Seoul Stories

Lee Do-hyun is South Korea's most famous actor-and its coldest. Quiet, intimidating, and fiercely protective of his one-year-old son, he's fired every nanny he's ever hired. Lyric Thompson, a bubbly foreign exchange student at Yonsei University, is just trying to survive Seoul with a part-time job and enough money to eat something besides ramen. After literally crashing into Do-hyun, she somehow ends up working as his son's nanny-the only person the child instantly loves. Now the grumpy actor and the sunshine college student are forced into each other's lives, where late nights, chaotic routines, and one adorable baby slowly turn cold walls into something warmer.

XO, Kitty takes place over one semester per season and 8-10 episodes just isn't enough. This is my attempt on filling in the gaps between episodes to understand the development of MoonCovey through the semester. Oneshot equivalent, though some episodes have longer gaps and may vary.

"𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐍'𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐑𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 ." ⋆｡°✩- strangers to lovers. 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, 𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐄𝐎𝐘𝐄𝐎𝐍 has grown up learning how to move through the city without stopping. eighteen, outgoing, grounded, and always surrounded by people - she lives in routines, late nights, and responsibilities that leave little room for pause. noticing things is easy. sitting with them is not. 𝐊𝐖𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐇𝐘𝐔𝐋 lives close by but never too close. quiet without being distant, familiar without being known, he spends his nights in the same streets, the same garage, the same spaces she passes through. he watches more than he speaks, and remembers what others let fade. their connection doesn't arrive loudly. it forms in shared streets, brief conversations, and moments that linger longer than they should. nothing is rushed. nothing is named too soon. this is a story about proximity, about timing, and about the quiet pull between two people learning how much space they're willing to close. because sometimes attraction isn't about falling, it's about realizing you've already been standing too close to walk away. ᴇxᴛᴇɴᴅᴇᴅ sᴜᴍᴍᴀʀʏ ɪɴ ʙᴏᴏᴋ! kwon ohyul x asianfemoc! started: 𝟐𝟎/𝟏/𝟐𝟔 published 𝟖/𝟐/𝟐𝟔 ended: 𝐓𝐁𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒: 𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 © kohyuliee, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

[Medical version] 🇰🇷🇩🇲 🏆x24 accolades Seokjin-version book 2 "ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅ sᴇᴏᴋᴊɪɴ, ᴛɪᴍᴇ ɪs ɴᴏᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴇɴᴇᴍʏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ɪs. -ᴛʜᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇᴋᴇᴇᴘᴇʀ- It all started in the late 1800s when a Kim ancestor entered a shrine with a far-reaching request. Then, in 1920, a young aristocrat, Kim Seokjin, fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful diplomat's daughter. But because of societal expectations, their love was doomed from the start. For almost a century, Seokjin has had to defy time to chase the love of his life due to being trapped in a cruel cycle every 25 years, where he finds her but then loses her to a tragic end. 2025-Now, a renowned and brilliant medical doctor at MinHyun Private Clinic, he was a man of logic and discipline. But when a bright-eyed resident intern from the Dominican Republic steps into his hospital with the same face, doe eyes, and warm smile as the woman he has loved and lost across ages, his world crumbles. But this time Seokjin refused to give in to love-if he ignored her and fought the pull, maybe she would live, and the endless cycle would end. She felt it too-the unexplainable pull toward the cold, distant doctor who refused to look at her but intrigued her deeply. But will fate draw them together again? Can he outrun time itself...or will love once prove stronger than destiny? Credit: Cover @strawberry1d Mood board Aesthetics - @Writer_Tanus Storyboard character scenes - @Strawberry1d Highest ranking #1 Timekeeper 27/1/26 #1 1970 21/2/26 #2 dominicanrepublic 20/1/26 #1 curly 12/2/26 #1. Dominican. 8/2/26 #2 timeless 8/1/26 Published: 23 /03/25 Completed: ? 𝔊𝔢𝔫𝔯𝔢 𝔐𝔢𝔡𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩 ℜ𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔐𝔶𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔶 𝔗𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔩 ℜ𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫

