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my 2 most hated still finished dramas...
Undateables,
Business Proposal

King Maker: The Change of Destiny, and Royal Gambler. Both had me in for the same reasons - it's a saguek and it's political. Both ended up being one step forward and several back. I ended up watching both to the end, with the aid of the fast-forward button of course :) . At the end of the watch, the delete button was waiting speedily for a job.

Ah! Another that doesn't count cause I didn't watch the last two episodes would be Penthouse 3 specifically. By ep 11 I couldn't take it anymore, I quitted. Again, I don't know if this counts.

Honorable mention goes to Personal Taste. Perhaps it's because I watched this 3 years ago so its probably an unfair choice.

I don't think I've had a drama that I've hate-watched to the end; I tend to drop them if they annoy me that much. I'm not going to waste my time. That being said, there were 2 dramas that I watched years ago that I watched to the end in spite of certain aspects that I hated.

Mary Stayed Out All Night: absolutely despised the sorry you-know-what dad. Worst dad I've ever seen in a rom-com. Only stayed because I really did like the main couple.

Full House: the constant shouting annoyed me to no end, and I couldn't believe the main girl stayed friends with the idiots who sold her house out from under her (never mind that such a scenario is completely implausible). The only reason I finished it was because it ranked so high in everyone's "must-see classic Kdrama" list.

Bonus - Full House 2. The drama that never should've been made.

Since I have a real hard time dropping dramas (and dnf-ing books), I have hate-watched far too many dramas.

The first drama I hated but watched until the very end was My Girl.
I actually avoided Lee Joongi’s dramas for a long time afterwards. I eventually forgiven him because he’s one of my favs now.

The other worst offenders were:

Royal Gambler(Daebak)
The only time I have high blood pressure is when I am reminded of this drama.

Orange Marmalade
I remember the exact moment this drama went off the rails but I couldn’t look away…

Padam Padam
This drama just pissed me off.

Playful Kiss
HATED THIS…but I absolutely loved the other Itazura na kiss adaptations I saw. I think I just really disliked the main actor. He was terrible.

Doom at your service
After this one, I made a promise to myself to no longer waste my time on dramas I didn’t enjoy.

The first drama I ever dropped (and I suffered through 17/20 episodes before FINALLY calling it quits) was Level 7 Civil Servant or whatever it was called.
The 7 represents the collective IQ of all its characters.

Alice: How the writer opt for Son-mom romance over parental love and family reunion is beyond me

Return: Drama behind drama. Over the top makjang and villains. After this drama, I refuse to watch other drama about more chaebol doing superficial nasty things (Skycastle, Penthouse, whatever, not interested)

When My Love Blooms: Lee Bo-young should never do romance drama ever again. Stalkerish and selfish ML.

When I was the most beautiful: ML is pinning over your brother wife for years... you should know time to let thing go and never look back

Police University

I totally forever hate watching this Kdrama after episode 12 because this Kdrama was absolutely first-ever worst Kdrama that I watched but ended incompletely. That means no need for me to go back to episode one anymore. Poorest editing and messiest cinematography. Worst BGM and even all of the OSTs are all flops. The performances of all of our cast except Cha Tae-hyun was totally forgotten due to mediocre acting and for me, I blame that this Kdrama was totally such a massive failure after episode 12 worst-ever cliffhanger and even the whole damned episode 12. After I heard someone said that Professor Yoo will be kill and this Kdrama was entirely no longer a comedic and hilarious Kdrama, I completely dropped this Kdrama. I am so completely disappointed that this Kdrama was one of the Chuseok pre-emption victims. I knew that Police University was either sometimes an underrated, sometimes a lackluster and sometimes a flop. So it left me an completely unfinished Kdrama I watched that later went on forever hating this Kdrama. ...And then the barcode baddie killed me after episode 12.

Sad to say, I hate-watch for the bean, so I don't drop even when I should, which means I have a lot of hate-watched dramas: Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food, Itaewon Class, Her Private Life, Tale of Nokdu, Do You Like Brahms?, Lovestruck in the City, Dali and Cocky Prince...

