10 Iconic INFP K-Drama Characters

The useful part

While some INFPs fit the "gentle dreamer" category, it's certainly not all there is to them. They don't all spend their days rescuing injured animals and gazing through rain-streaked windows dreaming up poetry or fantasy love stories. They can also be funny, stubborn, angry, impractical, perceptive, self-protective, and even gasp villainous.

How it works

• I am looking at the broader pattern of how each character forms judgments, relates to possibilities, and protects a private sense of self.
• I don't know if I've ever cried as much watching a TV show as I did when his story resolved.
• Anyone who has created something deeply personal will recognize this contradiction: you want people to see the work, but the idea of being seen making it is unbearable.
• At thirty, she is still trying to become a screenwriter while working as an underpaid assistant.

What to take from it

Introverted Sensing holds memories and emotional associations close, while Extraverted Thinking tries to organize the outside world when feelings and possibilities are no longer enough. His connection with Da-eun matters because she enters his world without mocking him. She treats him as a person whose experiences deserve attention, even when she cannot share his reality.

Example or evidence

• For these characters, imagination is not a pastime that occupies their mind before falling asleep.
• Seo-wan is intelligent, imaginative, funny, and painfully aware that the life he expected to build has not materialized.
• Four attractive new teachers move next door, and her mind immediately begins assembling a cast.
• A few suppress their anger so thoroughly that, when it finally surfaces, everyone acts shocked.

Details worth keeping

That is the trouble with reducing a personality type to an aesthetic. Sure, some INFPs are all soft cardigans and pressed flowers. Some keep helping people long after anyone has earned it.