She was pretty!

I was so conflicted on whether I wanted Hye Jin to end up with Sung Joon or Shin Hyuk! Even thought Sung Joon was a major jerk in the beginning, he still develops feeling for Hye Jin despite her outward appearance (yay!) because her personality was what matters the most. But then we have this cute cinnamon roll named Shin Hyuk who complicates thing because he is so supportive of Hye Jin and is just a lovable goofy character. Honestly I had the biggest second lead syndrome here :/

Another favorite "triangle" was in Legend of the Blue Sea when Joon Jae thought Shim Cheong was in love with some other guy and kept on badmouthing him...but the "other guy" was actually him from before his memories were erased.

What Happened in Bali.

a classic that i will never forget. the combination of awesome acting with an ending that i never quite understand why, scarred me for life.

soojung literally just kept going back and forth between jaemin & inwook that i seriously have no idea who did she love. even after she made her choice (or did she?), she confessed using her last breath that she loved the other one, like whatttttttt?! ? i don't even know if having all the three leads dead in the end make me feel better or worse. ?

Punch
Park Jung-hwan and Shin Ha-kyung. Even though they broke up, they are able to cross paths once again and work together, to fix the consequences of their choices that they made in the past. Now they can work together one last time to make the world that their daughter will live in a better place for her.
My favorite scene is were she brings him the marriage certificate, to show him that they are a family.

My Beautiful Bride
Kim Do-Hyeong and Yoon Joo Young.
What will Kim Do-Hyeong do in order to find the woman he loves? Kim Moo-Yul to me gives one of the best performances I have seen. He plays a man trying to find his missing bride.
Ko Sung-Hee also gives a good performance as Yoon Joo Young the missing bride. And scenes together are beautiful, sweet. I could feel the love that they feel for one another.

my fav love triangle would have to be between KMHM's Cha Do hyun, Shin Segi and rijin ♡ contrary to expectations it wasnt with the second lead park seo joon because I honestly felt that they were cuter as siblings but kudos to jisung for being able to play 2 roles which I could see rijin being happy with and it got especially tragic when segi's existence was threatening dohyun's :( i really wished there was some way both of them could live on but yes this emotional conflict had me changing sides every week and was a huge part of why I loved this show so much :))

My favorite love triangle will probably always be my very first one all the way back in 2012, because it almost ended in me never watching K-dramas again: Flower Boy Ramyun Shop. Counter-intuitive you say? Read on. Cha Chi Soo, Eun Bi, and the Wonderful Pillar Husband. I knew nothing of K-dramas, was highly skeptical of why my best friend was hooked on them, but for her sake I decided to give them a chance. She gave me 3 drama choices, the other two being Boys over Flowers and Secret Garden, and I can honestly say I wouldn't be writing this post now if I'd chosen one of those two. But wait you say, I thought FBRS almost chased you away too? Well it did. You see, I had no idea at all about the concept of a "second lead." I went into FBRS like it was an Answer Me show (which didn't exist yet) thinking that she could end up with either guy and clearly she belonged with Husband. I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of the show all the way up until episode 15 when it suddenly became quite clear (though the experienced viewer saw it coming far far sooner...say episode 1?) that in spite of Pillar being the logical and oh so swoony choice, it just wasn't going to happen. Though butterflies had occurred watching Cha Chi Soo's scenes and resulted in wonderful bouts of push and pull with my emotions, I was never the less devastated. I walked away from K-dramas in that moment, presumably forever.
But here's where tragedy turns to triumph. As much as that love triangle hurt...it engaged me. I lived and breathed and belly laughed with that show and it's characters. The betrayal I felt at the loss of my ship couldn't compare to the unmistakable quality and crack like pull that are K-dramas. When you care about the characters and story it makes it worth facing a little heart ache. So a few months later I found myself giving another drama a try. Then another, and another, and the rest they say, is addiction *cough* history, I mean history! And when your first drama is also your first 2nd lead/wrong ship heartbreak, no Answer Me can hurt you. (This is a total lie, I lived our died by whether Oppa and Taek would be the husbands.)
Just as a side note: I must say I felt quite vindicated in my conviction that Eun-bi and Pillar belonged together when I found out the actors were dating in real life :)

MASTER'S SUN Joo Joong Won, Tae Gongshil, Kang Woo!

