Usually when two men kiss in a k-drama it's played for laughs, but that doesn't mean that k-dramas don't take the subject of homosexual love seriously.

In "Personal Taste" the idea that Lee Min Ho's character is mistaken for a homosexual makes for some comic plot twists but the drama hints at how difficult it might be to openly declare your orientation. In "Coffee Prince" Gong Yoo is so in love that he decides that the sex of the person he loves doesn't matter. The person he loves turns out to be a girl disguised as a boy but the fact that he was willing to see beyond gender changes his understanding of what it means to love.

And for the first 12 episodes of "Fool's Love" the drama also used the premise of a man who thinks he's in love with another man to make things funnier. Then it got serious. To read the article, visit kdramastars.com.