I have a few aside from the ones mentioned..

Queen for Seven Days- my number 1. It hurts you but gives you wonderful cinematography as backdrop
Flower of Evil.. the one that I didnt expect to be a melo but its still good
Stairway to Heaven .. the story is a bit dated but this made me cry a river
The Princess' Man.. if u can ignore the actor who play the ML

Goblin’s vignettes had me bawling every single time.
Hi, Bye Mama. Omigosh, so much good crying in this one.
Live. Not into police shows, but this one hit differently.
Fated to love you. If you know, you know. If you’re a mom, you know.

Some scenes/ Kdrama that makes me bawled and crying non-stop:
1. Just Between Lovers
2. Fated to Love You
3. Chicago Typewriter

Dear db staff, thank you so much! I've been asking beanies' recommendations for sad and dark dramas lately. Thanks to beanies, i'm now watching My Liberations Notes and about to start My Ahjussi soon. I'm still open for more recommendations.

Out of this list, i have only watched Just Between Lovers and Move to Heaven, both are very good. Reading the description for JBL about "sobbing for small wins" reminds me about a drama i haven't finished for years, Awl. Interesting enough, i knew the drama from db's editor rating and this drama gets an A so that's how i decided to watch it.

If i remember correctly, the characters are all ordinary facing very ordinary life (cmiiw). I think it was too relatable that i was scared to find out that i'm that weak and cry easily for *small things*. I'm not like that now so maybe it's time to start again.

I would recommend:
My Ajusshi : It's good when it hurts, It's good when it heals
Seven Day Queen: Tears for the lovers. Probably the only romantic show I know that brings out some well deserved tears till the end while balancing it with a tight plot.
C/T dramas
Remembrance of things past: Will bring the tears but also the fun
Yong Jiu Grocery Store :A small village has a lot to offer with excellent storytelling and fleshed out pasts of several characters.

Btw really like the list but it's not even surprising that I didn't complete all of these. Apart from Gaksital which I never watched, I stopped the rest because either I was regularly crying or lost interest.

Noh Hee Kyung is the queen to go for tears. She writes people, as flawed as they are. That is why I understand why some may not like her writing because she doesn't exactly have likeable characters . They are just all very human and no human is 100 percent likeable.
I loved DMF but stopped it when Kim Hye Ja slept on Kwang Soo's shoulders in the cinema and he wept away the entire time. Such a poignant scene to show how aging parents can affect children.

Come and Hug Me surely has the best kind of past childhood trauma in dramaland. Not only is it pivotal to the story and not a side plot but it also shows how it shaped the characters and how they healed from it. It is a total journey.

One thing that is great in all shows in the recs is that they all have great dialogues, JBL and Move to Heaven included.

Can't believe nobody has mentioned Go Back Couple yet. One of the very few dramas that I cry the whole way through every single time I rewatch.

Nokdu Flower. I sobbed my heart out, and haven't been able to rewatch since.

Lookout

Nine

The King 2 Hearts

With these 3 I don't cry the whole way through, but they have many many scenes to sob it out.

It seems we're recommending melos and not just rom-coms with sob scenes (Go Back Couple, Crash Landing on You), so
Mother
The Light in Your Eyes
Mr. Sunshine
Youth of May

Lastly, Tomorrow made me ugly cry like I didn't for a long time.

Move to Heaven was really touching.

Silly me. I never feel a need to "sob it out".

While I've enjoyed some of the shows people have mentioned, like Mr. Sunshine and My Mister, if I know in advance that a show is going to try to make everyone cry it will... Lets just say that I'm even less likely to start tear-jerkers than their evil cousins, melos.

I'll add It's okay not to be Okay to list.

Great list. I'm not a big crier but did shed a few during Move to Heaven, Just Between Lovers and Dear My Friends. Noh Hee Kyung's dramas in general get to me, Live and Our Blues being other ones that had tear-jerking moments.

Go Back Couple is on the top of my list but it doesn't meet the criteria of this recommendations for me. I think what made it be at the top was that I had followed it in the recaps when it aired, so I knew where the tears where. But it didn't stop the tears when I finally got to watch it. Can it bring me to tears if I watch it again today? I doubt it. But I know it'll evoke all the emotions and bring me this close. I hope not to the point where the tears fall.

I don't think a drama can make me sob a second time since the catharsis might not bring the tears to bay again, but I know the episodes that will. My Liberation Notes and to add, Our Blues and Reflection of You. They all contain an episode(s) I'll make sure to prep myself for whenever I decide to rewatch.

I haven't seen "Dear My Friends," but I've seen the other ones listed here and out of them, only "Move to Heaven" made me cry in multiple scenes, but particularly when Cho Sang-gu remembers the tragic death of his protege. I should have seen that coming, but somehow didn't, so when the boy is in the ring and being pummeled, and all Cho Sang-gu can do is watch in horror and regret, I was a weeping mess.

I agree that the friends-to-enemies arc in "Gaksital" was well done, but that drama often dragged for me, and I thought many of the major moments weren't as emotionally affecting as they could have been because it took too long to get there. So no tears.

I've already talked about why I think JBL is overrated and I know many love it, so I'll just say that although the premise is heart wrenching and there's a lot of deep sadness and trauma covered by the drama in a totally unflinching manner, I felt emotionally removed from the protagonists for a large part of the drama. And that meant no tears.

