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15 Tragic Grand-Dramas Guaranteed to Make You lot Weep

Tragic dear stories, heartbreaking plot twists, treacherous betrayals—these are just a few of the characteristics of a good "pitiful" drama that is sure to break your center. There are plenty of dramas that make us cry our eyes out, just these are the nigh powerfully tragic films that will have you crying over and once more until the credits roll.

Do you similar watching Korean dramas featuring heavy and intense sadness, loneliness, tragedy, and guilt? And then check out this list to notice out the best ones that are certain to give you all the feels.

Alarm: These plot summaries incorporate spoilers!

Stairway to Heaven

xv. Stairway to Heaven (2003)

This film is certain to make yous weep—there are just then many heartbreaking moments. The story starts off with Cha Song-joo and Han Jung-suh's puppy honey, which bloomed during their childhood days. They are cheesy and lovable, but deep within, they are both scarred from losing both of their parents. Jung-suh'due south father re-marries and has a girl named Han Yoo-ri and a son named Han Tae-hwa.

The intense dearest battle begins when Song-joo returns from America, which turns into a series of accidents, memory loss, obsessions, possessiveness, insanity, and finally, blindness that virtually causes the two leads to be torn apart. Choi Ji Woo and Kwon Sang Woo'southward performances convince u.s. of the difficulties that the characters have been through, and seeing them cry will break your middle. (Plus, the soundtrack is heartwrenching!)

Bandage:

• Kwon Sang-woo every bit Cha Vocal-joo
• Choi Ji-woo every bit Han Jung-suh/Kim Ji-soo
• Shin Hyun-joon as Han Tae-hwa/Han Chul-soo
• Kim Tae-hee as Han Yoo-ri

A Thousand Days' Hope

14. A Thousand Days' Hope (2011)

How can y'all not weep when all your precious memories are slowly being taken away? Set up yourself for these twenty episodes of hardcore melodrama. The story itself revolves around Lee Seo-yeon'south retention loss. Can y'all imagine how sad information technology is to lose the memory of someone you beloved? Only how painful is it to be forgotten and to forget?

Those who have dealt with Alzheimer's disease and dementia know how difficult it is to see your loved 1 struggle in that way. Besides, Kim Rae Won'due south heartbreaking martyrdom in loving Seo-yeon unconditionally is then touching.

Bandage:

• Kim Rae Won every bit Park Ji Hyung
• Soo Ae as Lee Seo Yeon
• Lee Sang Woo equally Jang Jae Min
• Jung Yoo Mi every bit Noh Hyang Ki

Train to Busan

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xiii. Train to Busan (2016)

This terrifying zombie apocalypse horror movie broke so many hearts thanks to Seok-woo'southward cede and decease in the end. Aye, information technology is scary, intense, and horrifying at get-go, equally the zombies chase later on the living people like hungry monsters. But who would've idea that Seok-woo would dice?

He barely survived the fear of dying at the hands of the zombies later on being betrayed past Yon-suk and the other passengers as they deliberately block the survivors from entering the safe cabin. Seeing him sacrifice himself to protect his daughter is so painful to watch.

Also, the meaning adult female, Seong-kyeong, bears the burden of being a single mom afterward the death of her husband. The scene when Seong-kyeong and Su-an walk in the tunnel while Su-an sings and cries at the catastrophe is truly a dramatic masterpiece.

Bandage:

• Gong Yoo as Seok-woo
• Ma Dong-seok every bit Sang-hwa
• Jung Yu-mi every bit Seong-kyeong
• Kim Su-an equally Soo-an

Good Dr.

12. Good Doctor (2013)

Each episode of this 20-episode drama will make y'all cry. You can't help but sympathize with Park Shi-on, an autistic savant who enters the field of pediatric surgery every bit a resident. If intelligence were all that he needed, it wouldn't be a problem for him. Merely his mental incapacity results in conflict with his peers and patients, who view him as childlike and unreliable.

He also thinks that he won't exist liked by his vanquish, Dr. Cha Yoon-seo. He confesses: "If I were a better person, I would take been a better man for you who can comfort yous and brand yous happy." (I swear you'll want to hug and comfort.) Shi-on beingness hurt physically, emotionally, and mentally is so heart-wrenching. Another one of Shi-on'south heartbreaking lines is when he was asked in Ep. 1 why he wanted to be a doctor, and he said that information technology'due south considering of his brother and bunny. How cute!

