Suzy Dramas: Doona, Start-Up and What to Watch Next

Find your next Suzy drama after Doona! Compare Start-Up, Vagabond and While You Were Sleeping through her characters, each story’s mood and where to begin.

Suzy — photograph (2024-06-02). Photo: 티비텐 TV10 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0. Original source. Scaled for display; no additional crop.

Four moods.
One Suzy watchlist.

A quiet house share. A startup pitch. A covert operation. A dream that refuses to stay a dream. Suzy’s drama roles offer very different entry points, which is useful when you love a performer but do not want to repeat the same story twice.

This guide compares four series through the character Suzy plays and the experience each premise promises. There is no required order. Choose the kind of tension you want tonight, then let the next title change the atmosphere. The descriptions below keep relationship outcomes and major twists off the page.

Suzy dramas at a glance

Drama	Suzy’s role	Choose it for
Doona!	Lee Doona	Intimate romance and life outside celebrity
Start-Up	Seo Dal-mi	Ambition, work and romantic complications
Vagabond	Go Hae-ri	Espionage and an urgent investigation
While You Were Sleeping	Nam Hong-joo	Premonitions, romance and efforts to change events

Doona!: start with the person behind the image

Suzy plays Lee Doona, a former K-pop idol living in shared accommodation, in a romance that brings her together with student Lee Won-jun. Netflix’s official cast guide confirms that pairing and the basic setup. The important viewing choice is scale: this is an entrance through proximity, curiosity and the distance between a public image and a private life.

Choose it when you want the relationship itself to be the main question. Doona’s past gives ordinary encounters an extra charge; meeting someone is complicated when that person has already been seen by an enormous audience. If that contrast interests you more than workplace competition or a large investigation, this is the clearest starting point.

Start-Up: switch from being watched to building something

In Start-Up, Suzy is Seo Dal-mi, an aspiring entrepreneur with varied work experience and the drive to establish herself. Netflix’s launch announcement places her alongside Nam Do-san, Han Ji-pyeong and Won In-jae in the startup environment of Sand Box. CJ ENM’s programme page likewise frames career and love as connected parts of these young people’s lives.

This is the useful next step if you want a protagonist aiming toward a visible goal. Work supplies decisions, setbacks and people with different ideas of success. Romance remains part of the mix, so pick it for ambition with emotional complications rather than a purely procedural business story. Compared with Doona!, the central energy points outward: what can Dal-mi make happen?

Vagabond: turn up the external stakes

Go Hae-ri belongs to a different world. Suzy’s character is a National Intelligence Service operative who becomes involved with stuntman Cha Dal-geon as he seeks answers after a fatal plane crash. Netflix’s official introduction identifies her role and explains the family responsibilities behind her career choice.

Make this your selection when you want investigation and danger to drive the next episode. The premise moves beyond private uncertainty into questions of evidence, power and whom to trust. Hae-ri also gives you a sharp comparison with Dal-mi: one is trying to create an opportunity, while the other must operate inside a job with dangerous consequences. Allow room for violence and sustained suspense in the viewing mood.

While You Were Sleeping: romance with a question about fate

Suzy’s Nam Hong-joo can dream about misfortunes before they happen. Prosecutor Jung Jae-chan tries to prevent those events from becoming reality. That is the premise described by the drama’s broadcaster, SBS, which also identifies Hong-joo as Suzy’s character.

Choose this if you like an emotional connection built around a speculative hook. Knowing that something might happen is different from knowing how to stop it; the setup makes action and hesitation meaningful. It is a helpful bridge for viewers who want romance alongside an external problem, but prefer a supernatural question to Vagabond’s espionage setting.

Which Suzy drama should you watch first?

Begin with Doona! for an intimate relationship, Start-Up for momentum and ambition, Vagabond for action, or While You Were Sleeping for fate and prevention. After your first choice, switching genres will show a more revealing contrast than looking for an exact substitute.

For another actor-led route through Korean romance, explore our Yoona drama watchlist. For a wider range of emotional registers, try the IU drama guide. Check the title’s listing in your own country when deciding where to watch.

Role and premise references checked against the official sources linked above on 27 October 2026. Viewing routes are Celebpedia editorial suggestions.