Actual fireworks can accompany a couple’s first kiss.
Do these over-the-top moments happen in real life?
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Cue up some fireworks and your favorite love ballad here are the 10 most unrealistic K-Drama kisses, ranked.
When she chooses to flee her boss rather than answer, Ha-ri pushes Tae-moo’s chest too aggressively.
Played for laughs, the scene’s exaggerated slow-motion makes it even more ludicrous.
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Her unrequited affection never wavers, but it takes years for Sae-ro-yi to realize his own feelings.
Despite Park Seo-joon pouring his heart out before this crucial scene,the duo’sfirst real kissreads as oddly wooden.
She admits her affection for Jin-ho without saying his name, but Jin-ho, hovering nearby, overhears everything.
It’s aperfectly grand gesture, and also never going to happen outside our television screens.
Once Sa-rang answers in the affirmative,they enthusiastically embrace.
6Cleaning up the Foam
‘Secret Garden’
Ah, the famous foam kiss.
He invents nonsense reasons to visit her, this time in a coffee shop.
Ra-im takes a break from arguing to sip her drink.
Foam sticks to her mouth, and Joo-won critiques her messy habits.
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Before Ra-im can respond, Joo-won grasps her chin in his hand and kisses her to clean her up.
There’s a slight hiccup to this plan Geun-young doesn’t know how to drive.
Episode 10 marks the moment Dong-chan and Mi-ran surrender to their attraction, risks be damned.
To their credit, they devise an effective work-around a cold shower.
Clever idea, currently impossible to mimic.
3Can’t Fight This Feeling Anymore
‘Mr.
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Queen’
Another cross between the comedic and the sultry, the impeccableMr.
Queenboasts onion layers of impossibility.
However, they’ll have to overcome their conflict andwork together if they want to outsmart their scheming enemies.
Cheoljong, wanting to distract prying eyes, seizes Cheorin/Bong-hwan in a passionate kiss.
The kissing-to-avoid-suspicion set-up is always silly yet worth its weight in gold.
Grieving the fact they can’t be together, Song-yi walks away from Min-joon.
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Min-joon lets her go, but notwithout using his alien powers to pause time.
Song-yi stands frozen on an icy lake, and even the falling snow hangs suspended in midair.
Savoring every second of his limited time, Min-joon goes in for a stolen kiss.
Time resumes once Min-joon has vanished from Song-yi’s sight, leaving her alone on acold winter’s morning.
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