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Can you recommend some dramas with strong sassy female leads?

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Ooooh, this could be fun! Some may lean more towards strong and others more towards sassy, and some may have a few ladies I consider strong and sassy even if they aren’t the lead, but here goes:

  • History of a Salaryman
  • Protect the Boss
  • Dalja’s Spring
  • Miss Korea
  • Reply 1997
  • Don’t Ask Me About the Past
  • Ex-Girlfriend Club
  • My Name is Kim Sam Soon
  • Wild Romance
  • I Hear Your Voice
  • All About My Romance
  • Coffee House
  • Me Too, Flower
  • City Hall
  • When It’s At Night
  • (basically anything with Kim Sun Ah, because even if her dramas aren’t great *shakes fist at Masked Prosecutor* she’s usually awesome)
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Kdrama Women’s Week: Favorite Matriarch

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Director Ma – Miss Korea

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Yes, I mentioned Miss Korea during last year’s KWW, but let’s just accept the fact that I’m never going to stop talking about this show, especially in matters pertaining to awesome women.

Director Ma is, to me, the epitome of a matriarch. She not only runs her own business, but she runs it incredibly successfully. If you want to become Miss Korea, you’d better hope that Director Ma sees something in you and decides to make you one of her girls (unofficially or not), because she’s the queen maker. Her girls aren’t just her subjects, though – they’re her family, to be protected just as much as they are to led through the painful process of becoming beauty pageant winners.

Short of telling you to watch this drama already, I’m just going to link to some of my favorite Director Ma gifsets and you can see for yourself why a single, unmarried woman was easily my first pick for “matriarch,” a role that one might traditionally assume to be the head of a family (the kind that’s related by blood, and not just sweat, tears, and a unifying goal).

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shura:

“Today was a really long and finicky day. It rained during the day, but at night, it snowed. You needed to use an umbrella during the day, at night there was so much snow that you could make a snowman by rolling a charcoal briquette. So did it rain today, or should we say that it snowed? So to day, in your life, will you say it rained or that it snowed? According to some meteorologist, if you draw a snowman, you’re someone whose heart melts quickly. But if you draw an umbrella, you are someone who wants to be loved under that umbrella. Ah, we are quite lonely people. We are.
Aren’t we?”