And though she receives the love she once dreamed of, she ultimately learns that freedom - not romance - is her truest form of happiness. In the end, she walks away not broken, but complete. She left everything behind - her country, her comfort, her past. In a foreign land where no one knew her name, she built a life defined by independence and quiet strength. She worked harder than anyone, carried responsibilities that would break others, and swore never to let love be a weakness again. Then came them - seven men who ruled the world. A boy band so famous that even silence bent to their rhythm. Each of them fell for her in a different way: the one who saw her courage, the one who envied her peace, the one who mistook her distance for mystery, the one who wanted to save her, the one who longed to understand her, the one who loved her freedom, and the one who finally let her go. In the end, she found the love she wanted, received the love she deserved, and still walked away - not lonely, but free. The Woman They Couldn't Keep - a tale of strength, desire, and the kind of freedom only the brave can claim.

මං ඔයාට ආදරෙ කරන්න ගත්තෙ ඔයාව දැකල ඔයාගෙ රූපෙට නෙවෙයි...ඔයාගෙ අහිංසක හදවතට...! Two hearts. One wrong address. A love written in ink 🫟💌 COMPLETE TAEKOOK FANFICTION ONESHOT Published and completed - 14/02/2026

Twenty-five-year-old Siya moves from India to Seoul for her dream job and a fresh start - only to get lost on her very first day and argue with a rude, dangerously attractive stranger with major red-flag energy. Unfortunately, that stranger turns out to be Kang Minho: celebrity photographer, certified woman-hater, and the son of the family that slowly starts becoming her home in Seoul. Now caught between awkward elevator encounters, chaotic family dinners, forced car rides, jealousy, healing, and undeniable tension, Siya finds herself falling for the one man she absolutely shouldn't want. When Seoul Started Feeling Like Home is a cinematic enemies-to-lovers romance about two people trying to outrun their pasts... only to accidentally find comfort in each other instead.

Kioni's Father is trying to set his sights high on the success of his business. After visiting a close friend in South Korea, her father has decided to take his southern home cooking abroad. After promising reviews, Malik leaves the restaurant in Chicago with his wife Zara and travels to South Korea to give it a try for at least a year with his oldest daughter. Kioni Taylor, 21 years old and a bit pissed off. Yet she had plans, to fall wildly in love with some random, beautiful Italian guy she would meet during her travels to Italy with a group of friends from school, along with the hopes of fulfilling her dreams to becoming a travel photographer and blogger - instead she would be cooking collard greens in a place where the Korean men will see her as temporary by her foreign status alone. Lee Dae-Hyun is about to be alone as the members of his K-pop group is about to fulfill their duty to the military, leaving the group on hiatus. He just wants a moment out of the spotlight to figure out his next move. He's not sure if he should have a solo career or if he should try his hand at acting. Being in a K-pop group, made it impossible to find someone he could have a relationship with, which is something he wanted to experience. A chance meeting in the restaurant changes the outcome of both Kioni and Dae-Hyun with expectations they didn't even imagine. Will their chance meeting be the beginning of something new for both of them? COPYRIGHT NOTICE This is a work of fiction and should be seen as fiction only. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or are being used fictitiously. Text copyright ⓒ 2024 Angel DeVille All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means: electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the author/publisher.

In a city that never truly sleeps, love, youth, friendship, and chaos intertwine beneath the lights of Seoul. Some stories begin quietly. This one doesn't. Author's Note This is a short novel, so the story will be more concise and focused than a full-length work. Thank you for reading and supporting it.

[𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘] ❝ Funny how you left for your dreams and somehow still became mine. ❞ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, Sim Jaeyun calls a random café hotline trying to flirt with the owner just to prove to his members he is capable of pulling someone. |×××××××| ❝ Sir, if you keep calling just to hear my voice, I will block this number. ❞ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, Kang Ellie realizes the annoyingly persistent customer flirting with her over late night calls is actually her ex-boyfriend from Australia. What happens when two people who never truly fell out of love cross paths again in the middle of Seoul? Read to find out ! → Exes to Lovers → Mutual Pining → Secret Relationship → Idol x Café Owner → Medium Angst → Fluff → K-POP AU → Pathetic Yearning™ ☕ WHEN THE COFFEE GETS COLD - a first love syndrome story will begin now~ ©Xia_Taex 2026

