Rakuten Viki Celebrates K-Drama Day (Sep 26 ~ 30) | Mark Your Calendar

Rakuten Viki is celebrating the growing popularity and fandom of Korean entertainment across the globe. K-Drama Day is kicking off on September 26 and will run through September 30. Fans of the genre have an opportunity to get their hands on the most popular K-dramas, FOR FREE!!

• This will be the third annual K-Drama Day celebration. There will be free shows, special prizes, talent exclusives, and more!

It’s part of Viki’s Watch More. Feel More. collection. Free Popular K-Dramas titles included are:

1. My Dearest Nemesis
2. Love Scout
3. Study Group
4. Bitch x Rich 2
5. Spring of Youth
6. The Witch
7. Pump Up the Healthy Love
8. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon
9. Lovely Runner
10. Reborn Rich

For more information on Viki’s K-Drama Day, including the terms and conditions applicable for each prize promotion, giveaway, and contest held during K-Drama Day, visit HERE.

(1) My Dearest Nemesis ~ Are You the Black Dragon?

A high schooler/video game player finally got to meet the player known only as The Black Dragon. In person, he professes his love for her, and she flat-out rejects him. He told her that he was 22 years old. It turns out, he’s just a kid! She was furious! A middle schooler had deceived her. Could she put it behind her? Nope! When they became adults, that kid became her boss.

• Main Characters: Baek Soo-Jung (played by Mun Ka-Young); and Ban Joo-Yeon (played by Choi Hyun-Wook).
• Viki viewers rated this series: 9.7 out of 10 stars

(2) Love Scout – Maybe We Could Start Over?

A woman is a successful CEO of a headhunter organization, but she clashes with a man who views her work as promoting chaos instead of harmony. Through no fault of his own, he loses his job and ends up working as her assistant. She does not intend to make his job eas,y but he eventually convinces her that he is a competent professional. He can assist her professionally, but their relationship develops beyond the workplace.

• Main Characters: Kang Ji-Yun (played by Han Ji-Min); and Yu Eun-Ho (played by Lee Joon-Hyuk).
• Viki viewers rated this series 9.8 out of stars

(3) Study Group – There’s Always a Kid Who Wants to Study

There once was a kid who studied and studied and studied. But no matter what, he always ranked at the bottom of the students. But was he discouraged? Oh no! He became more and more determined each day to study and learn so that he could go to college, and even came up with the idea of a study group, in case other kids were just like him. He BELIEVED!

• Main Characters: Yoon Ga-Min (played by Minhyun), and Lee Han-Kyung (played by Han Ji-Eun)
• Viki viewers rated the series 9.8 out of 10 stars

(4) Bitch and Rich – The Difference Between Real and Fake

A poor girl is a witness to a murder where a rich girl is the prime suspect, and they both go to the same school. It’s kind of hard to avoid each other. The poor girl is already lying and pretending to be rich. Her justification is that it’s better that way. Will she also lie about what she witnessed? Would it be better to lie and cover up a crime? In S2, the psychological warfare between two female high school students from different backgrounds continues.

• Main Characters: Kim Hye-In (played by Lee Eun-Saem); and Baek Je-Na (played by Yeri)
• Viki viewers rated this series: 9.3 out of 10 stars

(5) Spring of Youth ~ A Viki Original Series About Campus Life

Have we met before, or do I just dream about you? It sounds like a really cheesy line that would turn a girl off. Worse than asking her if heaven is missing an angel. But it’s actually a genuine question! The guy doesn’t know why he keeps dreaming about this girl. Have they ever met before? How could he know such intimate details about someone he’s never met? (O.o)

• Main Characters: Sa Gye (played by Ha Yoo-Joon), and Kim Bom (played by Park Ji-Hu)
• Viki viewers rated this series 9.1 out of 10 stars

(6) The Witch (2025) – Based on the Webtoon of the Same Name

For reasons which can not be explained, every time a young girl befriends a young boy, the boy either gets injured or, worse, he dies. The people in the town start calling her a witch. But there’s one boy who says that’s not possible. “The world has strange laws, some that are inexplicable. What if a person is haunted by a terrible curse all their life: the law of death following them everywhere? If we know the rule, maybe we can break it.”

• Main Characters: Lee Dong-Jin (played by Jin Young), and Park Mi-Jeong (played by Roh Jeong-Eui)
• Viki viewers rated this series 9.7 out of 10 stars

(7) Pump Up the Healthy Love ~ Total Life Care for Only 5 Million Won!

This is a health and fitness of a woman seeking to be loved, but her body is in the way of her happiness. She meets a fitness instructor who tells her the one thing she can change about her life is her body. What the FAT!! “Our bodies have lied to us.”

• Main Characters: Do Hyeon-joong, Former bodybuilding champion and gym owner (played by Lee Jun-young); and Lee Mi-ran, Travel agency manager and gym newbie (played by Jung Eun-ji)
• Viki viewers rated 9 out of 10 stars

(8) Strong Girl Do Bong-Soon – It’s OK to be a Mutant!

For centuries, all of the women in the family have been born with superhuman strength that comes from an X chromosome mutation. Strong Girl Do Bong-Soon gets hired to work as a bodyguard for the president of a gaming company. Her boss runs his own company, but he is also a chaebol heir. His father wants him to be the successor to the family business, even though he has older brothers. He starts receiving threats, and Bong-Soon’s job is not only to physically protect him, but help him uncover who is threatening him.

• Main Characters: Do Bong-Soon (played by Park Bo Young); and Ahn Min Hyuk (played by Park Hyung Sik)
• Viki Viewers: 9.7 out of 10 stars

(9) Lovely Runner: A High School Time Travel Rom-Com

A young woman is contemplating suicide, but a member of a K-pop band talks her out of it. From that day forward, she was a loyal fan. Who knew that one day she would actually meet him in person? Who knew that one day she would time-travel, actually meet him in person, and prevent him from committing suicide?

• Main Characters: Im Sol (played by Kim Hye-Yoon); and Ryu Sun-Jae (played by Byeon Woo-Seok)
• Viki viewers rated this series 9.9 out of 10 stars

(10) Reborn Rich – Time Travel to Catch a Murderer

A young lawyer is betrayed and murdered by a wealthy family that he worked for. When he opens his eyes, he is in the body of the youngest grandson in the family that he used to work for. That is not the only shock, as he is also in a different time period. It’s the 1980s when South Korea is transitioning from military rule to democracy. He gets to meet the patriarch of the family, who is now his grandfather, face-to-face. Now that he is a member of the family that betrayed him, what should he do?

• Main Character: Yoon Hyeon-Woo / Jin Do-Jun (played by Song Joong-Ki)
• Viki viewers rated this series 9.5 out of 10 stars

LINKS OF INTEREST:

Rakuten Viki to Unveil First-Ever International K-Drama Day | Rakuten.Today, official corporate blog of Rakuten Group, Inc.

Rakuten Viki Celebrates Second Annual International K-Drama Day on November 29 | Rakuten Group, Inc.

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