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The Best TV Shows on KBS1

Every KBS1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Stay up-to-date with over 20 of KBS1’s elite series, with our list refreshed for April 2025. Icons of KBS1, 서울뚝배기 and Emperor Wang Gun made their debut in 1990 and 2000, setting industry standards. Across the timeline from 1990 to 2018, KBS1 has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows.

  • Yellow Handkerchief
    Yellow Handkerchief (2003)10.0

    Sang-min wants success in life, and in pursuit of success, he abandons his ten-year relationship with Ja-yeong to marry his boss’ daughter, Min-ju. Ja-yeong finds herself pregnant and raising a child alone. When Sang-min finds out, the battle over custody of child begins. This drama became a number one hit and captured more than 30% of viewers during its broadcast while unraveling the mysteries of waiting, forgiveness and above all - the value of love.

  • Tonight Kim Je-dong
    Tonight Kim Je-dong (2018)10.0

  • Larva
    Larva (2011)7.2

    Two curious worms spend their days investigating the otherworldly objects that fall through the grate into their subterranean world.

  • Cloud Bread
    Cloud Bread (2010)6.0

  • Sunny Again Tomorrow
    Sunny Again Tomorrow (2018)6.0

    After being fired from her job at a TV home shopping channel, Ha-Nee decides to start her own fashion company and soon becomes involved with Han-Kyul, a merchandiser for the shopping channel.

  • My Dear Cat
    My Dear Cat (2014)5.8

    While looking for her lost cat, magazine journalist Go Yang-soon meets law school student and part-time photographer Yeom Chi-woong. Soon, they begin to get to know each other and each other's families.

  • You are My Destiny
    You are My Destiny (2008)5.5

    Jang Sae-byuk is a cheerful and grateful orphan who always tries her best. She dreams of one day becoming an interior designer, despite her lack of education and money. Because of an accident that happened before the story starts (about three years ago), she loses her sight and undergoes corneal transplant surgery. Different events unravel when she encounters the Kim family, who has lost a daughter in a horrible car crash, unbeknownst to everyone besides the father and older brother. The stories then intertwine when Sae-byuk meets the Kim's extended family and the son of a big interior design company, Lohas, in Korea.

  • Smile Again
    Smile Again (2010)5.5

    Raised in America by his mentally handicapped mother Anna, Dong Hae dreams of traveling to Korea to propose to the woman he loves.. After qualifying for a speed skating competition, he smuggles his mother to Korea with him, but his undying devotion to her soon begins causing him problems. Finally reconnecting with his lost love Saewa, Dong Hae finds his affections divided when things don’t work out as he planned in this award-winning daily drama.

  • Love Returns
    Love Returns (2017)5.0

    The drama follows the life a woman who ends up losing everything after living a turbulent life. When she starts anew from the bottom, ironically, her life blossoms. The value that holds us together is not blood nor law, but rather love and affection between us.

  • The King Dae Joyoung
    The King Dae Joyoung (2006)4.8

    This 100-episode epic drama vividly depicts the life of King Dae Jo-yeong and other heroes of the Balhae Kingdom, which dates back 1300 years ago.

  • Lovers in Bloom
    Lovers in Bloom (2017)4.8

    Moo Goong Hwa is a former boxer. After the death of her husband, she has raised her daughter alone. She now works as a police officer. Meanwhile, Cha Tae Jin is an elite police officer who graduated from the police university. He is full of justice.

  • It's My Life
    It's My Life (2018)4.8

    An ordinary young man from the countryside refuses to settle for the present and tries to carve out his own way to success.

  • Age of Warriors
    Age of Warriors (2003)4.7

    This is a KBS 1TV drama that aired from February 8, 2003 to August 15, 2004.

  • You Are The Only One
    You Are The Only One (2014)4.0

    The birth of multi-family living under the same roof! In this generation, there is a staggering number of singles across all ages who are opting to live in a shared home in an attempt to save money. In one of these shared homes, there lives a woman who was once a producer but is now a fruit vendor. There's a middle-aged woman who was abandoned by her husband and family. There's even a single father and a foreigner as well. As different as their backgrounds are, the house somehow brings them together. A daughter who was abandoned by her mother shares her pain with a mother who was abandoned by her family. Through some tragic and sometimes hilarious moments, this unlikely family comes together and causes viewers to reexamine the meaning of family in this new age.

  • Emperor Wang Gun
    Emperor Wang Gun (2000)3.2

    Taejo Wang Geon was a 200-episode Korean drama starring Choi Soo Jong in the title role. It became very successful, reaching very high ratings, around 60%.

  • 서울뚝배기
    서울뚝배기 (1990)N/A

  • 사랑은 이런거야
    사랑은 이런거야 (2001)N/A

    It is a drama that gets the sympathy of an unspecified number of people and satisfies their needs.

  • Hometown Over the Hill
    Hometown Over the Hill (2007)N/A

    By depicting the dreams of people living in farming villages, this drama also reveals problems that today’s residents of rural areas face, such as a growing number of biracial children from international marriages and the cutthroat competition to survive.

  • 역사저널 그날
    역사저널 그날 (2013)N/A

  • Mr. House Husband
    Mr. House Husband (2016)N/A

    Mr. House Husband is a South Korean television entertainment program, where six men who do housekeeping and parenting are observed by their fellow cast members. For season 2, the format changed and the cast members' recordings were observed and narrated by two hosts.