Sometimes, nothing quite beats bawling your eyes out over a good tear-jerker! If you’re in the mood for a good sob, look no further – this compilation will have you reaching for the tissues over and over...

For When You Need a Good Cry

Oh Soo (Jo In Sung) has always lost the people he has loved. His parents died when he was young, and his first love also died, leaving him a cold-hearted man who turns to a life of high-stakes gambling and womanizing to get the things he wants in life. The conartist makes a sport out of targeting rich women, and when he meets Oh Young (Song Hye Kyo), a wealthy heiress, he believes he has stumbled upon his best female prey yet. But Oh Young is a blind, untrusting woman who also has lost everything she has loved. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she became estranged from her mother and older brother. Then her father dies, leaving her the sole heir to a large corporation. Can two people who have both given up on love find it in each other? “That Winter, The Wind Blows” is a 2013 South Korean drama series written by No Hee Kyung and directed by Kim Kyu Tae, who worked together on the 2008 drama “Worlds Within.” The new drama is based on the 2002 Japanese drama “I Don’t Need Love, Summer,” which was adapted into a 2006 South Korean film “Love Me Not.”

That Winter, The Wind Blows

The Winter Lovers Team

Former teenage sweethearts separated by uncontrollable circumstances, Sin Joon Young (Kim Woo Bin) and No Eul (Suzy) are reunited as adults – when the latter is commissioned to make a documentary about Joon Young. He is now a superstar actor and singer who's dead-set against filming his documentary and gives No Eul a miserable time. Gradually, he relents to the documentary and uses the time to try and win her heart back. Can they rekindle their once-passionate love? This 2016 South Korean drama series was directed by Park Hyun Suk and Cha Young Hoon.

Uncontrollably Fond

The Uncontrollable Lovebirds

JSTV

A frost flower fairy who is unable to feel emotion is caught up in a love triangle with two warring deities.

Jin Mi (Yang Zi) is the daughter of the Flower Deity and Water Immortal. The deity learns that her daughter will suffer a great love trial, so she gives the baby girl a magical pill that prevents her from feeling any emotion or falling in love.

When Jin Mi mistakenly believes that her father died at the hands of the Fire Immortal, Xu Feng (Deng Lun), she kills him and ends up coughing up the magic pill in the process. Xu Feng comes back to life as the Demon Lord and challenges the Night Immortal, Run Yu (Luo Yun Xi), who took over the throne as the Heavenly Emperor. 

When Jin Mi becomes caught between the two warring lords, what will be her destiny?

“Ashes of Love” is a 2018 Chinese drama series directed by Chu Rui Bin. It is based on the novel Heavy Sweetness, Ash-like Frost by Dian Xian.

Ashes of Love

Gone with the Shirt Team 

Dragon TV

Queen of Qing Qiu, Bai Feng Jiu (Dilraba Dilmurat) is the only known nine-tailed fox in the world. As such, she grew up pampered by those around her but it was only in front of those she truly loved that she showed her more spoiled side. To the people over which she ruled, she was a strong, brave woman and a good queen.&nbsp;

One day, while seeking cultivation in the mountains, Feng Jui is attacked by a savage beast. Caught in a precarious situation, Feng Jui is saved by the sudden appearance of the unifier of worlds and Emperor of Heaven, Dong Hua (Vengo Gao). Grateful to the Heavenly Emperor and feeling she owes him a great debt, Feng Jiu accompanies Dong Hua on his quest to fight the rebelling Demon Lord.

As the two spend more time together, Feng Jiu begins to realize her gratitude towards Dong Hua has slowly changed to love. Unfortunately for her, Dong Hua is long forgotten what love is but that doesn’t mean all hope is lost. Everyone knows even the coldest of hearts can melt with time but will countless lifetimes really be enough to bring these two hearts together?

