[Drama chat] The drama moment that made you ugly-cry
by missvictrix
I’m funny about crying over dramas. Categorically sad and heavy dramas make me too sad to actually cry — instead, it’s the overwrought (I hate to say “cheesy”) drama moments that will make me cry hands-down, every time.
For instance, the main thing I remember about the 2013 melo Secret was bawling my eyes out when Hwang Jung-eum’s character was grieving over her father and all the hardships he had been through. She said she wanted to be reincarnated as his mother to pay back all the love he had given her (or something close to that), and yeah, I was an ugly mess.
Similarly, the DMZ goodbye scene in Crash Landing on You definitely made me ugly-cry, too. Heck, I couldn’t even select a screencap of the scene without feeling a gigantic lump in my throat. Now, I’m not saying that scene was cheesy. Different than the usual melo moments or deceased parent plot lines that make me into a blubbering mess, the Crash Landing on You scene was so beautiful, heartfelt, and exploding with raw emotion, that it became the best moment of the drama for me.
What drama moment (or, drama moments) made you ugly-cry?
Let the chatting begin!
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26 Lissa
May 29, 2022 at 2:42 PM
Almost every family moment from Hi bye mama, i cried so much. I remember watching it alone in my family's summer house. It was in the beginning of covid and we live in a small apartment so i relocated there to study. It was early spring, busiest semester of my engineering degree, everything is gray, no neighbours are there yet, so already had a great setup for crying my heart out.
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27 spazmo
May 29, 2022 at 4:08 PM
the ending of Werewolf Boy... it is like leaving your pet and driving away forever. i sobbed all the way home from the theater...
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28 💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
May 29, 2022 at 5:00 PM
*Filed under Chat Topics not designed for Sic*
Uhm... I have only cried one (1) time whilst actively watching a kdrama because of a kdrama- and that was somehow, during You From Another Star when the child Song Yi from Joseon sacrificed herself for Do Min Joon.
I have never cried whilst watching a kdrama since.
Honourable Mentions:
I cried 3 times writing my Lookout essay, because of the potential of it's sacrificial themes lmao.
I almost cried for Fight My Way, (don't remember why, it was the back half), and I almost cried in You Are My Spring, during the, lol, during the first kiss.
I think there's a few other almosts but I don't remember then now so they can't be warranted mentioning haha.
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FlyingTool
May 30, 2022 at 5:31 PM
Wow. Who would have guessed?
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💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
May 30, 2022 at 6:54 PM
Beats me 😜
(hey! you're alive!!!!!)
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FlyingTool
June 10, 2022 at 4:20 PM
Severe dry spell… and Ukraine caught my attention.
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💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
June 11, 2022 at 8:55 PM
🥺🥺🥺
FlyingTool
June 12, 2022 at 5:24 PM
@sicarius just as a distant onlooker.
cozybooks
February 9, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Oh my heck that makes me so happy actually haha since MLFAS was my first drama, and I definitely cried a few times in that drama.
lol for Lookout
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💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
February 9, 2024 at 11:13 AM
I have a soft spot to this day for YFAS because of this, even though I hardly remember any of the show now. 🤣
It was an emotional essay lmao.
There are a few other almost since this comment at least so that's... Good?????
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29 panshel
May 29, 2022 at 6:49 PM
I cry often watching dramas but mostly only ugly-cry watching reality shows (MBLAQ's Hello Baby) and survival shows (WIN: Who Is Next and Produce 101 Season 2) maybe because they're real people.
Mr. Sunshine definitely made me ugly-cry when every character died, especially when Ae-shin wailed over Haman-daek and Haengrang's deaths, then the villagers shielded her against the Japanese soldiers. Also, when Eugene told Joon-young on the train, "You're a lion. I'm proud of you. I missed you." had me bawling. This drama is gut-wrenching.
I ugly-cried during the DMZ goodbye scene in Crash Landing on You too including the ducklings saying goodbye to Se-ri. IU's "Give You My Heart" OST is so sad, and Son Ye-jin's sobbing is so heartbreaking. Also, when Dan's mom gave the village ajummas "Saudade" from Se-ri's Choice with their drawings on them.
