I love this article, thanks @dramaddictally !

Kissing scenes often are the pic of the love story, usually happening around the 8th episode. So they are important!

I'm happy that Kdrama kinda gave up the accidental kiss, Cdramas are using all of them...

There are so many kissing scenes coming to mind, it's not possible to list them.

I think it's important when the actors/characters look confortable and not awkward neither shy.

Ooh. I love, love, love this post. I've never really thought of all the categories of Kdrama kisses before, but reading your post @dramaddictally, has got me thinking of Kdrama kiss categories I know and love (and those I don't).

I love Kdrama kisses that are intentional on the part of both leads. Not that one person kisses the other, startling them, but that they both have an unspoken agreement of what's about to happen.

One Kdrama kiss I really, really, really hate is the sleeping kiss, where one character kisses a sleeping character. It's creepy, and it irks me so much.

This was so fun to read! Two that I've loved:

The dam-breaking kiss - when two characters have been kept apart by external or internal factors and finally come together when their understanding changes and just go for it. These kisses always feel like they really push the plot along, and there is a sense of relief that something they've been keeping locked down can finally flow. Alchemy of Souls Part 1 did this really well when Mu-deok decided not to kill everyone (hahaha) and Part 2 when Bu-yeon turns off Uk's lantern. Oh Hae-young Again's (though it's not my favorite drama) famous kiss against the wall is also a good example.

The kiss that goes on just a bit longer than you expect - These kisses are beautiful, and intimate, and make you feel like maybe you should give them some privacy, but in the best way. The kiss in Good Job did this recently, but I also think the one in Her Private Life when ML first comes clean about liking FL for real.

I love the kiss scenes in It's Okay Not to Be Okay ♥

I absolutely love this post!!!
As someone who loves kiss scenes and love the anticipation and wait leading to the kiss, I loved how you passionately dissect kisses!
Kudos to you!!

Not a kdrama, but one my recent absolutely favorite kisses was in the Thai drama ‘Bad Buddy’!

I loved the recent skate rink kiss in Interest of love! Phew. Fanning myself.

Her private Life - Ryan removing his watch and that kiss was so hot!!

LJW search WWW kiss was amazing too! Those killer jaws were doing a fine job!

And worst kiss has to be the Chinese drama ‘A little thing called first love’. Lol. Those who have seen it know what I am talking about. After the slow motion of the lips moving together for more than a minute or 5, we had balloons fly in!! We had balloons to hide the kiss. 😂

Kisses are my catnip too, more so the more realistic they are. I find the whole no movement kiss to be a huge letdown after the initial thrill, and it took some getting used to when I first started watching dramas.

One of my favorite kisses is the first kiss in Her Private Life, cause that kissing session lasted a while LOL.

I think another catnip that goes hand-in-hand with this one is when a couple actually acts like a couple - meaning the kisses and skinship don't stop once we get that first kiss. See Healer, Her Private Life, and a few others for examples.

This was so fun to read! Thanks! Now I want to go rewatch some if these dramas (or watch them) to find the kisses you featured ahahaha

The top two kisses in kdrama land for me are: Chicago Typewriter and Mr. Queen. Both fit the trope of kissing to escape danger which I love. One is filled with the pathos of love that can never be expressed except in that moment and the other is hilarious. Both were extremely hot.

I like this one, so many actually pleasant moments come to mind))) Generally my standard is pretty simple - the hotter the better, and FL MUST, you know, actively participate in the process instead of freezing in horror/blinking like a broken android/making pained face while clenching her fists as if that's her dentist's instruments all over her mouth and not cute guy's lips.

I also - gasp! - don't mind forced kisses all that much. Fiction is not the real life and works by different laws, including the "whatever fuels the conflict that plot needs", and this is old as dirt kind of conflict-fueling trope that survived for so long exactly due to its effectiveness. That one downright violent example from Another Oh Hae Young comes to mind (I see it carved itself in many people's memory heh). Or terribly edited but still very impressive handcuff one from Me Too Flower (I won't advise anyone to watch the drama, esp the crappy latter half, but if you ever thought of Yoon Shi Yoon as too sweet for your liking... check this one scene out and think again).

