K-drama midseason recap: Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha – Netflix romcom continues to charm despite unconvincing love triangle
- Shin Min-a and Kim Seon-ho continue to try and work out their feelings for each other, but the arrival of Ji Seong-hyun threatens to put a spanner in the works
- Middle episodes of the series have chronicled the budding romance against a soothing and pastoral setting, but the formula has got less convincing
This article contains spoilers.
Since setting up her dental clinic in the idyllic coastal town of Gongjin, city slicker Yoon Hye-jin (Shin Min-a) has had to deal with nosy neighbours and a lack of creature comforts. Also getting in her hair has been local jack-of-all-trades Hong Du-sik (Kim Seon-ho).
The pair lock horns, again and again, as in Gongjin everyone seems to bump into each other a few times a day. That goes double for Hye-jin and Du-sik, as the former needs plenty of help settling into the town and Du-sik seems to be the area’s sole worker in the service trade, no matter what small task needs to be done.
Despite their testy interactions, a mutual attraction naturally begins to form between the attractive pair until a night of drinking – what else? – gives Hye-jin enough of a blackout to begin to wonder what may have happened between them.
Also curious is everyone else in Gongjin, as word of a dishevelled Hye-jin leaving Du-sik’s home in the morning spread like wildfire.