A tight circle of private-school friends all fall for the same effortlessly popular classmate in this 2024 South Korean coming-of-age remake, only for feelings to shift once the one holdout in the group stops denying his own crush.
What is You Are the Apple of My Eye about?
The setup is simple: a group of close friends at a private school all carry an obvious, debilitating crush on Sun-ah, the class's sunny star pupil. Jin-woo is the exception — or claims to be — insisting he feels nothing while everyone else moons over her. Naturally, that denial does not hold, and the story tracks how his feelings catch up with him even as the friend group's dynamic shifts around a girl none of them can quite have. Director Cho Young-myoung builds the film as an ensemble piece first, letting the schoolyard camaraderie carry as much weight as the romance, before narrowing in on Jin-woo's slower, more reluctant arc.
About the cast
Jung Jin-young and Kim Da-hyun anchor the cast alongside Demian, Lee Min-goo, Kim Yo-han, Kim Min-ju, Lee Seung-jun, and Park Sung-woong, giving the friend group enough distinct faces that the crush at the center of the story never feels like a one-note joke.
Context & significance
The film is a Korean adaptation of a coming-of-age story that already had a well-loved earlier version, and this remake leans into a familiar shape — a nostalgic, single-crush school comedy — while resetting it with its own cast and setting. It fits comfortably alongside K-Time's broader Korean drama and comedy catalogue, an area of steady demand from viewers who split their watching between Persian-language and Korean-language titles on the same account. That crossover audience is part of why the platform keeps expanding its Korean-language slate rather than treating it as a niche add-on.
Watching You Are the Apple of My Eye on Ktime
The film streams on K-Time with a free account login, no purchase or trial step required. It is available with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose to watch in the original Korean with Farsi text on screen or follow the dubbed audio track instead — a rare pairing for a recent Korean romantic comedy on the platform.