1Q84 by Haruki Murakami because I love that novel and I think the novel is written for me 😂
It has romance and that parallel universe, fantasy element mixed mystery and time/universe travel thingy that are K drama's favorite.

Two types of works would be great as kdramas I think.

1. Wodehouse novels - something like Right Ho, Jeeves or Leave it to Psmith would be so good as a rom-com kdrama.

2. Indian romcoms - I think movies like Bareilly ki Barfi or Jab We Met could easily be given a Korean colour and made into fun romps.

I always say I would love to see Pushing Daisies adapted as a K-drama! I think it would be perfect. Link gives me serious Pushing Daisies vibes lately but I want an adaptation!

Probably Gossip Girl? It could be a delicious makjang story of people in their 20s instead of 40s, as we usually see in dramaland. Maybe even better if Netflix produce it with their money to ensure the posh and polished look.

False Colours, a Regency novel by british author Georgette Heyer.
I have been wishing for a kdrama adaptation of it for 10 years.

Story summary:
A younger son from an aristocratic family comes back from the army and finds his widowed mother distraught because his identical twin brother who is the head of the family has gone missing, two days before his engagement party with the daughter of a prestigious family. He very reluctantly agrees to going in his brother's place, and the rest I'm not telling.

Surely I'm not the only one who can clearly see that this story is match-made-in-heaven for a kdrama adaptation?

I've been re-entering my voracious webtoon reading phase, and there is one webtoon I really want to see as a drama. It's called Summer Woman Ha Bo-yi, and it's about a woman who... turns into a man during summertime (yes it is). I'm currently at the part when the leads have developed a sort of sseom, but it clashes with Bo-yi's transformation phase, so eek. Strange premise aside, the characters' expressions are meme-worthy (I would like to see how the actors would recreate them), the banter between the leads and the other characters is hilarious, it's awfully honest, sarcastic and playful, strongly reminiscent of the lines in Director Lee Byung-hun's Be Melodramatic. Both of the leads are charming in their own way: Bo-yi is sly and gets straight to the point, and Eul-jun is quite clumsy and susceptible to fall for Bo-yi's tricks in spite of his sharp exterior. Oh and I love how the webtoon creator always flips the reader's expectation when it comes to plot and comedy. The webtoon is not labelled as LGBTQIA+ but I like its foray of "I love you no matter who you are".

I was thinking about if If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha was adapted to the small screen. It's a novel that depicts the problems and the murky sides of South Korean society in the point of view of the four female protagonists. I didn't find all of the stories of the women thoroughly engaging and there were some loose threads and sometimes I felt some of the characters were sort of impersonal, but it would be interesting to see their lives on screen with more attention to their characterization.

An Uncharted-style adventure. Woo Do Hwan and Seo Kang Joon hanging out on a far flung beach in shorts and fliflops. WDH and SKJ diving to find pirate treasures. WDH and SKJ doing parkour and beating the baddies. Kim Da Mi as their super smart sidekick. This is my chance to throw this idea out there and see if it manifests✨️✨️

Webtoon The Kiss Bet.
A nice high school drama about first loves and growing up. (Team Subway Boy 😊)

Another webtoon: Seasons of Blossom.
A bit darker than Kiss Bet, but very touching.

Buffy the Vampire slayer - with Korean folklore...
And there were None - I would like to see modern Korean adaptation of this classic Agatha Christie novel
Rise of phoenixes and Princess Agents -Because I want my happy ending....

I would like to see the writer of KING OF TEARS- LEE BANGWON follow up with another Sageuk drama around the life of Admiral Yi Sun-sin. You know who he is if you have seen the hit movie THE ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS- which tells the story of the most remarkable victory in naval history- the Battle of the Myeongnyang Straight. This story has all the elements for a good Sageuk- palace politics, lots of personal enemies (he was almost executed just months before the battle because of them) and an over-all remarkable life whose details are in fact well known because he kept a diary. Plus, he dies at the end in his final battle- the one battle he did not have to fight.

Oh, this is a fun question!

1. A Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex comedy would jibe nicely with the K-drama tropes we know and love. While I do like Send Me No Flowers, where a husband tries to find his wife a new husband after he mistakenly thinks he's dying, my preference would be either Pillow Talk or Lover Come Back, both of which boil down to the male lead fooling the female lead and her somehow still falling in love with him because...well, it's a rom-com. 😂 Not sure who I'd cast for the female lead, but as a dyed-in-the-wool Inspirit, my pick for the male lead will always be an Infinite member and most probably Kim Sunggyu. The answer will always be Kim Sunggyu unless the role calls for someone younger. 😂 He's proven he can carry numerous musicals and I am just dying for him to try his hand at dramas.

2. Any of the single-word title novels of Amanda Quick (a.k.a. Jayne Anne Krentz), transported to the modern world. They all have, for want of a better word, "quirky" heroines with some sort of singular passion like rooting out gold-diggers for other ladies, and heroes who are absolutely bonkers for them, and some ridiculous reason for them to be thrown together. Is that not the perfect fit for a K-rom com? I'm partial to Deception because Olympia is a through and through nerd, but any of them will do. I like the idea of Kim Min-young finally getting a lead role where she gets to be part of the romance itself (Coffee, Please did her dirty!), and she'd be perfect as a passionate, slightly off-kilter heroine who is sorta oblivious that she has snagged the heart of the male lead (who, of course, must be played by Kim Sunggyu 😍.)

