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Lee Se-young in What Comes After Love, the Coupang Play romance
Coupang Play released all six episodes of What Comes After Love between 27 September and 25 October 2024, with Lee Se-young and Kentaro Sakaguchi as former lovers who meet again five years on.
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What Comes After Love is a six-episode Coupang Play romance starring Lee Se-young as Choi Hong and Kentaro Sakaguchi as Aoki Jungo, a Korean woman and a Japanese man who fall in love in Japan and meet again in Korea five years after breaking up. It ran from 27 September to 25 October 2024.
The cast of What Comes After Love
Lee Se-young plays Hong, and Sakaguchi plays Jungo; it was his first Korean series. Hong Jong-hyun plays Min-jun, and Nakamura Anne plays Kanna. Moon Hyun-sung directed and co-wrote the scripts with Jung Hae-sim.
How many episodes is What Comes After Love?
Six. Coupang Play released the first two at 8 p.m. KST on Friday, 27 September 2024, and added one a week in the same Friday slot after that.
| Detail | Fact |
|---|---|
| Korean title | 사랑 후에 오는 것들 (Sarang hue oneun geotdeul) |
| Platform in Korea | Coupang Play |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Premiere | Episodes 1 and 2, 27 September 2024, 8 p.m. KST |
| Finale | Episode 6, 25 October 2024 |
| Director | Moon Hyun-sung |
How it did outside Korea
Coupang Play said on 4 November 2024 that viewing in the series’ last week was 783 percent higher than in its first. Within two weeks of release it had reached number one on Rakuten Viki in 103 countries. It also topped the TV series chart on Amazon Prime Video in Japan and reached the top five on Viu in four countries, Thailand and Indonesia among them.
The novel behind it
The series adapts a novel written jointly by the Korean author Gong Ji-young, whose books include Maundy Thursday, and the Japanese author Tsuji Hitonari, co-writer of Calmi Cuori Appassionati.
What Lee Se-young did next
She led MBC’s Motel California, which ran for twelve episodes from 10 January to 15 February 2025. She played Ji Kang-hee, a woman who grew up in a country motel, opposite Na In-woo.
Her next series is Disney+’s The Remarried Empress, premiering on 4 November 2026. She plays Rashta, with Shin Min-ah as Empress Navier, Ju Ji-hoon as Emperor Sovieshu and Lee Jong-suk as Heinrey. The teasers came out on 16 September 2026.
Questions people ask
Is What Comes After Love based on a book? Yes, on the joint novel by Gong Ji-young and Tsuji Hitonari.
Who plays Jungo in What Comes After Love? The Japanese actor Kentaro Sakaguchi.
Is What Comes After Love a Korean drama? Yes. It is a Korean series made for Coupang Play, with a Korean and Japanese cast.
What is confirmed
- Confirmed. Six episodes on Coupang Play: episodes 1 and 2 on 27 September 2024 at 8 p.m. KST, then weekly on Fridays, ending with episode 6 on 25 October 2024.
- Confirmed. Lee Se-young as Choi Hong, Kentaro Sakaguchi as Aoki Jungo, Hong Jong-hyun as Min-jun, Nakamura Anne as Kanna. Director Moon Hyun-sung, from the joint novel by Gong Ji-young and Tsuji Hitonari.
- Confirmed. Coupang Play reported final-week viewing 783 percent above the first week, and number one on Rakuten Viki in 103 countries within two weeks.
- Confirmed. Motel California, MBC, 10 January to 15 February 2025. The Remarried Empress, Disney+, premiering 4 November 2026, with Lee Se-young as Rashta.
- 4 November 2026 The Remarried Empress premieres on Disney+, with Lee Se-young as Rashta
- 16 September 2026 Teasers for The Remarried Empress released
- 10 January 2025 Motel California, with Lee Se-young as Ji Kang-hee, begins on MBC
- 4 November 2024 Coupang Play reports final-week viewing 783 percent above the first week
- 25 October 2024 Episode 6, the finale, released
- 27 September 2024 Episodes 1 and 2 released on Coupang Play at 8 p.m. KST
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