The BEST JTBC shows of all time
Every JTBC show, ranked
We've compiled the average episode rating for every JTBC show to compile this list of best shows!
#1 - MONSTA X-RAY
MONSTA X, through “MONSTA X-RAY”, plans to present “beagle” sides of themselves that they were unable to show on broadcasts and on stages before. MONSTA X members said, “Because it’s a program with our name in it, we will do our best on it. Like the program name, we are ready to show our everything, to our very bones".
View Episode Rankings#2 - Heartless City
Shi-Hyun grew up in an orphanage, before running away from there. He then made a living by working as a drug courier and picked up the nickname "Doctor's Son." He's now the boss of a mid-size gang. His drug supplier is a man known as Scale. Shi-Hyun has plans take over his position. Meanwhile, Hyeong-Min becomes the section chief of a special investigation unit. Their goal is to take down Scale, who killed an undercover officer. While trying to catch Scale, Hyeong-Min learns about Doctor's Son. Now, Hyeong-Min and his team go after Shi-Hyun.
View Episode Rankings#3 - Hyori's Bed & Breakfast
The famous diva, Lee Hyo-ri, has been taking a long hiatus from the spotlight and enjoying her life in the suburbs of Jeju Island with her husband. The couple has decided to open up their home as a Bed and Breakfast to various people to offer them a time of healing and rest from their busy lives.
View Episode Rankings#4 - The Good Bad Mother
A tragic accident leaves an ambitious prosecutor with the mind of a child — forcing him and his mother to embark on a journey to heal their relationship.
View Episode Rankings#5 - IN THE SOOP: Friendcation
In their first public travel record, five friends, Park Seo-joon, Peakboy, Choi Woo-shik, Park Hyung-sik, and V are sent on a four-day friendcation to Goseong.
View Episode Rankings#6 - Men on a Mission
Male celebs play make-believe as high schoolers, welcoming star transfer students every week and engaging in battles of witty humor and slapstick.
View Episode Rankings#7 - Beyond Evil
Two ex-detectives who have fallen from grace in the city become patrol officers in a quiet town with a history of a notorious cold case: a serial killer whose signature move is laying cutting off the fingertips of the women he murders. The only suspect that the case ever had is one of the patrol officers, and his partner is here to figure out if he’s a monster who’s responsible for the murders, or a man who became a monster to find out who did it.
View Episode Rankings#8 - Schoolgirl Detectives
A mystery romance about five female high school students who form a detective group and set out to pick apart unresolved mysteries from around the school.
View Episode Rankings#9 - SKY Castle
Four women live in swanky SKY Castle where the top 0.1% of Korea live. They are from prestigious families and want to raise their husbands as kings and their children as the best princes and princesses.
View Episode Rankings#10 - Family by Choice (2024)
Yoon Ju-won is a bright, down-to-earth girl who lives with her single father, Yoon Jung-jae, when Kim San-ha and Kang Hae-jun, two boys from complicated circumstances, come into her life. Her father takes in the boys to grow up together as a family. Despite being unrelated by blood, Ju-won adores San-ha and Hae-jun and thinks of them as her brothers, no matter how differently others think or say. They reunite after a decade apart - facing new dynamics, unresolved pain and the complexities of adulthood.
View Episode Rankings#11 - Strong Woman Do Bong-soon
Born with supernatural strength, Bong-soon fights evil and procures justice while getting tangled in a love triangle with her CEO boss and cop crush.
View Episode Rankings#12 - Snowdrop
When a blood-soaked man bursts into the dormitory of a women’s university in Seoul, Eun Yeong-ro will go against her better judgement and risk being expelled to hide the man from his attackers and tend to his wounds. Unbeknownst to Yeong-ro, the man has a harrowing secret that threatens to put her friends’ and family’s safety at risk, and the two young lovers will have to work together to overcome the obstacles.
View Episode Rankings#13 - Somehow 18
The story of a man who used to be an outcast and how he travels back in time to when he was 18 years old in order to save his love.
