20+ Manhwa that will make you Cry!!!

Welcome seasoned manhwa readers and newbies! We’re glad you’ve come back to another recommendation list! This is a countdown of the best Korean comics that will have you teary eyed and blowing into tissues as you sob on your friend’s shoulder, before you make it to the ending.

You’ve seen manhwa about reincarnation, villainesses, and slice of life but now it’s time for a Korean webtoon that’s slow paced and more emotional. After all, who doesn’t like a good tear jerker every now and then?

Well, get ready because we’re about to share with you some heart tugging manhwa! Do stay tuned for the number one pick, as we’re sure you’ll find it interesting to say the least! So hold fast to your Kleenex and ice cream because we’re about to journey through 21 Manhwa that Will Make You Cry!

Korean Webtoon That Will Make You Emotional

21. Can’t Lose You

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1/20	6/10	6/10	7/10	20/50

Yooi is a poor girl whose optimism is inspiring—motivating even! She works to pay off her father’s debt, hoping if she does this one thing then the two of them can one day be united as a family again.

Meanwhile, there’s a girl named Lida who’s an heiress that’s as high and mighty as they come and is rolling in dough. Now, you may think the two of them have nothing in common, but in actuality, they can pass as identical twins!

Lida finds this out and uses it to her advantage after receiving death threats and turns Yooi into her doppelganger! While this dangerous gig is good money, Yooi finds herself in sticky situations and even stickier when she’s locked in the arms of Lida’s fiance!

20. Sad Love Song

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7/20	3/10	4/10	7/10	21/50

Joon-Young has lived a coarse life as a child—always suffering at the hands of his peers all because his mother owned a bar that served Americans. But love is a motivating thing if we’ve ever seen one!

This young lad meets a blind girl named Hae-in who he swears to always protect, and the two of them soon become childhood sweethearts. But as they grow older, Hae-in meets the son of a rich CEO named Gun-woo.

Who will Hae-in choose? What will the boys do? Thus, the love triangle begins and a riveting Korean comic that will tug on your emotions and motivate you to find a love that isn’t so triangle shaped.

19. 100% Perfect Girl

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5/20	6/10	4/10	7/10	22/50

Judging from its title at first read, you’d never expect this manhwa to be the tear jerker that it is, rest assured while tissues are in your future you’ll find it motivating as you read your way through Jay Jin’s quest to become an artist.

Sad to say, love was never in her plans when she met J. Max, now the two of them must battle culture differences, long distance, all of the hardship and challenges that love brings!

18. Actually, I Was The Real One

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5/20	4/10	4/10	9/10	23/50

Imagine being a daughter to a Grand Duke where it’s one thing to not have his affection but you’re accused of not being his actual daughter? How messed up can Keira’s life get!?

After being framed by the infamous Cosette and being sentenced to death by guillotine, Keira wakes up two years prior with another chance at life. Could this be the motivation she needs to prevent the dangerous Cosette from manipulating her own household?

17. What It Means To Be You

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3/20	7/10	8/10	9/10	26/50

According to history’s tales, arranged marriages just don’t seem to go over right for the people that are set up for those. Princess Violet is said to marry a nobleman’s illegitimate son named Winter who’s got quite the temper for someone with such a cool name.

The marriage was once a motive to clear her family’s expenses but Violet is swept off her feet by Winter, but the facade didn’t last long as her royal family name turns to trash and she’s soon branded a con!

After suffering in her nightmare of a life, the former princess risks it all and winds up in… Winter’s body!? Now will the two of them be able to see eye to eye or will this end badly like always or dare Violet say worse?! This is a Korean webtoon you’ve got to read to believe!

16. Please! Mr. Bear!

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9/20	6/20	6/20	6/20	27/50

This manhwa is sure to pull you from your busy mundane life into a sad love story so heartbreaking it’ll make you cry! We’re sure quite a few of us can sympathize with the MC who lost his longtime love interest.

You’ll read your way through this, motivated to cheer the MC on as he picks up the broken pieces of his heart and finds out what it means to love again. It won’t be easy trying to find the meaning of love after the trauma he experiences but he plans on making it possible again.

15. Cierra

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8/20	6/10	6/10	8/10	28/50

Say for argument’s sake you’re in love with someone in this Korean webtoon and you plan on spending the rest of your life with them but it’s snatched away from you! Well, Cierra is motivated for another shot at life so that she can live out her days with her beloved.

That was before Cierra thought better of the situation. Our lovely MC is head over heels for her bonded lover, Claude LeSpencer, as they’re both illegitimate heirs to their family. They sought refuge in one another away from the prying eyes of society and the disdain of their family.

Now Cierra has decided to leave it all behind, the scorn of her family, the watchful gaze of society, and even her fateful lover, Claude. All in the hopes that she finds a better life than her last even without him…but will this prove to be more disastrous than her hopeful beliefs?

