Kevin C. Wong

True to Love (2023) [+]

True to Love is a South Korean romance drama running fourteen hour-long episodes.

Dating influencer Yeon "Deborah" Bo-ra (Yoo In-na, Touch Your Heart - 2019) has her career and heart broken after she catches almost-fiancé Noh Joo-wan (Hwang Chan-sung) cheating on her. She goes into seclusion which is inconvenient for book publisher Jinri who were pursuing her for her next book.

But after Bo-ra's sister Yeon Bo-mi (Kim Ye-ji) is scammed out of most of Bo-ra's savings Bo-ra is forced to sign with Jinri and work with prickly editor Lee Soo-hyuk (Yoon Hyun-min) who in classic K-Drama fashion she's had a couple of previous bad run-ins (and he blames her for giving advice to his former girlfriend so that she ended up breaking up with him).

As they continue to work together they start to realize the other one is not bad as they thought and actually has some good qualities. Complication when Joo-wan realizes Bo-ra is dating again and decides he wants her back even though Bo-ra is definitely over him. Also a nice romantic subplot between Soo-hyuk's best friend and business partner Han Sang-jin (Joo Sang-wook) and the young new office intern Bang Woo-ri (Hong Hwa-yeon) who becomes infatuated because of his incidental acts of kindness.

This is a nice series. Upscale locations, fashionable outfits, photogenic cast. Yoo In-na is very good even though it's a somewhat similar kind of character as in Touch Your Heart -- beautiful diva who's taken down a peg and is now recovering her balance and confidence.