View Episode Rankings#14 - 18 Again
Tells the story of a husband named Hong Dae Young who is on the verge of divorce but finds himself back in his body when he was at the prime of his life 18 years ago. He ends up changing his name to Go Woo Young when he becomes 18- years-old again. Meanwhile, his wife Jung Da Jung joins the workforce as an anchorwoman later on in life after raising their 18-year-old twins.
View Episode Rankings#15 - Madame Antoine
This is a Romantic-Comedy drama revolved around psychological themes, and viewers will get to experience a wide range of emotions as they follow the onscreen medical experts’ lives. Go Hye Rim (Han Ye Seul) is a famous fortune-teller. She is known as “Madame Antoine” and insists that she is spiritually connected to Marie Antoinette, but that part is a lie. She is able to see through people’s stories due to her intelligence and keen sense. She dreams of having love in a romantic film. She then takes part in a psychological test project conducted by psychotherapist Choi Soo Hyun (Sung Joon). His goal is to prove that true love does not exist. Coincidentally, the name for his psychological treatment center is Madame Antoine.
View Episode Rankings#16 - Just Between Lovers
Two survivors of a building collapse discover support and love in each other as they overcome the pain of loss and reconstruct a hopeful future.
View Episode Rankings#17 - Secret Love Affair
Despite being married and having a fulfilling career as a sophisticated arts foundation director, something is missing in Oh Hye Won's life. When she meets twenty-something Lee Seon Jae, Hye Won's appetite for passion is awakened, and she soon falls for the impoverished piano prodigy. Though they risk everything, Hye Won and Seon Jae can't help but embark on an affair that threatens to destroy both their lives.
View Episode Rankings#18 - Hello, My Twenties!
With different personalities, and life goals, five female college students become housemates in a shared residence called Belle Epoque.
View Episode Rankings#19 - Itaewon Class
In a colorful Seoul neighborhood, an ex-con and his friends fight a mighty foe to make their ambitious dreams for their street bar a reality.
View Episode Rankings#20 - Lost (2021)
The story of a 40-year-old ghostwriter who feels like she has accomplished nothing and a 27-year-old man who is scared that he will achieve nothing with his life.
View Episode Rankings#21 - Padam Padam
“Padam” which means ‘to thump’ in French is a drama about a man who lived life according to its own course but meets a woman he shouldn’t love and about his breathtaking love for her. Yang Kang Chil just came out from prison after 16 years. He was jailed because of a murder he never did. After released from prison, he goes to Seoul accompanied by his guardian angel, Lee Gook Soo. Meanwhile, Han Ji Min will play Jung Ji Na, a cheerful veterinarian who loves Kang Chil.
View Episode Rankings#22 - Welcome to Samdal-ri
After suffering a fall from grace, a photographer returns to her hometown and bumps into her childhood friend — rekindling an unfinished romance.
View Episode Rankings#23 - Last
When a critical business deal goes belly up, Jang Tae Ho finds himself homeless and on the run from dangerous loan sharks. As the once-successful financier struggles to climb his way out of poverty, he encounters an underground community within the subway system, where an entirely different set of rules govern the lives of countless homeless denizens.
View Episode Rankings#24 - Falling in Love with Soon Jung
Kang Min Ho is young man who want to revenge his uncle's unjust takeover of his father's company. Then he needs to undergo a heart transplant surgery. After the surgery, he completely changes and begins to learn the true meaning of love.
View Episode Rankings#25 - Beautiful World
Park Moo-Jin and Kang In-Ha are a married couple. Park Moo-Jin works as a high school teacher and Kang In-Ha runs a bakery. They enjoy their lives with their children. Their peaceful days soon turn into a hellish experience. Their son, who is in the 3rd grade of middle school, is seriously injured due to school violence. Park Moo-Jin and Kang In-Ha try to reveal the truth.
View Episode Rankings#26 - The World of the Married
A turbulent twister of lies, betrayals and revenge tears apart the seemingly picture-perfect marriage between a doctor and a filmmaker.
View Episode Rankings#27 - Be Melodramatic
At the start of their 30s, three friends navigate the demanding entertainment industry while juggling love, careers and dreams.
View Episode Rankings#28 - Woman of Dignity
Woo A-Jin lives a luxurious life due to her wealthy father-in-law, but her father-in-law's finances become decimated and her husband betrays her. Woo A-Jin's life hits rock bottom.