14. Gone

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12/20	5/10	6/10	4/10	28/50

This Korean webtoon has some pretty motivational characters! You’ll catch all the feels for characters who’ll grow on you as you follow their life stories. It starts off with a man who’s falling from several stories and is rescued by firefighters, only to disappear shortly after.

In this world, the characters are suffering from a spore virus that makes the human body lose its mass causing them to float, go invisible, and eventually disappear the longer the virus invades the body.

You follow two characters’ lives under two different extremes, one of which is losing his high school love interest and the other is losing his pregnant wife. Between these four characters, you experience several different perspectives under the same tragic experiences.

13. My Boo

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7/20	8/10	7/20	8/10	30/50

If you’ve come here looking for a manhwa full of rainbows and sunshine check again because it’s all doom and gloom here. Yeori has the ability to converse with the dead, but it’s not like she really sticks around to talk with the ghosts.

She’s always on to pass them by without a second thought, thinking of her abilities as more of a curse than a gift. So when Yeori moves into her new place and finds a resident ghost she blatantly ignores him too. Little does she know, Go Joon has different plans.

As a result of always wanting human connection, Go Joon winds up begging Yeori to stay and she agrees to room with him for a year, but nothing more! And together, the two motivate one another as they experience the daily life of a human and a ghost.

12. A Stepmother’s Marchen

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4/20	9/10	9/10	9/10	31/50

Have you ever read a manhwa that is so heart wrenching yet at the same time motivational!? Well, this is one of them! Suri acquired the nickname Iron Widow after her late husband’s passing. He’d left her his estate, savings, and his four children to raise.

After suffering at the hands of the children’s bitterness and foul attitudes, she’s just on the threshold of freedom when the eldest son is about to marry! Suddenly, she finds her life thrown back seven years ago and she’s standing in the night at her husband’s funeral.

Could this be Suri’s second chance to claim happiness? Will she acquire a new destiny or make things right where it all went wrong? This Korean webtoon is sure to motivate you as it tells Suri’s story as a single mother and reveals how she acquired her nickname Iron Widow.

11. The Flower Dances And The Wind Sings

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7/20	8/10	8/10	9/20	32/50

If you were to die today, would you have any regrets? Eresella has regrets on her deathbed, in fact her regret is that she’s never been a good mother to her beloved son named Vicente. Talk about needing a second chance to set things right.

Thankfully, she gets just that, as she’s sent back three years prior to her death where she reflects on her time as a youthful bride and hesitant mother to be, making it the perfect time to unpack the years of heartache she never dealt with.

Handling her own emotional baggage isn’t so easy with political, marital, and familial turmoil on the rise in this manhwa. Hopefully, Eresella can find the motivation to be a better mother, become a whole human, and live a second life worth living in spite of situations…or can’t she?

10. Annarasumanara

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11/20	7/10	7/10	8/10	32/50

As you grow older you come to understand the hard knock life of reality and you learn to roll with its punches. That’s only a quarter of what Yun Ai does in her Korean comic as she struggles with finding her place in the world.

Oftentimes, you’ll feel like there’s limited space for you to operate in doing what you love in a world that demands you to be a productive member of society. Yuni struggles to put herself through school and to support her little sister while facing the fact that she loves magic.

Since she was little, Yuni has always wanted to be a magician, after meeting a real magician at the fair that’s all she could hope to achieve, but how can she feel motivated to fulfil her heart’s desire with a little sister to feed and not enough coins to buy a new pair of stockings?

9. Diamond Dust

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13/20	6/10	8/10	7/10	34/50

For readers who are fans of Your Lie In April, you’re going to enjoy this korean comic about a young girl whose father takes the piano a little too seriously. As a result, he uses her as a tool to become the best pianist!

Her father goes to the extent of limiting her social life, forces her to wear gloves when she isn’t playing as a means of preserving her hands, and doesn’t allow her any sort of luxuries; and all this nameless damsel ever wanted was freedom to do what she wanted.

Well, her wish comes true after she meets a man who has lived his life as freely as he pleases. Will this young girl forever be a slave or will something happen that forces her to step into her role of freedom? And will this freedom motivate her to pursue love and a new way of living?

8. About Death

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9/20	9/20	9/20	8/10	35/50

We’ve all read a manhwa or where a character has godlike powers, but what if a man is truly attempting to fulfil the role of God amongst dying people? This Korean comic is meant to reflect on a person’s life as they come face to face with the Grim Reaper known as Death.

Each chapter is riveting and ultimately revealing as it peers into the soul of the reader hoping that you would be able to find a philosophical meaning in the dark, sad stories you read.

7. See, Hear, Love

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13/20	7/10	7/10	9/10	36/50

Imagine doing what you love then all of a sudden the sense you use the most with your gifted abilities or your passion is fading away? For Geun-Sin Min, the rising comic artist, he’s losing his sight.

