Joy’s One-of-a-Kind Romance premieres today with a celebrity-manager role reversal

The manager job is only half the premise. In One-of-a-Kind Romance (유일무이 로맨스), Red Velvet’s Joy plays Gong Yu-il, a job seeker who drifts into managing Tak Mu-i, a top actor played by Kim Hyun-jin. Years earlier she wrote a novel called Star and Half-Moon and then stopped publishing. When his career went cold and a stalker made every coincidence feel unsafe, he kept going back to that book. She is chasing a paycheck and a quieter life; he needs someone he can trust. The industry still treats them as star and staff, even though they are already each other’s fans.

Episodes 1 and 2 land today, November 9, at 6 p.m. KST on TVING. KOCOWA+ has them the same day for viewers in the U.S. and Canada. The rest of the 12-episode run arrives two at a time on Mondays through mid-December. Copus Korea adapted Dooboo’s finished Naver webtoon, with Kim Jin-young directing and Jeon Hyun-mi writing. An English WEBTOON edition is already up if you want the source ahead of the episodes.

The early stretch leans into how badly they misread each other. Yu-il keeps crossing Mu-i’s path at a convenience store and on a set, and he clocks those meetings as threat instead of chance. Shin Hyun-soo plays star chef Kang Hee-su, and Kang Na-eon plays actress Ju Da-hong, who has her own history with him. Joy’s last lead was Once Upon a Small Town in 2022, after The Liar and His Lover, Tempted, and The One and Only. She stayed busy with Red Velvet; this is the first series lead she has taken in four years. Kim Hyun-jin comes in off My Sweet Mobster and Nice to Not Meet You, so next to her he is the one whose face already belongs to recent romance casts.

Viu is carrying the show through parts of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, and Abema has it in Japan. If you are watching from the U.S. or Canada, start on KOCOWA+ with the first two.