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When looking for a badass female lead, K-drama audiences are hoping for a heroine who is both relatable and superhuman. While K-dramas are well known for their romance and drama, they're not devoid of strong female leads, meaning lead characters that can hold their own and won't back down. Various protagonists in K-dramas would make any grown adult shiver with their deadly stares. With so many K-dramas available, there are plenty of formidable female leads out there. Most defy the odds or general opinion of those who don't believe in them.

These women show that not all K-drama female leads have to be damsels in distress looking for their prince. In some of the best K-dramas, audiences meet dynamic and well-rounded characters, such as Kang Sae-Byeok from Squid Game and Nam On-Jo from All of Us Are Dead. The challenges that K-drama protagonists go through are not easy, since they mirror real-life societal issues.

Behind Your Touch is a fantasy crime thriller series written by Lee Nam-gyu, Oh Bo-hyeon, and Kim Da-hee. The Jtbc series follows the story of a young veterinarian, who acquires the power of a psychic who can see the memories of people and animals after touching their bottom. She helps a detective who recently moved to her town, to track down a killer who has been terrorizing the town. Behind Your Touch stars Han Ji-min and Lee Min-ki in the lead roles and if you loved the series here are some similar shows you could watch next.

He Is Psychometric (Viki) Credit – tvN

He Is Psychometric is a supernatural crime thriller series, that has a very similar plot to Behind Your Touch. Written by Yang Jin-ah, the Tvn mystery drama series revolves around a young boy who loses his parents in a mysterious building fire, and after that, he acquires...

A psychology professor has been murdered by a killer with a method called “Murder game,” described in the novel named “Sigmound.” As a result of this, the author of “Sigmound” Han Joon (Hanmin Yun) gains popularity and uses the media and other people to succeed in life. A month later, Han Joon receives a blackmail notice from a mysterious man that mentions his secrets and promises to bring him down unless he tells who the real killer is. While he’s stuck in the crosshair of the killer, his friend Ha Neul (Lee Bo Young) and reporter Hyeon Jeong (Kim Ga-eun) work together to try to solve the case that has Detective Kim (Hwang Bo Jeong II) and the rest of the police baffled as to how to solve the crime.

“Grendel” is available from Echelon Studios

Overall, “Grendel” is watchable if somewhat lacking drama/thriller. The main aspect...

It would be fair conclusion to say that 2021 was a successful year for K-Dramas. The year, through many cable and national broadcasting networks, the country’s tv industry released many successful series. Streaming giant Netflix too came in strong, buying world-wide distribution rights to many popular titles, while also doubling down on their own original productions, investing heavily into content from the country and increasing output too, to the point of releasing a new K-Drama almost every month in the second half of last year. Of course, the success of a number of these shows is now well-known, but other streaming services like iQiyi, Viki etc. also played an important part in getting several Korean series out to the wider worldwide audience, resulting in a strong year for shows of various genres.

Without further ado, here is the list of the 20 best K-Dramas of 2021, in descending order.

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