Throughout the years, Lee Min Ho has become the face of many international brands, and is considered the most followed South Korean actor on social media. This proved his immense popularity around the world. The 34-year old actor has come a long way from his short supporting stints in dramas like Nonstop 5 and Recipe of Love.
Here’s a look at the 5 Lee Min Ho Korean Dramas That Are Worth The Watch.
1. Boys Over Flowers.
First on the list is Lee Min Ho’s breakout role, and the TV series that put his name on the map, Boys Over Flowers. The coming-of- age drama is about a simple but feisty girl named Geum Jan-di (Ku Hye-sun), who gets entagled in the lives of a group of popular and wealthy but rowdy student called ‘F4’ in her new school.
In the drama, Lee Min Ho played the popular yet arrogant Gu Jun Pyo, the leader of the F4 and heir to the Shinhwa Group, one of the biggest companies in South Korea. Annoyed by the strong-headed nature Geum Jan-di, Jun-pyo set his sight to her to bully, but the brazen Jan-di stands up to him, and eventually starts to fall in love with her.
2. The Legend of the Blue Sea.
This mega-hit fantasy drama tells the love story of a con-artist and a mermaid whose fate and reincarnation are entangled in a tragic event and memories. Here, Lee Min Ho plays the son of a magistrate from the Joseon period, and a con-artist who uses wits and looks to conduct scams on people of the privileged class of the society.
As a young boy he meets Se-hwa who rescued him from drowning, and named her after his late sister. But their love and friendship might not entirely be the work of fate as they ended up in their separate ways, but are reincarnated and encounter each other once again in modern day Seoul.
3. City Hunter.
In this action-packed love story, Lee Min Ho plays a revengeful character named Lee Yoon Sung, who’s ultimate goal is to avenge his father’s killers. While doing an undercover mission at the Blue House using the identity of a Korean-American teenager from MIT, he meets Kim Na Na (Park Min Young), who works as a bodyguard.
Having the same goal in mind, the two work together as they realize that their plans for revenge are the same. As they exposes the corruption and crimes by their target Government officials and sending them to prison, they engage in a passionate romance.
4. The Heirs.
The series centers on another ‘Lee Min Ho’ wealthy character, Kim Tan, an heir to a large Korean conglomerate. Though stubborn and immature, he is kind-hearted and honest. But because of his jealous brother, he was exiled to the U.S, and he meets Cha Eun Sang (Park Shin Hye), a struggling girl who went to the States to look for her older sister. He is attracted to her at first and eventually fall in love with her, despite being engaged to a fellow heiress, and her poor background.
5. The King: Eternal Monarch.
The story follows an Emperor of Kingdom of Corea who often leaves the palace premises to roam around, either to steer his curious mind or to get away from the palace life. During one of his journeys, he sees himself sucked into a parallel universe, where the Republic of Korea exists and meets a police officer with whom he teams up with, not just to beat the criminals but also close the door between the two parallel universe.
Lee Min Ho portrays the ever-dashing Emperor Lee Gon, a mathematician and a rower, and the third king of the Kingdom of Corea.
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