#1
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo
A college weightlifter and a swimmer who have known each other since childhood reconnect at sports university.
Watch on: Viki, Netflix
Editorial List
Best Asian High School Dramas
Coming-of-age dramas set against the unforgiving backdrop of the Asian classroom.
This list is curated by the DramaSeek editorial desk and ranks 20 titles. Each entry below is a real, fully reviewed drama or film with its own dedicated page — synopsis, cast, ratings, and where-to-watch information. Inclusion isn't decided by audience rating alone: we factor in cultural footprint, craft, rewatchability, and contribution to the genre.
If you're new to the category, start at #1 and work your way down. If you're a returning fan, scan the list for titles you haven't yet caught. For broader recommendations beyond this list, see our long-form drama discovery handbook.
#2
Weak Hero Class 1
A bullied honor-roll student uses his wits and physics-class problem solving to outfight his tormentors.
Watch on: Viki, Viu
#3
A Love So Beautiful
A bright, dorky girl chases the boy next door across high school and beyond.
Watch on: Netflix, Viki
#4
Hidden Love
A college student finally lives in the same city as the older brother's best friend she's loved since middle school.
Watch on: WeTV, Viki
#5
My Beautiful Man
A nervous high schooler is fixated on the icy class king who treats him as invisible.
Watch on: Viki
#6
My School President
The shy student council president has a crush on the captain of his school's struggling boy band.
Watch on: Viki
#7
It Started With a Kiss
A guileless girl moves into the family home of the genius high schooler she has secretly loved for three years.
Watch on: Viki
#8
#9
We Best Love: No. 1 For You
Two academic rivals at a Taipei high school discover what they really were to each other.
Watch on: Viki
#10
Hormones
A Bangkok high school sees its students through three years of impossible adolescence.
Watch on: Viki, YouTube
#11
SOTUS
A defiant freshman engineer clashes with the strict head hazer at his university — and gradually falls for him.
Watch on: Viki, YouTube
#12
Extracurricular
A model student secretly runs a criminal enterprise to fund his college tuition, until a classmate discovers his secret.
Watch on: Netflix
#13
Put Your Head on My Shoulder
A graduating physics major moves into the same dorm room as a working-class roommate she once helped pass an exam.
Watch on: Netflix, Viki
#14
Lighter & Princess
A guarded computer-science prodigy and the bright junior who refuses to leave him alone build a romance through a decade of code.
Watch on: WeTV, Viki
#15
2gether
A college guitarist agrees to fake-date a campus heartthrob to scare off another suitor.
Watch on: Viki, YouTube, LineTV
#16
Love Sick: The Series
A high schooler joins the school band on his girlfriend's request, and finds himself falling for the band's prickly leader.
Watch on: Viki, YouTube
#17
23.5
Two friends at a Bangkok high school discover their feelings won't fit into the friendship they signed up for.
Watch on: Viki
#18
Falling Into You
A college pole vaulter reconnects with the talented and reserved high jumper who once tutored her in physics.
Watch on: WeTV, Viki
#19
My Beautiful Man Thailand
A college student's simple obsession with a senior gradually reshapes their lives.
Watch on: Viki
#20
We Are
Four senior architecture students and a freshman class navigate love and final-year exhaustion together.
Watch on: Viki
How we rank these titles
DramaSeek's editorial lists are not pure aggregations of user scores — those are useful but tend to flatten cultural context. We factor in the show's audience reception, its place within the genre's history, and how it stands up to a rewatch. We also weight more heavily for titles that are still legally streaming in major regions, since this is a where-to-watch guide first and an archive second.
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