This article contains mild spoilers.
Lead cast: Jung So-min, Jung Hae-in, Kim Ji-eun, Yoon Ji-on
Latest Nielsen rating: 5.55 per cent
In Love Next Door, the romantic Korean drama starring Jung So-min and Jung Hae-in, a pair of childhood friends and former neighbours reconnect when one of them returns home after a long stint overseas.
Exhausted from her work and having second thoughts about her impending marriage, Baek Seok-ryu (Jung So-min, Alchemy of Souls) returns to the nest to regroup. Meanwhile, Choi Seung-hyo (Jung Hae-in, D.P.) is hard at work setting up his new architecture firm.
Thus Love Next Door, much like last winter’s Welcome to Samdalri, was poised to be a story about two childhood friends who have to get over themselves and their troubles before getting into each other’s arms.
Indeed, the story has progressed in that direction, but unlike Samdalri and other series like it, that has not been the most compelling part of this show.
