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My Military Valentine (피타는 연애)

My Military Valentine (피타는 연애, Pitaneun Yeonae) is a 2024 South Korean romance-action web drama about a South Korean world star who enlists in the military and a North Korean female soldier, framed as an inter-Korean love and unification story.¹ It was released on the streaming service Rakuten Viki in 12 episodes between June and July 2024.²

Key fact	Detail
Original title	피타는 연애 (Pitaneun Yeonae); also listed as Peeta Love and Bloody Romance¹
Run	12 episodes, June 7 to July 12, 2024, released on Rakuten Viki³
Episode length	About 34 minutes per episode⁴
Main cast	Kim Min-seok as Lloyd, Nam Gyu-ri as Baek Young-ok, Song Jae-rim as Sung Jae-hoon⁴
Director and writers	Directed by Park Kwang-chun; written by Kwon Hee-kyung and Park Hyun-jin²
Production	SLL, Purple Cats Film, and B.A. Entertainment, with JTBC Studio²
Audience scores	8.7/10 on Rakuten Viki (about 10,500 ratings); 5.9/10 on IMDb⁵^•⁴

Spoilers

Premise

The story is set after peace has come to the Korean Peninsula. To mark the start of the new North-South peacetime, the top South Korean star Lloyd travels to the DMZ to perform a concert, but a misunderstanding forces the North Korean special forces soldier Baek Young Ok to step in. Fans capture their interaction and the public mistakes it for a romantic moment, and a scandal breaks out that outrages Lloyd's fans. In desperation he joins the military, only to find himself in a unit led by Young Ok.⁴

The character descriptions given in Korean coverage fill out the leads: Baek Young Ok (백영옥) is a second lieutenant leading a special forces unit of the North Korean 8th Corps, and Lloyd (로이드) is a world star with girl fans around the globe.² Around them, Sung Jae-hoon (성재훈) appears outwardly as a polished, Seoul-speaking city man while secretly pursuing an ideal higher than capitalism, and Seo Hee-ji (서희지), a politician's daughter, joins Lloyd's company as a law-firm lawyer to get close to him.²

Production and release

The series was directed by Park Kwang-chun, whose earlier credits include Madeleine and Saving Private Hippo (울학교 이티), and written by Kwon Hee-kyung, who co-wrote the ENA series Good Job, and Park Hyun-jin.² Production companies were SLL, Purple Cats Film, and B.A. Entertainment, with JTBC Studio credited as the production studio.²

A delayed broadcast. When casting was first reported in 2021, the series was described as a JTBC drama, but it did not appear in JTBC's officially announced 2022 or 2023 lineups and its scheduling was never confirmed. It was instead released in 2024 through the overseas streaming platform Rakuten Viki.² TVmaze lists JTBC as the network for 2024 with a Friday schedule of about 35 minutes, while database listings place the episodes on Viki.¹^•³

Episodes were released in pairs on Fridays: episodes 1 and 2 on June 7, 2024, and the final two episodes on July 12, 2024.³ One Korean source gives the start date as June 6 rather than June 7.² Individual episodes ran from 30 to 39 minutes.³

Cast

Kim Min-seok as Lloyd, the South Korean star⁴
Nam Gyu-ri as Baek Young-ok, the North Korean special forces officer⁴
Song Jae-rim as Sung Jae-hoon⁴
Choe Hye-jin as Seo Hee-ji⁴
Hwang Jae-yeol as Sang Hun, a convenience store owner from North Korea⁴

An original soundtrack was released in four parts between August 25 and September 15, 2024, beginning with "Mirroring" performed by Kim Min-seok, Keita, and Hyunbin.²

Reception

Audience scores differ by platform. Rakuten Viki users rate the series 8.7 out of 10 from roughly 10,500 ratings, while IMDb users give it 5.9 from about 176 ratings.⁵^•⁴ On MyShows, the season averages 4.3 out of 5, with individual episodes between 4.1 and 4.5.⁶ A review site summary lists a 6.9/10 score on MyDramaList from about 1,900 ratings.⁷

The series is available for streaming on Rakuten Viki, with subscription access or free with ads, in regions including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, and with subtitles in more than a dozen languages.⁸^•⁴

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026