The BEST SBS shows of all time
Every SBS show, ranked
We've compiled the average episode rating for every SBS show to compile this list of best shows!
#1 - Love Temperature
Hyun Soo dreams of becoming a drama script writer. In order to pursue her dreams, she quits her job. Jung Sun dreams of becoming a chef. As a child, he used to get comforted by his mother's cooking. These two people meet before and after they achieve their dreams. They love each other and know how much their partner cares for them. However, this couple has difficulty with the concept of love. She is hindered by the society that tells her she mustn't love a man who's six years younger than her, and he is hindered by his own psychology telling him he mustn't love if he can't provide for her. Regardless of their situations, this man and this woman end up falling in love.
View Episode Rankings#2 - Cain and Abel
Envious his brother is favored by their dad and a woman he loves, a doctor takes drastic measures to dominate his sibling at their hospital workplace.
View Episode Rankings#3 - Innocent Defendant
Charged with killing his wife and daughter, Prosecutor Park Jeong-u seeks to recoup his memory and build a case unlike any other to prove he’s innocent.
View Episode Rankings#4 - Judge vs. Judge
An unconventional judge sets out to prove the innocence of her brother, a convict accused of rape and murder, with the help of a fellow justice.
View Episode Rankings#5 - The Village: Achiara's Secret
Achiara is a quiet, peaceful village with hardly any crime. But on her first day of school there, English language instructor Kim So-yoon discovers a buried corpse. As the townspeople speculate on the identity of the dead person and the reason she was killed, So-yoon and policeman Park Woo-jae become determined to solve the mystery.
View Episode Rankings#6 - Scarlet Heart: Ryeo
A 21st-century woman who travels back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty during a solar eclipse. Where becomes embroiled in political battles of deception, secrecy, and lies.
View Episode Rankings#7 - I Have a Lover
After losing her memory in a car accident, a woman falls in love with the husband she once despised. Is it fate, or are things not quite what they seem?
View Episode Rankings#8 - Family Outing
Family Outing was a South Korean variety show that was a part of SBS's Good Sunday lineup. It first aired on June 15, 2008 and the first season ended on February 14, 2010. The second season began on February 21, 2010 and ended on July 11, 2010. The show is a two day one night show split into two episodes. The first 'Family' is composed of Yu Jae-suk, Yoon Jong-shin, Kang Dae-sung, Lee Hyo-ri, Kim Soo-ro, Kim Jong-kook, Park Hae-jin, Park Si-yeon, Park Ye-jin and Lee Chun-hee. The Family, along with a special guests, travels to different parts of South Korea and takes care of the house of an elderly family while that family goes on a vacation. The Family then accomplishes the tasks left for them by the house's owners. Along with the tasks, they play games and make dinner and breakfast for themselves. The second Family is composed of Yoon Sang-hyun, Kim Won-hee, Ji Sang-ryul, Shin Bong-sun, Yoona, Taecyeon, Jo Kwon, Kim Hee-chul, and Jang Dong-min. A total of 102 episodes have aired.
View Episode Rankings#9 - Wanted (KR)
To save her kidnapped son, a famous actress agrees to tackle a series of missions on a perverse reality show to uncover clues and catch the culprit.
View Episode Rankings#10 - SWITCH
A man is a swindler. He is smart enough to take the bar exam, but he could not become a prosecutor. Disregarding favoritism and biases by prosecutors, the man makes criminals pay for crimes that prosecutors did not
View Episode Rankings#11 - You're Beautiful
Posing as her twin brother in a boy band, a young woman wins the heart of her bandmates and fans, all the while searching for her long-lost mother.
View Episode Rankings#12 - It's Okay, That's Love
Jang Jae-yul is a famous mystery novelist and popular radio DJ who suffers from OCD. When he meets Ji Hae-soo, a first-year psychiatry fellow at the hospital where he is being treated, they help each other work through their deep-rooted emotional issues.
