Lead cast: Kim Hyang-gi, Cha Hak-yeon, Kim Jae-hyun, Son Jeong-hyeok, Kim Dong-kyuThe worlds of glossy high school comedy and steamy BL (boys’ love) melodrama collide in the breezy new drama Absolute Value of Romance.Kim Hyang-gi (Cashero) plays Yeo Ui-ju, a high school student in the idyllic old town of Jeonju who spends her evenings at home hunched over her laptop, secretly churning out web novels.Her genre is BL, a popular phenomenon that focuses on the romantic misunderstandings and misadventures of handsome young men. The genre is generally produced and consumed by heterosexual women, despite the homoerotic entanglements at the core of these stories.Ui-ju is a passionate BL devotee. Unfortunately, as a writer, she has no fans of her own, as the chapters she slaves over night after night receive neither clicks nor comments.
Absolute Value of Romance: high school comedy K-drama with a boys’ love twist
Kim Hyang-gi stars as a high school student and BL web novel author for whom four hot teachers bring inspiration and big moral dilemmas.






