Temperature of Love

September 11, 2017

Lee Hyun-soo (Seo Hyun-jin), a drama scriptwriter, and On Jun-sun (Yang Se-jong), a chef dreaming of his own restaurant, meet and fall in love. The Itaewon restaurant district establishes the food world, Yeouido the drama-writing world.

September 11, 2017

Their first relationship ends due to circumstance — the drama's time-skip structure introduced.

September 18, 2017

Hyun-soo and Jun-sun as adults, separately successful in their respective worlds, crossing paths again.

September 18, 2017

Jun-sun's restaurant in Itaewon — the dream he built while she was gone.

September 25, 2017

Hyun-soo's screenwriting process and the specific way her personal life bleeds into her professional work.

September 25, 2017

Their awareness that they are circling each other again — older, wavier, more capable of understanding what they want.

October 2, 2017

Hyun-soo's drama industry world in Yeouido — its specific pressures and its distance from the food world Jun-sun inhabits.

October 2, 2017

Both characters at their midpoint — professionally successful, personally incomplete.

October 9, 2017

The drama's central metaphor — love at the right temperature, neither burning nor cold.

October 9, 2017

Jun-sun's restaurant ambition and what it has cost him in the years since Hyun-soo.

October 16, 2017

Hyun-soo's most personal script — the story she has been writing since the beginning.

October 16, 2017

A complication that tests whether their reconnection is sustainable.

October 23, 2017

A night in Itaewon where both their worlds briefly overlap — the drama's most romantic location sequence.

October 23, 2017

Both characters' final decisions about what they want.

October 30, 2017

The drama's argument: love at the right moment, with the right understanding, held at the right temperature.

October 30, 2017

The finale. Seo Hyun-jin and Yang Se-jong's warm chemistry in a realistic adult romance about timing.