View Episode Rankings#13 - While You Were Sleeping
A young woman with bad premonition dreams meets two people who suddenly develop the same ability. Nam Hong Joo lives with her mother, Yoon Moon Sun, a widow who runs a small restaurant. Jung Jae Chan, a rookie prosecutor, and his younger brother, Seung Won, move in across the street. Since she was young, Hong Joo has had the ability to see bad events before they happen, but she is often unable to do anything about it. One day, Jae Chan has a strange premonition dream about an accident involving Hong Joo. Jae Chan decides to interfere in the course of events and ends up saving the lives of Hong Joo and Han Woo Tak, a young police officer. When Jae Chan, Hong Joo and Woo Tak then start having dreams about one another, they realize that their lives are now somehow entwined. But can the three discover the reason that they were brought together, and can they prevent the people closest to them from getting hurt?
View Episode Rankings#14 - BBS: The Documentary
Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connecting the planet and redefining what it meant to meant to be a computer user... ...there was a brave and pioneering band of hobbyists who spent their time, money and sanity setting up their home computers and phone lines to welcome anyone who called. By using a modem, anyone who knew the phone number of these machines could connect to them, leave messages, play games, send and receive files in a virtual community... and millions did. They called these places "Bulletin Board Systems", or BBSes. Their collections of messages, rants thoughts and dreams became the way that an entire generation learned about being online.
View Episode Rankings#15 - Yong Pal
Operating under the alias Yong-pal, a surgeon gets enmeshed in a dark conspiracy involving a chaebol heiress forcibly put in a medically induced coma.
View Episode Rankings#16 - The Time We Were Not In Love
Jang Ha Na and Choi Won are incredibly close platonic friends: throughout 20 years, they've braved it all through thick and thin. As Ha Na's 30th birthday approaches, Won extols the virtues of aging as a man—like a wine—while explaining that women are like grapes that shrivel into raisins. Determined to prove him wrong, Ha Na strikes a bet on which of the two will marry before turning 35. Based on Taiwan's hit In Can these two friends make the ultimate leap?
View Episode Rankings#17 - A Thousand Days' Promise
A story about a woman who’s slowly losing her memory but a man still love her unconditionally and stay beside her.
View Episode Rankings#18 - City Hunter (KR)
The story takes place in Seoul, 2011. Lee Yoon-sung is a talented MIT-graduate who's working on the international communications team at the Blue House. He encounters dangerous situations while solving a variety of cases, both big and small, for people who need his help, and eventually becomes a "city hunter."
View Episode Rankings#19 - Doctors (2016)
A recalcitrant, delinquent teen girl meets a compassionate teacher, who inspires her to alter her path and become a street-savvy neurosurgeon.
View Episode Rankings#20 - Prosecutor Princess
Ma Hye Ri is a woman with an excellent memory and ability to focus, which allowed her to pass the bar exam with ease. Despite her talents, she is more interested in being fashionable and dislikes hard work, so she is far from being an ideal prosecutor and has doubts about her suitability for her job. Through her conflicts with senior colleages and struggles with difficult cases, however, Hye Ri gradually matures into a brilliant prosecutor with a sense of duty and justice.
View Episode Rankings#21 - Hyde, Jekyll, and I
Koo Seo Jin reaches an all-time low when he uses his power as a theme park director to decommission Wonderland's popular circus. Refusing to give into the demands of her frosty boss, ringleader Jang Ha Na puts up a fight, but is thrown off guard when Seo Jin's secret persona reveals itself with genuine kindness. In the battle to save her circus, Ha Na realizes she must tease out Seo Jin's brighter side with magic, wonder and love, but who's listening — Jekyll or Hyde?
View Episode Rankings#22 - Ghost
A detective in the cyber investigations department uncovers a conspiracy that's close to home when he leads the pursuit of a hacker known as Hades.
View Episode Rankings#23 - Go Ho's Starry Night
Go Ho is a 29-year-old advertisement contractor who wants success in both her career and romance. Unfortunately, neither seems to be working out particularly well because the only two men in her life are Kang Tae Ho, her short-tempered boss, and Hwang Ji Hoon, her ex-boyfriend. Dealing with their increasingly irritating behavior and her decreasingly abundant time until she hits the “big thirty,” can Go Ho reach for the skies and capture her dreams, or will this starry night end in darkness?
