Forecasting Love and Weather ~ Two Losers and Two Winners

“Forecasting Love and Weather” is a Korean drama series, released in 2022, has 16 episodes, and is categorized as a Romance and Comedy, (Rom-Com). It’s streaming on Netflix and dubbed in English.

Viewers who enjoyed watching Park Min-Young (“Marry My Husband” 2024) and Song Kang (“My Demon” 2023) will likely be happy to see them as a couple in this K-drama. No surprise it was on Collider’s list of “Best K-Dramas Featuring Workplace Romances”.

♦ Two Losers and Two Winners

In “Forecasting Love and Weather”, Jin Ha-Kyung is already successful in her professional life. She is the Director of Team A at the Korea Meteorological Administration, headquarters office. Now if she has a successful marriage, her life will be perfect. She and her fiancé, Han Ki-Jun, are making wedding plans but his future mother-in-law, Jin Ha-Kyung’s mother, already has complaints that make her suspicious of him.

What is the future mother-in-law’s complaint? Her complaint is that … HE NEVER COMPLAINS!! For that reason, she is extremely suspicious. She says when a man never complains about anything, he can’t be trusted.

It turns out that her mother’s suspicions were not unfounded. Jin Ha-Kyung caught him in the act. He and the woman he was cheating with, Chae Yoo-Jin, were … let’s just say they were doing what the mother was suspicious about.

Jin Ha-Kyung immediately called off her wedding plans. Is that the end of the affair? Hardly.

Jin Ha-Kyung is asked to transfer to another weather office, located in Switzerland. Her boss thought she would want since she probably did not want to work in the same office where her ex-fiancé worked. He had already remarried and his new wife, Chae Yoo-Jin, also worked there.

The boss thought that if Jin Ha-Kyung stayed there, she might feel uncomfortable and awkward, having to see her ex-fiancé and his new wife. The boss was wrong. Jin Ha-Kyung wasn’t going anywhere!

ENTER Lee Si-Woo, an employee at the weather station who was transferred to work at the headquarters on a temporary assignment that was supposed to last for two weeks. Guess who he bumps into when he gets there? His ex-girlfriend. Guess who his ex-girlfriend is. Chae Yoo-Jin, Han Ki-Jun’s new wife.

When Chae Yoo-Jin sees Lee Si-Woo, she calls him outside to speak with him privately. She wants to know why he’s there. Did he ask to be transferred just to spite her? Lee Si-Woo told her she thought too highly of herself. He was transferred and it had nothing to do with her.

Anyway! So what if he was working in the same office where she worked? Is her husband going to be insecure? Would he be worried that she might leave him and go back to Lee Si-Woo?

No that wasn’t why.  Chae Yoo-Jin had never even mentioned to Han Ki-Jun that she was in a relationship and had been living with her boyfriend. Her husband doesn’t know about Lee Si-Woo’s existence. However, her husband does remember that some crazy guy tried to crash his wedding.

Lee Si-Woo told her not to get her feathers ruffled as he was only on a 2-week assignment. But that changed later and his transfer was made permanent. Meanwhile, he and Jin Ha-Kyung started getting closer to each other.

The way things panned out:

• Han Ki-Jun and Chae Yoo-Jin were the LOSERS.
• Lee Si-Woo and Jin Ha-Kyung were the WINNERS.

The best thing that happened to them was being dumped by their previous partners. But Jin Ha-Kyung has said she would never get into a workplace romantic relationship again.  Then she met Lee Si-Woo.  Hopefully, everything will go smoothly in her relationship this time.

Main Characters:

• Jin Ha-Kyung (played by Park Min-Young)
• Lee Si-Woo (played by Song Kang)
• Han Ki-Jun (played by Yoon Park, “Doctor Slump”)
• Chae Yoo-Jin (played by Yura, “Destined With You”)

Where to Watch

Viewership and Rating:

• IMDb: 7.2 out of 10 stars
• My Drama List: 7.5 out of 10 stars
• Dramabeans: 8.4 out of 10 stars
• Letterboxd: 3 out of 5 stars
• NME: 4 out of 5 stars
• Common Sense Media: 4 out of 5 stars
• Public reviews shared via Google: 4.4 out of 5 stars

My personal rating is the same as My Drama List; 7.5 out of 10 stars.

Here is what various reviewers said and I AGREE.

• Per Showbiz Cheat Sheet: “Park Min-Young is fabulous and the queen of office romances”.
• Per PennyReviews via IMDb: “The show gives some insight into how weather forecasting works”.
• Per critics who posted via Rotten Tomatoes: “It’s a light, cozy, cute, and fun watch”.

“Forecasting Love and Weather” is a light-hearted rom-com that is perfect for fans of Park Min-Young (“Marry My Husband”) and Song Kang (“My Demon”). Yes, it is boring and very predictable, but that’s what makes it cozy and cute!

Save this Korean drama for a chilly and rainy Saturday afternoon, when you just want to curl up on your couch under a blanket; and you don’t want to have to focus on intense drama that rattles your brain and your nerves.

You want to relax, unwind, and treat yourself to some “quality ME time”. The only difficult decision you’ll have to make is whether you want kimbap (or gimbap) OR Korean fried chicken OR gamja hot dogs (Korean corn dogs). LOL.

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LINKS OF INTEREST:

• ‘Forecasting Love And Weather’ review: a heartwarmingly poetic romance in the making | NME
• Netflix K-drama Forecasting Love and Weather: Park Min-young, Song Kang in workplace romantic drama that’s all clear skies ahead | South China Morning Post
• Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Forecasting Love And Weather’ On Netflix, A K-Drama For Lovers Of Both Romance And Meteorology | Decider.com
• The 16 Best K-Dramas Featuring Workplace Romances: 9-to-5 Has Never Been So Dreamy | Collider.com

TRAILERS/TEASERS:

Asia, Netflix. “Forecasting Love and Weather | Official Trailer | Netflix.” YouTube Video. YouTube, January 28, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B–OvWV3HFw.‌