Cast:

• Joo Won as Park Shi-on
• Moon Chae-won every bit Cha Yoon-seo
• Joo Sang-wook as Kim Practise-han
• Kim Min-seo every bit Yoo Chae-kyung

The Innocent Man

11. The Innocent Man (2012)

This is not just a melodrama with a sad story—it's more than interesting because of the element of revenge and the surprising plot twist. Y'all wouldn't believe that Kang Ma-ru, a man who was once kind and sugariness, would go then violent after being betrayed and tasting defeat. The plot twists are simply mind-blowing, and although the motion picture is not perfect, you lot'll honey the themes of memory loss and threats, which sometimes turn into bouts of hurting, heartbreak, acrimony, and frustration.

As we all know, Song Joong-ki is a cutie, but in this drama, he transitions from cute to scary, which shows how deeply immersed he is in Ma-ru's character. Park Si-yeon did a dandy chore of portraying Han Jae-hee's graphic symbol—a woman then evil that you'll fantasize most seeking revenge against her!

Cast:

• Vocal Joong-ki every bit Kang Ma-ru
• Moon Chae-won as Seo Eun-gi
• Park Si-yeon equally Han Jae-hee

Secret Garden

10. Surreptitious Garden (2010)

This show volition give you lot collywobbles. Secret Garden is a sweetness, cute, and funny show that will make you laugh ane minute and weep the next. Gil Ra-im and Kim Joo-won's modern-24-hour interval Cinderella story is and so heartwarming.

We get to witness Joo-won'southward heartwarming transformation from a rich, self-centered upper-class snob who is incapable of love into a regular guy. It's a unique storyline of a modernistic fairy tale that was both a heartbreaking and hardcore experience for everyone who watched the whole series.

Cast:

• Ha Ji-won every bit Gil Ra-im
• Hyun Bin as Kim Joo-won
• Yoon Sang-hyun equally Choi Woo-young
• Kim Sa Rang equally Yoon Seul

Iris

9. Iris (2009)

This is a spy drama with intense action, rushing adrenaline, and mind-blowing plot twists. Although this is an action drama, y'all can't help but feel pitiful while watching it, specially when your favorite graphic symbol dies (yes, they die). But what makes this drama really lamentable is the ending!

If you finish watching this, y'all'll find the catastrophe very sad. Some of your favorite characters are killed, and somehow y'all'll exist dislocated equally to how the characters ended up acting the way that they do. Sa Woo's death was pretty horrifying; it looked and then painful. You tin experience Hyun-jun's devastation.

And fifty-fifty the main character, Hyun-jun, dies. Ane of the saddest lines past Hyun-jun is when Sa Woo died. "I know your feelings. You don't need to strain yourself to say it. I never in one case doubted your truthful feelings, Sa Woo, even till the end. I know all your feelings, Sa Woo. I know." The ending is only so lamentable.

Bandage:

• Lee Byung-hun as Kim Hyun-jun
• Kim Tae-hee as Choi Seung-hee
• Jung Joon-ho equally Jin Sa-woo
• Kim Seung-woo every bit Park Cheol-young

The Princess' Man

8. The Princess' Man (2011)

We were all saddened by the deaths of the famous star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, and I'm sure yous'll experience the aforementioned fashion when you lot watch this melodramatic historical romance drama.

Since when did honey go a offense? And what'south in a proper noun that prevents two lovers from being together? Lee Se-ryung and Kim Seung-yoo's forbidden love story volition bring tears to your eyes. This drama is a sad honey story with a tragic ending (though they don't dice in the end like Romeo and Juliet).

The ending is so painful to lookout, equally Lee Se-ryung thinks that her dear is already expressionless. Only thank goodness, he doesn't dice, although he does lose his sight. In the end, Seung-yoo says, "Although I lost my sight, I accept retrieved my heart. Although I was unable to get revenge, I gained you instead."

Cast:

• Moon Chae-won every bit Lee Se-ryung
• Park Si-hoo every bit Kim Seung-yoo
• Kim Yeong-cheol as Grand Prince Suyang
• Hong Soo-hyun as Princess Kyunghye

49 Days

7. 49 Days (2011)

49 Days is a bittersweet and touching story that makes the viewers feel a deep attachment to the characters. This drama shows a different side of death—even though we might regret leaving and being left backside, death isn't equally horrible as it seems, even if we die before nosotros are completely set up.

