I hate when they do it, they let the viewer to interpret. It's so hypocritical... Assume, nom d'une pipe!

I remember in King 2 Hearts, I thought the couple didn't have sex but I think later she was pregnant, so I was wrong.

In Record of the Youth, they showed a hotel scene in one of the promo for the next episode, but they didn't show the scene in the drama. So, it was kinda weird.

🤣🤣🤣. @dramaddictally I felt the Did they or didn’t they? just once in My Liberation Notes and trust me, it left me confused and wondering if I missee something.
Who the hell follows a 3 secs kissing scene with hair blow drying. Talk of the craziest and very confusing Did They or Didn't They? I've encountered.

As a Makjang, Weekend and Daily aficionado, i simply always assume that they did.

Even if they brushed their pinky fingers for 2 seconds on screen, we all know that leads to a twin pregnancy.

So just always assume that they did.

Sometimes it's confusing, like the My Liberation Notes example jerry talked about. But I always assume they did it. I think they make it clear if they didn't do it. There's always the flashback or conversation with a friend about how "shy" they are or how they want to take things slow.

I don't have a problem with it. I don't care if they did it or not unless someone's drunk and they make it look like it was the character's most beautiful night ever, even if they can't remember it. I think that's weird, why would someone be so happy about something they can't remember? "I don't even know what happened but I guess I wanted it and I got it. Yay!"

As someone who says on a daily basis “he needs to be smacked” to Junho and his members, I needed to make a comment here.

But I guess I never asked myself that question because the answer is yes. I wish dramas, people, and the world should stop making sex something sacred and that can only take place if you found your true love and you will be together forever till the end of time. Let sex be something natural that happens when two consenting adults want, even if there is not the purest and most significant love. Let’s normalise sex is healthy and having fun is healthy, and wanting sex and not love is just fine.

To restore my faith in humanity, I always assume they did :) unless they wake up with overcoats 😅

May be dramas should add a subtle check mark at the bottom if the deed was done, so there is no confusion.

The first thing that came to mind was 'Pinnoccio', the 2014 almost-sibling romance between Lee Jongsuk and Park Shin-hye (a favorite series of mine, BTW). In one scene the female lead makes a quip (in front of her father?) about how tall and gangly the male lead is, about having unnecessarily long appendages.

Go watch the first episode of the recent series 'Hit The Spot', just to offer a contrast. It's likely to make you better appreciate K-dramas' usual chaste longing looks and discrete scene transitions.

A Hundred Million Stars in the Sky............Kidding!

In Strong Woman Do Bong Soon, after the night of the piano kiss , the ML asks FL if she slept well with a suggestive smile. I do wonder if things went far , or it was just a normal comment.

And same page on you about the 'Just between lovers' scene, it pissed me off too .

I thought that they clearly slept together in JBL. They went to that hotel with the express purpose of sleeping together, and there was no suggestion from what I could tell that they didn't. In general, too, my sense is that once we see any change of clothing from the night before that we're to understand the characters had sex.

But the signifier isn't always a change of clothes. Reaching for a more recent example, I also assumed Sang-soo and Su-young had sex when he visited her home town to find her, but in that case, we see him fully dressed after the kissing scene, but he's outside and smoking which I took as a hint that they did more than just kiss.

Nowadays, I feel like the most common indication that sex has occurred is a shower scene--i.e. if we see the characters washing up in the scene after they've either done something physical or seemed to be leading there, we're meant to believe they slept together.

The one time I was confused was MLN with Gu and Mi-jeong. Once they reunite, they spend the night together all the time, but because there's no heat in his apartment, we just see them fully clothed, coats and all, snuggling in front of a space heater. It seems odd to me that they would not have consummated their relationship at some point, but those scenes also seemed designed to give an explanation for why they didn't (because it was too cold to do so, I guess?).

