Summary
- K-drama love triangles bring suspense, intrigue, and anticipation.
- Some love triangles involve new characters who create drama before immediately disappearing from the storyline.
- Love triangles make viewers question which love interest is better suited for the main character.
The best K-drama love triangles always feature heart-pounding romance and twisty narratives that keep audiences coming back for more. Love triangles in K-dramas are one of the biggest tropes in the genre and sometimes the main source of conflict in the series. In some K-dramas, there is a new character who comes in, even if it’s for one episode, to confess their love to one of the main characters, causing drama before they disappear again. And in others, the major conflict revolves around whom the main character is going to end up with.
Some of the best K-drama love triangles also bring into question which of the two love interests is better suited for the main character. This trope adds a level of suspense, intrigue, and anticipation as two characters fight for the love and attention of the protagonist. It’s a tug-of-war of the heart that all comes to a head when the main character realizes their true feelings. For K-drama fans, there is no shortage of content featuring the juicy love triangle trope.
26 Nevertheless (2021)
Park Jae-Eon, Yoo Na-Bi, And Yang Do-Hyeuk
Nevertheless,
Nevertheless is a South Korean television series that explores the complex relationship between two art students, Yoo Na-bi and Park Jae-eon. Despite Yoo Na-bi’s aversion to love and Park Jae-eon’s flirtatious nature, they are drawn to each other through a series of encounters. The show delves into themes of love, desire, and the challenges of modern relationships, providing a nuanced look at youthful romance.
- Cast
- Han So-hee , Song Kang , Cheska Aguiluz , Yang Hye-Ji , Lee Ho-jung , Jeong Jae-kwang , Ha Do-kwon , Lee Seung-hyub
- Release Date
- June 19, 2021
- Seasons
- 1
Inspired by a webtoon, Nevertheless takes on romantic relationships in art school. The main characters are all students exploring different art forms at a prestigious school in South Korea, and they all have different approaches to romance and relationships in general.
Yoo Na Bi is the young woman at the heart of the story. As the show kicks off, she has her heart broken and becomes less trusting of the men around her despite her previous belief in love. Park Jae-Eon, on the other hand, doesn’t believe in “catching feelings” and wants to just have fun. Na-Bi can’t help but feel a connection to Jae-Eon. At one point in the show, she tries to avoid that connection with the safer option, a situationship with Yang Do-Hyeuk.
Because everyone in this show is trying to have light relationships and stay away from deeper connections, it’s never completely clear who will end up with who or which way a relationship will evolve. Chemistry between Jae-Eon and Na-Bi is electric, but that doesn’t mean they can form a lasting relationship, after all.
25 Itaewon Class (2020)
Park Sae Ro-yi, Jo Yi-seo, And Oh Soo-ah
Itaewon Class (2020)
Itaewon Class is a South Korean television series that premiered in 2020. The show revolves around Park Sae-ro-yi, a young entrepreneur who seeks revenge against the corrupt businessman who wronged him and his family. Alongside a group of misfits, Sae-ro-yi establishes a bar in Itaewon, a popular nightlife district in Seoul, and together they navigate love, friendship, and ambition.
- Cast
- Park Seo-jun , Kim Da-mi , Kwon Na-ra , Yoo Jae-myung , Ahn Bo-Hyun
- Release Date
- January 31, 2020
- Seasons
- 1
- Creator(s)
- Gwang Jin
Itaewon Class is most often seen as a revenge drama before a romance. That’s certainly accurate as the crux of the show involves Park Sae Ro-yi is bent on revenge for the wrongs against both him and his father in his life. After spending time in prison for trying to exact revenge the first time, he emerges with a new scheme, and it’s while trying to enact that scheme that the love triangle blossoms.
Park Sae Ro-yi seeks help for his scheme from Jo Yi-seo, the one friend who seems to stand by him through everything. She’s a social media influencer now, but she also harbors feelings for her good friend. Unfortunately for her, he holds a torch for Oh Soo-ah, a woman who just happens to work for the man he’s trying to destroy.
It’s rare for K-drama love triangles to feature two women and a man. Typically, K-dramas see two men have feelings for the same woman instead. That helps this particular love triangle to stand out in a landscape that is full of love triangles.
