Our Beloved Summer is a romantic comedy Korean drama. The drama follows the two main characters Kook Yeon-su and Choi Ung. Kook Yeon-su is the model top student in high school while Choi Ung is an uninterested low-tier student who likes to draw. Ung is given the opportunity to join a documentary where he will spend one month with the top student, Yeon-su. Our Beloved Summer follows them through their journey in the past into the future when they reunite after five years.
We see the clear divide between the two characters who constantly bicker with each other and broadcast their dislike towards one another through the documentary. They become viral online for their hilarious chemistry and we see them become closer throughout the month. When Yeon-su and Ung are set to film their last episode we see the typical cliche of enemies to lovers when they confess and start dating each other.
They dated for 5 years throughout college and break up several times throughout. Because of misunderstandings between the two of them they break up for a final time and have not seen or contacted each other since. Yeon-su and Ung continue their lives into adulthood and pursue their dreams of working and becoming a famous artist.
Yeon-su is sent by her company to get famous artist Ko-o to work with them, but through a turn of events it is revealed that it is actually Choi Ung who has been keeping his identity secret and refuses to reveal himself to the public. Yeon-Su does some research online to find the identity of Ko-o and finds out the shocking proof that it is Choi Ung her ex from five years ago. She decides for the sake of her losing her job that she will finally confront him in hopes he will help the company and reveal himself to the public.
While this is happening the director of their documentary is looking to re boot it, a version of where they are ten years later and puts Ung’s best friend Ji-ung in charge of getting them on board to film together.
When Yeon-su visits Ung, he shows his clear desire to have no part in helping her or ever being part of her life again. However he decides to further his career and take the job offer, but not without getting his revenge on Yeon-su by doing something he knows she will hate, aka the documentary reboot. Desperate for Ung to work with her company she hesitantly agrees to film the documentary with him and it sets up the perfect tension between the two characters to once again start from enemies to lovers.
Through the documentary of them “ten years later” we get to see their development from teenagers to adults as well as the past behind their previous relationship. It also explores their emotions on the way to getting back together. While the show itself is not done there is only two episodes left to air and it has multiple interesting plots that go into each other and I highly recommend watching!