8 K-drama couples where she fell first but he fell harder!

‘She fell first but he fell harder’ is probably one of the most romantic tropes to exist and these K-dramas are proof!

This one's for all the ladies out there who have fallen deeply in love first and just waited for your man to realise it too. You know that feeling you get when you're falling for someone? You can actually feel your stomach getting butterflies, you lose sleep and suddenly everything feels romantic. Just like how they show it in the movies. All of us become Naina from Kal Ho Naa Ho singing 'Kuch toh hua hai, kuch ho gaya hai'. 'She fell first he fell harder' is probably one of the most popular romantic tropes shown across the globe. It simply means the female protagonist falls in love first but the male protagonist's feelings are much more intense when he realizes that he's in love with her too. In a world where all of us are looking to find ‘the one’, it's cute to see love being reciprocated on-screen the way we’d always imagined for ourselves. But there are so many different ways one can go about with showing this arc. 

For instance - Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is the evergreen example that lives rent free in our heads. This playful enemies to lovers arc is shown via them constantly indulging in silly banter until Anjali realizes she's in love with Rahul and eventually his heart skips a beat while looking at her too. The things they found annoying about each other suddenly become the things they can’t live without. Another way of portraying this is when the female protagonist has always been in love with the guy and it's that hidden love that blossoms into something beautiful over the years. We've all been Sanju from Main Hoon Na at some point in our lives. But it’s actually empowering and refreshing to watch a woman confess her love first to the man amongst the plethora of on-screen couples where only the male lead is shown to be this beacon of romance! Just like Bollywood, K-dramas too have done justice to this genre over the years!

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Hong Hae-In and Baek Hyun-Woo - Queen of Tears

Hong Hae-In worked as an intern in her own company to gain hands-on experience before she took her place as CEO. That's where she met Baek Hyun-Woo who helped her whenever she was stuck at work and didn't know how to do something. His kindness was what she found attractive about him right there and then. The scene where she rented out an entire aquarium for him and he had no idea about it, still lives in our heads rent free. She loved him a lot and she would literally turn the world upside down if something were to happen to him which he then reciprocated ten fold when he realizes who she really is.

Do Da-Hae and Bok Gwi-Ju - The Atypical Family

It all started with her pretending to fall in love with him just for his money but the more she got closer to him and his family, the more her heart melted for real. She was weirdly tangled with all of them and the both of them, in a way, saved each other. She became the light in Gwi-Ju’s life and brought him out of depression and before he knew it, she became someone he couldn’t live without.

Yoon Hye-Jin and Hong Du-Sik - Hometown Cha Cha Cha

She came to Gongjin as an introverted dentist but he ruffled all her feathers in a way where she opened up and fell in love with the small town and its people. She realized the difference he made in her life and how happy she felt when she was with him and hence she ran from Seoul to Gongjin one night just to make a dramatic confession of love. The rest is history!

Naa Hee-Do and Baek Ye-Jin - Twenty Five Twenty One

She was a fencer and he was a sports news reporter which is why he was on the fence about being together. Regardless, he was her biggest cheerleader and that drew her closer to him. It came to a point where she no longer wanted to resist her feelings and acted upon it on New Year’s Eve and he couldn’t help but fall deeply in love as well.

Ko Moon-Young and Moon Gang-Tae - Its Okay To Not Be Okay

Ko Moon-Young literally shouted I love you on the top of her lungs till he said it back. Even though she knew she would have to share his attention along with his brother, she fully became a part of their family and he became the family that she never even had.

Jo Yi-Seo and Park Sae-Ro-Yi - Itaewon Class

Yi-Seo was the only one who truly loved Park Sae Ro-Yi. He never had anybody who ever picked him first in his life and given all the trauma he carried, there wasn’t much love left in him to give to someone else but she cared for him without any expectations in return anyway. It was not until the last two episodes where he fell for her too. It took him time to let go and realize it's okay to let someone in for once.

Jin Young-Seo and Cha Sung-Hoon - Business Proposal 

It was love at first sight for Young Seo. There were guitars playing and flowers everywhere around her the minute she saw him. He was hesitant about their relationship at first, given their different backgrounds but once he said yes, he was all in.

Cha Ji-Won and Do Hyun-Soo - Flower of Evil

She was so in love that she was literally ready to cover all his crimes. It doesn’t get more extreme than this. She took a broken soul and gave him the happiness and the life he truly deserved.

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