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Drama and movie list of romance genre

Sweet 18
  • Title: Sweet 18
  • Also Known As: 낭랑18세 / Nang Rang 18 Seh
  • Genre: Comedy, Romance
  • Broadcast Date: January, 2004
  • English Subs:  Yes
  • Total Episodes: 16
  • Casts: Han Ji Hye, Lee Dong Gun
  • Status: Complete
  • Summary/Synopsis: 

    The concept of an arranged marriage is often difficult to accept, especially amongst less traditional adolescents today. Sweet 18 (Nang Rang 18 Seh) covers this very premise and the story begins when Kwon Hyuk-joon's grandfather, the head of the traditional Kwon family agrees to an arranged marriage between his grandson (Lee Dong Gun) and Yoon Jung-sook (Han Ji Hye) when Yoon Jung-sook is born. 18 years later, the two families lose contact because soon after the contract is signed, Jung-sook's family encounters financial issues and is forced to run away.

    Meanwhile, Jung-sook has grown up to be a rebellious and strong-willed girl who just wants to live her life as she sees fit. With little aspirations, she is the direct foil of her achievement-bound counterpart, Hyuk-joon. When the two meet each other, they clash horribly; Jung-sook thinks her fiancee is nothing but boring, and Hyuk-joon believes Jung-sook to be nothing but an immature child. The rest of the series follows their life living together as a couple, and the obstacles they are faced with. When Hyuk-joon's first love reappears and wants to claim Hyuk-joon for herself (despite the fact that he's married), who will Hyuk-joon choose? His first love Ga-young, or immature spunky Jung-sook?

That Fool
More Beautiful Than A Flower
  • Title: More Beautiful Than A Flower
  • Also Known As: 꽃보다 아름다워 / Kgotboda Areumdawi / Bravo Mom
  • Genre: Drama, Romance
  • Broadcast Date: January, 2004
  • English Subs:  Yes
  • Total Episodes: 18
  • Casts: Park Sang Myun, Go Doo Shim, Han Go Eun, Joo Hyun, Bae Jong Ok
  • Status: Ongoing
  • Summary/Synopsis: 

    This series revolves around bright hardworking loving mother Go Doo Shim as Lee Young Ja who does her best to insure that her family has a happy life. Her husband Joo Hyun as Kim Do Chil unfortunately ruins the atmosphere of the happy family by having an affair with a woman who comes to carry his child. The eldest daughter Bae Jung Ok as Mi Oak suggests to her mother that she get a divorce, while the youngest daughter Han Go Eun as Mi Soo finds attraction to the handsome looks of an investor who harbors a deep dark secret. Will this family be torn apart or can it be salvaged?

Stairway To Heaven
  • Title: Stairway To Heaven
  • Also Known As: 천국의 계단 / Cheon-kuk-ui Gye-dan / Stairway to Heaven / Stairs To Heaven / Steps in Paradise
  • Genre: Drama, Romance
  • Broadcast Date: December, 2003
  • English Subs:  Yes
  • Total Episodes: 20
  • Casts: Choi Ji Woo, Kim Tae Hui, Kwon Sang Woo, Shin Hyun-Joon
  • Status: Complete
  • Summary/Synopsis: 

    Jung-suh and Song-joo grew up together. They were always there for each other. Tragedy begins when Song Joo begins his studies overseas without Jung-suh. Jung-suh's father remarries Tae Mira. Mira takes in her two children from a previous marriage, Tae-hwa and Yuri. Yuri is envious of the life that Jung-suh leads and is determined to take everything away from her, including Song-joo. Tae-hwa begins to develop feelings for his stepsister, however Jung-suh still loves Song-joo. Five years later, tragedy occurs when Jung-suh gets into a car accident causing her to lose her memory. Together with Tae-hwa, they start anew. Song-joo is led to believe that she is dead. However, when they meet again one day, he is determined to remind her of the love they had for one another. When fate finally seemed to be on their side, Jung-suh is diagnosed with eye cancer.

