“Crushology 101,” starring Roh Jeong Eui and Lee Chae Min, is quickly becoming a new favorite among rom-com fans. Haven’t watched it yet? Catch up with our latest recap.
Ready for a classic reverse harem dynamic that blends comedy, embarrassment, and oodles and oodles of romantic chaos? Then step into the world of “Crushology 101”! We’re playing catch up on recaps and plan on posting episodes 3 & 4 very soon! In the meantime, enjoy episodes 1 & 2 below.
Crushology 101 Episodes 1 & 2 Recap
We start out getting to know our heroine, Ban Hee Jin, nicknamed Bunny, who is an immensely talented sculpture major at Yein University. Despite loving beautiful things, she prides herself on valuing character over looks. It’s not that she doesn’t like good looks in a person, she just thinks earnestness matters more,e which is how she ended up with her first boyfriend – a guy who relentlessly asked her out and gave her lots of gifts to convince her to date him.
However, it becomes apparent that this guy is a jerk who only wanted to sleep with her. He accidentally broadcast his plans to the entire school over their radio, so, of course, they were breaking up. However, even after a satisfying punch to his pucker, Bunny’s confidence takes a hit. Swearing off “inner beauty” as her sole dating standard, she vows to focus on handsome men from now on, which falls much more into her wheelhouse as a sculptor who builds all creations on the divine ratio.
Bunny quickly meets two campus heartthrobs, Cha Ji Won, a charming and supportive junior from her own department who just so happens to be the department chair’s son, and Hwang Jae Yeol, the cool and ambitious Visual Design major.
When she first meets Cha Ji Won, she thinks he is like a Greek statue come to life. How can anyone be this gorgeous? She finds out that he is in her major when he is invited to the Freshman dinner, and also finds out that he is the chairman’s son. She thinks he’s sweet, though, and offers to be his Black Knight, drinking all the liquor that he isn’t able to at the event.
Her first encounter with Jae Yeol is a disaster because, attempting to “save” him from falling, she accidentally breaks his expensive tablet and later on vomits on him (from all that alcohol she drank trying to save Cha Ji Won).
To pay off these embarrassing moments and her literal debt since she owes him a computer, Bunny reluctantly agrees to take notes for Jae Yeol.
At the same time, she continues her innocent relationship with Cha Ji Won as his senior on campus.
Determined to clear her debt to Hwang Jae Yeol, and very annoyed at being a notetaker, Bunny takes a part-time job at an art exhibition, where she impresses a mysterious (and handsome) visitor with her knowledge and passion for sculpture.
This man is Cho A Rang, also known as the renowned Sculptor J, who later shows up as a guest lecturer in one of her classes. Bunny is very impressed, nee infatuated, with Cho A Rang, which stirs jealousy in Hwang Jae Yeol. He finds himself thinking about her more and more just as Bunny thinks about Cho A Rang more and more. She even imagines him proposing.
Later on, Bunny shows a feat of strength by lifting Cha Ji Won’s sister back into her wheelchair after she accidentally gets stuck in mud and falls out. They bond even more.
Still on the hunt to stop being in debt to Hwang Jae Yeol, Bunny enters and wins a strength contest to earn a replacement tablet for him, officially settling her debt and telling him they no longer need to see each other. Mission Accomplished! Good riddance Hwang Jae Yeol!
Hwang Jae Yeol, however, is taken aback by this. A woman doesn’t want to see him? Be around him? Say what? His mind can’t take this, and he begins to daydream about Bunny everywhere he goes.
Unable to keep Bunny from living rent-free in his mind, Hwang Jae Yeol openly declares his intention to keep seeing Bunny, to the surprise of everyone around him.
Stay tuned for our recap of episodes 3 & 4 of “Crushology 101” coming up soon, and be sure to catch Crushology on KOCOWA+!
