@zeinabsamir thanks for sharing this lovely piece. The Hospital playlist one is the one for me because he stepped back for a friend and later married someone else so they really did go the long way round to end up together. 100 days my prince was great too I am so close to finishing it I just need to accept I am going to have to fast forward through the palace politics hanging in there right to the end. Go back spouses was on point too. I didn’t realise how much I love this trope too although I definitely prefer the rom com version to melodrama every time.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I hope to see some good quality dramas with this trope come out this year.

I like this theme too. But sometimes, if the couple didn't get back together, I would have been happy too.

For example, in Our Beloved Summer, I think during the half the drama, I didn't want them to be together. In Stranger Again, clearly, I would prefer them separated because they didn't show any growth since the past.

In Tomorrow, their story was very tragic but I liked the fact they had to assume their decisions and their consequences. I think at the end, they were both in peace with their past.

In The King's Affection, it was the childhood connection trope. But the ML didn't fall in love with the FL because of that, he didn't know. But their meeting as a kid influced his whole life, he became a doctor for poor people after what she said. He learned the truth way after. But for the FL, he was special and he made her opening herself to others.

In She Would Never Know, they did pretty well the separation/reunion after 3 years. I really liked this drama because we could follow the feelings of the characters and the way they took their decision.

Is there hardly a Saguek that doesn't have a reunited lovers theme or plot.

I couldn't sit through Our Beloved Summer but I totally enjoyed 100 Days My Prince. Go Back Couple will always be my no 1 reunited lovers drama,ever.

“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
Reason why I love this catnip. You name the dramas, not promise to finish it but definitely try to watch the 1st few eps

Mystic Pop Up Bar!! The way Chief Hwi looked at Weol Ju every single time, broke my heart as she was totally clueless of who he really was. I was rooting for them from the moment I realised who he was (and it was in early episodes).

I have to bring here also the main couple of Lovestruck in the city. I never liked FL, I never wanted them together, mainly because she needed professional help because she was broken. I ranted about them in the weecaps like crazy, saying he must move on and leave her behind. Yet the drama managed to make me see why they could be together and how their relation could be a healthy one once they were honest to each other.

I love this trope. It’s a large part of why I love dramas and now find so many Western shows dry. They lack heart, in my opinion. But if it’s a childhood connection, I still want it to be done well and integrated into the storyline and not just tacked on as an afterthought.
Thank you for this lovely bit of catnip, @zeinabsamir! I’m now purring contentedly.

I generally am not a fan of the childhood connection, to much fate for my taste, and as Lonestar Girl noted, often it's tacked in as an afterthought, but thought it worked great in What's Wrong With Secretary Kim (and not so great in My Private Life, totally unnecessary in my opinion).

For some reason I do like stories of divorced or broken up couples that meet again later and have a second chance to resolve misunderstandings, such as Discovery of Love (also feels like closure for Que Sera Sera).

Mystic Pop-up Bar's reunited lovers is my fave. Separated for 500 years. Chief Gwi then worked for her for the last couple of years, knowing who she is and her not knowing that her employee was her lover.

Does 18 Again count? Reunited with his wife and his kids, too :)