Crazy K-Drama Weddings And Engagements

K-dramas don't just have romantic wedding and engagement scenes. Some of the situations brides encounter are a little crazy-and even scary. There are lots of spoilers in this story so read with caution.

The latest k-drama to take on a convoluted engagement is "Bride of the Century." In that drama Yang Jin Sung has to pretend to be the woman who is engaged to Lee Hongki, a coldhearted chaebol. At first it seems that she is just filling in for a bride with cold feet, but there are even colder plots behind it.

The chaebol's family has a curse. The first wife of the first son has to die. So the mother of the groom and the mother of the bride both try to outsmart the curse. The mother of the bride is using the stand-in to be killed by the curse so her daughter can survive being the chaebol's wife. The mother of the groom is treating the bride as totally disposable, figuring that once she is killed by the curse, her son can marry the woman she wants him to marry.

But the odds are that love will interfere and vanquish the curse.

While that is pretty convoluted, k-dramas have seen worse. In "The Master's Sun" a woman is hired to find a ghost bride for a departed son. And when she cannot successfully pair him up with someone dead, she enlists poor ghost-seeing Gong Hyo Jin to stand in as a substitute.

And how about "Mary Stayed Out All Night." That may win the award for most convoluted weddings and engagements in a single drama. It starts out with a nightmarish wedding sequence in which Moon Geun Young must marry two men, Jang Geun Suk and Kim Jae Wook. She pretends to marry one while being engaged to another. Then her fiancé lets her spend time with her fake husband. And ultimately a wedding ceremony winds up being a divorce ceremony.

 "Personal Taste" also starts out with an odd wedding. The heroine, played by So Ye Jin somehow gets to her good friend's wedding without realizing that her friend is marrying her own boyfriend. And because she is still in shock she disrupts the wedding.

There seem to be lots of engagements in k-dramas that are arranged by families and that the unhappy couple can't get out of. For example, Ji Sung was going to marry Lee Da Hee in "Secret" last year even though he didn't really love her.

Although all of these scenarios are not your average wedding or engagement scenes, they all led to happy endings.

While it's hard to imagine any of this happening in real life, it does make for fun drama.