Updated: October 30, 2024
Here’s a collection of quotes from the Korean drama, What Comes After Love (2024):
Episode 1
“I always had dreams but no future. There were many things I wanted to do but I didn’t know what to do. That was me, back then.” – Choi Hong
“More importantly, it didn’t matter where I was going. I wanted to leave home and live my own life.” – Choi Hong
“When I run, the scenery I pass by keeps changing. And I like that. That I don’t feel stagnant. Because it makes me feel like I am moving forward every day, little by little.” – Choi Hong
“I’m being independent because I’m not a child.” – Choi Hong
“Should I remain here, or am I just passing through? Will I like this place or not?” – Choi Hong
“All I want to do is take the time to think. But sometimes in life, there are times when it buffers.” – Choi Hong
“We have a lot in common. We both study literature, and we need to work. And we’re buffering.” – Aoki Jungo
“Do you believe in love that doesn’t change?” – Choi Hong
“People meet again if meant to be.” – Ji Hee
“I never believed in them. Rather than fates and miracles, I wanted to trust my volition.” – Choi Hong
“At that moment, I realized it. Realized that fate existed in this world. It was the first time I felt it. And never did I feel it ever again.” – Choi Hong
“That spring was the first and last spring of my life.” – Choi Hong
“Back then, I firmly believed that when I truly loved someone, the whole universe would help me.” – Choi Hong
“Everyone knew there was an end to love. I’m different. Our love is different. That was what I thought.” – Choi Hong
“Had I known I would meet Jungo, I wouldn’t have gone there.” – Choi Hong
“Whenever you thank me, you feel very distant from me.” – Min Jun
“It felt as if time was collapsing in on itself. Had I known I would meet Jungo, I wouldn’t have come here.” – Choi Hong
Episode 2
“It never existed between us. Love that never changes. And we knew it didn’t exist anywhere in the world.” – Choi Hong
“Im going back to where I should be. If I don’t leave this place now, I’ll probably end up resenting you for the rest of my life.” – Choi Hong
“All my life, I never believed in things like fate or miracles. I just thought they were a nice way of making coincidences look meaningful. But there she was, like a miracle.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“The radiance I saw in her eyes that day is now gone.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“With you, I think I can find it wherever it may be.” – Aoki Jung
“Is this a dream? If it is, I don’t want to wake up.” – Choi Hong
“It’s not a dream. I’ll always be right by your side.” – Aoki Jung
“There are a lot of things you can’t put into words. You want to put those things in writing. Your writing contains something special that’s just you. That’s why I Iike it.” – Choi Hong / Beni
“Yun Oh, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, too. I’m able to love you. And for that, I’m so very happy.” – Choi Hong / Beni
“You see, our ending wasn’t a happy one like the one in my novel.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“She believes men can’t forget their first love. Funny, isn’t it?” – Choi Hong / Beni
“Do you think, with time, we’ll break up one day?” – Choi Hong / Beni
“No. We’re different. We will never break up. Even if time passes, the seasons change, and the world changes, that will not happen to us.” – Aoki Jung / Yun Oh
“I regret it. During these five years, I have never once forgotten about her.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“Had I not said anything back then, would I not have lost you?” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
Episode 3
“I don’t know where to start even though there are so many things that I want to say to you. I know that the years we’ve been apart created this huge distance between us. No matter what I say, my words won’t reach you.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“I know that us meeting again coincidentally like this is my last chance. And that’s why I don’t want to lose this chance.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“I knew I wouldn’t be able to forget him, but I didn’t know I wouldn’t be able to forget him for this long. Why did you have to show up now?” – Choi Hong
“I told myself that it was all over and that it was just a fleeting moment in the past.” – Choi Hong
“But we were both trying so hard. He was trying hard to run into me while I was trying to avoid him.” – Choi Hong
“Do you think she saw her reflection and fainted at her own beauty?” – Min Jun
“Desolation makes people anxious. Loneliness weakens love. And with youth added to them, everything becomes unstable.” – Choi Hong
“One day, your feelings might change, and you might even forget what you were trying to say. They say feelings change. That’s how we live life.” – Min Jun
Episode 4
“We met again like a miracle. What does this mean? What is the meaning of this? Is this a chance to start over? Or is this a sign that we need closure?” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“It took me some time to realize that what I was trying to forget wasn’t him. It was myself when I was in love with him. So just like that, I sealed everything that’s related to him.” – Choi Hong
