For Korean dramas, romance is one of their main attractions among global fans. While hit K-dramas like Crash Landing on You, Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, and others have become popular, another genre is gaining attention. “Boys’ Love” K-dramas, or BL, focus on love storylines between two male lead characters. The genre originated in Japan but has gained fame in K-dramas. Here are some “Boys’ Love” K-dramas from 2022 to get hooked on.
‘Color Rush 2’ is a ‘Boys’ Love’ K-drama with a supernatural element
In 2020, the first season of Color Rush developed a fan base. The drama is based on a Boys’ Love novel and focuses on two male lead characters. Yeon-woo (Yoo Jun) is a monochrome or “Mono.” He cannot see colors due to his total color blindness (achromatopsia). Every Mono is destined to have a “Probe,” a fated lover who will allow them to see color. He soon meets Yoo-han (Hur Hyun-jun), his probe. Instead of being happy, Yeon-woo stays away.
Color Rush 2 was confirmed and aired in 2022. It continues the storyline from the first season with Yeon-woo and Yoon-ha. But this time, mysterious events occur, and Yoon-ha and his mother vanish. Yeon-woo vows to find them and gets help from a classmate named Se-hyun (Hyuk). But Se-hyun also hides a secret.
Color Rush 2 is available to stream on Viki.
‘First Love, Again’ centers on a fated love between two characters
Yeon-seok (Jin Gun) is a popular web novelist with a hidden secret in the 2022 Boys’ Love K-drama. He is 300-years-old and has been searching for his first love from century to century. In his youth, he fell in love with a beautiful woman named Ha-yeon. Their social class status doomed their love from the start. Maintaining his memories, Yeon-seok looks for Ha-yeon in every new life, but it ends in tragedy.
Now in his third life, Yeon-seok does not give up. When he meets the editor in charge of his new novel, Yeon-seok is shocked to learn his first love has been reincarnated as a man. Ha-yeon (Jeon Chang-ha) is a successful social media influencer and undeniably handsome. While Yeon-seok wants nothing to do with him, their attraction makes it difficult.
First Love, Again is available to stream on Viki.
‘Kissable Lips’ is a ‘Boys’ Love’ K-drama for 2022 about a vampire
The allure of the supernatural is also present in Boys’ Love K-dramas. The 2022 drama Kissable Lips tells the story of Kim Jun-ho (Kim Ji-woong), a centuries-old vampire growing tired of his immortality. No longer wanting to live a long life, he searches for the only way to die.
Jun-ho must drink the blood of a pureblood human. Finding such a person is nearly impossible until Jun-ho meets Choi Min-hyun (Yoon Seo-bin). Jun-ho is attracted to Min-hyun’s good looks as well as his blood. Their relationship is in jeopardy due to Jun-ho’s crazy obsessed crush Kwon Hae-soo (Mun Ji-hu).
Hae-soo grows jealous of Jun-ho and Min-hyun’s growing bond and Jun-ho’s plans to become human. He develops a plan to destroy Min-hyun.
Kissable Lips is available to stream on Viki.
‘Semantic Error’ is an unexpected love story between two polar opposites
The 2022 Boys’ Love K-drama Semantic Error begins with the leading character Chu Sang-woo (Park Jae-chan). He is a computer science major at university who is quiet, keeps to himself, and values reasons and rules. Sang-woo is put in a group for a liberal arts project that will determine if the students pass the course. The group leaves Sang-woo to do all the work.
Valuing work ethic, Sang-woo removes the other students’ names from the project. He is unaware his actions catch the attention of the school’s most popular senior. Jang Jae-young (Park Seo-ham) is a design major and the closest the school has to a superstar. His academic ambitions to study abroad are ruined thanks to Sang-woo.
Jae-young plans to bully and torment Sang-woo for what he did. But as they are forced to work together, they start to feel an attraction to each other.
Semantic Error is available to stream on Viki.
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