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K-Drama Bingo — OK, it's not really bingo — is a review and rating site for Korean dramas. It is designed to offer you a calibrated metric to see just how 'K' your K-dramas are. We often write ongoing commentary while watching the series, but in the end we produce a final rating score based on how many classic K-drama scenes we could find. Version 1 of the rating scheme includes 23 categories worth a total of 35 points (if you include all bonus points).
The current highest-rated K-drama is My Roommate is a Gumiho, with 21 points.
You can download your own K-Drama Bingo Card from the drama display page. Keep score while you're watching your favorite show! Then contact us, introduce yourself and we can set you up with an account to submit your rating!
I'm a sucker for a good Korean drama — the sappy, romantic ones especially. There are webtoon adaptations, remakes of American shows, straight-up rom-coms, period pieces, science-fiction sagas, and fantasy epics. The best K-Dramas are like the offspring of a cheesy Hallmark romance movie that encountered an existentialist French new wave film in a darkened Seoul alleyway. Draw that out to 16 full hours through endless stoic stares, very pregnant pauses, and a haunting pattern of repetition and flashback. Even the dystopian horrors are utopian manifestations of K-Dramaland.
The recurring tropes are uniquely Korean. Sure, American TV has some classic tropes: the Gay Best Friend, the New Job as the Plot Demands, etc, but how often do we see Piggyback Rides, or Bodily Possession? Never enough.
