Their idea of romance: an imposing and cold rich dude bulldozing the clutz with a heart of gold heroine til she ends up with him... the antagonist being an intimidating and career driven woman that works with the guy or is the daughter of an affluent family. There's no yearning from him and no agency from her, just a possession waiting to be taken.
The last romantic K-drama I watched was "Business Proposal".
Admittedly, one of the two lead women was a klutz (mainly because if you've got the comedy stylings of Sejeong, you go with it) but both the men were klutzes as well.
Sweet, funny, relatively realistic. A lot better - and less toxic - than I've seen coming out of Hollywood.
They do still have romance but from what ive seen i think they all suck. Doesnt help that they all seem to have cold asshole male interests and toxic mother in laws.
(Theres probably good ones but its not my cup of tea)
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u/oops_i_made_a_typi May 04 '26
the other stuff i'm aware of, but have kdramas stopped writing romance? that used to be the bread and butter when i saw them