5 Must-Watch Enemies to Lovers K-Dramas Perfect for Valentine's Day Binge-Watching
These characters are meant to be together, but they can't admit it.
Heartwarming stories of hate turning to love are some of the most popular tropes in romance TV series, and they're also perfect for a Valentine's Day night.
We've rounded up five k-dramas that explore this topic in the most surprising ways.
1. Forest, 2020
In a small town in the middle of the forest, a doctor, Jung Young-jae, and the CEO of an investment company, Kang San-hyuk, appear at the same time.
She is sent to the hospital due to an unpleasant incident at work, and he gets a job as a firefighter in the rescue service to scout locations for a future project.
They immediately dislike each other, but are forced to share the same house. As time goes by, feelings will warm up, the forest will reveal secrets of the past and present, and both of them will have to make a difficult choice.
2. Crazy Love, 2022
Lee Shin-ah is a modest girl who works as a secretary for the director of an online school, Noh Go-jin. He has a tradition of changing his assistants every year. Although Shin-ah has worked hard and put up with his terrible temper, he fires her.
And then the woman finds out that she has only one year left to live due to her illness. So she decides to go to the director's house and stand her ground.
But when she goes to see him at night, Go-jin is attacked and loses his memory. The girl decides to forget about her revenge and pretends to be his fiancée. But she does not realize that he is also pretending.
3. So I Married My Anti-Fan, 2021
At the opening of a club, the famous singer Hoo Joon and the journalist Lee Geun-young get into a fight. Lee sees the singer arguing with a woman and decides to stand up for her by throwing her shoe at his head.
After that Geun-young is fired from her job, has no place to live and becomes Hoo Joon's biggest anti-fan.
The girl stages a demonstration in front of his office, after which she is offered to participate in a reality show with Hoo Joon, in which stars live together with haters. She agrees, and now the two will have to spend a lot of time together.
4. Shooting Stars, 2022
Shooting Stars tells the story of the difficult everyday life of the employees of an entertainment agency. The poor workers constantly have to deal with the chaos caused by their wards – famous actors.
Oh Han-byul, the head of the PR department, has the biggest problem. Not only does every day bring a new scandal, but the agency's top star, Gong Tae-sung, is constantly bullying her. But how did this mutual hostility suddenly start and do the characters really hate each other?
5. Call It Love, 2023
Woo-joo lives with her brother and sister. When they were all in school, their father left the family for another woman, their mother became ill and moved away, and Woo-joo became the head of the family.
After her father's death, his mistress claims their house and throws the family out on the street. Because of this injustice, Woo-joo, who is obsessed with hatred, decides to take revenge on the woman and gets close to her son by getting a job in his company.
However, the girl gradually falls in love with the one she originally wanted to use for her revenge.
