A high schooler who has spent years hiding behind a flawless makeup routine finally has to decide who she is when two very different boys start noticing the face underneath.
What is True Beauty about?
Ju-kyung has built a daily ritual around covering up features she has always been self-conscious about, and her skill with makeup is good enough that almost nobody at school has seen her without it. That careful routine gets complicated once she crosses paths with Su-ho, a quiet, guarded classmate, and Seo-jun, a livelier boy with a reputation for trouble. Both end up closer to her than she planned, and closer to the parts of herself she keeps covered. Over the course of the series, small lies about her appearance snowball into bigger questions about honesty, friendship, and what it actually takes to feel comfortable being seen. The show follows her through school routines, family pressure, and two slowly unfolding relationships, treating the makeup itself less as a gimmick and more as a stand-in for the anxieties a lot of teenagers carry around image.
About the cast
Moon Ga-young leads as Ju-kyung, carrying scenes that swing between comedy and quiet vulnerability. Cha Eun-woo and Hwang In-yeop play the two classmates pulled into her orbit, giving the love triangle two contrasting temperatures rather than one obvious pick. Supporting turns from Park You-na, Lim Se-mi, Park Ho-san, Jang Hye-jin, and Oh Eui-shik round out the school and family scenes that give the central story its texture.
Context & significance
True Beauty is adapted from a webtoon, a format that has fed a steady stream of Korean teen and romance series in recent years, and the show keeps a lot of that source material's episodic, chapter-by-chapter rhythm. Director Kim Sang-hyub leans on bright, high-school-drama visuals and a soundtrack built for mood swings, which suits a story that moves quickly between humor and heavier feelings. For viewers newer to Korean romantic comedy, it works as an easy entry point: the stakes stay personal and small-scale rather than sprawling, and the central question of the show never really changes.
Watching True Beauty on Ktime
True Beauty streams on K-Time with Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow the Korean dialogue with Farsi text on screen; no Persian dub is available for this title. Watching requires a K-Time account login, and the page itself is free to read before you sign in. K-Time's Farsi-first interface makes it straightforward for Persian-speaking audiences to browse the wider Korean drama catalogue alongside this one.