Best Lee Se-hee K-Dramas to watch right now

By Lori Meek
Published: October 6, 2022 (Last updated: December 16, 2023)
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This article discusses Best Lee Se-hee K-Dramas to watch and does not contain any spoilers. Check out these brilliant recommendations. 

Lee Se-hee is a South-Korean actress and model. After appearing in her first movie role in 2017, Lee Se-hee’s career has been constantly growing. To date, she’s appeared in many K-Dramas, and five movies and guest starred in two Television shows. This article will break down the Best Korean Dramas starring Lee Se-hee. We have used audience scores using the MyDramaList ratings to define Lee Se-hee’s best work!

Best Lee Se-hee K-Dramas to watch 


Hospital Playlist 2 (2021)

Lee Se-hee joined the cast of Hospital Playlist in season 2. The series is a highly rated K-Drama with a score of 9.2/10.

Official synopsis: Every day is extraordinary for five doctors and their patients inside a hospital, where birth, death, and everything in between coexist.


My Roommate Is a Gumiho (2021)

This supernatural K-Drama My Roommate Is a Gumiho has Lee Se-hee in guest roles in episodes 1 and 10. The show received a rating of 8.4/10.

Official synopsis: Shin Woo Yeo is a handsome and smart writer who is a 999-year-old nine-tailed fox. To become a human, he collects human energy in a bead.

One day, the drunk friend of Lee Dam, a university student, falls asleep on top of an expensive car whose owner is Woo Yeo. While Lee Dam struggles to take her friend away and Woo Yeo tries to help her, Woo Yeo’s bead accidentally falls out of his mouth, and Lee Dam unintentionally swallows it. The bead can exist inside of a human for no more than 1 year and, afterward, the bead will break inside of that person causing the person to die. Not wanting to lose his chance in becoming a human, Woo Yeo explains to Lee Dam their predicament and suggests living together until they figure out a solution. Lee Dam, who has never had a boyfriend in her life, now lives with Shin Woo Yeo.


Live On (2020)

Lee Se-hee plays the role of a senior student, Jung Hee Soo, in this 2020 8-episode series Live On. The show s rating is 8.2/10

Official synopsis: Baek Ho Rang is the most popular girl in high school. Everybody wants to be her friend and all of the boys dream of winning her heart. Although she is famously aloof, she is also a star on social media – with the whole school seemingly following her every post. But when a mysterious individual arrives online, she is caught off-guard.

This person seems to know all of Baek Ho Rang’s deepest secrets, and is seemingly armed with all sorts of information about her that she’d rather was kept a secret forever! Desperate for answers, she seeks out the help of Go Eun Taek, the meticulous, right-minded head of the school’s broadcasting club. However, to gain his assistance, she discovers that she will have to become a regular club member – a fact that eventually brings her together with a group of students she never thought she’d consider friends.

Can she solve the mystery of the online poster? And could joining the club eventually lead to romance?


Love Revolution (2020)

Love Revolution ran for 30 episodes, and it holds a rating of 8.1/10. Lee Se-hee was cast to play the part of Wang Byeol Rim.

Official synopsis: Gong Ju Young is a 17-year-old high school student who thinks he has found love at school when he falls for Wang Ja Rim at first sight. But winning her heart won’t be easy. Wang Ja Rim has earned a reputation for being cold and aloof – and, at first, seems totally unimpressed by Gong Ju Young’s garish displays of affection. But Gong Ju Young won’t be deterred so easily. Persistence is the key, he thinks – and, over time, Wang Ja Rim starts to open up to her classmate.

Gong Ju Young’s best buddy since elementary school is Lee Kyung Woo. Will he prove to be a help to Gong Ju Young in his quest for Wang Ja Rim’s heart – or a hindrance? And could Wang Ja Rim’s closest friends, including the popular Oh Ah Ram, also play a role in bringing the duo together?


