"Gwaenchana, gwaenchana" from Welcome to Waikiki. The best pick-me-up line there ever was.

My absolute favourite quote in dramaland is, and I have said this a thousand times, when in Dinner Mate, Guwon tells Jaehyeok about the way he pursues DoHee: "Unrequited love is not real love, it's violence".

This one was used again in Run On by SeonGyeom who tells his father in such an emotional scene "Unwanted love is the same as violence".

To lighten up a bit I would add all the references to "Corn Salad" in Vincenzo.

Most memorable:

Crash Landing on You: "As long as she's in my sight, I will protect her" & "a scented candle"

True Beauty: "Roar!"

Love in the Moonlight: "I'm going to try it once, that wicked love"

‘Do you like Messi?’

On the serious side, the entire monologue from Jung Hwan in reply 98 around Ep 18.
It goes something like
“ # “In the end, fate and timing do not happen, out of coincidence. They are products of earnest, simple choices, that make up miraculous moments. Being resolute, making decisions without hesitation… that is what makes timing. He wanted her more than I did. And I should have been more courageous. It was not the traffic light’s fault. It was not timing. It was my hesitations.” – Jung Hwan”

“You know have no chinguuu” 😂

"I appeal not to the ethics of the law but to the humanity of the law" - While You Were Sleeping (the second to the last case's closing statement).

"Queen Dowager: I will protect my son.
Queen : And I will protect my husband." - Under The Queen's Umbrella.

"You took my son from my grasp. Now I'll take your son from you" - Kim Bo-yeon to Go Hyun-jung in Reflection of You.

"Mr. Yeom. Can I have your youngest daughter's number?" - Mystery Gu to Daddy Yeom in My Liberation Notes. Now that's how you go for the jugular. And MLN did it twice. Cue to the 2bd jugular...

"Worship me" - My Liberation Notes.

"Amy" - Love in Contract.

I'm terrible with quotes, so I can only offer a memory of Joowoon defending his sparkling tracksuit being hand-stitched in Italy. 😁

And then his famous: Is this the best you can do? Are you sure?

#Secret Garden

Follow Your Dream from Start Up

I love the poems often quoted in k-dramas.

In Goblin, quoting "The Physics of Love"

Mass is not proportional to volume.

That girl as small as a violet,
that girl who floats like a petal
pulls me toward her with a force
greater than the Earth’s mass...

In Hometown Cha-cha-cha, quoting "The Gatekeeper"

It’s my job to say, “You can’t do that here.”
It’s my job to deny your objective.
It’s my job to deny you the next day, too.
It’s my job to wait for you the following day to deny you again.
It’s my job to wait for you the day after that and fall in love with you.
So it’s my job to deny my love...

There are so many wonderful, memorable lines in K-dramas. This one really stands out for me:

"Evil always does what it wants without stopping. Why is it that virtue always needs to prove itself over and over again?”

~Park Jin from Alchemy of Souls 2: Light and Shadow

잘생기면 다 오빠야. (If you're handsome, you're my oppa.)

Queen Ahn Yo-na from Kill Me, Heal Me

This one's dark but introspective.

If you want to die, then die. But die tomorrow. If you feel it’s hard for you tomorrow as well, then die the day after that. If you feel the same pain the day after that, even if you die the next day and the day after that, it’s not too late. If you live each day at a time like that, then a good day will definitely come. There will come a day where you’ll tell yourself, “I did a good thing by not killing myself back then.”

Oh Ri-jin to Ahn Yo-seob in Kill Me, Heal Me

I have a way to win

Jackson!!! & Panty! Panty! Panty both from SWP, Shin Hyuk (that guy...!)

Shin Se-Gi? (with that upwards intonation)

anything Yang Jung-Do says in 38 Squad but especially, "The world is too frustrating to just keep taking it."

Don’t bow your head to anyone. Don’t kneel for anyone. It will become a habit. Once it becomes a habit, it will be hard to fix. Moon Jae Shin from Sunkyunkwan scandal

and it doesnt make sense also it is complete opposite in folklore but "But the rock is dead, and the egg is alive. One day the stone will crumble, and a chick will hatch from an egg and walk on that soil. " From Bridal mask - kinda lingered with me. but the actual idiom is "eggs cannot break a rock" so the opposite.

