It’s Okay to Not Be Okay

 

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It's Okay to Not Be Okay is a 2020 South Korean romantic television series. The series tells an unusual romance story between two people who end up healing each other's emotional and psychological wounds. It aired on tvN every Saturday and Sunday at 21:00 (KST) time slot from June 20 to August 9, 2020 for 16 episodes. The series is available worldwide on Netflix.

Main Role

Kim Soo Hyun

Seo Ye Ji

 

The drama tells the story of Moon Gang-tae (Kim Soo-hyun), a community health worker at a psychiatric ward who does not have time for love, and Ko Moon-young (Seo Ye-ji), a successful children's book author who has never known what love feels like. After meeting each other, the two slowly begin to heal each other's emotional wounds. As the story progresses, the truth behind their intertwining pasts that has been haunting them is also revealed.

 

Kim Soo-hyun as Moon Gang-tae

An orphaned caregiver working at OK Psychiatric Hospital. While empathetic to everyone around him, he struggles to give himself love as a result of his past experiences in life and avoids having close relationships with anyone other than his older brother. Because of his brother's traumatic experience, he frequently moves from town to town with him and has never lived a normal life.

Seo Ye-ji as Ko Moon-young

A popular children's book author with antisocial personality disorder. She had a troubled childhood and a turbulent relationship with her parents. She develops a romantic obsession over Moon Gang-tae after a coincidental encounter and often goes to extreme lengths to get his attention.

Oh Jung-se as Moon Sang-tae

Moon Gang-tae's older brother who is on the spectrum. He is a fan of Ko Moon-young, as well as an aspiring illustrator. He was the sole witness of his mother's murder, resulting in his irrational fear of butterflies. This fear develops into nightmares every spring which forces Gang-tae to move towns with Sang-tae in order to "run away from the butterflies".

Park Kyu-young as Nam Ju-ri

A nurse and Moon Gang-tae's co-worker at OK Psychiatric Hospital. She has an unrequited crush on Moon Gang-tae, and is shown to be shy and easily jealous of others who are close with her romantic interests. She dislikes Ko Moon-young, with whom she had a brief friendship in elementary school. Ju-ri lives with her mother Kang Soon-deok, a cook at the hospital.

 

Filming

The first script reading was held on May 8, 2020, and filming was completed on July 31, 2020 without a wrapping party out of concerns for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Filming locations for the drama included Cafe Sandina in Wonju, Gangwon, which provided the background for the "cursed castle", completed with CGI effects; Secret Blue Cafe in Goseong County, Gangwon which was transformed into OK Psychiatric Hospital for the shooting using props. Outside locations included streets and beaches in Goseong, as well as locations in Yangju (Gyeonggi) and Incheon

 

 Viewership

It's Okay to Not Be Okay aired on tvN, a cable channel/pay TV, which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS). The series logged 6.1% in viewership for its first episode Saturday but dropped to 4.7% for the next one.The series maintained its ratings in 4-6% range throughout its run, peaking at 7.4% for the last episode, entering the list of highest-rated Korean dramas in cable television ranking at #33.