6 dramas where women change their identities to become men
Girls pretending to be boys is a popular premise in kdramas for some reason.
Whether it’s a young girl dressing up as a man for professional reasons, or a young woman forced to pose as royalty, the gender swap trope is often translated through dangerous, awkward, and even comical scenarios .
However, these kdramas highlighted several sociocultural issues related to gender roles and differences, and even addressed issues of sexuality.
Let’s watch together 6 kdramas in which women swap identities and prove that they are unparalleled when it comes to their skills.
- Our blooming youth
The story of a prince who receives a book of ghost stories with all sorts of curses of life and feels the curses coming one after another and a woman who has become a wanted murderer who betrayed her marriage and how she is save each other.
- The King’s Affection
The King’s Affection tells the story of a daughter and her twin brother from the royal family who are abandoned as daughters immediately after birth. To hide her brother’s death, the mother brings back her daughter, the princess, and raises her under the name Lee Hwi.
Although she distances herself from everyone, she gradually develops feelings for Jung Ji-woon, her teacher from a noble family.
- coffee prince
This drama is a classic! Choi Han Gyul is the grandson of a company that owns a thriving coffee business. He clings to his first love, Han Yoo Joo, who only sees him as a friend.
Go Eun Chan is a 24-year-old tomboy who is often mistaken for a guy. Her father died when she was 16 and has been the breadwinner of her family ever since.
Han Gyul decides to hire him (believing it’s a boy) to pretend to be his gay lover so he can escape the blind dates arranged by his grandmother. Han Gyul takes over a rundown old cafe and hires Eun Chan.
- love in the moonlight
Disguised as a man, Hong Ra On (Kim Yoo Jung) advises other men on dating.
She meets Crown Prince Lee Yeong (Park Bo Gum) through a love letter she wrote for a client. The two do not know each other’s identities, but have always stated their interests in each other.
- To the beautiful you
Goo Jae-Hee is a young Korean living in the United States. One fine day, while watching a sports competition on TV, she falls in love with Kang Tae-Joon, an athlete who practices high jumping.
Unfortunately, he is injured and has to put his career on hold. Jae-Hee then decides to drop everything to return to Korea and join Tae-Joon’s high school. But there’s a catch: this school is for boys only!
- Sungkyunkwan scandal
Kim Yun Hee is an intelligent, responsible and independent young woman. She has been working to support her family since her father died, but has also done well at school.
When her younger brother’s illness worsens and his family has to be evicted from their home for lack of money, she decides to take the only male national exam under her younger brother’s name and disguise herself as a boy.
On the day of the exam, Kim Yun meets Hee Lee Seon Joon and becomes friends. Lee Seon Joon comes from a privileged background and is also good-looking.
He’s also arrogant. They both pass the national exam and she has to share a room with him at Sungkyunkwan University while hiding her true nature. There she befriends playboy Goo Yong Ha and rebel Moon Jae Shin.
Have you seen all these kdramas?
