# His Man (남의연애)
**His Man** (남의연애) is a South Korean reality dating television series in which eight gay men live together in a shared house and go on dates with their housemates in search of a partner. It premiered on the streaming service Wavve on July 15, 2022 and is described by its international listings as South Korea's first gay dating reality series.[1](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25816266/) • [2](https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/206050-his-man/seasons?language=ko-KR)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Original title | 남의연애[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/his-man) |
| Format | Eight gay men from varying backgrounds and jobs live under one roof and go on dates with chosen housemates[4](https://www.dramabubblereviews.com/dramas/his-man) |
| Premiere | July 15, 2022, on Wavve[2](https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/206050-his-man/seasons?language=ko-KR) |
| Seasons | Season 1 (11 episodes, 2022); Season 2 (14 episodes, 2023); Season 3 (14 episodes, 2024); Season 4 (14 episodes, 2026)[2](https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/206050-his-man/seasons?language=ko-KR) • [5](https://helposter.com/tv/206050-206050-his-man) |
| Season 4 run | January 22 to March 13, 2026, the series' first winter setting[6](https://thetvdb.com/series/his-man/seasons/official/4) • [7](https://mementobl.com/en/series/636/) |
| Where to stream | Wavve in South Korea; in the United States, Kocowa and the Kocowa Amazon Channel[8](https://www.moviefone.com/tv-shows/his-man/N06GUfFnoRxZOfpxP04CF2/where-to-watch/) |
| IMDb rating | 7.9/10 from 170 user votes[1](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25816266/) |
## Spoilers
### Seasons
**Season 1 (2022).** The first season premiered on July 15, 2022 and ran for 11 episodes.[2](https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/206050-his-man/seasons?language=ko-KR) A review site rated its storyline 8.2/10 and described the show as shot beautifully and tastefully, highlighting the pains gay men face in everyday life and calling out prejudice that persists in society, while noting that chemistry between most of the cast felt absent.[4](https://www.dramabubblereviews.com/dramas/his-man)
**Season 2 (2023).** The second season premiered on June 23, 2023 with 14 episodes.[2](https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/206050-his-man/seasons?language=ko-KR)
**Season 3 (2024).** The third season premiered on June 21, 2024, again with 14 episodes.[2](https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/206050-his-man/seasons?language=ko-KR)
**Season 4 (2026).** For the first time in the series' history, the fourth season left the summer slot and was set in a Korean winter, with snow-covered landscapes as its backdrop. It ran from January 22 to March 13, 2026 in 14 episodes, with a finale of 110 minutes, and its premise included reunions between participants that previous seasons had not used.[6](https://thetvdb.com/series/his-man/seasons/official/4) • [7](https://mementobl.com/en/series/636/)
## Format
Each season brings together eight single gay men, described in the series' promotional material as free and single, who move into a shared house for about a week of living together. They interact, open up to each other, and go on a variety of dates with the housemates they choose, hoping to find what the format calls "true love."[1](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25816266/) • [3](https://thetvdb.com/series/his-man) • [4](https://www.dramabubblereviews.com/dramas/his-man) The structure borrows the conventions of Korean heterosexual dating shows such as *Single's Inferno* and, in its cohabitation premise, the Japanese series *Terrace House* (2012).[9](https://envimedia.co/soulmates-in-seoul-transformations-in-k-dating-reality-shows/)
The producers took a deliberately restrained approach to the format. In an interview with Yonhap News, the production side said it had thoroughly excluded sensational elements to avoid misunderstanding or distortion of sexual minorities, noting that compared with other dating shows, *His Man* contains no skinship-focused setups, no exposure, and no devices such as recalling contestants' former partners, which can make the show feel plain by comparison.[10](https://cb.yna.co.kr/gate/big5/cn.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20220819150600005)
