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Crazy Love

크레이지 러브 · 2022
✅ Completed · 16 eps 🎬 KBS2 · Disney+ · Hulu ⭐ 8.2 / 10 MDL 🔞 TV-14
⚡ Updated · Oct 3, 2026

📋 Drama Overview

Everything you need to know before you hit play.

Crazy Love (2022) official poster
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Crazy Love
크레이지 러브 (Keureijireobeu) · 2022 · South Korea
WriterKim Bo-gyeom
DirectorKim Jung-hyun
Episodes16 eps · ~70 min each
Where to Watch✅ Disney+, Hulu
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Binge Time18h 40m
AiredMar 7 – Apr 26, 2022
GenreComedy · Romance · Mystery
Content RatingTV-14

KBS2Disney+Hulu
Revenge RomcomAmnesiaWorkplaceNarcissistic CEOMystery

Noh Go-jin is the most famous math instructor in Korea’s private tutoring world, the CEO of GOTOP Education, and a man who has never once doubted his own brilliance. He is also vain, exacting, and terrible to work for. Then an anonymous message warns that someone intends to kill him, and he ignores it with a smile.

His secretary Lee Shin-ah has put up with him for over a year. When she is told she has little time left, the quiet employee who once vanished into the background decides to spend what remains collecting on every humiliation. A car accident and a convenient case of amnesia turn her revenge plan inside out, and Crazy Love becomes a romcom wearing a thriller’s coat, with a lot more heart than its premise suggests.

Episode Progress 16 / 16 ✅ Completed

⚡ Quick Verdict

Everything you need to decide, in one place.

⭐ Worth it?Yes — a fast, funny romcom with a real mystery underneath
⏱️ Commitment16 episodes · ~70 min each
💛 VibeRevenge comedy meets amnesia romcom meets whodunit
📺 Skip if…Narcissistic-boss leads or amnesia plots make you roll your eyes

⭐ 8.2 / 10 · MDL Score · 28,345 ratings

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🎭 Cast & Characters

The cast that turns a revenge plot into a love story.

Kim Jae-wook as Noh Go-jin in Crazy Love (2022)
Kim Jae-wook
Noh Go-jin

Lead

Krystal Jung as Lee Shin-ah in Crazy Love (2022)
Krystal Jung
Lee Shin-ah

Lead

Yoo In-young as Baek Soo-young in Crazy Love (2022)
Yoo In-young
Baek Soo-young

Supporting

Ha Jun as Oh Se-gi in Crazy Love (2022)
Ha Jun
Oh Se-gi

Supporting

Yoon San-ha as Lee Su-ho in Crazy Love (2022)
Yoon San-ha
Lee Su-ho

Supporting

Park Han-sol as Chu Ok-hee in Crazy Love (2022)
Park Han-sol
Chu Ok-hee

Supporting

Im Won-hee as Park Yang-tae in Crazy Love (2022)
Im Won-hee
Park Yang-tae

Supporting

Kim Hak-sun as Lee Yong-gu in Crazy Love (2022)
Kim Hak-sun
Lee Yong-gu

Supporting

Lee Si-eon as Kang Min in Crazy Love (2022)
Lee Si-eon
Kang Min

Supporting

Jung Sung-ho as Kim Cha-bae in Crazy Love (2022)
Jung Sung-ho
Kim Cha-bae

Supporting

Kim Ki-nam as Gong Hee-cheol in Crazy Love (2022)
Kim Ki-nam
Gong Hee-cheol

Supporting

Baek Joo-hee as Ma Eun-jeong in Crazy Love (2022)
Baek Joo-hee
Ma Eun-jeong

Supporting

🍿 Where to Watch

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📺 Episode Guide

Spoiler-light recaps — enough to remember where you left off, nothing that ruins the ride.

Crazy Love Episode 1 — Deathbed Revenge EP 01
Deathbed Revenge
Mar 7, 2022
Noh Go-jin gets an anonymous murder threat and shrugs it off like a bad review. Meanwhile his secretary Lee Shin-ah collapses, learns she is terminally ill, and decides a year of silent suffering deserves a payback. The premiere sets the rule of the show: the boss who has never apologized to anyone is about to meet the one employee with nothing left to lose.

Crazy Love Episode 2 — The Memory Wipe EP 02
The Memory Wipe
Mar 8, 2022
Shin-ah’s first act of revenge goes spectacularly sideways when Go-jin is hit by a car and wakes up with no memory of who he is. The villain she meant to humble is suddenly a blank slate, polite and bewildered. Her plan survives, but now it has to work on someone who can’t remember what he did to deserve it.