24 All That We Loved (2023)
Go Yoo, Joon Hee, and So Yeon
All That We Loved takes the idea of a high school love triangle and infuses it with some more science fiction elements. The idea used in the series takes a slow forming friendship and begins to destroy it because of the love triangle.
In the series, Go Yoo and Joon Hee are polar opposites. The former is a basketball player and the latter is more interested in his textbooks. Despite how different they are, the two slowly build a friendship and Go Yoo even donates a kidney to Joo Hee. That is where the trouble begins as the donation of the kidney actually leads to some of Go Yoo’s memories to be shared with Joo Hee. The two become rivals as a result.
The two don’t just hate one another though. The shared memories also mean they both become interested in So Yeon, the most popular girl in school. Their friendship is shattered as they compete for her attention, making for a dramatic take on a love triangle.
23 Start-Up (2020)
Seo Dal Mi, Nam Do San, and Han Ji Pyeong
Relationships between coworkers tend to make for some of the messiest love triangles in K-dramas. That’s the case with Start-Up, which is part of the reason the show is so entertaining.
In the series, Seo Dal Mi becomes disillusioned with her corporate job and longs for adventure and to make her mark on the world. She thinks she can do that by joining the tech start-up Sandbox Company. She and the CEO, Nam Do San, form a connection and she starts to work for him. That connection, however, is interrupted by Han Ji Pyeong, one of the other employees at the company.
Han Ji Pyeong actually holds a debt to someone in Dal Mi’s life, making him feel like he has to protect her. That leads him to become a bit too involved in her life, but also for new feelings to emerge. For those who like their love triangles with plenty of longing looks and heartbreak, Start-Up is the perfect series.
22 Forecasting Love And Weather (2022)
Jin Ha Kyung, Lee Shi Woo, and Han Ki Joon
Forecasting Love And Weather (2022)
Forecasting Love and Weather is a South Korean drama series that aired in 2022. The show follows the lives and careers of employees at the Korea Meteorological Administration, focusing on their complex romantic relationships and professional struggles. Starring Park Min-young and Song Kang, the series explores themes of love, ambition, and the unpredictable nature of weather, both literal and metaphorical.
- Cast
- Andrew Grace , Harrison Xu , Keisuke Hoashi , Will Choi , Lee Sung-wook , Nara Yun , Park Young-soo , Ren Hanami
- Release Date
- February 12, 2022
- Seasons
- 1
It might be more accurate to call the love triangle in Forecasting Love and Weather a love square since Chae Yoo Jin actually marries Han Ki Joon early in the series. The bulk of the emotional conflict, however, occurs between Han Ki Joon, his ex Jin Ha Kyung, and his new wife’s ex Lee Shi Woo, who also happens to enter a relationship with Ha Kyung.
The three main characters of the triangle all work for the Korean weather service while Yoo Jin is a journalist who reports on the weather and their lives intertwine because of the complicated relationships between them. Ha Kyung and Shi Woo spend one night together after she is cheated on by Ki Joon, only for her to end up as Shi Woo’s supervisor when he transfers to her office. They decide to keep their relationship a secret.
Ki Joon, despite being married, cannot let Ha Kyung go for much of the series, leading him into conflict with both Ha Kyung and Shi Woo repeatedly. It nearly ruins his marriage as he worries he’s not good enough for Yoo Jin and becomes obsessed with Ha Kyung’s new relationship. There’s never a worry by the audience that Ha Kyung and Ki Joon will end up together again, but the drama helps fuel the rest of the story as other members of their workplace gradually become aware of the conflicts, making for a compelling narrative.
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21 Black (2017)
Kang Ha-ram, Han Moo-gang & Oh Man-soo
Black (2017)
In this supernatural drama, a grim reaper inhabiting a human body encounters a woman who can foresee death. Together, they break heavenly rules to solve crimes and save lives, uncovering a series of conspiracies involving the dead. As they draw closer to the truth, they also unravel the grim reaper’s own forgotten past.