View Episode Rankings#29 - Mystic Pop-up Bar
A young man with a unique ability begins working for a centuries-old bar owner who resolves her customers' emotional troubles by entering their dreams.
View Episode Rankings#30 - My Liberation Notes
Three siblings, exhausted by the monotony of day-to-day adulthood, seek to find fulfillment and freedom from their unremarkable lives.
View Episode Rankings#31 - Miss Night and Day
A woman who magically switches between her 20s and 50s lands an internship at the Prosecution Service, caught between two generations and a tough boss.
View Episode Rankings#32 - Doctor Slump
Once rivals in school, two brilliant doctors reunite by chance — each facing life's worst slump and unexpectedly finding solace in each other.
View Episode Rankings#33 - Thirty-Nine
Leaning on each other through thick and thin, a trio of best friends stand together as they experience life, love and loss on the brink of turning 40.
View Episode Rankings#34 - King the Land
Amid a tense inheritance fight, a charming heir clashes with his hardworking employee who's known for her irresistible smile — which he cannot stand.
View Episode Rankings#35 - Reborn Rich
A secretary who manages enterprise risk for a wealthy family dies, then is reborn as the youngest son of that same family — with all his memories intact.
View Episode Rankings#36 - The Beauty Inside (2018)
Han Se Kye is a popular actress. Every month for a week, Han Se Kye's appearance changes to a different person she spends time with. One day she meets Seo Do Jae, who suffers from prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize her faces, and she notices something strange: he can recognize her face. The problem is that Han Se Kye's face is constantly changing.
View Episode Rankings#37 - Welcome to Waikiki
The story of three men who come to run a failing guesthouse called Waikiki. Complications spark when their guesthouse is visited by a single mother and her baby.
View Episode Rankings#38 - Something in the Rain
When a single career woman reunites with her best friend's younger brother after he returns from three years of working abroad, their efforts to reconnect grow into romance.
View Episode Rankings#39 - The Atypical Family
The story of a family with superpowers who lost their abilities due to a disease, and a man, who has extraordinary abilities but has saved no one, finally saves a woman of fate.
View Episode Rankings#40 - Miss Hammurabi
Park Cha O Reum works as a rookie judge. She is in her mid-20's and follows "an eye for an eye" principle. She does not accept prejudice or blindly follow authority. Dealing with cases, she and her colleagues, including Im Ba-Reun, grow as persons.
View Episode Rankings#41 - Solomon's Perjury
A male student's body is found at school. Authorities assume that the student killed himself in a fall. Other students at the school hold a trial to uncover the truth behind his death.
View Episode Rankings#42 - Fantastic
Love story between a drama writer with a terminal illness, and a Hallyu star.
View Episode Rankings#43 - Divorce Attorney Shin
Driven by a personal tragedy, a pianist-turned-lawyer navigates the complex world of divorce — fighting for his clients to win by any means necessary.
View Episode Rankings#44 - Destined With You
A lawyer bound by a centuries-old curse becomes entangled with a civil servant who holds the key to his freedom - igniting an unexpected romance.
View Episode Rankings#45 - A Virtuous Business
In search of purpose, opportunity and independence, four rural women start an adult products business in the 1990s — embarking on a rare journey of self-discovery.
View Episode Rankings#46 - The Light in Your Eyes
Time manipulation comes with a steep price for a young woman, who becomes 78 years old overnight after using a mysterious watch.
View Episode Rankings#47 - Law School
When a grim incident occurs at their prestigious school, justice through law is put to a test by a tough law professor and his ambitious students.
View Episode Rankings#48 - Idol: The Coup
Portrays the last story of “doomed idols” who need a single “success” in order to “disband.” The story of young people who confidently let go of their dreams as they grow through their failures and take courageous steps towards their new goals.
View Episode Rankings#49 - D-DAY
When a natural disaster strikes Seoul, a team of medical doctors and emergency personnel struggle to deal with its aftermath.
View Episode Rankings#50 - Behind Your Touch
A psychic vet and a detective join forces to crack small-town cases — but their skills are tested when they unravel a chilling serial killer mystery.
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