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Our Dating Sim (우리 연애 시뮬레이션)

Our Dating Sim (우리 연애 시뮬레이션; also romanized Uri Yeonae Simyulleisyeon, and abbreviated in Korean as 우연시, Uyeonsi) is a 2023 South Korean boys' love (BL) web drama in which two former high-school best friends, estranged by an unanswered confession, reunite as coworkers at a game studio developing a dating simulation game. It ran for eight episodes of roughly 15 to 18 minutes each, from 9 March to 30 March 2023, directed by Lim Hyun-hee and written by Lee Yun Seul.¹

Key fact	Detail
Format	South Korean BL web drama, 8 episodes of about 15–18 minutes (roughly 2 hours total)¹
Run	First aired 9 March 2023; finale 30 March 2023, with two episodes released on each of four Thursdays¹^•²
Creative team	Director Lim Hyun-hee; screenwriter Lee Yun Seul; production by Empo and Studio Winsome¹
Leads	Lee Seung-gyu as Shin Ki Tae (programmer); Lee Jong-hyuk as Lee Wan (illustrator)³
Premise	A high-school confession broke up a friendship; seven years later the two meet again at a game company making a dating simulator³
Streaming	Rakuten Viki in the United States (free with ads); wavve and Watcha in South Korea³^•⁴
Ratings	IMDb 8.0 from about 2,200 votes; Rakuten Viki user rating 9.5 from 76,561 users³^•⁵

Spoilers

Plot

During their school days, Lee Wan and Shin Ki Tae shared a close friendship, until Lee Wan, who had fallen in love with Shin Ki Tae, admitted his feelings, and the admission drove them apart on bitter terms.³ The Korean-language episode guide fills in the backstory that seven years earlier, Wan's family circumstances deteriorated and he was about to move away suddenly; BL Watcher reports that just before leaving, Wan confessed his feelings and initiated a kiss, which Ki Tae dodged in surprise, causing Wan to run away without hearing his response, rather than being rejected.⁶^•¹⁵

Seven years later, both men are navigating the job market: Shin Ki Tae works as a programming ace at a gaming startup, and Lee Wan pursues illustration.³ When Ki Tae's company looks for an illustrator for a new dating-themed game, Wan applies for the job and the two meet again.³ Hired to draw sprites for the dating simulator, Wan learns that the anonymous fan who had quietly followed his art online, a commenter known as Gameboy, was Ki Tae all along.¹^•⁶ The eight episodes carry the pair from an awkward reunion through workplace collaboration to a renewed relationship, with episode titles such as "Would you like to restart the game?" (episode 1) and "The ending of the game" (episode 8) framing the story in the vocabulary of the game they are building.⁷

Cast and production

The cast is small and centered on the two leads. Lee Seung-gyu plays Shin Ki Tae, and Lee Jong-hyuk plays Lee Wan; supporting roles include Yu Seong-yong as Producer Ahn, Kim So-young as Lee Yeon, and Sung Ryung as Sunny.³ Reviewers noted that the side characters support the main couple without crowding out the central storyline.⁸

The drama was produced by Empo and Studio Winsome, with Lim Hyun-hee directing and Lee Yun Seul writing.¹ In an interview, Lee Seung-gyu pointed to the absence of an original webtoon or web novel as a distinguishing feature, since many Korean BL dramas adapt existing comics; he said the story treats the two men as equals and friends from start to finish, which let each scene be handled delicately and realistically.⁹ He also described the director's instruction that the world of the drama be one in which the two men's love raises no problems at all.⁹

Release and distribution

The series premiered on 9 March 2023 and finished on 30 March 2023, with two episodes released in each of four weeks.¹^•² In South Korea it streamed on Heavenly, SeriesOn (시리즈온), and Coupang Play, and later on wavve and Watcha.¹⁰^•⁷ Internationally, Rakuten Viki carries it with subtitles in English, Romanian, Swedish, and more than a dozen other languages, and in the United States it is available free with ads.⁵^•³ From September 2023 it also streamed on iWantTFC in the Philippines and select countries.¹¹ An uncut script book was published in August 2023.¹²

Reception

Audience scores have been high on both major platforms: 8.0 on IMDb from about 2,200 votes and 9.5 on Rakuten Viki from 76,561 users.³^•⁵ In Korea, the drama recorded the number-one daily position in SeriesOn's top 100 on the day each episode was released.⁹ It also won the grand prize at the 2023 Heavenly BL Awards.¹³

Critics and viewers singled out the compact script and the chemistry of the leads. A Letterboxd review praised the tightness of the writing and the actors' quiet, wordless intimacy, and highlighted the short flashbacks staged as role-playing-game scenarios, which show why the characters fell for each other rather than telling the audience through narration.¹⁴ A Daily Kos review described the series as a small slice of life about choosing to let oneself be vulnerable, with side characters used as foils rather than as extra plotlines.⁸ Several year-end lists and community round-ups flagged it as a standout mini-BL for turning a first-love story into an adult conversation.¹

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › East Asian drama series › East Asian web and streaming serials › Titles My to So

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

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