Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha

Healing drama

I love the story, i love the actors & actress & i love the ost!! Best drama ever 🥰🥰🥰.
Hometown chachacha is the healing drama but also loveable filming and always be remembering as precious in all the ways we have to be comforted, to be chill , to be well-known as healing drama in timeless time. Can we be back to the first time homcha ? 😭
Ep 1 moment when she need someone helps
Ep 2 moment when the hearts beat each other
Ep 3 moment when he need her
Ep 4 moment when they made a "biological crisis"
Ep 5 moment when ahe remember everything
Ep 6 moment when he falling in love (again)
Ep 7 moment when he need her
Ep 8 moment whe feel save with his existance
Ep 9 moment when she lost control
Ep 10 moment whe he afraid she got hurt
Ep 11 moment whe she confess first to him
Ep 12 moment when filling her bucketlist
Ep 13 moment when he need her
Ep 14 moment when he want tell her about him
Ep 15 moment when he opened his pandora
Ep 16 moment when they found their happiness

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✒Jack & the Hedgehog Take a Bite Outta the Hood ✨ °8.2° °Excellent°

Yoon Hye Jin (HJin) loses it one day. Total Mariah-moment. She quits. She drinks. She trashes her boss online. HJin is a skilled dentist with a conscience. This, invariably, put her at odds with her greedy boss who expected her to prescribe unnecessary, but expensive treatment for their unwitting patients. She couldn't take the pain anymore, and extraction was necessary. Now she's jobless and no one wants to hire a ‘poison pill’. Going keyboard commando on her employer put all her potential employers’ teeth on edge.

What does she do? She goes for a ride. Her wandering takes her to a quaint seaside town. Her love affair begins with the sign over one establishment: Coffee in the middle of the day. Beer in the moonlight… But she ends up having a fateful day: She loses her shoes. Then her phone dies. She can't find her money either. At every turn she received reluctant assistance from a local yocal, Hong Doo Shik (DShik).

HCCC is a 2021 release that is rated 90 on AWiki. It is 1 season consisting of 16 70-minute episodes. Shin Ha Eun of Love Next Door and The Crowned Clown is the screenwriter who brings small town magic to life. The deep-dimpled and lovely Shin Min Ah (Chief of Staff, Oh My Venus-7.4, My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho, Our Blues-8.5) is HJin. She's the hedgehog - get too close you'll get stuck. Kim Seon Ho (Welcome to Waikiki S2, 100 Days My Prince-5.5) is DShik, our Jack-of-all-trades. Since Start-up-8 and Strongest Delivery Man-6.6, I've been a fan. It's wonderful to see him play the romantic lead. Lee Sang Yi (Youth of May, When the Camellia Blooms-8, Han RiverPolice-7.4) once again shows his range as Ji Sung Hyun. Kim Young Ok, whose earliest credit is from 1957, is one of the elderly ladies. She is stupendous. The magnificent Lee Jung Eun has a guest appearance in ep1; I think she's my favorite actress right now. The rest of the cast is wonderful, and the music might even be better. After Shazaming ‘Wish’ by Choi Yu Ree I pulled the entire playlist up on Spotify. All of the music is sensational. It compounds the delight factor. HCCC is excellent. There's a little bit of filler in double-digit episodes, but it doesn't suffer much from it.

I'm a fan of the director, Yoo Je Won. He's brought us Oh My Ghost-10, the popular Love Next Door, & Crash Course in Romance. This Director exudes warmth, has an appreciation for good food, and really “gets” good music, particularly jazz. Like OMG, the soundtrack for HTCCC is stellar. Top tier. After some bold & underlined question marks (CV overview follows review) I am so happy that he's settled back into his own and is cranking out such amazing stuff, like I know that he can.

The main character in HCCC is the home town. HJin is from Seoul. She is used to high fashion and upscale amenities. The people that live in her new home lead different lives and rely on eachother heavily. We have the young, the old, the men, the women, the silly and the wise. There's a full cast and wide variety of well-developed characters who help push the plot. They also like to sink their teeth into some juicy gossip. After taking the plunge and opening a dental practice there, HJin offends everyone with her unconsciously elitist attitude, but with DShik's help from the shadows, she eventually settles into small town life. The next closest dentist is an hour away, so customers begin to wander in.

When HJin & DShik finally start dating, she wants to keep it a secret. The town is full of busybodies, afterall. Most of it isn't mean-spirited, but that's besides the point. Every time someone happens upon a sweet moment they are sharing, she turns around and slaps or kicks him. She even gives him a bloody nose in an effort to throw the dogs off. He almost doesn't survive their initial secretive phase. As it turns out, none of it was working anyway. Everyone saw through it.

