Go Eun-chan is a woman who is known for her tom-boy personality and rarely dresses up like a girl. Even she is often mistaken for being a guy among strangers.
She is a hardworking woman who rarely does make-up and usually finds comfort in being a tomboy. Even the way she behaves is in a way of man behaves. She is facing many problems related to her fiancé, and her family is in debt.
To find herself in a financially independent condition, she wanted to be debt-free. She met Choi Han-gyul, who is a rich man with a well-settled life and career. He shared a different life, which never comes with a lack of money.
Han-Gyul is forced to keep his job in a coffee shop, which is named Coffee Prince. The twist is that he was never interested in the business. His grandmother, on the other hand, is desperate for him to get a girl and get married before she dies.
Coffee Prince (Credits: Netflix)
He is tired of his grandmother finding a suitable girl for her. He wanted to hire a man who could pretend as his gay lover. Eun-chan applied for the vacancy; she even got hired for the role despite her gender for the male gay.
When Han-gyul met a girl like never before, he started falling in love with her and was confused about how he could fall for a guy. In the end, he discovers that Eun-chans is a girl with a boy-like look, and he starts falling for her more.
A simple love story of Han-haul and Eun-chan, the struggle of being together is amazing to watch in The Coffee Prince . Below, we have the same interesting plot stories. In the below shows, the characters share a romantic love story and also a plot of mystery.
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty
Kang Mi-rae is a simple girl and a student at a high school. She is fed up with her looks and the way students bully her in the school for it. After getting bullied many times, she decided a decision plastic surgery. After a while, she gets a whole new personality with new looks and features.
Mi-rae entered the school with a whole new beauty, and students started calling her Gangnam Beauty. She is now everyone’s crush except one person who believes in inner beauty. She crushes on a popular guy, Kyun-seok, a guy who does not believe in plastic surgery kind of beauty.
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty (Credits: Netflix)
Mi-rae started impressing Kyun-seok but failed every time. She realized that she couldn’t make him fall in love with him forcefully. As she was in her new chapter of life, she needed a lover who could complete it. Kyung-seok is a handsome man who is kind-hearted and never falls for any girl.
Even after fulfilling society’s beauty standards, she still feels like she is ugly after Kyun-seo rejects her proposal. The drama shows that society’s beauty standards often leave those traumatized and lonely who never have them. A love story of a beauty and a handsome guy who refuses to be her boyfriend.
- Director: Choi Sung-bum
- Producer: Choi Jin-hee
- Genre: Romantic Comedy, Drama
- Release Year: 2018
- Country: South Korea
- Running Time: Approximately 60 minutes per episode
- Where to watch: Netflix
She Was Pretty
The story of a woman who, even after many years, wanted to reconnect with a friend she left behind; her reconnection journey takes her to a whole new era of romantic experiences. In the drama, Kim Hye-jin is in the lowest stage of her life, facing issues like looks and finances.
Ji Sung-joon, who is that friend she wanted to reconnect with again. Sung-Joon is now a successful model for a magazine and experiences life differently than her. On their date, she decides not to attend the date and even sends her friend, who is more beautiful than her.
She Was Pretty (Credits: Netflix)
The drama of a boss and a model continues with a romance and a love story. She falls in love with Sung-Joon, but he does not recognize her, as she has changed a lot by her appearance. She used to be pretty in her childhood days, but now she is not pretty anymore.
The heartwarming interaction between the couple can set a tight romance, but the show delivers a message of inner beauty. Even after so many years, the bond between two friends never breaks, and they instantly clicked when they met again as a boss and model.
- Director: Jung Dae-yoon
- Producer: Kim Jin-man
- Genre: Romantic Comedy, Drama
- Release Year: 2015
- Country: South Korea
- Running Time: Approximately 60 minutes per episode
- Where to watch: Netflix
Reply 1988
Duk-Seon is a girl who is extroverted and spends most of his days struggling with her academics. She is a simple person who comes from a normal family. Her neighborhood guy Jung-hwan, who is into teasing girls for fun, teases her, too.
Dong-Yong, who is an extrovert like her, and another friend of hers named Sun-woo, who is an introvert and spends most of his time alone. As she has a strong bond with her family and four of her friends, Duk-Seon suffers the study a lot, but she works hard for better marks every day.
Reply 1988 (Credits: Netflix)
The challenges of Duk-seon’s life and the struggle she has gone through the adolescent stress and romance, which is usually experienced by everyone. Each character in the Reply 1988 has their struggle of academic and social life.
