My list has only changed to include a few shows that I just recently watched:
1- My Mister
2- Reply 1988
3- Hospital Playlist S1
4- My Liberation Notes
5- Stranger S1
6- Misaeng
7- One Spring Night
8- Kill Me Heal Me
9- Healer
10- Secret Love Affair

When I look at my full rankings list, I find the top 30 are all really great dramas that I'd be happy to rewatch anytime. Well except for the serial killer ones where once is enough (looking at you Signal and Beyond Evil...)

Wow, is this difficult! I didn't think it would be. I think this is my top ten:

1. Thirty But Seventeen
2. Because This is my First Life
3. Extraordinary Attorney Woo
4. Misaeng
5. You Are My Spring
6. Hospital Playlist
7. Extraordinary You
8. Mr. Queen
9. Our Beloved Summer
10. School Nurse Files

I picked the ten I could remember rewatching the most times.

ngl i've been lurking on this site ever since stumbling upon the recap of triple in 2010 but never made an account until now so i don't have anything to compare but this is my top 10! for the record this list is based off enjoyability, rewatch factor, or just quality - some have bad screenwriting but i really enjoyed watching them, or some that i only watched once but i thought the quality was amazing.

1. it's okay that's love - still wonderful to watch even almost 10 years later. when watching in 2014 i could never really understand the leniency towards the brother's violence but as i've grown up i've come to understand the character's emotions more deeply which is what truly solidifies it as my number one drama. i also really enjoy the main couple's relationship development and it has the most perfect OST album of all time
2. move to heaven
3. weak hero class one - originally i was debating between AADSIG and this because i think AADSIG has more meat in the script, but what won me over were the character interactions and the fact that whco has such an amazing premier episode that still (even after 10+ rewatches) manages to make me breathless with the pacing
4. reply 1988
5. she was pretty/kill me heal me
6. law school
7. racket boys
8. hello monster - this was one i only watched once but kyungsoo's acting and the brother's relationship really left an impression on me. though in all honesty, i don't imagine myself watching this again as i felt it dragged awfully in bits
9. devil judge - was the plot sort of held together by bromance scenes and a prayer? yes. did i still really enjoy watching the show because it hit a lot of my favorite tropes? also yes
10. biscuit teacher star candy - though it may not hold up to today's standards, it ranks 10 purely because this was the first kdrama i ever watched and it will always hold a place in my heart

Joining, just to find out if this will be 'the list' 5-10 years from now:

1. My Ahjussi - masterpiece! Might be my fave LSK drama.
2. Mother - hard watching this show coz of the topic, so my advice is wait to be in the right mood to tackle this drama.
3. Age of Youth 1&2 - great writing & character development especially for PEB, she never disappoints😊
4. The End of the World - when the pandemic started, I kept wishing that this drama was available to rewatch, but sadly no. Happiness might be a good substitute 😉
5. Dear My Friends - I'd wish for these type of friends when time comes...
6. Reply 1997 - SIG! Made me watch YouTube videos of their ost
7. Queen In-Hyun's Man - talk about chemistry & my 1st k-character crush, Kim Bong-Do 😍
8. A Wife's Credentials - great cinematography & assured directorial style
9. Life on Mars - fave JKH drama! Heard it might be better than the original UK version. If they could make this available in either Viki or Netflix, I'd watch it again & again. If they can also make Awl available, let's hope someone is reading DB for these numerous requests 😅
10. Life is Beautiful - fave weekend family drama. Ahead of its time in terms of characters, kudos to the writer!

I could think of so much more, so this was a hard list to make, but it made me realize the premium I put to well-written dramas that's hard to come by nowadays. Although the execution of kdramas are the best in terms of camerawork & cinematography, the current crop of kdramas are terribly lacking, this is just my opinion. Now, I find myself branching out to cdrama & jdrama for substantial content.

Although I have to thank DB for always being there if I need something to watch, based on recaps, comments & what you're watching, etc. This is still the most comprehensive site for kdrama & for that, I'll always be grateful for this community 😊❤️

My top 10 in no specific order:

Reply 1988
Healer
Confession
Wok of love
Stranger 1, 2 (is it cheating that the 2 seasons are counted as one?)
My liberation notes
Mad dog
Life
Watcher
Are you human too?

