Infuriatingly taking their sweet time with promos, tvN offers us another tantalizing crumb with The Midnight Romance in Hagwon’s first teaser, where love finds Jung Ryeo-won (May It Please the Court) and Wie Ha-joon (Gyeongseong Creature) as the clock strikes twelve.
Taking us to Seoul’s Daechi area, the feeding ground for after-school tutoring academies (a.k.a. hagwons), the romance has Jung Ryeo-won playing star instructor Seo Hye-jin. Resilient and steadfast, our heroine has a solid 14 years of experience in her job and hit the legendary tier ten years back with what’s known as the “Daechi-dong Miracle” in her field.
At the time, Hye-jin had been struggling over her career path, reflecting on past dreams and worrying about her future after teaching. But despite this, she had put her all into helping a troublemaker student at the hagwon and somehow managed to get him accepted into a prestigious college.
Fast forward to the present when said student Lee Jun-ho – played by Wie Ha-joon – suddenly comes back to the academy, now as an adult and the new rookie instructor. Although Jun-ho had secured a cushy job at a large corporation after college, he decides to change course and returns to the hagwon that had served as a dramatic turning point in his youth.
Together with scripts by Park Kyung-hwa, tvN’s The Midnight Romance in Hagwon will be following Queen of Tears in the weekend slot, premiering on May 11.