Jung Ryeo-won and Wie Ha-joon’s Midnight Romance in Hagwon
by tccolb
Infuriatingly taking their sweet time with promos, tvN offers us another tantalizing crumb with The Midnight Romance in Hagwon’s first teaser, where love finds Jung Ryeo-won (May It Please the Court) and Wie Ha-joon (Gyeongseong Creature) as the clock strikes twelve.
Taking us to Seoul’s Daechi area, the feeding ground for after-school tutoring academies (a.k.a. hagwons), the romance has Jung Ryeo-won playing star instructor Seo Hye-jin. Resilient and steadfast, our heroine has a solid 14 years of experience in her job and hit the legendary tier ten years back with what’s known as the “Daechi-dong Miracle” in her field.
At the time, Hye-jin had been struggling over her career path, reflecting on past dreams and worrying about her future after teaching. But despite this, she had put her all into helping a troublemaker student at the hagwon and somehow managed to get him accepted into a prestigious college.
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Fast forward to the present when said student Lee Jun-ho – played by Wie Ha-joon – suddenly comes back to the academy, now as an adult and the new rookie instructor. Although Jun-ho had secured a cushy job at a large corporation after college, he decides to change course and returns to the hagwon that had served as a dramatic turning point in his youth.
I expect there will be much protesting by various parties before love prevails. But as the short teaser declares in the captions, “A heart-fluttering midnight romance will begin when night falls in Daechi-dong,” and I put my trust in PD Ahn Pan-seok (One Spring Night, Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food) to deliver all the swoony feels.
Together with scripts by Park Kyung-hwa, tvN’s The Midnight Romance in Hagwon will be following Queen of Tears in the weekend slot, premiering on May 11.
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