Any K-dramas, short or normal length, where the male lead knew the female lead before the present and had already developed a liking to her? Or it could just be that the male lead quickly falls for the female lead within like 5 eps? The male lead falls and chases first. It must have a happy ending. Bonus if he gets jealous when guys gets close to the female lead. If the male lead does get jealous, please note it :p

  1. Descendants of the Sun ML is enamored with FL in episode 1.
  2. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim They have a childhood history, plus ML only allows FL to get close to him but he doesn't really process exactly why until she announces that she's leaving.
  3. True Beauty They have a childhood friendship starting at the comic shop. ML gets jealous about FL's blind date by episode 4.
  4. Romance Is a Bonus Book  They are long time friends and the ML has had feelings for the FL for a long time.
 lanzhanya:
K-dramas, short or normal length, where the male lead knew the female lead before the present and had already developed a liking to her?

Something happened where the ML fell for the FL without exactly "knowing" her:

  • Where Stars Land - The ML saw the FL and fell for her and there was some kind of car accident? Tbh I don't really remember the details, but iirc it was very brief, the FL didn't see the ML and they didn't speak.
  • City Hunter - The ML grew up with the FL's picture.
  • The King: Eternal Monarch - The ML (in the past in a parallel universe) picked up the FL's ID card (from the present in the FL's world) and fell for her because he thought that she saved his life.

Meets your criteria, except it's a BL:

Meets your criteria, but the ML's feelings aren't revealed in the first few episodes (in some cases because the ML doesn't immediately recognize the FL in the present):

 lanzhanya:
Or it could just be that the male lead quickly falls for the female lead within like 5 eps?
 angeliviki2022:
  1. Descendants of the Sun ML is enamored with FL in episode 1.
  2. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim They have a childhood history, plus ML only allows FL to get close to him but he doesn't really process exactly why until she announces that she's leaving.
  3. True Beauty They have a childhood friendship starting at the comic shop. ML gets jealous about FL's blind date by episode 4.
  4. Romance Is a Bonus Book  They are long time friends and the ML has had feelings for the FL for a long time.

Thankyou!!

Ohmygosh, thankyou so much AH!! <33

 lanzhanya:

Ohmygosh, thankyou so much AH!! <33

You're welcome :) Hope you find a drama that you enjoy!

 ginkgo_leaves:

@AH, 

u really have a very very deep database , n could retrieve exactly what one is looking for.  (Me doing thumbs up.)

One day, certainly wud ask u if wanna know something abt the drama. U r like Wikipedia/google/encyclopedia of dramas.  :)

That is very sweet of you to say. My knowledge is limited to a very specific subset of dramas (the ones I've watched...) but luckily "ML falls first" romance is pretty much my favourite drama set up so it applies to the vast majority of the dramas I've watched ^^

  • ML in Active pursuit of FL, ML very vocal about his feelings
    • Doctors 
    • Flower Boy Ramen Shop
    • Glorious Day
    • Dr, Romantic 1
    • She Would Never Know
    • New Tales of a Gisaeng - long drama with ML falling at first sight, he pursues her actively a couple of times mainly cause he did make a terrible mistakeS.
    • Secondary Couple
      • Five Enough -  Sangmin and Yeontae.
      • Run On - YeongHwa and Dan-Ah
  • Secrertly pinning for a long time before going for it:
    • Plus Nine Boys - made a mistake before and now has been secretly pinning for the girl
    • Reply 1997
    • Hogu's Love
    • Welcome to Waikiki 2
    • The Time we were in Love - better get try tge taiwanese version 'In Time With Y ou'
  • Falling after getting to know FL
    • Tale of Nokdu
    • Shut Up Flower Boy Band
    • Love to hate You
    • The Greatest Love
    • Monstar
    • Crash Course in Romance
    • Sweet Revenge 1