BTS has been ruling the domestic as well as the international music charts for a while now with songs like ‘Butter,’ ‘Dynamite’ and ‘Fake Love’. The fans are well-aware of how hard they work to produce good music and participate in variety shows to entertain the fans. However, that does not mean they live a life under the rock! All BTS members make sure to spare some time off their busy schedules to do things they like. In case you don’t know, BTS loves to explore K-dramas and K-movies along with other international content like anime and American movies. After knowing this, any BTS fan would want to know the k-dramas recommended by the members.
In one of the Run BTS episodes, every BTS member enacted an iconic scene from a list of K-drama and proved that they are capable of being professional actors, especially J-Hope, V, and Jin. Not only that, they have been generous enough to recommend some of their favorites to their army of fans! Here are seven of the BTS-recommended K-dramas that you may like to watch. They have incredible taste, so watching content recommended by BTS should definitely be worth your time!
1. Sky Castle
If you wanna watch a K-drama recommended by BTS, ‘Sky Castle’ can be the best option as three out of seven members of BTS, Jin, RM, and Suga have approved of it as an amazing show! Not to mention it stands as the second-highest-rated cable Korean show of all time with a 23.779% rating. Sky Castle is a satirical show that revolves around four wealthy housewives who, in order to ensure their husband’s success and a bright future for their kids, go to extreme lengths without caring about anything worth thinking twice.
It is a mystery psychological show throwing light on some deep and meaningful subjects. Based on a real story, it deals with the over-pressure that parents put on their children to get into the top universities of the country and how it affects the latter.
2. Itaewon class
Remember that one time we got to see our winter bear V act on the screen in the historical K-drama ‘Hwarang’? He is still in close contact with his Hwarang co-stars, Park Seo Joon, Park Hyung Sik, and Choi Woo Shik. They are seen supporting each other multiple times during the award shows or by sending coffee trucks to each other’s shooting locations. Park Seo Joon’s 2020 K-drama, ‘Itaewon Class,’ is one of V’s recommended shows which also features a beautiful OST sung by V. Doesn’t matter if you are an Army or not, ‘Sweet Night’ by V is still one of the best K-drama OST in the recent times.
As far as the drama is concerned, without any hesitation, we can assure you that it is one of the most inspirational shows you might have ever come across. A teenage boy named Park Saeroyi ends up being expelled from his school, losing his father in a car accident, and becoming a jail evict within just a span of three years. Unlike anyone his age, who would have surrendered to the ill-fate, he comes back stronger years later after a lot of struggles, opens his own pub, and takes revenge on the person responsible for his father’s death.
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3. Crash Landing On You
Just as his name, J-Hope seems to prefer K-dramas that are romantic and comic to mysterious and thrilling. In one of his VLives, he had recommended Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin’s ‘Crash Landing On You,’ a K-Drama that features a love story between two star-crossed lovers, one from North Korea and the other from South Korea. Son Ye Jin’s character, Se Ri, who is a rich heiress and self-made businesswoman, ends up crossing the boundaries of South Korea due to a paragliding accident and lands in North Korea. She is discovered hanging on a tree by a North Korean soldier named Ri Jung Hyuk, who somehow ends up promising to take care of her while she’s there and send her back to her home country safe and sound.
Well, their time together doesn’t go as planned since both of them fall in love with each other. ‘Crash Landing on You’ is definitely an unmissable K-drama with a heart-warming storyline and amazing performances. If you don’t think Ri Jung Hyuk’s pout while making Korea’s signature heart gesture with his fingers isn’t the cutest thing ever, you might have to get your glasses checked!
4. Hotel Del Luna
Every BTS Army have this tattooed on their forehead that no one is a greater IU fanboy than Jungkook! There’s no way he wouldn’t have done some free promotion for it. Even if it might be a biased recommendation, ‘Hotel Del Luna’ is still one of the best K-dramas of all time. Starring IU and Yeo Jin Goo in the lead roles, the story revolves around a 1000-year-old woman named Man Wol who is neither dead nor living, trapped on the earth for the grave sin that she had committed a millennium ago. She has been punished to cater to the dead souls, fulfill their unfinished business, and send them peacefully to the afterlife.
Emotions like hatred and anger from her human life have taken over her completely and prevented her from crossing the bridge of the afterlife. However, when she hires a capable human manager, Gu Chan Seong, for her special hotel, she gradually forms a connection with him. He makes her feel human emotions like kindness, love, and pain. The show definitely deserves a spot on the list of the best BTS-recommended K-dramas!
5. Moon Embracing the Sun
V has talked about this historical supernatural drama, ‘Moon Embracing the Sun’ multiple times and has even enacted the main lead’s character as one of the challenges of a Run BTS episode. While we’re at this, we need to come up with a petition to watch Taehyung acting in a K-drama again. He’s got the face as well as skills, so why not! As for the show, ‘Moon Embracing the Sun’ is a 2012 K-drama starring Han Ga In and Kim Soo Hyun in lead roles. It narrates the tale of Lee Hwon, the future of Joseon, who falls in love with the daughter of a noble family, Heo Yeon Woo.
However, before they are supposed to get married, the rival clan schemes against her to snatch away her family’s position in the court and nearly takes away her life. While everyone is under the impression that the young crown Princess is dead, she surprisingly survives but ends up losing her past memories. She comes back years eight years later, now a grown-up woman, as a female shaman named Wol, and encounters the king again, who has become bitter after the death of his love.
6. Kingdom
Jimin really praised himself for being brave enough to watch this K-drama, so unless you have a brave heart like him, do not go for it! Starring Ju Ji-hoon, Ryu Seung-ryong, and Bae Doona in main roles, Kingdom follow the story of Joseon’s Crown Prince, Lee Chang, who determines to investigate the cause of the King’s recently-caught mysterious illness. However, he soon realizes he has got himself involved in an epidemic that turns the dead into man-eating monsters. Along with attempting to protect his people from the unforeseen situation, he must guard his throne against the political opponents of the Kingdom, looking for opportunities to snatch it.
7. Sweet Home
Considering his recommendations, it isn’t hard to guess that RM is a huge fan of mystery thriller shows that make him feel the adrenaline rushing in and making his heart beat faster. Last year in one of his VLives, RM mentioned that he had been watching Netflix’s horror-thriller drama, ‘Sweet Home,’ and was enjoying it throughout! The show follows a loner named Cha Hyun Soo, who shifts to a new apartment after the death of his family members.
However, the strange incidents happening in the apartment and his neighboring areas start to disturb him, and it doesn’t take a lot of time for him to realize that people have begun to turn into dangerous monsters. Hyun Soo, along with the other residents of the apartment, looks for ways to survive the situation. The story and acting of the characters are insanely good, and with every episode, the intensity of the situation grows too.
Some of the other BTS-recommended K-dramas include the legendary ‘Boys Over Flowers,’ about which Jin has talked a lot, ‘When the Camellia Blooms’, which is one of J-Hope’s favorite, and ‘Dear My Friends’ recommended by RM.
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