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Healer’s
May 31, 2022 at 6:23 AM
Thank you for mentioning the scene when Dan's mom gave the ajummas gifts, I got teary eyes at that scene too. I felt sad at the fact that there's still physical boundary in this world that they can never cross in order to see each other again. The ajummas would never have the resources like captain Ri to make it possible. From Seri's end, it's impossible too.
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30 Palaa
May 29, 2022 at 8:15 PM
I am usually not a crier but that one scene in Mr. Sunshine where Ae-Shin emerges from the tunnel hanging on to the rails kneeling, with blood dripping off her wedding ring and Eugene dissapering into the darkness, with Good day playing in the background totally wreked me.
Also that one scene in Cheese in the trap where Seol's teammates abandons her during the presentation and she gets a fail for it, because I was in that position not too long before that.
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cozybooks
February 9, 2024 at 9:53 AM
I haven't watched Mr. Sunshine yet because I hear it has a sad ending for a love line.. but that scene sounds beautiful. Should I break my carinal rule and watch?
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Palaa
February 14, 2024 at 9:13 PM
It'll make you fall in love and then break your heart in the most beautiful way. Pretty cathartic tbh. Good if you are feeling stressed, but avoid if you are already feeling sad or depressed.
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cozybooks
February 17, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Good to know!
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31 Nal
May 29, 2022 at 11:02 PM
If there's one thing that I'll do while watching a Kdrama 95% of the time is drop a few/many tears. I must be related to Yi Tae 🤣🤣🤣.
CLOY was my first drama and oh did I cry during that faithful goodbye scene
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32 Possum
May 29, 2022 at 11:05 PM
I’ve been surprised at how much I cry watching Kdramas. Acouple of scenes that come to mind involve Lee Jun Ki. The moment in Two weeks when his character is talking about his Mum’s suicide on his birthday.😭
And him again, in Lawless Lawyer, at the funeral for his uncle that he’s accused of killing.
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cozybooks
February 9, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Lee Jun Ki is just such a good actor - I definitely teared up in Flower of Evil if I recall right.
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33 RaOnAh loves Jay B 💚
May 29, 2022 at 11:25 PM
The two dramas that have made bawl my eyes out are:
1. Bridal Mask when Joo Won's character realizes that his mother is dead and that he has just killed his (masked) brother who was trying to avenge their mother's death. And, to top it all off, his house is set on fire and burns down. I was upset when this scene was followed by a comedic scene. How dare the show try to make me laugh after breaking my heart into a million pieces?!?!? 😭
2. Fated to Love You when Jang Nara's character has a miscarriage and they lose the baby they'd been so excited for and the couple breaks up as a result. I particularly remember one scene where the husband is talking to the shoes they'd bought for the baby as if they are the baby 💔
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Ally
May 30, 2022 at 4:30 AM
OMG! I totally cried when Jang Hyuk was talking to the picture that she painted telling it that he was finally letting go. And then again when he brings the cake to the intersection where she was hit by the car, that he always did on the anniversary the child’s death. And then again when she goes into his “man cave” and sees all the baby stuff he kept and sees the video he recorded in case he lost his memory again. Dang, I’d forgotten that, I recently watched it for the first time.
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RaOnAh loves Jay B 💚
May 30, 2022 at 8:07 AM
Yeah, I watched it fairly recently too for the first time. It kept making me cry.
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dramalover4ever
May 30, 2022 at 11:59 PM
Fated to Love You, yes.
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PYC
May 31, 2022 at 6:20 AM
Fated to Love You - post miscarriage - always make me ugly cry no matter how many times I have watched those scenes. The anniversary cake by the roadside, the man cave….
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34 Mike
May 29, 2022 at 11:33 PM
I just watched some Youtube dude reacting to the movie 'Everything Everywhere all At Once' and about halfway through he burst out sobbing. He said he had not wept so hard during a movie in years. Films and TV with, for lack of a more appropriate term 'Asian sensibilities' just wreck folks who were raised on emotionally sterile American TV. They're unaccustomed to feeling emotions.
