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"Crash Course On Romance" is a romantic comedy drama about Haeng Seon and Chi Yeol.
Haeng Seon is an independent woman, who runs a side dish restaurant, raises her niece like a daughter and helps her brother with autism. Life isn't easy for her, but she tries to do everything. Chi Yeol is a famous math teacher, his life appears to be perfect, but he has digestive problems, Haeng Seon's food is the only thing he can eat, so Chi Yeol makes a trade with her, he'll teach her daughter Hae Yi in exchange for food. That's the beginning of their relationship.
At first, the two fight like children every chance they get, but as they spend more time together, Chi Yeol falls in love with Haeng Seon, but since he thinks she is married and a mother, he hides his feelings. The big problem is when people find out about their arrangement and start spreading rumors about their relationship, causing Chi Yeol to distance himself so that Haeng Seon and Hae Yi don't get hurt. The scene where Chi Yeol confesses his feelings is amazing, he does it to defend Haeng Seon from the women who were insulting her. Haeng Seon only realizes that she also has feelings for him when Chi Yeol tells the story about her mother's restaurant and says that he mistook his feelings because of her food. It reminded me so much of a scene from "A Gentleman's Dignity", with Yi Soo realizing that she liked Do Jin too. I felt sorry for Hae Yi having to tell everyone the truth, but she needed to do it so that Haeng Seon and Chi Yeol could be together.
These two are a very cute couple, there are lighter moments and more intense ones, but it's a shame that this took a long time to happen and there is little time to see them as a real couple. And honestly, I think the whole situation with Dong Hee was unnecessary, it just wasted moments that could have been about the couple. Within the story, it didn't fit to have a "villain", because there were already enough conflicts. There's the whole situation about Haeng Seon having a daughter, an autistic brother and there's also a big focus on the students, their problems with school, parents' obsession with studying and how this can harm young people, leading them to extreme. All of this was enough to keep the story going.
It's a good drama, it has a light, fun and easy-to-watch story, it just isn't everything I expected.
Haeng Seon is an independent woman, who runs a side dish restaurant, raises her niece like a daughter and helps her brother with autism. Life isn't easy for her, but she tries to do everything. Chi Yeol is a famous math teacher, his life appears to be perfect, but he has digestive problems, Haeng Seon's food is the only thing he can eat, so Chi Yeol makes a trade with her, he'll teach her daughter Hae Yi in exchange for food. That's the beginning of their relationship.
At first, the two fight like children every chance they get, but as they spend more time together, Chi Yeol falls in love with Haeng Seon, but since he thinks she is married and a mother, he hides his feelings. The big problem is when people find out about their arrangement and start spreading rumors about their relationship, causing Chi Yeol to distance himself so that Haeng Seon and Hae Yi don't get hurt. The scene where Chi Yeol confesses his feelings is amazing, he does it to defend Haeng Seon from the women who were insulting her. Haeng Seon only realizes that she also has feelings for him when Chi Yeol tells the story about her mother's restaurant and says that he mistook his feelings because of her food. It reminded me so much of a scene from "A Gentleman's Dignity", with Yi Soo realizing that she liked Do Jin too. I felt sorry for Hae Yi having to tell everyone the truth, but she needed to do it so that Haeng Seon and Chi Yeol could be together.
These two are a very cute couple, there are lighter moments and more intense ones, but it's a shame that this took a long time to happen and there is little time to see them as a real couple. And honestly, I think the whole situation with Dong Hee was unnecessary, it just wasted moments that could have been about the couple. Within the story, it didn't fit to have a "villain", because there were already enough conflicts. There's the whole situation about Haeng Seon having a daughter, an autistic brother and there's also a big focus on the students, their problems with school, parents' obsession with studying and how this can harm young people, leading them to extreme. All of this was enough to keep the story going.
It's a good drama, it has a light, fun and easy-to-watch story, it just isn't everything I expected.
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