Beauty and Mr. Romantic

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Beauty and Mr. Romantic

미녀와 순정남 (Minyeowa Sunjeongnam) · 2024 · South Korea

WriterKim Sa-kyung

DirectorHong Seok-gu

Episodes50 eps · ~70 min each

Where to Watch✅ Viki, Kocowa, Prime Video, Netflix, OnDemandKorea

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Binge Time58h 20m

AiredMar 23 – Sep 8, 2024

GenreDrama · Family · Romance

Content RatingTV-15

KBS2VikiKocowaPrime VideoNetflixOnDemandKorea

First LoveAmnesiaFamily SecretsRevengeChaebol Family

The whole verdict, boiled down to one box.

Two families, three generations of secrets, and a cast large enough to need its own family tree.

Im Soo-hyang

Park Do-ra

Lead

Ji Hyun-woo

Go Pil-seung

Lead

Moon Seong-hyun

Go Pil-seung (Teen)

Supporting

Lee Sang-jun

Park Do-jun

Supporting

Go Yoon

Gong Jin-dan

Supporting

Lee Young-eun

Go Myeong-dong

Supporting

Cha Hwa-yeon

Baek Mi-ja

Supporting

Park Sang-won

Gong Jin-taek

Supporting

Lee Il-hwa

Jang Su-yeon

Supporting

Jeong Jae-soon

Gong Dae-sook

Supporting

Im Ye-jin

So Geum-ja

Supporting

Lee Du-il

Go Hyun-cheol

Supporting

Enough per episode to jog your memory, nothing more.

EP 01

First Love, First Secret

Mar 23, 2024

Do Ra’s family runs from creditors, and her mother’s answer to their poverty is simple: turn her daughter into a star. A boy named Dae Chung helping her carry groceries becomes proof, to Do Ra, that fate is real — right up until she catches him with an older woman and confronts him, detonating a secret about his birth that neither of them saw coming.

EP 02

The Truth Comes Out

Mar 24, 2024

Sun Young forces a breakup between Dae Chung and Jung Mi, and the fallout does something crueler than either intended — Geum Ja blurts out the truth about Dae Chung’s birth in front of everyone. He learns Soo Yeon is his real mother in the same breath he loses the illusion of his family, and still thanks Do Ra for cracking it open. Mi Ja, meanwhile, gets caught stealing food — a small humiliation that says everything about what her family is up against.

EP 03

Wait Until You’re Twenty

Mar 30, 2024

Geum Ja spots Dae Chung’s grandfather with another woman and can’t resist reporting it, though Sun Young shuts her down cold. Do Ra dresses older for an amusement-park outing hoping to look like girlfriend material; Dae Chung sees a little sister instead. When she finally confesses, he doesn’t say no so much as postpone — come back at twenty, he tells her — a promise dressed up as a rejection.

EP 04

The Reluctant Leading Lady

Mar 31, 2024

Years later, Director Jang drags a reluctant Pil Seung onto a new production, and the first thing he learns is that its star is Do Ra. She wants out entirely, and her refusal nearly tanks the show’s funding before it starts. Pil Seung’s attempt to talk her down goes nowhere — it’s the investor meeting her price, not his persuading, that finally gets her to sign.

EP 05

A Spiteful Performance

Apr 6, 2024

Spite makes Do Ra reckless. She flirts hard with Bong Soo purely to needle Bi Bi, and the plan works too well — Bi Bi storms the set in a rage that throws the whole production into chaos. Pil Seung watches the stunt with visible disappointment, the first real crack in his composure, while Do Ra’s charm reveals an edge nobody on set was quite prepared for.

EP 06

Mistaken Signals

Apr 7, 2024

Geum Ja promises Hyun Chul money for his new venture, then meets Mi Ja with an expression that suggests the two women share more history than either lets on. On set, Pil Seung works overtime smoothing tensions between Do Ra and Bong Soo — diplomacy dressed as duty. Do Ra reads his attentiveness as something else entirely, and a strange, unearned excitement starts creeping into how she looks at him.

EP 07

An Investor’s Crush

Apr 13, 2024

An apology from Pil Seung lands flat — Do Ra isn’t in a forgiving mood, and their working relationship stays frosty. Myung Dong clocks how harshly she treats him and wonders whether the family should be told. Elsewhere, Jin Dan, an investor nursing a private crush on Do Ra, enlists Mi Ja to engineer a date, adding a rival neither Do Ra nor Pil Seung asked for.