Arthdal Chronicles, I was curious how they will end this mess... and they didn't and they never had intention to do it in one season. So I felt robbed, I wachted it for nothing >_<

They really messed up by not telling their plan. They even divided the first season in different parts because they were late in the production, but waited the very end to announce it will be a next season...

OH MY LANDLORD. It had the perfect premise to be a great show. But it went off the rails episode after episode, with nonsensical tropes, to a butchered, unsalvageable ending. I still don't understand how the actors signed up for this train wreck.

I find it very hard to leave things unfinished so I've hate-watched wayyy too many dramas. If I had to choose the worst examples -

- Rich Man, Poor Woman (the one with EXO's Suho)
- Doctor Stranger
- Introverted Boss
- The Secret Life of My Secretary (I know everybody here loves it but 🤷‍♀️)
- Melting Me Softly
- Lovestruck in the City
- Backstreet Rookie (you're probably noticing a theme by now!)
- To All the Guys Who Loved Me
- Was it Love?
- Forest
- Good Casting
- Oh My Landlord
- Monthly Magazine Home and many, many more...

Currently hatewatching Green mothers club just to see how it ends.
Just wanted a wholesome story about moms bonding over raising young kids but got ripoff sky castle for primary school kids instead.

Ohhh interesting. I think I've dropped everything I hated...

I have quite a few:
Heirs
I became allergic to leading couple and Love is the moment is the reason I am still not interested in K-drama OSTs.
Doom at your service
The drama committed a crime when it wasted talented cast with boring, pretentious script.
Love featuring marriage and divorce season 1
It's on me. I should have dropped it at episode 0.7.
Sisyphus the myth
Only if time travel were real, I would stop myself from watching this drama.
Now we are breaking up
Wooden acting galore.
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Mine
Endured only for two leading ladies. What they were thinking?
Green mother’s club
Should be renamed to Terrible Mother’s club.

K2
It was terrible from the start, but my parents taught me to never half-ass anything and i stuck around cause i like Ji Chang Wook, good Lord was it hard.

Goblin
Hated it from start to finish, the widespread acclaim and blockbuster success somehow made it even worse for me.

Encounter.
I'm pretty sure that the bamboo cutting board in my kitchen can emote better than Song Hye-kyo, I still stuck around because my parents didn't raise a quitter.

I don't know if it was a hate watch, but i was in my early drama-watching days so I pretty much watched anything and everything. But somehow I made it through *Fashion King* 🤣 (It was probably for Yoo In-ah, if I'm being honest, haha!)

Recent one, I don't know what possessed me to do it, but I watched the entire *Young Lady and Gentleman*. I don't know why I did it to myself.

I usually drop everything I don't like. But recently I've found out that there's a factor that will make me hate watch. It's usually when the show keeps alluding that something will happen in the future episodes that isn't happening right now. For mystery it is a grand reveal, for romance it is the OTP getting together. I'm more inclined to stay because of the latter.

For romance: I suffered through 55 episodes of Court Lady to see the OTP get married in the very last one. I thought I was doing so because of Xu Kai but no I've dropped his dramas before. So it's never the acting or directing but this one factor of the writing that convinces me to at least see my OTP together (or CP as they say).
I had the same issue with The Red sleeve Cuff I would've dropped it long ago had the OTP union not dragged that long. I would've especially dropped it as soon as the Court Lady mess started.

For mystery: Grid kept alluding to a greater reveal, to something that will solve all confusions. So even if I wasn't satisfied each episode, I kept waiting and watching. I'm still confused.
The King Eternal Monarch did something similar by keeping us wait till the point everything will be ok and revealing more mysteries along the way. Didn't help but I couldn't drop.

Technically every drama is reaching towards a goal and it is hiding something in the process. Though for many shows that is obvious and only for some it actually manages to be good.

