Season 1
16 episodes Sep 28, 2018
Both twenty years of age, a college student and an assistant hairdresser meet on a blind date and fall in love despite their opposite personalities.
Overview
A shy genius and a vibrant hairdresser navigate love's unpredictable journey through three fateful encounters over 12 transformative years.
Seasons
1 listed- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 16 episodes
- First aired
- Sep 28, 2018
- Last aired
- Nov 17, 2018
- Episode length
- 60m
- Network
- JTBC
Latest episode: S1 E16 Episode 16 (Nov 17, 2018)
Cast
12 people
Reviews
4 min readLove in the Time of Spreadsheets
I’ve always been suspicious of love stories that span decades. Too often, they feel like a series of postcards from a relationship—glossy, sentimental, and carefully curated to skip the boring parts. The Third Charm, a 2018 Korean drama directed by Pyo Min-soo, doesn’t just avoid that trap; it sets it on fire. Over the episode count, it follows On Joon-young (Seo Kang-joon) and Lee Young-jae (Esom) from their early 20s to their mid-30s, not as a highlight reel of romance, but as a messy, nonlinear excavation of how two people grow—sometimes together, sometimes apart, and often in ways neither expects.
What makes the series remarkable isn’t just its ambition, but its refusal to soften the edges. Joon-young and Young-jae meet on a group blind date, and from the start, their differences are glaring. He’s a meticulous, rule-following university student with a spreadsheet for a heart; she’s impulsive, chaotic, and unafraid to call out his rigidity.
Their early interactions crackle with the kind of friction that feels real—less like a meet-cute and more like two people who might actually drive each other insane. The series doesn’t rush to reconcile their differences; instead, it lets them fester, simmer, and occasionally explode.
The non-linear structure is the series’ greatest strength and its biggest risk. It jumps between timelines—2005, 2010, 2015—without warning, forcing the audience to piece together the emotional arc alongside the characters. This isn’t a gimmick; it’s a narrative choice that mirrors how we remember relationships.
We don’t recall love as a straight line, but as fragments—moments of joy, resentment, boredom, and surprise that refuse to stay neatly ordered. The series trusts its audience to keep up, and the payoff is a story that feels lived-in, not plotted.
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsThe Third Charm Deserves A Rewatch Conversation — The Evidence File Is Thin
Sixteen episodes. Two leads. One very grounded premise. The Third Charm (2018) is the South Korean drama directed by Pyo Min-soo and starring Seo Kang-joon and Esom 
. latestnetflix.com's read is that its hook was simple from the start: it explores the real side of relationships between couples .
That is about as solid as the public paper trail gets right now. No verified onset feuds. No confirmed salary leaks. No citable cast quotes in the material provided. And that matters, because this was retrieved as titles-plus-snippets only, not full articles.
What We Can Lock Down
- Basic ID: South Korean drama , original title listed as Je3ui Maeryeok, genres listed as Comedy, Romance .
- Broadcast window: September 28, 2018 to November 17, 2018 .
- Schedule and shape: Aired on Friday, Saturday , listed at 16 episodes .
- Runtime listing: 65 min .
- Creative lead: Pyo Min-soo is credited as director .
- Audience snapshot: one listing gives 5.7/10 from 102 votes .
- Streaming footprint: JustWatch places The Third Charm at 7954 on its Daily Streaming Charts today, up 4 places since yesterday, and notes that in the United Kingdom it is currently more popular than Axios but less popular than Dead Lucky .
Short run. Weekend slot. Relationship-realism angle. That combination explains why the title still pops up in recommendation threads.
Why There Is No Gossip To Sell You Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQE6IrgiI98
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU2eiHexo4Q
Two YouTube results surfaced: Meet the Cast of The Third Charm [ENG SUB CC] and Hate Watching | The Third Charm - The Aftermath & Rewrite . The snippets contain no quotes, no anecdotes, no production claims. So any “behind-the-scenes fallout” talk would be rumor/unconfirmed at best, and fabrication at worst.
Same caution applies elsewhere. The search set confirms the core credits and dates, not chemistry stories, rewrites, or network drama. If you want the fun part — the actual couple dynamics, you have to watch the 16 rather than trust secondhand tea that is not in evidence.
Entertainment rumors and trivia aggregated from public reporting. Treat speculation as unverified unless a cited source confirms it.
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