if you started your K-drama tour with the Squid Game, you may have interested in other K dramas on Netflix for your next step.

Here's the Mandatory watchlist of K drama in Netflix. After watching these list, you will find a good actor, director or genres which can fulfill your taste.

Hospital Playlist: Wise Doctor Life

Hospital Playlist: Wise Doctor Life

Main Actors (Character Name)
  • Jo Jung-suk (Lee Ik-jun)
  • Yoo Yeon-seok (Ahn Jeong-won)
  • Jung Kyung-ho (Kim Jun-wan)
  • Kim Dae-myung (Yang Seok-hyeong)
  • Jeon Mi-do (Chae Song-hwa)
Director - Shin Won-ho

Hospital Playlist is written by Lee Woo-jung and directed by Shin Won-ho. The director Shin Won-ho is making a series of 'Wise Life'. If you love this K drama, you can follow another series like, 'Prison Playbook'.

The story is quite normal, it is showing the lives  of 5 doctors in their age of 40s.They are working together in Yulje Medical Center and they became friends during their medical school.

You may enjoy the daily life of Korea very peacefully

This is the main reason why I recommend this one for a K drama freshmen.

It is following the lives of 5 doctors and general episodes of the hospital. There's no villains or evil characters, even critical conflict.

You may enjoy the daily life of Korea very peacefully. It is just observing the daily life.

Most of K dramas are very tensed and very speedy. Sometimes it's very thrilled like Squid Game or Surinam. But it can make you very tired after watching it. Yeah, it may cause an emotional damage on you not intentionally.

And the episodes has a theme song which was remaking for this drama. That's why the title of this drama is the 'Hospital Playlist'. All the theme songs were really popular in the past so, you can be an real K-culture fan after watching this one.

If you like this one: For your Next step

Reply Series: Korean version of 'Stranger Things'

If you enjoyed 'Hospital Playlist' you can watch the similar K drama like 'Reply Series'.

The Reply series: Reply 1997, Reply 1994 and Reply 1988; are very popular K drama of the same director. It is like a '70s Show' or 'Stranger Things'.

The story is simple but may be quite hard to understand because it is showing many of retro Korean cultural heritages. If you don't know about the Korean cultures before, it would be the good textbook for your K-culture studying.

Wise Life Series: Prison Playbook and Hospital Playlist

Prison Playbook is also Shin Won-ho's film. The Wise Life series started with this one but the Hospital Playlist become more popular because of the story.

Prison Playbook is showing the realistic life of Korean Prison. But there's no slangs or other cruel scenes.