Article: Ten K-Dramas Where The Leads Have Lost Their Lovers

Korean shows having sad endings seem to be the new trend but there are other shows that begin with a tragedy. Few are not even about revenge but about people accidentally losing their loved ones whom they planned to spend their lives with. Here is a list of such dramas.

1. My Lovely Girl

The drama is about a talented singer and songwriter, dating an aspiring singer. He loses her in an accident and feels responsible for her death. He gives up his celebrity life too. Three years later, he comes back to his agency to help his dead girlfriend’s sister.

2. Secret Love

This is the story of the son of a wealthy family who plans to marry his girlfriend against his father’s wishes. Unfortunately, she dies in an accident and he later learns that she was pregnant. He vows to take revenge against the woman responsible but she is not the real culprit.

3. Mrs Cop

One of the leads of this show suffers because of his girlfriend’s death. He is not able to continue his life like before and is desperate to save people. He later reveals that he lost his girlfriend on a mountain when she cut her rope to save him.

4. Tell Me What You Saw

A famous criminal profiler quits his job and lives in isolation but he secretly works to catch criminals. Though he assists cases his main target is a serial killer who is involved in his girlfriend’s death. He has lived with this pain and is constantly reminded of the accident.

5. Sketch

The fiancé of an ace detective is killed under mysterious circumstances. To know more about her death, he decides to work with a detective who can see into the future. She sketches these things. Based on it, he decides to find the killer.

6. Dark Hole

A detective’s husband is killed by the girl who was once supported by them. The detective decides to find her and ask the reason for the murder. While searching for her, she gets trapped in a zombie attack and her dead husband’s voice helps her survive.

7. Thank You

The drama is about a doctor who loses his girlfriend to cancer. Before dying, she reveals that she unknowingly gave HIV-infected blood during a transfusion, while working as an intern. Not knowing what to do he decides to find the patient and meets the young girl’s single mother.

8. Kill It

In this show, a detective tries to find the truth behind her boyfriend’s death. She doesn’t have any clue about the incident other than his dead body. As she tries to get more information, she meets two people involved and one of them is an assassin leading the life of a vet.

9. Now We Are Breaking Up

In this show, the female lead loses contact with her Korean boyfriend with whom she was in a relationship in France. She is not able to trust men because of this. It is later revealed that her boyfriend had planned to break up with her before leaving the country but got into an accident and died.

10. Voice

A detective loses his wife when he is out on an operation. Though he is known to be skilled, he fails to catch the killer. He now works as a regular police officer and meets the voice profiler who answered his wife’s call. They decide to find the truth.