I felt like this love triangle was all over the place, but it seemed so natural and effortless. Gongshil started falling for Kang Woo since they were neighbors and worked at the same place: he was kind, good-looking, and understanding. But with her need for Joong Won's physical presence to soothe her ghost seeing abilities, it was only a matter of time before Gongshil naturally fell in love with Joong Won. Kang Woo knew all of this, he knew he was a second lead! The way he looked at them in anguish knowing he let her go because his boss told him to, and later wanted to win her back while knowing she's safer in Joong Won's care seriously touched a few heartstrings. He lost the girl, and he knew he would. He still hoped there was a chance, as a lot of us still do. Gongshil and Joong Won were a great couple, and Kang Woo let them have that. Dying.

As a huge fan of the Hong Sisters, I'd have to say that Best Love takes the cake for favourite love triangle: Dokko Jin, Gu Ae Jung, Yoon Pil Joo. All three characters were so darn likeable and quirky in their own way. I also liked that for a minute, at least in the beginning, Pil Joo stood an actual chance with our heroine. For a second, he was a true contender for her feelings and not just a friend.

Hmmm this is a hard one considering the fact that I've been suffering from second lead syndrome for so long....
The first one that pops in my mind has to be She Was Pretty. From the beginning Simon caught me with his hilarious antics and his sweet puppy eyes. This was a character that I didn't feel horrible about at the end but rather loved how he grew as a person and took his lost love as a obstacle he had to overcome. The parting with this character was absolutely beautiful and healed the hole in my heart.

Shine or Go Crazy
Wang So and Shin Yool. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️???????❤️❤️❤️

Beautiful Mind
Lee Young Oh and Gye Jin Sung. One of my favorite pairings. At first I was skeptical about this couple but as the drama progress I was convince that their romance could work. They both complement each other.❤️❤️❤️

How do you pick just one??

Okay, it has to be the love triangle in Answer Me 1997. Not the one between Shi Won, Yoon Jae, and Tae Woong. We all knew Yoon Jae was the end game.

No, the one that tugged on my heart strings was Shi Won/Yoon Jae/Joon Hee. Because Hoya's puppy eyes and little freakouts when Yoon Jae would hug on him ripped my heart apart. He knew his best friend couldn't return his love in the same way. Joon Hee supported the relationship between his two friends even though it hurt. And the way Yoon Jae didn't judge Joon Hee after overhearing the stairway conversation was beautiful.

I'm actually getting teary-eyed now as I type this.

My Girlfriend is a Gumiho
Cha Dae-woong and Mi-Ho.
I really enjoyed watching this drama just because of this couple. Plus the songs for the drama I would listened to them all day long. Of course my favorite gumiho will always be Mi-Ho. When ever I think of this drama I think of ?????

Woman with a suitcase
Cha Geum-Joo and Ham Bok-Geo aka Spam ? and Hamburger ?.???
Really enjoyed the relationship between the two.

Queen of Reversals
In which I was really really really hoping Goo Yong-Shik the second lead would win Hwang Tae-hee's heart.??❤️❤️❤️

Bubblegum
Park Ri-Hwan and Kim Haeng-A because even though they try to deny it, hide it, sacrifice their feelings, they are just meant to be together.❤️❤️❤️???????

Best Love! How can this discussion leave odd Dokko Jin, Gu Ae-Jung and Pil-joo?

