{"id":33832,"date":"2026-03-06T00:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=33832"},"modified":"2026-03-06T00:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:03:44","slug":"hbo-max-k-drama-the-practical-guide-to-love-han-ji-min-park-sung-hoon-in-pragmatic-romcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=33832","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max K-drama The Practical Guide to Love: Han Ji-min, Park Sung-hoon in pragmatic romcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/05\/47d67979-e861-42a4-aac8-6681be068150_6970cb75.jpg?itok=vNRbCft-&amp;v=1772701162\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">Lead cast:<\/strong> Han Ji-min, Park Sung-hoon, Lee Ki-taek<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">Latest Nielsen rating:<\/strong> 3.3 per cent<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Following 2025\u2019s <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Love Scout<\/em><\/span>, Han Ji-min once again portrays a working professional balancing her career and romance in <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Practical Guide to Love<\/em>, an adaptation of the <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Efficient Dating for Singles<\/em> webtoon by Tari.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Han plays Lee Ui-yeong, a purchasing manager at a luxury hotel who begins the series with a spotty dating track record. Before long, however, two potential suitors enter her life, played by Park Sung-hoon \u2013 in one of his first post-<span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Squid Game<\/em><\/span> roles \u2013 and Lee Ki-taek (<em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Namib<\/em>).<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The series introduces Ui-yeong in central Seoul on a pleasant evening. While explaining via voice-over that beautiful love stories always begin with a dramatic and fateful encounter, she walks around the city\u2019s famous landmarks on her way to a blind date with Song Tae-seop (Park).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/k-drama\/k-drama\/article\/3345544\/hbo-max-k-drama-practical-guide-love-han-ji-min-park-sung-hoon-pragmatic-romcom?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead cast: Han Ji-min, Park Sung-hoon, Lee Ki-taek Latest Nielsen rating: 3.3 per cent Following 2025\u2019s Love Scout, Han Ji-min once again portrays a working&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1032,6548,2441,17323,6545,772,798,1677,14219,17325,8457,17324],"class_list":["post-33832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-guide","tag-han","tag-hbo","tag-jimin","tag-kdrama","tag-love","tag-max","tag-park","tag-practical","tag-pragmatic","tag-romcom","tag-sunghoon","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}