K-drama Yumi’s Cells season two: love is in the air as workplace romcom returns with Kim Go-eun and Jinyoung
- Still raw from the break-up that ended season 1 of Yumi’s Cells, office worker Kim Yumi and the cells in her ‘mind village’ need time before a new romance
- Work colleague Bobby Yoo (Jinyoung) is undeterred, and there’s plenty of time for a series that combines bubbly charm, cute couple antics and realism to blossom
Office worker Kim Yumi (Kim Go-eun) returns for another run of romantic uncertainty in the second season of the imaginative Korean romantic comedy series Yumi’s Cells, based on the popular webtoon of the same name.
Yumi’s Cells has all the bubbly charm and cute couple antics we love to see in a K-drama, with the added novelty of our being privy to the lead character’s thoughts in the form of animated cells inside her “mind village”. Yet it also stands apart from its peers with an adult and realistic approach to relationships.
Things don’t always work out in life and Yumi, along with everyone watching at home, learned that the hard way last year when the show’s first season ended on the gut-wrenching note of Yumi’s break-up with her boyfriend, Goo Woong (Ahn Bo-hyun).
Despite their best intentions and clear chemistry, they each possessed character traits that gradually needled the other, leading to a parting of ways that was neither explosive nor perfunctory.
Season two kicks off with a brief overlap of last year’s finale, as we witness the sad moment again in the cafe, only this time everything around Yumi is in black and white, while she remains in colour.