The best internet memes about Korean drama Descendants of the Sun power couple’s divorce
- Tears flowed online at the news South Korean actors Song Kye-hyo and Song Joong-ki are divorcing after less than two years of marriage
- Fans came up with inventive ways to convey their feelings, and condom maker Durex even got in the act with a Singlish play of words on the couple’s family names
When South Korean acting superstars Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo got married in 2017, they were christened the “Song Song couple” by devoted fans. Their marriage seemed to echo perfectly their on-screen romance in the 2016 K-drama Descendants of the Sun.
Fans, upset and disappointed, took to the internet in droves as they reacted to the news, some posting memes.
Twitter user @MagpantayNemie reacted to the news by posting a GIF of a cat vigorously shaking its head, with the caption: “Me after reading #SongHyeKyo and #SongJoongKi are getting a divorce.”
Social media users reacted with posts to express their emotions, using images ranging from a tearful young woman to a weeping SpongeBob.
Twitter user @vousmevoyass vented her feelings by posting a series of screen captures from Descendants of the Sun, in which Song Joong-ki tells Song Hye-kyo, both in character: “It was nice meeting you. Good bye.”
Others were less sympathetic. Facebook user PL Chan posted a sarcastic GIF of actor Kurt Russell saying: “Took longer than I expected” – a line from the 2017 thriller The Fate of the Furious. Similarly, @mychaeberry on Twitter expressed disapproval, saying of the couple: “Bound to meet but not to keep.”
Facebook user Matthew Yang commented: “They both buay ‘song’ with each other” – a pun that plays both on the Korean surname and the Singapore-English term “buay song”, which comes from the Hokkien bue-sóng, meaning “dissatisfied”.
In the same vein, the marketing team of condom brand Durex used the Hokkien word sóng (“satisfying”) in a Facebook post. It depicts a panel of a crying couple and “not ‘Song’” written below a broken heart emoji. An opposite panel depicts a box of Durex Mutual Climax condoms alongside the words, “Very ‘song’!”