Two people who have made peace with opposite ideas about being alone end up sharing a byline in Single in Seoul, a 2023 South Korean romantic comedy from director Park Beom-su.
What is Single in Seoul about?
Yeong-ho has built a comfortable, well-argued case for solo living and turned it into his professional identity as a writer. Hyeon-jin, the editor assigned to shepherd his book to print, is the opposite case entirely: capable at her job, unwilling to be alone, and running out of patience with a client whose whole thesis contradicts how she wants to live. Their publishing deadline forces proximity neither of them planned for, and the film uses that mismatch — his contentment against her restlessness — to ask whether either position survives real contact with the other person's daily life. Rather than rushing the two leads together, the film lets their working relationship do the early work: edits exchanged, deadlines missed, opinions revised in small increments before either character admits anything has shifted.
About the cast
Lee Dong-wook plays Yeong-ho and Lim Soo-jung takes the role of Hyeon-jin, with Esom, Jang Hyun-sung, Kim Ji-young, Lee Mi-do, Lee Sang-yi and Ji E-su rounding out the cast that surrounds the central pair through the publishing world the story is set in.
Context & significance
Single in Seoul arrived in 2023 as part of a steady run of South Korean romantic comedies built around a workplace pairing rather than a meet-cute, letting professional stakes — a manuscript, a deadline, a reputation — carry as much weight as the romance itself. That structure gives the genre room to be funny about incompatible worldviews without needing either character to be wrong.
Watching Single in Seoul on Ktime
Single in Seoul streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, both included for viewers who want the dialogue-heavy publishing-world banter in Farsi or with the original Korean intact. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film's page itself is open to browse without one, part of a Farsi-first viewing experience built for Persian-speaking audiences wherever they are.