The love triangle which I really broke my heart is Reply 1988's Deok Sun, Taek, and Jung Hwan. I still can't watch the whole show in a sequence. I believe that I didn't finish the whole series because I can watch Episode 18 but I can't watch 19 & 20 after that. Jung Hwan broke my heart into pieces. I got me ugly crying the first time I watched Episode 18. :(

This is an impossible question. I don't even like love triangles but ahhh second lead syndrome is real. The reply series and recentl jealousy incarnate definitely made me struggle a lot in my ships, but I think my ultimate one due to its impact while I was in high school was You're Beautiful. ALL THE ANGST. The silent looks and noble gestures to protect the MC. If I wanted to take any romance tips from kdrama in HS, that would've been it haha.

Is web drama OK? My favourite is Love for a Thousand More. I don't even know that it is a love triangle in the first place, because Jason was such a supportive only friend for Mi Jo and he didn't show even an ounce of jealousy towards Joon Woo. He didn't try to woo her, or became the authoritative jerk who thought that the girl is his and his alone. Only then at the very end of the drama it is shown that he was willing to wait for another thousand year for her to realize that he was in love with Mi Joo all along, what with both of them being immortals. I realize the title is all for his undying love to Mi Joo. I'm such a sucker for this eternal love, and it doesn't hurt that the actor playing Jason (Jang Ki Young) is as hot as sunny Bali in May!

Yes! Oh my goodness.

This is the first Kdrama which I fully understood while watching (because when I was young and watched Kdramas I really didn't understand what was happening). It is Dream High. The love triangle of Hye Mi, Shi Hyuk (Jin Guk), and Sam Dong was worth the watch!

At first watch, I really was Team Shi Hyuk. Most of my friends were Team Sam Dong (I really didn't get it until Moon Embracing The Sun happened. I mean what a gorgeous Kim Soo Hyun we have there, right? Then, Do Min Joon from My Love From Another Star killed me.)

Spoiler Alert!

I think I was Team Shi Hyuk then because they had a connection in the past! The childhood scenes were really something that connected them. It's not like they bumped each other on the street kind of thing. Hye Mi cried for Shi Hyuk and he really appreciated it; hence, he was not able to forget this child. But then I think he lost the chance when he debuted. I mean the teenage Hye Mi needed him to be there throughout the journey of a hopeful, successful debut but Hye Mi might have felt that Shi Hyuk left her hanging because she thought Shi Hyuk would always be there for her all throughout.

Here was Sam Dong, waiting for a chance to show Hye Mi that he would always be there no matter what. He likes Hye Mi too but can't do anything to protect her because Hye Mi is the one really protecting him especially after the tinnitus issue. Then, Sam Dong slowly grew up on his own feet. He did not need Hye Mi's help anymore. That was when I think Hye Mi unconsciously considered Sam Dong as a guy. The hidden picture of Sam Dong in Hye Mi's wallet proved it. Oh my goodness!

I think Hye Mi's choice was something I did not expect way back then. Now, I can see why. The proximity of Hye Mi and Sam Dong really mattered. Sam Dong's appearance mattered too. The improvement of his hair style really made him attractive. Exposure to attractiveness is a way to a girl's heart. They also have similarities, both are into music. I think Sam Dong also toned down his love confession for Hye Mi, not like the first few episodes. This gave Hye Mi a chance to be comfortable with Sam Dong. Sharing experiences too can be counted as a start of being comfortable with each other.

I think this is why I was Team Shi Hyuk-Hye Mi but the Sam Dong-Hye Mi pairing makes sense. :)

I usually hate love triangles on principle, and do my best to avoid them - as much as I can - in dramas. Mostly because I find myself with an incurable case of second lead syndrome and I don't really find the angst worth the payoff if my ship doesn't sail.

That being said, my favorite love triangle is hands down the love triangle from Healer - between Chae Young, Park Bong Soo and the mysterious night errand guy.

