A Piece of Your Mind and 3 Other Best Slice-Of-Life K-Dramas for a Relaxing Evening
No drama, only light-hearted and charming stories.
In Korean TV series, there is a layer of projects that can be classified as slice-of-life genre. In these stories, you will not see rich heirs, demons, or gumiho.
The characters are ordinary people with ordinary problems. These series have a special magic – they are leisurely, sometimes melancholy, and know how to win viewers over.
1. Reply 1988, 2015-2016
The drama is set in 1988 and tells the story of five high school students. They live in the same neighborhood and have been friends since childhood. First love, self-discovery, difficulties in relationships with family, dreams, victories and defeats.
The drama captures fragments of their lives, allowing the viewer to spend several years side by side with them in the early eighties.
There are no antagonists, no intrigues, no secrets, no twisted plot in this story. And yet it is impossible to tear yourself away from the screen. This is because the characters are so alive that they practically become family.
2. A Piece of Your Mind, 2020
Han Seo-woo specializes in recording classical music. One day she meets Moon Ha-won, the founder of an IT company. The young man develops an innovative artificial intelligence program.
This is his only chance to communicate with his first love, whom he has been unable to forget for many years. Seo-woo, touched by Ha-won's sad story, decides to help him create a device with a piece of his beloved's soul.
This is an elegant and very tender story about healing. Two characters help each other to go through painful memories in order to let go of the past and find a future next to a loved one.
3. Because This Is My First Life, 2017
By chance, Yoon Ji-ho, an assistant to a screenwriter, becomes homeless. Her friends help her to find a room in the apartment of Nam Se-hee, a lonely and not very sociable man. He lets a neighbor into his perfect house just to pay off the mortgage faster.
He also makes a lot of ridiculous demands. And even though the two characters don't try to get closer at first, it's not hard to guess how it will end.
A beautiful and touching love story between two sweet and awkward introverts who think a lot but say little. In addition to the main romantic storyline, there are two others – one about a married couple in a relationship crisis and the other about two people who do not believe in love.
4. Good Manager, 2017
A brilliant accountant, Kim Sung-ryong, wastes his talent by working for criminals. He hopes to save enough money to go abroad and finally live an honest life.
One day, he is offered a job at one of the biggest companies in Korea, and he accepts, confident that this is a great chance to end his shady dealings. But soon he discovers a financial fraud by the management that could destroy the company.
And as he gets closer to his colleagues, he realizes that fighting for the workers' rights is more important to him than the purpose for which he originally came here.