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The Most Popular Korean Dramas Among Indians and Their Reasons

The Most Popular Korean Dramas Among Indians and Their Reasons

In recent years, South Korean dramas, commonly known as K-dramas, have experienced a significant surge in popularity among Indian audiences. The unique storytelling, emotional depth, and cultural nuances presented in these series have captivated viewers across the nation. Streaming platforms like Netflix have played a pivotal role in making these dramas more accessible, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a broader appreciation of Korean content in India.ย 

์ตœ๊ทผ ์ธ๋„์—์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์˜ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ธ‰์ƒ์Šนํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ๋„ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์˜ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ผ์ธ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ • ํ‘œํ˜„์— ๋งค๋ฃŒ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ, ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜19 ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋„ทํ”Œ๋ฆญ์Šค์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์•„์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทธ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ํ™•์‚ฐ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย ์ธ๋„์—์„œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๋ฐ›๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ 10์„ ์„ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Here are the top 10 Korean dramas that have resonated deeply with Indian viewers:

1. Crash Landing on You

Synopsis: This romantic drama tells the story of Yoon Se-ri (Son Ye-jin), a South Korean heiress who, after a paragliding mishap, lands in North Korea. There, she meets Ri Jeong-hyeok (Hyun Bin), a North Korean army officer, who helps her hide and eventually return to South Korea.

Main Cast: Son Ye-jin as Yoon Se-ri, Hyun Bin as Ri Jeong-hyeok.

Reasons for Popularity: The forbidden love narrative set against the backdrop of North and South Korea's political tensions intrigued Indian audiences. The chemistry between the lead actors and the portrayal of universal themes of love and sacrifice further enhanced its appeal.

์‚ฌ๋ž‘์˜ ๋ถˆ์‹œ์ฐฉ (Crash Landing on You)

์ด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋Š” ๋‚จ๋ถํ•œ์˜ ์ด๋…์„ ์ดˆ์›”ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฒŒ ์ƒ์†๋…€ ์œค์„ธ๋ฆฌ(์†์˜ˆ์ง„ ๋ถ„)์™€ ๋ถํ•œ ์žฅ๊ต ๋ฆฌ์ •ํ˜(ํ˜„๋นˆ ๋ถ„)์˜ ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค๋Š” ์ธ๋„ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ๊ฐ๋™์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„๋นˆ๊ณผ ์†์˜ˆ์ง„์˜ ์ผ€๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์˜ ๋ชฐ์ž…๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋“ค์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ธ๋„์—์„œ๋„ ํฐ ํ™”์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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2. Kingdom

Synopsis: Set in Korea's Joseon period, this thriller combines political intrigue with a zombie apocalypse. Crown Prince Lee Chang (Ju Ji-hoon) investigates a mysterious plague that resurrects the dead, threatening the kingdom.

Main Cast: Ju Ji-hoon as Crown Prince Lee Chang, Bae Doona as Seo-bi, Ryu Seung-ryong as Cho Hak-ju.

Reasons for Popularity: The unique blend of historical drama and horror captivated Indian viewers. Its high production quality and gripping storyline kept audiences on the edge of their seats.

ํ‚น๋ค (Kingdom)

์กฐ์„  ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ์ข€๋น„ ์Šค๋ฆด๋Ÿฌ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋กœ, ์ •์น˜์  ์Œ๋ชจ์™€ ์ƒ์กด์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํˆฌ์Ÿ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์ง€ํ›ˆ, ๋ฐฐ๋‘๋‚˜, ๋ฅ˜์Šน๋ฃก ๋“ฑ์ด ์ฃผ์š” ๋ฐฐ์—ญ์„ ๋งก์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐ ๋„˜์น˜๋Š” ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์„ค์ •์œผ๋กœ ์ธ๋„ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์˜ ํฐ ํ˜ธ์‘์„ ์–ป์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์‹œ์ฆŒ 2๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐœ ์งํ›„ ๋„ทํ”Œ๋ฆญ์Šค ์ธ๋„ '์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ Top 10'์— ์˜ค๋ฅผ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋Œ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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3. It's Okay to Not Be Okay

Synopsis: This series revolves around Moon Gang-tae (Kim Soo-hyun), a caretaker at a psychiatric ward, and Ko Moon-young (Seo Yea-ji), a children's book author with antisocial personality disorder. Together, they embark on a journey of emotional healing.

Main Cast: Kim Soo-hyun as Moon Gang-tae, Seo Yea-ji as Ko Moon-young.

Reasons for Popularity: The drama's exploration of mental health themes, combined with a touching romance, resonated with Indian audiences. The lead actors' performances and the show's aesthetic appeal added to its charm.