It was hilarious to see Ji Chang Wook competing with himself when he is both the friendzoned (or rather dongsaeng zoned) by Chae Young as well as the object of her crush. But the rooftop scene in which Bong Soo confesses really hit me in the feels. And those moments when he really wanted to confess his true identity and could not killed me. But boy, did the angst pay off well when the whole misunderstanding was cleared up.

Ah the book sounds interesting!
I don't tend to like love triangles because they're so manufactured but there are a few that stick in my mind. I think the best is in Page Turner with Yoo-Seul, Cha-Sik, and Jin-Mok. It's not a clearly established "love" triangle but its somewhat suggested and either way I think the relationships are quite interesting. (ps. for anybody who hasn't watched Page Turner, go watch it! it's only three eps, has both kim so-hyun and ji soo, and has an unique plot with a lot of heart).

There are so many choices! I have many favourites, but the fun love triangle for me so far is You're Beautiful's Hwang Tae Kyung – Go Mi Nam – Kang Shin Woo (you can include Jeremy too :)

I've also got to put a vote here for Best Love, which may be my all time fave Hong sisters drama. This was a weird triangle since I never wanted second lead to win, but it was so much fun to watch nonetheless.

I mean, after like three episodes how could anyone NOT love Dokko Jin? Everything he did was INSANE and over-the-top but also executed with so much heart (no pun intended -- for those who've seen the drama, y'all know what I'm talking about). He did everything he could to protect the woman he loved. Then when they were finally together and he got jealous of the reruns of Ae-Jung's dating show with Perfect Man Pil-Joo? SO CUTE. And don't even get me started on how much I loved him and Ding Dong.

At the same time, Perfect Man Pil-Joo really WAS perfect, sincere, and so so adorable, even if I was actively rooting against him and knew he didn't have a chance in hell at winning Ae-Jung's heart. The scene where he finally concedes his loss and walks away? Kills me every time. Though then it cuts back to the cute and I'm healed and happy all over again.

Man, and now I miss peak Hong sisters drama.

Coffee House. Lee Jin Soo / Seo Eun Young / Kang Seung Yeon

As a general rule, I find love triangles to be annoying but not particularly angsty. It is always clear who the breeding pair is, and the third leg of the triangle is clearly the third wheel. He's either way too perfect to ever actually consider, or she's way too crazy and deluded to have any real hope. I don't get SLS because even when the second lead is adorable (ie She Was Pretty​) I know better than to waste any energy shipping him or her with the lead.

None of the above applies to Coffee House. I spent most of the drama expecting Seung Yeon to end up with Jin Soo. And was rather surprised when she didn't. The only other time this has happened to me was with Answer Me 1988, and that was because of obvious trolling on the part of the production. Coffee House wasn't trolling, though. I don't think.

What it did was make Seung Yeon the heroine of her own story, and then begin the drama looking through her eyes. It was only in hindsight that I realized this was because she was the observer, watching Jin Soo and Eun Young. At the time, it had me thinking that she was the heroine of the drama as well, and gave me my one real case of SLS. It is possible that I wouldn't have been fooled if I had watched it later in my drama career -- I read the recaps later and discovered that Javabeans had called Jin Soo / Eun Young from episode 2 -- but at the time, it took me by surprise.

My favourite would be in healer: between Chae Young Shin, healer, and Bong So. XD

The main character was competing with himself (spoiler: he took it pretty well when she rejected him for himself)XD

Nine: Nine Time Travels | Park Sun-woo | Joo Min-young/Park Min Young | Incense Sticks

Wouldn't they have a happy ending if it weren't for the incense sticks? The use of incense sticks brought them to be Sun Woo as Park Min Young's uncle. :(

I Hear Your Voice | Jang Hye-sung | Park Soo-ha | Cha Gwan-woo

At first, I was quite hesitant with the pairing because of the nature of it: a noona-dongsaeng relationship. Later on, I became accustomed to it until Cha Byeon entered the picture. I thought Jang Byeon and Cha Byeon might really end up together on the middle part of the series because I thought Soo-ha was dead. But then again... Park Soo-ha the policeman and Jang Hye-sung the attorney ended up together. It was quite sad for Cha Byeon and the Royce' chocolates. :(