EP 08

Stranded on the Island

Apr 14, 2024

The name finally clicks — Pil Seung is Dae Chung, and Do Ra’s anger dissolves into something closer to relief. Mi Ja, unmoved, keeps pushing the Jin Dan match, arranging a date that leaves Do Ra visibly uncomfortable. Then a location shoot strands the two of them on an island together, and isolation forces the old bond back to the surface.

EP 09

Twelve Years Old Again

Apr 20, 2024

Dae Sook digs into Soo Yeon’s past and pushes Madam Cho to finally tell Jin Taek — a warning shot for a secret about to get louder. Back from the island, Do Ra can’t stop thinking about Pil Seung; twelve-year-old feelings resurface with adult stakes attached. Ae Kyo, worried about Jin Dan’s fixation, meets Do Ra directly to try to talk her out of the relationship before it starts.

EP 10

Rejected, Again

Apr 21, 2024

Do Ra does the brave thing and confesses first, asking Pil Seung out directly. He turns her down flat, the same rejection he gave her at twelve, and this time it stings worse because she’s never had to hear no from anyone. Underneath his refusal sits real fear — dating a celebrity, and everything Mi Ja’s history could reignite. Meanwhile Do Jun returns to Korea and crosses paths with Ma Ri.

EP 11

Recreating the Memory

Apr 27, 2024

Determined, Do Ra drags Pil Seung back to the amusement park where they first met, rebuilding the day piece by piece. He’s falling — visibly — even as he keeps insisting he isn’t. Jin Dan apologizes after landing Angel Investment, an olive branch Do Ra accepts warily, while Ae Kyo keeps digging into Soo Yeon’s past on Dae Sook’s orders.

EP 12

The Wrap Party Scandal

Apr 28, 2024

Sun Young catches Geum Ja and Hyun Chul quietly borrowing money from Mi Ja, and the discovery reignites a grudge that never really cooled. At the drama’s wrap party, Jin Dan misreads a moment between Do Ra and Bong Soo and makes a scene in front of everyone, then escalates by threatening Mi Ja and demanding she deliver her daughter.

EP 13

A Mother’s Ultimatum

May 4, 2024

Mi Ja catches Do Ra with Pil Seung instead of Jin Dan and doesn’t wait to react — she barges into his home and blows the relationship open in front of his family. Sun Young, still raw from Mi Ja’s past sabotage, is devastated all over again. Watching his mother unravel, Pil Seung makes the call to end things with Do Ra, choosing her peace over his own.

EP 14

The Photo Shoot Trap

May 5, 2024

Do Ra climbs into Mi Ja’s car expecting a photo shoot on Ganghwa Island and gets an ambush instead — someone is waiting there who was never supposed to be part of the plan. It’s the beginning of the end for Mi Ja’s carefully hidden misdeeds, which start surfacing all at once and threaten to pull her entire family under with her.

EP 15

Calling Off the Wedding

May 11, 2024

Do Ra tells Pil Seung she’s engaged to Jin Dan, and the lie lands exactly as hard as she needs it to. Then, right before the ceremony, she calls it off in public, humiliating him a second time. Mi Ja panics over the retaliation this will invite; Jin Dan doesn’t wait to plan his next move. It’s the most defiant Do Ra has been all series, and it costs her almost everything.

EP 16

Two Years Later

May 12, 2024

Two years pass. Do Ra is presumed dead, Pil Seung mourns her while building a career as a director, and Jin Dan can’t sleep through the guilt. Pil Seung meets a woman on location who looks unmistakably like her. Mi Ja, freshly released from prison, wants revenge on Jin Dan. And in the countryside, rescued and amnesiac, Do Ra is living quietly as someone named Ji Young.

EP 17

A Familiar Stranger

May 18, 2024

Ji Young joins Pil Seung’s broadcasting team and can’t find anywhere to live; he offers his home to her and her grandmother without quite examining why. Every time he looks at her, Do Ra flickers underneath — a resemblance he can’t explain away. Ji Young, for her part, keeps dreaming about a house she’s never consciously visited.

