Top 10 Shin Hye Sun Dramas of All Time

 

Shin Hye Sun

Shin Hye Sun, known by her official romanization as Shin Hae Sun, is a South Korean actress managed by YNK Entertainment. Inspired by Won Bin’s performance in the drama “Autumn Tale”, Shin entered the Film Art program at Sejong University and made her acting debut in the 2012 television drama “School 2013.” Her breakthrough came in 2016 in the series "Five Enough". In 2017, she played her first lead role in the film "A Day". Soon after, she was cast in her first lead role in the television series "My Golden Life". The drama was a major hit and surpassed 40% ratings leading to increased recognition for Shin.

TOP 10 DRAMAS LIST:

1. Mr,Queen (2020-2021)
2. See You In My 19th Life (2023)
3. My Golden Life (2017)
4. Angel Last Mission Love (2019)
5. Thirty But Seventeen (2018)
6. Legend Of Blue Sea (2016)
7. She Was Pretty (2015)
8. Five Enough (2016)
9. School 2013 (2012)
10. Oh My Ghost

Mr. Queen

Storyline: Jang Bong Hwan is a South Korean chef who has risen up the ranks to cook for the country’s top politicians in the Blue House’s presidential residences. After a serious accident, he finds himself in the body of the young queen, Kim So Yong, when whisked away to an era deep in Korea’s past.

While Queen Kim So Yong’s husband is the reigning monarch, King Cheol Jong, he is so in name only. The late King Sunjo’s Queen, Sun Won, has taken advantage of King Cheol Jong’s better nature, and is ruling the realm in his name. And she faces competition from her own brother, Kim Jwa Geun, who also has designs on power. Queen Kim So Yong will come to discover that her husband harbours some secrets, and is not as gentle and meek as he seems

See You In My 19th Life

Storyline: Ban Ji Eum has an extraordinary ability: she can remember the memories of all her past lives. Repeating her reincarnation for nearly a thousand years, Ban Ji Eum has been living all her lives diligently. After her previous life is cut short by a tragic accident, she sets out to reconnect with the people of her past life in her current one, and decides to find a man named Moon Seo Ha, whom she met in her 18th life. Will memories of her 18th life sabotage romance in her 19th? Or will love endure across different lives? On the other side, there is also Yoon Cho Won, a landscape architect and the younger sister of Yoon Joo Won, whose life collapsed after her older sister's death. She is courageous and kind, even after facing the death of her beloved sister, but she struggles to maintain her brightness. When Yoon Cho Won meets Ban Ji Eum by chance and sees her older sister in her, she wonders about Ban Ji Eum’s identity.

My Golden Life

Storyline: 25 years ago, the Haesung Group lost their granddaughter Choi Eun Seok. The girl was found and raised by Seo Tae Soo as one of his twin daughters, Seo Ji Ahn and Seo Ji Soo, They grew up rich, but their father was bankrupt, and they had to experience the hard life of a dirt spoon. Ji Ahn is now a contract worker at Haesung Group who would do anything for a job, while Ji Soo is an air-headed part-timer who has a one-sided crush on Sun Woo Hyuk. Unknown to her that Woo Hyuk was in love with Ji Ahn in high school.

Choi Do Kyung is Haesung Group's oldest grandson. He is gentle and kind, but being too good yet still single makes his employees spread weird rumors about him. He meets Ji Ahn in a car accident and comes to know her sad situation, but his biggest shock is when his mother reveals that his lost sister is Ji Ahn

Angel Last Mission Love

Storyline: Lee Yeon Seo, is a cynical and arrogant ballerina. She is the prima ballerina, but after an accident she has to give up her dream. After her parents' sudden death, she doesn’t trust anyone since there are a lot of people lurking around her and her inherited money.

Because of her distrust and arrogance, she is unable to love anyone.

Kim Dan is an optimistic, carefree angel who is always getting into trouble. In order to return to heaven, he is tasked with a mission to find true love for the talented but emotionally distant ballerina

Thirty But Seventeen

Storyline: Woo Seo Ri, a violin prodigy at seventeen who was about to study in Germany, got into a bus accident and fell into a coma, waking up thirteen years later. Mentally, she is still only seventeen while physically, she is now thirty.

