The Best K-Drama Couples Of 2020 (So Far)—RiRi, MoonMoon, And More!
Which on-screen couple made you feel love the most?
The first thing that typically excites K-Drama fans whenever there are updates on a new series is the fresh pairing it brings together. Since K-Dramas aren't likely to repeat on-screen couples, it's exciting to see the actors and the actresses get mixed and matched until viewers get the OTP (one true pairing) they'll love even several years down the line.
Throughout the years, we've seen unforgettable K-Drama couples that still make people's hearts flutter and ache. There are Gong Yoo and Yoon Eun-hye (Coffee Prince), Rain and Song Hye-kyo (Full House), Lee Min-ho and Ku Hye-sun (Boys Over Flowers), Hyun Bin and Ha Ji-won (Secret Garden), Kim Soo-hyun and Jun Ji-hyun (My Love from the Star), Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo (Descendants of the Sun), among many others.
This 2020 alone, K-Drama fans were overwhelmed with couples to ship! RiRi (Capt. Ri Jeong-hyeok and Yoon Se-ri in Crash Landing on You), LeeEul (Lee Gon and Jung Tae-eul in The King: Eternal Monarch), and MoonMoon (Moon Gang-tae and Ko Moon-young in It's Okay to Not be Okay) are just three of the pretty long list of love teams that displayed great chemistry on-screen.
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Check out the gallery below for our picks for the best K-Drama couples of 2020 (so far):

The Best K-Drama Couples Of 2020 (So Far)
The Best K-Drama Couples Of 2020 (So Far)
By Metro.StyleJanuary 10 2021, 1:31 PM
In this K-Drama, which was partly filmed in Manila, Park Hae-jin is a director at an investment company who joins a special rescue team for a work-related mission, while Jo Bo-ah is a surgical resident at a small town hospital. The two meet and end up living together at a mysterious forest. As they're both suffering from traumas, having each other's loving presence is all the help they need to heal and move on.
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The medical romance melodrama stars Ahn Hyo-seop as Seo Woo-jin, a second year general surgery fellow, and Lee Sung-kyung as Cha Eun-jae, a second year cardiothoracic surgery fellow. Their relationship as competing colleagues isn't the best there is, but it's their bickering that eventually makes them realize their feelings for each other.
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A promise is meant to be kept. That's the heartwarming realization viewers get towards the last few episodes of "Mystic Pop-Up Bar." The series revolves around Wol-joo (Hwang Jung-eum) who started a romantic relationship with the Crown Prince but was led to commit suicide after being falsely accused of seducing him. Because of the mortal sin she committed, she is sentenced to live for the next 500 years, settling the grudges of 100,000 souls. In this mission, she is joined by Chief Gwi (Choi Won-young) who turns out to be the reincarnation of the Crown Prince. In the end, he's kept her promise to her about never leading her side.
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As "Hospital Playlist" is confirmed to be returning for a second season, viewers are hoping Lee Ik-joon (Jo Jung-suk) and Chae Song-hwa (Jeon Mi-do) will finally admit their feelings and get romantically involved with each other. The medical rom-com drama features these two characters as part of a group of five friends who met in medical school, became friends, and are working altogether in the same hospital. Lee Ik-joon is a single dad and an assistant professor of general surgery, while Chae Song-hwa is an associate professor of neurosurgery.
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This is a love story between two top and tough lawyers with different approaches in handling their cases. Their relationship interestingly begins with a surprising betrayal, moves on to an intense battle on and off court, and ends up in a winning team-up to uncover the wrongdoings by their boss.
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In this ongoing series, Song Ji-hyo plays the role of Noh Ae-jung, a single mother who works as a film producer. She figures in a complicated relationship with four men, but it's her team-up with bestselling writer Oh Dae-o (portrayed by Son Ho-jun) that really stands out. They were college sweethearts but had to go their separate ways. They reunite 14 years later, and it's obvious they still have feelings for each other.
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Despite their 13-year age gap, Ji chang-wook and Kim Yoo-jung showed an adorable chemistry. In "Backstreet Rookie," he plays the role of Choi Dae-hyun, a convenience store owner, and she's Jung Saet-byul, a part-timer in the said store. The two characters met three years ago, back when she was still a troublesome student; she falls in love with him at first sight and he unknowingly inspired her to change for the better after their chance meet-up.
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In this ongoing series, a married couple is bound by deception. Baek Hee-sung (Lee Joon-gi) isn't what his wife Cha Ji-won (Moon Chae-won) thinks he is. He's a loving and doting father and husband, but he's hiding a dark past. As she's a detective assigned to a serial murder case related to his real identity, their relationship is bound to get even more complicated, but what's great is that Lee Joon-gi and Moon Chae-won look great together.
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It's a colleagues-turned-friends-turned lovers kind of story for Park Sae-royi (Park Seo-joon) and Jo Yi-seo (Kim Da-mi) in this series. He owns a bar-restaurant called DanBam in Itaewon, and she's the social media and business savvy lady who serves as a manager in the said resto. She seems cold but is actually caring. He, on the other hand, comes across as shy but is hardworking and driven by ambition. Their complementing personalities prove to be the best ingredients for success.
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We always hear the saying "you and me against the world." But for Kingdom of Corea's emperor Lee Gon (Lee Min-ho) and police officer Jung Tae-eul (Kim Go-eun), it's "you and me against the worlds" (yes, plural!), because they live in two parallel worlds and must find a way to be together no matter how impossible it may seem. This on-screen couple shows that love, indeed, conquers all.
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Both characters are trying to carry on with their lives after breaking up with their former partners with whom they spent a significant amount of time. Food psychiatrist Kim Hae-kyung (Song Seung-heon) and digital content producer Woo Do-hee (Seo Ji-hye) meet serendipitously. Their chance encounter leads to them starting a relationship as dinner mates that eventually progresses to a romantic relationship, one centered on many fun memories spent enjoying a meal together.
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This series follows the healing journey of caregiver Moon Gang-tae (Kim Soo-hyun) and bestselling children's book author Ko- Moon-young (Seo Ye-ji). Both coping with traumatic pasts in their childhood, the two cross paths and realize they're more connected than they initially thought they were. As they get closer, they go through changes in their personalities that make them better and happier individuals, proof that their emotional wounds have been healed by the best medicine there is: love.
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Love knows no boundaries, and not even the conflict between North Korea and South Korea can stop these star-crossed lovers from having a happily ever after in their own slice of paradise. In "Crash Landing on You," South Korean heiress Yoon Se-ri (Son Ye-jin) accidentally lands in North Korea, where she meets military officer Captain Ri Jeong-hyeok (Hyun Bin). As she tries to escape North Korea with his help, they find themselves drawn to each other more and more, and the next thing they knew, it's this overwhelming feeling of love they can no longer escape from.
Photo Credit: tvN
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We know this is going to be a tough question to answer, but who is the best K-Drama couple of 2020 for you? Let us know via our social media pages! We'd love to hear your thoughts!
Lead photos from Netflix, SBS, tvN, and MBC