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My ID Is Gangnam Beauty

★ 7.2 9K votes 2018–2018 1 season · 16 episodes Ended JTBC
K-dramaKorean drama storytelling: emotional arcs, romance beats and format traditions.This show: 10/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 8/10School & campusSchools and universities as the primary world.This show: 7/10Social commentaryDeliberate critique of how society works.This show: 7/10Coming of ageGrowing up as the central arc.This show: 7/10Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Im Soo-hyangCha Eun-wooJo Woo-riKwak Dong-yeonPark Joo-miPark Sung-Geun
Written by
Maeng-Gi Gi
Starring
Im Soo-hyangCha Eun-wooJo Woo-riKwak Dong-yeonPark Joo-miPark Sung-Geun
Written by
Maeng-Gi Gi
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
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About

"Beauty-standard drama wrapped in campus rom-com sweetness"

A young woman who endured years of bullying over her looks gets extensive plastic surgery before starting university, hoping for a fresh start. Instead she finds new judgment, whispered rumors, and a prickly reunion with a childhood friend who remembers who she used to be. The show leans into candy-colored campus romance and comedy, but it keeps circling back to real anxieties about beauty standards, self-worth, and how cruel casual gossip can be. It's breezy and often sweet, carried by like able leads, though it occasionally undercuts its own message about looks with glossy, idealized visuals.

Watch it for

the way it turns a shallow-seeming premise into a surprisingly earnest look at self-worth.

Maybe skip if

you want its critique of beauty standards to feel fully consistent rather than occasionally undercut by its own glossy visuals.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12018
8.51K1615h 44m
This series tells the story of Kang Mi-rae, a girl once bullied for her looks. As a result, she became insecure, cautious around people and withdrawn. However, Mi-rae decides she wants a fresh start away from bullying and gets plastic surgery to transform her face. When she begins university, she meets Do Kyeong-seok from their middle school days, who sees people for what they are on the inside and not the outside; he then becomes attracted to Mi-rae. As Mi-rae begins to get teased once more and labeled "Gangnam Beauty", the cold, aloof but kind inside Kyeong-seok becomes the one person that stands up for her and in the process, Mi-rae begins to recover her lost confidence and discovers that true beauty is not on the outside.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1I'm Pretty Starting Today7.8
11361 min
▶2You Have To Be Pretty From The Start8.1
9362 min
▶3You Don't Even Know8.2
9060 min
▶4You'll Meet Anyone Destined For You To Meet8.3
8260 min
▶5The Genius Face's Counterattack 18.4
8560 min
▶6The Genius Face's Counterattack 28.6
8261 min
▶7A Male Friend8.6
8364 min
▶8Basic Instinct8.7
8161 min
▶9A Twenty-Year-Old's Survival Story8.6
8267 min
▶10I Can Be Your Boyfriend8.5
8164 min
▶11Your ID is Gangnam Beauty8.4
8860 min
▶12Don't You Have Feelings For Me?8.7
8165 min
▶13It's My First Love8.9
8467 min
▶14Start Secretly8.8
8267 min
▶15My Boyfriend is Do Kyung Seok8.8
8265 min
▶16Even Though We Don't Know Much About Life Yet8.8
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Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Im Soo-hyang Kang Mi-rae
Cha Eun-woo Do Kyeong-seok
Jo Woo-ri Hyun Soo Ah
Kwak Dong-yeon Yeon Woo-young
Park Joo-mi Na Hye-seong
Park Sung-Geun Do Sang-won
Woo Hyeon Kang Tae-shik
Min Do-hee Oh Hyun-jeong
Lee Tae-sun Seo Yoo-jin
Park Yoo-na Yoo-eun

Crew

Maeng-Gi Gi

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