The Beauty Inside

The love story between a top actress and an airline director who each suffers an unusual phenomenon. He suffers from prosopagnosia, while every month she transforms into someone else for a week.

The Beauty Inside (2018) is a South Korean romance drama series created by Im Mea-ri for JTBC. Across sixteen one-hour episodes in a single season, the story follows Han Se-kye (Seo Hyun-jin), a top actress who transforms into someone else for one week every month, and Seo Do-jae (Lee Min-ki), an airline director who suffers from prosopagnosia and cannot recognize faces. Their romance is the engine of the show, pitting a love that must survive constant physical change against the practical obstacles of work, reputation, and the people around them. Supporting roles from Lee Da-hee, Ahn Jae-hyun, and Lee Tae-ri widen the scope into a secondary couple and a web of workplace and family ties set in contemporary Seoul. The tone is warm, wistful, and sincere, with gentle humor and a melancholic undercurrent about identity and recognition. Its fantastical premise is handled with an intimate, character-first sensibility, closer to the emotional register of Goblin and Your Name than to genre spectacle. Fans of Korean romance dramas and quietly fantastical love stories will find much to savor here.

Audiences rate the series positively, praising its heartfelt romance and the lead performances in its unusual body-transformation premise.

• Your Nameromance with a fantastical body-swap premise, soft tones, and a secondary couple subplot
• Goblinkorean romantic drama built on a supernatural condition and a slow-building love story
• Crash Landing on Youromantic comedy-drama with an everyday emotional register and a central love story

Created by

Im Mea-ri

Release Date

2018-10-01

Episode runtime

60 min

Rating

7.5 / 10 (97)

What is The Beauty Inside about?

A top actress who transforms each month and an airline director who cannot recognize faces fall in love.

What is The Beauty Inside like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Beauty Inside as measured, its intensity as mild and its storytelling as simple.

Is The Beauty Inside violent?

No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in The Beauty Inside.

What did critics think of The Beauty Inside?

Audiences rate the series positively, praising its heartfelt romance and the lead performances in its unusual body-transformation premise.

Which shows are like The Beauty Inside?

Shows with a similar feel include Your Name, Goblin, and Crash Landing on You.

How long is The Beauty Inside?

The Beauty Inside: 1 season, 16 episodes.

Is The Beauty Inside still running?

No, The Beauty Inside has ended.

Where can I watch The Beauty Inside?

In United States, The Beauty Inside streams on Netflix, The Roku Channel, Rakuten Viki, OnDemandKorea, Netflix Standard with Ads, Tubi TV.