Our Sticky Love begins with prosecutor Go Eun-sae losing her memory after an accident. Soon after, boxing coach Jang Tae-ha appears and claims to be her boyfriend.
What Eun-sae doesn't know is that Tae-ha is lying to protect her — and that the two already share a complicated history.
From there, the drama mixes romance with amnesia, gangsters, first love, political corruption, and a major family secret.
SPOILER WARNING: Major spoilers for Our Sticky Love below.
Q1. Does Our Sticky Love Have a Happy Ending?
Yes. Our Sticky Love has a happy ending for Tae-ha and Eun-sae.
Eun-sae regains her memories, returns to work as a prosecutor, and goes after Baek Sang-gil.
Tae-ha also survives, and the two remain together after everything is resolved.
So the main romance ends happily.
Q2. Does Eun-sae Get Her Memory Back?
Yes. Eun-sae eventually regains all of her lost memories.
Tae-ha initially takes her to Gujin and pretends to be her boyfriend because he is trying to keep her alive.
Later, while Eun-sae is preparing to escape, she sees a car explode.
The shock triggers her memories, and she remembers both her real identity and the investigation she had been working on.
She then returns to Seoul as a prosecutor and goes after Baek Sang-gil.
Q3. Why Does Tae-ha Pretend to Be Eun-sae's Boyfriend?
Tae-ha lies because he is trying to save her life.
He had been involved with Baek Sang-gil's criminal organization, and his final assignment was to kill prosecutor Go Ji-won.
But when Tae-ha realizes that Ji-won is actually Go Eun-sae, the woman he loved when he was younger, he cannot kill her.
Instead, he takes the amnesiac Eun-sae to Gujin and tells her that he is her boyfriend.
The fake relationship eventually turns into a real one.
Q4. Were Tae-ha and Eun-sae Already Connected in the Past?
Yes. Eun-sae was Tae-ha's first love.
When Tae-ha was a promising young boxer, Eun-sae helped expose cheating that was affecting one of his matches.
Later, when Tae-ha was in danger in Japan, she also helped save him.
That night, she told him about her past as an orphan and revealed that Go Eun-sae was her original name, even though she was legally living as Go Ji-won.
So while Eun-sae does not remember Tae-ha after losing her memory, Tae-ha has never forgotten her.
Q5. Who Is Tae-ha's Real Father?
The major late-series twist is that Baek Sang-gil is Tae-ha's biological father.
Sang-gil does not know this for most of the drama.
After escaping custody, he goes to Gujin, where Tae-ha is staying, intending to kill him.
There, he sees old photographs of Tae-ha and his mother and realizes that Tae-ha's mother was once his lover.
That is when he understands that Tae-ha is his son.
Yes, the villain turns out to be the hero's father.
And for me, this was the moment when the drama reached peak K-drama cliché territory. 😂
Q6. Does Tae-ha Find Out That Baek Sang-gil Is His Father?
No. Tae-ha never learns the truth.
Sang-gil realizes that Tae-ha is his son, but Tae-ha himself never discovers their biological relationship.
That makes the ending slightly strange to me.
Tae-ha gets his happy ending with Eun-sae without ever knowing one of the biggest secrets surrounding his own life.
Q7. Why Does Baek Sang-gil Die?
After learning that Tae-ha is his son, Sang-gil cannot bring himself to kill him.
With the police and prosecutors surrounding the area and his crimes exposed, Sang-gil ultimately takes his own life.
Tae-ha never learns the full truth about why Sang-gil changed his mind at the end.
Q8. Do Tae-ha and Eun-sae Get Married?
Yes. Tae-ha and Eun-sae get married.
Their wedding also brings back one of the drama's recurring symbols: rain.
Tae-ha had always associated rain with painful moments in his life, but Eun-sae becomes the person who stays beside him through those difficult moments.
So when it rains on their wedding day, Tae-ha no longer sees it as something he has to fear or avoid.
Personally, though, I found the symbolism a little too predictable.
Q9. Is Our Sticky Love Full of K-Drama Clichés?
Yes. Very much so.
This drama uses an unusually large number of familiar tropes:
Amnesia. Gangsters. First love. A fake boyfriend. Forced cohabitation. An orphan heroine. A prosecutor. Political corruption. A birth secret. A proposal. A wedding.
Using clichés is not automatically bad.
Many great K-dramas use familiar tropes and still make them feel fresh through strong characters, chemistry, or writing.
My problem with Our Sticky Love is that there are simply so many clichés packed into one story that I often felt like I was watching a collection of old K-drama formulas rather than something new.
Q10. Is Our Sticky Love a Good First K-Drama?
Personally, I would not recommend using Our Sticky Love as your first impression of Korean dramas.
It is easy to watch, Jung Hae-in and Ha Young are charming, and the plot keeps moving because something is always happening.
But Korean dramas cover a huge range of genres and storytelling styles, and this particular series leans especially heavily on familiar romance tropes.
So if this is one of your first K-dramas and the story feels outdated or overly familiar, don't assume every Korean drama is like this one.
There are many K-dramas with fresher writing, stronger character development, and more original storytelling.
Quick Review
I started Our Sticky Love mainly because Jung Hae-in was returning to romantic comedy.
There are definitely enjoyable parts.
Jung Hae-in gets plenty of romance and action, Ha Young has a lively presence, and the plot moves quickly enough that the drama is rarely boring.
But the story kept surprising me for the wrong reason.
Instead of wondering, “What will happen next?”, I kept wondering, “Which classic K-drama cliché are they going to use next?”
Amnesia? Check.
Gangsters? Check.
First love? Check.
Birth secret? Check.
By the time the father reveal arrived, I felt like the drama had completed an entire K-drama cliché bingo card. 😂
I also found some details difficult to believe, including Eun-sae's extremely expensive lifestyle despite being an orphan and a prosecutor.
And although the countryside villagers are meant to provide warmth and comedy, that storyline also felt very familiar to me.
Still, I liked Ha Young here, and Jung Hae-in handled the action scenes well.
I just wish he had been given a more interesting romantic comedy.
And if you're discovering K-dramas through Our Sticky Love, please don't judge the whole genre by this one drama. This is a particularly cliché-heavy example, not a summary of everything Korean dramas can do.
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ (2/5)
Drama Information
Title: Our Sticky Love
Korean Title: 이런 엿같은 사랑
Year: 2026
Episodes: 12
Genre: Romantic Comedy, Action, Crime, Amnesia
Main Cast: Jung Hae-in, Ha Young, Heo Sung-tae
Creators: Kim Jang-han, Mo Ji-hye
Where to Watch: Netflix
Prefer reading in Korean? Read my Korean review here.
