‘It’s okay not to be okay’, the Korean drama that will remind you that we all deserve love

It is good not to be good on Netflix is ​​the best Korean drama. And I’m not exaggerating, the series is one of the best bets on love and mental health stories that have been seen on the streaming platform.

The platform has made several original co-productions in South Korea, taking advantage of the international success they have had, but also promoting it.

If you want to check out more of the Korean drama bets on the platform, this note tells you everything.

What is it about It is good not to be good?

It is good not to be good tells the story of Moon Gang Tae (Kim Soo-hyun), a young nurse who works in a psychiatric hospital while taking care of his older brother, Sang Tae, who has autism.

One day, he meets children’s book writer Ko Moon-Young (Seo Ye-Ji), who has a very negative attitude towards life, and becomes obsessed with him.

From the first episode, the audience realizes that the two of them have known each other since they were children and share a tragic past, but they do not realize that they are those little ones who once crossed paths.

Life continues to cross them again and again, either directly or through secondary characters that lead them to meet, although Gang Tae wants to get away from it.

How many episodes does it have? It is good not to be good?

The Netflix series has 16 episodes, each lasting approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes.

In each of them, the emotional development of the characters is incredible. They go from being simple beings to complex beings every time they reveal something about their past to us.

In addition to the protagonists, the series tries to tell some stories of the patients of the psychiatric hospital where Gang Tae works.

Thanks to that, we are able to understand more about what it is like to live with serious mental illnesses, but also with illnesses that do not necessarily take us to the hospital, but affect our daily lives.

The protagonists have great traumas in their past that they must learn to overcome, in some cases together and in others separately.

Will there be a second season of It is good not to be good?

In addition to the mental health stories, the series focuses on a pivotal mystery involving Moon Gang Tae and Ko Moon-Young’s parents.

That mystery is resolved at the end of the first season, so it wouldn’t make much sense for there to be a second season of the series, but if there were, it would make us very happy.

As a curious fact, each episode is based on a fairy tale, 11 traditional and 5 written by the character Ko Moon-Young. Those five books were printed and you can buy them online (although they are in Korean).