I usually drop dramas but I couldn’t take my eyes away from the train wreck that was Warm and Cozy

That would be Damo. It's not the objectively worst drama I've watched but its the one that made me the most angry. I mean, don't set your heroine up to be a genius detective if you're going to then have her spend the entire second half of the show repeatedly failing to put together super obvious clues about her own life. Also, who really thought it was a good idea to set entire episodes trapped in a cave? And creating a love triangle where either option the lead chooses is objectively awful so there is nothing to root for other than "everybody dies"? Yeah, no thanks.

Goong (Princess Hours): I seriously questioned my sanity after completing it because I just sat through the entire drama to see if Chae Kyung broke free of her forced arranged marriage.

Arthdal Chronicles
This drama did nothing but explain its own plot and still left me feeling like I had just watched a hastily cut 16 hour abridged version of a 50 episode sageuk. Kept watching it because I couldn't let go of the massive potential this show had.

Daebak/Jackpot/The Royal Gambler
This went so far off the rails it was almost hilarious. I mostly kept watching because the team behind this train wreck also made "Warrior Baek Dong-Soo", my favourite drama of all time.

Moon Lovers
I'm not even sure, I hated this drama, but I did look down on it the whole time I was watching. And I definitely disliked Hae Soo. I kept watching because I like Kang Han-na as Yeon-hwa and was rooting for her to become queen.

So I Married the Anti-Fan. Ugh.

Boys Over Flowers

Wow, I drop a lot of shows so I thank the other commenters for reminders!
Heirs - nothing to like here, folks. Plus THAT song 😬
King Eternal Monarch - bang my head on a table.
Healer - uncommon reaction but I hated it.
Lucky Romance - oy. Capital T Trainwreck. Stayed for Ryu Joon Yeol.
Jekyll, Hyde - I couldn’t abandon Hyun Bin but 🦨🦨🦨
Greatest Marriage - my Worst Kdrama of All Time.

@missvictrix Thank you so much for putting this out there I needed it today. I was so upset about the last episode of Shooting Stars but reading through the vexations of the beanies has had me literally crying with laughter as I shared the pain of their reactions.

My most recent one was Coffee Prince I decided after struggling to get through the first episode so many times over the years that I should endure it so see if it got better. I hate watched the middle episodes but thought the rest was OK. The one I hate watched in its entirety was Goblin as I kept waiting for the epic elements to kick in. It just didn’t do it for it at all.

Like most others if I can bypass certain episodes by recapping on Dramabeans or fast forwarding I will but otherwise I just walk away as life is short and there are hundreds of other shows to try.

That Winter, the Wind Blows and Introverted Boss. Interestingly, the moment when I decided I hated both of these dramas came when the FL was slapped (in Winter, by the hero, which I could never get over; in IB it was a work superior and none of the multiple people witnessing it intervene or defend her even though it's clear everyone knows it's disgusting and wrong). Winter was a hatewatch for me after the slap because a) the FL believes the ML is her brother almost all the way through making all of the tropey romantic scenes flesh-crawlingly gross and yet I couldn't look away and b) the lead actress does ok with playing blind, but she slips up enough times that I kept watching to see when she'd make eye contact with someone or move out of the way of something, lol. Would've made a great drinking game.

I didn't *quite* make it all the way through Introverted Boss, but I hung on for a long time. After my anger over the ignored slap faded, I was either rolling my eyes, bored out of my mind, or suffering from tonal whiplash. But I could not stop watching. I didn't like the FL (actress or character) AT ALL, the writing was painfully confused and confusing, and there was a distinct lack of actual story. I could chalk it up to the fact that I developed a soft spot for the ML and wanted him to be happy, but I didn't really care about the OTP at all. I'm still not sure what kept me watching this one almost to the end.

I don't drop dramas when I start watching (I should learn how to do this 😅) but I guess I have been lucky because I don't really think I have actually hate-watched any of them.