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panshel
May 30, 2022 at 9:16 AM
Everything Everywhere All at Once is an American film. Asian American is still American. Pixar films are plenty emotional.
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Doppelganger
May 30, 2022 at 4:57 PM
Films and TV with, for lack of a more appropriate term 'Asian sensibilities' just wreck folks who were raised on emotionally sterile American TV. They're unaccustomed to feeling emotions.
What an ignorant and generalizing comment. American TV is diverse and there are a lot of emotionally sensitive shows.
Everything Everywhere All At Once is as American-humor as it gets, with butt plugs and all. You do know that 1/2 of writing team is a white dude, don't you? Or does that ruin your narrative?
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35 Lelly19
May 30, 2022 at 12:36 AM
I can think of only one time I was really crying hard and throughout many scenes, and that was while watching The Untamed, in the first half, I guess; some scenes were brutal, never ending tragedy, jeez! ㅠㅠㅠ
Also My Annoying Brother, it's a movie (starring Jo Jungsuk and D.O.) not a drama but yeah, if you know you know. *sniff*
Some others made me emotional (not quite ugly-crying), maybe shed a few tears.
Surprisingly the ending of Snowdrop did that to me, despite the absurdity of the plot ahah!
Pretty sure the last episode of D.P. got me too, and also some of the stories in Move to Heaven.
Also Time, the one with Kim Junghyun; between the actual plot and behind the scene happenings it was quite an emotional watch.
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36 Jingbee
May 30, 2022 at 12:42 AM
I also cry easily when watching dramas and movies, but I remember ugly-crying in every episode of Move To Heaven. I guess its because it relates to me the most having a child on the spectrum.
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Unaspirated
May 31, 2022 at 1:21 PM
I think I did too. At least almost every episode. I went into it knowing that all the stories would revolve around a person who had recently died, but I was still surprised how much they made me emotional every single time.
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37 redfox
May 30, 2022 at 12:58 AM
City Hunter. Prosecutor. Scarred.
Other than that, I reall don´t know. and it is not like I actually cry. I am just mortified.
Ok maybe Hyun and Min got a little bit close. Can´t keep neutral with Bogummy
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bong-soo
May 30, 2022 at 7:02 AM
Hard to believe that HELLO MONSTER/I REMEMBER YOU aired almost 7 years ago. One of my favorites.
If you haven’t seen this you may enjoy this IRY cast party pic:
https://www.dramabeans.com/members/marcusnyc20/activity/1237985/
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cozybooks
February 9, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Oh my gosh I love that!!
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bong-soo
February 9, 2024 at 11:25 AM
@cozybooks, I am glad you found that great HELLO MONSTER/I REMEMBER YOU (2015) cast party pic of Park Bo-gum and little (at the time) Hong Eun-taek.
Besides his late cameo in ITAEWON CLASS (2020), HELLO MONSTER is my only PBG drama.
I definitely plan to watch PBG in his upcoming Netflix drama WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU TANGERINES.
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38 Fly Colours
May 30, 2022 at 1:03 AM
As someone who watches dramas in part for the catharsis they offer, I cry. A. lot.
But, very much like missvictrix, it's usually not the melo tragical plotpoints that break me - I know better than to watch melos, do you want to kill me, Dramagods? - for me it's the unexpected scenes that creap up on you in lighter dramas.
Just yesterday, I teared up while watching From now on, showtime! because of all the people sending up their prayers for that lovely ajhuma. It's cheesy, but so heartfelt.
Likewise, 25 21 killed me softly several times. But that scene when Heedo revisits their last meeting and they tell each other their true feelings, gosh, that haunted me for days. So beautiful.
Thinking about the scenes that made me ugly cry the most, I go back to Chicago Typewriter and My Country. For me, it's the trope of estranged friends reuniting, just to be taken apart again.