The love triangle formed between the friends, and things started becoming complicated. Reply 1988 shows a real nostalgic side, which is full of old-times romance and fun. The series is a part of the mystery of Duk-Seon future husband, who could be her husband among her male friends.
- Director: Shin Won-ho
- Producer: Lee Woo-Jung
- Genre: Coming-of-Age, Family, Romance
- Release Year: 2015
- Country: South Korea
- Running Time: Approximately 90 minutes per episode
- Where to watch: Netflix
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-Joo
The drama series is the story of a female weightlifter and her struggle with her personal and professional life. Kim Bok-joo is a weightlifter who is a student at a sports university. She dedicated her whole life to a sporting era; being a weightlifter is the biggest achievement she has always wanted to achieve. Bok-joo wanted to be her father someday.
Meanwhile, in her journey, she is also struggling with body issues, and her self-esteem is low. She gets bullied for her looks and muscular physique. She looked like a man, which made her feel underconfident most of the time. Lee Sun-ok is her best friend who helped her become confident in her body type and being a weightlifter.
My Lovely Sam Soon (Credits: Netflix)
In her new college, she met a boy named Joon-hyung, who is also an active sports player. He is a handsome swimmer and popular for his body image and charming personality.
Joon-hyung forms a bond with Bok-joo, who is now her friend, and more than that. Bok-jo falls in love with a swimmer who never judges him for her looks and body type. A love story between Joon-hyung and Bok-jo for breaking their body type and society’s rules for dating. The team of Bok-joo supported her.
- Director: Oh Hyun-jong
- Producer: Han Hee
- Genre: Romantic Comedy, Sports, Drama
- Release Year: 2016
- Country: South Korea
- Running Time: Approximately 60 minutes per episode
- Where to watch: Netflix
My Lovely Sam, Soon
A Korean romantic drama in which a woman in her late 30s is now independent and way more successful than any other person. Sam-soon is a successful woman who is pressured by other families and her appearance, and she is bullied for her age and not married decision.
She has been in broken relationships and even never been able to find a partner of her own. Sam-soon, after getting fired from her job and dream career, felt that the whole world was burning down. She soon finds a new job with the job title of chef at a restaurant.
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-Joo (Credits: Netflix)
One day, she met Hyun Jin-Heon, who is also in the career field of the restaurant. He is a rude person with a cold personality. She shares a unique bond with her family and all her friends, but Sam-soon is not aware that she can share a beautiful bond with an enemy, too. She falls in love with Jin-heon, who is still in his move-on phase from the past.
A love story of two restaurant people who are dealing with their past career choices and unfinished love stories. The obstacles come her way when she realizes that it would be a tough time to impress Sam-soon.
- Director: Kim Yoon-Chul
- Producer: Kim Sa-hyun
- Genre: Romantic Comedy, Drama
- Release Year: 2005
- Country: South Korea
- Running Time: Approximately 70 minutes per episode
- Where to watch: Amazon
You’re Beautiful
Go Mi-no is a hardworking young woman whose dream is to become a nun someday. Her twin brother wanted to become a singer and got selected for a brand-new music industry, but he got into an accident. He is not in a position to attend the show. In his place, Mi-yeon joined the music group.
She joined a new music group that has three members already and is focusing on their career in music. She met an introvert named Hwang Tae-Kyung and another charming and best member of the music shows. The main vocalist of the group is Tae-kyung, who is strict and kind of serious about his group.
Mi-no falls in love with one of the members while practicing for the music album; she falls for Shin-woo. They both started dating and having a romantic relationship with each other.
You’re Beautiful (Credits: Netflix)
A heartwarming K drama that is all about the life of a girl who wanted to be a nun, but life destiny brings her into a love triangle of music members. Becoming a musician is never was her dream, but she became like one.
- Director: Hong Sung-chang
- Producer: Hwang In-Roi
- Genre: Romantic Comedy, Musical, Drama
- Release Year: 2009
- Country: South Korea
- Running Time: Approximately 60 minutes per episode
- Where to watch: Netflix
What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim
A K drama based on a novel and a book based which portrays the story of Lee Young-Joon, who is a successful man in a business. He is rich and handsome; girls are dying to marry him.
The only bad thing about him is that he is a narcissistic person who rarely finds himself in a peaceful state; he makes fun of another employee’s struggle. A self-centered businessman, Youn-joon is not looking for love or any kind of romance.
