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Apr 13, 2023 · Sad Korean dramas that will torture your hearts. 1. Thirty-Nine (2022) Image credit: JTBC. Main Cast: Son Ye Jin as Cha Mi Jo. Jeon Mi Do as Jeong Chan Young. Kim Ji Hyun as Jang Joo Hee. Thirty-Nine is a slice of life drama that depicts 3 best friends who stand together through the ups and downs in life.
- 15 Autumn in My Heart
- 14 Winter Sonata
- 13 Stairway to Heaven
- 12 I’m Sorry, I Love You
- 11 Something Happened in Bali
- 10 Sad Love Song
- 9 East of Eden
- 8 Iris
- 7 A Thousand Days’ Promise
- 6 Bad Man
In the early 2000s, sappy K-dramas were all the rage, and it started with Autumn In My Heart. The first from a seasonal anthology, the show follows Yoon Eun-Seo who was mistakenly switched at birth with Choi Shin-Ae. The girls had very different upbringings, making it difficult for them to settle into their real lives after they learned the harsh t...
Autumn In My Heart is followed by Winter Sonata, which kick-started K-dramas' popularity in Japan and other neighboring countries known as "Hallyu." This winter-set series follows ill-fated lovers, Kang Joon-Sang and Jeong Yoo-Jin as they are separated by his fake death. Years after Joon-Sang's supposed demise, Yoo-Jin is unable to move on from her...
Combine all the saddest elements from Autumn In My Heart and Winter Sonata and the result is Stairway To Heaven. One of the most heartbreaking love stories in K-drama, it follows Cha Song-Joo as he grieves the death of his first and true love, Han Jeong-Seo. Things change for him when he comes across someone who looks exactly like her. After a seri...
Partly shot in Australia, I'm Sorry, I Love Youtackles the relationship between Cha Moo-Hyeok and Song Eun-Chae. The pair's respective situations already make a potential romance difficult, but as they grow closer together, they learn how their horrible pasts are tied, which further complicates their dynamic. Despite his hang-ups in life, however, ...
What separatesSomething Happened In Bali from other sappy K-dramas is how unique it is in its tragedy. Set in Bali, Indonesia, it follows Lee Soo-Jeong as she gets entangled in a love triangle involving Jung Jae-Min, Choi Young-Joo, and Kang In-Wook. Aside from its complex love story, Something Happened In Balialso tackles corporate drama, which pl...
Seo Joon-Young and Park Hye-In's romance in Sad Love Songstarted when they were still kids. Regrettably, despite their love for each other, they had to separate so that the blind Hye-In gets a shot at a better future in America. Decades after their original split, they reunite. However, Hye-In doesn't recognize her first love after believing that h...
Sweeping stories are normal for sad K-dramas, but nothing is as expansive as East of Eden. Instead of tackling one kind of love, the MBC epic tackles multiple kinds of it. The show has really strong romances, including a slow-burn relationship between Lee Dong-Chul and Gook Young-Ran, as well as a love story cut short by a sexual assault by Lee Don...
Part spy thriller, part romance, one man's tragic fate defines the whole story of IRIS. Kim Hyun-Jun, played by Squid Game's Front Man, Lee Byeong-Heon, is recruited to South Korea's NSS (National Security Service) to be one of its top spies. He is sent on a suicide mission, however, that completely derails his whole life after his own organization...
Starting as a typical Korean romance, Lee Seo-Yeon and Park Ji-Hyung's story in A Thousand Days' Promisetakes a dramatic turn when she finds out that she gets diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer's. This is despite being only in her 30s. Regardless of her situation, Ji-Hyung proves his love for her by making the most out of the time they have left...
Shim Gun-Wook's revenge plot against the powerful Hong family drives the story of Bad Man. After being taken in and then eventually discarded by the clan, he loses everything in life, which motivates him to weave an elaborate plan to destroy them. He starts to question his plans when he meets and falls in love with Moon Jae-In. By the time he decid...
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Mar 17, 2023 · We’ve compiled 29 Korean dramas about mental health issues, sorted into categories, so you can understand mental illnesses better as you watch the characters heal and grow. 1. Crash Course In Romance (2023) 2. Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022) 3. It’s Okay To Not Be Okay (2020) 4.
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Jul 23, 2021 · Moon Gang-tae (Kim Soo Hyun) and Ko Moon-young (Seo Ye-ji) in 'It's Okay To Not Be Okay' | tvN, Netflix. While not a novel theme in Korean dramas, today’s directors, scriptwriters, and actors are making marked efforts to respectfully portray mental health issues onscreen. It’s a huge step forward for the industry given how mental health ...
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