Kiss Goblin (2020)

Kiss Goblin is a supernatural K-Drama that has a rating of 8.0/10 and ran for 12 episodes. Lee Se-hee was cast in the supporting role of Yoon Sul Hee.

Official synopsis: Ban Sook is a 160-year-old goblin who wants nothing more than to be human. But to do so, his mentor the Goblin Queen tells him that he must take human form and kiss humans 10 times. As he is strikingly handsome and possesses otherworldly charm, this initially seems like an easy assignment. However, he soon discovers that the task will be more complicated than he first thought. Every time he kisses someone, he develops a new human emotion. And he finds that the more emotions he has, the more complicated the romance game becomes!

An exorcist also steps onto the scene, threatening to derail his quest for good! He also meets a strong-willed young woman named Oh Yeon Ah, who attacks and chides him after she sees him kissing a stranger and then her best friend. Ban Sook cannot help falling for Oh Yeon Ah, but can he convince her to feel the same way about him?


Kiss Scene in Yeonnamdong (2019)

Lee Se-hee appears in a supporting role in this 12-episode series. Kiss Scene in Yeonnamdong received a rating of 7.9/10.

Official synopsis: The concept of “Kiss Scene in Yeonnam-dong” is ‘who kissed her that night?’ and it’s about a young woman who has been single all her life and looking for the most handsome kisser. She has been single all her life, but she’s not all that innocent in this honest romantic story of young people.


Young Lady and Gentleman (2021)

Lee Se-hee stars in the role of Park Dan Dan in this 53-episode K-Drama Young Lady and Gentleman. This series earned the actress an award in the 2021 KBS Drama Awards. The series holds a score of 7.3/10.

Official synopsis: Lee Young Kook is a widower with three children. He still hasn’t gotten over the death of his wife. He decides to hire Park Dan Dan as a live-in tutor for his kids and he becomes attracted to her. Meanwhile, Park Dan Dan has a bright and positive personality despite her harsh situation.


Sandwich Theory (2019)

Sandwich Theory stars Lee Se-hee in the leading role. The series only ran for 4 episodes and held a rating of 7.6/10.


Catch the Ghost (2019)

This series, Catch the Ghost, has a rating of 8.1/10. There are 16 episodes available, and Lee Se-hee appears in the role of Madonna.

Official synopsis: “Catch the Ghost” is a romantic investigative drama about a woman named Yoo Ryung who solves cases with her overflowing sense of justice and exceptional spatial perception but always gets herself into trouble because of her rash actions. She meets the Wangsimni station constabulary chief, a man who avoids cases and seeks stability. However, he always ends up cleaning up after the problems caused by Yoo Ryung and holds the key to solving the cases.


Everybody Say Kungdari (2019)

This K-Drama holds a score of 6.7/10 and has 99 episodes available. Lee Se-hee appears in the role of a young Jo Soon Ja in Everybody Say Kungdari.

Official synopsis: Bo Mi is a Korean adoptee in the United States. She lives in New York and enjoys her life there, but she gets involved in an unexpected case. Bo Mi doesn’t have U.S. citizenship and she is kicked out of the country. She returns to her hometown village of Kungdari, South Korea. There, Bo Mi meets Soo Ho. Soo Ho used to work in finance in the United States. He was successful there, but to develop a natural remedy for his ill daughter, Soo Ho settled down in Kungdari.


Fight Hard, Love Harder (2019)

Lee Se-hee stars as the lead in this K-Drama Fight Hard, Love Harder. The series ran for 4 episodes, and it has a rating of 7.4/10.

Official synopsis: Stories about a young girl, Jin Joo, who is trying to find her perfect boyfriend, but all her relationships ended the same way, quarrels and partings. These several stories will be told by two persons, the girl herself and her boyfriends, and how they see the same situation in different ways. Will Jin Joo be able to sort out his relationship?

And that’s our list of the Best Lee Se-hee K-Dramas to watch right now. Do you have any other recommendations for Korean Drama series starring Lee Se-hee? Let us know!

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