Rosemary
  • Title: Rosemary
  • Also Known As: 로즈마리 / Ro-seu-ma-ri
  • Genre: Drama, Romance
  • Broadcast Date: October, 2003
  • English Subs:  Yes
  • Total Episodes: 18
  • Casts: Bae Doo Na, Kim Seung Woo, Yeon Jung Hoon, Yoo Ho Jung
  • Status: Complete
  • Summary/Synopsis: 

    "Rosemary" is a drama that portrays an ordinary woman with two adorable children, who has just been informed on her terminal illness. While readjusting her surroundings, the woman becomes more aware of love for her family and is reminded of her modest but happy life. This drama has a trace of genuine human touch in that it gives you an opportunity to sense the importance of life through the eyes of terminally ill woman, where ordinary events are portrayed with beauty and inspiration. "Rosemary" goes beyond presenting the life of a terminally ill woman. It involves a woman who tacitly prepares for death, and her husband who deeply regrets his past for not having fully expressed his love for her. It also involves an indiscreet young woman who has to take care of the dying woman's children. Through their experiences, "Rosemary" helps us to reminisce on the true meaning of life.

Let's Go to School Sang Doo!
  • Title: Let's Go to School Sang Doo!
  • Also Known As: 상두야,학교가자! / Sang Doo Ya, Hak Kyo Ka Ja!
  • Genre: Comedy, Romance
  • Broadcast Date: September, 2003
  • English Subs:  Yes
  • Total Episodes: 16
  • Casts: Bi (Rain), Gong Hyo Jin
  • Status: Complete
  • Summary/Synopsis: 

    Growing up as the best of friends, Sang-doo (Bi) and Chae Eun-hwan (Gong Hyo Jin) make lots of lasting memories during their shortened high school years. When Eun-hwan's family goes into bankruptcy, debtors rush into their house to grab all of her family's belongings away. When somebody takes her father's old record player that she really loves, Sang-doo goes after the guy. In a physical fight, the man falls off the bridge and enters a coma. Eun-hwan, not knowing this, runs away from the town. Sang-doo goes to jail, returning to find out that his family and Eun-hwan have left him. Years later, he becomes a gigolo (with his uncle) in order to raise the hospital bills for his sick daughter (Se-ra (Hong Soo Hyun) claims that Bori is her daughter). Eventually, he meets his long-lost first-love, Eun-hwan as a high school math teacher. In an effort to never lose her again, he returns as a high school student (to finish his last years of high school) and gets placed in Eun-hwan's class. In numerous funny yet heart-touching moments, Sang-doo vows never to become a gigolo again. Yet, his past deeds have caught up with him, and he is soon sought after by the police. Eun-hwan's boyfriend, Min-suk (Lee Dong Gun), also does not want to let go of Eun-hwan. First love is something beautiful yet painful to these two lovers, who have reunited after ten years to find out that everything is not the same anymore.

My Fair Lady
  • Title: My Fair Lady
  • Also Known As: My Fair Lady / 요조숙녀 / Yo-jo-suk-nyeo / The Perfect Girl
  • Genre: Drama, Romance
  • Broadcast Date: August, 2003
  • English Subs:  Yes
  • Total Episodes: 24
  • Casts: Go Su, Kim Hee Sun, Park Han Byul, Son Chang Min
  • Status: Complete
  • Summary/Synopsis: 

    Min Kyung (Kim Hee Sun) just graduates high school and finishes paying off her father's gambling debt at a liquor restaurant. However, with some borrowed money, she runs away, promising herself that she will find a rich man and live happily ever after. Three years later, she is a stewardess at Asiana Airlines. She constantly looks at the materialistic objects any man has, judging everybody by what they are capable of buying. She meets two-three guys at a time while also attending blind dates with her co-workers. On one blind date, she falls in love with Young Ho (Go Su), thinking that he is one of the few people in the Yacht Club (a meeting of the few richest people in Korea). Young Ho is the son of a poor rice cake house, and works to pay off his dead father's debt. He falls in love with Min Kyung, because she looks exactly like his dead girlfriend. When Min Kyung finds out that Young Ho is not rich, she dumps him, and goes back to a rich man (Son Chang Min) who proposed to Min Kyung once before. However, Min Kyung wakes up to true love and realizes that happiness does not necessarily come in money.