Its unique plot explores fate, exorcism, and other spiritual topics. Inspired by the concept from Korean Shamanism "Bardo" that a soul usually wanders the world for 49 days and then moves on to the side by side life, this drama shows true love, forgiveness, resurrection, and loving the enemy—simply sad, tearful, and melancholic.

Cast:

• Nam Gyu-ri as Shin Ji-hyun
• Jo Hyun-jae equally Han Kang
• Bae Soo-bin as Kang Min-ho
• Jung Il-woo as Scheduler/Song Yi-soo
• Seo Ji-hye as Shin In-jung

A Werewolf Male child

6. A Werewolf Boy (2012)

This is a distressing story about Kim Lord's day-yi's teenage days in a land dwelling with a feral werewolf boy. At first, it is not a sad story at all. You lot feel curious nearly the true nature of Cheol-su, the feral werewolf boy that Lord's day-yi finds nearly their business firm. But as the story continues, you autumn in honey with Cheol-su's innocence.

You lot tin can't help but honey the adorable Vocal Joong-ki, who acts like a puppy, begging for Park Bo-young'due south hand to pet him. Simply their happy memories don't last forever considering it's revealed that Cheol-su is dangerous, and the townspeople threaten him and strength him to stay abroad, forcing Sun-yi and Cheol-su apart. But what's more heartbreaking is when Cheol-su says, "Don't go"—such a heartbreaking ending.

Cast:

• Song Joong-ki as Cheol-su
• Park Bo-young as young Kim Sun-yi / Eun-joo
• Jang Young-nam equally Sun-yi'due south mother
• Yoo Yeon-seok as Ji-tae

Bridal Mask

5. Bridal Mask (2012)

Bridal Mask is the story of a Korean hero with a life total of tragedy. Set in the 1930s, when Seoul was under Purple Japanese rule, a Korean detective named Lee Kang-to works with the Japanese police to capture "Bridal Mask," a mysterious freedom fighter who fights confronting the Japanese.

This drama shows that fighting for liberty requires a lot of sacrifice and that to be a hero, you lot must lose something of import. Kang-to lost his brother, mother, girlfriend, all-time friend, and numerous comrades protecting the independence that Bridal Mask had been dying to salvage.

It's simply so sad to encounter all the hurting he had to go through. And if you lot're truly sympathetic, you'll feel encumbered past the responsibility that Kang-to had to conduct on his shoulders. No wonder he cried and so hard in episode 6! This story is full of tragedy, sadness, betrayal, and pain.

Cast:

• Joo Won as Lee Kang-to/Sato Hiroshi
• Jin Se-yeon as Oh Mok-dan
• Park Ki-woong as Kimura Shunji
• Han Chae-ah every bit Ueno Rie

Empress Ki

4. Empress Ki (2013)

No matter how tough-looking a woman is, she will e'er be fragile at eye. She might be powerful, politically greedy, and merciless, merely deep within, her heart beats simply for one man. This is the story of Ki Seung-nyang, a Goryeo-born adult female who ascends to power despite the restrictions of the era's class organization and subsequently marries Toghon Temür (Emperor of Mongol Empire) to become an empress of the Yuan dynasty, instead of her commencement love, Wang Yu.

With intense drama, strong emotions, and an amazing operation, we are able to meet the sadness in Empress Ki'southward eyes. We come across what she honestly feels, despite securing a powerful status. She may be an ambitious woman, just she remains weak when information technology comes to dear.

Cast:

• Ha Ji-won as Ki Seung-nyang
• Joo Jin-mo as Wang Yoo
• Ji Chang-wook equally Toghon Temür
• Jin Yi-han as Tal Tal
• Baek Jin-hee as Tanashiri

I'one thousand Sorry, I Love You lot

3. I'm Deplorable, I Love You lot (2004)

I'g Sorry, I Love You lot is a sixteen-episode drama that will make you cry each episode. This story is about a homo named Cha Moo-hyuk and his tragic life. All the way, he thought that he was abandoned, but later founds out the truth—that his mother had had an thing with a married man.

In addition to that major revelation, he is accidentally shot twice in the head when someone attempts to assassinate his ex-girlfriend's husband. A doctor saves him but can only remove ane bullet, and he has no longer than a year to alive.