And then there's the touching category that goes beyond simple scorching physicality. You can pretty much guess what title I'll say next - Happiness, for course))) While this one was nothing to write home about technically or passion-wise, it was INSANELY cathartic nonetheless. That's how you do a satisfying climax to your fictional love story. Mr Queen had some epic examples from both categories, including that moment from their most famous - or infamous? - kiss scene where leads slowed down for a moment and some feels other than lust suddenly to them both entered the chat. My MOST favorite one is still the tiptoe kiss from Queen Inhyun's Man. Nearly 11 years after and still unrivaled in all aspects. The one from director's cut of finale didn't hurt either^^

My favourite kiss scenes are:
1. Secret garden all kisses
2. All Yeon Woo-jin kisses in his most dramas- I have observed he is such a good kisser. Notable mentions, Introverted Boss bathtub scene, Marriage not dating kisses, Queen seven days kisses
3. One of my hated dramas Melting me softly, but had one of the best kiss scene, the shower scene. It was hot and sizzling.

So many great kdrama kisses. We have some champion kissers listed here. The kiss in healer on the rooftop, when he covers her eyes is unique, don't see that too often. As mentioned above the kisses in episode 8 and onward. I know one is coming when I look at the episode count. Great write up, but I want to take a second to appreciate the champion kdrama kissers.

Park Seo Joon
Park Min Young
Yoo Yeong Sook
Ji Chang Wook
Throwback Yoon Eun Hye
Seo Hyun Jin
Lee Min Ki

Those are the ones I can think of. Love this for all of us😍😜

I HAVE to leave this comment!! My friend and I shared headphones to watch episodes of Flower Boy Ramyun Shop when we were in high school and we had to muffle twin gasps during the epic motorcycle kiss scene ✋💀
We were fighting internal demons lmao I swear we left the stacks as different people

Angry Kiss: This one can be tricky, because it needs to be clear that even though the leads are frustrated and upset in the moment, they still *want* to kiss each other. Oh Hae Young--the first kiss, after she hits him with her purse--is the best angry kiss. For a long time, it was also one of the first "real" kisses I saw in a drama--i.e. it looked like a real kiss, not two people pressing their lips together and counting to 10.

Searching Kiss: This occurs when the leads start kissing, then stop and silently seek some kind of non-verbal encouragement or agreement that they should keep kissing. The best example of this type for me is the kiss in the hallway in "Mr. Queen." For the first time, both the King and Queen seem equally enthralled with each other, and yet vulnerable, too.

Golden Glow Kiss: This is when the director goes a little nuts with the lighting in the scene and yet, it works. I have two great examples of this type: "Romantic Dr. Kim" (I believe it's in the first episode when the ML confesses) and "You Are My Spring" (on the rooftop).

I also agree about "Witch's Romance"--I love the passion and the humor of the early sequence where the two of them go at it until the FL realizes the ML is a decade younger than her.

Recently, I really liked the street kiss the leads shared in "At Your Service" and all the deeply felt, extended kisses in AoS, II.

My first kdrama kisses were the frozen wide-eyed surprise variety, so everything else has been an improvement, although I have trouble accepting the improbable precision of the fall down kiss. At least half the time there should lips on nose or lips on eyeball.

Lot of good ones mentioned by others, but my favorite recent kiss is Gaus.

30 but 17 - overpass kiss
It's Okay To Not Be Okay - birthday kiss
Fated To Love You - press conference kiss

I've never thought about the kisses in dramas. Maybe it's because I'm American, kisses in Kdramas, no matter how "steamy", always seemed kinda tame or chaste. I have seen some lists that mentioned good Kdrama kissers and I think some of the people mentioned here were also on those lists.

I don't know if it was the kisses themselves or the situations but these are the kisses that made me go "damn, okay, wow" haha
- Gu Family Book. When they finally kissed in the forest after Kang Chi finally declared his feelings for Yeowool, saying that she was his person. I thought the declaration was so sweet but then when they kissed, it was like ALL the tension and touches had finally reached a climax. I liked the way they clutched each other, I liked the Kang Chi kinked his eyebrow after that first kiss which kinda felt like a challenge to do it again which Yeowool accepted because then she initiated their 2nd mini makeout.
- Alchemy of Souls part 2. Jang Uk and Buyeon are finally on the same page and again the woman is just as aggressive & assertive in their making out.
- Her Private Life. Ryan and Deok Mi were outside but kinda hidden. It feels so exciting haha. Like any moment they could be caught but they are just so into each other and it felt kinda immature and mature at the same time (if that makes sense) haha

I also liked The Law Cafe after Jeong Ho finally admitted his feelings and they made out in his loft and he picked her up leading her to straddle him.
The first kiss in W: Two World is memorable to me because of how out of the blue it was to him haha. The way he's still trying to process why she slapped him for buying her clothes only for her to stomp back over to kiss him, just utterly confusing him.

