10 K-Dramas That Torture Us with Unrequited Love (And We're Here For It)
Need your fix of unrequited K-drama love? We got you covered with these 10.
Ahh, love. It can be beautiful and magical, but it can also be painful. When we see characters caught in the trap of unrequited love, it pulls at our heartstrings and creates an even deeper level of emotion. We are wired to expect happy endings and to believe in love at first sight. But these 10 K-dramas will show us the sometimes cruel truth. That life is not always like that.
And it is how we, as human beings, deal with these disappointments and hurts that ultimately make us who we are.
1. Full House
IMDB rating 7.8/10
A young woman is faced with the shock of learning that her friends have sold her childhood home. So, she does the only thing she can think to do. Enters a sham marriage with the new owner of the house to work towards getting it back. While she is free-spirited and kind, her fake husband is a selfish, narcissistic actor. Thus, the scene is set for hilarity and mayhem, with someone finding true love along the way. But is that love returned? Or will the audience be just as tormented as the characters?
2. Because This Is My First Life
IMDB rating 8.1/10
A loner computer designer rents his spare room to a prospective tenant that he mistakenly believes is male. That tenant is an assistant screenwriter who coincidentally thinks her new landlord is female. Rather than pull the plug on their arrangement when the pair realize their mistakes, they decide to create a fake marriage. But this seemingly simple business transaction becomes a lot more complicated when feelings begin to develop and outside influences begin to interfere.
3. Dali and the Cocky Prince
IMDB rating 8.1/10
A well-educated and charming young woman takes over her family’s struggling museum, following her father’s death. With the odds stacked against her, the last thing she needs is a wealthy restaurant owner coming to collect on a debt owed to him by the museum. But could this be the start of something wonderful? Can the Cocky Prince change his ways?
4. When the Weather is Fine
IMDB rating 7.8/10
A successful cellist moves back to her childhood hometown and reunites with an old friend and former classmate who owns the local bookstore. Life has been rough for her since leaving, but as winter sets in, the pair become closer, and it looks like love is blossoming. But will things work out?
5. Crazy Love
IMDB rating 7.3/10
This one is an absolute riot. A top CEO pretends to have amnesia following a car accident and finds that things backfire quite dramatically when his very disturbed secretary pretends to be his fiancé. Of course, he cannot dispute this without revealing he has lied about his amnesia. This is a lighter look at unrequited love.
6. Call It Love
IMDB rating 7.7/10
A young woman cannot believe the terrible turn her life has taken when she learns shortly before her father's death that he has been unfaithful. But things only get worse when her father's mistress kicks her out of the family home. Wondering what else could go wrong, she promptly falls in love with the mistress's son.
7. Princess Hours
IMDB rating 6.9/10
Set in an alternate universe, where Korea still has a royal family ruling the nation, a normal high school girl who loves art finds herself married to the crown prince. The culture shock she experiences is not at all calmed by her starting to develop feelings for her new husband. But does he feel the same?
8. Suspicious Partner
IMDB rating 7.8/10
A successful prosecutor becomes a private attorney after working on a serial killer case with a prosecutor trainee. The two are reunited under the most unlikely of circumstances: when the trainee is accused of murder after the body of her ex-boyfriend is found in her house. Has fate brought them back together for a reason?
9. Coffee Prince
IMDB rating 8.1/10
A spoiled grandson of a coffee fortune starts pretending to date a tomboy, not realizing she is female. His plan was to have her pretend to be his gay lover to avoid the blind dates his grandmother keeps arranging. When he begins to have feelings for her, he begins to wonder if he actually might be gay.
10. Chocolate
IMDB rating 7.6/10
A man wants to become a cook but takes a drastically different path in life when he instead becomes a neurosurgeon. Things take an interesting turn when he is reunited with a woman who did become a cook, and reveals she became one because of him. Fate seems to keep pulling these two together, but will true love follow?