์‚ฌ์ด์ฝ”์ง€๋งŒ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„ (It's Okay to Not Be Okay)

์ด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋Š” ์ •์‹ ๋ณ‘๋™ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์‚ฌ์™€ ๋™ํ™” ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์น˜์œ ์™€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊น€์ˆ˜ํ˜„๊ณผ ์„œ์˜ˆ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์—ฐ์„ ๋งก์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ์—ฐ์ถœ๋กœ ์ธ๋„ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๊น€์ˆ˜ํ˜„์˜ ์„ฌ์„ธํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํฐ ํ˜ธํ‰์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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4. Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha

Synopsis: Yoon Hye-jin (Shin Min-a), a dentist from Seoul, relocates to the seaside village of Gongjin. There, she meets Hong Du-sik (Kim Seon-ho), a jack-of-all-trades, and their contrasting personalities lead to a heartwarming romance.

Main Cast: Shin Min-a as Yoon Hye-jin, Kim Seon-ho as Hong Du-sik.

Reasons for Popularity: The serene village setting and the depiction of community life provided a comforting escape for viewers. The chemistry between the leads and the show's lighthearted narrative made it a favorite among Indian fans.

๊ฐฏ๋งˆ์„ ์ฐจ์ฐจ์ฐจ (Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha)

๋„์‹œ ์น˜๊ณผ์˜์‚ฌ ์œคํ˜œ์ง„(์‹ ๋ฏผ์•„ ๋ถ„)์ด ํ•ด์•ˆ ๋งˆ์„๋กœ ์ด์ฃผํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๋กœ๋งจํ‹ฑ ์ฝ”๋ฏธ๋””์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊น€์„ ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋งก์€ ํ™๋‘์‹ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ๋Š” ์ธ๋„ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์™€ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์ดฌ์˜์ง€๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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5. Squid Game

Synopsis: Hundreds of cash-strapped contestants accept an invitation to compete in children's games for a tempting prize, only to discover the deadly stakes involved.

Main Cast: Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun, Park Hae-soo as Cho Sang-woo, Jung Ho-yeon as Kang Sae-byeok.

Reasons for Popularity: Its intense storyline, social commentary, and unexpected twists made it a global phenomenon. Indian viewers were particularly drawn to its critique of societal inequalities and the portrayal of familiar childhood games with high stakes.

์˜ค์ง•์–ด ๊ฒŒ์ž„ (Squid Game)

์ƒ์กด ๊ฒŒ์ž„์„ ์†Œ์žฌ๋กœ ํ•œ ์ด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋Š” ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ํฐ ํ™”์ œ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ •์žฌ, ๋ฐ•ํ•ด์ˆ˜, ์ •ํ˜ธ์—ฐ ๋“ฑ์ด ์ถœ์—ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€์™€ ์Šค๋ฆด ๋„˜์น˜๋Š” ์ „๊ฐœ๋กœ ์ธ๋„์—์„œ๋„ ํฐ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋Œ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์— ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต ๋†€์ด๋“ค์€ ์ธ๋„ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ ์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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6. Vincenzo

Synopsis: Vincenzo Cassano (Song Joong-ki), a Korean-Italian mafia lawyer, returns to South Korea and employs his own form of justice against corrupt entities.

Main Cast: Song Joong-ki as Vincenzo Cassano, Jeon Yeo-been as Hong Cha-young.

Reasons for Popularity: The anti-hero narrative, combined with dark humor and thrilling sequences, appealed to Indian audiences. Song Joong-ki's charismatic portrayal of Vincenzo added to the show's allure.

๋นˆ์„ผ์กฐ (Vincenzo)

์ดํƒˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ ๋งˆํ”ผ์•„ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ์ธ ๋นˆ์„ผ์กฐ ๊นŒ์‚ฌ๋…ธ(์†ก์ค‘๊ธฐ ๋ถ„)๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™€ ์•…๋‹น๋“ค์„ ์ฒ˜๋‹จํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†ก์ค‘๊ธฐ์˜ ์นด๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ ๋„˜์น˜๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ธฐ์™€ ์œ ๋จธ๋Ÿฌ์Šคํ•œ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์ธ๋„ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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7. Itaewon Class

Synopsis: Park Sae-ro-yi (Park Seo-joon) opens a bar-restaurant in Itaewon after facing numerous personal tragedies. The series follows his journey of revenge and success against a powerful conglomerate.

Main Cast: Park Seo-joon as Park Sae-ro-yi, Kim Da-mi as Jo Yi-seo.

Reasons for Popularity: Themes of resilience, entrepreneurship, and challenging societal norms resonated with Indian viewers. The diverse characters and their personal growth stories added depth to the narrative.

