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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT While the point of a romantic K-drama is to see two people fall in love, sometimes the story is made better when the pairing starts as friends, and in this case, there are countless amazing friends-to-lovers K-dramas out there. A "friends-to-lovers" trope is a storyline wherein two people start as friends, often from as far back as childhood, but slowly develop romantic feelings for each other.
However, before she can figure this out, she meets Prince Wang So, and the two of them fall in love. Alas, this leads to heartbreak, love again, and more heartbreak, while a long triangle begins with the prince's brother, Wang Wook. This is not a happy ending K-drama either, as it is tragic and the friends-to-lovers trope only allows the drama to leave viewers devastated by the end.
12 More Than Friends Woo Yeon & Lee Soo Close Like many of the best friends-to-lovers K-dramas, More Than Friends is also about a love triangle. In this series, Kyung Woo Yeon fell hard for Lee Soo, and he loved her too. However, neither knew how the other felt, and they ended up not getting together.
Something in the Rain and One Spring Night have the same writer and director in Kim Eun and Ahn Pan Seok, and Jung Hae plays the male lead in both K-dramas. The series was not successful upon its release, with low ratings across the board. However, it has since become a cult classic and has received mostly positive reviews and praise for its story and acting. There are 16 episodes in the series and it won two awards at the MC Drama Awards, including one for actress Lee Sung-kyung and a Best New Actor Award for Nam Joo-hyuk.
This is a romance that is both touching and serious. The series is a reboot of a 2015 OnStyle drama called My First Time, with both shows produced by the same production company. The series has two total seasons, with both released on Netflix . Each season has eight episodes for fans of friend-to-lovers K-dramas to enjoy.
Happiness Cast Han Hyo-joo , Park Hyung-sik , Jo Woo-jin Release Date November 5, 2021 Seasons 1.0 Creator Yang Ji-eul , Lee Myung-han 7 She Was Pretty Kim Hye-jin & Ji Sung-joon Close A K-drama with a comedic twisting of fate is She Was Pretty. The show follows Kim Hye-jin, a very pretty young woman who is close friends with an unattractive young man named Ji Sung-joon. When Hye-jin's family goes bankrupt, the two are separated and do not meet again for many years.
This is a series that is very straightforward in its romance, without any side genres or complex plotlines, making it a perfect starting point for the friends-to-lovers trope. In the past, audiences see how they became friends, along with the cultural happenings at that time, while their present offers clues about their fates as adults. Ultimately, the Reply series has strong themes of friendship, family, and romance. Inevitably, each friend group has at least one couple that goes from friends to lovers.
Notably, this series also has an emphasis on music, which only serves to increase the romantic ambiance. The K-drama is also a rare one that doesn't have Netflix as its home, as it was released on Disney+ in 2022 in different territories. It also has a sequel called Soundtrack #2, although that is a standalone movie that doesn't really connect to the first one other than existing in the same universe.
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