Like Flowers in Sand

2024 8 episodes JTBC Romance Drama Slice Of Life Netflix

A data analyst returns to her tiny ssireum (Korean wrestling) hometown after ten years in Seoul — officially to research rural demographics, actually to confront the childhood friend she left behind and the feelings she's been avoiding since high school. Baek Du-sik is still wrestling, still in the same town, still the same steadfast person she ran from because staying felt too easy and too scary. An eight-episode romance that uses the rhythms of a small Korean town — its gossip, its rituals, its unbreakable memory — to tell a story about the terrifying simplicity of going home.

Where to Watch
HomecomingChildhood LoveSmall Town LifeFacing The PastSimplicity Vs Ambition
Childhood Friends To LoversReturn To HometownSlow BurnSecond Chance RomanceSmall Town RomanceUnrequited Love Requited
WarmMelancholicTenderQuietNostalgic
Cast
Jang Dong-yoon as Baek Du-sikLee Joo-myung as Oh Yu-jin

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