Every time there is a sparkling, sizzling, scorching new onscreen pairing, drama viewers of various persuasions suddenly feel this uncontrollable urge to scream at the screen: Just Date Already! I’ve been there, done that. It’s often exhilarating, but mostly painful since the number of co-stars who ended up dating is a tiny fraction of the amount of acting couplings out there. And the number that end up walking down the line I can count on one hand.
Just for fun, I’ve compiled a list of various co-stars who have admitted to publicly dating in the last decade. What we all hope for is that all our favorite shippy couples end up like Eugene and Ki Tae Young.
Co-stars who ended up publicly dating:
Lee Byung Hun and Song Hye Kyo in All In
Onscreen chemistry: middling (great from him, okay from her – likely due to the acting ability disparity between them since Lee Byung Hun is just a much much better actor than Song Hye Kyo when they filmed All In).
Offscreen chemistry: sizzling
Status: Kaput after 2 years.
Ji Sung and Lee Bo Young in Save the Last Dance for Me:
Onscreen chemistry: evident but couldn’t be developed because Lee Bo Young played the crazy insane psycho second female lead and not Ji Sung’s OTP (who was played by Eugene)
Offscreen chemistry: low-key
Status: Still going strong after 6 years.
Jang Dong Gun and Ko So Young in the movie Love Wind Love Song
Onscreen chemistry: N/A – didn’t watch the movie
Offscreen chemistry: mellow bliss
Status: married with baby!
Lee Chun Hee and Jeon Hye Jin in Smile, You
Onscreen chemistry: sweet
Offscreen chemistry: sizzling
Status: Married and expecting baby
Song Hye Kyo and Hyun Bin in The World They Live in
Onscreen chemistry: sizzling
Offscreen chemistry: very little since they rarely appeared in public together after they started dating.
Status: Wah wah wah after 2 years.
Lee Sang Yoon and Nam Sang Mi in Life is Beautiful
Onscreen chemistry: lovely
Offscreen chemistry: just as lovely
Status: Dating
Eugene and Ki Tae Young in Creating Destiny
Onscreen chemistry: perfect match
Offscreen chemistry: ditto as above
Status: Engaged to be married
Lee Seo Jin and Kim Jung Eun in Lovers
Onscreen chemistry: burned a hole through my screen
Offscreen chemistry: burned a hole through my screen, but likely fizzled because it was so intense
Status: Teary breakup after 2 years
Lee Dong Gun and Han Ji Hye in Sweet 18
Onscreen chemistry: SO. CUTE.
Offscreen chemistry: Just as cute, but didn’t seem like the type to last forever
Status: Amicable split after 2 years
Oh Man Seok and Jo Ahn in Everybody Cha Cha Cha/Jolly Widows
Onscreen chemistry: N/A, I didn’t watch the drama
Offscreen chemistry: Low-key and mature
Status: Still dating. Yay.
Jung Woo Sung and Lee Ji Ah in Athena: Goddess of War
Onscreen chemistry: Good, not great
Offscreen chemistry: *no comment*
Status: Got blown up within 2 months of dating by one of the biggest K-ent scandals ever.
Vic Zhou and Barbie Hsu in Meteor Garden 1 and 2 and Mars
Onscreen chemistry: Soul-searching
Offscreen chemistry: So in love, but couldn’t make it work. Makes me sad.
Status: Ended after 2 years, and Barbie is now married to a chaebol heir
Co-stars heavily rumored to have dated but never publicly confirmed it:
Lee Da Hae and Lee Dong Wook after My Girl
Wu Zun and Ella after HanaKimi
Mark Chou and Janine Chang after Black & White
Koala’s two real life shippy holy grails:
My GeunGeun Babies FTW!
The Undeniable Power HwanHye Couple 4ever!
My Thoughts:
So there you have it. To be honest, there are certain actors that viewers tend to ship them a lot with their co-stars, and both Kang Ji Hwan and Yoon Eun Hye are that type of actor.
There is a sizeable group that ship Eun Hye with Joo Ji Hoon back when they did Goong, and Eun Hye with Gong Yoo when they did Coffee Prince. Along the same lines, lovers of Capital Scandal claim Ji Hwan and Han Ji Min would make a cute couple, and there were some real life shipping of Ji Hwan and Sung Yuri from Hong Gil Dong (she gave him a puppy for his birthday, he named her Yi Nok, after Yuri’s character’s name in HGD, so adorbs).
Similarly, there are folks who ship Jang Geun Seok with his You’re Beautiful co-star Park Shin Hye and think I’m some interloper by shipping him with Moon Geun Young.