EP 18

The Matching Tattoo

May 19, 2024

A hospital visit after Ji Young’s accident gives Pil Seung the confirmation he’s been circling — a tattoo on her ankle, identical to Do Ra’s. Combined with her half-remembered dream of a childhood home, it’s enough for him to track down her grandmother and learn the word amnesia for the first time. Elsewhere, Do Jun starts remembering a childhood he’d half-forgotten too.

EP 19

Mixed Signals

May 25, 2024

Pil Seung talks himself into respecting Ji Young’s right not to dig into her own past, then immediately undercuts it by recreating memories only he remembers. Ji Young doesn’t know what to do with the affection he keeps offering and denying in the same breath. When she finally asks him to be honest, he insists it’s all just kindness, and leaves her more drawn to him than ever.

EP 20

The Guitar Serenade

May 26, 2024

A camping trip, a guitar, a serenade — Pil Seung’s gestures keep saying what his words won’t. Ji Young hits her limit and asks him to just confess already instead of dancing around it. He refuses again, citing neighborly kindness, and it’s the least convincing excuse he’s given yet. She warns him not to offer false hope. Her feelings deepen anyway.

EP 21

Just an Oppa

Jun 1, 2024

Waiting for her late at night, Pil Seung declares himself her protective older-brother figure — a title that fools no one, least of all him. He already knows she’s dating Jin Dan and pretends not to, then asks her out regardless. On set, Ji Young steps into a vacant role and remembers, mid-scene, why she used to love this, while Pil Seung watches with more dread than pride.

EP 22

A Dangerous Setup

Jun 2, 2024

Myung Dong and Do Sik officially start dating, a relationship built on one too many coincidences to be accidental. Do Sik visits her home and finds it eerily familiar, familiar enough to run into his own mother, Mi Ja, there lobbying Pil Seung for a role. Geum Ja sets Pil Seung up with Ma Ri, unaware Soo Yeon is quietly panicking — she can’t let her two secret children date.

EP 23

Ji Young Gets to Audition

Jun 8, 2024

Mi Ja learns her son Do Sik is dating Pil Seung’s cousin and reacts badly, and it only gets stranger when Do Sik mentions, almost in passing, that Ji Young reminds him of Do Ra. Jae Dong, Do Ra’s old manager, wants to sign Ji Young as his first client. Pil Seung finally tells her about his fear of losing loved ones, and resolves out loud to love her as Ji Young and let the rest go.

EP 24

Siblings, Not Lovers

Jun 9, 2024

Jin Dan’s mother confronts Ji Young with a warning and an envelope of cash, leaving a bad taste in Pil Seung’s family’s mouths. Jin Dan follows up himself, apologizing and dangling luxury as a lure; when Ji Young refuses, he turns violent, and Pil Seung steps in. The bigger blow lands elsewhere — Soo Yeon is forced to tell Ma Ri that Pil Seung is her biological brother, and Ma Ri collapses under the weight of it.

EP 25

GOGO Entertainment

Jun 15, 2024

Jin Dan threatens Ji Young over what he calls her toying with his feelings, and Pil Seung shuts him down hard. Ma Ri, now aware Pil Seung is her brother, apologizes for the trouble she’s caused. Soo Yeon’s answer is to found GOGO Entertainment specifically to back his career; he takes the offer, and Jin Dan reads it as a direct declaration of war.

EP 26

An Ordinary Country Girl

Jun 16, 2024

A public shove from Jin Dan turns into a full brawl in front of Ji Young, dragging their rivalry into the open. Sun Young watches Pil Seung defend her fiercely and comes away unimpressed — to her, Ji Young is just an ordinary country girl. Now lead director at GOGO, Pil Seung casts her in his new drama anyway, and his family’s fury only sharpens.

EP 27

Family Reunion

Jun 22, 2024

Mi Ja’s suspicion that Ji Young is her lost daughter tips into obsession — she trails her and secretly runs a DNA test that somehow comes back negative. The moles match Do Ra’s exactly, though, so Mi Ja tries something crueler: a walnut drink, knowing Do Ra’s allergy. The reaction is instant. Combined with a real DNA match at 99.99%, it’s undeniable — Ji Young is Do Ra, and Mi Ja finally says so to her face.

