The Lover: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Oh Jung Se and Ryu Hyun Kyung play the main couple in their 30s who chose to live together instead of getting married, and have been sharing an apartment for two years. Oh Jung Se plays a voice actor and Ryu Hyun Kyung plays a reviewer who runs a blog.

Choi Yeo Jin and Jung Joon Young have been cast as the second couple — they're twelve years apart in age and have been living together for a year. He's a pretty-boy singer who carries his guitar everywhere he goes, but doesn't actually know how to play it all that well. She's a penny-pinching ajumma in the body of a hot woman who basically supports her much younger boyfriend. He drives her crazy but he's a good guy at heart, and she can never manage to stay mad at him for long. Ha Eun Sul and Park Jong Hwan play a 20s couple that just moved in together. She's the type of woman who doesn't want her boyfriend to know th

Series details

• Title: The Lover
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Korean
• Genres: Comedy, Romance
• Premiere date: 2015-04-02
• Final broadcast date listed: 2015-06-25
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Mnet
• Network country: Korea, Republic of
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.6/10
• TVMaze ID: 2553

Cast and credited roles

• Oh Jung Se — Oh Do Si
• Terada Takuya — Takuya
• Lee Jae Joon — Lee Joon Jae
• Choi Yeo Jin — Choi Jin Nyuh
• Jung Joon Young — Jeong Yeong Jun
• Ha Eun Sul — Ha Sul Eun
• Park Jong Hwan — Park Hwan Jong
• Ryu Hyun Kyung — Ryu Du Ri

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-04-02; final listed air date 2015-06-25; episode order: 12.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Lover on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.