Director: Kim Min-kyung
A Cinderella-inflected romance comedy pairs a woman worn down by daily hardship with a guarded, wealthy man who insists love is a fiction for people who haven't faced real life.
What is Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale about?
Facing a punishing routine, a young woman clings to daydreams of a fairy-tale rescue, imagining someone who might finally lift her out of her circumstances. That daydream collides with reality when she meets a skeptical, well-off man who treats romance as wishful thinking rather than something real. Their unlikely closeness pushes both to question their starting positions: she has to decide whether waiting to be rescued is worth handing over her own agency, and he has to reckon with feelings he keeps insisting don't exist. Across the run, the leads trade the roles of rescuer and rescued more than once, with lighter comic beats sitting alongside heavier emotional stretches.
Cast & crew
Pyo Ye-jin and Lee Jun-young headline as the mismatched central pair, with Kim Hyun-jin, Song Ji-woo, Kim Chae-eun, Do Byeong-hun, Back Joo-hee and Song Young-joo rounding out the ensemble. Kim Min-kyung directs the 2024 South Korean production, keeping the comedic and dramatic threads moving at a steady clip across episodes that run about 40 minutes each.
Context & significance
The show arrives alongside a broader run of contemporary Korean romance series that borrow fairy-tale shape while rewriting the gender dynamics inside it. Rather than simply restaging the Cinderella premise, the writers use it to question the wish-fulfillment fantasy itself, letting both leads grow past the assumptions they start with. The brisk episode length keeps the pace closer to a modern drama than a stretched-out melodrama.
Where & how to watch
The series is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can pick whichever track suits them. This page can be read without an account; watching the episodes requires logging into K-Time, which is built around a Farsi-first viewing experience for Persian-speaking audiences abroad.