Moon Ga-young and Choi Hyun-wook will show off a ‘h-hate-hate’ romance.

As the recent trend in romance dramas has been changing to a setting where a relationship develops from mutual hate to love, the two will also challenge a unique romance.

The new tvN Monday-Tuesday drama ‘That Guy is a Black Flame Dragon’, which will air from the 17th, is based on a webtoon of the same name, and depicts the romance between Baek Soo-jung, the ‘head killer’ team leader who suffers from a dark past, and Ban Joo-yeon, the third-generation head of a conglomerate who holds a ‘black flame dragon’ in her heart.

Director Lee Soo-hyun, who was in charge of directing, introduced the drama as follows: “Characters whose first loves have become dark histories meet again at work. They fall in love without knowing it, but then face their dark histories again, heal, and grow.”

The two characters in the drama play first loves who met in an online game when they were young and fell in love. They meet offline for the first time, but they experience conflict unintentionally and become a stain on their lives, a ‘dark history’ and a bad relationship.

They meet again as adults as a headquarters manager and a team leader, but they don‘t realize that they are each other’s worst first loves and start dating.

The director said, “The part I found most attractive in the original work was the setting where they met in an online game, became first loves, and then became a dark history,” and “There are many cases where the image you imagine before meeting someone is different from the actual image. I thought it would be difficult to sympathize if I just showed them playing a game, so I even directed a scene from the game.”

He continued, “I think everyone has a ‘second-year middle school syndrome’ like the ‘Black Flame Dragon’ in their heart. “I want to say it’s pure passion,” he said, explaining, “I think there will be a lot of parts that people who have ever had a pure love for something can relate to.”



Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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