P.S. I like the dramas that the writer of this series make. Oops, Pinocchio~

My favorite drama love triangle? Easy: Reply 1988. Deok Soon, Taek and Jung Hwan. The drama let us to believe that Jung Hwan and our heroine would end up together, as he was making the same moves as all the other kdrama heroes. He was grumpy outward, but just so sweet, kind and thoughtful on the inside. He didn´t say it with his words, but his awkward actions were clearly full of love towards Deok Soon. Only, she rarely got to see those actions...
Then there was Taek. For him it was so simple to follow his heart. He didn´t hide it. He knew he loved her and he confessed to his friends. He was brave and took chances, knowing full well he could get hurt. His actions towards her were always sweet. He didn´t hide his feelings for her. I have watched the scene, were he and Deok Soon get together over a hundred times. When he realizes that she had lied to him about their first kiss being a dream it is clearly visible that she broke his heart. BUT!!! He summoned all of his courage to ask her about her feelings now, when he JUST got his heart broken. This moment still gives me goosebumps. His courage to go after the girl he loves, was so impressive and thankfully it paid off.
Deok Soon was harder to read than the boys. At one point she was interested in Jung Hwan, manly because her friends told her that he was interested in her. She was at the age, were she was just hoping to get a boyfriend. Loving the notion of being a couple, seen as she was reading all these raunchy love stories. But it was her feelings for Taek that blindsided her. When he stood her up for their movie date, she just couldn´t shrug it off. The moment he kissed her in his room, she kissed him back, but she was so scared afterwards of messing it all up and destroying their friendship. She lied about that kiss being a dream, because she was terrified of the notion that there was a chance of losing him.
But what really sets this love triange apart from all the others and makes it my absolute favorite is the love between the boys for each other. When they both realize that their best friend also loves the girl, that they love, they come to a stalemate. The feelings of their friend was more important to them than their own feelings. THAT IS TRUE FRIENDSHIP! Jung Hwan tried to hate Taek and move forward, but he just couldn't because he loved him despite it all and he took care of him. Same goes for Taek. As soon as he was aware of his best friends feelings he backed off. Resulting in the heart break for both of them. It took them both years to realize that this stalemate wasn´t right and that neither could be happy like that. All three attempted to move on, but they just couldn't. YEARS had to go by, for them to think it would be okay to chase after Deok Soon.
In the end Taek got the girl, because he was willing to lose, not just his Baduk game, but also his heart. He had more courage and acted, while Jung Hwan hesitated.
This love triangle was just so full of familial love, that...

I was into kdramas after watching boys over flowers .oh boy! It was awesome . I was torn between the first n second leads as who should be with jan di.but at some point of time it was the same old story repeating itself or should i say the universal truth that girls always fall for badaaasss guys...

Kill me, heal me: Cha Do-hyun - Oh Ri-jin - Shin Se-gi
It is technically the same guy but with 2 split personalities. Loved the bad boy before falling for the good guy, just like the heroine in this drama.

The most memorable love triangle for me was in Reply 1994. It wasn't the best experience due to the nasty shipping wars and all. I admit that I was kinda rooting for Chilbongie the whole time because I feel like I was with him the whole time that he fell in love, from start till the end. Both guys kinda had the fair chance to show both their affections to the lead and even though I wasn't happy that Oppa got Najung, I still kinda accepted it because the show did give us reason on why he's like the endgame. I'm looking at you with judgement, School - Who are you.

Story of a Man
Kim Shin - Eunsoo - Dowoo
Okay, so maybe it wasn't really a love triangle. I think but the show did mesmerize me with Dowoo's obsession with Eunsoo. Like I like how twisted it is but it still wasn't icky because it feels like he doesn't really view her romantically but he was just obsessive. I know that he' s the villain but I kept hoping that Eunsoo will be able to stop him from his psychopathic tendencies. *SPOILERS* Well, she did eventually stop him, well more like her death numb him from doing anything anymore.

