Me after reading #SongHyeKyo and #SongJoongKi are getting a divorce. pic.twitter.com/ugwAIyezFG
— Nemie Magpantay (@MagpantayNemie) June 27, 2019
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.
Less than two years later, however, the Songs announced on Thursday that they planned to divorce.
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.”
Me after reading the news of #songsong couple. #songjoongki #songhyekyo pic.twitter.com/m8AnpPg5bG
— Yoshi (@pogingmakulit) June 27, 2019
My heart breaks into pieces My SongSong #SongJoongKi #SongHyeKyo pic.twitter.com/r5C6jSHiIE
— Vousmevoyez (@vousmevoyass) June 27, 2019
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’!”