call it a “healing drama.” But despite the heads up, I still couldn’t help but expect this wholesome weekend series to take a dark and painful turn. And based on the tweets you’ll find under the hashtag #HometownChaChaChaEpXX every time an episode airs, the wholeYou can’t blame us, we’ve been watching K-dramas that seem to love the idea of breaking people’s hearts before giving us a happy ending.
Maybe that’s why it was so satisfying to live vicariously through Hye-jin. It wasn’t exactly her dream. It was her second and probably only choice after a series of bad luck struck her career in the city. And it turned out to be the best second choice she had ever made. He’s smart , highly skilled . He doesn’t live in a bachelor pad but in a neat and clean old house filled with books by authors like Leo Tolstoy, where he also cooks and concocts his own wine and herbal medicine.