“Marriage isn’t something you do with the love of your life. You should marry a good person.” – Mrs. Hong
“It didn’t take me long to realize that no love stays the same.” – Choi Hong
“Instead, I’ll definitely write a novel about my feelings toward you one day.” – Aoki Jung / Yun Oh
“We’re all a part of a star. When a star exploded, Earth was created, and we were born. Even if our race and nationality are different, we’re fragments of the same star in the end.” – Choi Hong / Beni
“We only talked about the bright future. The problems we avoided facing, the uncertainty of it, or the trickery, eventually piled up like snow and hit the two of us. But at the height of our happiness, we were unaware of reality’s horror. Back then, we were nothing but Gemini shining brightly without a flaw.” – Choi Hong
Episode 5
“Would you do me a favor? Please promise me that you’ll never make her feel alone.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“Life doesn’t really unfold the way you say it should, and there are times when it’s better not to say anything.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“It’s already been a month, but I feel like I’m frozen in time, reliving the day you left over and over again.” – Aoki Jung / Yun Oh
“I will try to move on and walk my path. I feel like this path will lead me to you and that we will meet again one day.” – Aoki Jung / Yun Oh
“Did those people suffer from a painful breakup and heartache? Do they look at their calendar for no reason only to realize it’s the birthday of their past live and zone out?” – Choi Hong
“Does love actually have an ending? There most definitely is a beginning, but there doesn’t seem to be an end.” – Mr. Choi
“Let’s break up. I’m too tired now. Any more than this is unbearable.” – Choi Hong / Beni
“If he leaves and you do, too, I would be left alone. But I can’t fool you in fear of being alone.” – Choi Hong
“Because I like you. I never imagined those words would feel so cold.” – Min Jun
“His face still in pain because our clumsiness and recklessness made our life more beautiful and because it stopped midway as there was no proper farewell.” – Choi Hong
Episode 6
“Love isn’t something you can control. It took me a little too long to realize it.” – Kanna
“I wanted to tell him this, ‘Thank you for being so good to me, and letting me experience what it was like to love someone for the first time'”. – Choi Hong
“Like someone once said, ‘There are times when something you wanted doesn’t come true, but it might turn out to be a blessing. We’ll learn that, too.” – Choi Hong
“Even though we were in the same space, we were already living in different dimensions.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“Who created the word regret? What does the Almighty want us humans to learn from regret?” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“What do you think are the things that come after love?” – Reporter
“What comes after love is the understanding of love. It’s a sad irony. Only after love has passed are you able look to understand that love. I think that’s why we’re always left with regret.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“Maybe that’s why the deeper the love, the bigger the regret.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“In the end, the only thing I can do is write. To understand how she feels. To approach and get close to her one more time.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“A moment is forever. Just as forever is a moment.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“Happiness lasts forever. That’s what we wanted to believe that day.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“In the end, what was important were the moments we were in love.” – Choi Hong
“There isn’t any meaningless love. Every love is a blessing in itself.”
“After we broke up, I kept running to get closer to your feelings.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“At first I ran because I missed you. But as I continued to run, I understood how you must’ve felt back then. You ran alone to comfort your loneliness.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“I thought I knew everything about you, but in truth I don’t know what was most important.” – Aoki Jung / Sasae Hikari
“When we were together, I didn’t understand you and only complained. In the end, I didn’t know what was most important either. I realized late that because of me, you were also in pain and lonely.” – Choi Hong
“Both of us were in the wrong.” – Choi Hong
Genre: Romance, Melodrama
Also known as: Things that Come After Love
Synopsis: Two people of different nationalities meet each other in Japan but eventually break up as lovers and reunite in Korea after five years.
Based on the: 2005 best-selling novel, “Things That Come After Love” by Gong Ji Yeong and Tsuji Hitonari
No. of episodes: 6
Screenwriters: Jung Hae-sim, Moon Hyun-sung
Director: Moon Hyun-sung
Network: Coupang Play
Streaming platform: VIU
Date: September 27, 2024
English subtitle translation: VIU | Images: Coupang Play
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