Two K-dramas You From Another Star and Boys Before Flowers Make Netflix Top 5 Most Watched Shows Worldwide Ranking

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• YFAS is a much better drama than DOTS which is just full of fillers, cheese and catwalks. So, am not sirprised why the overhyped DOTS not making it on the list.

  • Agree. Dots is full of cheese, and it is quite boring tbh... Surprised that BoF made the list, it is one of the worst versions of Hana Yori Dango.

    • BoF k-version is no doubt the worst (my fave is still the original Taiwan version because of Jerry Yan and his mosquito voice. Lol) but korean dramas market reached is far superior than other Asian countries. They simply have the appeal which is hard to comprehend. And BoF is much like junk food, bad for the health but severely addictive (though I dropped it very early as I was irritated as hell by Ku Hye Sun's retarded portrayal of Jan Di).

    • Hahaha.... Gu Hye Sun is the worst of all ?... Why was she even chosen? Was there no k-actress suitable at that time?

    • This is not true and probably misleading. The whole narrative premise was centered around a tomboyish and little bit crazy protagnonist girl. The whole manuscript centered around such character who exactly was not into love nor ready for love because she was in another mental state. The directors nor writters were looking for making their girl protagnonist some sort of a cinderalla beauty because it would have ruined the manuscript all together. they even chose how to dress her carefully making her tomboyish and someone who didn't have love in her mind at all. It was her wild and carefree personality that draw in both Gun Jun-pyo and Ji-hoo and she was even shell shocked that they were into her and she herself didn't know anything about romance or signs leading into romance. She didn't know how to pick up the vibes. She was ignorant, tomboyish, and little bit crazy carefree and there was even a time where she karate kicked in the face one of the boys just randomly. Honestly I don't think anyone could have done that role better then her. It was match made in heaven. once in a life time role and she nailed it

    • @Jack

      Tomboyish, awkward and a little crazy does not equate to behaving like some kind of a mentally retarded person. That was how Ku Hye Sun interpreted the character which is far from charming. She is a lousy actress. She didn't do justice to the role. Many actually watching the show for the "cinderella" element (obviously that is what the writer intended to sell) and the flower boys.

    • @Jack - Have you read the manga or watched other versions (e.g. Japanese, Taiwanese) before? I don't mean to mislead anyone. Everybody's preference is different. In my opinion, Mao Inoue does the best portrayal of Makino Tsukushi. Your so-called "one in a lifetime role" has been done by many actresses really... LOL...

  • She was not exactly retarded but borderline crazy and unpredictable at times. This was the whole premise of the character.

    Seriously if they re-do that and cast your typical cinderalla beauty or just re-do her into sane then the Drama falls apart and becomes cliche.

    That craziness and weirdness made the drama completely unique by it's own. Not everyone is blessed with good looks in life or sanity. I knew some real life people who were like that borderline crazy and but very entertaining to hang out with basically because always something noteworthy happens while I admit sometimes its good and other times not. It's just life unaltered at the end of the day

• No way! Atleast Dot we learned about military structures and schools and it has some political entities that didn’t completely feel like I was wasting my time on complete nonesense. Maybe like 90% nonesense and 10% new knowledge.

  MLFAS was like 97% pure nonesense. Maybe 3% interesting was the psycho chaebol.

  Honestly Netflix sucks at picking Korean dramas to stream and I’m surprised the crown is not on the list.

  • It doesn't matter if it's pure nonsense as long as it's entertaining. I wouldn't know if DOTS was educational cos I couldn't get past two episodes, it was boring as heck.

    • This is clearly a case of different tastes because I thought MLFAS was more of a bore, what with the overdramatic female lead and the obsessed male friend. The interesting parts came a few episodes in with suspense build up from the serial killer. Then it was solved and got boring again.

      Actually DOS was boring too don’t give me wrong. I just prefer it over MLFAS because it was educational to me. If you already knew the happenings of the military then I can see why you didn’t see it the same as I did.

  • I agree. YFAS bore me to hell. Though I watched the complete show but I skipped majority of scenes. On the other hand dots was cheesy but show was fun to watch, specially the earthquake scenario. It went downhill after epi 10 but it was definitely worth a watch. It has good plot, amazing chemistry between leads, bromance and hearts thumping ost. The show had mass appeal one of the reason it was huge hit.

  • DoTS was cheese fest with mediocre acting

• Boys over flowers in this list is predictable and in fact both being in this list is predictable. There is no way DOTS could have compete with them because first they are from different years and second MLFAS and BOF had way more impact and staying power.

  BOF was definitely not a surprise. It launched Hallyu wave itself in the heavens and It started a golden era for Korean entertainment by opening new markets and platforms. BOF was a TV-revolution for SK. It broke the ice

• This shows the world is going downhill. That's why the masterpiece like Breaking Bad is competing with likes of MLFTS and BOF for most audience view.

  Korean market their low quality dramas extremely well neither there is nothing watchable about most of them. Offcourse there are some exceptions.

  • ???? Ah, you are one of those deluded persons who equate shock effects, gratuitous sex, graphic violence, depressing storylines, and basic anti-heroes as obviously SERIOUS creative works, while anything remotely uplifting, dealing with fulfilling relationships (of any kind - family, friends, as well as lovers), taking responsibility for one's actions, or not being a criminal douche nor totally unhappy or depressing, MUST just be 'girly stuff' or 'chic flicks'.
    Yeah.
    Women make up the majority of the world, hate to tell you, and South Korean entertainment companies figured this out (Hollywood still hasn't). Because of this, their TV shows are so much more adult, in a POSITIVE sense, mature, responsible, and of course full of decent love stories, as well as exploring other relationships. They have excellent production values, wonderful actors, and of course lots of eye candy for WOMEN.
    So of course that threatens types like you LOL

• I watched Boys over flowers like couple of years ago when I was younger and I can tell you that show is freaking addictive and nostalgia.

  For me it had the biggest twist I have ever seen not only in the show but also in myself. I hated and despised the leader of F4 in first couple of episodes to extremely level and then all of sudden he started to grow on me until I extremely loved the character to pieces. I have never had such an emotional twist. It's an awesome rollarroaster

• Never got into it...other dramas are my preference.

• Some of you are taking this list WAY too seriously, good lord. People watch Netflix to be ENTERTAINED, they aren't mostly watching critically acclaimed shows from anywhere.

• i definitely choose Sherlock than you from another star or boy before flower.

• Your title is misleading. It makes it seem like this are official Netflix numbers when it's just the results from some random poll. You should probably fix that.
  Let's be real. There's no way a Kdrama, no matter how popular, would even be able to compete with worldwide hits like "Breaking Bad" or "Sherlock".

  • It's not misleading and it was not a poll rather viewers thru time. These shows have been there also for a long time.

    I think they are also most viewed in Hulu Tv and Dramafever. It depends on the audience. 15-21 would rather watch that then Sherlock or Breaking bad. Because they themselves are in school etc etc

    • Read the first sentence of koala's post. It says right there "High Speed Internet organisation run a poll...". A poll is in no way the same as official Netflix numbers.

  • maybe it all about quantity of the viewer,not quality of that drama.

  • Most watched netflix k Drama shows..correct..It's own category.

• no matter what people said about BOF, that drama caltaputed LMH status into what he is right now.
  No matter how popular dots or goblin, it doesnt have power like old kdrama.
  Its not about quality, its about popularity.
  I couldnt even finish first epi of bof or star.