Based on the novel of the same name by Tangqi Gongzi and the sequel to the popular 2017 drama, "Eternal Love", “Three Lives, Three Worlds, The Pillow Book” is a 2020 fantasy romance drama directed by Chu Yui Bun.&nbsp;

Three Lives, Three Worlds: The Pillow Book

The Eternal Team

They say every child is a blessing. For 17-year-olds Dae Soo (Kang Dong Won) and Mi Ra (Song Hye Kyo), it is a terrifying prospect. When the young couple meets and falls in love, Mi Ra becomes pregnant and decides to have the baby against her parents’ wishes.

Dae Soo works as a taxi driver and Mi Ra works at a laundromat to support themselves and their son, Ah Reum (Jo Sung Mok). But their lives are complicated even further by the fact that Ah Reum is born with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes accelerated aging in children. At the age of 16, Ah Reum’s body has degenerated that of an 80-year-old man, and he realizes that he doesn’t have long to live. Ah Reum decides to share the story of his life with the world through a television show. How will the world react to his very unusual life?

“My Brilliant Life” is a 2014 South Korean film directed by E J Yong. It is based on the novel My Palpitating Life by Kim Ae Ran.

My Brilliant Life

That Brilliant Summer Team 

It’s not easy, admitting to yourself that your life is not a happy one, but that’s exactly what Park Dong Hoon (Lee Sun Gyun) has been forced to do. A middle-aged engineer working at a company where his college junior, Do Joon Yeon (Kim Young Min), is his boss, Dong Hoon is anything but happy. But that’s the least of his problems. With his two unemployed brothers living at him with his mother, he has to do what he can to help his struggling family, while trying to hold his own life together. Meanwhile, his wife and Joon Yeon are secretly having an affair.

As if life couldn’t get any more complicated or miserable, Dong Hoon soon finds himself entangled in a messy situation when one of his co-workers, Lee Ji An (IU) sees him accepting an unexpected bribe at work. Living with an invalid grandmother and drowning in debt, Ji An is drowning in her own miserable life so when the opportunity presents itself, she does what she can to try to make things better. Exploiting Dong Hoon in his moment of weakness, Ji An does what she can to make her life better but things don’t go the way she planned.

Caught up in a tangled web of personal struggles and internal corporate rivalry, Dong Hoon and Ji An find themselves fighting for the chance to make life better as they struggle to free themselves from their current misery and find a way to heal the wounds they each carry.

An emotional tale full of hurt, hope, and healing, “My Mister” is a 2018 drama directed by Kim Won Seok.

My Mister

The Lonely Team

Hunan TV

After a terrible car accident, 25-year-old Zhang Xiao (Liu Shi Shi) travels from modern-day China back to the 18th century. She is incarnated as one of her previous lives – that of 16-year-old Maertai Rouxi, the daughter of a Manchu general, during the Qing Dynasty. 

When attempts to return to her life in the future fail, Rouxi tries to adjust to her new life in the court of Emperor Kang Xi but soon becomes entangled in the princes’ struggle to succeed the throne. With her modern-day knowledge, Rouxi toys with history in her romances with the Eighth Prince, Yin Si (Kevin Cheng), and Fourth Prince, Yin Zhen (Nicky Wu), while sharing the confidences of the 13th prince, Yin Xiang (Yuan Hong). 

Will Rouxi be able to return to her modern-day life or is she destined to live out her life in the past? 

“Scarlet Heart” is a 2011 Chinese drama series directed by Wu Jin Yuan, Lin Yu Fen and Deng Wei En. It is based on a novel by Tong Hua.

Scarlet Heart

Bu Bu Jing Xin Team

Seventy thousand years ago, the fox goddess Bai Qian (Liu Yi Fei) studied under the great God of War, Mo Yuan (Yang Yang). Despite her best efforts to resist Mo Yuan’s many charms, Bai Qian fell in love with her master and he her; but their happiness was not fated to last long. In a brutal battle with the Tribe of the Demon King, Mo Yuan realized that the only way to seal away the Demon King was to sacrifice himself in the process. With his soul scattered and his body preserved in a block of ice, Mo Yuan successfully sealed away the evil, leaving Bai Qian to continue on, through all of eternity, without him by her side.

