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The latest K-drama, Head Over Heels, narrates the story of Cho Yi-hyun’s Seong-ah, a shaman and also a high schooler who wants to study and live an ordinary life. However, everything changes when Choo Young-woo’s Gyeon-u and his grandmother visit her as one of her clients.
Seong-ah falls for Gyeon-u but also sees that he is destined to die soon. The series revolves around Seong-ah’s effort to protect Gyeon-u from his impending death and changing his fate, which might also result in harming herself. It is one of those K-dramas where love and romance are the primary themes, as Seong-ah has already fallen in love with Gyeon-u, who happens to be her new classmate as well.
In this list, we have listed 10 K-dramas, just like Head Over Heels, which focuses on a love story that includes changing fates and destinies for the sake of love.
Disclaimer: This article is based on the writer's opinion. Readers’ discretion is advised.
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10) Marry My Husband
The popular K-drama narrates the story of Park Min-young’s Ji-won, who is sent back in time with the help of her father's spirit after her death in the present time. She tries to escape her ill fate by changing her decisions. She also meets Na In-woo’s Ji-hyuk, who also returns to this timeline after dying in the previous timeline and is aware of Ji-hyuk’s death, which was caused by her then-husband, Min-hwan, and tries to protect her in this timeline.
Just like Head Over Heels, Marry My Husband also revolves around changing fate to avoid misfortunes and death, and at the heart of the series is the swooning love story of Ji-hyuk and Ji-won.
9) See you in my 19th Life
Similar to Head Over Heels, See you in my 19th Life also narrates a supernatural romance story of Shin Hye-sun’s Ji-eum, who has been reincarnating for thousands of years and tends to remember everything about her past lives. When she is born in her 19th life, she tries to reconnect with a man named Moon Seo-ha, whom she had met in her 18th life as a child.
See you in my 19th Life revolves around a woman who seeks the man she has liked since her 18th life, and is similar to Seong-ah and Gyeon-u’s story, where she is head over heels in love with the boy.
8) Hotel Del Luna
Although the love story had a bittersweet ending, Hotel Del Luna had all the elements of a good supernatural K-drama and also had numerous fun elements, just like Head Over Heels. Starring IU, the K-drama tells the story of Man-wol, who oversees the Hotel where ghosts appear to come to terms with their unfinished business.
She hires a manager, who happens to be Yeo Jin-goo’s Chan-sung, whose father had made a deal with Man-wol to send him to work for her after 20 years. His father tried to escape the deal by sending him abroad, but fate made him come to work for Man-wol as the hotel's manager. This began the riveting love story of Man-wol and Chan-sung, which had supernatural, comic, and all the elements of an endearing romance.
7) Master’s Sun
Head Over Heels focuses on how Seong-ah wants to protect Gyeon-u from his ill-fate, without him even believing in any of that. Similarly, in Master’s Sun, So Ji-sub’s Joong-won does not believe in supernatural things, but he is unaware that he helps Kong Hyo-jin’s Kong-sil from the ghosts she keeps seeing, and is terrified.
In a surprising twist of fate, she discovers that touching Joong-wo makes the ghosts around her disappear. Like Head Over Heels, this K-drama also follows the lead couple helping each other protect themselves from supernatural things that terrify them.
6) Guardian: The Lonely and Great God
When we discuss fantasy or supernatural K-dramas with ghosts and spirits, and also changing fate is involved, we cannot skip the greatest K-drama of the 2010s, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God. Kim Go-eun’s Eun-tak can see ghosts around her and is later revealed to be the Goblin, Kim Shin’s bride, who will break his thousands of years old curse by pulling the sword that is stuck in his chest. The story is about their fate and longing for each other across several lifetimes.
But that is not the only love story in it, as the second lead couple, Sonny and the Grim Reaper, have a more endearing love story that has every element of romance, fun, and also heartbreak.
5) Destined With You
What’s more heartwarming and entertaining than the female lead saving the male lead in K-dramas by changing their fates like in Head Over Heels? This is what the storyline of Destined With You is about — where Shin-yu, a popular lawyer, is fated to suffer from a disease that has gripped his family for generations, and how can he lift that curse? That is when our female lead arrives, Hong-jo, who leads a lonely life but becomes the owner of a mysterious chest that has the key to lift Shin-yu’s curse.
As Seong-ah is the only one who knows about Gyeon-u’s destiny in Head Over Heels and can save him from his ill fate, Hong-jo plays a similar role in Shin-yu’s life in Destined with You.
4) Alchemy of Souls
This superhit fantasy love story of Alchemy of Souls is one of the fan-favorite shows, following the forbidden love story of Nak-su and Jang Uk, who lived in the fictional magical country, Daeho. There is body switching, shamanism, and various other magical elements involved in the series that bring it closer to Head Over Heels.
Jang-uk and Mu-deok/Nak-su’s love story is entertaining and comical amid the danger that looms over them, which is similar to Seong-ah and Gyeon-u's story.
3) Kingmaker: The Change of Destiny
This K-drama narrates the story of a fortune teller and a princess who can see the fate of others coming together to change the ill fate of Joseon with their special abilities. Chun-joong, the fortune teller, is devoted to his love and might remind you of Seong-ha from Head Over Heels.
Amid the fierce fight for the Joseon throne, the love story depicts some beautiful moments in the series, which will have you swooning for the lead couple and rooting for them to complete their challenge of saving Joseon.
2) Lovely Runner
Lovely Runner shares numerous elements of its narrative with Head Over Heels. Like Seong-ah, Im Sol is crazily in love with Sun-jae, and after being transported 15 years back when they were in high school, she tries to change their destinies, as in the present time, they were both unhappy and facing misfortunes.
Im Sol tries to change Sun-jae’s fate, as in the present he had died in a tragic accident, just like Seong-ah, who is trying to prevent the same fate of Gyeon-u in Head Over Heels.
1) Extraordinary You
If you are enjoying Head Over Heels, you should definitely check out the fantasy K-drama, Extraordinary You. The K-drama tells the story of Dan-oh, a high schooler in a popular academy who is shocked to discover that she and everyone around her are actually characters in a comics and is disappointed by the story that the writer has given her and decides to take matter in her own hands and change her fate in the comics.
She falls for an unnamed student, no. 13, and wants to have a love story with him, but the story now resembles the writer’s previous work, which results in some problems. It is an entertaining story that also focuses on the romance between the lead couple, who will make you swoon with their chemistry.
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