BEST SCI-FI KDRAMAS!

 1. MEMORIES OF ALHAMBRA:

EPISODES: 16

AIRED: 2018

STARRING: Hyun Bin, Park Shin Hye

GENRES: Action, Thriller, Romance, Scifi

STORYLINE:

Yoo Jin U, a competitive CEO and video game developer, visits Granada, Spain, seeking the inventor of a groundbreaking augmented-reality game. Staying at a hostel owned by Jung Hui Ju, a former classical guitarist turned caretaker after her parents' death, they become entangled in mysterious and unexpected events.

2. W:

EPISODES: 16

AIRED: 2016

STARRING: Lee Jong Suk, Han Hyo Joo

GENRES: Thriller, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy

STORYLINE:

A romance takes place between Kang Cheol who is super rich and exists in the webtoon "W," and Oh Yeon-Joo who is a surgeon in the real world. Oh Seong-moo, the father of cardiothoracic surgeon Oh Yeon-Joo, mysteriously goes missing while writing the last chapter of his webtoon "W". Yeon-Joo goes into his office looking for him, but a hand from his monitor suddenly pulls her in, and she finds herself on the rooftop of a building, next to a bloodied man. She manages to save the person, only to realize that he is Kang Cheol, the main character of her father's webtoon. Yeon-Joo later discovers she can only enter and leave the webtoon depending on Kang Cheol's feelings.

3. ALICE:

EPISODES: 16

AIRED: 2020

STARRING: Kim Hee Sun, Joo Won, Kwak Shi Yang, Lee Da In

GENRES: Mystery, Scifi, Fantasy, Melodrama

STORYLINE:

In 2050, the organization Alice was formed as a way for humans to travel into another time and parallel world. Soon, however, the "Book of Prophecy" was discovered, which predicted the end of travelers. In an attempt to prevent the book from falling into the wrong hands, Alice sends Yoo Min Hyuk and Yoon Tae Yi to 1992 to retrieve it from the last known keeper of the book. It was during this mission that Tae Yi realized she was pregnant with Yoo Min Hyuk's child and decided to stay to raise their child and hid from Yoo Min Hyuk by changing her name to Park Sun Young. Park Jin Gyeom, the son of Park Sun Young, is a successful detective in 2020. His path crossed with the Yoon Tae Yi of this world, a physics professor specializing in quantum and temporal mechanics, and who looks exactly like his mother. The meeting of Park Jin Gyeom and Yoon Tae Yi was the start of their journey to rediscover the Book of Prophecy and their search for answers.

4. I'M NOT A ROBOT:

EPISODES: 32

AIRED: 2017

STARRING: Yoo Seung Ho, Chae Soo Bin, Uhm Ki Joon

GENRES: Comedy, Romance, Drama, Sci fi

STORYLINE:

Min-Kyu is the largest shareholder of a finance company. He is handsome and intelligent, but he lives in seclusion due to his allergy of people. Meanwhile, Ji-A is an aspiring entrepreneur and works as a personal shopper. She receives a phone call from her ex-boyfriend Baek-Gyun. Her ex-boyfriend is a world renown developer of android robots. His latest creation is the android Aji 3, which he built with the same physical appearance as Ji-A, but an accident has broken Aji 3. Making matters worse, he has received an order for Aji 3 from Min-Kyu with the promise of more investment money if he's satisfied. Being in such a predicament, Baek-Gyun offers money to Ji-A if she will go to Min-Kyu's home and pretend to be Aji 3. Ji-A is in need of money and accepts the offer.

5. THE SILENT SEA:

EPISODES: 8 

AIRED: 2021

STARRING: Bae Doo Na, Gong Yoo, Lee Joon

GENRES: Thriller, Mystery, Horror, Sci fi

STORYLINE:

Set in the future, when the planet suffers from a lack of water and food caused by desertification. Yoon Jae is a soldier for the space agency. He is selected for a team, including Ji An, to travel to the moon. A scientist joins the mission to recover mysterious samples from an abandoned lunar space station, where an accident killed everyone including her sister.