- Cast
- Choi Woo-shik , Kim Da-mi , Kim Sung-cheol , Roh Jeong-eui
- Release Date
- December 6, 2021
- Directors
- Kim Yoon-jin
- Creator(s)
- Lee Na-eun
One of the best supernatural-fantasy K-dramas, Black is a peculiar type of love triangle, but definitively one of the most memorable since it involves a grim reaper. In the series, protagonist Kang Ha-ram (Go Ara) has the ability to see someone’s death. She becomes the lackey to a grim reaper named Han Moo-gang (Song Seung-heon), who possesses a body to get back his rogue assistant. Along the way, she starts to make him feel human emotions, which are forbidden, and she starts to feel an attraction toward him.
There was so much interest in this series that it actually got a Malaysian remake as well.
Of course, it wouldn’t be a love triangle without a third party. Also intermixed is a young CEO named Oh Man-soo (Kim Dong-jun), who trusts her abilities and helps her. He develops feelings of his own but sees she might be in love with someone else. There was so much interest in this series that it actually got a Malaysian remake as well.
Black
is not currently available to stream.
20 Jinxed At First (2022)
Gong Soo-kwang, Lee Seul-bi & Seon Min-joon
Jinxed At First (2022)
Based on the webtoon, this romantic drama tells the story of a man who believes he brings bad luck to everyone he touches leading him to live a secluded life. His world changes when he meets a woman with the ability to see the future, who foresees a different path for them both. Together, they challenge fate and seek to rewrite their destinies.
- Cast
- Song Seung-heon , Go Ara , Lee El , Kim Dong-jun
- Release Date
- October 14, 2017
- Directors
- Kim Hong-sun
- Creator(s)
- Choi Ran
- Seasons
- 1
One of the shows that features the best K-drama love triangles is also based on a popular K-drama webtoon, Jinxed at First. The poor and unlucky Gong Soo-kwang (Na In-Woo) is haunted by dreams of the mysterious Lee Seul-bi (Girls Generation member Seohyun), but these dreams always precede an unlucky event.
Seul-bi, a woman who can see the future by touching someone, and her mother are let out of their secret room in the Sam Jung family home by Seon Min-joon (Ki Do-hoon), and Seul-bi seeks Soo-kwang out, resulting in a light enemies-to-lovers romance. The only catch is that Seon Min-joon falls for her too, leading to a complicated love triangle that changes all of their lives. The series might not have won any prestigious awards, but the character arcs of everyone are compelling to watch unfold.
Jinxed At First
is available to stream on Rakuten Viki.
19 Boys Over Flowers (2009)
Geum Jan-di, Gu Jun-pyo & Yoon Ji-hoo
Boys Over Flowers
Boys Over Flowers is a 2009 South Korean television series based on the Japanese manga of the same name. The show follows Geum Jan-di, a courageous but impoverished girl who receives a scholarship to attend a prestigious high school. There, she encounters the infamous F4, a group of wealthy and influential boys, leading to complex relationships and social conflicts. The series stars Koo Hye-sun, Lee Min-ho, Kim Hyun-joong, Kim Bum, and Kim Joon.
- Cast
- Kyo Hye-sun , Lee Min-ho , Kim Hyun-joong , Kim Bum , Kim Joon
- Release Date
- January 5, 2009
- Seasons
- 1
- Creator(s)
- Jeon Ki-sang , Yoon Ji-ryun , Yoko Kamio
Boys Over Flowers makes viewers’ hearts leap over one of the best K-drama love triangles. Based on a Japanese manga, it follows a young woman named Geum Jan-di who gets mixed into the wealthy lives of a group of young men at school, namely Gu Jun-pyo. Feelings and interactions blossom between Jan-di and Jun-pyo, but Jun-pyo’s friend, Yoon Ji-hoo, also becomes smitten with Jan-di. However, out of all of them, there’s one that she has an undeniable connection with.
Boys Over Flowers is critically acclaimed and has garnered accolades at the Baeksang Arts Awards, Asian Television Awards, and KBS Drama Awards. The series is also known for helping to bring interest in K-dramas around the world. It was one of the first K-dramas to see an international demand through streaming.
18 Record Of Youth (2020)
Ahn Jeong-ha, Sa Hye-jun & Won Hae-hyo
Record Of Youth (2020)
Record Of Youth is a South Korean television series that follows the lives of three young individuals, Sa Hye-joon, Won Hae-hyo, and Park Do-ha, as they navigate their careers and relationships in the competitive Modeling industry in Seoul.