This is the article I didn't know I needed! Thanks @dramaddictically! And lots of dramas to add to my list too!

Kitchen Kisses - I love those! My favourite is the one in I am not a Robot (Episode 15). I thought it was really hot, and it also made my realise YSH has really nice hands. lol

I like it when two of them don't have the intention of kissing. They just want to hide or pretend, and then suddenly one of them starts to do real intense kissing. It always works for me. The best examples that comes to my mind are Chicago Typewriter and Marriage not
Dating.
Furthermore the one kind that I really hate is accidental kiss, especially trip and fall.

Oh I loved reading this!

One of the reasons I love kdramas is the anticipation and interesting ways kiss scenes can are portrayed, which I only started to notice the more kdramas I watched over the years.

Kiss scene I love:
They never fail to make me blush when the male lead lifts the female lead onto a table or onto themself when they kiss *heehee☺️

The only problem I have with k-drama kisses is we need more, please. A little more lovin’ and kissin’ never hurts. Like that Elvis song says, “A little less conversation, a little more action.”

Thanks so much for this post. Between the Noona Romance post from about a week ago and this post, I've been able to add some dramas to my watch list! I'm going to add a category:

The Controversial (I'm not sure that was OK) kiss:
Que Sera Sera: When the ML/FL kiss outside the hotel after attempted assault. Shocking by not only k-drama standards, but western dramas as well. A great drama though with one of the best teaching kiss scenes I've seen (elevator).

Secret Love Affair: I have one episode left to watch---I found this drama though the Noona post of a week ago, and I'm so happy I found it. What a great drama. The first kiss in the garage, I was not sure that was an OK kiss. It was surprising and shocking--age, power, consent and adultery.

Others have mentioned Another Oh Hae Young which would fit this controversial kiss category as well! Flower Boy Ramen Shop remains one of my favorite kiss scenes, as well as favorite dramas. I never realized that part of that reason was the build up or pacing of the drama. That makes sense to me now. I think it counts as a controversial kiss given the age. I think dramas need to challenge and push boundaries a bit, otherwise they can be quite mundane. So, I'm glad these dramas were had challenging kiss scenes. It made for engaging watches!

I started an older drama I had not watched before--All About My Romance. It starts off with an accidental kiss by the FL onto the ML's bare chest in the 1st episode, when they first meet. (I haven't seen this before.) The ML finds himself becoming attracted to her, and can't get the feeling of her lips against his chest off of his mind. I'm enjoying this one so far.

My favorite k-drama kisses:

The “teaching” kiss in Because This Is My First Life. The dazed look on Ji-Ho’s face after the first kiss, and then her asking him to repeat the lesson!

All the kisses in 1% of Something (2016 version), but especially the one against the wall that goes on and on and on…

And speaking of against-the-wall kisses, there’s the one in Secretary Kim that leads from there to the bedroom.

This was a great post thanks @dramaddictally. I wasn’t going to add a comment because much as I love the build up, once the kiss starts if they drag it out with too many camera angles, falling petals or they get soaked in a random rain shower I am the rare person who starts fast forwarding. I just don’t need to see the steaminess through to its end to appreciate it.
I loved the denied first kiss in Reply 1988, the Yumi’s cells tango was funny but I even had to forward that. Special mention goes to Something in the rain for spot on realistic in the early stages of love kisses.

Love this! One kiss that I'd add to the list is the "When you're ready" kiss. Best example of this I can think of is in PINOCCHIO. They just admitted their ongoing feelings for each other, and FL is clearly reeling a bit. ML goes in for the kiss, but FL puts her hand over her mouth. ML is just all "I can work with this," and sweetly kisses her hand, then pulls back and makes eye contact, giving a very clear "You're call what happens next." And then she removes her hand and they go in for the real thing. Naturally, this all happens in the middle of an intersection, which is one of my least favorite kiss tropes. But I'll forgive it if only for the amount of eye-conversation that happens throughout that interactions. They're constantly checking in with each other, and you can see the moment of giving consent and the moment of realization and all the little moments inbetween.

