A South Korean comedy-drama from 2023, Its Okay follows a teenager who loses her parents and finds an unlikely home inside a traditional dance troupe.
What is Its Okay about?
In-young is left on her own after her parents' sudden death, and when overdue rent forces her out of her apartment, she quietly moves into the practice hall of the Korean Dance Art Troupe she belongs to. She keeps her situation hidden, showing up each day with the same brightness she always has, but a troupe director known for a short temper eventually notices something is wrong. What starts as an awkward discovery turns into a reluctant kind of care, as the director who could not simply admit In-young into the group ends up sharing a roof with her instead. The film leans on traditional dance as both craft and metaphor, using rehearsal scenes to show a girl rebuilding structure in her life one routine at a time.
About the cast
Lee Re carries the lead role of In-young opposite Son Suk-ku, with Jin Seo-yeon, Chung Su-bin, Shim Yi Young, Lee Jung-ha and Jang Yi-jung rounding out the troupe and its circle, under director Kim Hye-young.
Context & significance
The film sits in a small but recognizable strand of Korean cinema built around traditional performing-arts troupes, where discipline and found family are treated as two sides of the same coin. Its comedy plays gently rather than broadly, leaving room for the grief at the story's center to register without ever tipping into melodrama. Runtime lands at 102 minutes, a tight length that keeps the story focused on the two central relationships rather than sprawling into subplots.
Watching Its Okay on Ktime
Its Okay streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Iranian diaspora viewers can follow every rehearsal-hall exchange in Farsi. The film page is free to browse; watching only asks for a free K-Time account login, and the whole experience, from browsing to playback, is built around a Farsi-first interface.