Single-Parenting involves a parent without a spouse or live-in partner to help or assist in the child's upbringing. It always has been a social stigma questioning the ability and upbringing of the child by that parent, whether it can be a single dad or a single mom. There are several myths about this concept, which also include that not all parents are super-parents. We will talk about the super-parents who struggle to maintain a sweet and supportive relationship with their kid and want an ordinary life. This list includes the parents' struggle to balance work and personal life, some parents falling in love all over again and some fighting for their rights.
1. Hi Bye, Mama!
Hi Bye, Mama's story plot revolves around a mother-daughter duo. The mother dies in an accident while pregnant with nine months child. Fortunately, the child means her daughter gets saved. After four years of this incident, Kim Tae-hee, Cha Yu-ri, the mother, becomes human and is granted 49 days to achieve the position of the mother she had previously. She struggles to get closer to her daughter, who is unaware of her biological mother but has a stepmother now.
2. Marriage Contract
Uee starts working in a restaurant to pay off her late husband's debt and raise her daughter. She then agrees to donate her liver to the restaurant owner's mother in return for a large amount of money by making a marriage contract to make the liver donation legal. She also looks forward to the marriage to set her daughter's life with a guardian in her life when Uee knows that she has an inoperable brain tumor and has a few months to live.
3. When The Camellia Blooms
Oh Dong-Baek (Gong Hyo-jin) is an orphan and a single mother with her child who settles in a small town and opens a bar named Camellia. Her story depicts the single-parent stigma and relations when she comes across various characters and Hwang Yong-Sik, a cop, her love partner. Baek, who kept quiet at her bullying, now has learned to fight back the society to protect herself and her son.
4. Welcome To Waikiki
An upcoming film director, an eccentric actor, and a freelancer writer open a guest house-Waikiki in Itaewon to make instant money for their forthcoming project, a film. Seo Jin, the film director's younger sister, is a help to the guest house. The drama involves a single mother and her baby with her entrance into the house. She stays in the guesthouse in return to become a helping hand. Her single-parenting then converts every staff to join her in taking care of her daughter.
5. One Spring Night
A pharmacist and single dad, Yu Ji-ho, falls in love with a librarian. Lee Jeong-in is the librarian who already has commitments with a banker. This romantic journey open ups the closed heart doors of this single dad and the acceptance of his love partner. Even though Ji-ho finds it challenging to protect and maintain his kid in the taboo-provoking world, the couple manages to get occupied with love like a sweet family.
6. Was It Love?
Noh Ae-Jung is a film producer is single-parenting her daughter for years and has not dated anyone for 14 years. Ae Jung has survived a long way to balance her professional and personal life at taking caring for and providing company to her daughter Noh Ha-nee. But now Ae Jung is surrounded by four men suddenly. Who will she and her daughter choose to make one of them a husband and father, respectively?
7. Autumn's Concerto
A wealthy lawyer who also is the successor of their family business develops amnesia and starts losing memories. When he visits a small village, he meets his love from the past. Ren Guang Xi was a law student back then when he fell in love with an orphaned girl but ended up separating ways until six years later, they meet, while Liang Mu Cheng is single parenting her son.
8. Loving, Never Forgetting
Li Zhong Mou is a wealthy businessman who experiences a one-night stand with Wu Tong and forgets about her until, a few years later, he comes across the same lady and his son. He tries to get custody of his son but agrees to share it with Wu Tong. Various conflicts turn their relationship into marriage secretly and raise their child.
9. Five Enough
This story has two parents single-parenting their respective children. Sang-Tae is a widower and has two children living with his in-laws. He falls in love with his colleague Mi-Jung, a divorcee with three children, but the children are unaware of the divorce. Will this struggling single-parenting turn them into an understanding couple with five kids?
10. The World Of The Married
Sun-woo was living the perfect life she dreamed of as a doctor, wife, and mother until a suspicious hair turns the light on her husband's betrayal. They end up divorcing but fight over their son even though the custody remains with Sun-woo. She tries to be up to mark at caring for and fulfilling every need her son needs and maintaining a distance between the son and father duo.