W

Literally everybody in W, who get between Park Soo-bong and his ramyeon (or any other food)
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I can post as many entries as I want right? ? Because I just can't leave this one out:

You're Beautiful. Go Mi Nam/Nyeo - Hwang Tae Kyung - Kang Shin Woo gave me so much feels. I loved both contenders for the (not so) lady's heart. But it still hurts me up to this day that Shin Woo did not get to properly confess!

Drinking Solo.

this drama tells me that you still stand a chance to get the girl even when you are the trashy narcissistic & conceited jerk as long as the girl likes you. gong myung was a precious puppy but he didn't stand a chance right from the start as hana only saw him as her student, & not a man. it was nice to see jungseok acting like a noble idiot in the end, trying to give up his love for his younger brother albeit the foolishness. glad to know that he's capable of being selfless.

Best Love.

dokko jin & piljoo almost competed by seeing how much sacrifices they can make in order to help aejung have a easier life. she was really lucky to have them, like finally, after all the hardships she went through to protect her groupmates. her selflessness certainly paid off.

My fav is to the beautiful you...I don't know whether anyone has mentioned it because there is lots of comment....so the triangle: kang tae joon|gu jae hee|cha eun gyeol. as vivid manga reader I read it many times and still doing it and I saw because of shun in jap version and that's how I came upon it but it didn't stop there I went to Taiwanese version too?.. So whatever maybe the version "nakatsu" is a laugh-till-you -cry and heart breaking character...I vouch for it?

Oh my ghostess...na bong soon|kang sun woo|possessed NBS a.k.a shin soon ae...I needn't say anything about this quirky leads, do I?
By the way I just noticed, bo Young's name is same in SWDBS?

Witch's romance-soo chul~eun chae~dong hae..... Though it was puppy love for eun chae it was very interesting how soo chul was trying to woo her!!!

I was going through my k-drama soundtrack collection when I suddenly found a jewel. No, I literally did, it's Jewel in the Palace or Dae Jang Geum. I mean how could I forget the live triangle... Jang-geum| Min Jeong-ho| Choi Geum-young.
Seriously, what a powerful show & what powerful characters! This along with Emeperor of the Sea were the first K-dramas I ever watched & I was so impressed.
The love story itself was so beautiful , Jang-geum & Jeong-ho were just gorgeous (I mean as characters), their feelings were so heart touching. Jeong-ho was admirable, he was such a gentleman!!! And even Geum-young confessed to Jeong-ho in such an honorable way that I felt sorry for her even though I mostly hated her.
This was the most beautiful love triangle I ever saw.
I've never come across any other K-drama love which was as good as this.

This will be the most interesting one: daddy-daughter-her crush....hahahaha....you guessed it is "tunnel"

Emperor of the Sea, Jang Bogo|Jung-hwa| Yeom Jang
Another amazing love triangle from a great drama. Sadly my ship didn't sail. No ships sailed. They became titanic and drowned TT.TT I badly wanted Jang Bogo to stay with the beautiful & gentle Jung hwa. The ending was so sad.
I also didn't like Yeom Jang, EVER. I don't know maybe because he was a pirate & the bad guy or something; & what his betrayal in the end. I think he regretted it though.
But I liked this love triangle because they had affections for their loved ones till the end.
But still an amazing historical drama, it blew my mind the first time I saw it. The fight scenes were superb! And amidst all the tension was the forbidden romance of the leads....It was like a flower.

Jealousy Incarnate's Pyo Na-Ri, Lee Hwa-shin, Go Jung-won

What better love triangle than one that's built in Jealousy?

I also suffered the worst case of second lead syndrome in my whole drama watching life!