# Love All Play (2022)

> A passionate professional badminton player falls into a romance with a rival who treats the sport as just a job.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/115917

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 16
- Episode runtime: 63 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: romance, drama
- Created by: Heo Sung-hye
- Network: KBS2
- Cast: Park Ju-hyun, Chae Jong-hyeop, Park Ji-hyun, Kim Moo-joon, Seo Ji-hye, Cho Han-chul, In Gyo-jin, Lee Seo-hwan
- TMDB rating: 7.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19851552/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: earnest, intense, romantic, charged, emotional

## Synopsis

Love All Play (2022) is a South Korean sports romance miniseries created by Heo Sung-hye and broadcast on KBS2. Park Ju-hyun plays Park Tae-yang, a passionate professional badminton player whose fierce competitive drive collides with Park Tae-joon, played by Chae Jong-hyeop, a player who treats badminton as nothing more than a job. Their romance grows out of the court, where rivalry, training schedules and the pressure of elite tournaments keep pulling them apart and together. Supporting roles include Park Ji-hyun as Park Jun-young, Kim Moo-joon as Yook Jung-hwan, and Seo Ji-hye as Lee Yoo-min, whose lives orbit the leads' sporting ambitions. The engine of the story is the tension between love and the ambition each athlete guards. Told across a single sixteen-episode run of roughly an hour each, it is a limited series that balances intense match sequences with quieter emotional scenes. The tone is earnest and charged, with romantic longing running alongside the physical intensity of the sport. Fans of Haikyu!! and Crash Landing on You will find resonance in its blend of athletic stakes and tender romance. Set in contemporary South Korea, it is a compact korean drama built on the emotional weight of two people who understand each other through competition.

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