Dinner Mate

May 25, 2020

Woo Do-hee (Song Seung-heon) and Kim Hae-kyung (Seo Ji-hye) keep running into each other at restaurants — both eating alone after painful breakups. Their first meeting is not a good one.

May 26, 2020

A second chance encounter at a different restaurant. The drama establishes its central conceit: two people who find each other through the habit of eating alone.

June 1, 2020

The Seongsu-dong restaurant street used for the drama's most regular dining location — the neighbourhood's mix of new and old Seoul suits two professionals eating through their feelings.

June 2, 2020

Both characters' recent romantic failures are shown — what sent them both to solo dinner as a coping mechanism.

June 8, 2020

A post-dinner walk at the Yeouido Han River park — the first time they are together somewhere that is not a restaurant.

June 9, 2020

Their solo dining habit becoming a shared habit — neither fully acknowledging what that means.

June 15, 2020

Do-hee's food programme producer world — the professional context for his extensive restaurant knowledge.

June 16, 2020

Hae-kyung's psychiatric practice and her professional tools for processing feelings — which she does not apply to her own.

June 22, 2020

Both characters feeling something that is not the grief from their previous relationships.

June 23, 2020

The drama's most explicit connection between food and emotional honesty.

June 29, 2020

A complication from each character's past relationship.

June 30, 2020

What happens after dinner — the walk home, the moment at the door, the decision about what happens next.

July 6, 2020

Do-hee and Hae-kyung as a proper couple, navigating the complications of both their pasts.

July 7, 2020

The drama's resolution at the table. Food as the language of reconciliation.