Crazy Love Episode 3 — The Fake Fiancée EP 03
The Fake Fiancée
Mar 14, 2022
Shin-ah introduces herself as Go-jin’s fiancée so she can order him around under a respectable cover story. She expected the revenge to feel grim and discovers it is closer to fun. Go-jin, helpless and oddly sweet, takes every humiliation with a trusting face that makes her scheme harder to justify and much harder to stop.

Crazy Love Episode 4 — A Guest Named Kang Min EP 04
A Guest Named Kang Min
Mar 15, 2022
Shin-ah lies her way into the home of Go-jin’s friend Oh Se-gi, who has his own reasons to be wary of her. Kang Min, the driver who hit Go-jin, turns up at the door with guilt and a story. The episode quietly widens the premise from a revenge comedy into something with an actual mystery under it.

Crazy Love Episode 5 — The Convenient Amnesia EP 05
The Convenient Amnesia
Mar 21, 2022
Go-jin has been faking his amnesia and the audience gets to watch him carry it off with total commitment. The reason surfaces: on the night of the accident he saw who was responsible, and playing dumb is the safest way to find out who wants him gone. Shin-ah, still performing revenge, has no idea she is being played.

Crazy Love Episode 6 — Hiring John EP 06
Hiring John
Mar 22, 2022
Go-jin hires a top private detective known only as John to dig into the accident while Shin-ah keeps escalating her petty vengeance at home. The two tracks run in parallel with comic timing, and the show gets a lot of mileage from how much Go-jin tolerates in the name of his cover story.

Crazy Love Episode 7 — A Stranger's Accident EP 07
A Stranger’s Accident
Mar 28, 2022
Shin-ah watches a young man get hit by a car and something shifts. Faced with how fast life can end, she stops taking revenge and accepts her diagnosis with a calm that is more unsettling than any of her earlier schemes. It is the first episode where the comedy deliberately steps back and lets the premise breathe.

Crazy Love Episode 8 — The Misdiagnosis EP 08
The Misdiagnosis
Mar 29, 2022
Shin-ah’s cancer turns out to have been a misdiagnosis, which is excellent news and terrible timing given how much she has done in the name of dying. Go-jin’s amnesia is exposed as fake in the same stretch. Both of them are now holding secrets, and the comic engine of the series flips overnight.

Crazy Love Episode 9 — After the Kiss EP 09
After the Kiss
Apr 4, 2022
A kiss leaves both Go-jin and Shin-ah visibly rattled. Baek Soo-young reappears and Go-jin responds by snapping at Shin-ah, a clumsy defensive reflex that hurts more than he intends. The romance finally becomes the main plot, and the episode earns it by having both leads behave badly for understandable reasons.

Crazy Love Episode 10 — The Man in the Dark EP 10
The Man in the Dark
Apr 5, 2022
The figure Go-jin saw on the night of the accident was Oh Se-gi, his oldest friend. The reveal lands without a big speech: Go-jin simply has to sit with the knowledge and go on acting normal. His feelings for Shin-ah deepen at the same moment his trust in everyone else cracks.

Crazy Love Episode 11 — The Will EP 11
The Will
Apr 11, 2022
Go-jin reads Shin-ah’s will and understands, belatedly, what she has been carrying and how much she meant to him. Se-gi starts working to push him out of GoTop. The episode splits cleanly into one soft scene and one cold one, and both are about betrayal in different registers.

Crazy Love Episode 12 — The Dying Girlfriend EP 12
The Dying Girlfriend
Apr 12, 2022
Their romance begins in earnest, with one complication: Go-jin still believes Shin-ah is terminally ill and treats her with a protective intensity that drives her up the wall. It is the show’s funniest premise inversion, since the woman who once faked a death sentence for leverage is now the one trying to be treated normally.

Crazy Love Episode 13 — First Love, Rewritten EP 13
First Love, Rewritten
Apr 18, 2022
Soo-young pushes Shin-ah to admit that Go-jin was her first love, a confession the two women handle with unusual honesty. Elsewhere Se-gi’s scheme starts to bite and Go-jin finds himself in real corporate trouble. The pressure that makes the last third work begins to build here.

Crazy Love Episode 14 — Another Man on Camera EP 14
Another Man on Camera
Apr 19, 2022
Go-jin gets through the immediate crisis but a question about Se-gi’s behavior refuses to go away. A surveillance camera shows a second man at the scene of the accident, which means the case Go-jin thought was closed has a new suspect. The mystery thread tightens as the romance settles.

Crazy Love Episode 15 — The Apology Tour EP 15
The Apology Tour
Apr 25, 2022
Go-jin does something he has never done before and sincerely apologizes to the people he mistreated, promising to protect them. Shin-ah cheers him on from the sidelines. It is the clearest sign of how far the character has come, and it works because the apologies cost him something visible.

