I ain't mad at it

Best, catnip, title, no question.

LOL. I called this a sub-catnip of the lovers-reunion catnip in a previous post. To think it's your catnip too!

Actually, the daddy-child pair don't even have to be biologically related. I just want the immature man-child paternal shenanigans. I'm gleeful with the little bit I saw in Suspicious Partners yesterday ?.

Good post. I'm normally kind of so-so on this trope, but I absolutely love what The Best Hit is doing with it and can't wait to see how it plays out.

Two Weeks is EPIC!!! I love this drama so much!!! I really do not like Ryu Soo-Young, I'll admit that. But Lee Joon Gi is incredible as always in Two Weeks!!!!!

You just made made me realize that I like this trope. Or maybe I just like dramas that have awesome/memorable child actors, idk. I sometimes like the dynamics that play out between child actors and their respective parents/caregivers. Oh My Geum Bi and Stars Falling From the Sky don't really count into this particular trope but I love those two dramas as well. I'm digressing...

This trope really throws me back though. Wonderful Life was one of the very first dramas I ever watched. I had just finished My Love Patzzi and Save the Last Dance so I decided to give this drama a shot after liking the leads. Oh man, I was hooked. I remember re-watching that drama over and over again because I loved watching the main characters grow and mature. Kim Jae Won was such a man child and I wanted to punch his character in the face multiple times but I always looked forward to the next episode. I even bought the damn bootleg dvd online haha...

Kyaaaaaa Two Weeks was so good and I loved the chemistry between dad and daughter. They were so cute and heart wrenching together!

Lee Jun-ki as daddy in Two Weeks was ?. Or was it the little girl that captured my heart. Maybe both.

You should watch the Korean movie Baby and Me staring JangGeunSuk. I saw it years ago and its hilarious! And moving. JGS is great in it.

I just watched probably half of Superdaddy Yul and yes I love this

I didn't realize that this is my catnip until I saw the title and thought "oh yes". You said it so well, Ladytron333! I'm just a sucker for forced maturity and the inevitably heartwarming baby daddy situation.

I've mentioned before my love of A Gentleman's Dignity. While I was invested in all of the lovelines (with the exception of the child and the widow) I LOVED the who's-the-daddy plotline with Colin. It gave our main girl--who had spent a large chunk of the show waffling--another opportunity to full court press Do-Jin. But, I also just really loved Do-jin and Colin's relationship once it started. I had already begun to love Colin and his forming an F44 of his own with a baby Kim Woo Bin but watching Do-jin trying to parent a teenager and watching Colin trying to cautiously accept the parenting? So sweet. I don't know why but I absolutely love Do-jin trying to decorate Colin's room and his taking his dear sweet time to pick out the perfect chair for a teenager and place it in his perfectly decorated 2nd bedroom that he had given to Colin only to go into Colins bedroom later and see that the room had been trashed. Clothes and posters of scantily clad women were everywhere and the perfectly placed chair had been unceremoniously shoved in a corner and Colin's excuse--"its ugly". Made me all heart melty. OH! And the fight! And Do-jin gets into a fight with another parent and claims Colin and baby Kim Woo Bin's character as his sons. Y'all. I know that some of you don't like this show but I love it so SO much. With the exception of the child. Who threw a full scale crying, screaming, temper tantrum on more than one occasion and that somehow made the widow fall in love with her. I really can't mention that show without mentioning how much I dislike her. Maybe if it had been played by a better actress? One who had a concept of subtlety? Pah.

And also oh my geum bi! Because of the presence of these children, they help the main characters grow more mature and loving and selfless.

Ha! This catnip name cracked me up ??
But I sure like secret babies popping up after time skips :-P

YES THIS I LOVE THIS!!! May I also mention Super Daddy Yeol? I started it now that I'm on a Lee Dong Gun binge after 7DQ. I'm about halfway through now, it's not that good of a drama, but if you just shut your brain off and enjoy LDG as a daddy it's pretty cute.

Oh! My Lady is another good one for this catnip, Choi Siwon and the daughter are just so adorable!

Yup! I totally get it! It happened to me with Siwon in Oh My Lady! with Chae Rim.

Hehe... again, not my number 1 catnip but definitely have seen a few dramas with it that I liked...

1) My Love Eun Dong - so the reason I watched it was not b/c of the daddy/secret son part but even so, I was waiting until both mom & dad would find out. Hated how the story turned out but nice drama.
2) Only You - mentioned before in another catnip but it's mostly the secret child that kept me watching and when daddy would find out.
3) Oh My Lady - everything everyone else said
4) Dong Yi - not exactly surprise since the king knew about the son but he didn't know what the prince looked like. It was so cute.
5) Fated to Love You - love it love it

There has to be more... but I can't recall.

