Why Koo Kyo Hwan and Go Youn Jung’s characters don’t rescue each other, explained by We Are All Trying Here director
When director Cha Young Hun teamed up with writer Park Hae Young for the slice-of-life Korean drama We Are All Trying Here, backed by SLL, audiences knew they wouldn’t be getting a textbook television romance. The 12-episode K-drama, subverted almost every trope in the book. The series is a black comedy slice-of-life melodrama that aired on Netflix and JTBC simultaneously from April to May 2026. We Are All Trying Here: Cha Young Hun on why Koo Kyo Hwan & Go Youn Jung don’t fix each other. (JTBC) It follows Hwang Dong Man (Koo Kyo Hwan), an aspiring film director who remains the only member of his university film club “The Eight” without success after 20 years. Overwhelmed by anxiety, envy, and fear of failure, he hides his insecurity behind constant, excessive chatter. He eventually finds unexpected emotional refuge in Byeon Eun Ah (Go Youn Jung), a sharp film producer dealing with her own trauma. In an exclusive conversation with Hindustan Times, director Cha Young Hun opens up about normalizing therapy, rejecting saviour tropes and addressing …
