What if someone wants to be a mother but has no wish to be a wife? Oh My Baby, a South Korean series from 2020 directed by Nam Ki-hoon, builds a romantic comedy-drama around that question, with Jang Na-ra in the central role.
What is Oh My Baby about?
Jang Ha-ri, played by Jang Na-ra, is 39 and runs a magazine about children and parenting. She spends her working days writing about family life while having none of her own, and she has stopped believing that love or marriage will ever work out for her. Her plan is direct: have a child and skip the wedding. Just as she settles on it, three men step into her life, and the choice she thought she had simplified becomes complicated again. One of them is Han Yi-sang, played by Go Joon, a freelance photographer who complains about nearly everything yet keeps chasing hobbies that might cheer him up. The series follows Ha-ri as she weighs what she actually wants against what the people around her expect.
About the cast
Jang Na-ra plays Jang Ha-ri and Go Joon plays Han Yi-sang. The credited cast continues with Park Byung-eun, Jung Gun-joo, Jang Gwang, Kim Hye-ok, Kim Jae-hwa and Park Soo-young, who make up the rest of the people in Ha-ri's working and private life.
Context & significance
Oh My Baby is listed under comedy, drama and romance, and each episode runs roughly 67 minutes, which gives the story room to move between light office scenes and more serious conversations. Its starting point is a subject that many viewers will recognise from their own families: the pressure on a woman approaching forty to marry, and the question of whether parenthood has to come packaged with a partner. The show treats this through a romantic setup with several possible matches instead of a single obvious one. It has been warmly received by audiences who follow Korean dramas.
Watching Oh My Baby on Ktime
Oh My Baby is on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so you can choose whichever suits you. Sign in to your K-Time account to watch; reading this page is free. The whole service, menus and player included, is available in Farsi for Persian-speaking viewers outside Iran.