The Liar & His Lover (2017) [/]
Oct 01 2025
The Liar & His Lover is a Korean romance drama running 16 hour+ episodes.
High school student Yoon So-rim (Park Soo-young) dreams of making music with her friends and bandmates, guitarist Baek Jin-woo (Song Kang who plays the male lead in Forecasting Love and Weather [2022] and My Demon [2023]) and drummer Lee Kyu-seon (Park Jong-hyuk).
A chance meeting with a stranger who borrows her phone to record a few lyrics. So-rim immediately falls for Kang Han-gyul (Lee Hyun-woo) who later turns out to be the secret song writer and producer K of the hit pop band Crude Play. It takes a couple of episodes for Kang Han-gyul to notice So-rim, partly because he just broke up with pop artist Cha Yoo-na (Hong Seo-young, who played the female romantic rival to the female lead in Her Private Life [2019]) or rather she broke up with him because Han-gyul is too absorbed with song writing to really be empathetic about the people around him. Han-gyul's initial attraction to So-rim is her great voice which immediately inspires him to write a song that is perfect for her voice.
Anyway, So-rim's band is signed on to the same label as Crude Play and Yoo-na and they are named Mush & Co. So-rim continues to pursue Han-gyul and even after they form a sort of relationship she doesn't find out he's K until later. So-rim also attracts the attention of Crude Play's bassist Seo Chan-young (Lee Seo-won) who becomes Han-gyul's romantic rival for So-rim.
Meanwhile the environment is a small music label where CEO Choi Jin-hyuk (Lee Jung-jin, supporting actor in The K2 [2016]) manipulates his artists in order to make sellable music for more sales. Although it turns out that pretty everyone is fairly manipulative — lots of half truths or not telling people things — which makes for a rather dysfunctional music label. Only So-rim and her friends seem to remain naive and mostly honest.
The songs are fairly good. Park Soo-young is also a singer so she does several of the songs and Hong Seo-young also does a couple of songs. In terms of characters I guess I like Mush & Co the best since they're more idealistic whereas everyone else is not all that nice, even Han-gyul who does improve somewhat because of So-rim but is still not a character I was sympathetic to.
Overall kind of an up and down series. Ok to watch but a clean miss without being outright bad.
High school student Yoon So-rim (Park Soo-young) dreams of making music with her friends and bandmates, guitarist Baek Jin-woo (Song Kang who plays the male lead in Forecasting Love and Weather [2022] and My Demon [2023]) and drummer Lee Kyu-seon (Park Jong-hyuk).
A chance meeting with a stranger who borrows her phone to record a few lyrics. So-rim immediately falls for Kang Han-gyul (Lee Hyun-woo) who later turns out to be the secret song writer and producer K of the hit pop band Crude Play. It takes a couple of episodes for Kang Han-gyul to notice So-rim, partly because he just broke up with pop artist Cha Yoo-na (Hong Seo-young, who played the female romantic rival to the female lead in Her Private Life [2019]) or rather she broke up with him because Han-gyul is too absorbed with song writing to really be empathetic about the people around him. Han-gyul's initial attraction to So-rim is her great voice which immediately inspires him to write a song that is perfect for her voice.
Anyway, So-rim's band is signed on to the same label as Crude Play and Yoo-na and they are named Mush & Co. So-rim continues to pursue Han-gyul and even after they form a sort of relationship she doesn't find out he's K until later. So-rim also attracts the attention of Crude Play's bassist Seo Chan-young (Lee Seo-won) who becomes Han-gyul's romantic rival for So-rim.
Meanwhile the environment is a small music label where CEO Choi Jin-hyuk (Lee Jung-jin, supporting actor in The K2 [2016]) manipulates his artists in order to make sellable music for more sales. Although it turns out that pretty everyone is fairly manipulative — lots of half truths or not telling people things — which makes for a rather dysfunctional music label. Only So-rim and her friends seem to remain naive and mostly honest.
The songs are fairly good. Park Soo-young is also a singer so she does several of the songs and Hong Seo-young also does a couple of songs. In terms of characters I guess I like Mush & Co the best since they're more idealistic whereas everyone else is not all that nice, even Han-gyul who does improve somewhat because of So-rim but is still not a character I was sympathetic to.
Overall kind of an up and down series. Ok to watch but a clean miss without being outright bad.