## Significance in Korean television
*His Man* opened a category. Wavve launched it in 2022 as Korea's first gay dating reality series, alongside *Merry Queer* (메리퀴어), a coming-out romance program following sexual-minority couples; together they were the country's first LGBTQ+ dating reality shows.[11](https://v.daum.net/v/20221008065912672) • [9](https://envimedia.co/soulmates-in-seoul-transformations-in-k-dating-reality-shows/) The platform later broadened its queer programming with *ToGetHer* in April 2025, Korea's first lesbian dating reality series, and in 2026 announced Korea's first bisexual dating reality series; by then *His Man* had run from 2022 to 2026 as a breakout title.[12](https://v.daum.net/v/20260108180353302)
Korean academic work has taken the series as a case study in how dating-show conventions handle queer content. A 2023 journal study by Jo Jin-hee compared *His Man* with *Single's Inferno 2* to show how the program varies the genre's conventions and what that means for gay visibility in South Korean reality television.[13](https://scholarworks.sookmyung.ac.kr/item/007352bc-e250-4d46-b8c5-cb243409b691) A Korea University thesis analyzing *His Man* seasons 1 through 3 and *ToGetHer* found that the shows appropriate heterosexual dating formats, shared living spaces, anonymous confessions, and date missions, while substituting queer relationships, and then organize queer desire into "intelligible" narratives through coming-out confession sequences and affective editing.[14](https://dcollection.korea.ac.kr/srch/srchDetail/000000308293?ajax=false&insCode=211009&navigationSize=10&pageNum=1&pageSize=10&query=%2B%28%2B%28subject%3A%22%EB%9D%BC%EC%BA%89%22%29%29&rows=10&searchKeyWord1=+%EB%9D%BC%EC%BA%89&searchOption=em&searchText=%5B%EC%A3%BC%EC%A0%9C%EC%96%B4%3A+%EB%9D%BC%EC%BA%89%5D&searchTotalCount=0&searchWhere1=subject&searthTotalPage=0&sortDir=desc&sortField=score&start=0&treePageNum=1) Media scholarship on Korean streamers also cites *His Man* as the most notable of Wavve's LGBTQ romance offerings.[15](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/13678779231197695)
## Reception and availability
The series holds a 7.9/10 rating on IMDb from 170 votes.[1](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25816266/) Reviewers have described it as a decent watch for fans of the dating-show genre, praising its cinematography and its depiction of family support, while criticizing uneven chemistry in the first season's cast.[4](https://www.dramabubblereviews.com/dramas/his-man) In South Korea it airs on Wavve; in the United States it streams on Kocowa and the Kocowa Amazon Channel with a subscription, and it is not currently available on Netflix.[8](https://www.moviefone.com/tv-shows/his-man/N06GUfFnoRxZOfpxP04CF2/where-to-watch/)
## References
1. [His Man (TV Series 2022–2024), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25816266/)
2. [남의연애 (His Man) seasons, The Movie Database](https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/206050-his-man/seasons?language=ko-KR)
3. [남의연애, TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/series/his-man)
4. [HIS Man review, DramaBubbleReviews](https://www.dramabubblereviews.com/dramas/his-man)
5. [His Man, Helposter](https://helposter.com/tv/206050-206050-his-man)
6. [남의연애 Season 4, TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/series/his-man/seasons/official/4)
7. [His Man 4, MeMento Boys Love](https://mementobl.com/en/series/636/)
8. [His Man (2022) – Where to Watch, Moviefone](https://www.moviefone.com/tv-shows/his-man/N06GUfFnoRxZOfpxP04CF2/where-to-watch/)
9. [Soulmates in Seoul: Transformations in K-dating Reality Shows, EnVi Media](https://envimedia.co/soulmates-in-seoul-transformations-in-k-dating-reality-shows/)
10. [퀴어 연애예능 관련 인터뷰, Yonhap News](https://cb.yna.co.kr/gate/big5/cn.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20220819150600005)
11. [The burning desire for Korean dating reality shows, Daum/Korea Herald](https://v.daum.net/v/20221008065912672)
12. [Korea's first bisexual dating reality series set for release, Daum](https://v.daum.net/v/20260108180353302)
13. [데이팅 프로그램 장르 변주와 사회문화적 의미, Sookmyung Women's University](https://scholarworks.sookmyung.ac.kr/item/007352bc-e250-4d46-b8c5-cb243409b691)
14. [Thesis on Korean queer dating reality television, Korea University dCollection](https://dcollection.korea.ac.kr/srch/srchDetail/000000308293?ajax=false&insCode=211009&navigationSize=10&pageNum=1&pageSize=10&query=%2B%28%2B%28subject%3A%22%EB%9D%BC%EC%BA%89%22%29%29&rows=10&searchKeyWord1=+%EB%9D%BC%EC%BA%89&searchOption=em&searchText=%5B%EC%A3%BC%EC%A0%9C%EC%96%B4%3A+%EB%9D%BC%EC%BA%89%5D&searchTotalCount=0&searchWhere1=subject&searthTotalPage=0&sortDir=desc&sortField=score&start=0&treePageNum=1)
15. [Not just Netflix: Interventions of Korea's domestic streamers, Sage Journals](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/13678779231197695)
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