My top list (in no particular order):

Korean
- Healer
- Reply 1997
- Queen Inhyun's Man
- City Hall
- Kill Me Heal Me
- Brilliant Legacy

Japanese
- Nodame Cantabile
- Code Blue S1-2
- Doctor X S1-3
- Long Vacation
- Downtown Rocket S1
- Boys Over Flowers (series+movie finale)

Others
- Meteor Garden (Taiwanese)
- Pride & Prejudice (UK 1995)
- Sherlock (UK)
- Nirvana in Fire (Chinese)
- Eternal Love (Chinese)
- The Legendary Four Aces (Hong Kong)

Only ten? Okay, well…here goes:

1. Because This Is My First Life
2. Misaeng
3. Crash Landing on You
4. Hyena
5. My Liberation Notes
6. Healer
7. Forest of Secrets
8. Kairos
9. The Red Sleeve Cuff
10. A Piece of Your Mind

It's impossible for me to stay faithful to any sort of ranking, so this list is not numbered, but here are my current ten favorite dramas (which is subject to change on a moment's notice, lol):

*We Married as a Job (Japanese)
*The Secret Life of My Secretary
*A Little Thing Called First Love (Chinese)
*High School King of Savvy
*Shizuka Chan to Papa (Japanese)
*Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo
*Fated to Love You (Korean)
*Deka Wanko (Japanese)

And that's...actually it, lol. There are definitely more dramas I've watched that I love, but I don't have two more that I would put in a top ten, so I'll just leave it at 8.

1. Reply 1988
2. Our Beloved Summer
3. Queen for Seven Days
4. Kingdom S1
5. Mr Queen
6. You Are Beautiful
7. My Ahjusshi
8. Misaeng
9. Forest of Secrets
10. WFKBJ and SWDBS

Honorable Mentions:
The Princess's Man
Through the Darkness

This is always evolving and changes depending on my mood, but here's a 2023 version, weighted more towards serious shows:

1) Six Flying Dragons - dark, uncompromising, heartbreaking, gorgeous
2) The Untamed (Chinese) - the show it felt like I had been secretly waiting for my entire life but never seen - dares to ask what might happen if men chose love over honor and the results are glorious
3) The Devil (Lucifer) - the most nuanced look at the nature of evil and the possibilities and costs of redemption that I've ever seen
4) Queen Seondeok - a great female protagonist and a great female antagonist, plus the world's most intriguing sociopath? Sign me up now
5) Beyond Evil - I could watch Shin Ha Kyun and Yeo Jin Goo on screen together forever, also great writing and direction
6) Forest of Secrets 1 & 2 - I could watch Cho Seung Woo and Bae Doo Na on screen together forever, also great writing and direction
7) Jumong - Epic historical melodrama is all the best ways
8) Giant - Epic contemporary melodrama in all the best ways
9) Tree with Deep Roots - Beginning and end were a bit rough, but the middle episodes are some of the best television I've ever seen
10) Healer/Coffee Prince - so I'm not primarily a romance person, but if you're going to make a couple the center of your story, do it like these two shows - the chemistry was on fire and both the fun and the serious moments landed.

My favorites in no particular order:

1. Healer
2. Hospital Playlist 1
3. Romantic Doctor 1 and 2
4. Forest of Secrets
5. Love between Fairy and Devil (Cdrama)
6. Start-Up
7. Ojakgyo Brothers
8. Coffee Prince
9. When the Weather is Fine
10. Another Miss Oh

Honorable mentions: 25-21, Goblin, Sh**ting Stars, Business Proposal, Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo, Dream High, Misaeng, Chocolate, among many others.

Hello everyone,
The dramas that bring me the biggest joy are either led by women or show a female character with agency. So my top 10 is:

Anna (director's cut of 8 episodes)
Extraordinary attorney Woo
Birthcare center
Twenty five twenty one
Because this is my first life
Little women
Into the ring
Misty
Mr queen
Yumi’s cell

Honorable mentions: The red sleeve cuff, Youth of may, Empress Ki, Love affairs in the afternoon & The rational life (Chinese)

It is challenging for me to remember titles but will try:
1. Mr. Queen
2. Melo is my nature
3. My Mister
4. Human disqualifications
5. Misaeng
6. Stranger
7. Life
8. Prison playbook
9. Reply 1988
10. Shut up flower boys band (solely on Lee Min Ki's appearance)
Honorable mention goes to Something Happened in Bali, my first-ever Korean show, which I watched the last half while injured and bedridden. I am not sure if it was due to circumstances, but the show left me with a surreally shocking impression.

How fun and great to see so many dramas for me to look into.
1. Happiness- slice of life in a zompire apocalypse. Loved it enough to start writing fan fiction.
2. Reply 1988- just love this slice of life and rewatched it so many times
3. SWDB- just love the OTP and fast forward through the kidnapper plot during the many rewatches
4. My Mister- such a healing drama even if it starts out super depressing but really well done
5. Signal -mysterious and super engaging; love the FL
6. New Life Begins (c-drama) fun, great woman empowerment story
7. Hospital Playlist 1/2
8. Weight lift fairies. Light and fluffy

I am not sure I have 2 more I like enough to put on this list. Hopefully something new will capture my heart soon.

