Love Class

Love Class (수업중입니다; RR: Sueop Jung-imnida) is a 2022 South Korean boys' love youth romance and the first season of the Love Class series. It is built around a university elective called 결혼과 가족 (Marriage and Family), known around campus as a flirting class because students are paired off and sent on dates as part of a running series of love experiments, with the results brought back to the classroom and discussed like ordinary coursework. Cha Ji-woo (Han Hyun-jun) is a gentle, soft-spoken sophomore who has never dated anyone, and he signs up for one reason only: to be near a female student he admires. Lee Ro-a (Kim Tae-hwan) is the kind upperclassman who has just come back from military service, a little older than his classmates in more ways than one. The assignment pairs Ji-woo with him instead, and almost immediately the exercise stops behaving like an exercise.

Ji-woo's initial discomfort turns, slowly and very awkwardly, into a first love he has no vocabulary for, and Roa's calm gives that feeling somewhere to land. Around them the class keeps generating complications. Kim Nam-jun (Yoo Hyuk-jae) and Bae Yu-na (Ryu In-ah) work through paired assignments of their own, Min-jae (Lee Young-kyo) and Kim Hye-won (Kim Hye-jin) circle the group's shifting friendships, and Professor Lim (Won Tae-hee) keeps setting tasks that push everyone further than they meant to go. Much of the comedy comes from the gap between the course's clinical framing and what the students are actually feeling.

Directed by Lee Seong-taek and written by Kim Kyung-hwan, the short-form series ran six episodes in May 2022, released through Rakuten Viki. Episodes are compact, the register stays sweet and tentative, never dramatic, and conflict is kept at the scale of misread messages and unfinished sentences. Two further seasons followed. It streams with subtitles on Rakuten Viki and Netflix.