Love to Hate You Korean Drama - Yoo Teo and Kim Ok Bin

Love to Hate You is about a strong-willed attorney (Kim Ok Bin) who doesn’t like to lose to men that begins working for a popular actor (Yoo Two) who doesn’t trust women.  Their distrust for each other soon starts to develop into feelings.

Love to Hate You Korean Drama - Kim Ok Bin

Kim Ok Bin plays Yeo Mi Ran. She is a talented attorney who has dealt with a lot of discrimination as a woman. This results in her distrusting men. She’s strong, independent, and a good fighter, so she uses her skills to rise above.

Love to Hate You Korean Drama - Yoo Teo and Kim Ji Hoon

Yoo Teo is Nam Kang Go. He is a popular actor known for his romantic roles, but in reality, he has some serious issues with women. These issues cause him problems in his work and social life.

Love to Hate You Korean Drama - Kim Ji Hoon Love to Hate You Korean Drama - Go Won Hee

Then we have Won Joon (Kim Ji Hoon) who is the manager and close friend of Kang Ho. Finally, there is Na Eun (Go Won Hee) who is the roommate and best friend of Mi Ran.

Love to Hate You Korean Drama - Yoo Teo and Kim Ok Bin

Love to Hate You was a mixed drama for me. It’s a romantic comedy that deals with relationships as well as issues like discrimination between the sexes. It’s mostly light-hearted but does sprinkle in some more serious and thoughtful moments.

This is a series that really took some warming up to though. The first few episodes were kind of slow, and I just wasn’t feeling the overall tone.

I also didn’t really like any of the characters. That includes our main couple. Both Mi Ran and Kang Ho have a lot of dislike for the opposite sex. We do eventually explore these reasons, but in the beginning, they both just came off kind of unlikable.

Love to Hate You Korean Drama - Kim Ok Bin Love to Hate You Korean Drama - Yoo Teo and Kim Ji Hoon

We do see that Mi Ran has dealt with a lot of discrimination for being a woman and encounters a lot of double standards in her work and social life. This causes her to have a sort of vendetta against men, and she won’t hesitate to stand up for what’s right when she has the chance.

This is what eventually causes her to set her sights on Kang Ho when she learns this popular actor’s feelings towards women. He becomes her target as she plots to take him down.

But Kang Ho’s situation is actually a bit complicated. (SPOILER: It turns out his feelings towards women stems from a horrible relationship experience which resulted in him having a panic disorder that causes severe reactions when coming in contact with women. END OF SPOILER)

Love to Hate You Korean Drama - Yoo Teo and Kim Ok Bin

It takes about half of the series, which is 10 episodes, to really get our couple interacting a lot and to see the relationship take shape. But even then, it still didn’t really feel developed. We don’t find out about Kang Ho’s issues until around this time, and it’s not explored very deeply.

It’s also pretty late before we go a bit more in depth with Mi Ran. This all made the key relationship developments that happened late in the drama not have a lot of impact. It all felt very quick and mechanical.

Love to Hate You Korean Drama - Yoo Teo and Kim Ok Bin

Now, as a whole, I enjoyed the second half of the series a lot more. The characters became more appealing as their quirkiness really shined through. Everyone interacting more also helped a lot.

The show also touched upon some important issues like the discrimination Mi Ran faced as well as the issues Kang Ho was dealing with. There are some very nice couple moments between Kang Ho and Mi Ran too.

Love to Hate You Korean Drama - Yoo Teo and Kim Ji Hoon Love to Hate You Korean Drama - Kim Ok Bin and Go Won Hee

There’s also a couple of pretty nice friendships involving both the guys, Kang Ho and Won Joon, as well as the girls, Mi Ran and Na Eun. All of the friends were very supportive of each other. There’s also a side romance that added a little extra interest to the show.

Love to Hate You Korean Drama - Yoo Teo and Kim Ok Bin

So, in the end, Love to Hate You was a decent watch. The slow start, slightly unlikable characters, and lack of relationship development made the first half pretty average. But the improvements in the second half made the show much more enjoyable. I do wish it would have been more even throughout, but it was a cute watch overall.

My Rating: 6/10

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6 responses to “Love to Hate You Korean Drama Review”

  1. kdramachickblog Avatar

    Sorry this wasn’t better overall for you. Same for me on the first half, I almost dropped it a few episodes in but read the synopses for the next few episodes and decided to stick it out and was glad I did because I did enjoy the 2nd half. At just 10 episodes at least it wasn’t too much of a time investment.

    1. Kay Avatar

      Yeah, the first half wasn’t particularly enjoyable, but it had enough going for it that I wanted to stick it out, and like you said, being only 10 eps, it wasn’t much of a time investment. And luckily, the second half was pretty fun and a better watch. I’d give the first half a 5 and the second half a 7 which is how I landed at 6 for the whole series, hehe 😅

  2. Miss Michelle Thomas Avatar
    Miss Michelle Thomas

    Love this drama so funny and romantic which I love love kdramas never watch anything else and I have a full library of them much more entertaining then our films or series hope to see lots more in the future.Well done to the Korean film industry ❤️❤️

    1. Kay Avatar

      It’s great that you loved this drama so much 🙂 I struggled a bit with the first part but then like the second half of the series quite well. And I share your love for kdramas as they are primarily what I watch too. So many amazing dramas! 😊

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  4. […] So, in the end, Love to Hate You was a decent watch.  I do wish it would have been more even throughout, but it was a cute overall. My Rating: 6/10 (Love to Hate You Review) […]

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