Every K-drama fan has had this happen: you recommend an old gem to a friend, but instead of enjoying the story, they end up complaining about the terrible video quality and outdated fashion or *gasp* it’s not available on any streaming site.
In this age of high-budget productions and 100-inch TVs, the classics look like the equivalent of low quality. But there are some shows that are too good to stay undiscovered by the millions of folks falling in love with K-dramas nowadays.
Of course, some dramas are better left in the past –like my favorite Delightful Girl Chun-hyang’s high-schoolers’ arranged marriage AND love triangle with an agency CEO plot. But its spiritual successor My Girl would still make a good giggle-and-cry-fest today. Just tweak the second leads to be more fun and less obsessive, and the main premise still works: hotel CEO hires a small-time scam artist to act as his elegant cousin to make his dying grandfather happy… only for the grandfather to miraculously recover from happiness, thus trapping them longer in a hilarious lie.
What is an old K-drama (2014 or earlier) that you wish would get a remake? What small tweak do you think would make this adaptation even better?