▲ These photos, provided by tvN, shows 'Crash Course in Romance.' (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

 

 

SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Yonhap) -- The romance between Jeon Do-yeon and Jung Kyung-ho, the "acting master," was enough to make viewers' hearts flutter, but the story had too many lingering plotlines.

 

According to Nielsen Korea, a ratings research company on Monday, tvN's weekend drama "Crash Course in Romance," which aired at 9:10 p.m. the previous day, ended with a rating of 17.0%.

 

The ratings are its own best, but viewers say that "the anticlimax ending was disappointing."

 

On the previous day's broadcast, the story of Nam Haeng-sun (Bae Hae-sun), the biological mother of Nam Hae-yi (Roh Yoon-seo), was urgently developed.

 

Nam Hae-yi declares that she will follow her biological mother to Japan in the hope that her aunt, who has sacrificed to raise her, will live her life.

 

Nam Haeng-ja, who proudly visited her daughter after a decade, suddenly seems to have regained her conscience, but eventually leaves alone again for the happiness of her younger sister and daughter.

 

As the story of Nam Haeng-ja was drawn with importance, the proportion of the main characters, the Nam Haeng-sun and Choi Chi-yeol couple, was small.

 

Choi Chi-yeol prepares a wedding ring for Nam Haeng-sun, and even before he takes it out, the two promise to marry as Nam Haeng-sun proposes first.

 

The drama moved on two years later and captured the characters facing their respective "happy ending." Nam Haeng-sun gets a sports instructor's license, and Choi Chi-yeol keeps his position as the best math instructor in Korea.

 

Nam Hae-i and Lee Sun-jae (Lee Chae-min), who used to be friends, develop into a relationship, and Kim Young-joo (Lee Bong-ryeon), who has completed the marriage registration with Nam Jae-woo (Oh Eui Sik), is pregnant.

 

Starting with a 4.0 percent viewer rating, "Crash Course in Romance" recorded an 11.0 percent viewer rating in six episodes as Choi Chi-yeol, who is feisty and less social, painted a romance healed by a warm sun-like Nam Haeng-sun.

 

The chemistry between Choi Chi-yeol and Nam Haeng-sun couple, who care about each other and fall into each other's charms without realizing it, and the warm family love of the Haeng-sun family, which is not swayed by the fierce entrance war, delivered warm emotions to viewers on weekend nights.

 

However, the romance was put on the back burner as the focus was on solving a series of iron bead murders toward the second half of the play.

 

In addition, the romance between Kim Young-joo and Nam Jae-woo, who were like family members, and the appearance of Nam Hae-yi's biological mother suddenly unfolded, leading to a response that the probability of the drama is low.

 

Jeon Do-yeon and Jung Kyung-ho, who played the characters perfectly, increased the immersion of the improbable story.

 

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Yunhee Cho.)

 

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