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[32] Cheese in the Trap

Cheese in the Trap

Status: Completed
Number of episodes: 16

Cast:
Park Hae Jin as Yoo Jung
Kim Go Eun as Hong Seol
Seo Kang Joon as Baek In-ho
Lee Sung Kyung as Baek In-ha

Shorter Plot:
Drama depicts the delicate relationship between female university student Hong Seol and her senior Yoo Jung. Hong-Seol works part-time due to her family's poor background. Yoo Jung is good looking, gets good grades, athletic and has a kind personality, but he has a dark side.

Longer Plot:
The drama focuses on the life and relationships of a group of university students, particularly the difficult relationship between Hong Seol and her senior Yoo Jung.

Jung is the rich heir to Taerang Group and seemingly has the perfect life, but also displays psychopathic tendencies, which cause Seol to take time off school to get away from him. When she returns through a scholarship that was intended for Jung, he is unexpectedly nice to her and asks her on a date. They begin an awkward relationship which is further complicated by the arrival of Baek In-ho and his sister In-ha, childhood friends of Jung who were both adopted into his family after running away from their abusive aunt as children. In-ha is in love with Jung, but he dismisses her feelings. She leads an extravagant lifestyle funded by other men's money, and often behaves antagonistically. In-ho moves into the area while he is being pursued by gangsters, but strikes up a friendship with Seol and begins to work at her parents' restaurant.

As well as managing her conflicted feelings towards Jung and In-ho, Seol tries to cope with everyday struggles in her school and work life, such as unwanted advances and classmates that make her do their work for them. She is helped by her two best friends Jang Bo-ra and Kwon Eun-taek, who begin to date each other. Meanwhile, she also tries to find out the reason why Jung and In-ho hate each other. It is revealed later that Jung looked on as In-ho damaged his hand in a fight that ruined his dreams of becoming a concert pianist. In the end, In-ho gets back on track with piano lessons, having been helped by Seol.

The drama escalates towards the end of the series, when In-ha physically attacks Seol and pushes her into the street. Seol is then run over and hospitalised, and In-ha is put in a mental institution. Jung, realising that Seol has been suffering during their relationship, breaks up with her. After giving In-ho a piano score that he had intended to give him years ago, before they had fallen out, and settling In-ho's debts with the gang, Jung leaves the country for three years.

Three years later, Seol is working at the company job that she wanted, and has realised that she still has to deal with the everyday problems of her school life, only in a different setting. Her friend Bo-ra now owns a clothing store and is still with Eun-taek, who is a model. In-ha has been released from the mental hospital and changed her ways, falling in love with a humble, nerdy character. While the absent Jung has not responded to Seol's emails to him, the open ending reveals one of her email's statuses changing to "read".