A business built on renting out fake spouses sounds like a punchline, and Love in Contract spends its runtime finding out what happens when the arrangement stops feeling fake.
What is Love in Contract about?
Park Min-young stars as an employee of an agency that supplies stand-in wives to single people who need a partner for weddings, class reunions, or family gatherings where showing up alone invites too many questions. Go Kyung-pyo plays a client whose repeated bookings push the professional distance the job depends on toward something harder to keep straight. Directed by Nam Sung-woo, the 2022 South Korean series treats its premise less as a gimmick and more as a way to ask what people are actually paying for when they hire company: an audience for their family, a witness to their life, or something closer to the real thing. Kim Jae-young, Jin Kyung, and Kang Hyung-suk round out a cast built around a workplace where every relationship on the books is contractual until it isn't.
About the cast
Park Min-young carries scenes that ask her to perform intimacy on a schedule while keeping her own feelings out of the transaction, and the brief pairs her opposite Go Kyung-pyo as the client whose repeat bookings complicate that boundary. Kim Jae-young, Jin Kyung, Kang Hyung-suk, Lee Joo-been, and the rest of the ensemble fill out the agency's world without the brief specifying which role each plays.
Context & significance
South Korean television has a long run of workplace dramas that use an unusual job as a lens on ordinary relationships, and a rent-a-spouse service fits that lineage neatly, letting the show stage romance, family pressure, and social performance all inside one recurring premise. At a 70-minute episode length, it sits comfortably alongside other contemporary K-drama series built for weekly, hour-plus installments rather than a single sitting.
Watching Love in Contract on Ktime
Love in Contract is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the dialogue while watching the original Korean performances. Streaming requires only a free account login; the show's page, cast details, and episode guide can be browsed without one. K-Time's Farsi interface makes finding and starting the series straightforward for Persian-speaking audiences.