Won Jin-A and Lee Jun-ho in Just Between Lovers laying in bed Image via JTBC By Anja Djuricic Published Jul 6, 2026, 11:55 PM EDT Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja soon became inspired to learn more foreign languages to understand more movies, so she entered the Japanese language and literature Bachelor Studies at the University of Belgrade. Anja is also one of the founders of the DJ duo Vazda Garant, specializing in underground electronic music influenced by various electronic genres. Anja loves to do puzzles in her spare time, pet cats wherever she meets them, and play The Sims. Anja's Letterboxd four includes Memories of Murder, Parasite, Nope, and The Road to El Dorado. Sign in to your Collider account Add Us On follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap Every year, an avalanche of K-drama content floods our screens , and while many of those shows stick and impact the K-drama landscape, some of those shows also get lost or left behind. They may not have fancy billboard ads or Netflix global top ten banners, but for those who discovered them, they are nothing short of perfect.
These are the forgotten gems, the dramas that slipped through the cracks, were overshadowed by bigger hits, and were overlooked by the public. To make things right by these greatly made shows, here are the forgotten K-dramas that are perfect from start to finish . Get your popcorn and tissues ready, and buckle up for a great ride.
Two women waving in The Light In Your Eyes Image via JTBC The Light in Your Eyes is fairly well-known, but only among hardcore K-drama fans; Han Ji-min plays Kim Hye-ja, an unemployed twenty-something who dreams of becoming a news anchor. When she uses a mysterious watch to save her father from a fatal car accident , she wakes up as a 70-year-old woman, now played by veteran actress Kim Hye-ja . The early episodes play like a whimsical, funny fantasy romance as elderly Hye-ja befriends Lee Joon-ha ( Nam Joo-hyuk ), a disillusioned, aspiring reporter working at a scam call center for the elderly.
While The Light in Your Eyes plays with whimsy, semi-romance, and time-traveling tropes , it also pulls the rug out from underneath our feet with a massive, surprising plot twist , changing the narrative almost completely—this is why the show is so worth a watch. Veteran actress Kim Hye-ja won the Grand Prize (Daesang) at the 2019 Baeksang Arts Awards for her performance, which is the highest possible accolade among Korean awards, while the drama remains one of the highest-rated Korean cable dramas ever . The Light in Your Eyes may be rarely mentioned in "best of" lists today, but it demands and rewards patience with a feeling that lingers for days after watching.
Seo In-guk and Jung So-min in The Smile Has Left Your Eyes looking at each other Image via Studio Dragon The Smile Has Left Your Eyes is a famous melodrama (among devoted fans) that aired on tvN in 2018, and it's a slow-burn tragedy disguised as a mystery. Seo In-guk plays Kim Moo-young, who grew up as an orphan and has a photographic memory; he becomes a murder suspect after a university student's death is reclassified from suicide to homicide . Veteran detective…