Our Unwritten Seoul: Spoiler-Free Review
- Jul 26
- 3 min read
Updated: 5 days ago
Title: | Our Unwritten Seoul (2025) |
Platform: | TVING, Netflix |
MDL & IMBD Rating: | |
Genre: | Contemporary Romance/ Slice of Life |
Episode Count: | 12 |
Parental Guidance Rating: | TV-14: Language, discussion of suicide, bullying depicted. For more info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36724865/parentalguide/ |
Starring: | Park Bo Young (Doom At Your Service) Park Jin Young (The Devil Judge) Ryu Kyung Soo (Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1939) Lee Jae In (Racket Boys) |
RBTS Rating: | 3.6/5 Stars (A twin switcharoo with life lessons and romance that had the bones to be great, but couldn't flesh out the story enough)  |
Cast From Left to Right: #ParkBoYoung, #ParkJinYoung, #RyuKyungSoo, #LeeJaeIn
Synopsis:
Twin sisters Yoo Mi Ji and Yoo Mi Rae differ in everything except their faces. Yoo Mi Ji, the younger of the twins, has ended her short heyday as a promising track and field athlete and is currently living a free-spirited life. On the other hand, the older sister of the twins, Yoo Mi Rae, who has been walking the path of the elite since her school days, is a perfectionist working at a public corporation. The twins, physically identical but leading starkly different lives, embark on a bold charade, switching lives for some undisclosed reason. Lee Ho Su is a lawyer at a large law firm with a tall appearance and a seemingly carefree attitude. He may look like a noble swan with no external flaws, but he works harder than others to live an ordinary life, and this is because he has been living a different life than before after experiencing something in the past. As a result, he lives a calm life without showing his true feelings, but one day, an unexpected encounter occurs that sends waves through Ho Su's heart. @MDL
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Spoiler-Free Mini Review:
Our Unwritten Seoul is a creative and heartwarming drama about following twins, Mi Ji and Mi Rae (both played by Park Bo Young), as they take on each other's jobs and identities after a crisis, only to inadvertently find themselves in the process of being someone else. The drama is very slice of life, and the excitement for me was the anticipation of others figuring out that the twins had switched. I grew up on It Takes Two and Lindsay Lohan's Parent Trap, so I love a good twin switcharoo, but the narrative was too quiet and padded with side stories I didn't really care about.
I really liked the storyline of the twins younger years shown in flashbacks because I think I prefer Lee Jae In's take on the charater more than Park Bo Young. Park Bo Young (FL actress) is an actress I don't quite vibe with here, as her portrayal had alot of the scream/crying hybrid that made these 30 years olds seem like toddlers. She also hardly moves her mouth when she talks which comes off as petulant. But I do give points to the drama for casting a younger actress younger to play the teenage version of the character. There are dramas out there having 37 years old don the school uniform like we can't tell lol.
The romance was okay. Ryu Kyung Soo did a great job as Han Se Jin, but I couldn't feel the chemistry with Park Jin Young (Lee Ho Su).
Our Unwritten Seoul had the bones to be incredible, and did have some great moments, but I couldn't connect with the main actress’s portrayal and there were some side quests like the Kim-Rosa storyline that didn't add enough to the main story. I took a break from watching for vacation around ep 7 (which I don't usually do) and I don't know if the show lost momentum after that, or if I was just too distracted to continue enjoying when I picked it back up.
Story=4.25 (The main plot had really relatable elements, but some additional storylines were just distracting), Acting=2.5 (The delivery of the ML was bad and everyone else was mid. Minus the twin’s grandma and strawberry ML who were highlights), Production Quality=4.5, Ending=4.5 (no complaints), Enjoyability= 3.75 (Really enjoyed the first 7 eps, but the rest dragged for me), Would I rewatch= No
Trailer:
Director: #ParkShinWoo (It's Okay to Not Be Okay)
Screenwriter: #LeeKang (Youth of May)
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