Encounter (Season 1)

Encounter (남자친구, 2018) is a South Korean romance drama you can watch online on iFILM, starring Song Hye-kyo and Park Bo-gum. Cha Soo-hyun is a politician's daughter whose life has been arranged for her since birth — the right marriage, the obligatory divorce, and now the weight of her family's ambitions. Kim Jin-hyuk is a young man with no connections and no expectations. They cross paths abroad, briefly. It's nothing. Then they meet again at home, where she's his employer and everything is suddenly complicated.

Director Park Shin-woo keeps the pace unhurried. The drama here isn't in confrontations but in glances, silences, and the quiet cost of two people from incompatible worlds who want the same simple thing. Class difference and public scrutiny push against the relationship at every turn.

This is a kdrama built on restraint rather than spectacle — which makes the emotional beats land harder when they come. Stream all episodes of Encounter online on iFILM.