“The one on the left is Samantha, the one on the right is Rachel.”
Business Proposal

1. from *Extraordinary Att Woo Youn Woo* - from WYW to Choi Su-Yuon - "You're like spring sunshine." - This makes me ugly cry every time! Better than any line from a male to a female!

2. from *It's ok to not be ok* - "Saranghae. Saranghae Gang Tae-ssi. Saranghandagu! SARANGHANDANIKKAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!" I love how dramatic she is LOL

3. From *Legend of the blue sea", Lee Min Ho's classic "Disgasstic shart"

4. from *Yumi's cells" - "BAEGUPAAAAAA" - the giant hunger cell

5. from *Sweet Home" - "PROTEEEEEINNNN" - the protein monster

:D

Dok Go-jin voice: "Heart. Break." (The Greatest Love)

Lee Joon-ki voice: "REBECCA!" (Welcome to Waikiki)

Lala voice: "Stress-eu." (Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol)

There have been so many meaningful and touching quotes in dramas that have made me think or touched my heart, but the problem is I don't remember them! I need to start writing them down when I hear them.

Coffee Prince:”I like you. I don’t care if you’re a man or an alien. Because it is too hard to get over you, let’s go as far as we can go.”

Don’t think, feel! -30 but 17
(Alternately, Don’t think, peel! 😆)

_ There is no sadness that lasts for eternity. There is no love that lasts for eternity neither.
- I'm going to vote that there is.
- Which one are you voting for? Love or sadness?
- Sad love.

- Do you know the term Banbogi? When a married woman wanted to see her mother, she would meet her briefly at a point exactly midway between their homes. That what they called a Banbogi (half-look). [...] Let's do a Banbogi. Together.

- It's me, the one and only Yoon Hae-Kang!

- Lotus flowers bloom in the mud, but they can cleanse their surroundings. And the leaves have ability to shake off murky water. There is no trace of any dirt on them. Just like the flower that stay virtuous despite its dirty environment, I hope you will become a strong King.

- Flower by Kim Chun-su
Before I spoke his name
he was simply
one set of gestures, nothing more.

We all of us
long to become something.
You for me, and I for you,
we long to become a never-to-be-forgotten gaze.

For me, right now, there is only one favorite line: "왜, WHY???"

--Lee Mi-sook as the MIL par excellence in Perfect Marriage Revenge. (Click here to hear and see her perform it!)

In every real sense, these days, 왜, WHYYY???

In Chief Kim when Kyung Yoonha invites Seo Yool to a restaurant and he orders *everything* on the menu and starts dig in at a pace she cannot follow. She asks him to slow down a bit, but he says with a wry smile he can't because "someone might steal the food". 🥺 Her response: she gives him the one bowl of noodles she had ordered for herself. Such a fine scene!

In Fiery Priest the many instances where Lee Honey states her "Stresse!" Which then spreads to the other members of the Tsunami squad. 😏
Joo Jong-won's catchphrase in Master's Sun: "Gojo! Get lost!"
There have to be more...I'll just think about this for a bit...

From Twenty Five Twenty One

“My diary from those days is filled with just love and friendship. A time when friendship and love were all that mattered in life. A time like that lasts only for a moment.”
Na Hee-Do

“A rowdy friendship and passionate love. Because those brief moments are what make your long life shine.”

“The less you know about the person, the deeper the conversation gets.” – Ko Yurim

“It was so noisy out there. But all I could hear was your voice.” – Baek Yijin

“It feels like I’ve found all the missing pieces in my world. I feel like I can befriend anything unfamiliar, and overcome difficulties that will come my way. I feel stronger.” – Na Heedo

“Our friendships are always excessive, we’re helpless in the face of love, and our failures are passionate. Anxiety, grief, jokes, and smiles come together to form a strange and irregular shape. Perhaps we’re currently standing at the center of our youths.” – Baek Yijin

“I’m going to give my all tomorrow. But you’re not the reason why I’m going to give my all. I’ll give it my all for myself. Because only I know how hard I’ve tried.” – Na Heedo

“What shocked me wasn’t mom’s love story, but her efforts. Her efforts that only she knew about. I saw how hard she worked rather than her glamor for the first time.” – Kim Minchae

“It feels better when I turn my tragedy into a comedy.” – Na Heedo

“I heard that every tragedy in life is a comedy if you see it from afar.” – Baek Yijin

“At times when I didn’t believe in myself, I believed in you who believed in me. That made things possible.” – Na Heedo

from My Mister

"If you get to know a person, if you get to know them, nothing they do bothers you. And I know you."
Dong Hoon

Every building is like a struggle between external and internal forces. Wind, weight, tremors, we have to take into account all external factors that may affect the building so the design has to be able to withstand all that...We always have to make sure that the internal forces can withstand the external forces. And life, in a way, is a struggle between internal and external forces too. No matter what happens, you'll be able to withstand anything if you have sufficient internal forces.