I also apparently have a weird thing for kisses involving hats, because three different hat-essential kisses came to mind. 1) HEALER, the beanie kiss (which is strangely made more spicy by the fact that her eyes are covered throughout the interaction), 2) 25, 21, the famous hat kiss itself, and 3) the kiss in SUNGKYUNKWAN SCANDAL, in which the rims of the hats get in the way until ML slowly unlaces her hat. So I guess I have a type?

Big clap to @dramaddictally for bringing up this catnip. While we're at it, I'd like to mention some of my favourites;

♤ It's ok to not be ok's birthday kiss scene. It held so many raw emotions & passion along with the subtle noises in the background. It was just a kiss but gave butterflies of a whole make out session 🙈

♤ Our beloved summer had the best kiss spectrum imo. From being innocent teenagers to growing into mature adults, their kiss patterns changed. Also, the one in the rain after reuniting was one of the most aesthetic kisses periodt.

♤ Amongst the mature & realistic trope, I loved Yumi's cells S2's ones. No fairytalish kisses but equally full of passion.

& I absolutely love that you mentioned the run on's kiss in the cozy category. I was wondering myself why I liked it so much & now I got the answer.

Also, loved that you mentioned the ice rink kiss of interest of love. YYS doesn't joke around when he kisses his girl 😉

My favorite is the kiss (followed by other things :)) on the beach in My secret romance. The body language and silent consent were really nicely done.

Some k-drama kisses which made some impression on me (some of them have already been mentioned):

- The Best Hit: Three sort of "trip and fall" kisses on the same day XD
- Bride of Habaek: stairs kiss. Just one word: hot.
- Another Miss Oh: I didn't like that drama but I can't forget the kiss everybody is talking about.
- Live Up to your name: acupuncture kiss is unforgettable.
- Alchemy of Souls 2. The "at last!" kind of kiss.
- Weightlifting Fairy: first kiss.
- Hospital Playlist 2: rain+car+kiss.
- Vivid romance: rooftop kiss.
- Start-Up: first kiss (sunset).
- Into the ring: several kisses.
- Yumi's cells 1 & 2.
- Secret Garden: long kiss in the Christmas party.
- Clean with passion for now: not a very good drama but some kisses were really passionated.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some others. I'll keep reading your favorite ones :)

Does the Bread Kiss in Pinocchio count? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I know it's imaginary but I loved it!

Some of my favorites include the under the tree kiss in You Drive Me Crazy, the piano kiss in Strong Woman Do Bong Soon, the I love you kiss in Our Beloved Summer, the lights off kiss in She Was Pretty and the welcome back from Quebec kiss in Goblin

my top 2 drama kisses:

1. 1% of Something - "I tried so hard not to eat alive, but I don't think I can resist anymore." my oh my, let me call the fire department bc I need a huge water tank with a hose attached.
2. Her Private Life - The confession scene in the workroom... whoa. Those two went all in for that kiss. Time to jump into the nearest cold puddle or whatever I can find.

I have many other fav kisses, too. Will have to add them here when I have time.

also, no shame, i keep track of kisses in the dramas i watch and have a list on mydramalist and viki of them. helps me (and others) decide what to watch or rewatch when in the mood. so very helpful.

Fun topic! Some of my favorites:
*Gong Yoo and Yoon Eun Hye in Coffee Prince, when he warns her to leave but she plants her feet and the lift and carry kiss that followed
*Handcuffs kiss in W
*Seawall kiss Jung So Min and Lee Min Ki in Because This Life is our First
*Secret Love Affair - the progression of kisses between Yoo Ah In and Kim Hee Ae from inexperienced passion in the garage to confidence when meeting in his home after the motorcycle ride. Yoo Ah In kissed with his whole body, very hot
*Kim Min Jae and Park Eun Bin's piano first kiss in Do You Like Brahms
*Sharing food or drink kisses - there were a couple in Witch's Romance, and another in Romance is a Bonus Book
*Teaching kiss in Extraordinary Attorney Woo
*And two also already mentioned - Answer Me 1988 upside down kiss and the knee pull scene in Fight My Way, he tells her he can't hold back any more and waits for her consent