OnDemandKorea: Korean Dramas Reviews

I don’t usually write reviews but I wanted to write a review for OnDemandKorea since it’s one that my family would die without basically. Mom, dad, and I individually watch the shows that we want. We don’t need subtitles so I can imagine this wouldn’t be a great app if you need subtitles. I’ve never experienced any glitches. If there are glitches it’s very very rare and usually quickly solved. We just wait or turn the iPad on and off again. I love variety shows and my mom loves her mystery and documentary shows. If you enjoy watching dramas they don’t have a comprehensive library of dramas but I’m not a big drama watcher so ODK is perfect for my purposes.

The shows are clear and good quality, and I had a question and emailed them about it and the response time was less than 20 minutes, they clearly answered my question and gave me further instructions on how to do what I was having trouble doing, and on top of that asked for my opinion. Clearly they care about the users’ concerns and try to fix any problems or concerns people have with OnDemandKorea the second they know about it. Not everything on there has English subtitles but a lot of it does and they are clear. There aren’t ads that interrupt the show. Very happy with them! ☺️

Update: The ad issue has been resolved. Thank you for listening to my concerns. Here’s your 5 stars!

There are lots of shows for free which I like but the ads are so annoying. Especially the most recent “play game” ads. They’re 1 min long and you get 3 at a time with no skip function so you’re stuck with 3 minutes of boring ads. Please fix this and I’ll give you a 5 star rating. I shouldn’t be watching ads for longer than 1 and a half minutes.

My family and I love OnDemandKorea. My parents get their documentaries and news. I get the variety shows. They don't have all the shows and lately their newest drama selections have been lacking but the stuff they have are great quality. I recommend this for korean families who don't need subs. Only a some of their movies and dramas have subs so its not recommended for non-Koreans. I love that with the subscription there is no ads and I get to watch a lot of movies BUT there is a lot of glitches. It stops and start over sometimes. The search box won’t let me choose from my search results sometimes. And so on.

Overall I enjoy using OnDemandKorea on my phone and AppleTV. BUT there are a some big problems in my opinion. First at times the subtitles completely disappear. This can be very frustrating. Even when OnDemandKorea is restarted the issue persists. Second if I have a paying subscription there should be no ads on the iPhone app. For those with paid membership let us be able to search media according to the level of the subscription. Another issue I’ve noticed more on my AppleTV is that OnDemandKorea does terrible with keeping track of what you’ve watched. This includes the episode you are currently on in a drama or if a particular episode or movie was partially watched.

At first a lot of the shows had English subtitles but now a lot of the shows that say they have them stopped doing English subtitles on the episodes. False advertisement!!!!!!!!! I use to pay for the subscription but it was a waste of money because they stopped doing the English subtitles for this shows that they said were supposed to have English subtitles. I’m so disappointed because I really liked OnDemandKorea. I really hope that they improved because I want to continue to use OnDemandKorea. I still have a downloaded hoping that they will improve some day. But I will say still a good app if you want to watch older episodes of shows some of those have English subtitles

I work in tech and keep all my devices up to date. I use this app every day and was happy to get the sale for ODK PLUS because the ads were overbearing and annoying. However, after purchasing the membership, I've noticed when I watch videos, it would pause and rewind to the beginning by itself. It would happen multiple times and would make me frustrated. There's a lot of glitches at times. I'm not sure if the glitches are caused by certain uploads by ODK because it doesn't happen to all videos but sometimes specific shows.

I have been a subscriber to ondemand korea for a few years now and used OnDemandKorea to chromecast to my tv.
It is simple and works so I have no complaints.
However it would be nice if I could mark my favorites so I wont have to search it everyday as the apps can freeze and sometimes be a trouble maker but no complaints so far!

Wish they had tvn dramas and programs as they used to but I guess with tvn having their own tving broadcasting system it would be hard.

- Needs to show most recent shows/newly released videos on front page somehow so I don’t have to go guessing which episodes are new. App mostly shows most popular shows for each section not necessarily the most recently released content for that particular day. At the moment the mobile app doesnt do that. You can only go to a section and filter by ‘newest’.
- Back button is hard to see sometimes since it’s on top of the video, esp against a white backdrop video. Would be difficult for older people to see.
- would like to see suggestive search when typing stuff in the searchbar.
- a way to see how many devices are concurrently connected in the account settings.

This is all for now. Haven’t used it extensively, but the first point I mentioned is a feature that should already exist.

