Call It Love (2023) [+]
Feb 19 2025
Call It Love is a South Korean romance-drama running 16 hour+ episodes and released on Disney+.
After being evicted from their family home Sim Woo-joo (Lee Sung-kyung) seeks revenge on the woman who did it (and also stole her father btw). The easiest target is her son Han Dong-jin (Kim Young-kwang, who I recently saw in On Your Wedding Day in the lead male role), CEO of a small and struggling exhibition and trade fairs company. Woo-joo gets herself hired as a temp and waits for her opportunity.
But while studying Dong-jin she comes to realize he's a very lonely man who distances himself from everyone because of a disastrous failed relationship. A complication when his old flame Kang Min-yeong (Ahn Hee-yeon). Anyway seeing that a Dong-jin is actually quite compassionate and lonely brings out the protective feelings from Woo-joo and that slowly turns to attraction and love for both of them.
Another complication is when Dong-jin and co-CeO Choi-Sunwoo (Jeon Seok-ho) find out that Woo-joo was working against the company, at least in the beginning. A final complication is when Woo-joo's family find out both that Dong-jin is the son of their hated enemy and that they're dating. They're forced to break up promising never to see each other again.
But one year later Woo-joo is told that mom was ok with Dong-jin all along. Also he's invited to Woo-joo's brother's debut concert. She shows up hoping to see him. He shows up late. They see each other. The audience fades away (a reference to something they talked about when people are in love). She smiles. He smiles. By the way, first and only time either of them smile in this series because they're both very somber characters. They run to each other and hug happily. A pretty nice ending.
This is a series that takes about six episodes to get going and then it's slowly going up and up with only a few dips and sticks the landing at the end. Even for a [+] K-Drama series one of the ones I like more.
After being evicted from their family home Sim Woo-joo (Lee Sung-kyung) seeks revenge on the woman who did it (and also stole her father btw). The easiest target is her son Han Dong-jin (Kim Young-kwang, who I recently saw in On Your Wedding Day in the lead male role), CEO of a small and struggling exhibition and trade fairs company. Woo-joo gets herself hired as a temp and waits for her opportunity.
But while studying Dong-jin she comes to realize he's a very lonely man who distances himself from everyone because of a disastrous failed relationship. A complication when his old flame Kang Min-yeong (Ahn Hee-yeon). Anyway seeing that a Dong-jin is actually quite compassionate and lonely brings out the protective feelings from Woo-joo and that slowly turns to attraction and love for both of them.
Another complication is when Dong-jin and co-CeO Choi-Sunwoo (Jeon Seok-ho) find out that Woo-joo was working against the company, at least in the beginning. A final complication is when Woo-joo's family find out both that Dong-jin is the son of their hated enemy and that they're dating. They're forced to break up promising never to see each other again.
But one year later Woo-joo is told that mom was ok with Dong-jin all along. Also he's invited to Woo-joo's brother's debut concert. She shows up hoping to see him. He shows up late. They see each other. The audience fades away (a reference to something they talked about when people are in love). She smiles. He smiles. By the way, first and only time either of them smile in this series because they're both very somber characters. They run to each other and hug happily. A pretty nice ending.
This is a series that takes about six episodes to get going and then it's slowly going up and up with only a few dips and sticks the landing at the end. Even for a [+] K-Drama series one of the ones I like more.