I Ro-mil
BIOGRAPHY
I Ro-mil is a South Korean web novelist with two novels adapted for wavve, and a creator credit on both alongside the novel credit.
The first is Summertime (하절기), a ten episode boys’ love series that began on wavve on 27 August 2026, produced by OAK Company with KT Studio Genie and SAMBOK Production, directed by Bae Yoon-seo from a screenplay by Jo Yong. Yeo Eun-ho and Cha Do-hyun have been friends for nineteen years. Eun-ho is certain he can read his friend completely, including the fact that Do-hyun’s flawless reputation at school is an act. What he has never suspected is that Do-hyun has spent those years in love with him, and a transfer student is about to walk into the middle of it. Kim Do-min plays Eun-ho and Seong In-ho plays Do-hyun.
The second is Winter Season (동절기), also ten episodes, also for wavve, and from the same three production companies. It is recorded as in production. Nine years after they last saw each other, Koo Seung-hyeok and Kwon I-hyeon meet again at a nightclub tied to organised crime. Kwon I-hyun is also a character in Summertime, played by Lim Young-min, which makes the two series a connected pair rather than two unrelated commissions.
Nothing else is on the public record. No Korean-script form of the name is published, and building one from the romanisation would be guesswork, so the native name field is deliberately empty. No biography, date of birth or photograph exists on any source we accept.
BLGLFlix editorial view
Our page said one adaptation. There are two, and they are linked. Summertime (하절기) and Winter Season (동절기) are seasonal opposites in their Korean titles, both ten episodes, both for wavve, both from the same three production companies, both from this author’s novels. And the character Kwon I-hyeon appears in both: as a supporting role in Summertime and as one of the two leads of Winter Season. That is not a coincidence of naming. It is a shared world, and a supporting character being promoted to lead in the companion piece is a structure Korean BL has barely used.
Why that matters beyond this one author. Two connected series commissioned together, from the same novelist, by the same platform, with the same producers, is a slate rather than a purchase. Korean BL has spent years being made one short series at a time by small studios, and this site has repeatedly described Korean queer material as something that hides inside network dramas under keywords like bromance. That description holds for the terrestrial and cable networks. It does not hold for wavve, and this is the clearest evidence we have found of what the difference looks like in practice: a platform buying an author’s world, not an episode.
A creator credit on both. The records list this author not only for the source novels but separately as creator of each series. On a Korean production a novelist is usually credited for the source and nothing more; the screenplay, and with it the shape of the show, belongs to someone else, in this case Jo Yong. A creator credit sitting alongside the novel credit records the series as originating with the author rather than being optioned away from them. We would not read too much into a database field, but it is a distinction the records make deliberately and twice.
On the name, and why the Korean form is missing here. The romanisation “I Ro-mil” gives no reliable way to reconstruct the Hangul: the first element could be 이, and the family name behind it could be romanised I, Lee or Yi depending on the convention used. Guessing would produce a name that looks authoritative and might be wrong, which is worse than an empty field. If a Korean-language source publishes it, we will add it.
Winter Season is not yet in this database. We have logged it, and it should be created once it has a release date rather than as a placeholder now.
PROFILE DETAILS
- Real Name
- I Ro-mil
- Birthplace
- South Korea
- Nationality
- Years Active
- 2026-present
- Languages
- Korean
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