As if becoming disabled isn’t enough, he’s also suffering from the stress of having to tend to his mother who is riddled with Alzheimer disease while experiencing total blindness. As a means to an end, Geun-Su Min attempts to commit suicide.

Like a saving grace, a girl who’s an immense fan of his work, by the name of Sori Jhun appears and surprisingly enough, she’s deaf. Together in this motivational manhwa they learn to live, love, and face the problems they have because of their disabilities and people’s input.

6. Nanohana Boys

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15/20	6/10	8/10	8/10	37/50

This mid-length Korean webtoon is full of genuine bromance when two characters with disabilities that aren’t so far off from each other become friends! Onishi Yuu is blind in one eye while his pal, Ishida Kenji, is deaf. Sound familiar?

Now, Onishi used to be your average joe bad boy but after his accident he decides it’s time to turn over a new leaf. He soon befriends Ishida, the deaf kid at his high school and as life would turn out they have quite the similarities and bring out the best in one another.

The two youngsters build a special bond while facing their not-so-different lives in the world of normal high schoolers. By the end of this Korean webtoon you’ll be motivated to strengthen your bonds with friends like these two!

5. How To Get My Husband On My Side

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13/20	8/10	7/10	10/10	38/50

Ruby’s trauma is a little more complex than in all the manhwa we’ve reviewed thus far…or maybe it’s just her situations that make it so jarring? Either way this MC is no stranger to abuse from family members but somehow is reincarnated into a novel where it’s all the same.

Ruby is used as a political pawn by both her father and brother as a means of security, now that she’s travelled back to the beginning of the novel she must work against her horrors, cheat death, protect her allies, break her husband’s cold exterior and gain the trust of his kingdom.

This compelling manhwa has an MC who must find motivation within herself if she wants to make it out of this novel alive! Can Ruby do it when so much hurt threatens to cease her heart?

4. The Friendly Winter

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14/20	9/10	8/10	8/10	39/50

It’s been proven time and time again that girls hit puberty before boys. Typically, girls have a growth spurt before boys, but what happens when puberty comes and you’re still the same height you were at the age of nine and you’re nineteen now?!

This is the hard life of Min-Seong who is dealing with the complexities of a young adult trapped at the size of her childhood self. Oddly enough, she happens to meet what appears to be a seventeen year old boy one day who’s actually a young boy with the mind of a small child.

Talk about a twist! As luck would have it Dae-Jeong is the only person who’d understand even remotely how Min feels. This Korean comic capitalizes on the two characters’ motivation to maintain sanity in their everyday lives, their challenges, and so much more!

3. Sweet Home

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14/20	9/10	9/10	9/10	41/50

This motivational manhwa is about an eighteen year old who lost his parents to a car accident, his name is Cha Hyun Su. Strangely enough this devastating loss didn’t affect him too much and the late teen decides it’s best to continue on with his life with his 2 million won.

Realizing that this much money will only last him a short time span he marks his calendar for the day to commit suicide as he sees no reason for living past then, but something happens that makes him push back his suicide date.

The longer he lives in his building the more reasons he keeps finding to stay alive. Journey through the life of Cha Hyun Su as he finds self discovery, meaning in life, makes friends, and finds out he’s not the only one with a few problems.

2. An Uncomfortable Truth

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17/20	8/10	8/10	9/10	42/50

A lot of us have siblings who we love and oftentimes get on our last nerve, but at the end of the day they’re family. And if you’re a younger sibling then you usually trust and listen to your older sibling, right? Well Yoseob was being that younger brother towards elder brother, Jaeha.

Sad to say, listening to his elder takes a pivot for the worse and the poor Yoseob doesn’t even realize it. In this Korean Webtoon, Yoseob is the calm, reserved kid that somehow ends up at the police station where he’s being held as the suspect behind the assault of eight civilians.

Everyone is wondering if this high schooler could have been motivated to commit such a crime and if his obsession with his brother has something to do with it. It’s a psychological thriller that tackles topics like mental illness and dysfunctional families, and will leave you teary-eyed and pleading with the characters.

1. The Horizon

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18/20	8/10	9/10	9/10	44/50

At this point you’ve read about a war torn country in your high school history class or have seen about it on the news at one point, even watched a documentary maybe? Well this manhwa showcases that on a deeper, real level like you’ve never seen before!

In this Korean webtoon you follow two kids who are trying to navigate their own lives in a war torn world that should spell out a fatal death but yet you’ll see the bad, worse, and some good experiences if you stick around for the next 21 chapters.

This manhwa uncovers human nature in its art style, the stories it tells, and tugs at the heart—making you reflect on your own life and motivates you to be grateful that you’re not in their shoes.

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