More recently, Just Between Lovers (one of the few melos I knowingly walked into) stabbed me in the heart several times
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Fly Colours
May 30, 2022 at 1:19 AM
Almost forgot to mention Pachinko! Among the recent dramas that made me cry, this is one of the best. The final documentary piece with the real zainichi ahjumas telling their story broke me
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wonhwa
May 30, 2022 at 9:59 AM
Chicago Typewriter got me multiple times as well, although oddly most strongly in some of the present moments even though most of the explicitly tragic moments were in the past.
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Fly Colours
May 30, 2022 at 1:46 PM
Same here!
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39 Nefret
May 30, 2022 at 2:09 AM
I remember two scenes where I sobbed out loud.
GOBLIN: Reaper at work. An old man opens the door to the stairway to heaven and his dog is waiting at the foot of these stairs.
CRASH LANDING ON YOU: When Kim Ju-meok realises why he was sent to the café in Seoul and who he will meet there.
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40 seed
May 30, 2022 at 2:53 AM
Hospital Playlist - The scene where the pregnant woman found out she lost her unborn child. I cried ugly tears then and still do whenever I watch that scene.
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neener ~ Inside the Magic Shop ~
May 30, 2022 at 1:02 PM
That was such a hard scene to watch. It still breaks my heart remembering it.
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Kurama
May 31, 2022 at 10:02 PM
It was a great scene. A father wanted to complain because they are waiting but his wife stopped him and every woman in the corridor knew what happened.
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Reply1988 - 🍊Mother Bean🍊
May 31, 2022 at 10:11 PM
I just saw this comment on the highlights page and immediately knew which scene you were talking about and sure enough it was THAT scene. All moaning stopped and everyone put things back in perspective. You could literally hear the collective ‘Take as long as you need.’
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Reply1988 - 🍊Mother Bean🍊
May 31, 2022 at 10:07 PM
Gosh as soon as you said that I was back there. It really was harrowing.
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41 ladykrueger
May 30, 2022 at 5:02 AM
The ones I can recall right away are:
- The entire last episode of Youth of May - I think the most severe one I've ever had
- When Kim Sun-ah's character in Scent of a Woman finally tells her mom about her diagnosis
- Last moments of Mirror of the Witch
- Lately some scenes in Tomorrow made me tear up, or cry from anger
- Goodbye between Eun-tak and Shin, because when Gong Yoo cries, I cry too
- Navillera, because that shows is just too damn beautiful
- the "what if" scene from Just Between Lovers
- last stretch of Twenty Five, Twenty One
- Joong-won's "death" in Master's Sun
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Midnight
May 30, 2022 at 9:40 AM
I have been debating watching Youth of May since it aired. I'm still undecided.
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ladykrueger
May 31, 2022 at 2:54 AM
Do it do it doit!!! It's a very painful watch, but a very good one. It's well acted (Lee Do-hyun, Go Min-si, and Lee Sang-yi are just perfect), well-directed, and treats the events it portrays with due respect, without sugarcoating or glamorizing.
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Midnight
May 31, 2022 at 3:09 AM
Thank you! That is so encouraging! I think I will!
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cozybooks
February 9, 2024 at 9:58 AM
wait so did you watch? Is it worth? It's usually my cardinal rule not to get into something I already know for a fact doesn't work out for one reason or another. But is it just so good? should I break my rule and watch?
Midnight
February 9, 2024 at 10:58 AM
@cozybooks Well, I dropped it after a few episodes. I thought the pain and tragedy would be from historical events, and inescapable moral dilemmas. Turns out it has an irrationally violent villain just like any other kdrama, just using the historical setting as an excuse to be more violent and more tragic.
cozybooks
February 17, 2024 at 12:13 PM
@midnight darn... so not a show stopper, then. I'm running out of older shows to binge when it's not the weekend hahahaha
42 axis3
May 30, 2022 at 6:28 AM
I'm not really the emotional kind but little scenes here and there in different type of genres that I watch can make me tear up a little. That being said the one drama that finally made me ugly cry after a long while has to be Thirty-Nine Ep12. I had tears rolling down my face non stop and a quarter of my 120 sheets tissue pack gone because of it :P
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bbstl 🧹
May 30, 2022 at 3:36 PM
Thirty-Nine made me cry hard in every episode once the story got moving.