I did cry watching "Red Sleeve Cuff," but not during the obviously sad parts. The moments that got me included when the FL, now the King's concubine, watches the spectre of her friends about to head out on some adventure outside the palace, and she realizes that she will never again be free to join them. Her pure loneliness choked me up there.

Most recently, I cried during "Attorney Woo" when the mother asked her daughter if she resented her. That scene looked like it was done in a single take, and it was so emotionally surprising and devastating to hear the mother ask that question. I felt for both women--the daughter who feels abandoned, and the mother who chose to have and give up a child even when it made her life infinitely harder, and who now has to face that child. It was beautifully shot and played by both actresses and made me cry as both a mother, daughter, and woman.

Speaking of that, hopelessness, frustration, and perceived injustice often make me cry the most in dramas. So in "Our Blues," listening to the doctor try to emotionally manipulate a terrified and vulnerable teenage girl into listening to her baby's heartbeat made me sob.

And finally, I cried during "Healer" when the ML tried to insult and push the FL away. She says something like "Don't do this to yourself" and the way she cuts through his self-protectiveness got me. Also, I cried when the Ahjumma goes to meet the FL to tell her Healer has disappeared. That such a tough, stoic woman would finally express her obvious (maternal) love for that man was so moving.

The Guest
I'm sorry I love you,Those are the ones that made me sob out.
But Nobody Knows, The Light in Your eyes,Chicago Typewriter, just between lovers, move to heaven made sad, angry and tear up.

Just Between Lovers felt more like it was trying to be uplifting to me then sad since the characters were finding comfort working through their trauma/issues together (I would say the same for It's OK That's Love and My Ahjussi). But, the shows that made me cry throughout (not just the end) seem to be older: Stairway to Heaven, I'm Sorry I Love You and 49 Days come to mind.

Wait, no one above has mentioned Reply 1988 or Reply 1997 yet?

R88 made me ugly cry the first 8 episodes. All so heartwarming. The mom episode. Who could forget that? When Taek lost the game, and his friends let him cuss. Ugly cry, there.

R97, when the wife called the writer begging her to stop killing her characters, so her sick husband can enjoy the drama. Bucket of tears right there. Also, the confesion at the karaoke. Heartbreak. Cries.

The only thing I've actually ever "sobbed it out" over was my Lookout Essay... So, like, not even the actual show... but my version of it instead...

So yeah. I can't recommend anything lmao.

Oh and nothing listed on this ~entire~ thread is on my "just a stray tear or a lump in your throat" list either, what few shows of those there are and which is the closest I as a non crier *do* come to crying in show pfft.

I refer back to the Drama Chat: Dramas that Made You Ugly Cry for the rest of that meagre list, along with the most latest "Almost" addition of Episode 9 of Hot Stove League lmao:
https://www.dramabeans.com/2022/05/drama-chat-the-drama-moment-that-made-you-ugly-cry/#comment-3975549

Answer Me 1988
That ending sequence always gets me
I’m crying now just thinking about it

- My mister
- Its okay to not be okay
- Hotel del Luna
- Goblin
- Uncontrollably fond
- Mr. sunshine
- Tomorrow

@missvictrix, I am with you with COME HERE AND HUG ME (2018) (Viki US). I loved it. The director did something quite unusual and gutsy at the end (25 min of episode 32, I just rewatched) where he has the adults in a field: tall Jang Ki-yong and Jin Ki-joo give hugs to their younger counterparts who were fantastic: Nam Da-reum and Ryu Han-bi. If that is not tear inducing I don’t know what is.

Sob. Arsedal 2 reportedly starts filming next week.

My fave dramas that I can rewatch to have a good cry on:
- Marriage Contract
- Hi Bye Ma
- Just Between Lovers
- My Mister

I have shed countless tears while watching dramas.
However, if I have to mention a drama that had me sobbing endlesly, it’s Reply 1988 during Bora’s wedding. Woah…that was bad.

I'm not much of a crier, at all. But these shows had me teary eyed:

- Go Back Couple
- Marriage Contract
- Goblin
- 25-21
- 1% of Something (I know. How this made me teary is a head-scratcher. Though I think it was in the part where the male lead explained to his BFF how he cannot possibly expose the FL to the chaos of his chaebol life just so she could be his wife - when he can't even promise to be by her side all the time. But eh. He caved in later in the episode. 😆)

I remember crying for much for Hospital Playlist 1 and Nevillera.

I don't think any one has said these one's so here goes some oldies but goodies.
1 I Sorry I Love You 2006
unbelievably heartbreaking and i love So JI Sob!
2 Sang Doo Lets Go To School 2003
This was Rain's first drama and you can't even tell it was. I was so hurt by the ending it drove me crazy. It's with Gong Hyo Jin what more could you ask for.
3 A Love To Kill 2005
It's with Shin Min A and Rain.
how far would you go to get revenge on the person you think is the cause of your brothers disability? this was the early days of dramas where somebody had to did. then ending did it to me again because it didn't have to happen. I cried tears of anger and sadness.

My Mister! No discussions!

As someone who is a big crier,the last drama I really cried for.....this year by the way was Red sleeve.....I literally cried out my eyes on the first day of the year and had to wear glasses the following day to avoid questions about my swollen eyes🤣.

So should I avoid sad dramas?..... probably yes
Would I listen to the voice of reason in my head.... absolutely No
I am off to make a list.

Me trying to finish Heirs
*sob*

Hello Monster
Black
School 2013
Misaeng
Angry Mom
When My Love Blooms