- Cast
- Park Bo-gum , Park So-dam , Byeon Woo-seok , Lee Chang-hoon , Jo Yoon Jung
- Release Date
- September 7, 2020
- Seasons
- 1
- Creator(s)
- Ha Myung-hee , An Gil-ho
Record of Youth is a Netflix K-drama with one of the best K-drama love triangles. In the series, a talented makeup artist named Ahn Jeong-ha has a crush on a lesser-known male model named Sa Hye-jun. She gets the opportunity to do his makeup for a show and sparks a friendship, which soon turns into a relationship, but there’s one problem. The model-turned-actor also has a childhood friend named Won Hae-hyo who’s also at the top of his career as a model-actor. Hae-hyo also becomes smitten with Jeong-ha.
Both seem to be a good match for Jeong-ha, making her final decision all the more heart-pounding. Love triangles always work better in K-dramas when both sides of the love triangle are equally viable. If they aren’t, the audience is only going to root for one character and the love triangle isn’t nearly as compelling.
17 She Was Pretty (2015)
Kim Hye-jin, Ji Sung-joon & Min Ha-ri & Kim Shin-hyuk
She Was Pretty (2015)
She Was Pretty is a South Korean television series that aired in 2015. It stars Hwang Jung-eum as Kim Hye-jin and Park Seo-joon as Ji Sung-joon. The plot centers around a reunion between two childhood friends who have both undergone profound physical and social changes over the years. The narrative explores themes of identity, beauty, and romantic misunderstandings as their lives intertwine once more.
- Cast
- Hwang Jeong-eum , Park Seo-joon , Ko Jun-hee , Choi Siwon , Shin Hye-sun , Jung Da-bin , Jung Won Cha , Park Yoo-hwan
- Release Date
- September 16, 2015
- Seasons
- 1
She Was Pretty is a K-drama that will have viewers simultaneously laughing and having their hearts break from the romance of one of the best K-drama love triangles. It all started when Kim Hye-jin backed out of meeting her childhood friend Ji Sung-joon due to him becoming gorgeous and her feeling inadequate. She instead forces her best friend, Min Ha-ri, to take her place.
She Was Pretty
is available to stream on Rakuten Viki.
When Hye-jin is given a new job by accident at a fashion magazine, she then discovers Sung-joon is the new editor of the magazine, hence her new boss, making this one of the best K-dramas about falling in love with the boss as well. However, two love triangles occur. The incredibly charming Kim Shin-Hyuk starts to fall in love with Hye-jin just as her boss starts to remember who she is. All the while, Ha-ri, who pretended to be her at the first meeting, starts to fall for Sung-joon too. Mistaken identity plays a great role in this story.
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16 Cinderella And The Four Knights (2016)
Eun Ha-won, Kang Ji-woon, Kang Hyun-min & Kang Seo-woo
Cinderella And The Four Knights (2016)
An optimistic girl is thrown into the lives of three wealthy, handsome cousins and their aloof bodyguards when she’s hired to live in their grand mansion. Tasked with enforcing rules, she begins to influence their lives and heal their emotional wounds. Amidst the luxury and tension, romance blooms as they all vie for her affections.
- Cast
- Lee Sung-kyung , Nam Joo-hyuk , Lee Jae-yoon , Kyung Soo-jin
- Release Date
- November 16, 2016
- Creator(s)
- Yang Hee-seung
- Seasons
- 1
Cinderella and the Four Knights has the most complicated, but also one of the best, K-drama love triangles to appear on television. Like She Was Pretty, it’s not a love triangle but a love quadrangle. Hopeful high school senior Eun Ha-won is forced to take up many part-time jobs to pay for college. She meets an old man who convinces her to move into his home and finds herself living with billionaire cousins Kang Ji-woon, Kang Hyun-min, and Kang Seo-woo — all of whom are equally handsome.
The complicated love drama, naturally, begins as each of the cousins starts to develop feelings for her. The series garnered a lot of comparisons to the legendary K-drama Boys Over Flowers when it premiered. The series was inspired by a web novel, just as so many today have been inspired by webtoons. It snagged the Global Star Award for Ahn Jae-hyun at the Korea Drama Awards.
