Here 8 K-Dramas where our main character has some kind of supernatural power.
1. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (K-Drama 2017)
Genres: Action, Thriller, Comedy, Romance, Drama, Supernatural
Synopsis: Do Bong Soon is a small, unemployed woman who is trustworthy and caring. On the exterior, she appears small and charming, but she is actually very, very strong. For generations, the women in her family have been given Herculean power to employ for the greater good. However, if they are abused, their power will be revoked.
While standing up to gang members who have bullied her, she is approached by Ahn Min Hyuk, the gorgeous and slightly juvenile CEO of Ainsoft, a gaming firm. After being threatened by an unknown opponent, Ahn Min Hyuk, who has a deep disdain for the police, watched the entire exchange of Bong Soon’s superhuman power and now wants to hire her as a bodyguard. Min Hyuk immediately falls in love with the super-strong Bong Soon, but there’s a catch. Bong Soon has her sights set on someone else: In Guk Doo, a police officer and childhood acquaintance she has known since high school.
When a series of kidnappings in Do Bong Soon’s hometown of Dobong-dong, Dobong-gu, causes havoc, Bong Soon must decide whether to use her strength and stand up to evil, or to play it safe and keep her powers concealed from the public. Bong Soon’s life is turned upside down by the love triangle she encounters between In Guk Doo and Ahn Min Hyuk, as well as the need to keep Min Hyuk safe. Can she channel her strength for the greater good, or will it prove too much in the end?
Trailer:
Cast:
Park Bo Young – Do Bong Soon
Park Hyung Sik – Ahn Min Hyuk
Kim Ji Soo – In Gook Doo
Jun Suk Ho – Kong Bi Seo [Min Hyuk’s secretary]
Shim Hye Jin – Hwang Jin Yi [Bong Soon’s mother]
Yoo Jae Myung – Do Chil Goo [Bong Soon’s father]
Director – Lee Hyung Min
Screenwriter – Baek Mi Kyung
Aired Date – Feb 24, 2017 – Apr 15, 2017
No. of Episodes – 16
Network – jTBC
2. The Master’s Sun (K-Drama 2013)
Genres: Horror, Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Synopsis: Joo Joong Won is the stingy and greedy CEO of Kingdom, a conglomerate that owns a large department store and a hotel. He encounters Tae Gong Shil, a depressed man who began seeing ghosts after an accident. Their lives take a new turn as they work together to deal with the dread and misery caused by the spirits, while also investigating a kidnapping incident in Joong Won’s past. And they inadvertently fell in love with one other.
Trailer:
Cast:
Gong Hyo Jin – Tae Gong Shil “Tae Yang”
So Ji Sub – Joo Joong Won / “Joo Goon”
Seo In Guk – Kang Woo
Kim Yoo Ri – Tae Yi Ryung
Choi Jung Woo – Kim Gwi Do [Joong Won’s secretary]
Kim Mi Kyung – Joo Seong Ran [Joong Won’s aunt]
Director – Jin Hyeok
Screenwriter – Hong Jung Eun, Hong Mi Ran
Date – Aug 7, 2013 – Oct 3, 2013
Episodes – 17
Network – SBS
3. Memorist (K-Drama 2020)
Genres: Action, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Supernatural
Synopsis: Dong Baek possesses remarkable talent. He has the ability to see into the memories of anyone he comes into contact with. With his magical abilities, get-it-done mentality, and eye-catching beauty, he is widely regarded as a famous detective around the world. However, when his punches collide with suspects before words, he can be a thorn in the side for his comrades. Han Sun Mi is the youngest person to have passed the bar exam, obtained a doctorate in criminal psychology, and become a senior superintendent in the police force. She is a genius profiler, having solved five cold cases that even a detective with magical powers couldn’t solve. She is motivated to do what she does by a secret. These two highly trained professionals meet their match in the form of a serial killer whose abilities far outnumber theirs combined. It’s going to be an exciting fight.
Trailer:
Cast:
Yoo Seung Ho – Dong Baek / “Telepathy”
Lee Se Young – Han Sun Mi
Jo Sung Ha – Lee Shin Woong [Deputy chief]
Ko Chang Seok – Goo Kyung Tan [Team chief]
Yoon Ji O – Oh Se Hoon [Baek’s partner]
Jeon Hyo Sung – Kang Ji Eun [Reporter]
Director – So Jae Hyun, Kim Hwi
Screenwriter – Ahn Do Ha, Hwang Ha Na
Date – Mar 11, 2020 – Apr 30, 2020
Episodes – 16
Network – tvN
4. Tomorrow With You (K-Drama 2017)
Genres: Romance, Drama, Melodrama, Supernatural
Synopsis: Yoo So Joon is a successful real estate CEO who possesses the power to time travel while riding the subway. He sees his future self living a life of misery and unhappiness as he travels back and forth through time. To try to mitigate his hopeless destiny, he marries Song Ma Rin, a cheerful photographer, despite the fact that he does not love her. Can Ma Rin change So Joon’s bleak future?
