Apart from Netflix and Disney Plus, Viki is one of the popular streamers showing popular K-dramas. It also provides a few episodes for free. Lovely Runner and The Midnight Romance in Hagwon are some of the top 2024 K-dramas with free episodes on Viki.
Byeon Woo-Seok’s Lovely Runner ended in May 2024, but not all the episodes are available on the streamer for free. Meanwhile, The Midnight Romance in Hagwon, Dare to Love Me, and The Player 2: Master of Swindlers are the ongoing K-dramas. Viki has allowed the first two episodes of all four 2024 dramas for free.
The streamer has two kinds of affordable schemes for subscribers. The Viki Pass Standard costs $5.99 per month, and the Viki Pass Plus is priced at $9.99 monthly. Let’s take a look at some of the top 2024 K-dramas with free episodes to watch on Viki.
Lovely Runner
Lovely Runner is a time-slip romance K-drama starring Byeon Woo-Seok and Kim Hye-Yoon. It tells the story of Im Sol, who is in a wheelchair after a traumatic incident. When she had lost all hope in the world, rising star Ryu Sun-Jae showed her light. Since then, she has been an ardent fan of top star Sun-Jae, a lead singer of boy band Eclipse.
One day, Im Sol hears the devastating news of Sun-Jae’s sudden death. Filled with grief, Im Sol cannot understand when she magically travels back 15 years into the past. She is now a 19-year-old high school girl who learns that Sun-Jae is her neighbor. This is how her quest to save his life begins in different timelines.
Lovely Runner has become the highly-rated K-drama of 2024 and is available on Viki. However, only the first two episodes are free.
The Midnight Romance in Hagwon
The Midnight Romance in Hagwon is another 2024 heartfelt romance drama. Starring Wi Ha-Joon as Lee Jun-Ho and Jung Ryeo-Won as Seo Hye-Jin, the series tells the story of a man and his first love.
Jun-Ho leaves a multinational company and returns to the academy where he used to study before enrolling in university. In the academy, he joins as an instructor and bumps into his first love, Hye-Jin.
She was his instructor ten years ago at the same academy. She is still the legendary teacher whose life goes upside down after Jun-Ho shows up one day. After Queen of Tears and Lovely Runner, tvN network has provided another heart-melting romance drama.
Dare to Love Me
Dare to Love Me is an ongoing K-drama on KBS and Viki. Starring Kim Myung-Soo and Lee Yoo-Young, the series revolves around Shin Yun-Bok’s fate getting entangled with Kim Hong-Do. Yun-Bok wants to become a webtoon writer, but his community is conservative.
Desperate and passionate, he leaves his village to explore the world outside his community. During this time, he meets an art teacher named Kim Hong-Do. She is frustrated with her life because she doesn’t see any future in her chosen path. Soon, Hong-Do and Yun-Bok get closer as she becomes his teacher.
Its official synopsis reads, “After leaving his rural hometown, which was built on Joseon principles, a man meets a woman with a big personality who tests his rigid social boundaries.” Aside from Viki and KBS, it is also available on Netflix.
The Player 2: Master of Swindlers
The Player 2: Master of Swindlers is also an ongoing South Korean drama that premiered on July 3, 2024. So far, Viki has released two free episodes. From the next episode, viewers have to subscribe to the streamer.
The series stars Song Seung-Heon, Oh Yeon-Seo, Tae Won-Seok, Lee Si-Eon, and Jang Gyu-Ri. The second installment of The Player franchise tells the story of a group of swindlers who steal money from rich scammers. It is an action-crime drama, airing on tvN network every Monday and Tuesday.