Cinderella And The Four Knights
is available to stream on Netflix.
15 Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2016)
Kim Bok-joo, Jung Joon-hyung & Jung Jae-yi
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2016)
Inspired by the life of an Olympic weightlifting champion, this series follows the coming-of-age story of Kim Bok-joo, a young athlete discovering her path in weightlifting and love. As she pursues her dreams, she struggles with the everyday trials of sports training and young love.
- Cast
- Lee Sung-kyung , Nam Joo-hyuk , Lee Jae-yoon , Kyung Soo-jin
- Release Date
- November 16, 2016
- Seasons
- 1
- Creator(s)
- Yang Hee-seung
Another one of the best K-drama love triangles is featured in Weightligting Fairy Kim Bok-joo. Kim Bok-joo and Jung Joon-hyung had been childhood friends, went to the same school, and even saved each others’ lives within the first episode. The only issue was that Kim Bok-joo was in love with Jung Joon-hyung’s older brother, Jung Jae-yi, who is a doctor.
This love triangle was cute and innocent, as Bok-joo seems to have a naive crush on Jae-yi, who doesn’t reciprocate her feelings. Instead of making a move on Bok-joo before she got over her crush, Joon-hyung comforted her through her first heartbreak, became best friends with her, and later confessed his feelings. The series’ cast was recognized for their performance at the MBC Drama Awards.
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo
is available to stream on Rakuten Viki.
14 Romance Is A Bonus Book (2019)
Kang Dan-i, Chan Eun-ho, Song Hye-rin & Ji Seo Joon
Romance Is A Bonus Book (2019)
Romance Is A Bonus Book is a South Korean romantic comedy series starring Lee Na-young and Lee Jong-suk. The story revolves around a once-successful copywriter who struggles to find work due to her age and complicated personal life. She eventually lands a job at a publishing company where she reunites with a former colleague, sparking a journey of personal and professional rediscovery amidst the backdrop of the literary world.
- Cast
- Lee Na-young , Lee Jong-suk , Jeong Eu-Gene , Wi Ha-joon , Kim Sun-young , Jo Han-chul , Kim Tae-woo , Kim Yu-mi
- Release Date
- January 26, 2019
- Seasons
- 1
Romance is a Bonus Book features another love quadrangle rather than a love triangle, and each member ends up happy in an adorable couple by the end. It also features one of the best K-drama love triangles. The show has been recognized at the Baegsang Arts Awards and its soundtrack is critically acclaimed. In Romance is a Bonus Book, Kang Dan-i is best friends with Chan Eun-ho and has been in love with her for years and years.
However, this author and editor is pretty popular with the ladies himself and had a casual fling with his coworker, Song Hye-rin, before he found out that Dan-i was single and unhoused. To add even more drama, famed book cover artist, Ji Seo-joon, also liked Dan-i and was attempting to win her over, as well.
13 Love Alarm (2019)
Hye-yeong, Kim Jo-jo & Hwang Sun-oh
Love Alarm (2019)
Love Alarm is a South Korean television series based on the popular webtoon by Chon Kye-young. Set in a world where a mobile app alerts users when someone within a 10-meter radius has romantic feelings for them, the show follows Kim Jo-jo, a high school girl who becomes embroiled in a complicated web of relationships and social hierarchies as she navigates the consequences of the Love Alarm app.
- Cast
- Kim So-hyun , Jung Ga-ram , Song Kang , Go Min-si , Lee Jae-eung
- Release Date
- August 22, 2019
- Seasons
- 2
- Creator(s)
- Yu Bo-ra
Lee Hye-yeong is in love with Kim Jo-jo and has been for some time now.
This drama, based on a popular webtoon, features a fairly complex love triangle that raised a lot of eyebrows but is still one of the best K-drama love triangles. Lee Hye-yeong is in love with Kim Jo-jo and has been for some time now. He wants to confess to her but also enjoys just watching and helping her from afar, acknowledging that he doesn’t want to make her life messy. However, everything changes when Hye-yeong’s best friend comes back and learns about his crush.