View Episode Rankings#24 - Secret Garden
A wealthy man and a poor stunt girl fall in love. But things get complicated when their souls become inexplicably swapped and dark secrets surface.
View Episode Rankings#25 - Pinocchio (2014)
In-ha and Ha-myeong become reporters for different reasons: one aspires to follow in her mother’s footsteps and the other seeks to do honest news.
View Episode Rankings#26 - Swift and Shift Couriers
Swift and Shift Couriers is an Australian comedy television series that first screened on SBS TV in October 2008. The nine-part series is produced, directed and written by Paul Fenech, who was also responsible for the comedy series Fat Pizza. The series is set around the staff who work at the 'Swift and Shift' Courier Company, in the central business district of Sydney. Episodes have been partly filmed in Egypt and Thailand.
View Episode Rankings#27 - Dr. Romantic
Kim Sabu, who was once considered the best surgeon in Korea, suddenly disappears after the death of a patient. He reappears at Doldam Hospital, a small town hospital, and together with passionate young doctors, treats various patients, delivering comfort and healing to many people.
View Episode Rankings#28 - Lie to Me (2011)
A spunky Ministry of Culture official gets caught in a web of lies when she claims to be married to a wealthy and handsome hotel manager.
View Episode Rankings#29 - Running Man
Teams of celebrities scramble to complete various challenges around well-known locations in South Korea's long-running variety show.
View Episode Rankings#30 - Beautiful Gong Shim
Though Gong Shim has a heart of gold, she's resigned to living under the shadow of her sister Gong Mi, who inherited both beauty and brains. Meanwhile, two half-brothers—Ahn Dan-tae, a class-warrior, and Suk Joon-soo, a chaebol heir—couldn't have any less in common besides their mutual interests in Gong Shim.
View Episode Rankings#31 - Protect the Boss
No Eun Seol finally gets a job as a secretary at a law firm after struggling with unemployment, only to fall in love with her boss, Cha Ji Heon, the immature youngest son of a chaebol family.
View Episode Rankings#32 - Come Back, Mister
Unable to accept their fate of death, two men jump out of the train to heaven for one last chance to return to their old lives — in new bodies.
View Episode Rankings#33 - Entertainer
Shin Suk-Ho worked for the biggest entertainment company as a director, but he is now the CEO of a new and tiny entertainment company. He gathers people to form a band. Through various incidents, Shin Suk-Ho becomes a real and successful manager.
View Episode Rankings#34 - Six Flying Dragons
As the Joseon state emerges in the wake of the Goryeo kingdom, the Six Dragons engage in a great power struggle and battle it out for supreme control.
View Episode Rankings#35 - My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho
Cha Dae-woong is a spoiled brat with plans to become a successful action star. One day, on the run from his rich grandfather's latest fit of rage towards him, he accidentally frees a nine-tailed fox (gumiho) who has been imprisoned in a painting for 500 years. Frightened at first, he runs away to the woods and ends up getting seriously injured. Feeling indebted to him, gumiho gives him her " fox orb " a powerful part of her life force, to heal him. When he wakes up, the two form an awkward partnership, as Dae-woong begins to rely on the power of the orb to shoot his action sequences, while also giving in to Mi-ho's request to teach her how to act human. Though Dae-woong is initially acting out of fear, things start to change as he gradually begins to fall for her. However, Mi-ho will be faced with a terrible choice as her time in human form runs out in this heart-wrenching comedy.
View Episode Rankings#36 - Jang Ok Jung
The story of Korea's infamous royal concubine Jang Hui-bin gets a spin as she enters the palace as a sought-after fashion designer of the Joseon era.
View Episode Rankings#37 - My Love from the Star
An alien who came to Earth 400 years ago is almost able to return to his own planet, but when he meets a famous actress, he doesn't want to go home.
