Longtime friends blurring the lines of friendship and entering the line of romance. The risk of losing a friends versus the thrill of gaining a life-partner. Such is the delight of friends to lovers dramas. Here we have a list of such K-dramas that were released in 2021-22.
1. Happiness
Yoon Sae Bom (Han Hyo Joo), a special agent, proposes a marriage of convenience to her longtime friend Jung Yi Hyun (Park Hyung Sik), a detective, to get an apartment. Due to a mysterious disease spreading in the country, their building gets quarantined, which brings out the best and the worst in the apartment’s residents. As the two look out for each other, their relationship develops into something more.
2. Twenty-One Twenty Five
Set in the backdrop of the South Korean financial crisis, two young people, Hee Do (Kim Tae Ri) and Yi Jin (Nam Joo Hyuk) struggle to fulfill or abandon their dreams in a heart-touching story of hopes, friendships, rivalries, and first love. Hee Do is a high-school fencer aiming for the national team who meets Yi Jin, a hard-working boy struggling financially. An intense friendship turning into an even more intense love story, the two characters might find a permanent place in your heart!
3. Soundtrack #1
Han Sun Woo (Park Hyung Sik) and Seo Eun Soo (Han So Hee) have been friends for most of their lives. Sun Woo is a photographer who has been in love with Eun Soo for years, unbeknownst to her. Eun Soo is a lyricist who has to write about unrequited love in her new song so she takes the help of Sun Woo in order to make a touching song that feels real. As Eun Soo realizes her growing feelings for her best friend, their love might not be unrequited after all.
4. Dear M.
Cha Min Ho (Jung Jaehyun) and Ma Joo Ah (Park Hye Soo) are childhood friends, now in college. As Joo Ah asks Min Ho to be her wingman in successfully dating her crush, Min Ho seems to sabotage them more than help. Is there something more going on with them than just friendship?
5. Love All Play
Park Tae Joon (Chae Jong Hyeop) and Park Tae Yang (Park Joo Hyun) are two young people with a love-hate relationship with badminton. Once a legend, Tae Yang gave up on her badminton career with many rumors surrounding her retirement. Tae Joon is a highly talented badminton player but lacks motivation for the sport due to always being overshadowed by his national-level player sister. Tae Yang and Tae Joon find ways to motivate each other their friendship soon grows into love in this passionate drama.
6. Hospital Playlist 2
Lee Ik Jun (Jo Jung Suk) is a divorced single father and Chae Song Hwa (Jeon Mi Do) is his long-time friend and fellow doctor. After years of helping each other through the hard times in their lives, the two might just be ready to take the next step into relationship category.
7. Vincenzo
Vincenzo Cassono (Song Joon Ki), an Italian mafia consigliere, has just returned to Korea to handle his properties and retrieve his money from a hidden place under an apartment building. There, he meets Hong Cha Young (Jeon Yeo Been), a lawyer with questionable morals, much to the dismay of her righteous father. The two join hands to bring down a common enemy as their partnership turns into something more.
8. My Liberation Notes
Yeom Mi Jung (Kim Ji Won) is sick of her monotonous life. She decided to fall in love with the first man she sees. Mr. Gu is her neighbor and her parents’ employee. He is quiet, until Mi Jung gets him to speak. The two connect and share their burden by talking to each other every day until it develops into mutual affection.
9. Dali And The Cocky Prince
Dali (Park Gyu Young) is an art director at a museum in Switzerland where Moo Hak (Kim Min Jae) has just came to finalize a deal for his restaurant. In a series of misunderstandings, Moo Hak accidentally enters the world of art and becomes friends with Dali. As Dali returns to Korea due to an emergency, the two meet again and pick up their friendship where they had left it off. As Moo Hak helps Dali Through a tough time, the two eventually cross the friendship line into romance.
10. Blue Birthday
Oh Ha Rin (Yeri) and Ji Seo Jun (Hong Seok) were been friends for 10 years until Seo Jun took his own life back in high school. Now, 10 years later, Oh Ha Rin gets the opportunity to travel back in time and save Seo Jun from his death and show him how much he means to her.
