Watch These 6 Lee Min-Ho Dramas If You Miss His Majesty
It's been a few months since 'The King: Eternal Monarch' ended and we've been having withdrawals. We list six dramas that will help with that and have you loving him even more!
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With more than 14 years in the industry under his belt, Lee Min Ho has consistently dominated our screens and in effect, completely captured our hearts. For his special day, we’ve rounded up six binge-worthy dramas that will have you falling in love with him all over again!
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Personal Taste (2010)
Park Gae In (Son Ye Jin) is down on her luck. Her boyfriend just broke up with her and she’s on the brink of losing her job! When a potential roommate, Jeon Jin Ho (Lee Min Ho), comes along and offers to move in to ease her financial stress, she simply has no other option. She mistakenly believes he’s gay, even hoping that in this current situation, she gets herself her own gay best friend!
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Personal Taste (2010)
Gae In begins to trust and rely on Jin Ho for lots of things the more they spend time together, but what she doesn’t know is that Jin Ho actually isn’t gay and is already developing some major feelings for her! Directed by Son Hyeong-Seak and No Jong-Chan, and written by Lee Sae-In, Personal Taste is a fun-spirited drama where we see Lee Min Ho play such a loveable, sincere role.
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Boys Over Flowers (2009)
The drama that launched Lee Min Ho into international stardom! Set at a prestigious high school for the uber wealthy, Boys Over Flowers is a love story about a girl named Geum Jan-Di (Hye-seon Ku) and the F4 gang of rich kids headed by Gu Jun Pyo (Lee Min Ho). He’s got all the traits of the school heartthrob: good-looking, popular, charming, friendly, and, well, pretty arrogant.
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Boys Over Flowers (2009)
When Geum Jan-Di moves to the private high school, Gy Jun Pyo and his friends initially bully her until a destined event and transformation for Jun Pyo to realize that his dislike for her is actually founded on genuine feelings of love. Once he realizes this, he finds a way to win Jan-Di’s heart, but he’s got a lot to prove.
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The Heirs (2013)
Depicting the friendships, rivalries, and love lives of a group of young, rich heirs, 'The Heirs' is a drama that sees lead characters Kim Tan (Lee Min Ho) and Cha Eun-Sang (Park Shin-Hye) falling in love.
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The Heirs (2013)
Kim Tan is the rich heir to the Jeguk Group. While attending school in California, Tan meets Eun-Sang who had come to the States to live with her sister in hopes to have a better life. Things don’t go very well with her sister, who she finds is in a toxic relationship, and Eun-Sang ends up stranded and with nowhere to go. Tan takes her in. Despite being engaged to Yoo Rachel (Kim Ji-won), a fellow heiress, Kim Tan begins to fall in love with Eun-sang. When they return to Korea, Tan’s former best friend Choi Young-do (Kim Woo-bin) begins picking on Eun-sang to irritate him. Tension builds up when Young-do also finds himself falling for Eun-sang. Kim Tan is then forced to choose between the responsibility of the family business or his heart.
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City Hunter (2011)
Codenamed “City Hunter”, Lee Yoon-Sung (Lee Min Ho) has the ultimate goal—to avenge his father’s killers. Using the identity of a Korean-American teenager, who is later revealed to have died several years before, he assumes a double life by graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in the United States with a doctorate degree and lands a job at South Korea’s presidential palace for the National Network Team.
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City Hunter (2011)
He is warned by Lee Jin-pyo (Kim Sang-joong) to not trust anyone and to not fall in love, because this will place everyone around him in danger. Despite this, he crosses paths with presidential bodyguard Kim Na-na (Park Min-young), finding himself falling for her. Eventually Na-na participates in his plan for revenge, as soon as she discovers that they have the same goal in mind. Problems occur as Jin-pyo's revenge plot unfolds, especially when Lee defies his surrogate father at several occasions as they try to identify and kill the officials, known as the "Council of Five".
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Faith (2012)
Depicting a love that transcends time and space, ‘Faith’ is set in the Goryeo Period and follows the love story of General Choi Young (Lee Min Ho) and Yoo Eun-soo (Kim Hee-sun). Their paths meet after Choi Young is ordered to pass through a mystical portal and find the heaven’s doctor. He travels to the future and brings back Yoo Eun-soo, a doctor from present-day Seoul, who saves the queen’s life. He makes her a promise that he will return her back to her world… but a scheming royal advisor persuades the king to force Eun-soo to stay as she has proven to be useful. As Eun-soo gets used to her new surroundings, she and Choi Young fall in love. Problems arise and Eun-soo becomes a pawn in the political power plays between the king, the Yuan overloads, the nobleman Ki-chul, and Prince Deok-seong. Constantly risking his life, Choi Young stops numerous attempts to kidnap and possess Eun-soo.
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Faith (2012)
He manages to bring Eun-soo to the portal before it closes, so she can say goodbye to her family and join Choi Young forever. Things go awry and she finds herself in an era a hundred years before Choi Young’s time, spending a few years waiting for the portal to open again. One day, heaven’s gate opens and Eun-soo enters, only to find herself back in modern-day Seoul. She re-enters the portal and travels to the time period five years after she left Choi Young, a time where he has proven to be successful and reclaimed the lands of Goryeo. Here, they finally reunite and be together.
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The Legend of the Blue Sea (2016)
Inspired by a classic Joseon legend from Korea’s first collection of historical tales, the drama is about a fisherman who captures and releases a mermaid. The Legend of the Blue Sea centers on the love story of Heo Joon-jae (Lee Min Ho), the son of a rich businessman who becomes a clever con-artist following his parents' divorce, and a woman named Shim Cheong (Jun Ji-hyun).
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The Legend of the Blue Sea (2016)
When bad boy Joon-jae meets Shim Chung, he notices that she’s a bit different. She is wildly fascinated by the world around her and has a bit of difficulty fitting in. What Joon-jae doesn’t realize until later is that she is actually a mermaid. He begins to realize he is falling completely for her, wanting to do whatever it takes to be with her. Focusing on rebirth, fate, and unrequited love, their tale is juxtaposed with the parallel story of their Joseon era incarnations, town head Kim Dam-ryeong and the mermaid Se-hwa.
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Which one of these will you be rewatching tonight?
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