Hwang Sun-oh sees that Hye-yeong is crushing on Jo-jo and encourages him to tell her, but all the while he begins falling for her too. Because Sun Oh is more open about his feelings, he kisses Jo-jo, sparks immediately begin to fly, and the two begin dating shortly after, all the while with Jo-jo still not knowing that Hye-yeong had feelings for her. Love Alarm is also one of the best K-dramas with more than one season, giving audiences a long-lasting love triangle.
12 The Heirs (2013)
Cha Eun-sang, Kim Tan & Choi Young-do
The Heirs (2013)
In the elite corridors of a high school catering to Korea’s richest 1%, the young heirs to conglomerates wrestle with expectations of rigid family legacies and their dreams. The story centers on a love triangle involving Kim Tan, a corporate heir who falls for Cha Eun-sang, the daughter of his family’s housekeeper, complicating the family dynamic even further.
- Cast
- Lee Min-ho , Park Shin-Hye , Kim Woo-bin , Kang Min-hyuk , Choi Jin-hyuk
- Release Date
- October 9, 2013
- Seasons
- 1
- Creator(s)
- Kim Eun-sook
The Heirs, much like Boys Over Flowers, is an iconic drama that features one of the best K-drama love triangles that had audiences rooting for both of the boys. In the series, Cha Eun-sang was a normal girl who got to attend an ultra-rich school. Her main love interest, Kim Tan, loved her a lot and tried to help her fit in, but it didn’t always work out so well.
The Heirs
is available to stream on Netflix.
However, things get complicated when troublemaker Choi Young-do enters the scene. Young-do was Tan’s closest friend before they had a big fallout. Initially, he tried getting close to Eun-sang to get revenge on Tan, but over time, he developed genuine feelings for her and comforted her in times when Tan couldn’t understand. The show has won a slew of awards, including at the SBS Drama Awards, the Baeksang Arts Awards, and the APAN Star Awards.
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11 Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Of Youth (2016)
Ah-ro, Moo-myung & Sam Maek-jong
Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Of Youth (2016)
Set in the Silla Dynasty, this drama series unveils the secretive world of the Hwarang, an elite group of male youths selected from high society to lead and protect the kingdom. These young men, adept in academics and martial arts, confront their issues and rivalries while juggling the chaos of their privileged lives.
- Cast
- Park Seo-joon , Go Ara , Park Hyung-sik , Choi Min-ho , Do Ji-han
- Release Date
- December 19, 2016
- Seasons
- 1
- Creator(s)
- Park Eun-young
Hwarang has a bit more of a confusing love triangle with one person pretending to be another, but nonetheless, the romance is one of the best K-drama love triangles. In one of the best historical K-dramas, Ah-ro meets Moo-myung, who pretends to be her long-lost brother who actually passed away in the first episode. Moo-myung and Ah-ro’s brother were close friends, and Moo-myung swore to protect her before the brother died.
Around the same time, Ah-ro meets the young king Sam Maek-jong, who loves how feisty and stubborn she is. Things get complicated and weird when Moo-myung and Ah-ro start developing feelings for each other. Ah-ro thinks she is in love with her brother and tries to block out her emotions. Eventually, she learns the truth and chooses which boy she likes more. The series is critically acclaimed and has received honors at the KBS Drama Awards, Melon Music Awards, and Soompi Awards.
Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Of Youth
is available to stream on Rakuten Viki.
10 Oh My Ghost (2015)
Na Bong-sun, Kang Sun-woo & Soon-ae
Oh My Ghost (2015)
Oh My Ghost (2015) is a South Korean television series starring Park Bo-young, Jo Jung-suk, and Kim Seul-gi. The story follows a timid assistant chef who is possessed by the spirit of a lustful virgin ghost. Together, they navigate the complexities of love and life, especially as they become entangled with a star chef. This series combines romance, comedy, and supernatural elements to explore relationships and personal growth.
