tvN’s new melodrama series “The Midnight Romance in Hagwon” — a romance story between a teacher and a former student — is off to a good start, kicking off with a 5.2 percent viewership rating Saturday.The new series follows a star Korean language lecturer, Seo Hye-jin (Jung Ryeo-won), who has been in the cutthroat private education field of the Daechi neighborhood in Gangnam for 14 years.When she helped an underperforming student, Lee Joon-ho (Wi Ha-joon), boost his grade to get into a prestigious college, she became a legend in the field.
About 10 years later, Seo reunites with Lee when he quits his well-paying corporate job to teach at the academy he’d studied at, bringing unexpected changes to her ordinary life.The first episode showed Seo working day and night to teach students, repeating the same pattern daily. When she sees Lee taking a qualification exam to teach at her academy, she tries to convince him not to give up his current work for the underappreciated teaching job.The series is led by director Ahn Pan-seok, who is known for helming romance series like “Something in the Rain” (2018) and 온라인카지노 “One Spring Night” (2019).