They run into relationship static at one point. She knows he's keeping hurts from the past bottled up. She wants him to open up. She comes to the conclusion that she should wait for him. She tells him that if he promises to open up to her one day, then she'll wait until he's ready. He can take as long as he wants to “open wide”. I think that's the right answer instead of drilling him for what she wants, when she wants it.

HCCC digs into the root of things once or twice. One of the characters gets a beautiful speech followed up shortly by quite a beautiful death scene. Rather than the sequence feeling sad, it is a triumph of a simple life, lived well, to the fullest satisfaction. That is the theme of HCCC: A simple life and being content with just enough is the key to happiness. We let our endless wants create discontent and dissatisfaction. Choosing simplicity and contentment is choosing joy and peace. Love will always follow Along those lines, HCCC is a pleasant trip to the seaside with nothing complicated or heavy. Quite the opposite.



〰🖍 IMHO

📣8.2 📝7.8 🎭8 💓7.7 🦋5 🎨7 🎵/🔊8.8 🔚8 ▪ 🌞6.5 ⚡3 😅4 😭3 😱2 😯2 🤢1 🤔5 💤1

Age 12+ Language: PG-13, but there isn't much of that. Rated TV-14: Parents Strongly Cautioned.


Re-📺? 🆒


In order of ~lite&trite~ to ~heavy&serious~ you may also like:

Fish out water tales:
Live Up To Your Name-7.6;
Mr. Queen 8.5,
The Legend of the Blue Sea-7.2 - It's exceptional except for 2 episodes,
Touch your heart 8.2,
Crash Landing On You 9.1,
Hotel del Luna-8.4,


Modern Day Kromcoms-
Mad For Each Other-7.7 ~silly fun;
Crazy Love-7.8,
My First First Love-8,
A Witch's Love 7.8,
Love to Hate You 8.9,
Her Private Life 8,
Romance is a bonus book-7.9;
Oh My Ghost 10,
It's Okay Not To Be Okay 9,
Love Struck in the City 7.3,
Our Blues-8.7,
Descendants Of The Sun-8.3,
Familiar Wife-8.5,
Because This Is My First Life-7.7,
Hospital Playlist 9,
My Mister 9.5,
I'll See You When the Weather is Fine 9

Historical/Period -
My Only Love Song 8.7 ~ excellent comedy,
My Sassy Girl 8.5,
Saimdang 8.5,
The King's Affection 8.3,

Romance junkies only -
My Secret Romance 7 (if you ff thru overdone flashbacks),
99 days with the Superstar-7,
Boys Over Flowers 8 ~ melodrama to the max,
The Bride of Habaek 7,
A Korean Odyssey-7.2,
Heirs 7.3,
That Winter, The Wind Blows 7,
Something in the Rain 9,
C🇨🇳: Well-Intended Love 7.5 Rom-porn - extra points for the dopamine,
You are my destiny 6.8 cute, sweet & 1/2 padding, When I Fly Towards You-7.8, Find Yourself 8.9,
Hidden Love-7.8,
Wait, My Youth-8.4,
A Little Thing Called First Love 8.5


{📣Yoo Je Won Career summary: The solidly rated High School King of Savvy is his first effort. Oh My Ghost, as highly rated as it is, is still under-appreciated. Not only are the 4 leads (as well as supporting actor Lim Ju-hwan) absolute savants, but there is not one wasted line of dialogue. Everything points to something else. There's constant use of foreshadowing, metaphors, and other techniques that don't stop. Every viewing of the show reveals only more. Furthermore, it's a laugh-out-loud delight in the first half and then gets genuinely teary later on. I suspect it suffers because things don't get rolling until the very end of ep1, so a chunk of viewers probably didn't stick with it. Nevertheless, it is a masterpiece and catapulted this director and the lead actors to super-stardom. Tomorrow With You-7, which also stars Shin Min Ah, was next. I liked it very much, but some of the logic is deeply flawed - so much so that I cannot rate it above a 7. The positives outweigh the bad, but it should have been better. The Smile Has Left Your Eyes was well received and followed up by Abyss-4.7, which is a complete failure in every way possible. It is a debacle and there is almost nothing redeeming about it, other than the good looks of the ML. It is over-rated by kind viewers, many of which are likely reacting to a dearth of good romantic content from Hwood. Abyss is better than most Hwood gunk, but it is not worth watching once, given the many better features Asia has to offer. Hi Bye Mama!-6.5 has plenty of positives, but I wouldn't choose to watch it again. It was intended to be a ray of hope for people that have suffered loss, which was exactly what I was going through at the time, but it didn't do it for me. With HTCCC, CCiR, and LND he seems to have recaptured his magic.}

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Romantic Sunday

Wonderful story from start to finish. Extremely funny, and that makes you freak out a lot and suffer in the right amount. All characters steal the show, with no exceptions. Their story is beautiful as neighbors who consider themselves family and the individual story of each one is also beautiful. The evolution and maturation of each one of them is very nice to watch.

