Why Saying Goodbye to a K-Drama Character Feels Like Losing Someone You Knew Have you ever finished a K-drama and spent days thinking about someone who never actually existed? Maybe it was Ryu Sun-Jae, who kept choosing Im-Sol across every timeline, Kim Shin, who carried centuries of loneliness with quiet grace, only to find love and loss intertwined once again. Han Seo-Jun’s unspoken love broke and healed millions of hearts or Yang Gwan-Sik, who reminded us that the deepest kind of love is often the quietest. We usually call it post-drama blues. Psychologists call it something else: a parasocial relationship. It’s a one-sided emotional bond our brain forms with someone…