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Forecasting Love and Weather
기상청 사람들: 사내연애 잔혹사 편 · 2022
✅ Completed · 16 eps
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⭐ 7.4 / 10 MDL
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⚡ Updated · Apr 17, 2026
Drama Overview
Completed
Forecasting Love and Weather
기상청 사람들: 사내연애 잔혹사 편 · 2022 · South Korea
NetflixTVINGJTBC
Office RomanceWorkplace DramaSlow BurnMeteorologySecond Chances
At the Korea Meteorological Administration, senior forecaster Jin Ha-kyung has built her entire life around precision — meticulous work, careful routines, and a carefully planned engagement. Then one night she discovers her fiancé in bed with a weather reporter. That same night, free-spirited junior meteorologist Lee Si-woo is dumped by his girlfriend — the very same weather reporter. One catastrophic coincidence. Two betrayed people. One shared workplace they can no longer avoid.
What follows is not a clean, uncomplicated romance. Ha-kyung is guarded to her bones, allergic to workplace entanglements, and governed by the KMA’s strict inter-office relationship policy. Si-woo, gifted and irreverent, isn’t looking for love either — but finds himself drawn to the one woman whose emotional walls are built the highest. As the seasons change and pressure systems shift, the drama asks whether two people burned by the same fire can learn to trust again — or whether some storms are better left unforecasted.
Episode Progress
16 / 16 ✅ Completed
⚡ Quick Verdict
Worth it?
Yes — with patience
Vibe
Slow-burn · Rainy season · Emotionally guarded leads
Skip if
You need a fast romantic payoff or can’t stand characters who hold back
⭐ 7.4 / 10 · MDL Score · 62,453+ ratings
Cast & Characters
12 key cast members — leads, supporting, and notable appearances.
Park Min-young
Jin Ha-kyung
Lee Sung-wook
Eom Dong-han
Yoon Sa-bong
Oh Myung-joo
Kwon Hae-hyo
Ko Bong-chan
Jung Woon-sun
Jin Tae-kyung
Jang So-yeon
Lee Hyang-rae
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📋 Episode Guide
All 16 episodes — spoiler-light recaps with the key moments from each.
EP 01
Signal
Feb 12, 2022 · JTBC
Ha-kyung’s carefully arranged world — engagement, promotion, professional standing — comes apart in a single night. She catches her fiancé with a weather reporter. That reporter’s boyfriend, Si-woo, is simultaneously dumped by the same woman. The episode plays the double betrayal with precision: two strangers, one catastrophic night, a shared workplace neither of them can escape. The opening hailstorm that no one predicted is not subtle symbolism — but it works.
EP 02
Sensible Temperature
Feb 12, 2022 · JTBC
Two months later: Ha-kyung has been promoted to team head, Si-woo has transferred to KMA headquarters, and their exes are already married. The episode establishes the core awkwardness — four people, one office, an unbearable social triangle. Over drinks, Ha-kyung and Si-woo bond over the absurd coincidence that ties them. Park Min-young plays the armor with precision; Song Kang plays someone who doesn’t understand why she’s wearing it.
EP 03
In Between Seasons
Feb 19, 2022 · JTBC
They spend the night together after too many drinks — and agree, the morning after, to pretend it never happened. The KMA is under external pressure over a Wind Wave Warning Ha-kyung refuses to lift until the science is ready. Both storylines track the same emotional logic: Ha-kyung holds the line until data supports otherwise, in the office and everywhere else. Si-woo tells her plainly he won’t pursue her unless she wants it. That line lands.
EP 04
Visibility
Feb 19, 2022 · JTBC
Yoo-jin publishes a biased article criticizing the KMA’s fog advisory system following a highway pileup — turning a professional dispute into a personal one. Ha-kyung and Si-woo prepare a formal rebuttal together, and the shared project becomes the first real evidence of their professional chemistry. The drama is careful here: it earns the closeness before asking you to root for it.
EP 05
Localized Heavy Rain
Feb 26, 2022 · JTBC
Ki-joon starts unraveling — Yoo-jin lied to him about something significant, and he can’t let it go. Meanwhile, the workplace tensions in Ha-kyung’s team create a friction that bleeds into the personal. The episode does quiet work on the supporting cast: Dong-han’s domestic troubles add texture, and the office dynamic feels genuinely lived-in rather than merely convenient backdrop.
EP 06
Heat Island
Feb 26, 2022 · JTBC
Ha-kyung’s suspicion of Si-woo sharpens after a motel encounter she can’t explain — then her mother’s health scare pulls her attention entirely. Si-woo’s secretive personal life begins to surface around his estranged father, adding a layer beneath his easy exterior that the show has been earning slowly. The episode reminds you there are real histories at work here, not just chemistry.
