Maybe there’s something we don’t know about finding love on a K-drama set. It seems like it’s the place to be if you’re looking for Mister or Miss Right. Just ask Son Ye-jin and Hyun-bin whose love blossomed after playing the titular roles in hit K-drama Crash Landing On You. Just in case you need more proof that cupid tends to hang around on film sets, let’s take a look at other K-drama couples who made their fans’ fantasies come true by tying the knot in real life:
The latest on-screen pair to have gotten hitched is Hyun-bin and Son Ye-jin, otherwise known as the BinJin couple.
The two played star-crossed lovers in the South Korean drama Crash Landing On You, with Hyun-bin starring as a North Korean soldier, and Son Ye-jin as a South Korean actress.
Their nuptials (Mar 31, 2022) have been deemed the wedding of the year in the entertainment industry, and reportedly cost $190,000. The garden celebration was held at a luxury hotel, with guests like Gong Yoo, Jang Dong-gun and Song Joong-ki in attendance.
Read more about their wedding here.
Another golden couple who took the Internet by storm with their romance and chemistry with their roles in hit 2016 K-drama Descendants of the Sun, Song Hye Kyo and Song Joong Ki were coined the Song-Song couple. They tied the knot in 2017 with a luxurious flower-filled wedding ceremony in Seoul, South Korea.
Unfortunately, the fairytale didn’t last, with the pair calling it quits and filing for divorce in barely two years after the wedding. Their marriage officially ended in 2021.
The Penthouse star Kim So-yeon met her husband and fellow actor Lee Sang-woo on the set of MBC’s weekend melodrama Happy Home (2016) and went public with their relationship in the same year. In the series, they played a couple fighting against the odds for love after remarrying and showed plenty of chemistry, which spilled over to real life.
In 2017, the pair tied the knot in a private wedding ceremony at a wedding hall in Gangnam, Seoul.
They both acted in the 2013 drama A Hundred Years’ Inheritance and married in 2014.
Eugene married Ki Tae Young, whom she met on the set of the 2009 drama Creating Destiny in 2011.
The pair worked together in the 2008 drama Aeja’s Older Sister, Minja as well as the 2012 drama Happy Ending. They got married in 2014.
The couple met on the set of the 2004 drama Save the Last Dance before confirming their relationship in 2007. They got married in September 2013.
This couple worked together on the 2015 drama Glamorous Temptation and recently married in February 2017.
This gorgeous pairing met on the set of their 2015 drama Blood and married a year later in 2016.
This couple met on the set of the 2009 drama Smile, You and married in 2011.
Park Si Eun and Jin Tae Hyun first met on set of 2010’s Pure Pumpkin Flower and met again for 2013’s Take My Hand. The couple married in 2015.
Ryu Soo Young and Park Ha Sun worked together in the 2013 drama Two Weeks and married in early 2017.
This article was first published in The Singapore Women’s Weekly.