Crash Course in Romance (Season 1)

Crash Course in Romance (일타 스캔들, 2023) is a Korean romantic comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM. Choi Chi Yeol is the country's most sought-after math tutor — his online lectures pack hundreds of thousands of students, his schedule is booked a year out, and parents line up for hours to get their kids a spot. Then he meets the banchan shop owner next door.

Nam Hae Yi runs a small prepared-food stall and raises her daughter alone. When that daughter lands in Chi Yeol's competitive class, two very different lives start colliding. Jung Do Yeon and Jung Kyung Ho play the leads as people with real weight behind them: past wounds, quiet habits, a genuine reluctance to fall for anyone. The teenage storyline runs in parallel — the brutal pressure of Korea's college entrance exam system, early jealousy, and the cost of ambition at sixteen.

16 episodes aired on Netflix in 2023. What sets it apart from lighter K-drama fare is the social edge: the hagwon industry and exam obsession are treated as the background stress they actually are, not just a plot device. Stream all episodes of Crash Course in Romance online on iFILM.