I think it’s just amusing to fanservice our favorite star together when it’s clear they have such sizzling chemistry. In the end, it’s their lives, and I’m just a happy viewer of their acting projects, wishing every one of them happiness with whomever they end up with.
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What was the scandal between Jung Woo Sung and Lee Ji Ah?
You can Google it, I prefer not to continue the media firestorm on that subject matter.
tried google but failed, Ok Wu Zun and Ella really isn't this a publicity stunt for Hanakimi....? Happy for YEH I think that guy really likes her....and he's hubby fabric!!!! hahaha.... ;-)
It was a scandal between Seo Taiji & Lee Ji Ah mostly, but Jung Woo Sung got mixed in there as well because they were dating at the time. Check AKP if you want the full details on the scandal, coz it's a complicated one.
Read d news this morning that joo and lee ji ah officially break up. He's admidst recuperating from heartbreAk it was told.
If I'm not mistaken... the scandal Koala was referring to was Lee Ji Ah's secret marriage and divorce to Seo Taeji.
am i 1st? anyway...almost all of the couples here are so cute (especially KJH n YEH of course ^_^) thnks for sharing (=
THIS POST MAKES ME HAPPY! (Even if most of these couples broke up.) BUT there is still hope for GeunGeun and HwanHye! *crosses fingers*
And word on ZaiZai and Barbie. They were adorable.
pssst, do I need to watch Lovers? For some reason that drama never appealed to me. IDK why.
the no comment under off-scree chemistry of Jung Woo Sung and Lee Ji AH made me LOL so bad
I love is post. This made me come out of my lurking. Love and appreciate the onscreen vs offscreen chem and the status... i'm such fangirl that I almost always (like 99%) shipping in real life the actors in my dramas. But I gotta say there a few that linger months after I see the last ep. (Hello, lee dong wook <3 lee da hae... ki tae young <3 eugene) And sometimes I ship them even if one is already married. (I know, I gotta have respect for the marriage covenant... so those OTPs will remain unnamed)
All is to say thanks for is post. Hwan-Hye couple jjang!
sorry for the typos.. my th's don't work very well on my tablet.
OMG Barbie got married?
Dayum I been so out of my Tw-Circle that I didn't even know she got married. I been waiting for her to get married already because I know she wanted to get married long time but her bfs never really got her that far. I was a fan of her &Blue Lan..they weren't really costars but he did have a small role in MG.
Well I'm happy for her. She's finally married..
Oh yes YEH i ship her with Ji Hoon big time because of Goong &I ship her with Eric even though they haven't done anything yet but i love them from X-Man...but I am LOVING HWANHYE <3
http://chamaerific.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/for-barbie-hsu-marriage-has-always-been-her-final-goal/
and
http://www.cpopaccess.com/2010/11/barbie-hsu-confirms-she-is-married.html
and
http://www.chinamosh.com/2011/barbie-hsu-wang-xiaofei-beach-wedding-pictures-revealed/
The last has a lot of pictures and it is clear, she is NOT pregnant in March, a rumoured reason for their quick marriage in the end of 2010.
Beautiful pics.
I always love wedding pics, for the happiness written all over the bride and groom faces.
Hope they will live happily for the rest of their lives.
IIRC Han Ji Hye is now married to a 'real' prosecutor. Her smile in Sweet 18 is so sweet it could melt a glacier.
I squealed all the way through the last picture. && I'd have to agree, Ji Hwan and Eun Hye make their on-screen OTPs so convincing, it's hard to tell whether or not they're dating in real life. But but but, having watched ALL of Eun Hye's dramas, the HanHye couple is the one that affected me the most. LOL.
OMYGAD CAN THEY JUST PLEASE DATE? :3
&& Have you any news about Song Seung Heun and Kim Tae Hee? :*
I'm a die-hard YEH's fan.
It is very true that I shipped her with JJH then GY, but now I'm head over heel for her with KJH. I noticed that there is more intimacy and sexual tension between YEH and KJH, is like they made for each other.
I agree with u on this.I used to ship her with GY not JJH cause I think she prefer manly type bit more but then now as seeing HwanHye...I'm not containing on GY anymore together with after CP he is not even show up at her VIP MBMD.I think HwanHye made for each other.they can just confess bat their dating n stay low key is even fine with me..wishing
I don't think Zaizai and Barbie Hsu matched al all. Their characters just like the north and south pole. Sorry Ockoala, not following you on that one, I'm glad they've broken up (evil me). LOVE YEH and KJH.