After spending many hours watching a TV show, you’d hope for a satisfying conclusion to wrap everything up in a tidy bow. While many K-drama finales are amazing, others are bittersweet, if not downright depressing. So, if you’re feeling down and in need of a pick-me-up, here are the 8 Best Romantic Comedy Korean Dramas With A Happy Ending.
1. Her Private Life
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Synopsis: Sung Deok Mi is a passionate professional who lives for her work as an art gallery curator. She is remarkable in every regard, save one, since she devotes herself to her career. Deok Mi hides a dark secret behind his suave, professional exterior. A secret she urgently wants to keep hidden from the rest of the world. A secret that has turned off lovers. A secret that governs every aspect of her private existence.
Sung Deok Mi is a die-hard Cha Shi An supporter. Deok Mi, the ardent manager of a Shi An fansite, lives, breathes, and sleeps Shi An. He is both her sun and her moon. He is the centre of her universe. This is the secret Deok Mi must keep hidden from the rest of the world. And she conceals it.
At least until Ryan Gold, the new director of the art gallery, walks into her life. The former painter turned director considers himself an uncaring being, disinterested with the lives of others. But everything changes when he discovers Deok Mi’s secret.
Main Cast:
Park Min Young – Sung Deok Mi
Kim Jae Wook – Ryan Gold / Heo Yoon Jae
Ahn Bo Hyun – Nam Eun Gi
One – Cha Shi Ahn [Idol of White Ocean]
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2. My Love from the Star
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama, Supernatural
Synopsis: Do Min Joon is a 400-year-old alien that arrived on Earth during the Joseon Dynasty. He has an almost flawless look and improved physical talents in the areas of eyesight, hearing, and speed. He later learns that he only has three months remaining on Earth. And it’s then that he meets Cheon Song Yi, Korea’s biggest Hallyu star.
Main Cast:
Kim Soo Hyun – Do Min Joon
Jun Ji Hyun – Cheon Song Yi
Park Hae Jin – Lee Hee Kyung
Yoo In Na – Yoo Se Mi
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3. Fight For My Way
Genres: Business, Comedy, Romance, Sports
Synopsis: Can you still pursue your aspirations if you lack the necessary background?
Ko Dong Man had always wanted to be a famous taekwondo athlete, but he now works as a contract employee in a humdrum job. Choi Ae Ra, his squabbling longtime friend, hopes to be a television anchor but instead works at a department store’s information desk.
Kim Joo Man and Baek Seol Hee, their pals, have been dating for six years but are facing a new danger to their love.
Can the four friends achieve their unique goals despite their “third-rate” credentials?
Main Cast:
Park Seo Joon – Ko Dong Man
Kim Ji Won – Choi Ae Ra
Ahn Jae Hong – Kim Joo Man
Song Ha Yoon – Baek Seol Hee
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4. I Am Not A Robot
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama, Sci-Fi
Synopsis: Kim Min Kyu is the majority stakeholder of a financial firm. He has a “human allergy,” which prevents him from having normal contact with other people. He becomes intrigued in the Santa Maria robotic team’s Aji-3 robotic project.
Hong Baek Gyun, the inventor of Aji-3 and a world-renowned robotics professor, leads the team. He based Aji-3 on his ex-girlfriend, Jo Ji Ah, who is a struggling inventor who also works as a personal shopper to make ends meet.
An accident causes the robot’s batteries to malfunction just as Kim Min Kyu is about to test it. Hong Baek Gyun begs Jo Ji Ah to stand in for Aji-3 and pretend to be the robot in order to obtain financing from Kim Min Kyu.
However, Aji-3 becomes the lonely Min Kyu’s only real touch with another person.
Main Cast:
Yoo Seung Ho – Kim Min Kyu
Chae Soo Bin – Jo Ji Ah | Aji-3
Uhm Ki Joon – Hong Baek Gyun
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5. Strong Girl Bong-Soon
Genres: Action, Thriller, Comedy, Romance, Drama, Supernatural
Synopsis: Do Bong Soon is a small, unemployed woman who is trustworthy and caring. On the exterior, she appears small and charming, but she is actually very, very strong. For generations, the women in her family have been given Herculean power to employ for the greater good. However, if they are abused, their power will be revoked.
While standing up to gang members who have bullied her, she is approached by Ahn Min Hyuk, the gorgeous and slightly juvenile CEO of Ainsoft, a gaming firm. After being threatened by an unknown opponent, Ahn Min Hyuk, who has a deep disdain for the police, watched the entire exchange of Bong Soon’s superhuman power and now wants to hire her as a bodyguard. Min Hyuk immediately falls in love with the super-strong Bong Soon, but there’s a catch. Bong Soon has her sights set on someone else: In Guk Doo, a police officer and childhood acquaintance she has known since high school.
When a series of kidnappings in Do Bong Soon’s hometown of Dobong-dong, Dobong-gu, causes havoc, Bong Soon must decide whether to use her strength and stand up to evil, or to play it safe and keep her powers concealed from the public. Bong Soon’s life is turned upside down by the love triangle she encounters between In Guk Doo and Ahn Min Hyuk, as well as the need to keep Min Hyuk safe.
Main Cast:
Park Bo Young – Do Bong Soon
Park Hyung Sik – Ahn Min Hyuk
Kim Ji Soo – In Gook Doo
Jun Suk Ho – Kong Bi Seo
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6. What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim
Genres: Friendship, Business, Comedy, Romance
Synopsis: The plot centres around the egotistical Lee Young Joon, the vice president of a family-owned company. He is incredibly self-absorbed and has a high opinion of himself, to the point where he scarcely acknowledges the people around him. Kim Mi So, Lee Young Joon’s talented and patient secretary, has remained by his side and worked tirelessly for 9 years without any romantic involvement. Mi So, on the other hand, wants to arrange her life and focus on herself, so when she decides to leave from her work, humorous misunderstandings occur. Can their strictly professional relationship blossom into something more after 9 years?
Main Cast:
Park Min Young – Kim Mi So
Park Seo Joon – Lee Young Joon
Lee Tae Hwan – Lee Sung Yeon
Pyo Ye Jin – Kim Ji Ah
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7. The Secret Life of My Secretary
Genres: Business, Comedy, Romance
Synopsis: Do Min Ik is the Chief of Team 1 at T&T Mobile Media and an educated, fastidious guy with a stone heart. He usually relies on his secretary, the fiery Jung Gal Hee. Despite the fact that she carefully completes the tasks assigned to her by her nasty boss, she does not hold back in stating what she wants to say. Will there be a workplace romance?
Main Cast:
Kim Young Kwang – Do Min Ik
Jin Ki Joo – Jung Gal Hee | Veronica Park
Kim Jae Kyung – Veronica Park / Park Ok Soon
Koo Ja Sung – Ki Dae Joo
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8. Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Youth, Sports
Synopsis: Bok Joo is a weightlifter who dreams of winning a gold medal, but she discovers romance for the first time in her life. While she is a lady who lifts massive steel weights, she is also quite feminine in her interactions. Her relationship would be jeopardised if she concentrated completely on weightlifting, yet abandoning her weightlifting career for love would prevent her from achieving her goals. Can she, at the age of 20, find a way to have both love and glory? The characters in this play are outstanding athletes in weightlifting, swimming, and rhythmic gymnastics who strive to achieve their life goals. It follows their coming-of-age tales and relationships as they navigate through life’s ups and downs.
Main Cast:
Lee Sung Kyung – Kim Bok Joo
Nam Joo Hyuk – Jung Joon Hyung
Lee Jae Yoon – Jung Jae Yi
Kyung Soo Jin – Song Shi Ho
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