Crazy Love Episode 16 — A Year Later EP 16
A Year Later
Apr 26, 2022
Go-jin catches the person responsible and repairs his friendship with Se-gi in the same hour. A year on, Shin-ah and Go-jin are newlyweds, the premise’s cruel joke about a dying secretary resolved into the warmest ending the show could give her. It closes on comfort instead of a twist.

🏁 Ending Explained

Full spoilers from this point — what happened, and why.

⚠️ Spoiler Warning — This section covers the full finale of Crazy Love. Stop here if you haven’t finished the series.

What actually happened Go-jin finally catches the person behind the attacks on his life, and the answer is neither the woman in white nor the friend he spent half the series suspecting. The real mastermind is Soo-young’s secretary, the man who nudged Kang Min into hitting Go-jin with his car and fed Se-gi doctored evidence about his sister’s death. When he pulls a knife in the building garage, Se-gi is the one who tackles him.

Crazy Love (2022) — Noh Go-jin confronts the person behind the attacks in Crazy Love finale

Why Se-gi’s betrayal was never really about Go-jin Se-gi believed Go-jin was responsible for his sister’s death because someone built a convincing lie and handed it to him at his most vulnerable moment. Once the manipulation is exposed, his actions over the series read as grief aimed at the wrong target. That does not excuse the scheming against GoTop, but it explains why he moves so quickly to protect Go-jin when it counts.

Go-jin and Se-gi make peace The reconciliation is short and plain: Go-jin says he is sorry for the pain he caused, Se-gi apologizes for what he did in return. Neither speech tries to erase the damage. The friendship survives because both men now know who manipulated them, and the show lets that shared realization do the work instead of a grand gesture.

Crazy Love (2022) — Go-jin and Se-gi reconcile in the Crazy Love finale

Shin-ah’s arc closes A year later Shin-ah and Go-jin are newlyweds, and the framing is deliberately small: furniture shopping, a shared home, ordinary jokes. The woman who once believed she had weeks to live is handed a long, boring, happy future, which is the best joke the premise could make at its own expense. Go-jin’s humility, built across the apology episodes, is what makes the marriage believable.

The KDW verdict Crazy Love ends the way a good romcom with a mystery strapped to it should: the culprit is named, the damage is repaired, and the leads get a quiet coda. The mastermind reveal is more functional than shocking, and some viewers will wish the villain had been seeded earlier. Still, the finale respects the characters it spent sixteen episodes building, and Kim Jae-wook and Krystal’s chemistry carries the last few minutes without help.

Crazy Love (2022) — Shin-ah and Go-jin as newlyweds a year later

✍️ KDramaWorlds Editor’s Take

Our honest opinion — and the kind of viewer who’ll love it most.

😂 Peak Narcissist 💘 Revenge Turns Romance 🕵️ Hidden Whodunit 🧠 Genius Boss

Kim Jae-wook plays Noh Go-jin as a man who genuinely believes the world is lucky to have him, and the performance works because he never plays the vanity as a joke the character is in on. Even in the amnesia episodes he keeps a stubborn dignity, which makes every humiliation Shin-ah arranges funnier. If you liked the sheer commitment to an insufferable lead in What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim, this is the same family of pleasure with a sharper edge.

Crazy Love (2022) — cinematic still

The show is smartest when it admits the revenge was never going to survive contact with the man it was aimed at. Krystal plays Shin-ah with the kind of quiet comic timing that sells her slide from schemer to someone who actually likes her target. Fans of the office-romance beats in Business Proposal will recognize the structure, though Crazy Love swaps fantasy-wish fulfillment for a darker engine and a death sentence that turns out to be a clerical error.

The mystery thread is the weaker half. The mastermind arrives late, and some of the GoTop corporate intrigue feels like padding between romance beats. But the leads are strong enough that you forgive the plotting, and the finale lands on warmth instead of cruelty. Treat it as a romcom first and a thriller second and it pays off.

👍👍👍 BEST FOR 👍👍👍
😂 Viewers who love an arrogant lead getting slowly dismantled 💘 Fans of fake-relationship and revenge-turns-romance setups 🕵️ Anyone who wants a romcom with a real mystery thread

⚖️ Final Verdict
What works
•Kim Jae-wook and Krystal’s comic chemistry
•A premise that flips the revenge genre on its head
•Supporting cast that keeps the GoTop office lively

What to know first
•The mastermind is revealed late and feels under-seeded
•Corporate intrigue slows the middle stretch
•Tone swings between broad comedy and real grief

8.2 / 10— A clever, charming romcom that earns its mystery with its leads.

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