Yes, good one! Most of the times it makes a huge difference to know. Subliminal messages are a whole thing, but what dramas do is only confusing. Sometimes the viewing guide helps, but I guess neworks want to avoid putting their average drama viewer in a tight spot. Which is nonsense as streaming services and kabel have proved otherwise.

My favorite (an early one) when they went from hug to morning sickness.

Talking about that particular moment in Just Between Lovers, I definitely believe that they did.

Wait, zoom-in on couple mugs the morning after is not a thing anymore?

I'm a simple person - I hate coyness over matters of intimacy (and the whole "sex is evil" propaganda - nothing good EVER came from it as history clearly shows us), so if my OTP did it, I NEED to know! And have a good peek if possible))) But kdramas are what they are, so I often have to use my deduction skills not just for whodunit crime mysteries, much to my chagrin. Rise of cabel and OTT shows with their lesser restrictions kind of improved the overall situation, thankfully... But it's still not enough!

What about Kang Pil Joo (Jang Hyuk) and Mal Ran (Kim Mi Sook) in "Money Flower?"

Well my prev self had to pause and watch the bed scene in Strangers Again. Apparently they didn’t have sex but Ha-ra asked in the morning and the dude REJECTED?! I mean of course people shouldn’t have sex is they don’t wanna but imagine saying no to Kang So-ra??!
Whaaaaat?!! If only I was in that position…

To Mica (who didn't have time to register for easier answering but apparently has enough of it to count how many comments I post under each article):

First of all, nobody ever called me PHS's warrior before, so thanks *blushes* (even tho you probably didn't mean it in a flattering way at all). Second, I never dissed PBY, only said that her approach to her character was weird to me, because that explanation about toned down skinship (which was actually said by her in some interview - sorry, don't have link on hand cause it's been YEARS, but I believe it was already mentioned here on DB somewhere in that drama's comments, so you can go and check facts personally instead of blindly believing my words) makes very little sense. Had PHS said something along those lines, I'd side-eye him too, because - surprise! - my issue is with the logic of that statement, not the person who did it. Whether she really believed in that explanation or was it indeed just an excuse we'll probably never know, so my non-serious (how could I forget that one MUST ALWAYS specify the fact when making a joke on internet? silly me! next time I'll make sure to add some emoticons, don't worry) comment about aversion of kissing her co-star is just as good of a guess as any other. Lastly, idk what who is the fan of whom or PHS's nice personality (can't really comment on that since we're not THAT close with him, to my deepest regret. how are YOU so sure tho?) has ANYTHING to do with the main topic, which was - in case someone already forgot during our lengthy convo - people doubting the passion SWDBS's OTP had for each other because it didn't translate very well to screen in certain scenes. And, ofc, if anyone actually treats my words as ill-meaning rumors (tho if I was as worried about this matter as you I'd probably focus more on people STILL aggressively shipping Park-Park couple irl, claiming they are dating/married/divorced/fighting in the court over their pet cactus and ACTUALLY attacking his other female co-stars from EVERY his drama since 2017), you're free to direct them to me so I can take responsibility and personally clear any possible misunderstanding I could've unintentionally create. Can't promise to be less obviously a fan of PHS's work though, that's a way too personal thing for random anons online to interfere with, but thanks again for your OBVIOUSLY deep concern^^

In Hyena, I was fully convinced the two leads had a full on steamy romance including a lot of "it" before the best plot twist in a 1st episode happened, until about 10 episodes in when male lead is very surprised by the horrible scar on female lead's shoulder.
Disappointed does not even start to describe what I felt.

Moonsoo and Kangdoo DID it for sure otherwise what was the point of getting that expensive room? These SK’n censors have a lot to answer for.

I think the coy answer lies in SK broadcasting standards of what is the gray area of explicit content. It is very inconsistent.

For example, the OTP in Something in the Rain did it A LOT like on-screen teenage rabbits. But then, the bed scene in Thirty Nine with SYJ and YWJ was cut and only showed her leaving in the morning after with regret. Then this couple never showed any real skinship afterward which was very strange.

