'Fool’s Love' Explores The Trials And Triumphs Of Dating

"Fools Love," which began this week offers a quirky look at the joys and perils of dating. The main character Ho Gu, works as an assistant to his friend who writes manhwas and he also works in his dad's store selling them.

Played by Choi Woo Sik, Ho Gu seems hopeless and lovable at the same time. He doesn't have much success dating since he's ready to give everything in a relationship and can't seem to tell when the girl is only stringing him along.

His friends make fun of him for not being able to read the signals and his flirt of a sister, played by Lee Soo Kyung, is no help either.

She tells him that dating is like crossing the street.

You have to pick a person in the short amount of time you spend crossing the street, she says. Your choices are limited, so you may as well pick a likely person and you should do so in a hurry.

Ho Gu is more of a romantic. He thinks there should be chemistry. He thinks that when you see someone crossing the street, your eyes should meet. You should know that person is the one.

His sister laughs at his foolish naiveté.

It's a fun performance by Choi Woo Sik who played "cute" before as the Jang Hyuk's half brother in "Fated To Love You" and as a half-hearted prosecutor in "Pride and Prejudice." But his "cute" in "Fool's Love" is so endearing that viewers may be inclined to pat his messy hair and reassure him.

Because dramas like to portray love as fated, Ho Gu falls for his former high school classmate Do Hee, played by Uee, when they see each other crossing the street. After that encounter, he can't forget her. And her fame doesn't help. Since she is a silver medal swimmer, her image is everywhere. He even stops to speak to her advertising image in a store window.

He's sure that she does not remember who he is. After all, she was one of the prettiest students in his high school and he was just another student. But he's wrong. She does remember him. She visits his father's manhwa shop. But he is so busy catching a pickpocket and selling a copy of the manhwa "Misaeng" to Lee Jung Shin, who played Manager Oh in the drama version of "Misaeng" that he does not notice Do Hee.

But then Do Hee has plenty of things to distract her too. She's not happy at having won a silver medal rather than a gold one. She broke up with her ex-boyfriend, a lawyer, and only recently discovered that she's pregnant.

Yoon Nan Jong, who wrote "Flower Boy Ramen Shop." Wrote "Fool's Love." It has that same "anything can happen" feel to it. And that's a good thing.