╰┈➤ 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 ... ❝ 𝑯𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒆. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆. ❞ ⊹₊⟡⋆ 𝑨 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍. 𝑨 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒆, 𝑨𝒉𝒏 𝑲𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒉𝒐 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑪𝑶𝑹𝑻𝑰𝑺. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆. ━━━❥ 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒆 𝑰𝒏 𝑰𝒅𝒐𝒍? | 𝑪𝑶𝑹𝑻𝑰𝑺 𝑨𝑯𝑵 𝑲𝑬𝑶𝑵𝑯𝑶 𝒇𝒇 | fantasy-romance • ongoing ⋆｡𖦹°‧★

Everyone feared him. Everyone called him a monster. But no one knew... even the devil can fall in love. Jeon Jungkook was the most dangerous mafia leader in Seoul. Cold eyes. Bloody hands. A heart made of stone. People disappeared after speaking against him. Mercy didn't exist in his world. But one rainy night, he met a girl who looked at him without fear. And for the first time... the devil's heart began to beat again. In a world full of blood, betrayal, and darkness- love became the most dangerous thing of all. 🖤💜

"고작 16살 소녀의 삶에 얼마나 더 큰 폭풍이 몰아쳐야 할까?"1살 때 미친 개에게 물려 흉터가 남은 얼굴, 학교 친구들이 붙여준 '얼굴 잘린 괴물'이라는 잔인한 별명. 그리고 첫사랑의 지독한 실연과 친부모님의 차가운 외면까지...전교 1등이었던 천재 소녀 '싱'의 성적은 결국 우울증과 함께 반 번호 28번까지 떨어지고 만다. 세상은 그녀를 무시하고 묶어두려 하지만, 싱의 마음속 깊은 곳에 잠들어 있던 사자가 마침내 깨어난다.매일 밤 방 문을 걸어 잠그고 혹독하게 몸을 단련하며, 숨겨진 천재적인 재능(춤, 노래, 작사, 디자인)을 갈고닦은 싱. 그녀는 마침내 한국의 대형 기획사 오디션 버튼을 누르게 되는데...절망의 재구덩이 속에서 딛고 일어나 서울의 거대한 무대를 뒤흔들 세계적인 케이팝(K-Pop) 아이돌이 되기 위한, 한 소녀의 독하고 짜릿한 가슴 시린 현실 분투기!"싱은 다시 오디션 버튼을 눌렀다... 이번에는 과연 어떻게 될까?"

"Every night at exactly 11:59 PM, an anonymous voice goes live..." Nobody knows who hosts the pirate radio show known only as "Midnight." But for the students of Seorin High School, it is a secret lifeline. Some say the soft, calm voice saves lonely people. Others say Midnight somehow knows secrets that nobody should ever know. Then, a mysterious rooftop incident shatters the silence. Yoon Min-jae-the school's flawless golden boy-is tracking the voice, desperate to piece together his own fractured memories of a tragedy from one year ago. What he doesn't know is that Han Seo-ah, the quiet, completely invisible girl sitting in the row right behind him in class, is the girl behind the microphone. But they aren't the only ones listening. When a printed note appears on Seo-ah's hidden microphone reading: "I know who Midnight is. I'm listening too," the game changes. Is Midnight saving people? Or watching them? And what really happened during the missing 47 seconds of the rooftop recording? DON'T HANG UP is a cinematic, slow-burn psychological school mystery thriller. 🚨 WRITTEN BY A 10TH GRADE CREATOR & VIDEO EDITOR 🚨 📌 New Chapters Posted Regularly! #K-Drama #Thriller #Mystery #Psychological #SchoolLife #Suspense #Midnight

Book One of the "Love Stories from Seoul" series. Suyeon never planned to fall in love with an American soldier stationed in Korea. What started as a quiet conversation in Seoul slowly became something neither of them could walk away from. Between late-night phone calls, airport goodbyes, and the distance between two countries, they try to hold onto a love that keeps slipping through their fingers. A story about Seoul nights, long-distance love, and the people we meet at the wrong time.

