It’s an easy pick for me. It has to be the Taiwanese show Yong-Jiu Grocery Store

I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day for the Winter and Racket Boys for the Summer.

It’s Racket Boys for me. Still a drama very close to my heart. I remember all the kids fondly everytime I listen to BTS’ ‘Go Go’.

I loved everything about When the Weather Is Fine until the last couple of episodes, so I think I'm going to choose Hometown Cha Cha Cha.

But if we include Cdramas, then Meet Yourself wins over all of them.

Top Star Yoo Baek.

The show is sweet and hilarious, and I actually liked the people from the village. It's just a cute and funny story with lovely characters. Totally my style.

Honorable mentions:
Racket Boys
To My Star 2
Once Upon a Small Town

If countryside includes a remote island that can only be accessed by boat, I would chose DOLMEN (2005) French drama. A female police officer comes back to the island where she was born to get married. When there is murder, she decides to investigate but uncovers more than she bargained for.

Without you knowing this or not, @ndlessjoie, you’re up against one of the DB overloads, missvictrix, whenever you say Chocolate is bad. 😇🙄😇

There are quite some shows that I really love that are set mostly in the countryside (ie HomeCha, Weather, Chocolate), but if I have to pick one, it’ll be Weather aka When the Weather is Fine simply because it is the first show that popped up in my head when I read the prompt. I guess the countryside setting is one main character in itself in that one. Everything happens there.

Does Crash Landing On You count? It's at least half in a countryside setting, even if that countryside is north of the DMZ.

The northern village where Ri Jeong-hyeok lived in the beginning really did have its own sort of personality. It was the setting of Se-ri's initial horror at finding herself still in the north and the place where she warmed up to the soldier ducklings. It was a place of nothing but waiting for Dan, who couldn't let go of the idea she had for her life. It formed such a great contrast with Seoul, and made Se-ri's fish out of water situation even more exaggerated. And of course, the ahjummas absolutely ran that place which wouldn't have been complete without them.

For me I will choose When weather is fine. It's an absolute must but it has some heavy themes. If you are not up for it, I will suggest Meet Yourself.

It's Our Blues's Jeju setting for me. There's something about the ordinary lives in the countryside that's moving. There's no need for every single one to dress to the nines. You can go on about your life sporting your most comfortable.

And then, there's My Liberation Notes' Sanpo. I'll willingly sit in another Sanpo journey as long as it's centered around the Yeom family and Mr. Gu. I'm sure Gu appreciated the silence that being in the countryside gave him.

I hate the coldness of winter but the yearly home town gathering, the book club regulars of all ages and stages and the town pitching in to look for someone when they go missing means it has to be When the weather is fine for the win.

Runner up is the Racket boys gathering at the ajumma’s hideout for the grandchild who never came, the two teams living together at the coach’s house and the healing that came with that move from the big city to the small run down school.

Meet Yourself

I guess I'd have to go with the part of My Liberation Notes set in the countryside, where even the sound of crickets and the blasting heat was at times oppressive, as the family labored sweating, picking produce, the Dad and son fought at the dinner table, and the Mom died, overworked and underappreciated.

Outside of kdramas, I'll nominate the great Bong Joon-ho film, Memories of Murder, which placed serial murders in waving fields of grain.

Do my choices indicate I'm an urban dweller in need of the soul restoring community among a simple and loving rural folk? NO. Having family in the rural U.S., and also having recently spent a couple of weeks driving U.S. backroads, I'm very cynical about any pop culture that sentimentalizes the countryside. Problems of poverty, crime, dysfunctional families, environmental issues etc. occur just as often there as in the city--probably more frequently than the city, per capita.

So I really start grumbling at Kdramas which have sophisticated big city residents going back to a rural environment and finding healing and peace there, as if there isn't a reason that rural areas either are abandoned or move the other way-- industrialized by agribusiness, urbanized by sprawl, or transformed by tourism, whenever there's an opportunity.

Rural bookstore? Sure, if its a tourist destination. Otherwise, its an empty storefront. Head to a Seoul coffee shop if you want healing, I say!

I'll Find You In A Beautiful Day hand down! My favourite kdrama so far in this decade, and I don’t think anything came close to how much I love it yet. @Dramaddictally thank you for writing such a lovely explanation of why this drama is so beautiful and heartfelt.

I'LL FIND YOU ON A BEAUTIFULL DAY for two reasons: the countryside is itself a character in the story and it was captured so well in the cinematography and sound effects.

Hometown Cha Cha Cha!

The first drama I always remember when thinking of Korean countryside is WHAT STAR DID YOU COME FROM (2006). One of my old favorites.

Does Beyond Evil count, or does it need to be a "countryside" you'd actually want to hang out in? If it's the latter, I'd vote for Fermentation Family, which also had the advantage of making me want to eat all the traditional Korean foods ever.

I'm going to bend the rules/blatantly cheat and also nominate a K movie - Little Forest, it's honestly what first came to mind when I saw the prompt!

Once Upon a small town was super cute

My Liberation Notes is my ultimate choice for they shot many scenes when harvesting. Seeing those fruits and vegetables being harvested feel like I was back home.

Though I wonder if there is a drama set in countryside that doesn't have someone comes from big city to heal or to hide. 🤔

Liberation Notes and then I'll find you on a beautiful day. Liberation notes just spoke to my soul for the most part.

Since I watch mostly sageuks, I'll go with MY COUNTRY.

The place where SUMMER STRIKE took place but without the inhabitants. The whole lot (except Siwan) would be committed to HOSPITAL SHIP (2017) and delivered to some very remote and uninhabited island. There they could try to begin anew as decent people.

I was going to pick Thank You, but the residents of that island are rather unlikeable, then I thought of My Husband Mr. Oh because the three ahjummas are a hoot, but I didn't actually finish that show. So I'll rewind back to the beginning, I think the first countryside kdrama I saw was The Vineyard Man.