Forecasting Love and Weather (2022) [+]
Mar 12 2025
Forecasting Love and Weather is a South Korean romantic comedy series running 16 episodes.
At the Korean Meteorological Agency (KMA) Director Jin Ha-kyung (Park Min-young) is the new head of Team Two. She has to deal with Han Ki-joon (Yoon Park), Director in the PR department and Ha-kyung's ex-fiancé who cheated on her with his new wife Chae Yoo-jin (Yura), a weather reporter in the newsroom.
Then arrives Lee Shi-woo (Song Kang), a hotshot weather forecaster who joins Team Two as Severe Weather Forecaster. His smug and impertinent attitude annoys Ha-kyung but slowly a romance develops even though Ha-kyung is against office romances after her experience with Ki-joon…
Not really a high-drama series which is fine with me. As usual the romance tries to be secret and drama ensues as various people find out. There is a tension because Shi-woo is against marriage (for reasons revealed later) and Ha-kyung wants to get married eventually.
A good subplot is Ki-joon and Yoo-jin's marriage which hits a rocky patch. Ki-joon becomes focused on breaking up Ha-kyung and Shi-woo because he thinks Shi-woo is not the right man for her. He also treats Yoo-jin with less respect as a serious reporter and lets her down on a couple of promises. I really like Ki-joon's growth when he realizes Yoo-jin is important to him and starts working on repairing his marriage which also matures him and he starts to support Ha-kyung and to a lesser extent Shi-woo when their relationship starts to flounder.
I like the meteorological background. Each episode has a different weather theme. We have two typhoons in one episode, a heat wave in another, first snow of the season in yet another. You'd think weather forecasting would be boring but the stakes are repeated over and over: inaccurate forecasting leads to economic loss and lives injured or lost.
Even though at one point Ha-kyung discusses why something can't be done because the KMA is underfunded it does seem comically well-funded. Nice building, big operations room with huge screens and good computers. And the satellite offices are also well-appointed. Just something that stood out to me when it usually doesn't.
I've now seen Park Min-young star in three series: Her Private Life (2019), When the Weather Is Fine (2020), and this one. I think in general this is the best of the three series with Her Private Life being a close second (When the Weather Is Fine was subpar). I think I liked her character best in Her Private Life as she had more emotions. In the other two series her character is rather subdued.
Song Kang I've also seen as the lead in My Demon (with Kim Yoo-jung). In My Demon his character is a little annoying but cool. In this one his character is very annoying the first half (and he has this really wide yet smug smile). I guess that's acting.
Overall Forecasting Love and Weather is a nice romantic comedy series. Entertaining and above average.
At the Korean Meteorological Agency (KMA) Director Jin Ha-kyung (Park Min-young) is the new head of Team Two. She has to deal with Han Ki-joon (Yoon Park), Director in the PR department and Ha-kyung's ex-fiancé who cheated on her with his new wife Chae Yoo-jin (Yura), a weather reporter in the newsroom.
Then arrives Lee Shi-woo (Song Kang), a hotshot weather forecaster who joins Team Two as Severe Weather Forecaster. His smug and impertinent attitude annoys Ha-kyung but slowly a romance develops even though Ha-kyung is against office romances after her experience with Ki-joon…
Not really a high-drama series which is fine with me. As usual the romance tries to be secret and drama ensues as various people find out. There is a tension because Shi-woo is against marriage (for reasons revealed later) and Ha-kyung wants to get married eventually.
A good subplot is Ki-joon and Yoo-jin's marriage which hits a rocky patch. Ki-joon becomes focused on breaking up Ha-kyung and Shi-woo because he thinks Shi-woo is not the right man for her. He also treats Yoo-jin with less respect as a serious reporter and lets her down on a couple of promises. I really like Ki-joon's growth when he realizes Yoo-jin is important to him and starts working on repairing his marriage which also matures him and he starts to support Ha-kyung and to a lesser extent Shi-woo when their relationship starts to flounder.
I like the meteorological background. Each episode has a different weather theme. We have two typhoons in one episode, a heat wave in another, first snow of the season in yet another. You'd think weather forecasting would be boring but the stakes are repeated over and over: inaccurate forecasting leads to economic loss and lives injured or lost.
Even though at one point Ha-kyung discusses why something can't be done because the KMA is underfunded it does seem comically well-funded. Nice building, big operations room with huge screens and good computers. And the satellite offices are also well-appointed. Just something that stood out to me when it usually doesn't.
I've now seen Park Min-young star in three series: Her Private Life (2019), When the Weather Is Fine (2020), and this one. I think in general this is the best of the three series with Her Private Life being a close second (When the Weather Is Fine was subpar). I think I liked her character best in Her Private Life as she had more emotions. In the other two series her character is rather subdued.
Song Kang I've also seen as the lead in My Demon (with Kim Yoo-jung). In My Demon his character is a little annoying but cool. In this one his character is very annoying the first half (and he has this really wide yet smug smile). I guess that's acting.
Overall Forecasting Love and Weather is a nice romantic comedy series. Entertaining and above average.