Netflix K-drama Forecasting Love and Weather: Park Min-young, Song Kang in workplace romantic drama that’s all clear skies ahead

New Netflix series delves into the private and professional lives of a diverse bunch of weather forecasters as they work, and regularly fall in and out of love

Show is full of little details revolving around personal and atmospheric variations, with the weather used as a powerful symbolic tool in the storytelling

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Song Kang in a still from Forecasting Love and Weather. The Netflix K-drama details the romantic entanglements of a group of weather forecasters.

Published: 5:15pm, 16 Feb 2022Updated: 7:06pm, 16 Feb 2022

This article contains mild spoilers.

Meteorology is a notoriously difficult field of study, but that doesn’t stop us from complaining about the weather forecasters who didn’t warm us to bring our umbrellas once the first drop of rain wets our hair. They incur our wrath when they’re wrong, but when they’re right, we take it for granted.

How often do we think about how complicated that work is, or consider the tempestuous storms that may be going on in the lives of those forecasters? Now’s your chance to find out as the private and professional lives of the analysts at the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) come under the loop in Forecasting Love and Weather, the latest show from JTBC, now streaming around the world on Netflix.

The set-up is a familiar one as we find ourselves in a clean work environment full of consummate professionals. Just like She Would Never Know, another JTBC show that came out in early 2021, we follow a gutsy career-minded woman at the tail end of a long-term relationship with a colleague, and whose life is slowly upended by a brilliant, younger and very assured colleague.

Here, the woman is veteran team leader Jin Ha-kyung, played by Park Min-young, returning to the small screen two years after the similarly titled When the Weather Is Fine. Ha-kyung is engaged to be married to her colleague Han Ki-joon (Yoon Park), the KMA’s public spokesperson.