Wow! I have literally just seen one show out of all that are mentioned! That has never happened before in a catnip post!! Time to get to work and watch a lot of kdramas! :P

Also, wouldn't Fated To Love You fall in this category? I mean Jang Hyuk is surprised that he is 'going to' become a daddy and acts like the unborn baby's dad.. But yeah probably not!

Not my catnip but I seem to be always interested in dramas with this trope.

I already liked and been a fan of LJG since his My Girl days, but I truly loved him and what cemented his place as my Ultimate Bias in all of K-ent was Two Weeks. I still sometimes re-watch the series, and I still end up crying.

This isn't a catnip that makes me look forward to it, yet it is funny when it appears in a storyline. The most unforgettable one was in the film "Breezy Scandal" when Cha Tae-hyun's hero gets the biggest shock of his life upon finding that he has a grown-up daughter with a grandson to boot! And he's only 37, if I remember!

I love this bit in Tunnel. Park GwangHo acting all sweet towards his grown up daughter. Also acting all protective and pushing SunJae away from JaeYi.

This isn't my catnip. I did enjoy "Two Weeks" and Lee Jun Ki was amazing in it.
But in "Wonderful Life" the hero was such an immature, spoiled, selfish bastard that I could never really get into the drama.
The one drama with this troupe that I really loved is actually a Taiwanese drama: "Autumn's Concerto".

It was definitely the adorable connection between Tae San and Soojinnie that was the trump-ace of Two Weeks but it is not a catnip for me. I normally don't care for kids.

Two weeks was an emotional rollercoaster... Lee Jun Ki was awesome, as always. What about Bride of the century? (Spoilers ahead!)

I know, it's not the central plot, but it was nice..... I mean Lee Hong Ki as a father? That was precious!

OMG YES,YES triple quadruple times YES! Another ultimate catnip! I need MOAR of these dramaland!

I'm watching The Best Hit and I watched Tunnel but I haven't seen any of the other dramas you mentioned Ladytron333. It sounds like this is a powerful catnip when it strikes.

I can't believe I clicked just because I saw Lee Jun Ki! He is seriously too hot to handle! **

Cute writing! Thanks for the post.

"In typical Jun-ki fashion, he spends sixteen episodes kicking ass and looking gorgeous."

Preach!

I've been a fan of Lee Jun Ki but I haven't watched Two Weeks yet! I love this catnip. Thanks for sharing!

Love these. It's one of my favorites.

I like this trope but not to the level of catnip. I personally just love seeing a man being a good father. Like Marriage Contract for example.

This scenario always guarantees laugh. Except Shin Sung rok in Thank You. I always love the actor for being a baddie, but sorry, oppa, in Thank You, you're a jerk.
Love him in Three Dads One Mom though, but am not sure the drama's fallen to this category.

The Best Hit daebak!

For this catnip, "Wonderful Life" is definitely a classic for me, and it was a bonus to have Lee Ji Hoon on my screen for the 16 hours of my life haha The guy doesn't do many dramas to start with, and I feel like he's done even less in the recent years T.T "Two Weeks" is definitely one that uses this trope in the right ways to tug at the heartstrings and hits it right back home with me, as I grew up in a single-parent household with my mom and my dad was hardly, if ever, present XD

I don't know if this is necessarily catnip for me, and it definitely has to be done correctly for me to enjoy it. Having said that, Two Weeks is one of my favorite k-dramas because of the father/daughter relationship. I bow to the writer for daring to write a drama with almost no romance.

For T-dramas there is Sunny Happiness with Mike He though I had to overlook how the whole "I didn't know I had a son" scenario came about as it made little sense.

Sang Doo Let's Go to School with Rain and Gong Hyo Jin, best ever Surprise, You're a Daddy!

Okay I'm going to watch two weeks.... I don't know what I was waiting for

My absolute favorite cat nip is "surprise, you're a parent!" It's a real test of character for the "new" parent (and necessarily of the writer's ability). And I love the coming together of a family and how a child who wasn't known to a parent one week can suddenly become the catalyst for huge self-sacrifice the next. I love the idea of immediate, profound--yet non-romantic--love. Lee Joon Gi's turn as a "surprise parent" in Two Weeks is such a perfect example (and it also happens to be my favorite drama)!

I even love the plot set ups that are related to this one, like "surprise, you're parenting these kids in your orbit!" (a lá Stars Falling From The Sky).

Not really my catnip, but I love whenever the male lead in a drama has good interaction and bonding with little kid(s). I've such a soft spot for a guy who loves kid! And this post is making me wanna watch Two Weeks!