Miniseries · tvN
Crash Course in Romance
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Jeon Do-yeon
Nam Haeng-seon
16 eps
Jung Kyung-ho
Choi Chi-yeol
16 eps
Shin Jae-ha
Ji Dong-hui
16 eps
Lee Bong-ryeon
Kim Yeong-ju
16 eps
Oh Eui-sik
Nam Jae-woo
16 eps
Roh Yoon-seo
Nam Hae-e
16 eps
Jang Young-nam
Jang Seo-jin
16 eps
Kim Sun-young
Cho Su-hui
16 eps
Hwang Bo-ra
Lee Mi-ok
16 eps
Heo Jeong-do
Kang Jun-sang
16 eps
Lee Chae-min
Lee Sun-jae
16 eps
Kang Na-eon
Bang Su-a
16 eps
Ryu Da-in
Jang Dan-ji
16 eps
Lee Min-jae
Seo Geon-hu
16 eps
Kim Tae-jeong
Lee Hui-jae
16 eps
Ji Il-ju
Jin I-sang
16 eps
Lee Do-hye
Jeong Su-hyeon
16 eps
Kim Da-huin
Jeon Jong-ryeol
16 eps
Lee Ji-hae
Director Jeong
16 eps
Park Hui-eun
Jin-su's mother
16 eps
Choi Hee-jin
Young-min's mother
16 eps
Yoo Jun
Lee Young-min
16 eps
Jeong Han-seol
Bae Jeong-su
16 eps
Hwang Jae-yeol
Detective Song
16 eps
Jang Tae-min
Detective
16 eps
Go Ae-ri
Jo Ga-yeon
16 eps
Lee A-jin
Lee Hyo-won
16 eps
Kim Gye-rim
Hyeon Seo-Jin
16 eps
Kim Kwon
Instructor
1 eps
Lee Kyeong-uk
CM director
1 eps
Kim Jun-won
Seo-jin's husband
1 eps
Gu Bon-jin
Building security guard
1 eps
Yoon Seok-hyun
Song Jun-ho
2 eps
Jeong Hyeon-woo
Teacher
1 eps
Kim Mi-ra
Audience student's mother
1 eps
Kim Min-chul
Choi Chi-yeol (teenager)
1 eps
Kim Jung-don
Handball coach
1 eps
Choi So-yul
Nam Hae-e (child)
1 eps
Kim Mi-kyeong
Haeng-seon's mother
2 eps
Hong Lu-hyeon
English teacher
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Crash Course in Romance actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Crash Course in Romance reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
The series follows the bittersweet relationship between a banchan shop owner whose daughter enters the war of Korea's college entrance exams, and a top hagwon instructor.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E16
You and I, the Union of Two Universes
- Directed by Yu Je-won
- Written by Yang Hui-seung
S01E15
The Result of Chance and Inevitability
- Directed by Yu Je-won
- Written by Yang Hui-seung
S01E14
Find the Unique Solution
- Directed by Yu Je-won
- Written by Yang Hui-seung
S01E13
How We Approach an Unsolvable Conjecture
- Directed by Yu Je-won
- Written by Yang Hui-seung
S01E12
Point of Intersection between Comedy and Tragedy
- Directed by Yu Je-won
- Written by Yang Hui-seung
S01E11
The Functional Relationship of Our Love
- Directed by Yu Je-won
- Written by Yang Hui-seung
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Jo Moon JooProducer
Writing
- Yang Hui-seungWriter
- Yeo Eun-hoWriter
- Yang Hee-seungWriter
Direction
- Yu Je-wonDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- NetflixStreaming
- Netflix Standard with AdsStreaming
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