EP 07
Ozone Warning
Mar 5, 2022 · JTBC
Ki-joon seeks outside perspective on his deteriorating marriage; Si-woo, now without housing, finds himself quietly helping someone else in need. Flashbacks to Si-woo’s difficult childhood arrive — they do the heavy lifting that the present-day story needed. Song Kang handles the quieter register well: the episode softens him without making him simple.
EP 08
Discomfort Index
Mar 5, 2022 · JTBC
The rivalry between Si-woo and Ki-joon erupts — and the personal history between the two men turns out to be older and more layered than the audience was told. Ha-kyung is caught in the middle of a situation she didn’t create. The episode has the series’ sharpest confrontation so far; it earns the tension because it waited eight episodes to use it.
EP 09
Dry Changma
Mar 12, 2022 · JTBC
Ha-kyung reflects on what uncertainty means to a forecaster — and to someone who has been burned. Ki-joon follows her and Si-woo on their day off, unable to let go. Then Yoo-jin tells Ha-kyung that Si-woo doesn’t believe in marriage — a revelation that stops her cold. Ha-kyung has never dated anyone who didn’t want a future. This is the episode that clarifies what the obstacle actually is.
EP 10
Tropical Night
Mar 12, 2022 · JTBC
Pressure from Ha-kyung’s mother to settle down; a nosy reporter sniffing around the KMA; incorrect heat data accidentally published on the public portal — there is a lot in motion here, and not all of it connects neatly. Yoo-jin packs her bags and leaves Ki-joon’s apartment. The drama signals it’s entering its final stretch by tightening the screws on every subplot simultaneously.
EP 11
1 Degree
Mar 19, 2022 · JTBC
Ha-kyung sends Si-woo to the Jeju Typhoon Center — putting distance between them precisely when they had started to close it. He leaves without a word. She is devastated, and chooses to blame old damage rather than look inward. Dong-han’s daughter suffers an allergic reaction at the office, triggering a fierce confrontation with his estranged wife. The episode is emotionally dense and the separation lands hard.
EP 12
Variation Area
Mar 19, 2022 · JTBC
Ha-kyung maintains her composure at work while quietly falling apart everywhere else. Yoo-jin and Ki-joon’s estrangement deepens. In Jeju, Si-woo begins confronting the unresolved issues with his father that have been hovering at the edges of his story since episode six. The episode paces its emotional beats carefully — the separation is not dramatized; it is shown accumulating.
EP 13
Scenario 1, 2, 3
Mar 26, 2022 · JTBC
Ha-kyung and Si-woo each rehearse their possible futures — how to reconcile, how to walk away, how to survive not choosing. Yoo-jin’s complicated family background arrives in the form of her mother and stepfather, adding new texture to a character who has been mostly antagonist until now. This episode is the cleanest character work of the back half: everyone is finally standing in front of something they’ve been avoiding.
EP 14
Anticyclone
Mar 26, 2022 · JTBC
Pressure eases. Ki-joon’s obsession with Ha-kyung’s relationship begins to quiet — he is finally seeing his own patterns clearly. A critical conversation between Ha-kyung and Si-woo opens the door again. The episode is the drama at its calmest — no crises, no explosions — and that restraint is exactly right. Equilibrium, before the finale tests it.
EP 15
Ensemble
Apr 3, 2022 · JTBC
In a piece of near-comedy, Ha-kyung and Si-woo’s office romance is blurted out in the cafeteria — at the exact moment they have already broken up. The timing is cruel and very well executed. Si-woo’s father situation reaches its pivot point. The drama manages its external pressures and the internal emotional state simultaneously without dropping either thread. One episode left, and the ground has been properly cleared.
EP 16
Tomorrow’s Answers
Apr 3, 2022 · JTBC
The finale. Ha-kyung and Si-woo reconcile — and this time, there is no condition attached. Si-woo has genuinely moved: he commits to a future, not as capitulation but as growth. Dong-han and his wife arrive at an honest reckoning; their daughter’s health scare becomes the catalyst for something cautiously hopeful. Ki-joon and Yoo-jin, the couple who started all of this, welcome a child — the drama grants them peace but not exoneration. Ha-kyung steps forward open, unguarded. The final image earns its quiet.
🏁 Ending Explained
Full spoilers ahead — everything that happens in the finale and what it all means.
⚠️
Spoiler Warning — This section covers the full finale of Forecasting Love and Weather. Stop here if you haven’t finished the series.
