Kdrama 2024
Midnight Romance in Hagwon (Kdrama Review & Summary)
Midnight Romance in Hagdon poster
- Genre: Romance, Noona Love
- Release Date: 11 May 2024
- Origin: South Korea
- Kdrama: 16 Episodes
Cast
- Jung Ryeo Won as Seo Hye Jin
- Wi Ha Joon as Lee Jun Ho
- So Ju Yeon as Nam Cheong Mi
- Kim Jong Tae as Kim Hyun Tak
- Kim Jung Young as Woo Sung Hee
- Kil Hae Yeon as Kim Hyo Im
- Jang In Sub as Yoon Ji Seok
- Lee Si Hoon as Lee Myung Joon
- Yang Jo Ah as Min Hee Joo
- Ahn Hyun Ho as Kim Chae Yoon [Korean language instructor]
- Jang So Yeon as Choi Ji Eun
- Seo Jung Yeon as Choi Hyung Sun
- Shin Joo Hyup as Choi Sung Gyu
- Yoon Bok In as Oh Jung Hwa
- Oh Man Seok as Lee Taek Yeol
- Kim Song Il as Pyo Sang Sub
- Yoon Seul as Lee Hyeol [Teacher]
- Yook Hyun Suk as Jang Il Do
- Lee Kyu Sung as Park Ki Sung [Teaching assistant]
- Jeon Seok Chan as Geum Choon Il
- Park Min Su as Lee Jung Soo [Chanyoung high school student]
- Kim Na Yeon as Sung Ha Yul
Precis
Troublemaker student, Lee Jun Ho, came back as a teacher in the same school he studied in. He met is first love once again, his teacher in Korean language.
Snippets
- 12 October 2024: Jung Ryeo Won won the Top Excellent Award (Actress category) at the 2024 Korea Drama Awards for her role in this drama.
Episode 1
Seo Hye Jin was a legend in the cram schools. She was very proud to have made her students passed their entrance exams to be able to enter topnotch university.
She was particularly proud of Lee Jun Ho was was a bit of a troublemaker to start with but was able to ace his exam under her tutorial.
Lee Jun Ho became a legend in the cram school for his achievement. After university, he managed to get a job in a prestigious company.
But then he gave it all up to became a tutor.
Episode 2
Seo Hye Jin was gutted and tried everything to dissuade Lee Jun Ho from becoming a teacher. She was so forceful about it, Lee Jun Ho said that she was going the call of a former teacher. He told her that she was no longer his teacher and he is fully grown up able to make his own decision. He also added that he might report her if she goes on.
She did realise what she was doing and what he said.
Seo Hye Jin was not the only one who had a problem with Seo Hye Jin’s decision to quit a lucrative job. His parents were so shocked, he was almost disowned.
Meanwhile, in the background, there was a high school teacher that got it in for Seo Hye JIn. He told her that she was just an upstart tutor who is not really a teacher and he was waging war.