In Hyena, Kim Hye-Soo and Ju Ji-Hoon dash into a supply closet to hide from one of their law firm’s clients. The chemical reaction when these bickering ex-lovers get up close and personal is, figuratively speaking, explosive!

Wonderful, wonderful prompt!! And I simply have to second @babylilo for my first entry because it's so good.

Ever wondered what it would be like to be hopelessly in love with a strong character played by Kim Hye-soo and not be able to show it?

Ever wondered what it would be like to be hopelessly in love with a strong character played by Joo Ji-hoon and not be able to show it?

I know I have.

Ever wondered what it would be like to have this emotional tension build up in episode upon episode, only to have the two of them thrown into a storage closet where you get pressed into close physical proximity and need to keep quiet there, touching like you wish you could but know you shouldn't, as close as could be?

Would you also like it to be hilarous?

Well, look no further than to the experience of watching Hyena, episode 5 around the 55-minute mark.

No serial killers, just heart flutters. In 18 Again Episode 6, Roh Jeong-eui and Choi Bo-min hide in a school cabinet and get very close, and when a teacher tries to open the door, she holds his hand.

I think there is one in I am not a robot

The Good Bad Mother - Lee Do-hyun and Ahn Eun-jin were accidentally locked up in their school's storage room.

100 Days My Prince start of ep4 - ML and FL were rolled up in straw mats and locked up in a storage room where they rolled over a rat to get loose.

In SCHOOL 2013, Nam Soon and Heung Soo are locked in a storage closet when they are forced to move desks as punishment. While technically not a couple, they were arguably one of best bromances in Kdrama.

In GOONG, Chae Kyung and Shin are locked up in a room without their knowledge to have their "first night," which leads to a lot of conversation and some games.

In the INTEREST of LOVE, the main leads are locked in the bank room where they have time to talk and mislead/obfuscate to one another once again.

In CRASH LANDING on YOU, the couple have to hide in the hold of a fishing boat while trying to have the FL escape but then have to pretend to be a couple when discovered.

Good Job (Episode 3).
Sera and Sunwoo were tied together in the hospital storage room. Which led to them **ahem** struggling to get untied.

Some shows where ML and FL have to hide in small places:

_ Seasons of Blossom (a little storage room).
_ Hello Monster (a closet).
_ Six Flying Dragons (a closet).
_ Hospital Playlist (a little storage room).

Awaken But they were the 2 leads and the second female lead in a very big closet :p

Racket Boys The kids were caught by their trainer except the ML and the FL who were hidding in the closet.

My 20th It's a movie but during the school trip, the FL drinks and to not be caught, she hide in a closet with the ML.

Welcome to Waikiki 2 The 3 male leads hide in the FL's wardrobe that was moved to a new owner 😂

In Jealousy Incarnate/DOn't Dare TO Dream, Ja-young and Chef break into Hwashin's apartment to secretly place some money at his place and they end up spending the night at his place.
There's even a really good picture in the recap here on DB:

https://www.dramabeans.com/2016/11/jealousy-incarnate-episode-21/

Gu Family Book (episode 10)
Kang Chi & Yeo Wool are stuck in a storage cellar. Before that they were stuck behind a secret door and had to keep it closed.

Vagabond (episode 12, I think)
The characters are in a shipping container.

In Beautiful Gong Shim she actually lives in a closet, or, her room has been made into her sister's closet. And at some point our ML is hiding in there. I think her parents came home at something that seemed like a revealing moment, so he hid, and they have a lot of trouble getting him out without being seen.

For me it's "reply to 1988" when doksun and jonghwan were in that extra narrow alley and jonghwan tried so hard not to.....uhmmm you know 😅

I feel like people in kdramaland love to lock themselves/get stuck somewhere: storage rooms, closets, rooftops, elevators, etc.

Twinkling Watermelon episodes 3-4.
Technically Cheong Had was locked there alone, but then Yi Chan entered the room to hide from a teacher.
They stayed there for a while.

It also happened in the drama So Not Worth It but I don't remember the episode.

King of Drama, stuck in a freezing stranded truck (it's always cold, no one's ever trapped in a sauna?)
Wild Romance, locked in a barn.

I remembered a couple more instances:

Fated to Love You, episode 3. Mi-Young’s mom locks her and Gun in a musty storeroom overnight, until Gun’s grandmother gets there to sort out the situation of Mi-Young being pregnant with Gun’s child. While they’re held captive, Gun’s stomach starts rumbling to the point where he agrees to try some kind of strange seaweed. But he’s totally grossed out when Mi-Young starts snacking on some dried fish eyeballs!

Jumong - This one’s not at all funny or romantic. Ju-Mong pushes/drags a temple servant girl into a storage room over her strong protests. They get locked in, causing both of them to miss an important ceremony. The poor girl is expelled from the temple and ends up becoming a slave.

In Dong Yi, Dong Yi and the King were in a storage room together. It was not locked but they were hiding in one.
In LBFAD, if I remember correctly DFQC and Orchid were hiding in a closet together. Lots of tension!
In Good Job, JIW and Yuri was tied uo together in a hospital storage room. 🥰
The latest one was Yi Chan and Chung Ah locked together. The former was hiding from a teacher while the latter was locked in by bullies.

There's a scene in Wok of love where Sae-woo (Jung Ryeo-won) and Chil-sung (Jang Hyuk) were hiding in the walk-in cold room in their restaurant from the thugs with Chil-sung bleeding from the stab wound.

I started giffing about the closet kiss in "What's Wrong With Secretary Kim?"
https://www.dramabeans.com/members/CecilieDK/activity/1472540/

ALICE with Kim Hee Sun and Joo Won. Despite delivering an important plot point and a later episode pick me up that, in my humble opinion, would help many a sagging drama, overall the situation was odd and awkward.

My best bet: Reply 1988, of course! That was when Deok-sun and Jung-hwan hid between two high walls to not be caught by the principal. I'm still laughing at Jung-hwan's discomfort being so near Deok-sun :)

I finished the gif work that was deleted yesterday, so the Continued Kissing in a closet of What's Wrong With Secretary Kim? can be seen here in the post and in the comments. https://www.dramabeans.com/members/CecilieDK/activity/1472540/

Kill Me Heal Me, a basement, bc Do Hyun moved the Practicality Log to have privacy to talk LMAO
Rugal ep 5
Brain Works ep 3