Thanks for doing this post as hopefully the collective will come up with some gems. After Twinkling Watermelon, and The Matchmakers finished and the Dog show went into a dark place I have had to get by with KBS specials or other rom com films which are not easy to find. I am also rewatching The producers slowly as that is a guaranteed fun watch.

Special Labor Inspector Jo
You're All Surrounded
My Lawyer Mr Jo
Partners for Justice
Good Casting.

You could nitpick at the writing, direction,editing etc of all these dramas and find something to complain about, but honestly i found them to be so much fun, whether its one lone crusader or a ragtag group of misfits, its always fun to watch a classic good guys vs bad guys drama.

Now, I would say My Man is Cupid. This drama is pretty bad but entertaining enough to be watched.

For me, this usually works when I'm there for "oppa."

Last year it was Tale of Nine tailed 1938. It was the most fun I had. I didn’t care what logic they threw at me, I enjoyed every second of it.

The Last Empress for sure. Graceful Family started out that way but turned into one of my minor gems.

Dramas I am watching for the fun element, I think Welcome to Samdalri and My Man is Cupid pretty much fit the bill.

How about Perfect Marriage Revenge! It was in part great because the drama, itself, knew that the best way to enjoy it would be to just go with the flow.

My other contribution here is actually Welcome to Samdal-ri. The writer is actually doing a pretty fine job of interweaving a set of about four inter-generational story lines, but to really enjoy them, you really gotta let go and just ride the wave of the actual actions being acted by the actors.

I wish I had taken this attitude to King the Land as well, because in retrospect, I can see that when I said negative things about it during the live-watch, it was because I wanted to much from the show. If I'd just let go and surrendered to all of it...it would have been way more fun!!

My fun factor dramas are definitely the C-dramas wherein one just KNOWS it’s a low budget made and produced in a very “fast fashion” sense—for a quick ROI— wherein there’s not much put into production values or writing and the plot is as overused and as campy and cliché as ever, but because it owns all of that, it’s what makes it enjoyable to watch for fun

I would say that a lot of the dramas I watch in the early days fit into this category, especially the Taiwanese dramas - Devil Beside You, Fated to Love You, Sunny Happiness, The Prince Who Turns Into a Frog, etc. For Jdramas, Hana Kimi, Mei-chan no Shitsuji, and Hana Yori Dango definitely fit the list.

For Kdramas, the list is long because there's a lot of dramas I absolutely love and am very forgiving towards, because I enjoyed watching them so much: You're Beautiful, Boys Over Flowers, City Hunter, Mary Stayed Out All Night, My Girlfriend is a Gumiho, Strong Woman Do Bong Soon, Sungkyunkwan Scandal, The Greatest Love, Legend of the Blue Sea, The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry, What's Wrong With Secretary Kim.

As for Cdramas, I came to them much later so I don't have as many. Love Between Fairy and Devil was definitely a fun watch. So was You Are My Glory and Hidden Love.

The King Eternal Monarch popped in my head. I watched for the pretty, the fun, the beautiful ost, with no logic. You can’t expect logic in a fairy tale, can you?

When we’re watching *purely* for the fun factor, the inner critic gets to go take a nap in the back while we just enjoy the ride. 👌

Boys Over Flowers
High Society
Blood (this one only worked in 2015 tho. I tried to rewatched and it was boring as heck)
Fates and Furies
I Picked Up A Star On The Road
Dae Jang Geum is Watching
Please Don't Date Him
The Suspicious Housekeeper
Sad Love Story (or just any other makjang I watched centuries ago)
Innocent Man
Penthouse
Voice
Squid Game
Aseudal part 1
Law School
Lucifer (IDK why but oppa and I were obsessed with this show as kids. I don't even remember much about it, only Shin Min Ah. But according to my unreliable memories, it was a fun mess).

Right now I'm thoroughly enjoying the utterly unserious C-drama The Romance of Tiger and Rose. I'll post more on my fan wall soon.

Hmmm... my original comment seems to be lost in the ethers.

Right now I'm thoroughly enjoying the utterly unserious c-drama The Romance of Tiger and Rose. I'll be posting more on my fan wall this week.

Perfect Marriage Revenge was a perfect fun watch based on the squees and the comeuppances of the bad guys. And the pacing was spot on--there was no draggy filler or discordant serial killer (looking at you Crash Course in Romance)

My new gem find for a fun watch is Lost Romance, a Taiwanese Drama. It has all the elements for a fun watch--a swoony ML (where have you been all my life, Marcus Chang?), interesting plot line (the FL falls into an alternate romance novel world, and smart and playful use of tropes. The chemistry between the leads is on fire. The funnest part of the drama is when the FL who at first is the SFL in the alternate romance novel world begins to change the dynamic (e.g., ML always catching a falling FL) by refusing to stick strictly to the expectations of the SFL and just acts as her awesome, plucky self until the ML falls for her and she gets the shiny FL aura ring. Then all the FL stuff begins to happen to her. It's such a fun, smart play on the tropes.

An old fun watch is Lie To Me. Although the drama falls apart in the end, the first half is ridiculously fun and still has the feels.

Tamra the Island
My Holo Love
Behind Your Touch

Hehe shows I watch just for the fun factor?

Kill Me Heal Me
I'm Not a Robot
Pinocchio
Bring it On, Ghost
Psychopath Diary
the Tale of Nokdu
Life on Mars
Defendant

anything that's just got such an outlandish premise and doesn't really try and pay attention to the plot holes and doesn't necessarily try and contain a deeper message for me is just the "fun" factor watch.

Just for fun watches come up whenever I'm rewatching. And the most culprit here is Mr. Queen.

