Netflix K-drama Dare to Love Me: Kim Myung-soo and Lee Yoo-young struggle through clichés in shaky

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Netflix K-drama Dare to Love Me: Kim Myung-soo and Lee Yoo-young struggle through clichés in shaky romantic drama
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Kim Myung-soo plays a man who dresses, talks and acts as if he were in Joseon-era Korea but lives in the present, where he investigates cultural asset theft
One day he comes to the rescue of Lee Yoo-young’s fashion assistant, beginning a pattern. The new romantic comedy Dare to love me brings together an exhausted modern working woman and a scholar with the manners and dress of a gentleman from the Joseon era (1392-1897) of Korea’s dynastic rule.

But if you expected this to be another fantastic time drama that bridges the gap between the past and present, you were wrong. It’s true that the tropes are the same, but what’s missing is the imagination and, ironically, some of the believability of the story.

The series is set in the present, but the man in the hanbok does not come from the past. Only his family, who live in a cultural village that honors old traditions, is stuck in it.
That man is Shin Yoon-bok (Kim Myung-soo), who is blessed with good looks and perfect manners. However, that’s not why he constantly attracts the eyes of curious strangers; that would be because of the old-fashioned way he talks and behaves, and his traditional clothing.

Yoon-bok’s work involves recovering lost cultural assets. He works with the police, but is no ordinary detective. In an early scene we meet him as he infiltrates an underground black market auction and locks up all the burly foreign criminals before beating them to a pulp.

Yoon-bok has excellent martial arts skills and is clearly equipped to deal with modern espionage, but the show expects us to believe that he is incapable of operating an automated kiosk in a cafe or performing other daily tasks.

Kim Myung-soo as Shin Yoon-bok in a still from Dare to Love Me.
We first meet him in a cafe, where he sits at a table across from junior fashion designer Kim Hong-do (Lee Yoo-young). She repeatedly professes her love for him, causing an embarrassing scene in front of others; Over time it turns out that this is a special habit of hers.

He curtly but politely rejects her, no matter how many times she asks and how many languages ​​she asks in, he always answers in the corresponding language.

This opening scene is a flash forward, after which the series returns to a time years earlier, when Hong-do was Yoon-bok’s kind teacher.

He was teased mercilessly by others for his anachronistic behavior, and she was the only one who treated him like a normal human being. Yoon-bok never forgot her because of that.

Lee Yoo-young as Kim Hong-do in a still from Dare to Love Me.
Hong-do is much less controlled in the present. She is a tireless assistant in the fashion industry, deprived of her time and dignity as she caters to the whims of the celebrities and superiors that surround her.

She has an eye for a handsome young colleague, whom she also repeatedly throws herself at until she realizes that he is secretly dating her terrible superior.

It is during one of the heartbroken Hong-do’s many alcohol-fueled outbursts that she meets Yoon-bok, when he scoops her up in his arms to keep her from falling. However, he cannot prevent the mascara from running down her face.

Mortified, Hong-do does her best to escape, confident that their paths will never cross again.Kim Myung-soo as Shin Yoon-bok in a still from Dare to Love Me.
However, the next morning brings a shock. She steps out of her small rooftop apartment and is greeted by the sight of her new neighbor on the opposite roof: Yoon-bok.

Even when they’re away from home, the pair meet up all the time, whether it’s at a local supermarket or an exclusive club that Yoon-bok is trying to investigate.

This may not be a fantasy show, but Yoon-bok has a habit of appearing out of nowhere, as if by magic, whenever Hong-do needs help, like when an annoying coworker threatens her or she falls over again.

In addition to the romance at the heart of the story, Yoon-bok is on the hunt for a notorious counterfeiter of cultural assets, while Hong-do must deal with a superior who passes off Hong-do’s designs as her own.

Kim Myung-soo as Shin Yoon-bok and Lee Yoo-young as Kim Hong-do in a still from Dare to Love Me.
If none of this sounds particularly exciting, it’s probably because the show settles for repeating a bag of sad clichés.

The one attempt at trying something new – with a modern male lead acting like a protagonist from a Joseon-era period drama – is so poor that it suggests innovation isn’t the production team’s strong suit.