First love turned crazy tenant in KBS rom-com The Law Cafe

by missvictrix

KBS’s upcoming drama The Law Cafe is looking an awful lot like a quintessential K-drama rom-com — and you’ll hear no complains from me. The newest teaser opens with our two leads Lee Seung-gi (Mouse) and Lee Se-young (The Red Sleeve Cuff) as flirty high schoolers. Because is there a friends-to-lovers romance out there that would feel complete without our leads having a history?

Through the high school flashback it looks like our hero Kim Jung-ho (Lee Seung-gi) and heroine Kim Yuri (Lee Se-young) dated in their youth. We see them being cute together and hear Yuri mocking his haircut. From there we move into the present day, with the eponymous law cafe being created. And God bless dramaland: it’s a pitch-perfect K-drama set if ever I saw one. Inside we hear Yuri saying “law” in English and explaining her intentions to start a law cafe, as we see some drip coffee being made and Jung-ho flipping out over her plans… since he’s the landlord.

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The next text screen positions Yuri as “his first love masquerading as a tenant,” and we see quick cuts of Yuri promising to live peacefully, but then doing anything but and creating much mayhem. In contrast, Jung-ho is noted as “the jobless tracksuit-wearing landlord” who defends himself and his fashion choices calling it “vintage, casual, ethnic high fashion” — and really, who can argue, since you can take the tracksuit out of dramaland but you can’t take dramaland out of the tracksuit.

From there the romantic hijinks start — accidental close proximity moments, secret staring, etc. — and Yuri asks if he’s being like this because they dated in the past. Jung-ho then says he’s only acting like this because “Yuri is a psycho,” and we see more cuts of her being the wild woman she seems to be. Sign me up, folks!

Directed by PD Lee Eun-jin (Happy to Die, Chief Kim) with scripts by Im Eui-jung (One Night), The Law Cafe premieres September 5 in the Monday-Tuesday slot.

First love turned crazy tenant in KBS rom-com The Law Cafe