Everyone struggles in their lives trying to have things, so they live their entire lives trying to prove themselves to everyone, but nobody truly knows what they are gaining by doing that. And even if you do end up getting what you want, if the things that made you feel safe and the things that made 'you' start getting fractured, it's impossible to withstand.

“We are all living this life for the first time.”
Because this is my first life

“Though my life is unusual and peculiar, it’s valuable and beautiful.”
Extraordinary Attorney Woo

I suspect it will come as no surprise that my memorable quote comes from Hyena. 😎

In episode 8, Geum-Ja (Kim Hye-Soo) has just been traumatized by the sudden reappearance of the father who abused her decades ago. Late at night, Hee-Jae (Ju Ji-Hoon) comes into her office to comfort her, saying:

If you need to, use me. You’re good at it—using me, of course. Tonight I’ll let it slide.

And she then proceeds to use him. In the exact same way I would use Ju Ji-Hoon if only I had the chance…

I have a particular fondness for "tend to your fishball" in Master's Sun ep 12, and was delighted to hear it again in Kill me, heal me and Search WWW. The metaphor is not extended as much in the last two. But since we discovered it, we use this aquatic way of managing oppas, from big fish to new plankton.

“I will always be by your side”, said by every kdrama hero right before the OTP are torn apart. Variation heard in Castaway Diva 7, “Unni, I will never betray you” based on a lie about not eating the eggs 🤔
Dun!dun!dun!

1. 밥 먹었어요? This right here my fav line ever.
2. Mother is the one you always miss whether she's alive or no. (Reply 88)
3. I don't remember the exact words
LCJ: "How do you feel about people turn their back on you so quick?"
HSM: "It's like getting off work and
back at home. (Savage yet lowkey funny)
4. HYJ to HSM: "They become evil because they can get way with it...."
Pretty much the lines from FoS1-2.

'Do you know what our love and this card have in common?' (ML holding up black credit card) 'Both have no limit'
Kang Tae Moo in A Business Proposal.

There are so many amazing quotes but the ones that popped in my head first were two:

You From Another Star: Song-yi’s “Even if sometimes these feelings are too hard I sometimes wish I hadn’t met you; still, even if I was able to turn back time, I would choose to meet you, I would bicker with you, I would fall for you, and I would love you again.“ Then… Min-joon’s subsequent “okay” 🤣

You’re beautiful: Mi-nyu’s “Since today is the day you were born, it is a truly precious day. For being born, thank you.” Tae-kyung (on his very birthday which his mother forgot) just told him that because of his existence, she suffered and that essentially, he should be thankful that she even gave birth to him. Tae-kyung is one of my top 3 favourite characters of all time and even after over a decade I still remember so much about him lol. So well written and brilliantly acted. This scene really hit me hard for some reason.

I have so many that I have so falled in love with, that I sometimes watch just to hear those dialouges.

But so far the best on for me is from My Dearesrt

Gil Chai Yi: How about the Gil Chai who was defiled by the barbarians?"
Jang Hyun: Then I must have give her a hug because she must have suffered so much."

I don't think I have heard something this beautiful in a very long while.

And as @kmoon mentioned, Extraordinary Attorney Woo line on 'Spring Sunshine' - it was breathtaking.

"Bears don't bite you, they rip you to shreds!" From Racket Boys

In honor of the great General Yi Sun-sin (picture). Sorry, Lee Min-ho.

"My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face the troubles and problems of life and death willingly. Virtue, integrity, and courage are my priorities. I can be approached but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed but never shamed."

"A man needs a friend to share goals with, a woman to share his heart with, and a nation to serve with all of his heart. That's the best life one can live."

"Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously."

"Your Highness, I still have twelve battleships."

“Those who seek death shall live. Those who seek life shall die.”

"The battle is at its height. Beat my war drums. Do not announce my death."
His last words during the "Battle of Noryang" on December 15, 1698.

Drama:
Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin. (Kim Myung Min, KBS 2004).