Sana is an elite Indian Police officer , trained to handle riots and high-pressure cases with a heart of steel. But behind the uniform, she is a dreamer who finds her only peace in the soulful voice of South Korea's biggest superstar, Park Woonseok. When Sana finally travels to Seoul, a chaotic collision at Gyeongbokgung Palace changes everything. She doesn't see a "National Monument"; she sees a rude, masked stranger who needs a lesson in manners. Woonseok is the "Prince of Seoul," trapped in a cage of fame and loneliness. For years, no one has looked at him as a person-until he crashes into a girl with mahogany eyes who calls him an "idiot" and chases him across a busy street just to return his wallet. Intrigued by the girl who doesn't scream his name, Woonseok weaves a web of lies to stay near her. He tells her he's a "friend" of the star she loves, promising her a private meeting that will change her life forever. The Officer. The Idol. The Lie. As the "Butterfly" from India and the "Star" of Seoul move closer, the truth threatens to burn the bridge between them. When the mask finally falls, will their love be the ultimate harmony-or a forbidden crime? A Cross-Cultural Romance | Secret Identity | K-Pop Stardom | Slow Burn ..

Warning : the face cards I used are the face cards for the charecters and the novel is inspired by lovely runner. (𝙰 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚛𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗) 🧸 When Tteokbokki Meets Sondesh follows Anoushka Cordejo, a Filipino girl living in Kolkata after her father's job transfer. A normal Grade 11 student with a chaotic best friend, Claire, Anoushka's life is simple-until she discovers the K-pop group Visper and develops a celebrity crush on one of its members, Seorin Kim. To her, he is just a distant star performing on massive stages, someone she admires from a screen. But fate has other plans. After a tragic accident changes her life and forces her to move in with her aunt and cousin, Anoushka transfers to a new school-only to discover that the members of Visper, including Seorin himself, are students there. As two completely different worlds collide, what begins as a simple celebrity crush slowly turns into something far more complicated, chaotic, and unexpected-like the surprising mix of tteokbokki and sondesh. After losing her parents in a tragic accident, Anoushka Cordejo wakes up with pieces of her memory missing-and something inside her changed. Once a normal girl living in Kolkata, she slowly becomes known as the girl who makes boys fall for her... only to leave them behind. To her, it isn't a game. It's a lesson. Every smile, every date is her way of showing them what betrayal feels like, reminding them that the pain they once gave to innocent girls was never a joke. But when her path crosses with Seorin Kim, a famous K-pop idol from the group Visper, things begin to get complicated. Because for the first time, the girl who breaks hearts might finally meet someone who refuses to be part of her game.

A brilliant Black American hotel designer takes a career‑defining leap to Seoul-where luxury is a language and power is inherited. Her mandate: reimagine a global brand from the inside out. His reality: the city's most photographed executive, a man whose smile sells skylines and whose every move feeds a machine. In boardrooms made of glass and lobbies made for performance, a slow, undeniable pull becomes impossible to ignore. Image and ambition collide with a longing that feels like truth. But in a world where legacy is scripted and love is leveraged, choosing each other could cost everything. © _RelleLebby_// R. L.

Han Jisoo does not make mistakes. He plans, he executes, and he does not stop until the thing he is chasing has been brought to its knees. Four years of calculated movement across continents, four years of shedding every softness he was born with, and he is finally close enough to the truth about his mother's death to feel it in his bones. He was not supposed to acquire a variable. She was not supposed to be there. Vesper Cole had no intention of becoming anyone's complication. She came to Seoul on her own terms, chasing distance and a byline, and she would have left the same way if the wrong street at the wrong hour had not placed her directly in the path of a man with nothing left to protect and a situation that demanded an immediate solution. She is not passive, she is not manageable, and she is not staying quiet about any of it. She did not choose this world. She will survive it anyway. But quiet is no longer the most dangerous thing in the room. Somewhere behind them, a woman who claims what is hers has noticed. And what she claims, she will not release without a fight that none of them are prepared for. Her jealousy is not small and it is not soft. It is precise, and it is building. The trail moves from Seoul to Hong Kong, from Tokyo to Macau, from Macau to Paris. A Korean mafia enforcer whose entire existence has been constructed around a single purpose. A Black woman from Memphis who was in the wrong place and refuses to be erased because of it. A former boyfriend with secrets that restructure everything she thought she understood. A possessive love that has curdled into something dangerous. ©️ _RelleLebby_//R. L.

...Part four of the series of 'A mix of BTS and Straykids' just shortened it up Also I might lose the BTS part since I don't write about them that often