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Secret Garden

★ 8.0 9K votes 2010–2011 1 season · 20 episodes Ended SBS
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: 10/10Romantic yearningThe will-they-won't-they ache as the main draw.This show: 9/10Class divideWealth, poverty and the gulf between them.This show: 8/10SentimentalOpenly emotional storytelling that reaches straight for the heartstrings.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Ha Ji-WonHyun BinYoon Sang-HyunKim Sa-rangPhillip LeeYoo In-na
Starring
Ha Ji-WonHyun BinYoon Sang-HyunKim Sa-rangPhillip LeeYoo In-na
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
0255075100

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"Slapstick body swap that turns unexpectedly heartfelt"

An arrogant department-store CEO and a tough stunt performer are mysteriously swapped in body after a strange encounter atop a mountain, forcing each to live the other's life while their mutual pull grows undeniable. The premise sounds like pure farce, and early episodes lean hard into slapstick, but the show steadily layers in class tension, family conflict, and real emotional stakes. It moves briskly, carried by the leads' chemistry and its willingness to swing from silly to swoony without warning, making the tonal whiplash feel oddly satisfying rather than jarring.

Watch it for

the leads' chemistry turning a goofy body-swap gimmick into genuine, quotable romance.

Maybe skip if

you dislike broad slapstick comedy mixed with earnest melodrama and fantastical body-swap logic.

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

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Limited Series2010
7.71K2020h 17m
The drama tells the story of Kim Joo Won, an arrogant and eccentric CEO who maintains the image of seeming perfection, and Gil Ra Im, a poor and humble stuntwoman whose beauty and body are the object of envy amongst top actresses. Their accidental meeting, when Joo Won mistakes Ra Im for actress Park Chae Rin, marks the beginning of a tense, bickering relationship, through which Joo Won tries to hide a growing attraction to Ra Im that both confuses and disturbs him. To complicate matters further, a strange sequence of events results in them swapping bodies.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1One7.6
9758 min
▶2Episode #1.27.6
7658 min
▶3Episode #1.37.6
7660 min
▶4Episode #1.47.4
7058 min
▶5Episode #1.57.7
7158 min
▶6Episode #1.67.7
6754 min
▶7Episode #1.77.5
6762 min
▶8Episode #1.87.6
6561 min
▶9Episode #1.97.7
6567 min
▶10Episode #1.107.8
6660 min
▶11Episode #1.117.5
6261 min
▶12Episode #1.127.8
6361 min
▶13Episode #1.137.7
6363 min
▶14Episode #1.148.1
7258 min
▶15Episode #1.157.9
6162 min
▶16Episode #1.167.9
6462 min
▶17Episode #1.177.9
6863 min
▶18Episode #1.188.0
5963 min
▶19Episode #1.198.1
6762 min
▶20Episode #1.207.9
7066 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Ha Ji-Won Gil Ra-im
Hyun Bin Kim Joo Won, Gil Ra Im
Yoon Sang-Hyun 'Oska' (Choi Woo-young)
Kim Sa-rang Yoon Seul
Phillip Lee Lim Jong Su
Yoo In-na Lim Ah Young
Kim Sung-oh Kim Sung-oh
Park Joon-geum Moon Boon-hong
Jang Seo-won Hwang Jung-hwan
Lee Jong-suk Han Tae-seon 'Sun'

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