head at Cheongil Electronics, finds his passion reignited after Seon Shim becomes CEO, and he helps her to grow as a CEO.

38. Two Cops

Detective Dong Tak is feared among criminals for showing no mercy. One day, his body is taken over by a con artist called Soo Chang who is quite clever. Now Dong Tak has to share his body with a criminal. He then falls in love with a rookie reporter.

39. Reply 1988

The drama follows the lives of 5 families living on the same street in a neighborhood. A nostalgic look back at the year 1988. As the group of friends gets into and out of mischief, what experiences will they carry with them into their future lives?

40. Seonam Girls High School Investigators

Chae Yool, Mi Do, Yee Hee, Ha Jae, and Sung Yoon, five girls at Seonam Girls’ High School, form a detective club. They look into strange things that happen at school and help other students deal with bullying, depression, and other problems.

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Lee Jun Ho

Lee Jun Ho, better known as Jun Ho, is a member of the Korean boy band 2PM. In 2013, Junho debuted as an actor in the Korean movie Cold Eyes. Later, he acted in many good movies & dramas.

41. The Red Sleeve

A historical drama that tells the romance of a royal court between Sung Deok Im, a court lady who wants to protect the life she chose and Yi San, an emperor who believes his duty is to his country first above love.

42. Confession

When Do Hyun was a boy, he had a heart disease. He spent most of his childhood in a hospital. He miraculously had a chance for a heart transplant. Right after the heart transplant, his father was accused of murder. To investigate his father’s case, he now works as a lawyer.

43. Wok Of Love

A chef named Seo Poong goes from being a famous chef to being the cook at a failed Chinese restaurant in his neighbourhood. Sae Woo is a poor young woman. She starts working at the new Chinese restaurant that Seo Poong has opened.

44. Just Between Lovers

Three young people who each lost a loved one in the same building collapse attempt to navigate their relationships through the pain of the tragedy while helping to construct a replacement building. They move forward and find a new will to live and embrace the future.

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Rowoon

Kim Seok Woo, better known by his stage name Rowoon, is a member of FNC Entertainment’s boy group SF9. His acting career in dramas began with KBS2’s “School 2017” with a minor supporting role.

45. Tomorrow

The drama tells the story of Joon Woong, who crosses paths with grim reapers, who are on a special mission of suicide prevention, and works with them as the youngest contract worker in the crisis management team of death angels.

46. The King’s Affection

The story of a pair of royal twins, one male, and one female. Although the sister is initially abandoned for being female, she later disguises herself as a man to become the crown prince when her brother dies & develops feelings for her teacher.

47. She Would Never Know

Song Ah and Hyun Seung work at a cosmetics marketing firm, and the two slowly grow closer sharing a workplace relationship. He tries to develop a romantic relationship but Song Ah rebuffs his advances, not wishing to date younger men.

48. Extraordinary You

In the drama, a high school girl named Dan Oh finds out that she is just a minor character in a romance manga called “Secret.” She tries to change the fixed story of her love and life by using flashes of storyboard that only she can see.

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Park Hyung Sik

Park Hyung Sik is a former member of the now-defunct South Korean boy band ZE:A and its subgroup ZE:A Five, managed by Star Empire Entertainment. He was a cast member of the variety show “Real Men.”

49. Our Blooming Youth

The story of a prince with a strange curse and a smart woman who is blamed for killing her family. Their friendship grows as the man saves the woman from her false accusation and the woman saves the man from his curse.

50. Soundtrack #1

Sun Woo is a rookie photographer & Eun Soo is a lyricist. They have been close friends for 20 years. Due to a reason, they begin to live together for 2 weeks. Staying together, their relationship develops romantically.

51. Happiness

In the near future, a new apartment building has been built. The people who live there come from different places, but a new disease spreads quickly. It shows the psychological battle and the way that people from different classes treat each other.

52. Suits

A well-known corporate lawyer at a prestigious firm takes a chance by hiring a high school dropout who studied for and passed the bar exam under a fake name but doesn’t have a law degree but is always creative to help him with high-stakes cases.

53. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

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.

54. Hwarang

The drama tells the story of beautiful-looking young men called Hwarang in Silla, one of the three kingdoms of Korea. The warriors include a man from the lowest class of Silla and the hidden king who secretly joins. The men also fall for the maiden Ah Ro.

55. High Society

Yoon Ha is the youngest daughter of a chaebol. Even though her family is wealthy, she has a part-time job at a food market. She hides her background as an heiress and attempts to find a man that loves her for herself.

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Park Jin Young

Park Jin Young is a South Korean singer-songwriter, actor, and a member of the boy band GOT7 and boy band duo JJ Project. He made his acting debut in the 2012 series “Dream High 2.”

56. Yumi’s Cells 2

Yumi matured through her relationship and breakup with Goo Woong, and she took on a new challenge after gaining the courage to do so from her co-worker Yoo Babi. The new season will depict the story of Yumi’s love and dreams.

57. The Devil Judge

The drama is set in a dystopic version of Korea. Three judges work together to bring justice and peace through a courtroom live show that airs on TV. Kang Yo Han, a cruel head trial judge, is made the chief judge.

58. When My Love Blooms

Jae Hyun and Ji Soo met and fell in love when they were university students. Twenty years later, they cross paths once again: Jae Hyun has become a successful businessman, while Ji Soo is a mother and a contract worker living a difficult life.

59. He Is Psychometric

Lee An has a special ability. Whenever he touches someone, he can read that person’s memories. Using his power, he wants to take bad people down. Jae In is a girl with a mental scar. They run into each other and try to solve cases.

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Choi Min Ho

Choi Minho is a South Korean idol singer, rapper, dancer, actor, model, lyricist, MC, and radio host. He is a member of the South Korean boy group SHINee, as the main rapper, sub-vocalist, visual, and face.

60. The Fabulous

A story about people who have spent their whole lives working in the fashion business and are struggling to make it. Woo Min is in charge of making photos better. Ji Eun is in charge of a group at a company that promotes expensive brands.

61. Because It’s the First Time

Tae Oh is a freshman in college. He has been friends with Song Yi since childhood. Now, he begins to have feelings for the girl who has a bright and positive personality. Meanwhile, Tae Oh has a friend. A love triangle brews between these three people.

62.Medical Top Team

The story of how the best multidisciplinary medical team in Korea came to be and the doctors who worked on it. Characters with different hurts and problems struggle as they work together and learn that helping someone else is also helping oneself.

63. To The Beautiful You

Kang Tae Joon has won a gold medal in the high jump, but an injury has put him in a slump. Koo Jae Hee, a girl, dresses up as a boy and goes to the same all-male high school as her idol so she can help him.

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Now, the list will comprise of dramas featuring multiple K-pop idols & K-pop idols who acted in few dramas.

64. Rich Man

Yoo Chan is the CEO of the IT company Next In. He suffers from a condition where he can’t recognize faces, and this makes him very guarded. Bo Ra came to Seoul to attend college. With her imminent graduation, her dream is to work for Next In. When they meet, what will happen?

65. Dream High

Six people at Kirin High School want to be K-pop stars. During their school years, they learn how to sing, write songs, and dance, and they also learn about themselves. Also, they start to develop feelings for each other.

66. Live On

Baek Ho Rang, a high school student, is popular on social media for being attractive. She decides to join the radio club. In a school where social media is a defining factor and everyone is scrutinized, a tale of love and friendship unfolds.

67. Snowdrop

Set in 1987, when South Korea was governed by a dictatorial government, a graduate student Soo Ho, who is covered in blood, jumps into the female dormitory at a women’s university. Young Ro finds him and helps to hide him. They develop a romantic relationship.

Wrapping Up

So, these were some of the best Kdramas starring K-pop idols. Even if they are idols, they have acted very well in their respective dramas. No one can distinguish them as idols. You can watch most of them on Netflix & Viki.

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