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43 earthna
May 30, 2022 at 7:27 AM
I cry over everything but Marriage Contract probably takes the cake. It was the scene where they were slow dancing.
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44 isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
May 30, 2022 at 7:47 AM
Two distinct memories of dramas making me cry:
Fight for My Way: AeRa is so dang relatable. I don't even remember when. Probably walking away from her dream even though she found another one. I just remember having to pause the drama so I could sob.
Chicago Typewriter: when we find out how out how Jin-O dies and how you know what everyone dies. And when Jin-O comes back to wait for them in the book.
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45 rlg07
May 30, 2022 at 8:27 AM
So now that you've shared the DMZ picture above, let me get my tissues already...
Seriously, all I have to do is hear the soundtrack music from Seri's mom driving her in that scene, or even before we get to Seri and Ri Jeong Hyuk, just thinking of the soldiers looking out the window and saying, "I guess we'll never see this place again" is enough to do me under. (I have moved one too many times in my life and that leaving scene just ripped me up.)
The episode in Tomorrow about the Korean War veteran got me quite teary.
The scene between the brothers in front of the police station in Pinocchio gets me every time, too. That one scene is the heart of the entire drama to me.
I didn't used to cry at all in movies. But somehow Kdramas have found a way around that defense, lol.
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46 LadyRi
May 30, 2022 at 10:05 AM
The funeral scene in My Mister, and the heroine's death in 49 Days. That last one was like a punch in the gut, and was the reason why it was years later before I could re-watch that drama.
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47 ar_arguably romantic
May 30, 2022 at 12:20 PM
Pretty much anything with the death of a parent makes me cry, though after my dad died, I try to look away and not cry. Heartwrenching and heartwarming (<--kdramas can do this simultaneously!) family scenes and any drama where they deal with ghosts typically have sad stories full of regrets that really pack a punch to my tear ducts.
Chicago Typewriter also made me ugly cry, especially Seo Hwi-young's death. Another scene that came to mind was in Mystic Pop-Up Bar when Yook Sung-jae, with tears, calls Hwang Jung-eum's character "Mom" for the first time while trying to prevent her from falling down the abyss.
The Replys always have moments that make me cry.
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48 neener ~ Inside the Magic Shop ~
May 30, 2022 at 1:08 PM
Aside from what has been commented, I remember eps 11-12 of The Light in Your Eyes, that was pure cry-fest. I had to pause once in awhile to stop myself from crying.
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49 Lonestar Girl
May 30, 2022 at 8:20 PM
I cry pretty easily. Not just when something is sad, but also when something touches me. My list would be too long, so most recently:
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝘃𝗲, episode 17. I cried, more like sobbed, during the entire episode.
𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗙𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗢𝗻𝗲: almost every week, but especially the break up.
𝗬𝘂𝗺𝗶'𝘀 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀: the breakup seemed so real, it was a gut punch.
Almost every episode of 𝗠𝘆 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀 and 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀.
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rcberms
June 1, 2022 at 5:43 AM
Finally someone mentioned The Red Sleeve--episode 17, most especially the scene where King Jeongjo opened the box of memories of Seong Deok-im...I just cried with him! And for some reason I also cried at the scene in episode 16 where Seong Deok-im was waving good bye to her friends as they were going out of the palace.
Twenty Five, Twenty One--the break-up scene just...made me sob. Felt like I was the one going through the break-up, it took days for me to move on.
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50 runnergurl
May 30, 2022 at 10:06 PM
The entire final episode of Flower of Evil. The scene where it was shown that Do Hyun Soo keeps on buying egg tarts but he doesn't know why was a killer.
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dramalover4ever
May 31, 2022 at 12:03 AM
Yep. Heart rending.
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