Love to Hate You

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Love to Hate You

연애대전 (Yeonaedaejeon) · 2023 · South Korea

WriterChoi Soo-young

DirectorKim Jung-kwon

Episodes10 eps · ~52 min each

Where to Watch✅ Netflix

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Binge Time8h 40m

AiredFeb 10, 2023

GenreComedy · Law · Romance

Content RatingTV-14

Netflix

Enemies to LoversFake DatingCelebrity RomanceStrong Female LeadGender Dynamics

Skip the scroll — here’s the verdict in one glance.

A vigilante lawyer, a touch-averse heartthrob, and a fake relationship that keeps outperforming both of their expectations.

Kim Ok-vin

Yeo Mi-ran

Lead

Teo Yoo

Nam Kang-ho

Lead

Kim Ji-hoon

Do Won-jun

Supporting

Go Won-hee

Shin Na-eun

Supporting

Kim Sung-ryung

Choi Soo-jin

Supporting

Chun Sin-hwan

Lee Jin-suh

Supporting

Ryan

Seo Young-ki

Supporting

Han Seo-jun

Yoon Sang-sup

Supporting

Choi Dae-sung

Yang Gil-mu

Supporting

Baek Seong-cheol

Ko Yong-woo

Supporting

Lee Ju-bin

Oh Se-na

Supporting

Lee Suk

Yoo Hyun-sang

Supporting

Enough per episode to jog your memory, nothing more.

EP 01

Episode 1

Feb 10, 2023

Yeo Mi-ran walks into Gilmu Law Firm already primed to distrust men, and top actor Nam Kang-ho gives her what looks like immediate confirmation — overheard comments she reads as misogynistic, paired with a mistaken assumption that he’s involved with an underage girl. It’s enough to activate every vigilante instinct she has, and Mi-ran decides on the spot that exposing him is a personal mission. Kang-ho has no idea he’s already lost this fight before it started.

EP 02

Episode 2

Feb 10, 2023

Convinced Kang-ho is exactly the bad actor she assumed, Mi-ran keeps digging — and inadvertently impresses him instead, handling his aggressive fanbase with a physical competence he’s never seen from anyone around him. Kang-ho, intrigued rather than offended, asks for her help preparing for an action role, which pulls the two of them into a professional partnership neither particularly wants. Their scenes together crackle less with chemistry than with pure, mutual irritation — which, in this genre, usually means the same thing.

EP 03

Nice Guys Get a Pass, Bad Boys Have It Coming

Feb 10, 2023

Mi-ran uses her new access to Kang-ho’s life to snoop through his phone, still hunting for proof of the villain she’s decided he is — and finds messages with his niece instead, evidence of exactly nothing. The misunderstanding clears fast, but the guilt lingers, and it’s the first real crack in a theory she’s been building since episode one. Underneath the comedy, something more reluctant is starting.

EP 04

You Are Not What I Expected

Feb 10, 2023

Kang-ho’s past finally gets some context: his mother and his ex, Oh Se-na, are the reason he flinches at physical closeness with women, not some vague genre trait. Mi-ran’s fight training turns out to be genuinely useful for his film, and the professional respect that builds between them starts eroding the personal walls both of them showed up with. Se-na’s reappearance in his life is timed to make sure none of this stays simple.

EP 05

Love Is Just an Experiment, Life Is the Real Thing

Feb 10, 2023

False dating rumors put Kang-ho’s public image under real pressure, forcing a level of scrutiny neither he nor Mi-ran asked for. Mi-ran drops the pretense long enough to admit her feelings are more complicated than professional irritation, and it visibly lands on him. The bigger tell comes quietly: Kang-ho realizes he isn’t panicking around her anymore, which undoes a belief about himself he’s held for years.

EP 06

Femme Fatale vs Homme Fatale

Feb 10, 2023

To manage the rumor problem properly, Mi-ran and Kang-ho agree to a formal contract-dating arrangement — a business solution that immediately starts generating the kind of intimate, awkward situations contracts aren’t built to survive. Meanwhile, Kang-ho’s manager Do Won-jun and Mi-ran’s roommate Shin Na-eun start their own quieter flirtation on the side, giving the show a second couple to root for without slowing down the main one.

EP 07

Trigonometry: The Love Triangle Edition

Feb 10, 2023

The line between fake and real stops holding for Mi-ran and Kang-ho, and the tension between them stops being deniable. Oh Se-na pushes harder to win Kang-ho back, turning a two-person arrangement into an actual triangle that tests whether either of them is serious about what they’ve built. Mi-ran, characteristically, responds to vulnerability by considering stepping aside entirely — a clear sign of exactly how much this has stopped being business.

EP 08

The Way You Change Me

Feb 10, 2023

An injury to Mi-ran is the thing that finally forces Kang-ho to stop hedging about what he feels, and the shift from attraction to genuine love happens in the space of one scene. He tells her plainly that it’s her independence and her strength he respects, not despite them — a distinction that lands exactly the way it’s meant to. On the B-plot side, Won-jun and Na-eun keep drifting closer, with considerably less angst attached.

EP 09

You Made Me Who I Am

Feb 10, 2023

With the pretense fully gone, Mi-ran and Kang-ho settle into something that actually resembles intimacy — open, unguarded, and comfortable in a way neither of their trauma-shaped defenses used to allow. Na-eun, working through her own unresolved feelings for Won-jun, oversells her most embarrassing habits to him and accidentally deepens the connection instead of undercutting it. Everything here reads like a show quietly setting up for one last complication before the finale.

EP 10

A Passionate Goodbye

Feb 10, 2023

Mi-ran’s past gets dragged into public view, and the resulting backlash threatens her career in a way none of the show’s earlier obstacles did. Kang-ho defends her publicly and proposes, and Mi-ran turns him down anyway — not out of doubt, but to protect him from the fallout, forcing a temporary, very public separation. Her old vigilante history resurfaces to clear her name instead of condemning her, and both couples close the season choosing each other on their own terms rather than anyone else’s.

From here on, full spoilers — the ending, unpacked.

What actually happens in the finale The season’s climax hinges on exposure: Mi-ran’s dating history goes public and the backlash is instant and disproportionate, the kind of double standard the show has been building toward the whole season. Kang-ho’s response is to go big — defending her publicly and proposing outright — but Mi-ran turns him down, not because she doesn’t want it, but because she doesn’t want her scandal attached to his career. It forces a separation that’s public and painful specifically because neither of them actually wants it.

That refusal is the smartest choice the finale makes. A lesser version of this show lets Kang-ho’s grand gesture fix everything immediately; Love to Hate You makes Mi-ran say no to it first, which keeps her agency intact even in the middle of her own public unraveling.

How Mi-ran actually clears her name The show’s earlier vigilante material — all the times Mi-ran quietly intervened to protect people, the instinct that made her jump to conclusions about Kang-ho in episode one — comes back as the thing that saves her. Her history of acting on principle, even recklessly, is reframed as evidence of character rather than the liability the tabloids try to make it.

It’s a tidy piece of structuring: the exact trait that nearly sank the central relationship in the first episode is what rescues it in the last one.

The KDW verdict on the ending Both couples get the same closing note — Mi-ran and Kang-ho, and Na-eun and Won-jun, reconcile on terms they set themselves rather than terms dictated by public opinion or convenient plotting. It’s a deliberately quiet way to end a show that spent ten episodes being loud about gender double standards: the actual resolution isn’t a grand romantic gesture, it’s two couples refusing to let outside noise decide what their relationships are worth.