Trailer:
Cast:
Lee Je Hoon – Yoo So Joon
Shin Min Ah – Song Ma Rin / “Bap Soon”
Jo Han Chul – Doo Shik
Kang Gi Doong – Kang Gi Doong
Park Joo Hee – Shin Se Young
Baek Hyun Jin – Kim Yong Jin
Director – Yoo Je Won
Screenwriter – Heo Sung Hye
Broadcast Period – Feb 3, 2017 – Mar 25, 2017
Episodes – 16
Network – tvN
5. The Game: Towards Zero (K-Drama 2020)
Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural
Synopsis: Kim Tae Pyung can see the moments before someone’s death by staring into their eyes. He uses his gift to make money by selling this information to wealthy individuals about anybody they like.
One day, he runs across Seo Joon Young, a crime division detective whose death he cannot predict. He tries to avoid her, not knowing what this could mean. However, his position of authority causes him to become entangled in an abduction case. Despite the fact that he has never been wrong about predicting death, he nevertheless assists the police in locating the body.
Trailer:
Cast:
Ok Taec Yeon – Kim Tae Pyung / “Jason”
Lee Yun Hee – Seo Joon Young
Im Joo Hwan – Goo Do Kyung / “Four Weeks” / Jo Hyun Woo
Park Ji Il – Nam Woo Hyun [Chief of the Central Police Department]
Choi Jae Woong – Han Dong Woo [Team Leader of Crime Division One]
Shin Sung Min – Yoon Kang Jae [Detective at Crime Division One]
Director – Jang Joon Ho
Screenwriter – Lee Ji Hyo
Broadcast Period – Jan 22, 2020 – Mar 12, 2020
Episodes – 32
Network – MBC
6. He Is Psychometric (K-Drama 2019)
Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Supernatural
Synopsis: Lee Ahn gains the gift of psychometry, the capacity to read a person’s or an object’s past through physical contact, after losing his parents in a fire, and chooses to use it to bring bad people down. While he is still learning how to regulate his strength, he meets Yoon Jae In, who is doing her best to conceal her painful truths. They collaborate with his foster guardian, prosecutor Kang Seong Mo, and the latter’s colleague, detective Eun Ji Soo, to unravel an enigma that has haunted the lives of Ahn, Sung Mo, and Jae In. The case centres on the lives of prosecutor Kang’s mother and father, who were the primary causes of the fire. Jae In and Lee Ahn identify the perpetrator through healing each other through their past, present, and future.
Trailer:
Cast:
Park Jin Young – Lee Ahn
Shin Ye Eun – Yoon Jae In
Kim Kwon – Kang Sung Mo
Kim Da Som – Eun Ji Soo
Noh Jong Hyun – Lee Dae Bong [Lee Ahn’s best friend]
Go Yoon Jung – Kim So Hyun [Jae In’s friend]
Director – Kim Byung Soo
Screenwriter – Yang Jin Ah
Broadcast Period – Mar 11, 2019 – Apr 30, 2019
Episodes – 16
Network – tvN
7. The Girl Who Sees Scents (K-Drama 2015)
Genres: Romance, Supernatural
Synopsis: Officer Choi Moo Gak lost his small sister in a barcode-murder case, and as a result, he lost his ability to taste, smell, and sense pain. He then encounters a girl named Oh Cho Rim, who is the lone witness to the murder and has a remarkable sixth sense that allows her to see scents.
Trailer:
Cast:
Park Yoo Chun – Choi Moo Gak
Shin Se Kyung – Oh Cho Rim / Choi Eun Sul
Namkoong Mi – Kwon Jae Hee / Jay Kwon
Yoon Jin Seo – Yeom Mi
Song Jong Ho – Chun Baek Kyung
Lee Won Jong – Detective Kang Hyuk
Director – Baek Soo Chan
Screenwriter – Lee Hee Myung
Broadcast Period – Apr 1, 2015 – May 21, 2015
Episodes – 16
Network – SBS
8. While You Were Sleeping (K-Drama 2017)
Genres: Mystery, Romance, Drama, Fantasy, Supernatural
Synopsis: A young woman who has awful premonition nightmares meets two people who get the same power all of a sudden.
Nam Hong Joo lives with her widowed mother, Yoon Moon Sun, who owns a little restaurant. Jung Jae Chan, a newly appointed prosecutor, and his younger brother, Seung Won, relocate across the street. Hong Joo has had the power to see both good and bad events before they occur since she was a child, but she is frequently unable to do anything about it.
Jae Chan had an odd dream one day about an accident involving Hong Joo and Lee Yoo Beom, a cutthroat attorney who used to be Jae Chan’s professor. Jae Chan chooses to intervene and ends up saving the lives of Hong Joo and Han Woo Tak, a young police officer.
When Jae Chan, Hong Joo, and Woo Tak begin experiencing nightmares about each other, they realise their lives have become intertwined. But will the three be able to figure out why they were brought together, and will they be able to protect those closest to them from harm?
Trailer:
Cast:
Bae Suzy – Nam Hong Ju
Lee Jong Suk – Jung Jae Chan
Jung Hae In – Han Woo Tak
Lee Sang Yeob – Lee Yu Beom
Hwang Young Hee – Yoon Moon Sun [Hong Ju’s mother]
Shin Jae Ha – Jung Seung Won [Jae Chan’s little brother]
Director – Oh Choong Hwan, Park Soo Jin
Screenwriter – Park Hye Ryun
Broadcast Period – Sep 27, 2017 – Nov 16, 2017
Episodes – 32
Network – SBS