3. The gone-too-soon sitcom Selfie, starring Karen Gilliam and John Cho. It was a take on My Fair Lady in the modern world, where a vapid social-media obsessed Gen Z-er decided to reshape her life with the help of a grumpy Gen X-er. It was a slow-burn romance that was too cute for words, and the two leads started off as reluctant friends and found themselves being thrown into romance-adjacent situations - is that not perfect for a K-drama? I see someone bubbly and bright as the female lead: Moon Ga-young could totally do it. And natch...Kim Sunggyu as the Henry Higgins-character. (You knew I would say that. 🤣)

Wonderfalls.

It was a hoot (and I have the DVD), but it was cancelled so fast almost nobody else saw it, so a k-remake (or any remake) is much needed.

For those many of you who missed it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderfalls

Would be fun to watch a drama with childhood/predebut lives of the bangtan members. Already feel like suga’s life story can be a made into a very well told movie. Same with the rest of the members. The kdrama could also have their story to success but think it would be great to see their predebut/childhood lives more, before they became the worldwide stars today. We could call the drama rise of bangtan or maybe the prince and pauper lol

There was a YA novel about 10 years back, The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Andieh. She based it around the 1001 Arabian Nights story. Starts with hero marrying a different girl every evening and having them murdered at dawn (there is a reason, but you'll have to read the book...); the heroine volunteers to marry him in order to murder him first in revenge for her best friend's death. Of course they end up falling in love - and you've got pretty much every other trope in there: love triangle, possible SLS, childhood back story, noble idiocy... Both this book and the sequel just screamed Kdrama at me when I read it.

--"Out of Sight" (film with George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez) which is itself a modern take on "It Happened One Night" (classic movie with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert). It already has a lot of kdrama-esque elements: smart female cop heroine with an overly protective dad meets former convict hero with a heart of gold trying to run one last con; star-crossed, slow burn romance; and some thriller/mystery elements that keep it moving along. It's perfect for a kdrama adaptation, imo.

--I really liked the Netflix romantic comedy "Set it Up" from a few years ago. It centered around leads who both worked as personal assistants to very demanding corporate bosses. The leads start out as bickering antagonists but then decide to make their lives easier by setting their bosses on the path to true love. They, of course, find true love themselves. It'd make a great office-based romantic comedy drama.

I just recently read the new YA novel by June Hur The Red Palace. I think its adaptation would make for an interesting and fun sageuk.

It is a fictional story inspired by Prince Sado’s scandals. It follows a young palace nurse and a magistrate who work together to solve a series of murders.

Strong female characters, murder mystery/thriller, cute slow burn romance, etc. While reading it, I kept casting actors for each characters in my head.

Have we had a sageuk/murder mystery fusion yet? I can think of many sageuk/fantasies, sageuk/horrors, and sageuk/romcoms but a sageuk/mystery?

I am loving the idea of a Doris Day type drama as those were the films I grew up on and why I still love the modest rom com over the raunchy any day of the week.
Just saw that they have already made what would have been one of my recommendation into a K drama: Little women! It comes out in August and has Kim Goeun in it and I can’t wait.

Howl´s Moving Castle
Black Swan
some danger / adventure /survival (because we dont get enough dramas in nature setting, like rivers, mountains, wilderness)
imaginary tale of the first humans on korean territory
Knight Rider
Dancer in the dark
Korean versions of classic fairy tales like Donkey Skin, Salt princess but with a feminist lead (yet competent main guy wh is not interested only in looks & has his own startup company but a bit scattered and forgetful). In general, fairy tales in a version where everyone identifies as an independent human with their quirks and flaws and acknowledge even their laziness in moving the story forward. cause we all actually secretly want to be cats, right.

The fairy tale of a celebrity courtship that has its first real drama after the wedding honeymoon phase ends when the couple realizes that their partner created false personalities during their engagement.

The Holy Man by Susan Trott is a small little book I read every year. Essentially it is a collection of stories about people who wait in a long line to ask for guidance from a little man who lives at the top of a mountain. The people have anxieties that range from minor irritations to major soul searing. It is heartwarming, funny and wise; so soothing to the angst of the modern world. I'm surprised it has never been adapted for film but am certain it would be a perfect K-drama.

Some beanies and I have talked about how awesome it would be if there is a Bleach adaptation to Kdrama before 😆 I think Lee Se Young or Lee Re will be a great Rukia and Shin Sung Rok (per @katakwasabi suggestion) as Byakuya Kuchiki. Lee Do Hyun, Rowoon or Lee Jun Young can be Ichigo.
The casting will be star-studded and it would need a lot of $$$ to make an anime to kdrama adaptation happen. Who knows maybe we'll see something like this happen in the future!

All the ones in my head, written by me 😅

Everyone knows my actual dream drama though, which is an Epic Fantasy Silla Sageuk, ofc. But I feel like that's pushing the boundaries of the chat topic- as it feels more adaption and existing story to screen than just dream drama/s. So.

The one I actually want:
Cute teens - Webtoon: Your Smile is a Trap

What I just thought right now out of nowhere and would be weird as a kdrama (or maybe not, maybe it would turn out awesome):