Here I would define hate-watching as "meeting the description of hate-watching in this post" for more than 50% of the drama. A few dramas may have toed the line though ; I have to think

Most recently: OCN’s A SUPERIOR DAY. (I hung in there for Jin Goo).
In 2021: OCN’s DARK HOLE. (I hung in there for LJH (1984).

When I first arrived into kdramaland I had a rule: start a drama, finish a drama. It wasn’t till my 56th kdrama that I had my first ‘drop’ and that was OCN’s CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (2018). I dropped it because of unintelligible subtitles. It was the best thing because with that I let go of the burden of completing dramas. Looking back at 2016-2018 I plodded through a number of dramas especially the 20/40 episode ones that I should have let go e.g. HOSPITAL SHIP (2017) and TEMPERATURE OF LOVE (2017).
Also my least favorite drama of 2017 (and watched to the end) was WITCH’S COURT. I know beanies loved it and I am in a distinct minority but I was annoyed to no end for the entire drama the way the FL (Jung Ryeo-won) treated the ML (Yoon Hyun-min).

I tend to drop shows that test my patience. But at very few instances I have sticked to few dramas to curb my curiosity.

The drama that tops this list will be "Love (ft. Marriage & Divorce). Everything about this is messy. I have ranted a lot about how crazy this drama is and how crazier this gets with each season but I can't stop myself from watching it. I mean a hungry ghost that wanders all houses and shuffling of the leads every season, I don't know what more !!! I have endured the first season and hate watched S2 and S3. I don't know how many more seasons of this will be coming but I am sure I will watch no matter how many in a hope that all three leading ladies will get a happy ending.

The next one will be the Penthouse series. I still feel the level of frustration and boiling blood pressure whenever I think about it. I live watched the series ending up mentally exhausted from all the stress the series gave me, but returned every time.

Lastly "When I was the Prettiest". This one was a pure torture. I still don't know what made me complete this drama since I am not a fan of both the leads. And I hated the "Younger brother loving sister in law "trope. I watch, I hate, I regret, I watch again.

Honorable mentions : Melting me softly, When the camelia blooms

When I Was The Most Beautiful:
I kept waiting for the good part. Each episode had one little nugget that would keep me thinking "Maybe this will finally pay off next episode," and it just never did. Just baffling decisions by the characters.

Oh My Ladylord/Oh! Master:
OOOOOF. Lee Min-Ki always gets extra points from me because he's in one of my favorite shows (Because This Is My First Life), and Nana had just done the great 'Into The Ring' so my expectations were SKY HIGH. But even these two couldn't save this one. I did end up watching the whole thing, much to the detriment of my soul. What a massive waste of a solid cast horribly foiled by a nonsensical story and just plain bad writing.

"Hate-watched all the way through" is my second name. I'm really bad at dropping shows, I always think they'll get better. Sometimes I like a character or couple a lot and because of them I finish the show.

You Are Beautiful
Dream High 2
Innocent Man (half hate, half fun)
Hi School Love On
Pinocchio
Kill Me Heal Me (half hate, half fun)
The K2
Hwarang
Tomorrow with you
Perfect Wife
Daebak
Heart to heart (half hate, half fun)
Let's eat 3
The greatest Love
Wild Romance (...I guess I hate myself)
When time Stopped (I've never thought dramas could be boring until I watched this one)
Investigation Couple
Mama Fairy and the Wood-something (what I do for Chae Won unnie...)
Mr Sunshine
Where Stars Land
Train
My Holo Love
Lovestruck in the City (half hate, half fun)
My Daughter Seo Young
I'm Sorry I Love You (LOL)
My Roomie is a Gumiho (half hate, half fun)
Dalie and the Cocky Prince
Midas
The Red Sleeve
Our Beloved Summer
Tale of the 9tailed
Me too, Flower
The heirs (me and all my family hate-watched all the way through it)
I am Sam (me and all my family hate-watched all the way through it)

Bonus: A bunch of BLs

If I start disliking a drama or lost interest on it, I tend to drop it. But there are two dramas in recent memory that made me sit through two dramas that in hindsight, I should've just dropped.

