What Happens When a Woman Loves a Man Too Deeply? These Top Korean Dramas Tell All!

Love in K-dramas is not subtle. It's passionate, needy, and one-sided sometimes until it collides with heartbreak or healing. But what happens when a woman loves a man too much — so much that she loses her identity in the process? The pain, the passion, the obsession, and the slow unraveling of a heart that gave too much are all there for the watching. These dramas do not just tell stories of love — they show what it means to love someone more than yourself.

The following are 12 Korean dramas that show what it means when a woman loves too much — and how such love never disappears without a scar.

1. The Glory (2022–2023)

Moon Dong-eun (Song Hye-kyo) is no love at first sight — but her falling for Joo Yeo-jeong (Lee Do-hyun) comes after a lifetime of pain and isolation. It's low-key, but when she does open up to him, it's with the kind of all-consuming ardor that only comes from never having been in love before. Her muted ardor is every bit as passionate as any over-the-top romantic gesture.

2. Eve (2022)

Seo Ra-el (Seo Yea-ji) constructs an entire revenge scheme on power and betrayal, yet underneath it all is a woman whose heart was destroyed by love. Her feelings for Kang Yoon-gyeom (Park Byung-eun) blur the line between revenge and desire, and the more she falls, the more dangerous her love becomes than her plan.

3. Secret Love (2013)

Kang Yoo-jung (Hwang Jung-eum) goes to prison for a man she loves, sacrificing everything — including her freedom. That’s the depth of her love. But when she’s abandoned and broken, she learns that deep love can become your greatest regret. Her story is tragic, but watching her find strength in that pain is unforgettable.

4. The World of the Married (2020)

Ji Sun-woo (Kim Hee-ae) is a woman who built her world around her husband. When she's betrayed, her heartbreak turns to righteous anger. But it's her initial deep love — the trust, the sacrifice, the selflessness — that makes her fall so tragic. This drama shows how devotion can break a woman before she chooses to rise.

5. My Liberation Notes (2022)

Yeom Mi-jeong (Kim Ji-won) falls for a man who is shrouded in mystery, and she loves him not with grand gestures, but with quiet, painful honesty. She speaks what other women only think: "I want to be worshipped." Her loving is slow, quiet, and painfully deep — the kind that creeps under your skin and never leaves.

6. The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (2018)

Yoo Jin-kang (Jung So-min) knows that Kim Moo-young (Seo In-guk) is a bad guy, but she falls for him anyway. Her love is blind, absolute, and frighteningly pure — the kind that doesn't make sense. She'd choose him over anything, including her own safety. And it makes for a love story as haunting as it is beautiful.

7. Nice Guy (The Innocent Man) (2012)

Seo Eun-gi (Moon Chae-won) starts off as a cold, shut-off woman, but when she falls for Kang Ma-ru (Song Joong-ki), she's all in. In spite of betrayal, amnesia, and manipulation, her heart still keeps choosing him. Her love is passionate, unreasonable, and all-consuming — and it hurts like hell.

8. It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020)

Ko Moon-young (Seo Yea-ji) is volatile, passionate, and broken — but when she falls in love with Moon Gang-tae (Kim Soo-hyun), she loves with the urgency of someone who's never known safety. Her love is ugly and loud, but it's real. And in her chaos, we see how love can be redemptive, too.

9. A Love to Kill (2005)

Cha Eun-suk (Shin Min-a) is a woman who cannot relinquish love, even when it becomes clear that it will ruin her. This classic early K-drama shows how love can turn into an obsession, and how far one will go — even to destruction — when one believes that love is worth pain.

10. One Spring Night (2019)

Lee Jung-in (Han Ji-min) is in a serious relationship but falls for a single father, Yoo Ji-ho (Jung Hae-in). Her love becomes a quiet rebellion — not a loud or dramatic one, but one of emotional honesty. She fights everyone for him, including her own doubts, because loving with such intensity sometimes means walking into the fire.

11. Love Between Fairy and Devil (2022)

More fantasy than real, this drama depicts the spirit of deep love in Orchid (Esther Yu), whose love for Dongfang Qingcang (Dylan Wang) is unselfish and limitless, even when he rejects it. Her sacrifice, forbearance, and emotional vulnerability become her greatest strength — and her greatest wound.

12. Uncontrollably Fond (2016)

No Eul (Bae Suzy) and Shin Joon-young (Kim Woo-bin) share a love that is full of illness, timing, and unresolved pasts. Her loving him pains in its intensity — she forgives, waits, breaks. Watching her love someone who is fading away is one of the most emotionally debilitating plots in K-drama.

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