One Spring Night

May 22, 2019

Jung In (Han Ji-min) is a librarian in Jeonju in a comfortable but passionless long-term relationship. She meets pharmacist Lee Jung-in (Jung Hae-in) by accident. He is a single father. The Jeonju Hanok Village area establishes the drama's unhurried world.

May 22, 2019

Lee Jung-in's life as a single father — his son, his pharmacy, his quiet competence — shown without sentimentality.

May 29, 2019

Jung In's recognition that what she feels in Lee Jung-in's company is something she hasn't felt before — and her discomfort with that recognition.

May 29, 2019

A walk through the Jeonju evening streets. The drama's visual language — slow, close, attentive to ordinary gestures — established at its fullest.

June 5, 2019

Jung In's current boyfriend's possessiveness and her growing awareness of what she has been tolerating.

June 5, 2019

Lee Jung-in tells Jung In what he feels. The drama's central confession, handled with the same restraint that characterises everything about it.

June 12, 2019

Both families' responses to the developing relationship. The drama's social pressure examined without simplification.

June 12, 2019

Jung In and Lee Jung-in's relationship after the confession. The Jeonju streets and Hanok Village at their most beautiful.

June 19, 2019

Everything both characters have suppressed — about their own needs, their own histories — is spoken.

June 19, 2019

The finale. A romance that trusted its audience to find quiet decisions as dramatic as grand gestures. Jung Hae-in's best performance before 2020.