But the most tear-jerking part is when Moo-hyuk kills himself in a dramatic motorbike accident and then that his center could be transplanted into his beloved, and when the girl found the truth, she lies downward on the grave and sleeps peacefully. She dies there next to a small-scale red bottle, leading the viewer to believe she committed suicide by drinking poison.

Cast:

• And so Ji-sub as Cha Moo-hyuk
• Im Soo-jung as Vocal Eun-chae
• Jung Kyung-ho equally Choi Yoon
• Seo Ji-immature as Kang Min-joo
• Lee Hye-young every bit Oh Deul-hee

The Throne

2. The Throne (2015)

When it comes to sad film genres, family unit-related conflicts never fail to make us weep. One of the nearly tragic stories in Korean history is the death of Crown Prince Sado at the hands of his father, Male monarch Yeongjo.

There are two sides to this story: a son begging for a father'southward honey and amore, and a father teaching his son to become a competent king. Which one of them is correct, and which is in the incorrect? We simply can't tell because the crown prince longs to feel his father's love, but all he gets is scolding and humiliation.

The film is substantially a portrayal of a power struggle between a egotistic father and his emotionally abused son, who initially strives to earn his father'due south love and admiration simply eventually rebels against his father once he realizes that he tin can never please him nor truly earn his respect. The power-hungriness, contempt, violence, and the narcissistic need to subjugate and humiliate are made quite evident in the king'south interactions with his son. Information technology makes the states feel so sad.

Why exercise they have to live like this? Why can't they prove for once how they dearest each other? Sure enough, the ending of the picture show is the most tragic father-and-son scene always.

Cast:

• Song Kang-ho as Male monarch Yeongjo
• Yoo Ah-in every bit Crown Prince Sado
• Moon Geun-young as Lady Hyegyeong
• Kim Hae-sook as Queen Inwon

Miracle in Cell No. 7

ane. Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013)

How many bottles of tears can you make when y'all know your male parent loves you more than than he loved himself? A deplorable story of a begetter'due south sacrifice and existence a victim of injustice, Miracle in Cell No. 7 rose to popularity as one of the about tragic movies of all time.

This film follows the story of Lee Yong-get, a mentally impaired father with the intellect of a six-year-old, who lives in a run-down business firm along with his daughter of the aforementioned age, Ye-sung. He was mistaken equally a molester later trying to rescue a girl after an accident. Yong-go is falsely accused of the abduction, murder, and rape of a minor. The law quickly have advantage of his inability and force him to admit to committing the crimes while ignoring exonerating evidence.

Yong-go, who is sentenced to expiry, is imprisoned and assigned to cell no. 7, the harshest cell in a maximum-security prison. Although the male parent and daughter scenes were heartwarming, it's heartbreaking when Yong-go is sentenced to decease, and a little girl crying behind the jail bars makes our eyes well with tears. But we're all helpless, just similar the kid, Ye-sung, and no matter how loud nosotros shout or cry, Yong-become will never be saved.

Bandage:

• Ryu Seung-ryong as Lee Yong-gu
• Kal So-won equally Ye-sung (Child)
• Park Shin-hye equally Ye-sung (Adult)

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JG on May 13, 2020:

Chocolate and Hi Bye Mamma !

Nir on March 05, 2020:

49 days is one of my most favorite ever

john on January 20, 2020:

uncontrobally fond should be included too!!

sara on November 16, 2019:

Tree of Sky is ane of the most saddest dramas I've e'er watched! it should definitely be on there!!

Perera on August 13, 2019:

Moon lovers: Scarlet heart ryeo must be included too.

KR on June 07, 2019:

I'thousand surprised Endless Love isn't here, A Rosy Life and Ruby-red Centre !!

Samara on March 25, 2018:

What about my rosy life i swear human it dried me out of my tears after information technology icouldn't watch whatsoever korean drama for a while.

diva on May 26, 2017:

what nigh A Dear To Impale why is non on the listing this drama is one of the saddest drama ever i well-nigh cry every episode.

Autumn on April 25, 2017:

Why Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart is not on the list? It is the saddest all the same the best korean drama I have ever watched. It was not even included in the list of all-time historical drama. This drama made the viewers fall in love, express mirth and cry. In every episodes we joined the characters in every joy and sufferings. It is sad to know that Moon Lovers was underrated in Korea. Hey! Information technology is highly recognized internationally!

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