It was definitely a “cruel office romance” in the first episodes of Forecasting Love and Weather!
Complementing the projected love directions in the series are relatable scenarios for people who lost love in an unfair way. Cleverly though, it appears the story funnels its energy to the picture of how failed relationships open opportunities to the rightful love we deserve to have.
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Episode Recaps: 01 & 02 | 03 | 04 | 05| 06 | 07 & 08 | 09 & 10 | 11 & 12 | 13 & 14 | Finale Week + Review |
Opening Week Rating:
Forecasting Love and Weather Opening Week Story
While preparing for her upcoming wedding, Shin Ha-kyung (Park Min Young) of the Korea Meteorological Administration’s general forecasting team, makes a call to disregard a reported looming hail occurrence because it didn’t reach the required threshold.
The result leads to their team’s director being sent to the hospital because of a heart attack. She is then appointed as the acting director. When another abnormality arises that might lead to heavy rains, a meeting was conducted to decide whether to issue an alert.
Bent to issue the warning, Lee Si-woo (Song Kang), the same weather reporter who strongly informed the previous hail warning signs forces his former teammate working at the headquarters to issue a special advisory.
Going against her decision, Ha-kyung marches to the Seoul office to speak with the irritatingly clever Si-woo. But just as he predicted, the heavy rains poured.
“The signals were simple. Sometimes they were sounds. Sometimes they were colors and sometimes they were vibrations. They kept signaling to me that nothing was safe in the world.”
With her team’s director currently hospitalized, Ha-kyung assumes his position for the next two weeks. She informs her 10-year boyfriend and groom Han Ki-jun (Yoon Park) of her situation.
Unknown to her, he is having an affair and she caught him in the act of doing it. The wedding was inevitably called off with her rude ex-boyfriend even dividing all the costs they shared for the wedding.
He even asks if he can get the apartment since the price went up when it was initially agreed that Ha-kyung will get it.
Meanwhile, Lee Si-woo makes all the effort for his girlfriend Chae Yu-jin (Yura), a news reporter specializing in weather, but their relationship also comes to an end. Yu-jin is also the same woman Ki-jun was having an affair.
Two months later, Ha-kyung contemplates going to Switzerland for business to avoid her being the talk of the town. Initially, Ki-jun was supposed to move to a different office, but it was decided that he stays as the PR team’s spokesperson.
Holding her ground, Ha-kyung endures seeing the girl her ex-boyfriend married at work. On the other hand, Si-woo opts to be more optimistic after being emancipated from the girl who does not see his worth.
“Like the wind, an affair is invisible but it always leaves traces. No matter how big or small.”
From the Seoul office, Si-woo applies to work at the headquarters as a special severe weather forecaster for two weeks. When he bumps into Ha-kyung at the archive, he honestly reveals he’s the ex-boyfriend of the girl who became her ex-boyfriend’s wife.
He also urges her to not leave the office because of them and tips her about the current cold air mass the team is investigating on.
When Ha-kyung gets a call from her sister about a document Ki-jun sent applying for rights to the apartment, she once and for all confronts him.
Exchanging bitter you-were-like-this-that’s-why-us-didn’t-work conversation, Ha-kyung reaches her tipping point. She bluntly tells Ki-jun how he does not have any right to the apartment and that it can’t be split since he didn’t spend significant money on it.
She also made him realize that she knows he also scammed him on the television set that she overpaid.
Catching up on Ha-kyung after work, Si-woo invites her for a drink and they surmise about their failed relationships.
Promising not to fall in love again with a colleague, Ha-kyung woke up naked in an unfamiliar bed. Beside her is also the naked Si-woo.
Acting cool by implying they are both consensual adults, Ha-kyung suggests forgetting what happened between them. Si-woo agrees to her let’s be mature plead but reveals he’s not going back to Seoul. It turns out that he is moving to the headquarters as a regular member of the team she will lead.
Forecasting Love and Weather Opening Week Musings
Forecasting Love and Weather gave a different flavor to the idea of how the side who loves more in a relationship would bear more pain.
Both betrayed by their ex-lovers Si-woo and Ha-kyung approached their breakups by opting to give respect to themselves. That is all that matters.
By choosing not to dwell on their failed relationships, the series highlights how maturity plays a part in accepting heartbreaks.
Deceptively leaning to trademark enthusing office rom-com, the subtle lessons on “real relationships” are nicely highlighted in the premiere week.
Those mentions on quantifying and qualifying the efforts that make or break a relationship provided a lingering resonance. That is to be wary if you’re being taken advantage of because you’ve learned to justify the red flags carried by your special someone.
At the press conference, Yoon Park described his character will be inevitably hated. We can definitely see why. His lousy excuse of feeling small because of Ha-kyung’s achievement leaves a strong reminder of the value of communicating well with your lover.
Aside from her annoying character, we have yet to understand Yu-jin’s reason why she left Si-woo. As a relationship wrecker, we hope to see her character develop or face the sad ending she deserves.
Refreshingly owning his character, Song Kang breathes positivity on screen. We hope he can channel his uncanny level of being unbothered to Ha-kyung soon.
The narrative seems to thread on the awkwardness, faint and blatant fury – and everything in between – that would happen to ex-lovers working as colleagues in the same company.
Along the way, it will also challenge the heroine’s vow of not committing to a relationship with an officemate again.
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Photos/Video: JTBC Drama
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