View Episode Rankings#38 - Who Do You Think You Are? (AU)
Some of Australia's most well known faces trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.
View Episode Rankings#39 - Jealousy Incarnate
Getting ahead in a broadcasting station is tough and the competition is fierce -- but when a news anchor and meteorologist start to fall for each other, things get much more complicated.
View Episode Rankings#40 - God's Gift: 14 Days
Kim Soo-hyun experiences the unfathomable when her daughter is kidnapped and murdered. Discovering a miraculous ability to go back in time exactly two weeks before the event, Soo-hyun races against the clock to unravel the plot and save her daughter. But when a private investigator sheds new light on the crime, Soo-hyun uncovers a secret far more treacherous than she could have ever imagined.
View Episode Rankings#41 - All About My Romance
Kim Soo-young is a newly elected member of the national assembly. He is a member of the conservative New Korea Party. Prior to his election, Kim Soo-young worked as a judge, but became pressured by higher ups and decided to enter the political world. Now, Kim Soo-young becomes involved in a tangled situation with national assembly member No Min-young, who entered the political world after her sister's death. No Min-young's sister was a presidential candidate. No Min-young is also a member of the Progressive Labor Party, who only has two members in the national assembly. Kim Soo-young and No Min-young then begin to have romantic feelings for each other.
View Episode Rankings#42 - Warrior Baek Dong Soo
Baek Dong Soo becomes the top swordsman in the land, and must come face-to-face with childhood friend Yeo Woon and his group of clandestine assassins.
View Episode Rankings#43 - Tree With Deep Roots
After losing his family in an attack, a vengeful young man plots to kill the king and becomes entangled in the mystery of a secret writing society.
View Episode Rankings#44 - That Winter, the Wind Blows
Seeing the chance to enrich himself by deceiving a blind heiress, clever con man Oh Soo just does what comes naturally, but his plans soon change.
View Episode Rankings#45 - Roommate
Roommate (Korean: 룸메이트) is a South Korean reality show; a part of SBS's Good Sunday lineup, along with Running Man. It was first aired on May 4, 2014. The show features eleven celebrities living together in a share house, sharing common spaces such as the kitchen, living room, and washrooms, as well as household tasks. The house features sixty cameras and five bedrooms. The program is a response to society today where single-person households are dramatically increasing and aims to show the life, troubles, and joys of eleven different celebrities as they form friendships, relationships and possibly enemies living together under one roof.
View Episode Rankings#46 - Law of the Jungle
The cast of celebrities travel to primitive, natural places to survive on their own and experience life with local tribes and people. The show is a hybrid of reality-variety television, natural documentaries, and human drama; a new concept of programming.
View Episode Rankings#47 - Mask
Burdened by debt and hounded by creditors, Byun Ji-sook seizes a chance to change her life when she meets a wealthy woman who looks exactly like her.
View Episode Rankings#48 - High Society (2015)
Wealthy heiress Jang Yoon-ha takes a part-time job at a food market in an attempt to hide her privilege and find true love outside her social class.
View Episode Rankings#49 - Pizza
Fat Pizza is a hilarious series about a pizza shop and its wild employees. Fat Pizza has grown famous because of their portrayal of Ethnic life. Fat Pizza is based on the lives of five Ethnic people and one Australian pot-head. Pauly, the obsessed rev head who claimed he was a once professional boxer and wrestler, who works at the Fat Pizza shop and gets paid three dollars an hour is constantly told off by his boss, gets into fights with people, does burnouts in his car and loves pick up the ladies. Sleek, the amusing Lebanese rapper who claims he rapped with Eminem, Snoop Dogg and 2pac, picks up chicks, dealing and using drugs, gets into trouble with the police constantly with his gang and rapping in his car. And BoBo, the hilariously feared boss of the Fat Pizza shop.
View Episode Rankings#50 - Angel Eyes
A cardiac surgeon and a rescue worker who, in their youth, were forced apart by harsh circumstances are reunited. Can a sweet first love be rekindled?
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