Awaiting for Mo Yuan’s eventual awakening and return, Bai Qian took Mo Yuan’s body back to Qing Qiu, the mystical land of her family. Continuing on with her life as best as she could, Bai Qian agrees to attend a banquet at the East Sea Dragon Palace where she not only saves a boy by the name of Ah Li (Peng Zi Su) from being kidnapped, but also meets Ye Hua (Yang Yang), the Crown Prince of the Heaven Tribe, and her betrothed. It doesn’t take long for Ye Hua to realize that Bai Qian is actually Su Su (Liu Yi Fei), a mortal woman he had fallen in love with three hundred years ago. But Bai Qian has no memories of their time together.

Caught in a tangled love story spanning hundreds of years, Bai Qian and Ye Hua struggle to understand why their fates seem to be eternally intertwined. Will the sudden return of the Demon King be the key that unlocks the mystery of their long-entwined fate?

Adapted from the novel, “Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms” by TangQi Gongzi, “Once Upon a Time” is a 2017 romantic drama fantasy film directed by Zhao Xiao Ding.

Once Upon a Time

💞 The Eternal Lovers Team 💞

KBS, KOCOWA

Poong Sang finds out that he's got cancer. The thing is, he's got a lot of siblings, but none of them think he's worthy enough of a brother to be lent a liver to live another day. His wife, Boon Sil, and his most loyal sister Jeong Sang find ways to convince their siblings to save him. It's a matter of sibling rivalry, favoritism, and hatred which makes their journey of finding that compatible liver before he dies.

Liver or Die

Living as a loner his entire life, Jae Shik (Jin Goo) has never bothered to worry about anyone other than himself. Constantly short on cash, he has no scruples when it comes to making money. Whatever the job, whatever the scheme, he’s ready and willing to take it, so long as it pays off in the end. So when an opportunity to score some serious cash presents itself, he doesn’t let it pass him by. Little does he know, the decision to do so will change his life forever.

Too young to understand the tragedy that has befallen her, Eun Hye (Jung Seo Yeon) has no idea that her life has changed forever. Both blind and deaf, Eun Hye has one in the world willing to step in to care for her; at least not until Jae Shik arrives. Hoping to collect a hefty sum as the caregiver of a disabled child, Jae Shik willingly takes on the role of Eun Hye’s “father”. But life with Eun Hye turns out to be very different than what he imagined.

Finding ways to communicate with Eun Hye, the walls Jae Shik has built around himself slowly begin to break down. Learning to care for someone other than himself, both Jae Shik and Eun Hye’s lives are changed forever. But will this change be enough to keep them together once the truth behind his actions is brought to light?

A touching story from start to finish, “You are So Precious to Me” is a 2021 family drama film directed by Lee Chang Won and Kwon Sung Mo.

You're So Precious to Me

My Lovely Angel Team❣️

JTBC

Pyo In Sook (Ahn Eun Jin) is an obstinate and almost emotionless woman who has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Although she has just months left to live, she feels nothing, even though she is about to come face-to-face with her own mortality. She is receiving care at a hospice, where she meets two other women with very different lives: The first is Seong Mi Do (Joy) is a highly popular social media influencer whose life has also been turned upside down by a terminal illness diagnosis. And the other is Kang Se Yeon (Kang Ye Won), a housewife with bags of responsibilities and who is tired of being taken for granted. She has a distinct feeling that nobody has ever given her any respect – and now she too has been told terminal illness will soon claim her life.

Into the mix comes Min Woo Cheon (Kim Kyung Nam), a meticulous, elite contract killer. Although he is one of the nation’s most deadly hitmen, he never intended to live his life this way and his cool exterior covers deep sadness. The three women have decided to end the lives of one person each who has done them wrong before their time runs out. But their friendship starts to mellow them. And when Pyo In Sook and Min Woo Cheon start developing feelings for one another, a massive rethink could be in the pipelines...

“The One and Only” is a 2021 South Korean drama series that was directed by Oh Hyun Jong.

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