Happily never after — a bit of a paradox, isn’t it? — because happily ever after is the icing on the cake. It’s what you expect from a K-drama OTP after they’ve gone through the motions: strangers to friends, lovers to noble idiots. Yunno, the whole nine yards.
But overactive imagination aside, do you ever wonder if some of these OTPs will stand the test of time? I mean, real-life couples break up all the time, so how much more the fictional ones — especially the ones who have their romance tacked onto the plot as an afterthought. Or the ones that are just shining examples of relationship red flags *coughs* Nevertheless *coughs*. And then there are those who still have unresolved issues that are just glossed over in order to wrap up the story by Episode 16.
For instance, while I loved Do Min-joon and Cheon Song-yi from You From Another Star, and Ri Jung-hyuk and Yoon Se-ri from Crash Landing on You, I don’t think these relationships would last past a few years due to obvious distance-related reasons. I mean, it has to be a struggle going back and forth between planets, or seeing each other for only two weeks in a year. At some point, they’re bound to get tired.
(And because I’m very petty, I see a breakup in the future of Who Are You—School 2015’s OTP. We all know Kim So-hyun and Yook Sung-jae’s characters were the real OTP, anyway. Sorry, not sorry to Nam Joo-hyuk’s character.)
So, it’s your turn to weigh in.
If you were to stretch your imagination beyond the end credits — for any reason at all — which drama OTP(s) won’t stand the test of time?