The impasse breaks — finally. Everything in the finale depends on one question the drama has been building toward since episode nine: can Si-woo genuinely change, or was his resistance to marriage a fixed point? The answer arrives not through a dramatic declaration but through action — Si-woo approaches Ha-kyung with the future she needs, not the one he was comfortable with. Park Min-young plays the moment of belief with careful restraint: she doesn’t melt, she simply stops holding the door shut.
The supporting cast lands its own resolutions. Dong-han’s storyline — his estranged wife, his daughter’s allergic reaction, years of accumulated distance — closes on a note that is cautiously hopeful rather than sentimentally resolved. The drama never promised anyone a clean ending, and it keeps that promise: the door between Dong-han and his wife is open again, not healed. That’s the correct choice. Meanwhile, Si-woo’s father, who has haunted the margins of his story since episode six, gets a scene that finally closes that wound rather than just gesturing at it.
Ki-joon and Yoo-jin are given a baby and not quite forgiven. This is the finale’s most interesting moral decision. The couple who triggered the whole drama — whose infidelity in episode one set everything in motion — ends the series with a child and a version of domestic peace. The drama doesn’t punish them harshly, but it frames their happiness without warmth. They have what they wanted. The show simply doesn’t celebrate it with them. It’s a position on moral consequence that refuses easy catharsis without becoming bitter about it.
The final image says what the drama has been saying all along. Ha-kyung, who spent sixteen episodes treating uncertainty as threat, stands with Si-woo watching a clearing sky. The weather metaphor closes as it opened — but reversed. Episode one gave us the storm no one predicted. The finale gives us the clear sky no one was sure would come. Ha-kyung isn’t a different person; she has simply decided that the risk is worth it. The drama earns the moment because it earned her, slowly, across every scene in between.
✍️ KDramaWorlds Editor’s Take
Our honest read on why this drama is worth your time — and who it’s for.
☁️ Slow Burn🌧️ Rainy Season Energy💼 Adult Stakes🌡️ Cool Chemistry💔 Earned Romance
Forecasting Love and Weather is, at its core, a drama about someone who is very good at predicting everything except her own heart. Park Min-young plays Jin Ha-kyung with a degree of control that she hasn’t always been allowed in her romantic leads — the character’s rigidity is not a quirk to be dissolved by the right man, but a genuine psychological posture with a history. The meteorology setting is used more cleverly than you’d expect: the drama uses weather science as a consistent metaphor for emotional uncertainty without ever becoming on-the-nose about it. When Ha-kyung argues that you don’t lift a warning until the data supports it, she isn’t just talking about forecasts. Song Kang, for his part, brings a warmth to Si-woo that keeps the slow burn from feeling inert — he is patient without being passive, and the tension between his ease and her armor is the engine of the whole drama. Compared to Business Proposal, which aired the same year and ran at a much faster comedic pace, this one asks more of your patience — but it pays differently.
Where the drama is genuinely divisive is the middle. Episodes ten through thirteen slow down in a way that feels less like earned pacing and more like the writers running out the clock. The ex-couple subplot — Ki-joon and Yoo-jin’s deteriorating marriage — is given more time than it deserves in a story that was never really about them. The drama knows it has a workplace romance rule as its central tension, and it milks it longer than necessary before finally moving. Viewers who need emotional momentum will feel the drag. The supporting storyline around Dong-han and his wife is one of the few subplots that earns its space — it lands in the finale because it was developed with patience rather than treated as placeholder material.
The finale is good — restrained in the right places, honest about who deserves what, and confident enough not to oversell the reconciliation. What stays with you is less the romance and more Ha-kyung’s arc: a woman who spent years treating safety as a substitute for living, and who finally decides the data is good enough to take the risk. If slow-burn office romance is your genre and you can ride out a sagging middle, this one’s worth finishing.
👍👍👍 BEST FOR 👍👍👍
💼 Fans of slow-burn workplace romances with adult emotional logic
🌧️ Viewers who like their rom-com leads with genuine emotional damage — not just quirks
🎬 Park Min-young fans who want to see her stretch beyond the usual register
⚖️ Final Verdict
What works
•Park Min-young’s most restrained and emotionally layered performance
•Meteorology setting used as genuine emotional metaphor — not just backdrop
•Mature treatment of workplace ethics, ex relationships, and emotional avoidance
•A finale that earns its resolution without overselling it
What to know first
•Episodes 10–13 drag — the middle is the drama’s weakest stretch
•Ha-kyung’s emotional walls can frustrate viewers who want faster payoff
•The ex-couple subplot is given more time than it warrants
•16 episodes — the story could breathe at 12
7.4 / 10Ride out the slow middle — the first six episodes and the finale make it worth it.
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