In his office, his secretary, Kim Mi-so , has been supporting him for a very long time. She has been handling all of his workload and company together. She is one of the hard-working employees of Young-joo.
What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim (Credits: Netflix)
The twist comes in his business life when one day suddenly his secretory decided to resign and move on with another job somewhere. However, he started approaching her to change her mind and convince her to stay.
Mi-so is a dedicated and hardworking woman who knows her worth and can rely on her narcissistic boss. In the drama , Young-joo falls in love with her as time passes by and starts realizing that he has always been in love with her. It was high time for him and Mi-so to have a romantic story and journey.
- Director: Park Joon-hwa
- Producer: Jung Dae-yoon
- Genre: Romantic Comedy, Drama
- Release Year: 2018
- Country: South Korea
- Running Time: Approximately 60 minutes per episode
- Where to watch: Netflix
Playful Kiss
Ha-ni, who is smart but at the same time a clumsy student, can’t keep her clumsiness hidden for a long time from others. She has a crush on one of the smartest and most handsome guys in the school, named Baek Seung-jo.
As the most popular in his school, he rarely watches girls and never has an interest in Ha-ni. One day, she decided to confess her feelings for Seung-jo, but the fear of being rejected was always there within her. Seung-jo one day lost his house and is now living in Mi-so’s home for a short time.
They started living under the same roof and in the same house. Mi-so has a chance of getting closer to her crush , as now they can meet daily. Ha-ni is a studious person, a geek whom no guy is interested in the first place.
Playful Kiss (Credits: Netflix)
He fell for him harder when she started realizing that she could be with Seung-jo all the time. His affection for him increases gradually, and the one-sided affection takes place. Ha-ni wanted to become a doctor and Seung-jo as her life partner.
The misunderstandings continue as she faces all the challenges of love and academics. On the other hand, Seung-jo keeps his feelings for Ha-ni and the real struggle of being in love.
Playful Kiss is a K drama that shows the love story of Ha-ni and Seung-jo. A perfect love story of a geek girl and a famous boy who falls in love despite their indifferences and personality.
- Director: Hwang In-Roi
- Producer: Kim Byung-wook
- Genre: Romantic Comedy, Drama
- Release Year: 2010
- Country: South Korea
- Running Time: Approximately 60 minutes per episode
- Where to watch: Netflix
Sassy Go Go
In a school like Sevit High, those students are appreciable and are academically fine. A well-known and standard school full of geeks and talented students. Academic excellence is what matters most and all students. Kwon Soo-ah is a student at Sevit High and suffering financially with money.
One of the brightest students. On the other hand, Kim Yeol is a chill kind of guy and never sacrifices his enjoyment for his study life. They both share a different perspective on life.
One day, Yeon-doo decided to take an interest in cheerleading, which led her to a never-ending love from her team. As time passed by, she started having a different life.
Sassy Go Go (Credits: Netflix)
The group of cheerleaders faces issues like being a part of prejudice, and fighting for their rights is something that keeps the team working together. The real struggles continue throughout the whole series as the friendships and group unity are tested.
Kan Yeon-doo and Kim Yeol started a relationship that led them into a roller coaster of ups and downs of love. The drama between studious students and their academic life is the best drama to handle.
- Director: Lee Eun-jin
- Producer: Kim Ji-Yoon
- Genre: School, Youth, Romance, Drama
- Release Year: 2015
- Country: South Korea
- Running Time: Approximately 60 minutes per episode
Oh My Ghost
A South Korean drama in which Na Bong-sun, who is an introvert and rarely keeps herself with people for a long time, is something she was never good at. Bong-sun can watch ghosts, and even she watches ghosts every day, and now she is no more sacred of them.
She gets these ghost-seeing abilities from her ancestors. The experience of seeing ghosts is something that makes her anxious all the time; she finds herself kind of unique and blessed at the same time.
Kang Sun-woo is a chef by profession and is well known for his behavior. He also worked with Bong-sun. She has a crush on him and is afraid of confessing her feelings for her. As time passed by, she started having more and more crush on him.
Oh My Ghost (Credits: Netflix)
Bong-sun as cursed with seeing all the ghost, find it hard to be in love with him. Soon-ae is the spirit of a dead woman who enters into the body of Bong-sun. After entering the spirit, she realized that she become more and more energetic.
