Wild Romance (TV series)
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Promotional poster for Wild Romance
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| Also known as | Aggressive Romance |
| Genre |
Romance Comedy Sports Suspense |
| Written by | Park Yeon-seon |
| Directed by | Bae Kyung-soo Kim Jin-woo |
| Starring |
Lee Si-young Lee Dong-wook Oh Man-seok Hwang Sun-hee Jessica Jung |
| Ending theme | What to Do by Jessica Jung |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language(s) | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
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| Location(s) | Korea |
| Running time | Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 (KST) |
| Production company(s) | GNG Production |
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| Original network | Korean Broadcasting System |
| Original release | 4 January – 23 February 2012 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Glory Jane |
| Followed by | Just an Ordinary Love Story |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Production website | |
Wild Romance (Hangul: 난폭한 로맨스; RR: Nanpokhan Romaenseu) is a 2012 South Korean television series. It aired on KBS2 from January 4 to February 23, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. The screwball romantic comedy is about the love-hate relationship between an obnoxious superstar professional baseball player (Lee Dong-wook) and his tomboyish bodyguard (Lee Si-young).
Brash, arrogant Park Mu-yeol (Lee Dong-wook) is the star player of the pro baseball team Red Dreamers, renowned for both his skill and his bad temper. Stubborn bodyguard-by-trade Yoo Eun-jae (Lee Si-young) hates him; she's a lifelong fan of the Blue Seagulls, the Red Dreamers' rival team. The two mortal enemies are suddenly thrown together by fate.
A chance meeting during a drunken night of karaoke leads to a scuffle, which former judo athlete Eun-jae easily wins, flipping Mu-yeol on his back. The fight was captured on video however and soon erupts into a huge scandal, with Mu-yeol's reputation and Eun-jae's career as a bodyguard at stake. To fix things, their respective employers agree to assign Eun-jae to act as Mu-yeol's bodyguard. The mismatched pair are now around each other round the clock, and in the midst of constant battling and working to find each other's weak spots, they find out more about each other than they realized.
In the same timeslot as hit period drama Moon Embracing the Sun,Wild Romance garnered meager ratings of less than 10 percent. But the series gained a loyal following among TV drama fans. When it first began airing, the series was criticized for erratic editing, excessive sound effects and an implausible storyline, but those criticisms soon subsided as viewers praised writer Park Yeon-seon for her smart and irreverent comedy, tension-filled mystery thriller tropes, insightful lines full of depth, creative use of dialogue and intelligent characterization.
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