Love to Hate You (TV series)

Love to Hate You 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...

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.

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."