The spirit inside her decided that she would have a romantic life experience before she left the world. Bon-sun started behaving differently, and now her crush Sun-woo started having a crush on her too; he did not know about the actual spirit in her body. A fun-loving drama of two people’s love story which is because of Soon-ae’s spirits.
- Director: Yoon Je-won
- Producer: Kim Mi-na
- Genre: Romance, Supernatural, Drama
- Release Year: 2015
- Country: South Korea
- Running Time: Approximately 60 minutes per episode
- Where to watch: Netflix
Strong Woman Do Bong Soon
Do Bong Soon, who is a woman with the strength of being able to be stronger than anyone, is stronger by strength. She got those skills from her ancestors. She never wanted to let people know about her inherited strengths, so she decided to keep it a secret.
She lives a normal life like a normal girl. However, her masculine body shape helped her in getting a job as a bodyguard. She was hired by a CEO of the company, who was afraid of the threats he was getting recently and needed to be safe and alive.
Ahn Min-hyuk and her bodyguard started having the best of the romance when they started knowing each other.
Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (Credits: Netflix)
Bong Soon is also interested in a police officer, Guk-doo, who is her best friend. She is a fan of him as he is a loyal police officer. He is also unaware of her strengths and muscularity.
The crime of kidnapping women increased, and Guk-doo needed a partner in his investigation and crime dealing. Bong Soon helped him in all cases, and she became a superhero who solved all the cases in Strong Woman Do Bong Soon.
- Director: Lee Hyung-min
- Producer: Kim Jin-man
- Genre: Romantic Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
- Release Year: 2017
- Country: South Korea
- Running Time: Approximately 60 minutes per episode
- Where to watch: Netflix
Are you on the hunt for a dramatic romance story that not only causes your heart to beat like crazy but also one that keeps you guessing how the end will turn out? Then this new Philippines romance story might be the one for you. Make sure to read till the end as we tell you all about Love You Long Time, along with its ending explained.
Directed by JP Habac, the movie is a romance drama that follows the story of lovers from different timelines. The only way for them to communicate is through two-way radios. We are sure that just this brief is enough to make one wonder how the two will end up together if they will at all.
The movie has actor Carlo Aquino in the role of Uly and Eisel Serrano in the role of Ikay, who happens to be a romance writer. While these two are the main leads in the story, we also have a small supporting cast, including Ana Abad Santos, Meanne Espinosa, Juan Miguel Severo, Arlene Muhlach, and Patrick Quiroz.
Love You Long Time Ending Explained
The story introduces us to Ikay, an aspiring romance screenplay writer who works hard and does her best in life. Her writings always impress people, and she is the best at her job. She has the imagination and the creativity required by a writer and refuses to change things even a little bit.
Eisel Serrano as Ikay in the film, Love You Long Time (Credits: Studio Three Sixty)
Her work has a personal touch, and she does not plan on giving it up at all. For her, the scripts that she writes are like an outlet of expression for her thoughts and feelings. It is a collection of her life, and she cannot betray that. While she works extremely hard and tries her best to keep her scripts authentic and real, her boss, Denzel, realizes that she might be pushing herself a bit too much.
Ikay is a devoted worker who might be a little obsessed with her job, and not wanting Ikay to drain herself too much, Denzel, after recognizing her hard work, suggests to her that she should consider taking a break. Denzel recommends taking a vacation that would probably help her get a newer, fresher perspective on things.
An Innocent Break
Ikay jumps on the opportunity and decides it best to visit her aunt Mench and sister Bituin, both of whom live in Quezon City. The hardworking and committed Ikay must have been suffering in silence because upon reaching her aunt’s place, we find in one of the scenes Aunt Mench talking to Ikay and giving her important advice about life.
She is clearly a wise and strong woman who has lived a full life. She tells Ikay that while it is okay to work hard and be successful, it is just as important to spend time away from work and indulge in yourself so that you do not lose hold of yourself. She tells her about happiness and how it should not be completely dependent on material things.
This talk of self-love and the search for happiness is empowering not just for Ikay but for anybody who is listening, including the audience. Ikay resolves to find happiness for herself, but it turns out it is easier said than done.
She struggles not just with her happiness but also with her work. She had planned on trying to change her environment in hopes of working better, but as it turned out, she was not even able to come up with the inspiration to write, let alone actually write something.
We soon realize that she might be going through a writer’s creative block, which explains why even coming up with new ideas for a story was exhausting and hard for her. And it is while she was struggling to find new ideas that came across an old, discarded walkie-talkie. Realizing that it must be her aunt’s, she initially thinks nothing of it.