- Cast
- Park Bo-young , Jo Jung-Suk , Lim Ju-hwan , Kim Seul-gi , Shin Hye-sun , Kang Ki-young , Lee Jeong-eun , Kwak Si-yang
- Release Date
- July 3, 2015
- Seasons
- 1
Oh My Ghost features another complicated love triangle, but it certainly has one of the best in the K-drama genre. Na Bong-sun is a shy and quiet chef who can see ghosts. She isn’t too noticeable to her boss, Kang Sun-woo, whom she has a crush on. That all changes when the loud, flirty, and eccentric ghost of Soon-ae possesses her body.
Sun-woo’s old crush, who didn’t share his feelings for him, comes back into the picture and confesses that she had been wrong to reject him.
This love triangle gets confusing because viewers never really know which girl Sun-woo likes until the end. The girls switch places pretty often and, over time, Bong-sun opens up and becomes more like the ghost within her. To make matters more complex, Sun-woo’s old crush, who didn’t share his feelings for him, comes back into the picture and confesses that she had been wrong to reject him. Oh My Ghost was so popular it got a Thai remake and won awards at the tvN10 Awards, DramaFever Awards, and APAN Star Awards.
Oh My Ghost
is available to stream on Rakuten Viki.
9 Cheese In The Trap (2016)
Hong Seol, Yoo Jung & Baek In-ho
Cheese In The Trap (2016)
Cheese In The Trap is a South Korean television series based on the webtoon of the same name. It tells the story of Hong Seol, a college student who becomes embroiled in a complicated relationship with her wealthy and charismatic classmate, Yoo Jung. As their relationship deepens, Seol begins to uncover the dark secrets behind Jung’s charming facade.
- Cast
- Park Hae-jin , Kim Go-eun , Seo Kang-joon , Park Min-ji , Nam Joo-hyuk
- Release Date
- January 4, 2016
- Seasons
- 1
- Creator(s)
- Lee Yoon-jung
Cheese in the Trap is another drama based on a webtoon and has one of the biggest cases of “Second Lead Syndrome” in any K-Drama as well as one of the best K-drama love triangles. The idea of this syndrome is that viewers typically want the girl to end up with the second guy because of how much better he is, as a character, and for her. Such is the case in this drama as Hong Seol likes Yoo Jung, but Yoo Jung is reserved and quiet, and no one can really tell what he’s thinking.
The two quickly start dating with a ton of ups and downs. All the while, Hong Seol is becoming closer to Yoo Jung’s ex-best friend, Baek In-ho. In-ho is loud and eccentric but comforts Seol and knows how to put a smile on her face. Over time, he develops feelings for her, but she’s already too invested in Yoo. The K-drama was adapted into a movie of the same name, which was released in 2018, and has garnered acclaim from the Baeksang Arts Awards, the Asia Artist Awards, and the Korean Cable TV Awards.
8 My Girlfriend Is A Gumiho (2010)
Cha Dae-woong, Gu Mi-ho & Park Dong-joo
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My Girlfriend Is A Gumiho (2010)
An aspiring actor accidentally releases a Gumiho, a mythical nine-tailed fox, from her centuries-old prison. Mistakenly thinking he owes her his life, she insists on staying by his side. As they navigate this unusual cohabitation, they learn about love, human desires, and the oddities and challenges of being a god-like being in a human’s world.
- Cast
- Lee Seung-gi , Shin Min-a , No Min-woo , Park Soo-jin
- Release Date
- August 11, 2010
- Seasons
- 1
- Creator(s)
- Hong Jung-eun , Hong Mi-ran
One of the best K-drama love triangles involves Korean lore and can be seen in the romance comedy series My Girlfriend is a Gumiho. College student Cha Dae-woong has ambitions to become an action star, but accidentally unleashes a gumiho (a fox with nine tails in Korean mythology) named Gu Miho, who saves Dae-woong from a fall. Though scared that she will eat his liver like gumihos of legend, he takes Mi-ho in and keeps her identity a secret, slowly falling in love with her.
However, things get complicated when a half-human half-supernatural being posing as a veterinarian named Park Dong-joo enters the scene. He tells Mi-ho of a process that will allow her to become human for good, but completely neglects to tell her that it will kill Dae-woong in the process, as he wants her for himself. The series sparked critical acclaim and has won accolades at the SBS Drama Awards, DramaBeans Awards, and Style Icon Awards.
My Girlfriend Is A Gumiho
is available to stream on Rakuten Viki.
