

Stories which gave us a prolonged inability to move on past the aftermath. Let’s look back on some of the most recent Korean melodramas, which left us feeling sweetly depressed due to the amount of emotions we invested. Such power and dedication are needed to perfectly picture melodramas. Each frame lets you feel the rush of the tears, and the nuance of hope for the character to be emancipated from his agonizing situation. You cry at the actual moment while watching it, but it does not leave a lingering effect.īut there are stunningly captured Korean melodramas that remain carved in the viewers’ hearts, because of how beautifully and emotionally it was imagined. Sometimes the amount of tears you shed for Korean melodrama does not make it unforgettable. Improvement on tugging the viewers’ hearts with less tears is also a significant change compared to how we remember Choi Ji Woo or Song Hye Gyo crying almost every episode in their earlier projects. Although these days melodramas are not as agonizingly conceived in a series-of-unfortunate-event setup, it keeps the staple ingredient of the painstaking narrative for the main leads before hitting happy endings.
