As they say, you spend the most colorful years of your youth in high school. It’s a time filled with making friends, creating core memories, envisioning ambitions, and discovering identities. Although going through it is not a simple walk in the park, looking back at your high school days through a grown-up lens is a lot sweeter than you’d typically expect.
To accompany you along your trip down memory lane, here are six K-dramas about high school that you will enjoy binge-watching:Â
1. Extraordinary You
Where to watch: Viu
Episodes: 32
Starting off with a show that has it all: A loveable main character, a dreamy male lead, a swoon-worthy love triangle, an extraordinary plot, and a high school setting straight out of your imagination! Extraordinary You is about a girl who finds out she is living as a supporting character in a web comic. As she tries to defy the writer’s will, she gets entangled in the rules of her fantasy world while stuck between two boys she could love. With only 30 minutes per episode, you will surely enjoy binge-watching this during slow days.
2. True Beauty
Where to watch: Viu
Episodes: 16
Just like many of us, Lim Ju Kyung started learning the power of makeup during high school. Ju Kyung decides to use her newly found makeup skills to fight her inferiority complex caused by her physical appearance. As she tries to keep her new life and identity intact, tension intensifies when her bare face accidentally gets exposed to her dashingly handsome and popular classmate, Lee Su Ho. Amidst the feel-good vibe and splashes of comedy here and there, True Beauty highlights the importance of having someone who knows the real you. A huge bonus: The love triangle that will make you kilig every episode!
3. Our Beloved Summer
Where to watch: Netflix
Episodes: 16
Do you enjoy an enemies-to-lovers storyline? What about a second-chance romance or maybe a past-and-present parallel storytelling style? Well, if your answer to all that is yes, Our Beloved Summer could just be the perfect K-drama for you! It follows the story of Kook Yeon Soo—an uptight honor student—and Choi Ung—a talented slacker—who fell in love during the making of a high school documentary. As life got in the way, the two ended up going separate ways but were forced to meet again for the second part of the documentary. This show will take you on a rollercoaster of emotions as it has the charm of a high school romance, the pain of a first breakup, and that bittersweet feeling of growing up.
4. Who Are You: School 2015
Where to watch: Viu
Episodes: 16
This is not your typical high school drama. Who Are You: School 2015 follows identical twin sisters Go Eun Byeul and Lee Eun Bi who have lived apart from each other their whole lives. Eun Byeul is the most popular girl in school while Eun Bi lives a difficult life because of her bullies. When the twins switch lives, there’s a turn of events that will only leave you guessing what comes next.
5. Love Alarm
Where to watch: Netflix
Episodes: 14
Love Alarm adds a refreshing touch of sci-fi to a high school drama, featuring love stories that revolve around an app called Love Alarm. This app notifies users when someone within 10 meters has romantic feelings for them. One of the users is a hardworking student named Kim Jojo who finds herself torn between Le Hye Yeong and Hwang Sun Oh—two childhood best friends who fell for her. This show hooks its audience by making them root for both Hye Yeong and Sun Oh, but only one guy wins Jojo's heart in the end.
6. The Heirs
Where to watch: Netflix
Episodes: 20
The Heirs is one of the classics in the high school romance genre of K-dramas and it’s never too late to watch it! Headlined by a star-studded cast, this drama tells the different stories of a group of wealthy, privileged heirs as they navigate high school and youth. However, Cha Eun Sang feels out of place in the midst of all the glitz and glamor. Being a daughter of a live-in housekeeper in a prestigious university made it harder for her to fit in, even more so when two of the most popular guys in school started pining for her.
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