EP 28

The Night in the Ocean

Jun 23, 2024

A drunken visit from Jin Dan gets Ji Young thrown out of Pil Seung’s house over a misunderstanding. She confronts him directly — did he already know she was Do Ra? — and the betrayal in the question is real. Pil Seung reassures her and turns his anger on Mi Ja instead. Convinced at last, Ji Young takes the DNA test herself, then demands the truth about the night she was found in the ocean.

EP 29

A Job She Shouldn’t Take

Jun 29, 2024

Soo Yeon breaks her shoulder saving Pil Seung from an accident, an act of sacrifice that makes Geum Ja start asking uncomfortable questions about just how much this woman cares. Do Sik lands in legal trouble defending Do Ra’s name after a drunken slander turns physical. Mi Ja, desperate for cash, pushes Ji Young into a nightclub gig — the exact kind of decision that once ruined Do Ra’s career.

EP 30

The Confession Geum Ja Couldn’t Keep

Jun 30, 2024

Word of the nightclub job threatens to get Ji Young cut from the drama, and Pil Seung pays her penalty fee out of pocket rather than let it happen. Mi Ja’s excuses only make him angrier. Then the real bomb goes off: a DNA test confirms Pil Seung and Ma Ri are siblings, and Geum Ja, unable to sit on it any longer, tells Sun Young that Soo Yeon is Pil Seung’s birth mother.

EP 31

Jin Taek Visits Sun Young

Jul 6, 2024

Learning Soo Yeon abandoned him as a baby breaks something in Pil Seung — he announces he’ll quit her company the moment his current project wraps. Her apology lands as an excuse, not an explanation, and he isn’t interested in either. In quieter news, Ji Young’s grandmother, her dementia worsening, moves in with the family, and somewhere in her fog she notices exactly what’s growing between Ji Young and Pil Seung.

EP 32

She Remembers Everything

Jul 7, 2024

Soo Yeon’s divorce becomes public knowledge, and both families start asking questions neither side wants answered. Ma Ri’s health buckles under the stress, prompting Jin Taek to invite Pil Seung to live with them. Jin Dan, still fixated on Ji Young despite his own engagement, admits to Mi Ja how much she resembles Do Ra — and Do Ra, finally done being manipulated, tells Mi Ja she remembers everything, including whose fault the suicide attempt really was.

EP 33

Debt Collectors at the Door

Jul 13, 2024

A childhood photo of Pil Seung sends Ae Kyo’s suspicions about Soo Yeon into overdrive. Mi Ja, meanwhile, is drowning — debt collectors are threatening her family outright, and she tries to squeeze money out of Jin Dan using Do Ra’s name. He says no, for once. Pil Seung and Ji Young take her grandmother on a quiet outing instead, a small pocket of peace before the next round of chaos.

EP 34

A Forced Romance

Jul 14, 2024

A DNA test Ae Kyo orchestrated confirms what everyone suspected — Pil Seung really is Soo Yeon’s son. Jin Taek finds out and throws Soo Yeon out of the house, a decision that devastates Ma Ri. Under financial pressure from Mi Ja, Ji Young agrees to date Jin Dan purely to settle her mother’s debts. Elsewhere, the drama itself is at risk of cancellation, and the crew starts fighting to save it.

EP 35

Fragments of the Past

Jul 20, 2024

The crew stages a formal protest against APP Group’s decision to halt production. Pil Seung learns Ji Young is dating Jin Dan and corners Mi Ja, who admits — without much shame — to forcing the arrangement for money. Jin Taek’s aunt floats adopting Jin Dan outright to secure the family line, and he jumps at it. Meanwhile, pieces of Ji Young’s memory as Do Ra start slipping back, and with them, a creeping guilt.

EP 36

The CEO Offer

Jul 21, 2024

Pil Seung’s GOGO-backed drama becomes a hit, and Jin Taek offers him the CEO chair — an offer he accepts after some hesitation and a push from Soo Yeon. Ji Young keeps sifting through returning memories, caught between the version of herself that liked Jin Dan and the one that never stopped loving Pil Seung. Sang Gu, dating Ae Kyo, starts noticing Jin Dan looks a little too much like his own father.

