My ID Is Gangnam Beauty

July 27, 2018

Kang Mi-rae (Im Soo-hyang) starts university after plastic surgery hoping for a fresh start. She immediately encounters Kyung-seok (Cha Eun-woo), the most handsome student on campus, who knew her before. The Incheon National University campus establishes the world.

July 27, 2018

The university social hierarchy — the beauty rankings, the factions, the way Mi-rae's new face creates new problems alongside the old ones.

August 3, 2018

Kyung-seok's indifference to social performance and his specific attentiveness to Mi-rae — seeing her while everyone else sees a face.

August 3, 2018

The drama's chemistry department world used for the academic sequences — Mi-rae's genuine intellectual ability, separate from her appearance.

August 10, 2018

Hyun Soo-ah (Jo Woo-ri), a conventionally beautiful student who uses her appearance strategically, introduced as the drama's most complex character.

August 10, 2018

The Sinchon university area used for the drama's social scenes — the café culture and nightlife where campus hierarchies are reinforced.

August 17, 2018

The full story of Mi-rae's decision to have surgery — the bullying, the desperation, the genuine cost.

August 17, 2018

Mi-rae and Kyung-seok at the drama's midpoint — his feelings clear to everyone, her response complicated by her own history.

August 24, 2018

The drama's most direct examination of Korean beauty standards — what they demand and what they destroy.

August 24, 2018

Kyung-seok's feelings for Mi-rae stated directly, in his characteristically unceremonious way.

August 31, 2018

Mi-rae and Kyung-seok's relationship openly navigated within the campus social world.

August 31, 2018

Mi-rae's high school bullies reappear in her university life.

September 7, 2018

Mi-rae's growing ability to define herself independent of how others see her face.

September 7, 2018

Kyung-seok's family complications and their connection to his character.

September 14, 2018

The campus social hierarchy's reckoning with its own cruelty.

September 14, 2018

The finale. Cha Eun-woo's breakthrough performance and the drama's warm argument that appearance is a prison of other people's construction.