Due to a trauma he experienced thirteen years earlier, Gong Woo Jin does not want to have a relationship with others.

This series is about a man and a woman whose lives in their own ways essentially paused at seventeen. Together, they use all their might to try and open the door to the happiness they once thought had been closed to them.

Legend Of Blue Sea

Storyline: How can a mermaid from the Joseon era survive in modern society? Shim Chung is a mermaid who follows her one true love, a nobleman’s son named Kim Ryung from the Joseon Dynasty, to modern-day Seoul. Ryung’s modern doppelgänger is Heo Joon Jae, a highly skilled scam artist who first becomes interested in Shim Chung because of a jade bracelet worth $6 million that Shim Chung wears. With nowhere to go, Shim Chung is taken in by Joon Jae, who also finds his con partners, Jo Nam Doo and Tae Oh, hiding out in his home from a vengeful past victim of their scams. Shim Chung discovers a rival for Joon Jae’s heart in Cha Shi Ah, a researcher at KAIST who deals with ancient artifacts. When a dangerous killer named Ma Dae Yeong, sent by Joon Jae’s stepmother who wants to make her own son the heir to Joon Jae’s fortunes, can Shim Chung survive her strange new environment while also helping Joon Jae avoid the dangers that await him?

She Was Pretty

Storyline: As a young girl, Hye Jin was impossibly cute and lived a comfortable life with her wealthy parents. Since entering her teens, both her looks and fortunes have drastically changed. She currently lives rent-free with a friend and is a part-time clerk at a convenience store. Out-of-the-blue, Sung Joon, her childhood friend, contacts her and suggests they meet. He is unaware that Hye Jin recently spotted him and knows how fit and handsome he had become. Not wanting to disappoint him, she insists her pretty best friend go in her place. What could go wrong? After landing a full-time job, Hye Jin is surprised to find out that Sung Joon is her boss. To add insult to injury, he is treating her with nothing but disdain and contempt. This is not the friend she fondly remembers, so she goes about hiding her true identity from him

Five Enough

Storyline: After losing his wife five years ago, Lee Sang Ta is left with his two children. Since that time, he has lived with his two kids and parents-in-law, who treat him like their own son. He works as a marketing team leader for a fashion brand and never expects to find someone who will make his heart beat again. Ahn Mi Jeong works as an assistant manager at the same fashion company. 3 years ago, her husband had an affair with her friend and left her. She couldn't tell her 3 children the truth about their father and lied that he went to work in America. To this day, the children still believe that their father is in America. She has numbed herself from the struggles of raising her children alone while working. As these two begin to find love again, a tempest is brewing as three sets of in-laws and five children learn to become one family.

School 2013

Storyline: Seungri High School ranks as one of the worst of the 178 high schools in Seoul based on academic scores. Kang Se Chan is the top Korean language teacher who owns a famous teaching institute in Gangnam. Meanwhile, Jung In Jae is a short-term Korean language teacher at Seungri High who gets appointed as the homeroom teacher of class 2, the bottom of grade 2. When Se Chan transfers to Seungri High to teach Korean language, he becomes the co-homeroom teacher of class 2-2. 

Both teachers run into many difficulties having to face bullies, academic underachievers, their parents and other teachers, as well as due to their different teaching methods. However, they need to put their differences aside in order to help their class successfully advance to their senior year.

Oh My Ghost

Storyline: Bong Sun, a timid young woman, is possessed by the ghost of a lustful virgin. She has zero self-confidence, and because of her extreme shyness, she doesn’t have any close friends. At the restaurant where she works as an assistant, she’s not particularly good at anything, and mostly just gets yelled at a lot. Her grandmother was a shaman so from a young age she’s been able to occasionally see ghosts, though it’s not until she meets the lascivious ghost that she gets possessed totally. Sun Woo is a conceited star chef who’s overflowing with confidence in his food and his skills. 

Bong Sun harbours a secret crush on him, though he doesn't take much notice of her for two reasons: because he’s always surrounded by women and because he’s hung up on an old flame. But then one day, Bong Sun starts acting differently, shedding her mousy personality, and ends up constantly on Sun Woo’s mind.