6. A TIME CALLED YOU:

EPISODES: 12

AIRED: 2023

STARRING: Ahn Hyo Seop, Jeon Yeo Been, Kang Hoon

GENRES: Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Fantasy

STORYLINE:

Han Jun Hee's boyfriend Koo Yeon Jun died one year ago. She still hasn't gotten over his death and misses him a lot. One day,S she somehow travels back in time to the year 1998 and finds herself as high school student Kwon Min Joo. There, she meets high school student Nam Si Heon. She is surprised to see how much Nam Si Heon resembles her late boyfriend Koo Yeon Jun. Nam Si Heon is outgoing and attractive; girls adore him. His best friend Jung In Kyu develops a crush on Kwon Min Joo.

7. SIGNAL:

EPISODES: 16

AIRED: 2016

STARRING: Lee Je Hoon, Kim Hye Soo, Jo Jin Woong

GENRES: Thriller, Mystery, Scifi

STORYLINE:

In present-day 2015, criminal profiler Park Hae-young finds a mysterious discarded walkie talkie; inexplicably, the person at the other end, Detective Jae-han, is from the past, and addresses him familiarly, even though Hae-young has never met him. Hae-young is able to solve a 15-year-old kidnapping and murder case involving a former classmate from his childhood with Jae-han's help. The success of this case triggers the formation of a cold case team, led by Detective Cha Soo-hyun, who has been searching for Jae-han, her long-lost mentor and unrequited love, for the past 15 years. With Jae-han's help from the 1990s, Hae-young solves other cold cases that have remained unsolved for years and is drawn into the mystery surrounding Jae-han's disappearance in the year 2000. As they try to fix the past and catch the criminals, unintended consequences follow in the present.

8. TOMORROW:

EPISODES: 16

AIRED: 2022

STARRING: Rowoon, Kim Hee Sun, Lee Soo Hyuk, Yun Ji On

GENRES: Action, Thriller, Drama, Fantasy

STORYLINE: 

Choi Joon Woong seeks a job, but it's hard for him to get hired. One night, he witnesses a man trying to end his life and decides to stop him. He gets acquainted with grim reapers Koo Ryeon and Im Ryoong Gu, who belong to a crisis management team. Their purpose is to prevent people from committing suicide. After Joon Woong ends up in a coma and becomes half-human and half-spirit, he is employed by a company of grim reapers as the newest member of the crisis management team.

9. SISYPHUS: THE MYTH:

EPISODES: 16

AIRED: 2021

STARRING: Cho Seung Woo, Park Shin Hye, Kim Byung Chul

GENRES: Action, Thriller, Mystery, Scifi

STORYLINE:

An unfathomable incident introduces a genius engineer to dangerous secrets of the world — and to a woman from the future who's come looking for him. Han Tae Sul, a co-founder of Quantum and Time, is a genius engineer with the highest level of coding skills and outstanding looks that outweighs his engineer fashion sense. Due to his innovative achievements, Quantum and Time is a world-class company, dubbed as "The Miracle of South Korea's Engineering Industry." In reality, Tae Sul has constantly caused his company's stocks to fluctuate after his brother's death ten years ago. One day, he witnesses something unbelievable. To reach the truth, he sets off on a dangerous journey. Kang Seo Hae is a survivor of a future dystopian world. With the survival skills that she's learned from living amongst gangsters and warlords, she travels back to save Han Tae Sul.

10. THE KING: ETERNAL MONARCH:

EPISODES: 16

AIRED: 2020

STARRING: Lee Min Ho, Kim Go Eun, Woo Do Hwan

GENRES: Mystery, Romance, Drama, Scifi

STORYLINE:

Lee Gon, a modern-day Emperor of the Kingdom of Corea, attempts to cross the barrier into an alternate reality where the Republic of Korea exists in the Kingdom's stead. He comes across detective Jeong Tae-eul, whom he recognizes from an identity card he obtained during the turning point of his childhood: his father's assassination. Lee Gon's half-uncle, Lee Lim, who assassinated the previous king, Lee Ho, is in hiding and assembling armies whilst traversing back and forth between the two parallel worlds.