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Love Next Door
The only thing I didn't know was your 'first love'.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Jung Hae-in
Choi Seung-hyo
16 eps
Jung So-min
Bae Seok-ryu
16 eps
Kim Ji-eun
Jeong Mo-eum
16 eps
Yun Ji-on
Kang Dan-ho
16 eps
Park Ji-young
Na Mi-suk
16 eps
Cho Han-cheul
Bae Geun-sik
16 eps
Jang Young-nam
Seo Hye-suk
16 eps
Lee Seung-joon
Choi Kyung-jong
16 eps
Jun Seok-ho
Yoon Myeong-u
16 eps
Kim Geum-soon
Do Jae-suk
16 eps
Han Ye-ju
Bang In-suk
16 eps
Lee Seung-hyub
Bae Dong-jin
16 eps
Shim So-young
Lee Na-yun
16 eps
Shim Ji-yu
Kang Yeon-du
16 eps
Oh Eun-seo
Bae Seok-ryu (child)
16 eps
Cho Yeo-joon
Choi Seung-hyo (child)
16 eps
Hong Yoon-soo
Park Hyung-chan
16 eps
Bang So-min
Han Jeong-min
16 eps
Cho Seung-yeon
Kwak Se-hwan
16 eps
Yu Hyung-jun
Go Seul-gi
16 eps
Woo Sang-wook
Yeon Min-ho
16 eps
Lee Si-hyung
Park Jeong-woo
16 eps
Oh Ji-hye
Yu Jin-ae
2 eps
Yoon Young-min
Recruiter
1 eps
Yoon Hyo-sik
Coach
1 eps
Kwon Ha-young
Kindergarten teacher
1 eps
Lee Dong-hyeon
High school student
1 eps
Lee Mi-yun
Yeong-hee
1 eps
Choi Moon-soo
Min-hee
1 eps
Lee Jeong-in
Jung-hee
1 eps
Jin Tae-yeon
Soon-hee
1 eps
Park Jeong-min
Pork restaurant owner
1 eps
Jeong Hee-young
Fruit seller
2 eps
Kwon Ki-ju
Bus driver
1 eps
Lee Bong-ryeon
Im Kyung-ran
1 eps
Roh Yoon-seo
Self
1 eps
Seo Ji-hye
Jang Tae-hui
5 eps
Han Jun-woo
Song Hyeon-jun
4 eps
Nam Min-woo
Vlogger
2 eps
Kim Hyeon-mok
Vlogger
2 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Love Next Door actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Love Next Door reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Humour.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
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
A woman attempting to reboot her life returns to Korea and becomes entangled with her childhood friend — with whom she shares a complicated history.
The run
Seasons
1 season · 16 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Limited Series
202416 episodes
7.6IMDbAs kids, they were at turns friends and foes. As adults, they're two crazy successful people living on opposite sides of the world. When a chance meeting throws them together again, will their relationship blossom into something more?
Best episode · S01E06 Your First
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Comeback
Soon-to-be-wed Bae Seok-ryu returns to Korea and runs into her old friend Choi Seung-hyo. But she acts strangely around him, hiding a secret.
- Directed by Yu Je-won
- Written by Shin Ha-eun
S01E02
Hate
Even as her loved ones ask for an explanation, Seok-ryu hides her vulnerabilities until a confrontation with her mom forces Seung-hyo to come to her aid.
- Directed by Yu Je-won
- Written by Shin Ha-eun
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.
Writing
- Shin Ha-eunWriter
Direction
- Yu Je-wonDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- NetflixStreaming
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