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Why this pick
Like The Plan Man, this Korean crowd-pleaser lets an unlikely musical partnership shake a guarded protagonist out of a rigid life, balancing warm comedy, personal growth and performance-driven emotion.
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Why this pick
Its mismatched, bickering partners and buoyant comic timing echo the charm of Jung-seok and So-jung’s opposites-attract dynamic, with an easygoing Korean genre-comedy pace.
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Why this pick
A sweetly offbeat Korean rom-com built around a methodical matchmaking professional and a more emotionally tangled client; it shares The Plan Man’s playful collision between plans and real feelings.
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Why this pick
This tender, eccentric comedy finds connection through unusual routines and isolation. Its whimsical visual humor and compassionate view of socially awkward people make it a particularly natural companion.
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Why this pick
For the romantic sincerity beneath The Plan Man’s comic premise: a gentle Korean love story about adapting to an impossible daily condition, told with warmth, melancholy and an emphasis on accepting vulnerability.
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01 / THE STORY
Jung-seok is a librarian who goes about his daily life with everything planned down to the second. Having obsessive–compulsive personality disorder, he wakes up, crosses the road, visits the convenience store and goes to bed at the same time every day. Whenever he sees anything out of place, he can't help himself but to rectify it, a trait that is particularly irksome to his co-workers. Jung-seok develops a crush for a local convenience store's cashier who demonstrates a similar attention to order and cleanliness. When he finally works up the courage to tell her his feelings, he bumps into So-jung instead, a messy musician and free spirit whose life is lived spontaneously, adventurously and impulsively. With So-jung's help, he tries to woo his dream girl, but the only catch is that she wants someone who doesn't share her obsession for neatness. So now Jung-seok must break his routine and place himself outside of his comfort zone, as So-jung asks him to enter a singing audition program together with her.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Goo Sang-yoon
Psychiatrist
Lee Ji-won
Mi-young