EP 37

Buying Back Her Freedom

Jul 27, 2024

As more memory returns, Ji Young understands exactly how much Pil Seung has always meant to her — which makes the forced relationship with Jin Dan unbearable. She asks GOGO for an advance to pay off her debt and buy her way out. Pil Seung, still unaware of what she’s remembering, apologizes for an old cruelty. Sang Gu discovers Jin Dan is his biological son, a secret Ae Kyo scrambles to bury.

EP 38

Everything Comes Back

Jul 28, 2024

A head injury on set does what nothing else could — it floods Ji Young with every memory at once, Jin Dan’s manipulations included, and the full scope of what Pil Seung sacrificed for her. She’s left reeling, ashamed of how she treated him without knowing why it mattered. Jin Taek invites Pil Seung to dinner, newly interested in him now that he knows he’s Soo Yeon’s son.

EP 39

Moving Out

Aug 3, 2024

Fully herself again, Ji Young stops playing along with Mi Ja and moves out with her grandmother, a quiet declaration of independence. She apologizes to Do Jun for the suicide attempt he still carries guilt over. Pil Seung senses the shift in her but she keeps her memory to herself. Jin Dan’s world is closing in from every direction, and Sang Gu drops a bomb of his own — he has a son nobody knew about.

EP 40

The Speeding Car

Aug 4, 2024

Ji Young collapses in the woods and wakes up with everything back — the amnesia, the trauma, all of it. She fakes continued memory loss to protect her grandmother and quietly plans her exit, repaying Jin Dan and ending things, which only makes him suspicious. Then, on the way to dinner, Pil Seung throws himself in front of a speeding car to save Ma Ri. Ji Young, breaking, finally says the words out loud — she’s Do Ra — begging him to wake up.

EP 41

An Intentional Accident

Aug 10, 2024

Pil Seung lands in the ICU, condition critical, and Jin Taek’s investigation turns up something worse than an accident — an unregistered vehicle, a deliberate hit. Ji Young, gutted by news of Jin Dan’s public engagement, tells Pil Seung she wants nothing more to do with him. Determined to protect her properly, Pil Seung accepts Jin Taek’s adoption offer, chasing the power to shield her.

EP 42

Strings Attached

Aug 11, 2024

Pil Seung pulls through and gets back to work. Jin Taek makes the adoption official, a move that enrages Ae Kyo and forces Sun Young into an uncomfortable explanation. Soo Yeon insists it’s about Ma Ri’s guardianship, not ambition. Ji Young lands a lucrative commercial that turns out to be quietly funded by Jin Dan — another string attached without her consent — and Pil Seung promises to keep cutting them.

EP 43

Cutting Ties With Mi Ja

Aug 17, 2024

Sang Gu learns Pil Seung has replaced Jin Dan as heir apparent, and resentment spreads through everyone the shift displaced. Mi Ja’s gambling habit resurfaces hard — she steals gold from Ji Young’s grandmother and extorts Ma Ri. Jin Taek traces the missing money back to Mi Ja and fires Do Jun in the process, humiliating him in front of Ma Ri. Do Sik and Do Ra, done covering for their mother, finally cut her off.

EP 44

The Pre-Wedding Threat

Aug 18, 2024

Pil Seung tells Jin Taek he intends to marry Ji Young, and Jin Taek can’t approve it — not with Mi Ja as her mother. Ji Young tells her brothers everything, and they back her without hesitation. Then, at the pre-wedding family meeting, a drunk Mi Ja demands money and threatens to expose her daughter’s identity — with Jin Dan, who’s been quietly stalking Ji Young, listening in the whole time.

EP 45

Exposed to the Press

Aug 24, 2024

The truth breaks — Ji Young’s identity as Do Ra hits the media, and Pil Seung’s adoption is cancelled overnight. They run to a countryside cabin to escape the press, but the guilt of what her exposure cost him is too much for Ji Young. She leaves a note and disappears to the coast. Pil Seung’s family pushes him to break it off and save his position; he refuses outright. Sun Young, furious, slaps Do Ra across the face.

EP 46

Clearing Her Name

Aug 25, 2024

Ji Young goes public herself, owning the full story — the amnesia, the past scandal, the suicide attempt — to protect Pil Seung. It barely dents the public’s skepticism. Pil Seung resigns from GOGO to shield APP Group’s reputation while he, Do Sik, and Do Jun work to clear Do Ra’s name outright. The break comes when Pil Seung finds Mr. Park, who admits Jin Dan paid him to frame Do Ra years ago.