My list is a broad sweep of staples over @8 yrs and hundreds of K-dramas!
Pasta
City Hunter
Love Rain
Stranger
Faith
Reply 1988
Let’s Eat 3, 2
Lost
Kill Me, Heal Me
Extraordinary Attorney Woo

A Piece of Your Mind - a true healing drama in the sense that there is closure at the end of a painful journey)
All About Eve - a classic that ages well
Nirvana in Fire 1 & 2 - epic sagas that I think can only be produced by Mainland China
The Blood of Youth - never a dull moment
Stranger 1 & 2 - terrific writing, acting, and directing
My Mister - ripped my heart apart and put it back together
Soredemo Ikite Yuku - a pride of any screenwriter out there
Melo is My Nature - harmless delight and heartwrenching grief
Age of Youth 1 & 2 - great characterisation
Cheese in the Trap

Here is my list of top 10 in no particular order:

It's Okay To Not Be Okay
Hospital Playlist
Prison Playbook
Reply 1988
Crash Landing on You
Run On (watched it 4 times already)
Something About 1%
Descendants of the Sun
Goblin
All About Eve (very old but my first Korean Drama)

Top 10 dramas featuring oppas so fine they make my loins ache:

In chronological order

Hotaru no Hikari (Naohito Fujiki)
The City Hall (Cha Seung-Won)
Cunning Single Lady (Joo Sang-Wook)
The Promise (Song Jong-Ho)
Kangnam Scandal (Seo Do-Young)
The Fiery Priest (Kim Nam-Gil)
Zombie Detective (Choi Jin-Hyuk)
Dark Hole (Lee Jun-Hyuk)
Mad for Each Other (Jung Woo)
Bulgasal: Immortal Souls (Lee Jin-Uk)

In no order:
1 The Package
2 My Father is Strange
3 Alone in Love (the best of Son Ye-Jin)
4 1% of Something
5 Witches’s Romance (favorite Park Seo Joon)
6 Reply 1997
7 Que Sera, Sera
7 Secret Garden
8 Fated to Love You (Kdrama)
9 The World of the Married
10 Marriage Not Dating
AND, City Hall, One Spring Night, Because This is My First Life, Divorced Lawyer in Love, Are You Human Too?, I’ll See You When etc.
I’m surprised no one mentioned What’s Wrong W/Secy Kim. It’s not my favorite, but seems very popular.

love this. i've been watching kdramas for about 6 months, but i've been going at it HARD lol. taking notes from other people's favorites, but i like romances!

1. the red sleeve (the longing between the 2 leads, perfectly scored, junho, the amazing cinematography, how i loved the female lead, ugh, i loved it so much)
2. doom at your service (gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous, the acting, the chemistry, i love park bo-young)
3. run on (just a total comfort romance, i loved the 2 leads so much, shin se-kyung is one of my faves, i love her in everything i've seen so far)
4. my roommate is a gumiho (just SO FUN. the entire cast is hilarious, and jang ki-yong's voice and face are so so perfect)
5. coffee prince (a 20 something gong yoo just being so gong yoo)
6. oh my venus (chemistry!!!!!)
7. weightlifting fairy kim bok-joo (2 cuties being cute together and captures that feeling of everything being open to you at that age)
8. shopaholic louis (compare seo in-guk here to seo in-guk in doom at your service, he's amazing and so beautiful)
9. my love from another star (female lead is HILARIOUS)
10. dali and the cocky prince (park gyu-young can do no wrong, she's the absolute best)

thanks for letting me share. i look forward to watching many more, thanks to your lists!

Well this is fun haha I enjoy seeing if my tastes have changed at all. I took a look at my old list and sure enough, they have. Here's the new one, and I'll put the old in a comment below if anyone is interested :)

Top10v.2023
Just Between Lovers
Prison Playbook
Forest of Secrets 1
W: Two Worlds
Flower of Evil
Doom At Your Service
When the Camellia Blooms
Chief Kim
Signal
Come and Hug Me

Doom At Your Service
Flower of Evil

Sandglass (1995)
Winter Sonata (2002)
Alone in Love (2006)
Fantasy Couple (2006)
I Am Sam (2007)
How to Meet a Perfect Neighbor (2007)
Star's Lover (2008)
Glory of the Family (2008)
Secret (2013)
My Ajusshi (2018)

1. Zombie detective
2. Sweet Home
3. Happiness
4. I remember you
5. Lookout
6. Two Weeks
7. Six Flying Dragons
8. Shopping King Louie
9. Prison Playbook
10. Liar Game

These lists are amazing…

They have me thinking, though, you know how your first Doctor (Doctor Who) is *the best* Doctor? I wonder how many of these lists can be used to identify when someone started watching kdramas…