Poor Female Lead Korean Dramas & Movies

Drama Special Season 8: Let Us Meet (2017)

Drama Special Season 8: Let Us Meet

Rank #3863

Lee Soo Ji wants to marry the best modern boy in Kyungsung (old name for Seoul). To do so, Soo Ji goes to a matchmaking company. Cha Joo Oh is...

Baby & I (2008)

Baby & I

Rank #3952

Joon Soo is a tough 18-year-old high school kid that loves to cause trouble. He often gets in fights, once with 17 other guys, but always comes out as the...

Drama Special Season 6: Funny Woman

Drama Special Season 6: Funny Woman

Rank #3988

A drama about a comedian who is sad because she’s not funny and a judge who doesn’t know how to laugh. Ko Eun Ho is a plain Jane wannabe comedian...

After The Rain (2018)

After The Rain

Rank #4007

This is a comic human drama about Bong Gil who is forty, single and dying to move to Seoul and away from his 90-year-old father who’s been making Pyeongyang Naengmyun...

Bad Guy (2010)

Bad Guy

Rank #4012

Shim fire-arm Wook is a stuntman whose secretly plotting revenge against Haeshinm Group, a large corporation to whom Hong Tae Sung is the heir. As he works to destroy the...

I (2021)

I

Rank #4013

Ah Yeong who graduated with child studies major becomes the babysitter for Yeong Chae who is raising a six-month-old child by herself. (Source: HanCinema)...

Top Management (2018)

Top Management

Rank #4163

Top Management is a web drama based on an internet novel. It tells the story of a new manager at an entertainment agency who uses her ability to see the...

Moorim School

Moorim School

Rank #4369

The Moorim School is a hidden school which can only be seen by special individuals, it isn’t focused solely on high academic scores but on physical abilities. The school teaches...

My Only One (2018)

My Only One

Rank #4469

“My Beautiful Side” is a drama about a woman who loses everything one day, when she discovers that her parents are not her biological ones, and that they are also...

Don’t Lie, Rahee

Rank #4731

An icon of perfection on the outside, Noh Rahee is an influencer with 100k followers! As she tries to keep up the image of “perfect Rahee” made up with lies,...

Swallow the Sun (2009)

Swallow the Sun

Rank #4748

This novel-based story revolves mainly around four people who are drawn to Seogwipo, Jeju for a project. Kim Jung Woo and Lee Soo Hyun first met when they were children...

The Heirs (2013)

The Heirs

Rank #4782

Kim Tan is the heir to Empire Group who has been sent to study abroad in the U.S. In reality it’s a form of exile, as his elder half-brother back...

Drama Special Season 5: The Dirge Singer (2014)

Drama Special Season 5: The Dirge Singer

Rank #4909

Yun Shim is a young girl who was born to a poor family. Both her mother and grandmother were dirge singers; deemed to be the lowest class of people who...

Cheer Up

Rank #5039

The bright and diligent Do Hae Yi is a student at Yeonhee University. Because of her family’s poor financial situation, she places a priority on making money rather than school....

Burning (2018)

Burning

Rank #5231

Jong Su, a part-time worker, bumps into Hae Mi while delivering, who used to live in the same neighborhood. Hae Mi asks him to look after her cat while she’s...

I Picked Up a Star on the Road (2018)

I Picked Up a Star on the Road

Rank #5272

Contract worker Lee Yeon Seo daydreams about teaching her manager a lesson, but accidentally acts out her fantasy on none other than top Hallyu star Kang Joon Hyuk. Thinking she...

Derailed (2016)

Derailed

Rank #5342

Jin Il and Ga Yeong are teenage runaways who live like a family with other runaway children. Sometimes they do some delivery work, sometimes they steal things to make their...

Drama Special Season 5: The Reason I'm Getting Married (2014)

Drama Special Season 5: The Reason I’m Getting Married

Rank #5513

A woman who is about to get married with her long term boyfriend, reunites with a lover from the past....

The Bride of Habaek (2017)

The Bride of Habaek

Rank #6056

What would you do if you had to continue a strange family legacy? Yoon So Ah is a pragmatic neuropsychiatrist who carries a tremendous financial burden to run her own...

I Really Really Like You (2006)

I Really Really Like You

Rank #6365

Yeo Bong Soon leaves her mountain village and comes to Seoul to live and look for her parents after her foster ‘grandmother’ passes away. She finds a job as an...

Trot Lovers (2014)

Trot Lovers

Rank #6377

Jang Joon Hyun is a talented and popular musician. He looks down upon the traditional trot music genre. Meanwhile, Choi Chun Hee works multiple jobs as the breadwinner to support...

Young Lady and Gentleman (2021)

Young Lady and Gentleman

Rank #6613

Lee Young Kook is a widower with three children. He still hasn’t gotten over the death of his wife. He decides to hire Park Dan Dan as a live-in tutor...

A Man in a Veil (2020)

A Man in a Veil

Rank #6643

After a childhood accident, Tae Poong’s development is stunted. He’s caught between two sisters, warm-hearted Yu Jung who waits for Tae Poong, and Yu Ra, Yu Jung’s twin sister who...

Glamorous Temptation

Glamorous Temptation

Rank #7164

A young woman learns from her whistleblower Dad that honesty is not the best policy. Soon after her marriage, she is saddled with crushing debt that she has no ability...