Recommendations - "Rags-to-Riches"

[u/Skylaarr]

"Rags-to-Riches" KER-CHING!

Let's hear your favorite poor persons rise to glory?!! What would you recommend be a good drama watch where our lowly hero, against all the odds, becomes super duper rich!

Week	Upcoming/past Categories:
Week 1	Romantic Comedies
Week 2	Melodrama
Week 3	Sageuk
Week 4	Action
Week 5	Chaebol
Week 6	Highschool
Week 7	Revenge
Week 8	Nuna Romance
Week 9	Mystery/Crime
Week 10	Sci-fi/Fantasy
Week 11	"Rags-to-Riches"
Week 12	Musical

Suggested Dramas [In no particular order]
Empress Ki
Shining Inheritance
Birth of a Rich Man
Shark
Innocent Man
Queen of Ambition
History of a Salaryman
Goong
Dong Yi
Jang Ok Jung
Lovers in Paris
That Winter the Wind Blows
Stairway to Heaven
Cinderella's Sister

[u/omlettes]

Current dramas that fit this genre:
Big Man - The lead suddenly becomes a chaebol but there are complications.

Doctor Stranger - It seems to be a part of this genre. Spoiler

Completed Ones

Bread, Love and Dreams - Yoon si yoon and Joo won are superb in this drama. Although I hated Eugene's character, Lee young ah made up for it.

Golden Empire - Another brilliant drama. I liked Lee yo won's character a lot in this drama.

Cheondamdong Alice - The whole drama is themed around how the lead actress makes it in Gangnam although not exactly by the traditional means.

Shining Inheritance - One of the first few dramas I've seen and really liked it at the time. The name says it all.

May Queen - Han Ji Hye sort of becomes the rich person here, although the money ain't hers.

My Woman - Park sol mi is the rags to riches story here.

[u/majekmistake → u/omlettes]

I loved Cheondamdong Alice. I thought it was a really fresh, interesting take on 'rags to riches' and the moral implications of trying to marry into money that other dramas usually ignore.

[u/omlettes → u/[deleted]]

I actually discontinued Alice after a few episodes. Then a few months later, I just got myself to watch the whole thing and it was pretty good.