The 15 best K-dramas of 2022, from Extraordinary Attorney Woo and Alchemy of Souls to Little Women
- Korean cable channels upped their game in response to streaming services’ big-budget productions this year, resulting in a crop of memorable shows for viewers
- Ranked from good to great, our top 15 of the year include Takashi Miike’s Connect, the heartwarming Extraordinary Attorney Woo and a fresh take on Little Women
As we wrap up another year, we once again have a large number of sterling Korean dramas from which to choose a top 15.
Netflix and Korean cable channels remained the big dogs on the block, but new streaming services, both South Korean and international, heated up the competition in the market and inspired K-dramas to stretch out in new directions.
Big-budget streaming series were once again very prominent, but traditional cable shows also levelled up in a big way this year, with familiar K-dramas tropes being repackaged to produce sophisticated and addictive new stories that gripped fans around the world.
Here is our pick of the best Korean dramas of 2022, ranked from good to great.
15. Through the Darkness
Kim Nam-gil headlines Through the Darkness, a chronicle of South Korea’s very first criminal profiler and based on a non-fiction novel. The show takes a page from David Fincher’s series Mindhunter and the memoir it was based on, which pops up on screen here.
