The Best TV Shows on JTBC

Every JTBC Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Stay up-to-date with over 20 of JTBC’s elite series, with our list refreshed for November 2025. Icons of JTBC, Men on a Mission and Let's Eat Dinner Together made their debut in 2015 and 2016, setting industry standards. JTBC’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 2015 to 2025.

  • Movie Room
    Movie Room (2018)9.2

    Movie meets humanities! This talk show/variety show for movie enthusiasts features interesting discussions by a writer and two movie directors where film and humanities intertwine.

  • Idol Room
    Idol Room (2018)9.0

    Find out all about your favorite K-pop idol groups! Hosted by the “idol experts”, Jeong Hyeong-don and Defconn!

  • Good Boy
    Good Boy (2025)8.7

    After 11 years, the police revive their special recruitment for former national athletes. Once hailed as heroes, these world-class medalists now face harsh realities. Despite financial struggles, unexpected tragedies, and discrimination within the force, the athletes, each with their own story, reunite as a special task force to take on major crimes with the grit and skills they honed as athletes.

  • Itaewon Class
    Itaewon Class (2020)8.4

    In a colorful Seoul neighborhood, an ex-con and his friends fight a mighty foe to make their ambitious dreams for their street bar a reality.

  • Welcome to Samdal-ri
    Welcome to Samdal-ri (2023)8.3

    After suffering a fall from grace, a photographer returns to her hometown and bumps into her childhood friend — rekindling an unfinished romance.

  • King the Land
    King the Land (2023)8.2

    Amid a tense inheritance fight, a charming heir clashes with his hardworking employee who's known for her irresistible smile — which he cannot stand.

  • Beyond the Bar
    Beyond the Bar (2025)8.2

    A young, rookie lawyer with a strong sense of justice joins a top law firm — navigating the complex legal world under a cold, demanding mentor.

  • Strong Woman Do Bong-Soon
    Strong Woman Do Bong-Soon (2017)8.1

    Born with supernatural strength, Bong-soon fights evil and procures justice while getting tangled in a love triangle with her CEO boss and cop crush.

  • Destined with You
    Destined with You (2023)8.1

    A lawyer bound by a centuries-old curse becomes entangled with a civil servant who holds the key to his freedom — igniting an unexpected romance.

  • A Hundred Memories
    A Hundred Memories (2025)8.1

    A heartbreaking first love story of a man who was destined to be the fate of two women who were bus guides in the 1980s, and a melodrama-comedy of shining youths who were destined to be brilliant.

  • The Dream Life of Mr. Kim
    The Dream Life of Mr. Kim (2025)8.0

    Kim Nak-su is a middle-aged man who loses everything he once considered valuable in an instant. After a long journey, he finally discovers his true self, beyond his role as a department manager at a large corporation.

  • Family by Choice
    Family by Choice (2024)7.9

    A youth romance about two men and woman who aren't blood related but treated each other as family during their teens and how they meet again after 10 years.

  • Welcome to Waikiki
    Welcome to Waikiki (2018)7.8

    Kang Dong-Goo dreams of becoming a movie director, but he is cynical due to bad luck. Cheon Joon-Ki wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become an actor, but he is now just a minor actor. Bong-Doo-Sik came to Seoul to become a scenario writer, but things have not been easy for him.

  • My Liberation Notes
    My Liberation Notes (2022)7.8

    Three siblings, exhausted by the monotony of day-to-day adulthood, seek to find fulfillment and freedom from their unremarkable lives.

  • Strong Girl Nam-soon
    Strong Girl Nam-soon (2023)7.6

    Gifted with superhuman strength, a young woman returns to Korea to find her birth family — only to be entangled in a drug case that could test her power.

  • Men on a Mission
    Men on a Mission (2015)7.5

    Male celebs play make-believe as high schoolers, welcoming star transfer students every week and engaging in battles of witty humor and slapstick.

  • Clean with Passion for Now
    Clean with Passion for Now (2018)7.4

    Gil Oh-so, an employee at a cleaning company, meets Jang Seon-gyul, the boss of the company. The two are diametric opposite when it comes to cleanliness. With the help of Oh-sol, Seon-gyul faces his mysophobia and falls in love with her.

  • The Good Detective
    The Good Detective (2020)7.2

    A drama about the race between people who want to get closer to the truth and those who want to cover it up. Jang Seung Jo will take on the role of Oh Ji Hyuk, an elite detective of nine years who does not share his feelings with others due to pain he experienced when he was young. He is not swayed by money and power, even with the huge wealth he inherited from his uncle.

  • Let's Eat Dinner Together
    Let's Eat Dinner Together (2016)6.3

    As more and more people are getting used to eating dinner alone, Kang Ho-dong and Lee Kyung-kyu visit ordinary Korean families at dinner time and share their lives as they eat dinner together.

  • Insider
    Insider (2022)5.5

    When a judicial apprentice goes behind bars while on an undercover job, he plays the hand he’s dealt to survive prison and get his payback.