Tickling your tear ducts! A collection of emotional and heartwarming K-pop tearjerker songs
What kind of songs move you?
Songs about bonds with cherished friends and family, love songs that promise forever, or heartbreakingly emotional ballads.
Warm, comforting tracks or grand, overwhelming ballads can really hit you in the feels, too.
Everyone is moved by different things, but we’ve carefully selected K-pop songs that are especially likely to stir your heart!
From relatively new releases to timeless classics passed down through the years, we’ll be featuring a wide range of tracks.
We hope you find a song that suits your taste!
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Tickling the tear ducts! A collection of emotional and heartwarming K-pop tearjerker songs (31–40)
Love 119RIIZE
RIIZE is a boy group under SM Entertainment that debuted in 2023 and has been gaining popularity.
This track, released in January 2024, is an emotional pop song themed around the urgent turbulence of winter youth and first love.
Its sweet piano riff and the members’ clear, airy vocals capture the flutter of the moment you fall in love.
It actually samples the hit song “Emergency Room” by the Korean band izi, creating a sound that blends nostalgia with freshness in a very pleasing way.
The music video, shot in Japan, feels like a coming-of-age film that draws you right in.
It’s a milestone track that earned them their first-ever win on a music show since debut.
Highly recommended for anyone who wants to sink into those aching feelings of thinking about someone special in the winter cold.
MELTING POINTZEROBASEONE
ZEROBASEONE, born from the audition program BOYS PLANET.
This song depicts the moment a heart that had been frozen begins to melt through love, and it’s a sparkling dance-pop track that captures the shimmer of winter.
You can’t resist the fluttering excitement that feels like your body temperature is rising in the cold! It’s brimming with fresh emotions.
It’s the opening track of their mini-album MELTING POINT, released in November 2023, and although it’s not the title track, it also received an MV.
Listen to it under the winter sky and both your heart and body are sure to feel warm.
A perfect song for winter dates or when you want to heighten that feeling of being in love!
FearSon Minho
This is a song performed on Mnet’s rap survival show “Show Me The Money 4.” The moment in the song where he cries out “Dad!” is especially striking.
It’s also notable that the composition was handled by his close friend Zico of Block B, and that BIGBANG’s Taeyang is featured—an impressive lineup that adds to the song’s appeal.
Snow Flower (feat. Peakboy)V
This heartwarming song was co-created by BTS’s V and his close friend Peakboy and gifted to fans at Christmas in December 2020.
With a warm-toned electric guitar and an R&B vibe, it gently wraps a winter-chilled heart.
The lyrics’ worldview—likening snow to “white flowers” that repaint the world beautifully—is truly romantic.
V’s deep, soft low register layered with Peakboy’s light vocals creates an intimate comfort that soothes just by listening.
Officially released for streaming in August 2023, this gem is a healing number you’ll want to play slowly on a cold night, in a warm room, while thinking of someone special.
Please savor it.
all of my lifepakuwon
Although Park Won wrote and composed the song himself, it’s a piece that becomes deeply heartrending right from the beginning.
He’s singing to an ex-girlfriend, and in the climactic final section, it feels as if you can hear a cry from the depths of Park Won’s heart—it pierces you to the core.
Tickling the tear ducts! An emotional and heartwarming collection of moving K-pop songs (41–50)
ALL FOR YOUILLIT
ILLIT, the girl group whose huge hit “Magnetic” is still fresh in our minds.
This piece, released in December 2025, serves as the campaign song for Megastudy Education’s “2027 MEGAPASS.” It’s a gentle, warm pop ballad that stays close to the hearts of students in the long battle of entrance exams.
The lyrics, inspired by the handwriting verification phrase used during tests, really resonate, and ILLIT’s crystal-clear vocals will help soothe anxious feelings.
The fact that all proceeds from the track are being donated to the youth-focused BTF Purunnam Foundation also adds to its credibility as a song of encouragement.
Give it a listen when you’re tired of studying or need a nudge forward.
Their pure message is sure to give strength to those who are doing their best.
FateI SONI
Lee Sun-hee is very famous in Korea, and her clear yet powerful voice is incredibly captivating.
In the climactic part toward the end, it really wells up in your chest.
This song has been covered by various singers, and I was also struck by Yoo Yeonjung—formerly of I.O.I and now a member of WJSN—singing it for a high school performance.