Movies: Yi Sun-sin trilogy.
The Admiral: Roaring Currents. (Choi Min-sik, 2014)
Hansan: Rising Dragon. (Park Hae-il, 2022)
Noryang: The Sea of Death. (Kim Yoon-seok, release date -December 2023.)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZOmkpn4mGg&ab_channel=%EB%A1%AF%EB%8D%B0%EC%97%94%ED%84%B0%ED%85%8C%EC%9D%B8%EB%A8%BC%ED%8A%B8

I won't be surprised if it will premier on December 15, a perfect day to celebrate the life dedicated to serving his country.
I'm so Excited to watch it on the big screen!

"I am sorry, Seol Hwa. I was surrounded by darkness and did not see that your heart was beating for me...On this fine winter day, will you sing for me?"

Dae Gil's last words from Chuno

I still don't speak Korean, but I love the kissing scene in Because This is My First Life. (I'm saying "I still don't" because this scene would be much enhanced if I did, also it was one of my first k-dramas.) When the older male lead explains that the spontaneous smooch at the bus stop in the first episode was not a proper kiss, the lines made the whole scene for me. (If not the whole show,)

"That can't be called a kiss," he says, using the formal, polite ending.
"I get it, I was bad at it," the FL says somewhat sulkily.
"That's right, kissing is done like this."
[kissing happens with what I didn't realize at first was the traditional facial expressions from the FL--first surprise, then pleasure, etc.]
"Do you get it now? Or...should be do it more?"
"I would like to do it more."

I have a few from other dramas but I will just post the most recent one that I really liked. Its Eun Yu's speech to Eun Gyeol when he was being stubborn in ep16 of Twinkling Watermelon

"Put down the burden already.
It's not your burden to carry.
You forced yourself to take on the burden.
No one can live your life for you.
Let Yi Chan in 1995 figure things out on his own."

My favorite show for dialogue is My Mister. In a ten-minute stretch I just rewatched: "You listened to my pathetic life and still took my side", "I really wanted you to be happy", and "Once you know someone, it doesn't matter what they do. And I know you." And in an earlier episode, the chairman with his fawning entourage, "Anyway I was rejected, I'll go."

My all time favourite lines are from the convos between Sookee halmeoni and in “Just between lovers”. They are both verbal pugilists who exchange unvarnished advice and engage in battle because love and worry about each other. My memory fails me here but there was one which I loved the most. It was about making mistakes in life and not surrendering to hopelessness.

Half of these lines make me teary-eyed and the other half make me LOL (kdramas in a nutshell)

Joo Won saying BINGO in Gaksital

There are just so many. I'll just go by today's mood. What's Wrong With Secretary Kim

"I'm not cute, I'm fatally attractive."

I liked this one from Mental Coach Jegal so much I wrote it down.
"Even if the you from yesterday failed,
Even if the you today falls down,
There is another tomorrow waiting for us."

“What matters most in a home is who you’re with. I plan to be with you in the future. Stay with me. I don’t care what state you’re in.” — Sae Bom to Yi Hyun in “Happiness”

“AURA!“ *matching hand gesture* by Lee Young-Joon from What’s wrong with Secretary Kim. 😂😂😂

Hmmmmm, „Oh-Ho?!?!“ from Jungwoo in The Matchmakers?! More recent.

_ A few lines from Misaeng:

"A path is not simply for walking. Its purpose lies in moving forward and improving itself. A path that fails to do this is not a path. The path is open to everyone but not anyone can walk it".

"If you want to protect someone, you need to have the skills set first. There is no greater nuisance than intervening without the skills to help".

"Courage is not defined by readily jumping into risky situations. Avoiding these situations and silently going on your own path requires courage too".

"Just because you forget a dream, doesn't mean it stops existing. Just because you don't see the road, doesn't mean the road doesn't exist".

"What do you think life is? Life is a collection of choices. The choices you made in each moment make up the quality of your life".

"What you can forget is no longer a wound".

_ A few lines from Flower Boy Next Door:

"That woman becomes nervous when she is too happy. To that woman, happiness is like a child's game of blowing bubbles. The moment when she touches the bubbles, they burst. In front of happiness, that woman always gives up, before even reaching out her hand".

"That woman always speaks the most impressive lines when she is alone in her room".

"'This is hard on me', 'stay by my side'... Have you ever said those words to anyone before?".

"Understanding someone... That's something you can't do even though you love her".