Now talking about Dusik and his history. He was the one who drew the most attention in all the episodes. He showed what a feeling of guilt can do to a person. Both self-blame and guilt placed by others. And as we suspected from the beginning, nothing that happened was his fault. They were just fatalities that I wasn't and couldn't be in anyone's control. It's good that in the end he and the people involved understood this and forgave each other, taking a burden off his heart and conscience so he could move on without worrying about what happened in the past.

Hyejin and Dusik were a relationship goal couple. A lot of chemistry involved and each one helped the other in the process of maturation and evolution. The plot that they had already met as children, as teenagers and that Hyejin called for help when she saw Dusik on the bridge, made their adult relationship even more special.

And yet the third of the love triangle didn't stay in the friendzone forever. This should be mandatory in all love triangles.

Happy ending is great. But happy ending with marriage is even better!

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Heartwarming drama

Hometown cha cha cha become my all time favorite k drama along with reply 1988, this somehow become my moodbooster in my busy life. If you look for k drama with rom com and slice of life, you will be definetly like it.
As we know that this work is adaption based on movies, but i should say that the drama is more beautifull in all aspect: cinematography is breathtaking, the script is fresh and nice, all actor and actress act very well,
Kim seon ho acting is superb, i love his micro expression in acting that makes me laugh and cry during the series. My favorite parts of him is in ep 15, i must say that his acting gives me chills..he should be the next kim so hyun..
Shin min ah as always become the queen of rom com, she portray hyejin very well. While they act together, the chemistry was so extra. The two of them complete each other very well, i can see they deliver adlibs naturaly and flawlessly..
Hwajeong, namsuk, and bora eomma acting’s also make me cry a river , their background in theatre gives guarantee of good acting..
The ost is always become my favorite , choi yu ree wish, i dont know why i feel so emotional while i listen to this song..
What should i say, this drama is perfection, when you need to heal your wounds or to escape from stressfull life.just go watch this drama.

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THE BEST DRAMA OF 2021

To be honest the story nothing out of the box same regular love story, but the way it's executed and the way realistic touch is given makes this drama unique and special. This is just an amazing drama which makes you emotion and happy when you watch it.

The actors in this drama are really wow their performance was simply awesome. Kim Seon ho and Shin min ah were so cute and chemistry btw them was eye-catching. Not only the main lead the remaining characters just performed brilliantly. Each and every character has their own story and it was nice to watch them. Mainly Chang Yeong-Guk and Oh Chun-Jae this two just kept entertaining in the middle of every episode. And the musics in it are also amazing.

It was soo realistic that as I kept watching I felt as if I was also one among them. Just can't forget this drama it's become favourite drama now. Wish there was season 2.

Highly recommended don't miss this drama at any cost it's a must watch

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IT'S SO GOOD AND REFRESHING

So fun and light. Enjoyable from the very beginnng to the very end.
The leads dynamics are hilarious and the side characters of the island are all so lovable and unique they will make the funniest scenes while adding a little bit of their own story to the show. It's a cut relationship between the leads without major conflicts between them. It potraits a mature relationship with a heathy comunication (most of the times cause the angst is a must) and the healthy relationship it's not exclusive to the main couple, the rest of the couples on the show are all very mature as well. Its a must watch!

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This is a drama that sounds like a hallmark rom-com; a city girl who focuses a lot on frames and her career moves to a beautiful small town and meets a scruffy local men that she falls in love with. But this is actually a slice-of-life story. It’s overflowing with warm feelings and wonderful, deep and imperfect characters that you will fall in love with along the way. It’s almost like a warm drink on a rainy day in kdrama form. Hometown Cha Cha Cha is one of those dramas that really moved me from the very first episode as there was something so cozy and homely about them that just gripped me by the heartstrings and would not let me go.

The story may not be big but it seems to be enough there that the story never drags it’s legs or or goes into endless circles with the plot. It spends a good time with all the characters and the introspection of those characters that takes place within the drama.

Hometown Cha Cha Cha strikes a pretty good balance between having a story that is constantly moving forward while also capturing this mundane life and the quiet moments as we follow all of these different characters and their lives in this small community where everyone knows everyone.

All the characters we meet on our way through the story are interesting and it’s fun to watch them and their impact on each other’s lives. Everyone has their own burdens and baggage’s in life that the drama manages to explore quite well. Watching people’s walls break down over time and people face their demons without it ever dragging too long or being too dramatic.

We get to see the different sides of most of all the characters and how complex and human they are. Each episode of the drama is more than an hour long, which I usually do moan about, but here I hardly felt it. Because I enjoyed the time with the characters so much.

