Netflix K-drama Crash Course in Romance: Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Kyung-ho lead comforting romcom
- Jeon Do-yeon plays an ex-handball player trying to get her daughter into the classes of a renowned private tutor, played by Jung Kyung-ho, in Gangnam, Seoul
- They cross paths a number of times and will inevitably end up together, but the first episodes give very little away as the story’s characters are sketched in
Anyone who has watched even a few Korean dramas will be well aware of how competitive education in South Korea can be. Where there’s competition, there are always people looking for an edge, and when it comes to education, that edge can often be found in private tutoring.
Many luminaries of K-pop and K-drama are globally famous, but in Korea there’s another category of celebrities with their own cadres of crazed fans: private tutors.
Choi Chi-yeol (Jung) is an ilta, an abbreviation for “first-ranked star” and a word used to refer to popular private instructors – the Korean title of the show is Ilta Scandal.
Chi-yeol is the most sought after instructor in Seoul’s Gangnam neighbourhood, the most competitive schooling district in Korea, if not the world. He is hounded by besotted students at the end of each of his classes and even deals with stalkers.