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Queen of Tears

★ 8.2 29K votes 2024–2024 1 season · 16 episodes Ended tvN
K-dramaKorean drama storytelling: emotional arcs, romance beats and format traditions.This show: 10/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 9/10SentimentalOpenly emotional storytelling that reaches straight for the heartstrings.This show: 8/10TearjerkerEngineered to make you cry, and it works.This show: 8/10Romantic yearningThe will-they-won't-they ache as the main draw.This show: 8/10Elites & privilegeThe rich and powerful, glamorous or rotten.This show: 7/10Family sagaBonds and fractures across generations of one family.This show: 7/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Kim Soo-hyunKim Ji-wonPark Sung-hoonKwak Dong-yeonLee Joo-binKim Kap-su
Starring
Kim Soo-hyunKim Ji-wonPark Sung-hoonKwak Dong-yeonLee Joo-binKim Kap-su
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
03757501k2k

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About

"A divorcing couple's slow, tearful reconciliation"

A wealthy department-store heiress and her husband, a small-town lawyer who married into her family's orbit, are quietly heading for divorce when a devastating health diagnosis forces them back into each other's lives. What starts as glossy corporate-family soap opens into something warmer and more aching, mixing broad comedy, workplace scheming, and real tenderness. The pace is soapy and melodramatic, leaning hard into swoony reunions and family power plays, but the two leads' chemistry and the show's sincerity about grief and second chances keep it emotionally grounded rather than campy.

Watch it for

the lead chemistry that turns a soapy premise into genuinely moving romance.

Maybe skip if

you find melodrama and drawn-out emotional beats exhausting rather than immersive.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12024
8.118K1623h 31m
Marriage or war of the century? Hong Hae-in, the third-generation heiress to Queens Group and the queen of department stores, has been married for three years to Baek Hyun-woo, Yongdu-ri village chief's son and the prince of supermarkets. As the couple weathers a marital crisis, they discover a miraculous new beginning that rewrites their love story.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Episode #1.17.8
1K77 min
▶2Episode #1.27.8
1K89 min
▶3Episode #1.37.9
1K84 min
▶4Episode #1.48.0
1K91 min
▶5Episode #1.58.3
1K88 min
▶6Episode #1.68.3
1K87 min
▶7Episode #1.78.0
1K84 min
▶8Episode #1.88.3
1K87 min
▶9Episode #1.98.4
1K88 min
▶10Episode #1.108.4
1K87 min
▶11Episode #1.117.9
1K86 min
▶12Episode #1.128.2
1K93 min
▶13Episode #1.138.0
96588 min
▶14Episode #1.147.7
1K86 min
▶15Episode #1.157.9
95187 min
▶16Episode #1.168.0
1K109 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Kim Soo-hyun Baek Hyeon-woo
Kim Ji-won Hong Hae-in
Park Sung-hoon Yoon Eun-seong
Kwak Dong-yeon Hong Soo-cheol
Lee Joo-bin Cheon Da-hye
Kim Kap-su Hong Man-dae
Lee Mi-sook Mo Seul-hee
Jung Jin-young Hong Beom-joon
Na Young-hee Kim Seon-hwa
Jeon Bae-soo Baek Doo-kwan

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