MBC‘s Friday-Saturday drama ‘Motel California’ Lee Se-young’s suspicious return scene to ‘Hana-eup’ has been captured, drawing attention.

MBC‘s Friday-Saturday drama ‘Motel California’ (planned by Jang Jae-hoon/directed by Kim Hyung-min, Lee Jae-jin/written by Lee Seo-yoon/produced by HB Entertainment) is a first love remodeling romance about a woman who was born and raised in a motel in the countryside and reunites with her first love in her hometown she ran away from 12 years ago. ‘Motel California’, based on the popular 2019 novel ‘Home, Bitter Home’ by Shim Yoon-seo, heralds the birth of a new ‘killer drama’. Also, it is rising as a dark horse in the New Year’s home drama war by ranking 2nd in the news category in the TV-OTT topicality survey for the 2nd week of January announced by Good Data Corporation, a content topicality research company.

Among them, ‘Motel Cali’, ahead of the broadcast of episode 3 today (17th), has released an on-site still cut of Kang-hee returning to his hometown of Hana-eup, where he declared that he ‘will never return’, drawing attention. Kang-hee is fully armed with a scarf wrapped tightly and black sunglasses, as if he will not show his face. While his fugitive-like behavior makes people laugh, his determined determination not to be discovered is revealed in his desperate expression, heightening interest. However, as Kang-hee is caught coming and going from the lobby of Motel California, curiosity is rising as to whether he will be able to achieve his goal.

Meanwhile, the upcoming episode will show Kang-hee returning to Hana-eup to work with Seok-kyung (played by Kim Tae-hyung) as an interior designer to push forward with the ‘Motel Remodeling Project’. On the first day of his twenties, Kang-hee, who ran away from both his passionate first love and his hometown friends with the words, “I can‘t stand this anymore”, has returned to the problematic Hana-eup. Furthermore, as Kang-hee returns to Hana-eup, which is full of memories with Yeon-soo, with a new man, Seok-kyung, attention is focused on the twists and turns that will unfold in the story of Kang-hee and Yeon-soo’s first love. In addition, as Kang-hee, the ‘hot potato’ whose mere presence makes the entire town buzz, has returned, curiosity is rising about what kind of incidents will unfold in Hana-eup.

Meanwhile, the 3rd episode of ‘Motel California’ will air tonight (the 17th) at 9:50 PM.

Reporter Choi Yoon-na, Donga.com yyynnn@donga.com