For the last few days, I've been reading Korean manhwa/webtoon series non-stop and man, they're just so great!!! 😍😍😍
These are some of my fav manhwa I've read so far... All the stories are of modern setting btw... (I may do a separate recommendation list for historical/magical/isekai genre manhwa later on...)
Something About Us - (Childhood best friends turned lovers)
Status: Completed.
Positively Yours - (Strangers met for one night stand to lovers)
Status: Completed.
Seasons Of Blossom - (High school friends to lovers)
Status: Completed.
Please Take Care Of Me In This Life As Well - (Childhood friends to lovers)
Status: On-going.
Fly Me To The Moon - (Strangers met through unusual circumstances to lovers)
Status: On-going.
The Reason I Wanted To Die - (High school sweethearts to Exes to again lovers)
Status: On-going.
Revelation Of Youth - (High school friends to lovers)
Status: On-going.
The Odd One Next Door - (Frenemy neighbors to lovers)
Status: On-going.
Free In Dreams - (Strangers met through lucid dreams to lovers)
Status: On-going.
Operation Name Pure Love - (High school friends to lovers)
Status: On-going.
Just Twilight - (High school classmates to lovers)
Status: On-going.
King The Land - (Childhood friends to lovers)
Status: On-going.
Confession Attack - (Childhood best friends to lovers)
Status: On-going.
Our Secret Alliance - (Childhood best friends to lovers)
Status: Completed.
Ooh La La!! - (Complete strangers to sudden lovers)
Status: Completed.
Match Made In Heaven By Chance - (Childhood friends to sudden married couple)
Status: On-going.
Love Class - (Former high school Teacher X Former high school Student love story)
Status: On-going.
The Man's Games - (Childhood frenemies to lovers)
Status: Completed.
My Introverted Boy - (Introverted boy X introverted girl love story)
Status: On-going.
The Dilettante - (Enemies to lovers)
Status: On-going.
Olgami - (Enemies to toxic lovers)
Status: On-going.
The Law Of Being Friends With A Male - (Classmates to friends to lovers)
Status: On-going.
My Three Annoying Brothers - (Separate love stories of 4 beautiful yet chaotic siblings)
Status: On-going.
Divorce Is Easy, But Love Is Hard - (College Senpai-kouhai to office colleagues in love)
Status: On-going.
Marry My Husband - (Office senpai-kouhai to lovers)
Status: Completed.
The Boss's Proposal - (Office senpai-kouhai to lovers)
Status: On-going.
When You're Targeted By The Bully - (Enemies to friends to lovers)
Status: Completed.
The ones I haven't read yet, but intend to read them later in the future...
Love Of Mine.
A Guide To Proper Dating.
Act Like You Love Me!
The Couple Breaker.
There Must Be Happy Endings/Surely a Happy Ending.
cha gyeol is so hot and sexy that he makes me dread my reality because his fine ass is just a fragment of my imagination and even if that hunk of a man existed i could never pull a man like the him im gonna cry jio and gyeol make me scream honestly
my brain hasnt been able to muster the attention span for dramas lately, so i've switched to reading webtoons for the time being. wanted to share some of my current favorites so maybe some folks can fangirl about them with me /o/
i also have a list of similar dramas so if youre new to webtoons but not dramas you can kind of compare #vibes
roughly in order:
TRAPPED (ALSO KNOWN AS OLGAMI OR NOOSE)
synopsis (mild spoilers)
girl meets boy at church. girl is an ex-convict who tried to kill someone. boy is a vampire. boy blackmails the girl into hiding his dead bodies using her job as a taxi driver. boy thought he had control over the situation. he absolutely does fucking not. the most fucked up slowest of slow burns ensues as fuck-or-die might become a little too literal.
why read
omfgggggggggggggg if you like your ships dysfunction junction this one is 100% for you. the romance takes a while to kick off, with the first season being mostly thriller with some unhinged UST between the leads, but when the male lead (park yunsu, vampire murderbastard) falls he falls hard and it is messy beyond all belief because the female lead (han chae-ah, taxi driver and unwilling gravedigger) does not forgive or forget and will do whatever it takes to survive. both leads are compelling and interesting and it's such a great take on enemy lovers (and not necessarily enemies to lovers)
chae-ah: i'll kill you
yunsu: alright :) try your best :) ill be waiting :)
the side characters are all really interesting as well! especially grimm, a 60-year-old child who definitely chooses mom in the divorce
similar dramas: basically take any fei wo si cun male lead (goodbye my princess, siege in fog), give him the ability to commit supernatural murder, and then pair him with a female lead who will absolutely kill him the second she gets a chance to
MY REASON TO DIE (ALSO KNOWN AS WHAT I DECIDED TO DIE FOR)
synopsis
ji-o is a talented taekwondo student athlete on her way to the olympics before she gets an injury that stalls her progress. while on the bus to training, she crosses paths with cha gyeol, a delinquent who runs with a rough crowd and almost never comes to school. as she navigates her feelings with unexpected first love, ji-o keeps having prophetic dreams-- ones where someone dies over and over again.
why read
female gaze: the webtoon lol. ok but actually what starts out as a fairly fluffy/slice of life high school romance has a plot twist that really rocks and made want to immediately start a reread of the whole webtoon.
similar dramas: someday or one day
MAYBE MEANT TO BE
synopsis
han jia is a 32 year old unemployed freelancer living with her parents, who are getting a little desperate to have her out of the house. during the holidays, she sneaks away from her family to have a smoke in the alleyway. there, she bumps into jin mincheol, a friend from childhood who she hasn't talked to in years. and he is just kind of. eating a chicken breast there. anyways.
they talk, and mincheol shares that his mother is also pressuring him to get married. jia proposes a contract marriage, not expecting mincheol to take her up on it. he does. immediately. oh shit.
why read
omg jia's a mess and mincheol's a nerd (affectionate x2). there's something just really delightful about seeing these little weirdos work through their issues, grow, and realize that they actually fit really well together. i love them both. mincheol is just so delightfully consistent and we get to see jia begin to figure her life out. the humor is spot on as well, i've laughed out loud several times
similar dramas: because this is my first life
OTHERS I REALLY LIKE
something about us. gayoung and woojin have been friends forever. when woojin comes back to college after his military service, that begins to get shaken up. friends to lovers with really cute art and one of my favorite second leads of all time
unholy blood. hayan is a pureblood vampire OUT FOR REVENGE against other vampires. blood+ vibes in the best way (not that far into this one yet, BUT IM READY)
dreaming freedom/freedom in dreams. jeongmin is relentlessly bullied in school, and the only way she escapes is through lucid dreaming, where she imagines her life differently and also how she can get her revenge. in her dreams, she meets a manic murder yandere boy, and shit escalates from there
cheese in the trap. aaaaaaaay we know this one :'D