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Our Beloved Summer

★ 8.1 16K votes 2021–2022 1 season · 16 episodes Ended SBS
K-dramaKorean drama storytelling: emotional arcs, romance beats and format traditions.This show: 10/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 10/10Romantic yearningThe will-they-won't-they ache as the main draw.This show: 9/10SentimentalOpenly emotional storytelling that reaches straight for the heartstrings.This show: 7/10NostalgicTrades on longing for a past era, in the story or around it.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Choi Woo-sikKim Da-miRoh Jeong-euiSeo Jung-yeonCha Mi-kyungKim Sung-cheol
Starring
Choi Woo-sikKim Da-miRoh Jeong-euiSeo Jung-yeonCha Mi-kyungKim Sung-cheol
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About

"First love examined honestly, years after it ended"

A former teenage couple, once filmed together for a viral high-school documentary, are reunited years later when a director wants to make a sequel. Now adults with very different lives and old wounds, they're forced back into each other's orbit. The show moves between warm comedy and quietly devastating flashbacks, tracing how first love shapes who we become. It's slow-burn and character-driven rather than plot-heavy, carried by lived-in performances and a script that treats heartbreak and healing with real tenderness rather than melodrama.

Watch it for

the lead performances, which make old wounds and awkward reunions feel completely lived-in.

Maybe skip if

you want fast plotting rather than a slow, emotionally layered character study.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12021
8.14K162h 1m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1I Know What You Did Last Summer7.8
31762 min
▶21792 Days of Summer7.9
26659 min
▶310 Things I Hate About You7.9
238—
▶4The Boy, or the Girl, We Liked Then7.9
228—
▶5A Secret That Can't Be Told8.2
218—
▶6Pride and Prejudice8.2
229—
▶7Catch Me If You Can7.8
204—
▶8Before Sunset8.3
214—
▶9Just Friends8.1
203—
▶10Hello, My Soul Mate8.1
193—
▶11Our Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days8.6
216—
▶12Begin Again8.3
202—
▶13Love Actually7.9
180—
▶14Life Is Beautiful8.1
175—
▶15Three Idiots7.9
178—
▶16Our Beloved Summer8.4
261—

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Choi Woo-sik Choi Woong
Kim Da-mi Gook Yeon-soo
Roh Jeong-eui NJ
Seo Jung-yeon Lee Yeon-ok
Cha Mi-kyung Kang Ja-kyung
Kim Sung-cheol Kim Ji-woong
Park Jin-joo Lee Sol-yi
Lee Seung-woo Im Tae-hoon
Park Yeon-woo Kim Myeong-ho
Lee Jun-hyuk Jang Do-yool

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