Love Next Door (2024) [+]
Feb 26 2025
Love Next Door is a Korean romance drama running 16 hour+ long episodes.
Bae Seok-ryu (Jung So-min, who I loved as the female lead in Because This Is My First Life) returns home from several years working in the USA. Her parents soon discover that she quit her prestigious software engineering job and broke up with her fiancé [I never realize that one -é is for the man and two -ée is for the woman] but she won't explain why.
Choi Seung-hyo (Jung Hae-in, who played the male lead in Snowdrop) is a talented architect who has also returned home to start his own firm.
Both Seok-ryu and Seung-hyo were childhood friends and their families live next to each other and their bedrooms windows even face each other. There is a bit of distance though because Seung-hyo has unrequited love for Seok-ryu but in flashbacks throughout the series we see that his timing was never right to confess to Seok-ryu.
Still, now that they're back to being neighbors they frequently run into each other — though it's more like Seok-ryu invites Seung-hyo to various activities, he declines then shows up anyway, sometimes just in time to save the day. Romance starts developing.
Complication one: Seok-ryu's ex-fiancé Song Hyeon-jun (Han Joon-woo) arrives to win her back but she's definitely over him because he wasn't there when she needed him.
Complication two: Later on we find out that Seok-ryu had stomach cancer. The recover was difficult and lonely and that experience is why she quit her job and cancelled her marriage.
Complication three: Once the two are dating their parents find them out at a bad time when both mom's are quarreling hence both moms are against their relationship.
There is a secondary romance plot. Jeong Mo-eum (Kim Ji-eun) is another childhood friend of Seok-ryu and Seung-hyo's. She's a paramedic who falls for single dad reporter Kang Dan-ho (Yoon Ji-on) and his daughter Yeon-du (Shim Ji Woo) but when he realizes where this is going Dan-ho rejects Mo-eum and the mystery is why he does it.
This series is pretty good. I think Jung So-min is a good female romance lead. Also nice that although there is a life-threatening medical condition it doesn't end up killing one of the leads in the end.
Bae Seok-ryu (Jung So-min, who I loved as the female lead in Because This Is My First Life) returns home from several years working in the USA. Her parents soon discover that she quit her prestigious software engineering job and broke up with her fiancé [I never realize that one -é is for the man and two -ée is for the woman] but she won't explain why.
Choi Seung-hyo (Jung Hae-in, who played the male lead in Snowdrop) is a talented architect who has also returned home to start his own firm.
Both Seok-ryu and Seung-hyo were childhood friends and their families live next to each other and their bedrooms windows even face each other. There is a bit of distance though because Seung-hyo has unrequited love for Seok-ryu but in flashbacks throughout the series we see that his timing was never right to confess to Seok-ryu.
Still, now that they're back to being neighbors they frequently run into each other — though it's more like Seok-ryu invites Seung-hyo to various activities, he declines then shows up anyway, sometimes just in time to save the day. Romance starts developing.
Complication one: Seok-ryu's ex-fiancé Song Hyeon-jun (Han Joon-woo) arrives to win her back but she's definitely over him because he wasn't there when she needed him.
Complication two: Later on we find out that Seok-ryu had stomach cancer. The recover was difficult and lonely and that experience is why she quit her job and cancelled her marriage.
Complication three: Once the two are dating their parents find them out at a bad time when both mom's are quarreling hence both moms are against their relationship.
There is a secondary romance plot. Jeong Mo-eum (Kim Ji-eun) is another childhood friend of Seok-ryu and Seung-hyo's. She's a paramedic who falls for single dad reporter Kang Dan-ho (Yoon Ji-on) and his daughter Yeon-du (Shim Ji Woo) but when he realizes where this is going Dan-ho rejects Mo-eum and the mystery is why he does it.
This series is pretty good. I think Jung So-min is a good female romance lead. Also nice that although there is a life-threatening medical condition it doesn't end up killing one of the leads in the end.