Carlo Aquino as Uly in the film, Love You Long Time (Credits: Studio Three Sixty)
A Man From Where?
Just as she was about to put it away, she heard a sound coming from it, which obviously raised her curiosity. She starts communicating with the voice, which we find clearly belongs to a man, and realizes that the person she is talking to is a guy named Uly from a place called Atok.
It is the words she shares with Uly that bring Ikay’s motivation back. Their conversations end up becoming the source of her happiness, making her feel better about herself again. Her creative block seems to disappear, and she feels like writing once again.
She realizes that she has a lot in common with Uly. His fixation on fixing broken things rather than just throwing them away and valuing things that other people must have made with so much heart resonates with her, and it also ends up firing her productivity more. She feels understood and happy once again.
Finding each other’s words comforting, the two decide to finally meet with each other. They decide to meet at a church, with Uly telling Ikay that he will be wearing a white shirt while waiting for her. Ikay finds a man in the church who also has a white shirt on, but as Ikay is about to approach him, it hits her that this is the man with whom she had gotten into an accident when she first entered the city.
Ikay does not feel that good about the situation and decides it best to run away. The two clear the misunderstanding and once again decide to meet, this time at a restaurant on Valentine’s Day. As the day comes, another weird incident happens where the restaurant lets Ikay enter, but Uly reveals that it had been booked completely by someone else, so no one could enter.
It confuses and frustrates the two, and Uly decides to ask a stranger what date it was. The lady tells him that it was indeed 14 February, but in 2018, and for Ikay, it was 2022.
Though Ikay initially refuses to believe Uly’s words, he tries his best to convince her that this is not a prank. She tries to look for Uly on social media and even tries the number he gave her, but nothing except the walkie-talkie is able to connect her to him.
Leads of the film, Love You Long Time (Credits: Studio Three Sixty)
Uly’s Story
The two try to meet again and continue their attempts to communicate through social media in hopes of breaking the barrier of time that is separating them but to no avail. We are told that the two physically exist close to each other, visit the same places, and that others can see them both on social media, but it is just them who miss each other by a mark.
Ikay finally feels like returning to work but soon finds that Uly has been suffering from cancer and is taking chemotherapy to get slightly better. Devasted by this piece of news, she travels to Atok to see him in person, only to find that he has moved to Manila. Against all odds, Ikay flies all the way to Manila in order to see him.
Ikay remembers that in 2018, she had met with her aunt in Manila to celebrate her birthday, and on knowing this, Uly travels to the spot where she must have met with her aunt. Thankfully, he manages to catch a glimpse of her, finally seeing her for the first time. Knowing that they met, Ikay feels content even in 2022.
Just as we think that the two had their happy ending, the makers shift the mood of the movie and do a complete one-eighty. We are told that Ikay’s accident with the guy from the church when she had first come to meet her aunt had actually been really serious and had put her in a state of coma.
A still from the film, Love You Long Time (Credits: Studio Three Sixty)
The End Explained
Uly was not a guy from the past, but the guy she broke with at the start of the movie, and he was by her bedside, reading a script that Ikay had been working on.
So, their talking through a two-way radio was all a part of the script with major inspiration from her actual love story with the real-life Uly. In the script, Uly and Ikay’s story would have ended with the breakup, which took place at the start of the movie in real life.
But in the script, Ikay had tweaked a few things, and instead of a bad breakup, she had written a scene where when Uly asks for her hand in marriage, instead of saying no, she tells him how much she loved him but that she did not want to get married just yet considering they are both young and she has things planned for her career in the future.
The added scene would end with Ikay promising to find him and marry him when she felt the time was right and she was ready for it. All of this was mentioned in the script, which Uly read with Ikay in bed in a coma.
Finally, understanding what the real reason for their break up was, he feels emotional, and the movie comes to an end. Clearly, Ikay managed to convey her thoughts and feelings to the person she loved the most with the help of her work, but whether the future she had planned for them in the script turns into a reality or not remains unanswered.
The way Ikay’s character was introduced at the start turns out to be completely true as she manages to beautifully wrap her thoughts and sentiments and pour it all into her work to convey to the right person.
While the ending may bum some people out who were hoping for the story of Uly and Ikay from the script to be the actual one, this one feels just as emotional and thought-provoking, so make sure to check Love You Long Time out.