There is almost this subdued suspense that is there all the way through the story. It never get’s too big, too dramatic or too ahead of itself. It captures this feeling that life can be messy but it’s also just a series of moments that pass and fade over time really well. Some moments are wonderful, warm and calm but some cruel and sad. But life still goes on somehow. The message of the story and the story itself is not much bigger than that, but it works really well.

So much of the romance, but also just the friendship that is going on, is just about the individual’s personal boundaries and the communication between them. Everything about how the romance was built radiated comfort and warmth in my opinion, which I found really sweet and just pleasant to watch. Like everything about the drama was. Shin Min Ah and Kim Seon Ho, as well as all the other actors, fill their characters with life and emotions.

There is also a really good balance between the love stories within the drama and the other stories that deal more with people’s personal lives and their position in life. The love story will never be too sappy, which would not suit this type of story, but rather it seem more human and sensible. Even if misunderstandings occur it is quickly worked out and one can understands the reason why the character act a certain way because they story has worked for it. These people are complex and you get to see them from many angles.

The love story is still a very big part of the story; both when it comes to the main characters and the supporting characters. But even though the story is about them falling in love, it is also so much about these characters learning to love themselves as well as the other characters around them. But the drama also deals with loads of different themes such as loneliness in old age, divorce, there is a lgbt character, and many other things that crop up as we go through the lives of the characters of this small town as this is ultimately a story about the community.

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A Refreshing and Realistic and Remarkable story!

Ever since the start of 2021, there have been an overwhelming amount of kdramas released with the mystery, thriller, psychological genre, so HOMETOWN CHA CHA CHA was like a breath of fresh air.

The main thing that made this drama worthwhile was the perfect casting of our leads, the whole Gongjin family and of course, the Gongjin village itself! The way they captured the beautiful and mesmerizing sceneries, it will make anyone crave to live there, even if it's for a while.

Next comes our remarkable characters. Kim Seon Ho and Shin Min Ah showed one of the most adorable chemistry, and it was beautiful seeing how their whole journey towards finding and falling for each other evolved in front of our eyes.
The spectacular acting by our cast made this drama worth watching. Kim Seon Ho's famous "eye-acting" was present here too, and made us all cry along and suffer with him, then comes our Gamri Halmeoni who reminded us of our own lovable grandmothers. Moreover, the side stories of our Gongjin residents - Namsook, Hwajeong, Cho Hui, Oh Yoon, the bromance between Dusik and Ji pd was very perfectly executed. The child actors playing Ijun, Bora were exceptional too.

All in all, this drama showed us the perfect bonding and love between people who are not related by blood, but at the end of the day, they are like a huge, loving family, who will do anything and everything for each other.
WHAT AN ENJOYABLE RIDE IT WAS!

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Hot & Cold female lead. The village people are intrusive with too much screen time

The two leads are great & thier dimples work over time, but I never warmed up to the small town residents They are annoying, intrusive & make excuses for each other's bad behavior. They also get way too much unnecessary screen time . Shin Min-a's character ran cold & hot & it was hard to like her at times. There were other times when she would start channeling her " My Girl Friend is Gumiho" & "Oh my Venus" characters, squealing like a teenager .Considering her age, It was a bit off & odd.
I think that this is my least fav role for her-at least the way she is written. Her character is alternately too pushy & too mushy at times. The last few episodes were boring; being taken up with tidying up all the town people's stories- I just didn't care for that at all.

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Do you that feeling wen you have been waiting to watch a drama for so long and then you finally do watch it and it doesn't disappoint you?? The best feeling in the world.
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha actually was a very gentle and soft drama. I think these two words describe the drama perfectly. The male lead was so caring, never getting angry and so cute. It wasn't a cliché where the male lead was over-bearing and rich. his role was so down-to-earth. I am so glad that even in the end they didn't show him becoming rich or going back to his old life. It was a life lesson to be learnt.
The female lead's character was also great. At first I thought she wasn't so nice but I realised her character portrayed a realistic life. You don't always get along with everyone in life. She was honest and voiced her opinions bravely. She managed to become family with everyone else at least.
One thing that annoyed me was when the main leads became a couple, Yoon Hye Jin's character suddenly got a little cringe. Yes I get that people in love go all sweet and lovey-dovey but I found that her acting was too over the top.
Also, I didn't like the fact that she kept on forcing Chief Hong to open up to her. I get that they are together and must share everything but in my opinion, everyone has their own insecurities and secrets they don't wish to easily share. That's something they should have respected. Her telling him once or twice to open up was fine but then it got irritating when she literally forced him.
All-in-all, it was a great drama and one I will never forget. I totally loved it!

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