์ดํƒœ์› ํด๋ผ์“ฐ (Itaewon Class)

์ฒญ๋…„ ์‚ฌ์—…๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ•์ƒˆ๋กœ์ด(๋ฐ•์„œ์ค€ ๋ถ„)๊ฐ€ ์ดํƒœ์›์—์„œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฟˆ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ•์„œ์ค€๊ณผ ๊น€๋‹ค๋ฏธ์˜ ์—ด์—ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ๋„ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ๊ฐ๋™์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋„์ „๊ณผ ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

8. Hospital Playlist

Synopsis: Five doctors, who have been friends since medical school, navigate their careers, relationships, and personal lives while working at the same hospital.

Main Cast: Jo Jung-suk as Lee Ik-jun, Yoo Yeon-seok as Ahn Jeong-won, Jung Kyung-ho as Kim Jun-wan.

Reasons for Popularity: The slice-of-life storytelling, combined with relatable characters and heartfelt moments, made it a comforting watch for many.

์Šฌ๊ธฐ๋กœ์šด ์˜์‚ฌ์ƒํ™œ (Hospital Playlist)

์˜๋Œ€ ๋™๊ธฐ 5๋ช…์˜ ์šฐ์ •๊ณผ ์ผ์ƒ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ์ด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋Š” ์กฐ์ •์„, ์œ ์—ฐ์„, ์ •๊ฒฝํ˜ธ ๋“ฑ์ด ์ถœ์—ฐํ•˜์—ฌ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ธ๋„ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜๋ฃŒ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์ธ๊ฐ„์ ์ธ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋“ค์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

9. Mr. Sunshine

Synopsis: Set in the early 1900s, the series tells the story of a Korean boy born into slavery who escapes to the United States, returning later as a U.S. Marine officer. He falls in love with an aristocrat's daughter amidst the backdrop of Korea's fight for independence.

Main Cast: Lee Byung-hun as Eugene Choi, Kim Tae-ri as Go Ae-shin.

Reasons for Popularity: The historical

๋ฏธ์Šคํ„ฐ ์…˜์ƒค์ธ (Mr. Sunshine)

๊ตฌํ•œ๋ง์„ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ์ด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ตฐ์ธ์ด ๋œ ์กฐ์„ ์ธ ๋‚จ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์–‘๋ฐ˜ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์˜ ์—ฌ์ธ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ณ‘ํ—Œ๊ณผ ๊น€ํƒœ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์—ฐ์„ ๋งก์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์˜์ƒ๋ฏธ์™€ ๊นŠ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์ธ๋„ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์˜ ํฐ ํ˜ธ์‘์„ ์–ป์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

10. Hotel Del Luna

Synopsis: "Hotel Del Luna" is a unique establishment that caters exclusively to wandering spirits. Its owner, Jang Man-wol (Lee Ji-eun), is bound to the hotel due to a past sin. The story unfolds as elite hotelier Goo Chan-sung (Yeo Jin-goo) becomes the new manager, navigating the supernatural events within the hotel.

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Main Cast: Lee Ji-eun as Jang Man-wol, Yeo Jin-goo as Goo Chan-sung, Shin Jung-geun as Kim Sun-bi, Bae Hae-sun as Choi Seo-hee, Pyo Ji-hoon as Ji Hyun-joong, Kang Mi-na as Kim Yoo-na.

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Reasons for Popularity: The blend of fantasy, romance, and horror elements, along with stellar performances by the cast, particularly Lee Ji-eun (IU) and Yeo Jin-goo, captivated Indian audiences. The intricate storyline and high production quality further contributed to its appeal.

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ํ˜ธํ…” ๋ธ๋ฃจ๋‚˜ (Hotel Del Luna)

๊ท€์‹  ์ „์šฉ ํ˜ธํ…”์„ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ์ด ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋Š” ์•„์ด์œ ์™€ ์—ฌ์ง„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์—ฐ์„ ๋งก์•„ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ํŒํƒ€์ง€ ๋กœ๋งจ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ๋น„์ฃผ์–ผ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๋™์ ์ธ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์ธ๋„ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋“ค์€ ์ธ๋„ ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ฐ์ •๊ณผ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ™”์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ์˜ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ธ๋„์—์„œ์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ ์ธ๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž์„ธํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์•„๋ž˜ ์˜์ƒ์„ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

[์ธ๋„๋ฐ˜์‘]โ€œ๋„ทํ”Œ๋ฆญ์Šค K๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ 1์œ„ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ์ธ๋„ K๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ ์—ดํ’!โ€โ€œ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ฏธ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋ก๋œ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์—ฌ์ž๋‹ค!โ€

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