EP 47

Not His Father’s Son

Aug 31, 2024

Jin Dan’s world cracks open when he learns Sang Gu, not Jin Taek, is his biological father. Pil Seung and Do Ra grow closer through the chaos, steadier than they’ve ever been. Geum Ja overhears Sang Gu confirm the truth to Ae Kyo and has to decide whether to tell Jin Taek herself. Jin Dan, cornered, demands Sang Gu leave the country; Sang Gu is arrested for questioning instead.

EP 48

A Voice in the Dark

Sep 1, 2024

Jin Taek’s whole family shows up at Pil Seung’s home, clearly carrying news too big for a phone call. Do Ra, coming home after a genuinely good day, is stopped cold by a voice behind her that shouldn’t be there — a threat the show doesn’t explain yet, just lets sit. Geum Ja is still sitting on Jin Dan’s real parentage, weighing what happens the moment she finally tells Jin Taek.

EP 49

Do Ra’s Paralysis

Sep 7, 2024

Jin Dan goes on the run after his actions leave Do Ra paralyzed, and Pil Seung stops pretending to be patient — he baits Jin Dan with a financial trap, corners him, and beats him badly enough that it ends in an arrest. APP Group implodes as Jin Dan’s crimes go public. Do Ra, struggling to accept her condition, hides from Pil Seung at Mi Ja’s, not realizing Sun Young and Soo Yeon are paying Mi Ja to keep her away.

EP 50

Learning to Walk Again

Sep 8, 2024

Do Ra’s despair over the paralysis breaks, slowly, against Pil Seung’s refusal to leave her side — their rehabilitation goes viral and pulls in support from total strangers, and she walks again. Sun Young and Soo Yeon finally apologize, and Do Ra answers with the confession she’s been holding back. Do Jun proposes to Ma Ri, and Mi Ja’s last extortion attempt gets shut down cold. Years later: Pil Seung and Do Ra’s twins, Ma Ri wanting kids of her own, and Do Ra accepting a Best Actress award for the comeback role that started it all.

Spoilers from here on — what actually happened, and why it lands.

What actually happened Jin Dan’s obsession finally turns violent, and Do Ra is left paralyzed after his final act of revenge — but Beauty and Mr. Romantic doesn’t let that be the ending. Pil Seung hunts Jin Dan down, gets him arrested, and spends the finale’s back half doing what he’s done since episode one: refusing to leave Do Ra’s side. Their recovery, filmed and shared, goes viral, and Do Ra walks again through sheer stubborn will and Pil Seung’s unwavering presence.

The mothers get their reckoning too. Sun Young and Soo Yeon — both of whom spent the back third of the series either sabotaging the couple or paying Mi Ja to keep them apart — finally apologize, not just to Do Ra but to the son and daughter they each failed in different ways. It’s not a clean redemption for either woman, but the show doesn’t pretend it should be; the apology matters more than absolution.

The question the finale actually answers What the ending is really settling is the question the show asked back in episode one — whether love that started as a child’s crush can survive every adult betrayal thrown at it. Do Ra finally says the words she’s been holding back since Ji Young first met Pil Seung, and the show treats that confession as the actual climax, bigger than Jin Dan’s arrest or the paralysis storyline. Everything else was obstacle; this was always the point.

The side arcs land softly by comparison. Do Jun proposes to Ma Ri and gets Jin Taek’s blessing despite Mi Ja’s last attempt to cash in on the wedding — an extortion bid Jin Taek shuts down without hesitation, a small, satisfying bookend to fifty episodes of her manipulating everyone around her. Mi Ja herself gets no triumphant comeuppance, just the slow, undramatic consequence of having nothing left.

The KDW verdict The time-jump epilogue — Pil Seung and Do Ra with twin babies, Ma Ri married and hoping for kids of her own, Do Ra collecting a Best Actress award for the role that started her comeback — is exactly as tidy as a fifty-episode weekend melodrama should be. It doesn’t reinvent the ending so much as deliver precisely what it promised from the first episode: that the boy who once carried her groceries was always going to be the one who carried her home.