# Love to Hate You (TV series)

Love to Hate You (Korean: 연애대전) is a 2023 South Korean romantic comedy television series written by Choi Soo-young, directed by Kim Jung-kwon, and starring Kim Ok-vin, Teo Yoo, Kim Ji-hoon and Go Won-hee. It was released on Netflix on February 10, 2023.

## Synopsis

Yeo Mi-ran (Kim Ok-vin) is a free-spirited lawyer with a strong interest in social justice, especially when it relates to women. She enjoys sex, but has a low opinion of men and is not afraid to use her martial arts skills to beat up the bad guys. A change of circumstances forces her to take up a job in a big male-dominated law firm which specialises in sorting out celebrities' scandals. One of its clients is Nam Kang-ho (Teo Yoo), a big star of romantic movies who has an aversion to women. Mi-ran overhears Kang-ho making angry misogynistic remarks about women labeling them as nothing more than gold diggers and she adds him to her personal database of jerks. She has a hunch that he's up to no good with a schoolgirl and schemes to get close to him to find evidence exposing his nefarious deeds and bring him down...

## Cast
### Main

* Kim Ok-vin as Yeo Mi-ran, a new lawyer at Gilmu, an entertainment law firm
* Teo Yoo as Nam Kang-ho, Korea's top actor
* Kim Ji-hoon as Do Won-jun, who gave up his dream of becoming an actor to start a management business and guided Nam Kang-ho's career
* Go Won-hee as Shin Na-eun, Yeo Mi-ran's housemate and close friend

### Supporting

* Lee Joo-bin as Oh Se-na, Nam Kang-ho's first love, who is called "the nation's first love"
* Kim Sung-ryung as Choi Soo-jin
* Song Ji-woo as Hwang Ji-ye, a rookie actress acting alongside Nam Kang-ho
* Han Seo-jun as Yoon Sang-seop, a manager of Nam Kang-ho
* Choi Yoon-so as Grace
* Jeon Shin-hwan as Lee Jin-seo, Yeo Mi-ran's ex-boyfriend
* Kim Ye-ryeong as Kim Eun-hee, Mi-ran's and Dae-jun's mother
* Kim Do-yeon as drama series director
* Jo Seung-hee as Kim Ji-woo
* Tak Aeon as a stuntman

### Special appearance

* Song Jae-hee as passenger on the plane (ep.5)
* Hong Woo-jin as Yeo Dae-jun (ep.8)
* Yeon Jung-hoon as celebrity (ep.9)
* Eugene as celebrity (ep.9-10)
* Lee Yu-ri as celebrity (ep.9-10)

## Production

On November 4, 2021, Netflix announced their new series Love to Hate You with Kim Ok-vin as Yeo Mi-ran, an entertainment lawyer, and Teo Yoo as Nam Kang-ho, Korea's top actor, who hates dating. The series would be directed by Kim Jung-kwon, written by Choi Soo-young, and produced by Binge Works, a subsidiary of Studio S. On November 15, 2021, Go Won-hee joined the cast.
This series marks the reunion of Kim Ji-hoon and Lee Joo-bin after working together in Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area.

## Episodes

| No. | Title | Original release date |
| 1 | "Bad Girl" | February 10, 2023 (2023-02-10) |
| 2 | "Bad Boy" | February 10, 2023 (2023-02-10) |
| 3 | "Nice Guys Get a Pass Bad Boys Have It Coming" | February 10, 2023 (2023-02-10) |
| 4 | "You Are Not What I Expected" | February 10, 2023 (2023-02-10) |
| 5 | "Love is Just an Experiment, Life is the Real Thing" | February 10, 2023 (2023-02-10) |
| 6 | "Femme Fatale vs Homme Fatale" | February 10, 2023 (2023-02-10) |
| 7 | "Trigonometry: The Love Triangle Edition" | February 10, 2023 (2023-02-10) |
| 8 | "The Way You Change Me" | February 10, 2023 (2023-02-10) |
| 9 | "You Made Me Who I Am" | February 10, 2023 (2023-02-10) |
| 10 | "A Passionate Goodbye" | February 10, 2023 (2023-02-10) |

## Release

The series premiered on Netflix on February 10, 2023, and was available for streaming worldwide.

## Reception

Reviewer Joel Keller of Decider wrote, "The plot of Love To Hate You is definitely contrived, but the story of Mi-ran and the performance of Kim Ok-vin makes the series very watchable."