"You asked me to film the world. The first world I filmed was you".

"Just one person can't change the world. But that person can become someone's world. A warm, shiny and full of peace world".

"Love is like a windup clock. When it's new, it will give you the exact time. When time passes and you forget to wind the springs, the clock will break and stop. He started winding up the springs so that the clock wouldn't stop for a long time".

_ From Queen Seon Deok:

"For I have no name. Princess, Crown Princess… even the scoundrels parading in the market have a name yet a ruler does not. All I am is “Her Majesty.” Nobody can call my name now. Calling my name means treason".

_ "Seventy paces to Deokman. Thirty paces to Deokman. Ten paces to Deokman".

It's ok not to be ok

“People are all hypocrites. We all live with a lot of hatred, but we act like that’s not the case.”

“You can’t get out once you’re trapped in the past. You won’t be able to see the door.”

“Your body is honest. When you’re in physical pain, you cry. But the heart is a liar. It stays quiet even when it’s hurting. Then, when you’re asleep, you finally weep and whimper like a dog.”

“Hurtful, painful memories. Only those with such memories buried in their hearts can become stronger, more passionate, and emotionally flexible. And only those can attain happiness.”

I’ve been tied up for way too long, so I forgot how to cut myself free.”

“Love is all about patience.”

Thanks to this drama chat I visited my tmblr, read 12834985359 quotes, cried, and now I want to rewatch a hundred shows. LOL

1. I actually… got sick while living according to other people’s standards. I thought everyone else was doing great, and I thought I was the only one who couldn’t do anything well, so it made me suffer. So now, I’m taking time to get close to myself, not to others. (I don’t want to do anything, 2022)

2. You don’t need their understanding. There’s no need for you to do that. Who cares? Let them see and believe what they want. It’s fine as long as you understand yourself. That’s already hard enough. (Our Beloved Summer, 2022).

3. If you want to be told that you made the right decision, that means that you think otherwise. If you want to be told so 500 times, it means you’ve thought about 500 times you were wrong. (You Are My Spring, 2021)

4. Like a building, relationships of all kinds require maintenance and care, or they’ll deteriorate. But the longer they last, the more beautiful and valuable they become. (Monthly Magazine Home, 2021)

5. I really want to get along with myself. I don’t want to love myself too much, but I don’t want to be too hard on myself either. I think it’s important to work hard on keeping a good balance… I want you to love yourself a little bit more. That’s how we can keep a long and healthy relationship. (Run On, 2020-2021).

6. I want to call the losing team, my team. Everyone always wants to call the winners their team. The losing team is always lonely and sad. Those who always fight but still always lose… I want to help them. (When My Love Blooms, 2020)

7. I don’t like complicated things. I just want to live simply counting up to about 5 or 6, so that I can finish calculating only by using my two thumbs. (Find Me in Your Memory, 2020)

8. We all born alone, but that’s why we can all be there for one another. My holo love (2020)

9. "I'm tired. I’m lonely. Help me". If you don’t hide them every time and insted talk right away about them, one person will listen. (A Piece of your mind, 2020).

10. As time passes, you tend to remember when you hurt someone more than whe someone hurt you. So don’t hurt someone too deeply. (Do you like Brahms? 2020)

11. Right know, I don’t know when to get off the bike or where to go, so I’m just pedaling with all my strength… because I don’t want to fall down. (When My Love Blooms, 2020)

I love deep existencial quotes, like the ones I just mentioned, but my favorite romantic line is the one from Coffee Prince that Gum Shoe mentioned. That scene was so freaking powerful. It can sound hilarious for people that didn't watch the show and only know the meme, but if you see everything that character went through to get to that moment and accept what that phrase meant... Damn. Best confession in kdramaland, imho.

I also find funny lines like "밥먹을래 나랑...

아프냐? 나도 아프다 (Does it hurt? It hurts me too) - Damo

사랑이 무엇이라 생각하느냐? 사랑이란 아낌없이 빼앗는 것이다. 그게 사랑이야. (What do you think love is? Love means stealing without reserve or regret. That is love) Queen Seon Deok

Awe~some~~ Veronica Park 😂

Wok of love

Poong: “Like you said, you should know your wok to use the ladle well”
Poong: “You can’t even make the easiest thing”
Sae-woo: “But the ladle is good”
Poong: “The ladle does whatever the wok tells it to do”

And I fell in love with Junho all over again