Disney+ K-drama Crazy Love: Kim Jae-wook, Krystal Jung in romantic comedy that shifts gears quickly
- The series shines a light on the Asian phenomenon of private tutoring. Kim Jae-wook plays a maths tutor and tutoring company CEO and Krystal Jung his secretary
- A terrible boss, Kim’s character has made plenty of enemies – might one try to kill him? Amnesia, a wealthy heiress and a handsome deputy CEO add to the mix
This article contains mild spoilers.
In a competitive society like South Korea’s, few things are more important than getting a good education – one of the few things that can help you rise to the top if you weren’t lucky enough to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth.
But merely putting in the time and effort to study isn’t enough – you need to be studying the right things, at the right places and with the right people.
Noh Gojin, played by Kim Jae-wook (Her Private Life) is an online maths tutor whose signing events attract the kind of fanatical hordes you would expect at a K-pop concert.
Gojin is handsome, brilliant and very sure of himself. In one of his videos he exclaims that there are only two ways of going about mathematics: “give up or take my course.”