What am I watching just for fun? Perfect Marriage Revenge fitted this bill so much last year. While I delved into it with all seriousness, I didn't expect it to be so much fun, to be something I'd also watch for the fun of it.

My current just for fun is My Happy Ending. After letting it settle in that this isn't the kind of central story I was expecting, why not just breeze through it like that. That's how I managed through the premiere episodes. I've not picked up this week's, I'm not excited to see any progression or chemistry that is going on air for as long as the FL's home is in the ICU. Until they fix it, it is a fun watch. If it remains so, it'll remain a fun watch till the end.

Other fun watches...The Story of Park's Marriage Contract (fun read), Our Blooming Youth and The Matchmakers. While i didn't watch the latter, it was fun reading the recaps and following through with it.
Moving - This one was a fun read.
Whenever the recaps came up, the weeks whose recaps intrigued me were the ones I went back to watch.
Now I really wished I kept watching TSoPMC because of the flesh they've added to Hye-sook's character. I don't want to just read about it, I want to see it.

Maybe Melting Me Softly fits this category. As I was watching it, I kept thinking "this is so dumb" but I was also laughing during it. I also thought how people would probably complain about this or that which made me think it was good that I was just watching it without other people's criticisms affecting how I viewed the show.

I even had moments of rewatching scenes cause it was just so dumb or funny to me such as when the mother suggested the frozen couple should have a baby then let his (twiced divorced, childless) sister raise it so the frozen couple go travel and doing their "youthful" adventures.

Love Song for Illusion's first episode seemed fun to me. Specifically Ak Hee and The girl's moments. Her instant sizing up of Hyun and while he was baffled, she left him with instructions for her garment. Also when she landed on him, I *think* she landed on his cojones and yet the way the scene is shown, it's like it's supposed to be this love at first sight, dreamy kind of moment. Ak Hee's "you're making Ak Hee sad". It's just all so weirdly interesting to me (so far. It *has* only been the one episode).

@missvictrix Could it be another Perfect Marriage Revenge? (in that it is a hidden gem waiting to be uncovered)

That's how I watch dramas for the most part/ for the fun of it. I can overlook problems with the script, logic and even acting. Here's a few I can remember:
Crash Landing on You
Kill Me, Heal Me
Fated to Love You
I’m Not a Robot
25 21
Her Private Life
City Hunter
Suspicious Partner
Wok of Love

As I look through my shows watched to find a " fun" show I'm reminded that these are also DRAMAS. So there are some un-fun times in them but how about

Strongest Delivery Man- great huge cast
Dali and the Cocky Prince- one minute your laughing the next Dali is crying but so funny and it has Kim Min-Jae 💙💙

Chief Kim! Yes, there is more to this show than fun, but overall it was a big fun ride. I could watch Junho and Namgoong Min bromancing it out all day, and even besides the bromance it had sooo many hilarious funny moments.
And I'm still in awe about the fact that this is a show about accounting! And still, it's fun.
Then the already mentioned Zombie Detective, and of course Perfect Marriage Revenge.

This will have to be Perfect Marriage Revenge and Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938. Both were fun but for difderent reasons.
PMR was a makjang-lite cracktastic drama. While Tale 1938 was a fun trip to the past with my favorite gumiho brothers and their supernatural buddies.

I usually don't watch dramas only "for the fun". Maybe I should do it more often. I want fun but I also want quality in other aspects 😅

A friend of mine watches lots of "bad" mini c-dramas (10 or 15 minutes each episode) because she says she has a blast and now she is addicted to them.

There are many dramas where I get too invested in the OTP and want things to work out for them badly, ex. CLOY.

And then there are dramas where I 'know' they will end up together, but look at the angst and all that comes with it as part of the package and just go with the flow. Some dramas that I had the most fun with in 2023 are

King The Land

Destined with you (I had zero problem with the idiotic writing of the heroine, I was there for the chemistry and it was great fun)

Perfect marriage Revenge (only partly, it was too much of a makjang for me, but one day I was sick and off from work, I ended up binge watching 4 episodes of the drama, while live commenting about it to my friend via texts, it was fun because I was laughing at myself watching that ridiculous drama)

In 2022, it was Business Proposal - it was pure joy, nothing serious. I even became a fan of Ahn Hyo Seop in spite of his very bad acting skills.

Also currently enjoying My Demon - I love the eye candy leads and I totally don't care about the logic, as long as they make the process fun. Second leads were annoying me, thankfully they fixed it this week, and its all great fun again.

BIG MOUSE! This show made 0 sense but honestly the moment you realise it does what it does for entertainment and no other reason it's a fun ride

P.s: still CONVINCED Jerry is Big Mouse

FUN(NY) you say?!

Dear 2024 pls bring us some much needed laughter

Give us fantasy & mythology (TALE OF THE NINE TAILED 1938)
With a dash of office hijinks (GAUS ELECTRONICS)
And a hint of romantic comedy (S**TING STARS)
Perhaps a little flavour of slapstick (WELCOME TO WAIKIKI S1&2)
And maybe some time travel too (THE BEST HIT)
Let’s not forget the family element (HIGH KICK S1-S3)
Or the nostalgia factor (ANSWER ME 1997, 1994 & 1988)
And of course we have to include makjang! (PERFECT MARRIAGE REVENGE)

So whatcha got in store for us 2024-kdramaland?!

Few of my fun factor dramas-
What's Wrong with Secretary Kim- the couple's chemistry and the great ensemble!
Graceful Family- I can still recall the fish funeral!
Zombie Detective- When the real zombie starts dancing among the guys dressed as zombies- scenes like these which I randomly recall and chuckle at.