Least favorite: Criminal Minds (that I can recall - there may be a lot of selective amnesia going on)

Most favorite: Mother
2nd place: Queen's Classroom
3rd place: Queen of Office

Favorite adaptations:
1. Mother (the perfect drama!)
2. The Smile in your eyes (only because SIG killed me with his acting!)

Yeah, I watched all versions of Hana Yori Dango - Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean. It would be fun to see how a writer would tackle other adaptations like: To the Beautiful You (which also has 3 versions), The Liar and His Lover, and many others adapted from manga anime and manwha webtoon/comic like Bridal Mask and Liar Game.

Life on Mars! I haven't seen the original, but LoM K-version was great!

I liked Hana Yori Dango more than Boy's over Flowers.

Least favorite - Moon Lovers- Scarlet Heart Ryeo

Most favorite- Misaeng

I've never seen or read the original source. But my favorite is Misaeng. It captured the essence of everyday life, unlike anything i've seen before. The tone, the subtle acting, the emotions, all thanks to the amazing hands of its director, Kim Won Seok.

I guess unsuccessful adaptation for me would be Cheese in the Trap, only because there's so much drama behind the scenes, it forgot to do what it's supposed to accomplish.

Playful kiss was my first drama, and I watched it BECAUSE it was an adaptation of a manga I had read. I like this theme, thanks @stroopwafel ^_^

If @isthatacorner doesn't write about the It Started With a Kiss adaptations, I will be disappointed.

Maybe we should team up isa. We could do a series examining specific characters.

My favorite remakes:
Life on Mars, The Smile Has Left Your Eyes, Mother

My favorite adaptations:
Along with the Gods, What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim

Worse adaptation ever: Cheese In The *f’ing* Trap

Gu jun pyo made me open this post😀😀

Got to add The Good Wife to the list of good/great adaptations.

This takes me back to how I started watching dramas for the first time!

I love anime/manga and I realised there was an live action of itazura na kiss (ISWAK) and it just led me into meteor garden, miss no good, smiling pasta then back to jdramas and then into Kdramas.

Itazura na kiss wasn't my favourite anime,so I didn't have high hopes about the live action.
But I adored how Joe played Naoki and gave the character little nuances to show he wasn't such a jerk & Ariel is so charming to watch on screen, I couldn't help but fall in love with this adaptation, love in Tokyo, kiss me thai...

I would love to see a show inspired by Shakespeare or Austen, I think that would be a delight to watch! How it could be pulled off , I'm not entirely sure...

It's a crime no one's mentioned Matrimonial Chaos.

I may somehow or another spend my life writing and rewriting this very theme over and over and over again. There are rants on my wall from no less than 4 different adaptations of ISWAK.

By category:

Webtoon:

Favourite - My ID is Gangnam Beauty 🥰 This drama made me read the webtoon. I love the both versions. I do prefer Mirae in the drama though. She's got the lowest self esteem, but she knows how to say no and how to get herself out of a situation she's not comfortable in. ie. When sunbae asked her out on a date, Mirae in the drama prepped herself to say no, whereas in the webtoon, even though she didn't like sunbae, she wanted to take him up on the offer. </3
Worst - Orange Marmalade. Loved the manhwa. Drama - uhm just no.

Manhwa/Manhwa

Favourite - City Hunter - I didn't finish the manga. I`m not really into shounen manga to begin with, so it didn't interest me. But Lee Min Ho and Park Min Young made the characters alive, and really, throw me in some rom story, I`ll bite. 😏
Worst - Goong. NO! Why. TT_____TT Goong is my all time favourite manhwa. I have all the books up on my shelf. I mean sure the manhwa has its fair share of frustrating plot, but all I remember from Ep 1 was falling asleep 10 mins in TT___TT

Drama - well this could be manga adaptation too but since another Asian dramas adapted these first before Korean did, I`ll have it under drama...
Favourite - Boys Over Flowers - PFFFTTTTTT. I know it's one hot mess, but it doesn't matter how many adaptations I saw, I`ll always have this love and hate for Tsukasa and Tsukushi's toxic relationship. Plus this drama introduced me to the god Lee Min Ho, and legit went crazy over oppa for years....... When is he coming back from the army?????
Worst - Fated to Love You - uhmmmm not really the worst, it just wasn't an easy watch as the writing was bad, but I loved seeing Jang Nara and Jang Hyuk together again in a drama. They really hard carried this drama. ALSO! the OST was the best - Ailee's voice tends to break me. Anyways I just liked the Taiwanese drama better. It had more ummmf to the story even though the K-drama was more modern.

I just finished the drama "My ID is Gangnam Beauty" which is based off the Webtoon of the same name. WOW. It's such a great adaptation. It's like the characters walked right off the Webtoon. Of course, there were changes (mainly with the minor characters) but I think they kept the essence of it.

I'm kinda scared to finish "Cheese in the Trap" because I heard all the horrible reviews.

Almost paaaaaaaradiiiiiiiiise for me too XD

Are we allowed to write about our everlasting love for Meteor Garden? @egads @kimbapnoona @giegie @jenmole @bammsie

Not having seen the originals I can highly recommend both LIFE ON MARS and SUITS.
Of the 3 dramas I have seen Park Hyung-sik in (HWARANG, SWDBS and SUITS) his portrayal of Go Yeon-woo in SUITS was for me his best performance.

It's quite a vast theme between manga/manhwa/webtoon, book, remake... It's hard because some of them I know the original story and for some, I know only the remakes/adaptations.

The ones I didn't like : Nodame Cantabile, Suits, Criminal Minds, To the Beautiful You, Boys over Flowers, Fated to Love You, Liar Game, City Hunter, The Time We Were Not In Love, Playful Kiss.

The one I liked : The Good Wife, Life on Mars, Cheese in the Trap, The Smile That Has Left you Eyes, Solomon's Perjury, My ID Gangnam.

OH I HAVE SO MANY OPINIONS

Solomon's Perjury was breathtaking and it just makes you love court dramas while dealing with some really heavy topics in Korea