I use OnDemandKorea a lot to watch Korean shows. However, I agree with the other reviewer that previous video keeps on playing when I play another video so the audio becomes duplicate. So I have to delete OnDemandKorea and download it again. Very annoying and bothersome. Also, you have to watch 3 ads for like 4-5 times per video, and sometimes they are all same ads so they get really annoying. Some ad songs are so annoying that I just mute it. I will watch ads since I use the free version, but same ads make me hate that product. Please fix the video playback bug.

Mixed feelings about OnDemandKorea - good for catching up on your most popular, and recent Korean entertainment shows, but striving away from that, if you want to see the “less popular” news, human documentary, cooking shows, sometimes the videos play mid-way, or lose volume here and there. There was one where the order was not chronologically ordered, and developer did not notice for a week.

If there was a similar app that maintained their popular but also less popular videos, I would switch over.

I recently changed my iphone to newer version, mainly because I knew that on a newer iphone, the ads were skippinga and didnt bother much. but ODK upgraded OnDemandKorea, and even put the notice on main page on OnDemandKorea to skip the ads, it never does. I logged out and in several times, turned off and on, erase all network setting.. nothing works. I am a plus member of OnDemandKorea, but I am considering looking for other streaming site. does not worth what I pay monthly. There are several websites that are free. they DO include several pauses and ads, but it's free. ODK? same several ads, but paying monthly..

I love Korean movies and they have great selections of drama and movies which I like but sadly, almost all the new drama has no English subtitles and all my favorite Korean movies which I wanted to watch has no eng subtitles like Classic and A Moment to remember. Other missing feature which will be useful is bookmark to watch later, maybe ratings and allow me to share with friends. I hope to can add English subtitles to the great collection and will renew again.

I’m giving it a three simply because too much of it is premium/membership. And I can’t afford to use my money on this when I have taxes and bills to pay. The other thing is some movies that say are free aren’t loading and that really bothers me. Maybe it’s gonna update? I don’t know. The last thing is it is frustrating to be unable to remove something from continue watching, especially when I’ve lost interest in it. Could be better but other than that…

Read your response and I don’t see any connection between chrome cast functionality update due to licensing issue and getting rid of the airplay mode since I still can watch all the shows from my tiny screen. If it’s truly licensing issue, I shouldn’t be able to access any contents you have. Therefore your reason doesn’t make sense for the issue I raised here.

That’s so petty of you for prohibiting users to play OnDemandKorea though AirPlay.

Like everyone says, this PRICE HIKE of +50% from PLUS to PREMIUM is unbelievable. I had the PLUS membership which had some limitations but was perfectly fine. Now, the PLUS membership is USELESS and FORCES you to subscribe to the PREMIUM. Fine, whatever. I’ll subscribe for now until my guests leave, then I’m no longer using this service.

But the most unacceptable is the fact that OnDemandKorea STILL DOES NOT SUPPORT iPAD 12.9” 3rd GEN SCREENS. I still have this disgusting black border on the perimeter of the screen. Almost all my apps have finally adjusted, but ODK is pretty much the only one that is still behind. Really DISAPPOINTING.

I’ve been using OnDemandKorea for a while and during that time I loved it had many shows that I wanted to watch that weren’t on other apps but were on this one. Recently though the subs have stopped working completely OnDemandKorea doesn’t even show the box that allowed for the subtitles to turn on and no matter how hard I try there’s no way I can turn them on. I hope this issue is fixed soon.

OnDemandKorea is on the lower spectrum of Okay. I wouldn’t recommend OnDemandKorea being the only way to get your Korean “fix”. Once when I use English subtitles on a drama, the subtitles from the last episode played over the next episodes subtitles. Leaving me with no way to understand the current happenings, and also when using the filter to find show that have English subtitles doesn’t work. I choose a show and the subtitles don’t show. I like to keep OnDemandKorea because it has chrome cast. Things must be fixed

Honestly hate OnDemandKorea cuz so many glitches. I can barely watch one video a day because it either freezes up, something goes wrong with the sound, or the back button (to go back to the list of videos) doesn't appear. So useless until someone fixes these glitches because I can go on so many other sites on the internet to find the videos I want to watch. So many faster ways to watch it than this basically. Only giving it two stars because if they fix the glitches, it would be a good and reliable app, like netflix, to watch my favorite shows on.

I’m a paid member and I can’t watch premium shows on my phone and ads are still running for rest of the shows. The issue started when they did some upgrades and still hasn’t fixed the issue. I’ve sent multiple emails but all I got was same email explaining about their upgrades and they’re working on it, and I should reinstall OnDemandKorea and log back in. I tried reinstalling and log in several times. Nothing works. It’s been few months now. Very disappointed.