LUCA and Doom at Your Service.

The latter I blame Lee Soo Hyuk and my curiosity if he gets the girl. The former, i may have nothing to watch at the time.

Night Light, just for for Jung Hae-in. Damn, that was bad and stupid. He’s a trooper but even he looked discouraged and like he was trudging through it by the end. I regret every moment I spent on that improbable mess.

Dishonorable mention to Hometown Cha-cha-cha. I disliked most of the supporting characters from the get-go and got really impatient with the FL after she turned on the aegyo, but I persevered right through the bloodless home birth and disappearing baby, the over-the-top Tragic Backstory, and the out-of-nowhere ghost bullshit, so I figured I might as well finish. I’ve learned my lesson and have dropped a number of stinkers since then.

This is going to surprise a lot of people but...
18 Again... I really really hated this drama and everyone in it. It started okay and then ended in a disaster.
I think I managed to get to the end of it because of Lee Do Hyun who was very good... but not enough to save his dumb character. There was no logic in this story... everyone kept doing the wrong thing. The mother was the worse of them all. Everyone was stupid... that was the plot device that made this story move on.
So yes, 18 Again. GAH

I am pretty sure, i hate watch a lot of drama because i am a glutton for punishment but sadly i cant think of any right now, can we get dramas that the ending sucked and ruined the whole story, I can write a 3 page Essay on that topic!!

Jirisan and bulgasal were definetly a hate watch cause every single episode I was hoping to see something but it kept being bland or disappointing

the light in your eyes
what’s wrong with secretary kim
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I’ve heard people list each of these as their favorite dramas of all time, and so, I stuck around to the end against my better episode 2 judgment. By the end, I wasn’t hating the dramas so much as myself for not stopping when I wanted to.

I tend to drop dramas if I don't find anything to like about them, though there have been times that I stuck with a drama waay longer than I should have and should have gotten those hours back.

Exhibition of Fireworks. This was early in my drama-watching days, so I didn't have the smorgasbord of drama options that I do now. It had a good OST and Han Chae-young. But it was so many hours of the FL - who was strong at first- pining over a ML pining over his dead bro's wife (second female lead) and the ML and SFL/SIL were all in angst over their feelings for each other since it's incredibly taboo for in-laws to marry. ML was dumb AF and SFL was your usual selfish SFL.

Falling for Innocence. Didn't watch it all the way through but I got to halfway point even though I didn't even like the first episode? I guess since it's because it had gotten a pretty okay reception?

AIGOOOOO, Realized I posted on "What Watch" what I wanted to share on Open Thread. My apology.
I have only hate watched through Sisyphus, the Mess because I casually mentioned duct tape and got 60 replies in 24 hours.
Made me realize how many Beanies hoped that this drama would live up to the hype and how great the collective wail when it tanked BIGLY .

Oh gosh too many to count! Most of these dramas I had to watch because nothing else better was on air at the time. But from the top of my mind, here it goes (though some of the older ones I don’t even remember atm because those were just too long ago. I’ll add them if and when I remember them):

Doom at service
Hometown cha cha
You Are Beautiful
Dream High 2
Innocent Man
Hi School Love On
Kill Me Heal Me
The K2
Tomorrow with you
The greatest Love
Mr Sunshine
Where Stars Land
Lovestruck in the City
Tale of the 9 tailed
Goblin (hated everything about Kim go eun’s character portrayal, otherwise would have been a phenomenal drama because everything else about the drama was daebak)
Monthly home magazine
Playful kiss
Boys over flower
Lucky romance
Now we are breaking up
A love so beautiful (sucky remake of a legendary lovely cdrama)
Melancholia
Nevertheless
Vincenzo

I don’t hate-watch shows, but there is one curious case. It was The Sound of Music. I realized after I finished it that I hated it so much I can’t describe it in words.