Yes, as a plot point, it should be made clear as it really does affect the plot line. Yes, yes, yes!

So much time is spent on the development of a relationship. After the big focus on "the first kiss," and clarifying the status of the relationship, etc. it is unforgiveable that the viewers are suddenly treated like idiots. Make it clear that the characters have slept together! Then to add insult to injury (of viewers), a "surprise pregnancy" --worse that a time skip--is presented (here's looking at you, shame on you Princess Hours, King 2 Hearts, etc....) and that is quite jarring. By the way, several of Park Min-Young's dramas come to mind where tastefully done bedroom scenes that make it clear the main couple has slept together: WWWSK, Her Private Life, Forecasting Love & Weather, Contract Marriage. Even historical dramas should make it clear; it doesn't have to be with explicit sex scenes like "Frozen Flower."

NIGGLE: "Just Between Lovers," as much as I love that drama, makes me roll my eyes--that scene with the heavy parkas in a hotel bed, Junho's character is so sick & will die soon but possibly he made love to the FL?????--was he even physically able????? Then he just leaves her, not even leaving her a note!!!! And he had even kissed her in her bed in her home so intimacy would be normal. GRRRRrrrrrr.....

Definitely the innocent man. It left you hanging and making own theory about the ending lol. And Que Sera Sera.

I am rewatching "I'm Sorry I Love You" and thought about this question during the motel scene in Episode 13. She is washing his clothes while he is wrapped in a blanket. The camera lingers on his wet clothes drying on an indoor clothesline. So did they or didn't they? Knowing the context and the characters, I'd say no, but knowing how the story ends, I wish they did it.

I find it odd that so many drunken Korean actors are able to get their partners pregnant (in dramas of course - no idea how it relates to real life in Korea). One's personal experience is that drunk partners, although enthusiastic, tend not to be able to perform. But perhaps I have just been unfortunate.

And what about the EVEN MORE frustrating: WHY DIDNT THEY?!

I mean for eg. Record of Youth!!
Such a horrid 'tease' - I mean cummon!!!!! Why didn't they when they were cooped up in shirts.

Same with CLOY - HOW COULD THEY NOT??
Two thirty plus adults locked in her Apartment?! NO?

CLOY was amongst my early Kdrama days when I was still naive about the fact that Kdrama is coy around premarital sex. SO it killed me!!!
Did they do it in her apartment or not!!!

There wasn't even a suggestion of it.

So I was confused.

yep - another Show that I wanted to ask:
WHY DIDNT THEY?

It would enrich the plot I feel. Give some punch and satisfaction for the viewers and better explain the FL's 'hurt and rejected feelings' and / or in the second half better which would have given a better punch to the end - she is 'bonded' paired with him and this will now go any length to be with him

The Smile has Left your Eyes

There was plenty of skinship and YES it happened. No bones made about it and beautifully shown.
It was natural.

My Name made no bones about it either. IMPACT of final scene wouldn't have HAPPENED if that was not made a plot point!!

One of the STRONGEST use of "doing it" ever used for a Drama - other than when it's used to "make a baby"

And I need to add one more drama to this :
- did they?
- why didn't they?

BEYOND THE CLOUDS.

cummon PD nim could you give us some more injury salve to rub and make us go guh!

THIS show could have SO SO SO used some skinship as viewer catharsis - AT LEAST that last night at the snow cabin??

Some Secret Love or Smile has Left your Eyes kind of balm

might have taken the ratings to a 6% I think ;-p

i've always wondered if they did in queen in hyun's man... the tip toe kiss and then the waking up in bed where yin's character looked like she was naked.. i could be wrong, but i always got the feeling they did because in the deleted scene of them at the end of the series, they were going at it like it wasn't their first time together. but maybe that's just me assuming and being wrong..