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Did you know about three-fifths of Netflix’s users have watched a Korean show?

When it comes to Korean content, Netflix has a variety of original titles that are so underrated.

The online streaming platform recently added many new titles and few of them are so underrated. Let’s have a look at these underrated K-dramas that carry the same level of excitement, engaging plot, and amazing characters:

See You in My 19th Life

See You in My 19th Life is one of the most underrated series which was added to Netflix a few months ago.

What makes it unique?

The show despite the stellar cast could not get the limelight because of ‘King The Land’, which was streaming on the same dates as ‘See You in My 19th Life’.

The drama has quite a unique story that does not portray a typical rom-com. Reincarnation, revenge, love, bonding, the show has everything.

Plot

Based on a webtoon of the same name, the story follows a girl named Ban Ji-eum who has been repeating her life through reincarnation for nearly a thousand years and can remember all her past lives.

After her eighteenth life is cut short due to a tragic accident, she decides to reconnect with the man from her previous life in her nineteenth one.

Cast

Shin Hye-sun as Ban Ji-eum
Park So-yi as young Ban Ji-eum
Jung Hyeon-jun as young Moon Seo-ha
Ha Yoon-kyung as Yoon Cho-won
Ahn Dong-goo as Ha Do-yoon

Mask Girl

Netflix’s newly released Korean thriller series ‘Mask Girl’ is one of the masterpieces that did not get the hype it should have gotten. One of the reasons could be not the most popular cast the series could feature.

What makes it unique

The show is more than what its synopses reveal and its direction; the way it has been directed is another topic on which a separate article can be written.

Mask Girl is fascinating because we have absolutely no idea where the story is going after Episode 1, and we want to find out. Inshort it keeps you hooked. This is what makes the story so interesting.

Plot

Netflix‘s Mask Girl has a bit of blood and crime that might not be suitable for all ages. Directed by Kim Yong-hoon, the series is about a woman named Kim Mo-mi who has suffered by being, in many other characters’ words, ugly.

Kim Mo-mi once dreamed of being a famous performer, but insecure about her looks, she becomes a dull office worker and a masked internet personality by the night.

She has a sizable fanbase, and everything goes smoothly until a chain of unexpected, ill-fated events overtakes her life when an unrequited crush sets her off, she starts down a path of no return.

Cast

Go Hyun-jung as Kim Mo-mi
Nana as Kim Mo-mi (after plastic surgery)
Lee Han-byeol as Kim Mo-mi (as Mask Girl)
Ahn Jae-hong as Joo Oh-nam
Yeom Hye-ran as Kim Kyung-ja
Park Jung-hwa as Lee A-reum
Choi Daniel
Lee Jun-young

Celebrity

Released in June 2023, Celebrity depicts the desires and mysteries surrounding people who become social media influencers, living as so-called celebrities and the people who envy them.

What makes it unique?

Everyone should stream Celebrity Once as the show has brilliantly showcased the ‘dark side of social media’ and the part of a ‘celebrity’ which isn’t as intriguing as it seems.

Plot

Touted as a thriller, Celebrity follows Seo A-ri, a once wealthy child whose family falls into great debt. Determined to live a modest life, she gets pulled into the tricky trappings of social media and the lavish influencers that rule the game.

Cast