5 K-Dramas That May Change Your Views On The Arranged Marriage

While every single person is looking for true love, one must admit that the process of dating is often too exhausting to handle. From failed first dates with awkward conversations to ghosted messages, there is just too much to put into a relationship for it to have a chance of surviving.

Sometimes an arranged marriage or a fake relationship for convenience seems like the only option. Although in reality these stories rarely end as happily as they do on television, here are 5 K-dramas about arranged marriages that get their well-deserved happy endings.

Because This Is My First Life (2017)

Sometimes the arranged marriage is not due to social pressure, but just out of convenience. This was the case with the socially awkward Nam Se-hee and the completely reckless Yoon Ji-ho, who ended up homeless. Together they decide to get married and live as roommates, but fate has its own plans for them.

Happiness (2021)

In the near future, when the whole world is in danger because of the newly discovered zombie virus that starts to spread in Korea, Yoon Sae-bom, a member of a special unit, decides to risk everything to stop it. In order to gain access to the new apartment building, she enters into an arranged marriage with detective Jung Yi-hyun.

Marriage, Not Dating (2014)

While Gong Gi-tae, a rough plastic surgeon, enjoys his bachelor life and doesn't look forward to marriage, he has to do something against his parents' nagging. So he decides to introduce Joo Jang-mi to them as his bride. Due to her age and class, he believes that they will never approve of her, but his plans fail and he gets stuck in his own deception.

Fated to Love You (2014)

This is the perfect story to remind you how one night can change everything in your life and turn it upside down. Kim Mi Young, a shy office worker, never thought that her holiday fling would end up with the rich and successful Lee Gun. Now that they are bound together, there is no way to escape love, even through the craziest fears.

Princess Hours (2006)

When you are a simple girl in your teens, you don't think too much about marriage. But since Shin Chae-kyeong has been betrothed to the prince by the late Emperor Seongjo of Korea, she has no choice but to accept and enter a completely different life full of rules of etiquette, palace intrigues, and battles for power.